skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more invasive than necessary and doesn't work any better than metal detectors. Why should the default position be "they're not that bad"? Any search at all I'm not thrilled with and the metal detector is about the extent of what I'm willing to permit as 'reasonable' without suspicion and without a warrant.
There are a large number of individuals whose inflated self-image needs an objective reality check...

Thinking that one can do anything is good self-motivation, but one shouldn't deny the evidence that "anything" and "everything" are not the same concept, nor that one's particular "anything" may be neither simple nor valuable.
First developments of an LT mode for Emacs:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LightTable
https://github.com/Fuco1/litable

Also interesting discussion at:

http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1c923n/how_does_the_d...

I am an Emacs user for decades, and I am amazed that Emacs is still superior to almost every other editor. I think the incredible easy plugin system and many powerful plugins (like org-mode) are the reason why Emacs is still alive today. But I am curious how LT develops.
I remember Davor Suker!
The Art of Business Networking
Liveblog: Windows 8.1 revealed at Microsoft’s Build 2013 keynote
So it's just scanning public info, right? What about the creation of fake personas [1]? What if these fake personas posted, commented and attempted to gain more information, or attempted to sway/entrap people?

It seems the line to be crossed from (a bit more than public) surveillance to manipulation is a very very thin line.

[1] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Pal...
We launched our first physical product - Poppy 3D
Have you ever tried to send a bank wire before? It can take a week to process and it costs on average $15+. Not an awesome technology.
A Look Into How Parameters Are Passed In JavaScript
Turn yourself into Lego
Lots of nice changes, but Pentadactyl won't work with it. If you're using that, you may want to wait a few days.
If you have a strong team and you are in the Bay Area, don't worry for them. They'll be unemployed for less than a week.
They are legion, but here are a few:
- a less informed citizenry
- increasing fundamentalism
- increasing conformity
- the loss of high culture
- the triumph of materialism and external symbols over internal development
- religion and politics even more dominated by strident name-calling

These things are happening already, and I attribute that partially to the fact that the humanities have already been gutted, intellectually as well as financially.
Funny that they don't mention that the Washington Post also published classified info, and that perhaps they "aided and abetted" Snowden, to some "extent"...
Well this is going to be interesting.
And don't forget guys this is the EU we're talking about not US.
It is a lot more difficult for companies to make changes in their favor since every country has its on system and it's own ways.
Just the amount of paper pushers in Europe is exponentially higher.
Makes "convincing" any one of them less effective due to their limited power.
Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager (Ben Horowitz, 1996)
The Tech Industry’s Obession With The Teen Oracle
Doesn't matter, it isn't real. Just PR/fiction to get HN upvotes.
iMessage uses the Apple Push Notification Service. This is like a secured email relay server where the sender & receiver IDs are ephemeral tokens. If you trust the CA & certificate chain, then it's reasonably confidential. The question is where you keep your historical messages - on your device, or on their cloud.

The long & short of it is that Apple can't get at your iMessage contents or history if you don't use iCloud backups and don't subscribe to Apple's desktop password recovery service (duh).

Apple's iOS Security Whitepaper adds some light: https://www.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Oct12....

In short,

(a) iMessage is end-to-end encrypted. There is metadata about who is messaging whom because it is distributed through the Apple Push Notification Service. This identifying metadata consists of ephemeral tokens generated by the sending server and the receiving device. And there is a small amount of encrypted message history kept for the PNS to resolve pending messages to all subscribing devices.

(b) Some iOS Backup files are not accessible by anything but the original device because they are encrypted by a combination of the device UID and your key. Mail for example. No one can get at them other than someone with 1. your password and 2. your device.

(c) iMessage files aren't protected like this since you CAN restore them across devices. But this is by design -- only way for iMessage history to be retained is through a backup.

(d) There are two backup approaches: iTunes (on your PC/Mac), which encrypts via a password, or iCloud.

(e) With iCloud, Apple could get at your backups because they could reset your password.

(f) Therefore, make a determination as to what is more secure: your PC/Mac's password, or your iCloud password (and Apple's willpower not to reset it at the request of the NSA). Back up your iOS (and thus iMessages) devices there. Or don't backup at all, and no one will see any history.

(edits: for clarity)
Agreed. I'm cringing the same way I would cringe at my 10th grade journals.
that paragraph is difficult to understand even in german, to me it sounds like not apb, but another addon ( http://urlfixer.org ) is the one with the amazon link tampering.
Everyone’s passwords suck—and why pretty soon it won’t matter
Local backups can be encrypted (mine are). Also it's not necessary to use cloud backups (I don't).

Therefore, my iMessage history is secure (I fully understand that my message recipients may expose my individual messages, but my copy is safe).
I agree. HN is being taken for a ride. Come on guys, we're smarter than this.
no one should have to do what I did.

I grew up in the mountains. there were no rich people around. it would be very rare to find a family that my family knew that had a college degree. also my family didn't really have any money and I needed to move out as soon as I finished high school.

I found tech jobs on the internet (yay IRC). I moved to different cities and worked entry level tech jobs. I went to community college at nights and then a state school during the day when I had a job with flexible enough hours. I worked full time and went to school part time and after seven years I should be done this fall, with no student debt (or really any other kind of debt).

but doing this really sucked. no one should have to do it. I've met more people than you would think who were like me. when I started, people referred to me as a "nontraditional" student but I think the "traditional" student is becoming the abnormality...
OpenRISC 1000 emulator written in Javascript, running Linux
Facebook Shadow Profiles: What You Need to Know
I'm curious what accelerator they were a part of?

We did TechStars and this was not our experience at all. In fact, we explicitly decided to not raise and continue bootstrapping. They never pushed us to raise or to "lie."

Their advice on raising was we should pick one or the other and move on. The worst thing would be to have an internal turmoil about raising or not raising.
Responding well to them? Their design is a standard template - slider below a menu, 3 columns below that, brands/testimonials below that, large footer. The only similarities I really see are the structure of the templates, and both look like they're from bootstrap, so I'm not sure what the stealing is complaining about.
Excellent, but where is the "try now" link to test in the browser?
> Scalia had a good comment on the Supreme Court's alleged partisanship. He said: justices are selected for their distinct judicial philosophies. Is it a surprise when they vote accordingly?

IIRC, if you assess the salience of particular political issues at the time a Justice is appointed, and then look at how they vote on those issues throughout their career, they tend to be pretty consistent with the appointing administrations views on issues that were of high salience when the justice was appointed to the Court, and less consistent the lower the salience of hte issue was at the time the justices are appointed.

This tends to support the idea that justices are much more appointed for the views on high-profile issues than any kind of broad "judicial philosophy".
Living Foundries
...but the Earth was somehow still lit by the regular old moon?

Seriously, how did they manage to take one look at their handiwork without realizing this obvious flaw?
I didn't mean all businesspeople or all anything. I meant the mediocre MBA types who shuffle around from company to company and try to monetize units of... wait... what is it we sell again?
Once collected and analysed, this data is going to be like a kind of "credit rating". It will show who is a social influencer and what are his/her political leanings and their social network.

Not that i'm putting on my tinfoil hat or anything, but from what I understand, Obama essentially did that (assigned something like a 'voter' rating) during the last election. Not through any illegal means, mind you (that i'm aware of), but still he was able to win the election handily through efficient social engineering and voter targeting. So there does appear to be a use case for this being effective.

That does actually raise an interesting question -- assuming this network still exists in ten years time, what happens to it? Does it get folded into the tax bureaucracy, healthcare, do lawyers get to access it?

Imagine if mafia got a copy of this. What could they do with a blackmail database?

Strictly speaking, not much more than they could do now, just hacking people's likely easily bruteforced email and social media accounts. They'd be more interested in a credit card number/SSN database anyway I think.
Google adds remote desktop to Hangouts
The article opens with an example of someone seeing how life broke down in postwar Italy. But there is an alternate view of how humans behave in crisis, well-articulated by Rebecca Solnit in "A Paradise Built in Hell". She notes that, in actual crises, the expected apocalypse of savagery never arises. Instead there is often an unusual sense of solidarity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/books/21book.html

Now, this has no bearing on the claim that humans have a limited capacity for rationality, which is obviously true at some level. But I want to draw your attention to the rhetorical strategy. In order to get you to submit to the idea that domination is normal, they first have to depress your hope in humanity. It then follows that one's choices are between slavery and chaos.
Podcast Showdown: The Lifestyle Business Podcast
Europe Nouvelles – Nouvelles jour
Doesn't matter, it isn't real.
World's most mysterious manuscript has genuine message
I'd suggest creating a few accounts on elance and odesk and under-bid on as many small projects as you can. I say create a few accounts there because contractors there are limited to the number of bids they can make (per month, I think). I say under-bid because you're up against a slew of Asian developers, who charge $500 for a month's work. But do it. You'll be making real money, building a real resume, and gaining a ton of experience. Once you get a few projects under your belt there it's easy to land gigs. Just make sure you deliver as promised and get rated well and after 6 months you could continue using those sites to source projects, at whatever rate you chose.
Interesting to see where Firefox is the most popular these days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_by_most_used_web...
Intent counts for a great deal in the US court system.[1] The fact that he 'attacked' the NSA may generate additional charges (fraud, etc.) as well as increase the sentences for any convictions. What might have been 2-10 years in prison could be a life sentence by the time the dust settles.

[1] If you're a white male.
I just need to point out that the moon is not a planet, so the title should read "What If The Moon Were Replaced By Planets?", or something like that
> You should probably link your client logotypes to their respective websites. If they don't have website at least to Wikipedia or something.

In cases like this, I'd recommend linking to a case-study or other type of portfolio page about the client. I'd rather not send potential customers to another site where they might not come back.
It rules out the password as the encryption key, but it doesn't rule out encrypted backups. Implementations of encrypted volumes, such as in LUKS on Linux, commonly use the password as something that unlocks the real encryption key. So during password change, the new password could be used to re-encrypt the backup encryption key, making it so that as long as Apple doesn't store the passwords, Apple can't have access to the encrypted backups.

However, this is really far into the weeds on a topic that doesn't matter so much, as none of it really relates to Apple's claims about iMessages.
1. You can use your webcam, or you can upload a picture from your computer using the folder icon in the top left corner.
2. You can change size of the blocks using the SML icons in the top right corner.
3. You can draw on top of the canvas using the palette of colors down below.
4. When you're done, you can upload the result to Facebook if you want to.

The app uses getUserMedia and so it works best in Chrome as of now.

Enjoy!
Excellent work with the API docs.

There is a pre-configured client instance sitting right inside your console so you're ready to play with contentful immediately. Haven't seen this anywhere else, yet.
Who has presence of mind to craft a well-written blog while your life's work is crashing down? Smells a little too scripted, the drama a little too perfect.

I enjoy reading.

But I don't think it's real.
(Edit: The headline used to be "Adblock Plus is changing Amazon refs", but it has been fixed. I commented on the new one below [6].)

I'm a developer at Eyeo, working on Adblock Plus. Adblock Plus is not changing Amazon links. TFA is ripe with FUD, but it doesn't even go this far.

Maybe this was a major misunderstanding of the typo correction feature [1], which is opt-in, only implemented in Firefox and merely corrects typos in URLs, always telling what it corrected. I was never really sure how it fits into ABP, but I fail to see how this could be considered shady.

Other than that, the only thing Adblock Plus does is block content. Which content that is depends on the filter lists you use. There are defaults, but you're free to use any you like, or create your own. It's usually ads, but ABP is also pretty good at blocking any kind of tracking [2].

Back to TFA. The main allegations are:

1. The CEO and the angel investor at Eyeo have ties to the ad industry

2. Adblock Plus is letting ads through if sites pay for it

3. Adblock Plus is burning money

One at a time:

1. This is true. Eyeo was founded to find a middle ground between users blocking ads and sites monetising from ads. The idea is that there are decent ads that most people wouldn't want to block, in the sea of horrible ads - "acceptable ads" [3]. "The ad industry" is not a single evil entity that wants to blind us all, some people in it actually want to make ads better. Hence Wladimir joined forces with them.

2. Every site can have their ads whitelisted, and ads that violate the criteria [4] will not be whitelisted. Some sites are supporting us financially, others don't. I think the main controversy is that this feature is opt-out rather than opt-in.

3. I disagree. More than half of the employees on the payroll are working remotely, deliberately. We wouldn't even all fit into the office, which is nice, but cheap (it's a building that's going to be demolished in 1-2 years). We're barely profitable, nobody's getting rich. We manage the infrastructure that delivers the filter lists - which are used by literally every other ad blocker out there, for free, and that's fine. Everything we create is open source [5], everything can be forked, and that's fine.

[1] http://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adblo...

[2] http://adblockplus.org/en/features#tracking

[3] http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

[4] http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#criteria

[5] https://hg.adblockplus.org/

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5947553
MySQL Monitoring with Cacti using 1-minute resolution
Actually, that's not such a crazy idea. Realistically, it would be months or years away, but Hummingbird seems like a valuable teaching language, and it could fit well with some of the other ideas I have.
Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma
Debugging the Stripe API
At least UNIX doesn't have a space in the path of the main programs directory (I'm looking at you Windows).

Also, many of the basic tools have a -0 option which uses the null character to replace many uses of space. Still far from an adequate solution though.
My 5-year-old son died 7 months ago. Help me find out why
Richard Stallman Inducted Into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame
Well, if you are a keyboard person and don't want to go to a niche browser (like dwb, vimperator or jumanji), then Firefox+pentadactyl is better than anything available for Chrome.
This article smells like self importance.
I'm not a scientist, so it's harder to speak to that, but as an engineer, I can definitely say that engineers are in general more interested and more skilled at asking questions of "how" rather than questions of "why".

When I studied the humanities, I read Euclid, Galileo, Darwin, etc. The history of science is an essential part of the humanities. Unfortunately, it is not part of "STEM" in the sense that politicians use that term.

Scientific revolutions are definitely a case of "natural philosophy", but that differs dramatically from "normal science" as described, for example, in the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I am likewise concerned that movement towards a jobs-oriented STEM curriculum will actually retard the progress of the sciences, by producing more functionaries and fewer deep-thinking scientists capable of innovation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_science
Collapse adjacent rests? I was mucking around deleting notes and ended up with a bar full of quarter and eighth rests.
Sounds reasonable. But I see things slightly differently.

I see three (major) factors.

#1 Supply and demand. Manufacturing and agricultural jobs have declined, the population increases, there haven't been enough knowledge and service jobs to take up the slack. So employers can keep raising standards.

I recall how hard recruiting / hiring was during the dot com boom, when my region had near full employment. We were hiring anyone who could spell "HTML".

Now the situation has reversed.

#2 Anti-competitive impulses. Nearly every single person who successfully climbs the ladder immediately turns around and pulls the ladder up behind them. To limit the competition.

I saw this with the ridiculous continuing education requirements for teachers. I saw this when I served on the hiring board, where the members wrote prerequisites & requirements they themselves couldn't meet. I see this in politics where most every incumbent makes challenges ever more difficult. Etc, etc.

#3 Using high requirements as a filter (firewall) in a very high noise to signal environment. The part of hiring I hate most is chewing thru the deluge of resumes that any job posting now gets. I think the buzzword bingo filtering is unfair and doesn't work. Which is why so many people hire thru their social network, routing around the broken HR processes.
Nice! One suggestion: up/down keys for changing the selected note(s). Personally, the thing that I've never been satisfied with Sibelius (and others) is that I have to use a mouse way too often to do things that could easily be accomplished with keystrokes. I want notating music to be more fluid, like programming…or playing piano–just pluck away as the ideas come. Good luck, the possibilites here are exciting.
I wonder how much the planets will look different when they are brought in place of moon specially mercury and neptune.
am I the only one who doesnt find the sites that similar after all? Or to put it another way - neither of them seem particularly unique (fixed header, slider on top, broad sections and large footer) compared to many marketing sites these days?
Interesting bit from the article:

"The height of my porn watching was my adolescence -- high school -- when each relationship felt like a splintering slat on a long rickety bridge. Porn didn't just serve as an outlet for my sexual frustration; it was a steadying beam to fall back on."

I wonder for how many men this is true.

It's interesting also to see this juxtaposed with the "All men are rapists" meme--one wonders if the absence of open affection, sexuality, and broken standards is promoting this sort of behavior and in turn perhaps causing the very thing that many authors claim to be afraid of.
This is what is happening right now in higher education, it is going through a structural change. MIT and Harvard will continue to be fine, at Purdue and Carnegie-Mellon they have to struggle a little harder, but they will be fine. Lesser places have no chance.

I cannot see how they will deal with it. In my department 80 % of the undergraduates go up to medical school. Up to now, the deal was that you had to have some kind of research experience as an undergraduate to be accepted at a decent school, but this is going to change, as grant income is shrinking. No cash, no research, no honour's theses. The current plan is that they hired several new professors in a bid to get grant income, but this isn't going to succeed.

Half of the full professors here have no grants. The social contract has always been that professors pull in grant money, that is what justifies their salary, as compared to teaching-only staff. But now they haven't got grants and won't get any ever, and you can't explain that to the taxpayer.

I don't think anyone has a plan, going forward.
As a formally trained engineer, we had to go through numerous classes and discussions on engineering and business ethics specifically. Luckily, most of the discussion boiled down to "don't be an ass" and "breaking the law is usually bad."

In fact, the lead engineer behind the Hyatt bridge collapse spent a good deal of time with us talking about how poor practices and oversight can cost careers and lives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
I'm going to agree with the commenters and say that a memory-leaking program is likely the culprit.
Note that they have almost the entire runtime working, including the threading model, which allows you to fork threads, use MVars, perform STM, etc.

Truly awesome and very promising.
This (now dead) website was fun. (http://pirated-sites.com/)

Perhaps there's a niche for a replacement?

EDIT: there appears to be a Flikr stream to replace it. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/piratedsites/)
This. Kintek was clearly inspired by what Infinum did, especially on some of the graphical elements.

But they both appear, on a code level, to be Twitter Bootstrap. Infinum definitely needs to get over themselves.
Bootstrap provides a slim set of tools for constructing a website. The power comes in it's components, mobile-readiness, and extensibility. Going from default Bootstrap to either of these two sites would still take a lot of design work. You can also see the linked article's author talking about specific design decisions they made that aren't made by default Bootstrap.

I think a more accurate critique would be to look at some of the templates on Wrap Bootstrap. A lot of them do similar things to both of these websites.
Also, it says it in the cab. This is how I, as a New Yorker, first learned of these rules.
Is it a bad idea to create a startup with your best friend?
Apart from the title question, what does it take to get your first clients? Even when you already have a web or mobile app in the market.
Companies using IE 6 have many more security problems than clipboard access.