skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I can tell, all major hacks by lulzsec predate the conversion of Sabu

According to wiki, "He later turned informant for the FBI, working with the agency for over ten months to aid them in identifying other hackers from Lulzsec and related groups"

The CIA's website went down June 15th, 2011 (towards the end of the LulzSec campaign) - definitely while Sabu was working for the FBI.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Xavier_Monsegur

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659326
What does "killing the RSS reader market" (a point with which I agree, by the way) have to do with "turning against open standards"?

If anything, your logic would argue that the harm to open standards happened when Reader was introduced, not when it was killed, no?
it seems to support primarily 'evergreen' browsers according to this: http://www.polymer-project.org/compatibility.html
See, I neither want nor expect anyone to "unquestioningly" listen to my opinions and ideas. That would be a disaster. I have a lot of good ideas, but I have some bad ones too.

What I can't stand is when people don't make the fucking effort to reach the right idea, but just fall back on rank. That will make me very angry.

If they'd given me an explanation of why my idea wouldn't work or why they had to do things a certain way, I would have been happy with that. They could have brought me into a few of the meetings so I'd see how the sausage is made, and maybe I'd realize some of the constraints they were under and see why my idea wouldn't work in that context.

I do, however, expect to be treated as an equal, and I'll raise hell if I'm not. That doesn't mean my ideas are taken without question. Shit, how could anyone even want that? The yes-man behavior (taking someones' ideas without question) isn't respectful; it sets a person up for future embarrassment.
Yeah, but no one ever accused Lucent of being "one of the best-run... in the world". I worked there, and I saw management do some jaw-droppingly stupid things.
Almost, except Wave is a specific product that didn't find an audience. Go is a general purpose language and it already has users outside of google to care for it.
Prevent users from sharing their login information
There are certain sites that have tutorials or other content of value and charge a membership fees. I was wondering what prevents users from buying membership on a site and
then sharing their login info with friends/family or posting that information
publicly online. That way, only one person actually buys the subscription
but multiple people can gain access.
Writing my own malloc with an eye out for multi-core performance as part of an OS university course was one of the funnest assignments I had the pleasure of working on. It's so satisfying to shed yet another layer of magic, and get a thorough understanding on how the fundamentals work.
aha! neat, thanks!
Thanks, good work.
I use my real name as a way of keeping myself accountable as I've noticed that I'm much more inflammatory when under the guise of a pseudonym.
This thing wasn't delivered by aliens. For $10m isn't there an instruction book that describes what it's supposed to do? Can't they take it apart and look inside it?
Yeah, I didn't fully spell out my intuition, which was based on the fact that Scandinavian countries are more democratic. This allows for a stronger welfare state, which reduces economic inequalities, thus resulting in a lower crime rate.

My intuition is that the stronger democratic nature of these cultures is due to racial homogeneity, rather than magical Scandinavian white sauce. There are cases in Africa where this can be seen (notion of "it takes a village" have generally come from African communities), but I honestly don't know enough about them to verify: have they scaled to an extent where they're comparable to the ultra-democratic bloc? Have they sufficiently negated the influences of Euro-American imperialism such that we can claim their democratic impulses are original rather than imposed?

The corollary to this is that most of the failures of American democracy can be traced back to the slave trade, from the Three-Fifths Compromise to the present day litany of anti-black sentiment. Irish and Italian immigrants did have problems, but they've been largely integrated into the American melting pot in the present day. Chinese people, such as myself, have had more trouble but have nonetheless integrated better than blacks did, possibly because our enslavement didn't have the same level of cultural momentum, possibly because of an imperialistic cultural history of our own; it's unclear to me.

The failures, thus, come from these struggles. These are struggles that, as far as I am aware, did not happen in Scandinavian history. They have humorous nationalistic jibes between each other, but they did not have the kind of wildly divisive events that led up to the Mason-Dixon line and the Reconstruction, which reinforced these divisions to the detriment of democratic institutions.

In other words, it's not actually that Scandinavians are better people. They're not more democratic because they're less racist. They're more democratic because there were no significant populations of brown people to oppress during their formative periods. Denmark is an interesting edge case, in that they participated in the Colonial Age, but nevertheless built strong democratic structures and were then enveloped in the firestorm over depictions of Mohammed. Or maybe that supports my intuition. Who can tell.

But that's how it is in political science; half of them seem ready to watch democracy deflate like a rubber ducky in the Hong Kong harbor.

Anyways, this was all off-topic, but I thought it was unfair to let an ad hominem stand.
Man, if only he'd have thought of that before he built it.
Or your laptop/phone. Or your web enabled TV. Or any modern gaming console.

Are you sure you are on the right site? This is a pretty tech-heavy news site.
You write some great posts on HN, but every time Google is so much as mentioned you descend into this same persecution complex. I wish you wouldn't, but I'll try to talk about this in generalities:

"Ha, my negativity has been vindicated by failure!" is never a good public stance to take. Not for you, nor for the people who disagreed with you. It is a victory for you, but it's one to internalise. The people who were there and complete strangers will think less or you for gloating otherwise. Know that you were right, apply the lesson in the future.
Ars Technica have written a fantastic and approachable 6 page article that introduces the concepts behind Quantum Computing. Definitely worth reading: http://arstechnica.com/science/2010/01/a-tale-of-two-qubits-...
There's a beauty to that, especially as Ogilvy used the quote often enough for it to be strongly associated with him.
God says...

7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the
Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
greater and mightier than thou; 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall
deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy
them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou
shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy
son.

7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may
serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against
you, and destroy thee suddenly.

7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars,
and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their
graven images with fire.

God says...

groanings causes constantly countryman divination reigning
five translated measuring Predicament meh pilgrimage Bridegroom
Sacrifice fuller unpleasantly snap_out_of_it land soothed
no_more_tears cheer Thailand couldest dispraised ocean
Nay ship murmured doing grammarian greet little_fish etext
range thickets deafness heat Vanilla flourished service_sector
continency plausibility stole seeth standing hell relapse
propound hidden Substance harvest loose I_quit you're_wonderful
all-pitying
So that's basically every interactive site ever? It certainly includes AJAX but it probably includes basic HTML over HTTP.
> Background auto-updating should be the default on all OSes.

And then the foreground app will have slower network speed and performance which given that a mobile device is a bad thing. If I need to quickly check mail I want that to be the only priority of the phone.

The current behaviour is just fine. Many poeple are just waiting until the device is plugged in at home/work before updating all apps.
Cloud Betamax
Nice work, just tried it out.

One suggestion would be to add a Switch pop-up if you run into exercises like Side Plank.
Closing Down! Everything must Go!
> Volunteering has to do with helping people in need.

I've volunteered before, as I mentioned. Given what you wrote I think you may have missed that sentence. The way you write it, you come across with less warmth and more smug; like you're talking to a dog that speaks english. I may not understand what's so magical about volunteering or travel but I'm not heartless. I imagine it's a mis-understanding, but you might want to consider how you present this.

> And those ideas can get you to re-think what you believe, and you can grow as a person.

This also has a similar issue. Do you mean that if I don't travel I'm less of a human, to be held in contempt? That seems to be the implication. Again, I think it's a miscommunication. Most of the things you mention don't require me to be physically over there.
That article is very dismissive and pretty flimsy. "A single experiment"? No, it was replicated by multiple people. I’ve concluded that the reason for the mysterious visit is almost certainly innocent.... I’m reasonably certain that address is part of Microsoft’s SmartScreen infrastructure. First, that's not very reassuring. The data should not be readable by Microsoft. Second, since the traffic showed up hours after the message was sent, it is not useful as a screening service. The link would have been clicked long before the URL was checked out. The only mitigating piece of this mess is that the request was a HEAD and not a GET, so they're not fetching the whole contents of the page. But the damage is done long before.
1) If Google ditched Go, it would hardly be the only open source language without a corporate backer. Languages without corporate backers cannot be said to categorically "stop feature development and fade into oblivion."

2) Nobody gave a shit about Wave or OpenSocial, even when Google was backing them...
If you're talking about the extra autocomplete attributes, it gives site authors a way to use both the standardized autocomplete fields[0] and different name and id attributes for their own purposes.

[0]: http://www.chromium.org/developers/using-requestautocomplete...
I do not know enough about German law vis-a-vis NZ law and the right to carry weapons, to comment. KIM may have been convicted, but I do not know if he is a "Felon" or what that even means under German law, because it may not be the same as the US legal term felon. I do not think NZ apologized for not knowing KIM was a clown, but they apologized for the unnecessary use of force, what I am saying is the US (even me) would have justified this kind of use of force not thinking twice, but NZ has a different attitude where police do not normally carry fire arms1, much less use military assault weapons for exercising warrants, especially for non-violent crimes despite how many pictures the suspect took with automatic weapons.

"Even the police officer says there has never been a raid like this before in New Zealand."2

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Police#Weapons

2. http://www.talkleft.com/story/2012/2/7/155744/7370/crimenews...
Yes. It's pretty easy to find who I am.

I'm more polite on HN than I am in other places. I don't think that's because I use my real name. There are pseudonymous posters who are polite and real name users who are pretty rude.
Nice job! Little bit of feedback:

1. The images don't update until after the first tick of the new exercise. It would be nice if the updated when the rest screen changes to the new exercise screen with the timer and the text.

2. It would be cool if for exercises like the side plank (I think that's the only one in this set), where you hold something on each side, it gave you a halfway warning to tell you that it's time to turn over.

3. The rest period at the end isn't really necessary.
agree it's odd, but it's basically 100 * (len - 4) % 121 = 85

(I think?)

(yes, I know about rounding, fractions, different bases - I was just trying to explain why it still worked. sigh.)
Shouldn't it be:

#orangethirty {background: #000;}
#orangethirty .surprised {
background: #fa0000;
font-weight: 700;
}

(:
Thanks again to everyone. I'm going to keep the webapp completely open and free as long as anyone is using it, and I'll definitely open up the code once I clean it a bit. If anyone would like to port it to IOS, I'd be happy to chat. lgsilver (at) gmail.com -- Lindsay
Getting started with Responsive and Adaptive layouts
I was at the Google IO talk and talked to Matt McNulty, my old boss from Palm, and was blown away with what they're building.

This is the future of UI in the browser.

The declarative nature, the encapsulation, the data bindings, the attribute and event-driven APIs are all orders of magnitude simpler than existing JavaScript / HTML UI element componentization. The reusability of a custom element compared to an HTML snippet with some associated JavaScript and CSS cannot be overstated.

EDIT: understated > overstated
Interestingly, the only people (OK, two) who died on "death march" projects were offshore team members from India and China who came to the US specifically for the final 18-24h/day push to hit a launch date.

This is out of maybe 90 people working extreme hours on the two projects in question.
True enough, but I think the introduction is pretty tractable and contains some pretty important (but subtle) points about memory allocator performance. Quoth the paper:

It is not sufficient to measure the time consumed by the allocator code in isolation. Memory layout can have a significant impact on how quickly the rest of the application runs, due to the effects of CPU cache, RAM, and virtual memory paging.

The only definitive measures of allocator performance are attained by measuring the execution time and memory usage of real applications. This poses challenges when qualifying the performance characteristics of allocators. Consider that an allocator might perform very poorly for certain allocation patterns, but if none of the benchmarked applications manifest any such patterns, then the allocator may appear to perform well, despite pathological performance for some work loads. This makes testing with a wide variety of applications important. It also motivates an approach to allocator design that minimizes the number and severity of degenerate edge cases.
For privacy in asynchronous text communication email with GPG is still pretty much as bulletproof a solution as you can get.

For real-time text chat you can try Cryptocat: it's cross-pratform, implements the OTR protocol [1] and is rather user-friendly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
Personality Type(s)
I have taken several personality tests with much skepticism about not only the test itself, but the truthfulness of my own answers. The reason being that the answers are rather apparent in divulging the underlying categorization. Given this, I am never quite sure whether I am answering honestly or in a way that will result in a personality that I would like. Either way, I took a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test today and was categorized as INTJ. Reading about it, I do think it is fairly accurate, though it obviously has some shortcomings in my opinion. Most importantly, I do believe that I test differently given internal and external factors such as mood, season, etc. I do not remember precisely, but when I took the test several years ago I believe I tested as INTP. My research into both types seem to describe similar traits on the surface and probably as accurate of a categorization as this test will provide me. However, I did find an interesting article describing the differences between the two types: http://personalityjunkie.com/08/intj-vs-intp-type-differences/. Coincidentally, when reading the INTJ part, I believed it to be a fair reflection of myself. Then, while reading the INTP summary (and mistakenly thinking that was the result of my test), I concurred that I was ultimately an INTP personality. So, even though the article seemed to clear up the differences between the two types, I still hesitate to identify under either strict category. Instead, I think I will identify as INT/JP.

As a long-time reader but first time writer to HN, I was just wondering what the demographics of this community are within the MBTI spectrum.
How I Got Started at Airbnb
Just need to make sure I am getting this. Actions will make things happen once you open the email right? I am rather confused by this whole concept. Furthermore when will Google give me more control over my inbox like a builtin ifttt system? I mean filters does alot but I want more and not just for gmail but for all Google services. Example certain days I go to the gym but I only go if it is not raining. I wish I could tell calendar schedule gym if not raining. Is that what actions is?
The thing about money "lost" to entitlements is that it's not really lost. It's spent immediately and generally contributes a great deal to the economy. On the other hand, money lost to tax loopholes generally ends up enriching people who are already wealthy and are less likely to circulate the extra capital.
It depends on your own moral compass. I, for example, never got the idea of why white collar crime is such a big deal. I see money as a "temporary" thing which you have to manage based on your individual risk perspective. I know that this is an unpopular view, but I never understood why Madoff got such a long sentence, longer than someone murderer get. Physical integrity is irreplaceable while money comes and goes.
Glad you enjoyed the videos (I created them)! Unfortunately, that link has the videos in reverse order. Here they are in the intended order:

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-the-det...

The main thing that's needed to follow along is familiarity and comfort with basic linear algebra.
I enjoyed his exit letter and have been a fan since then...
Your last name is really Beale-COCKs?

(heh, pseudonym...)
My only complaint is that it doesn't tick on my phone.
It doesn't really work like that. This concept of individuals making major contributions is an artefact of the way stories about human history are written. Artists perceive the future and share what they see through aesthetic means. This gives everybody (who's looking) a way of seeing beyond their own experience into the unknown. Without art, we are all trapped in the present.

I don't have any external justification for this beyond the fact that many people that I know who do important work refer regularly to art to inspire and help them push their ideas.
How to turn your readers into dedicated fans
How to Use Downtime For Crafting Email Messages
Confirmed this on Chrome, the behavior is strange.
Yes, really!

It plays havoc with the occasional email filter.
Bookmarked! I'm going to do this every day and see how it works!
What sarcasm? Well, if I could mmap it, that would be fine, although it would mean that I'd have to manage the memory for the machine code fragments by hand, as opposed to having them as part of GCd values.
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"Simple, easy blogs for $5 a month, forever."

Interesting.
Congrats to all, and especially, Michael who rocks!
http://ffffound.com/

http://thisisnthappiness.com/
Well, more like iburg, I guess.
Kevin is an investor in Zapier and we've got to say he has been outstandingly awesome. Before committing he came over to our place and hung out with us (and didn't bat an eye when my dog Tuna tried to pull off his socks multiple times, how embarrassing!).

It's wonderful that he shares some of what made Wufoo great (still one of the many startups we look up to). He has a really sharp eye for product and a unique counter-view to the "raise a load of money, it's the only way" sort of thinking the valley sometimes promotes. A great addition for sure.

Congrats to YC, Kevin, Michael, Steve, Dalton, and Andrew.
On the internet I always use my pseudonym.
Top pane > More > Stream Layout
A better trick is to present your argument so your audience does not need to have mastered a trick of its own.
It would be nice to have a sound option, too - to just say the exercise name when it starts - so you don't need to look at your computer all the time.
Screenshot All The Things
I use my online profile name for HN, you can always find and contact me on Twitter: @flavmartins.

If I have something to say, I say it and stand behind it.
Rate my Webapp: Wordness - A Dictionary with Color Tags
In addition to sp332's well-taken points, there is the fact that what Microsoft sees, it cannot prevent the USA government and its allies from seeing. Many Skype customers would see that as an unacceptable threat.
Parse Mandrill Cloud Module for Transactional Emails
I use my real name because my pseudonym "crackie" that i use in gaming is usually "not allowed" as a username.
Personally, I like it because it limits column width which makes it easier for me to read text.

You actually can switch to a single-column layout in Plus under the "More" menu. It still limits column width, however, and when I've pointed that out to people that complain about multi-column, the response has generally been "but then you have so much wasted space!"

Seems like a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation to me.
No, no. You nailed it succinctly and without bitterness. Well played!
I use my real name for everything.
Interesting, your comment didn't do much to change my initial impression. Allow me to explain why, and I mean this as hopefully constructive criticism:

> What I can't stand is when people don't make the fucking effort to reach the right idea, but just fall back on rank. That will make me very angry.

Optimal decisions are rarely made by groups of people, which is part of the challenge of working with people. It's understandably upsetting, but if this bothers you so much, you should consider: (a) changing jobs if the person pulling rank is unreasonable, or (b) working out the power structure and on your relationships and communication to get your point across better.

> They could have brought me into a few of the meetings so I'd see how the sausage is made, and maybe I'd realize some of the constraints they were under and see why my idea wouldn't work in that context.

It sounds like you were cut out of the decision-making process. Perhaps your superiors were genuinely unreasonable, in which case you should have done what everyone in an unreasonable work situation should do: switch teams, or switch jobs. Alternatively, if your real-world interactions convey as much arrogance and petulance as your online rants do, then you're maybe losing out because people don't find it productive to bring you into the decision-making process. Perhaps you're right, but perhaps the way you communicate turns people off. I'm just laying out some alternate possibilities, since your posts seem to convey that everyone was against you.

> I do, however, expect to be treated as an equal, and I'll raise hell if I'm not.

Perhaps you're not earning peoples' respect with this attitude. It sounds a bit like what my 5-year-old does when he thinks we're being unfair to him.

EDIT: You're obviously intelligent, but you have to realize that there are other intelligent people, and all things being equal, most people would rather work with someone who can communicate.