skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jake Lodwick: Idea is the last thing for a startup (2011)
Before Wikileaks, before Snowden - there was Cryptome.org
A nominal fee like a quarter might be a good idea. I lived in Santa Monica when their buses were 25 cents and don't recall many issues with homeless or other people abusing it.
Does this have any relevance other than someone claiming they "hacked" a certain domain? I don't imagine it has relevance on SEO or anything else, right?
This is a great post. The only thing I would add is to learn to code at some level.

I remember a few years ago, I was at a large corporation and we had a large team of developers and designers. Things were REALLY bad, and people were leaving in droves. I had several friends who were designers and they were depressed because they had been interviewing and every single company wanted them to know how to code and understand how code affects design. My two friends were rockstar designers (both had won Webby Awards for their designs) and felt like there was no way out for them. They were stuck at a bad company because companies were now looking for more hybrid designers.

It's great to know everything you pointed out, but knowing how to code will give you a leg up on other designers.
I graduated from high school and am pretty good at powerpoint, so I am assuming I am overqualified.
I assume you meant "I don't have firsthand knowledge"
Data-Driven Aesthetics
I think this story is more interesting than 7 points and 0 comments. (Not the Wired article, but the underlying story.)

It was a collossal fuckup for Microsoft -- but only because Sony made the right moves. If Sony also tried to impose daily internet-check DRM on its users, and decided to bar them from being able to loan or rent games, then there would have been a ton of grumbling, but it wouldn't matter.

But since Sony decided to weaponize this issue and announce they were doing none of this stuff, and aggressively mock MS for it, they scored what appear to be real hard body blows against MS, and came out of it looking great. Even though MS has now reversed all its controversial and objectively user-hostile ideas, a lot of the tarnish wills stick to it and the next-gen Xbox.

(Disclaimer: I'm not a gamer, I just think this has been a really interesting business story.)
Without Google stating otherwise, my guess is that the ability to delete entries and disable web history only affects your experience but won't stop Google from collecting and keeping these data.
Alledged mastermind Wile Al Coyote is still at large
Bundles: new torrent filetype that requires interaction to unlock content
The official nginx documentation is better but it's still mostly just an API documentation, there's no red thread through it to tell people "read this first, then this and then jump over here".

Since this kind of article still gathers this amount of popularity 3 years later I actually do think it's a problem of the documentation.
Agreed, I think he took it too far. I wouldn't want that letter to end up in front of a judge if this thing did end up in court.
It depends on the location. In my neighborhood in SF there was a guy who dressed up like a giant viking warlock with a leather pouch of coins that he would hand out to any homeless person who needed fare for the N-Judah.
The "family sharing" aspect of Xbox One has been compared to iTunes Home Sharing. If that's the case, you wouldn't have been able to share games with your brother anyway -- Home Sharing only works for systems that are on the same Wi-Fi network. I don't think Microsoft's original idea was as cool as you think it was.
If quoted verbatim, the semicolon is used incorrectly. It should be a comma.
Innovating Old Ideas to Further the Development of Social Finance
Ok, so I was wrong on one of the 3. It still cannot be removed or turned off. It can be disabled by software which we have to trust is really disabling it.
Just as in our TokuDB for MySQL product, we have zlib and lzma compression available.
Anything as ugly as a naked mole rat has to have some value.
Hear hear, I dont understand why people do it either, it just seems like all it adds is pagination and embedding for their pdf document which already has readers custom built for the task?

If you want to make something for presentation on the web dont make a pdf.
I'm not sure that even the neocons could tell you the actual reason they went to war. Only the WMD thing even made a bit of sense (in the aftermath of 9/11). But even most of the normal tinfoil theories (e.g. blood for oil) wouldn't have made practical sense. Puzzles me to this day.
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
Footage from Quadcopter shot down by police in Taksim Square
5 little design decisions to admire
I don't think such letters have much weight in court except insofar as they might involve breaches of professional conduct. I assume the writer has something to back his claim of excessive property tax, so it seems pretty safe. It also seems like there's some history involved.
LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack
I think we're talking about different periods of time when referring to the "short term". My short term is probably your medium term.

While there are some technologies to dispose of the waste, such as breeder reactors, even burying the highly stabilised waste in a small area surely seems favourable to dumping it over large geographic areas as traditional fossil fuels do.

It's not like there's a dearth of radioactives in the Earth's crust already.
>This is a near universal consequence of academia's incentives and extends into many of the sciences (although biology is most susceptible due to its complexity).

It is not simply a matter of incentives (although they play a part). Another issue is pure publication bias. If you get 'landmark' results, a paper is much more likely to publish then if you got the results everyone would expect. In many ways this is one of the necessary functions of the journals, as it allows people to look at the new stuff without sifting through many articles of expected stuff, but it does create a bias.

Add to that the incentives of needing to get published, and constrained resources, and a willingness to publish what could be sub-par methodologys (of course they are par), and it is clearly not the best system.
Thanks. Not sure I see any reason to switch but its interesting.
In France, p2p lending meets Kickstarter-style crowdfunding
The mayor's son-in-law's old PC isn't cheap!
Do you run runscope forever? Or is it disconnected after your debugging is done? I'm just wondering about the security aspects of this. As I see it, someone gaining access to your runscope account can effectively re-use access tokens and read personal information on the log files. So, does runscope delete data on request?
You're forgetting that when they initially decided to keep the servers they didn't know whether Kim would regain access to his funds or whether he would want to buy the data back at all. In retrospect they could've made the decision to do what you're suggesting.

I know conspiracy theories are appealing, but it's much more likely that they took a calculated risk by holding on to the data/servers for one of their bigger, well-paying clients (~1.5% of their total server count). Then, when the gamble didn't look like it was going to pay off, they decided to cut their losses and reuse the servers.
We use it for the reddit marketplace and have loved it (balanced).
Apparently they were DNS Hijacked.
The big win Balanced has over Stripe is the ability to use their payouts API independently of whether you're using them to collect credit card and ACH debits or not. So you could be charging cards through Stripe and paying out via Balanced. Stripe forces you to charge cards through them in order to do any payouts.

It's true Stripe is integrated with more shopping carts and invoicing systems, but Balanced will get there. Personally, it would be great to see a Balanced credit card and ACH FreshBooks/Harvest integration because we're moving more into invoicing, as we're now dealing with larger companies and larger payments.
I'm glad you asked. I hate to be That Guy. But I'm baffled. Is this a key supplier of cheap suits for interviewees who don't know better? What's the connection?
Oh, I didn't notice that stripe doesn't do the merchant underwriting. That's a non starter for us.
The lend game thing was limited to once per game, ever to friends of 30 days or more.

Its like saying "you know that potential infinite thing, we are now definitely saying you can only have one."
It reminds me of the difference between free refills and no free refills, the actual amount of extra drinks you get probably is not high, but some soda heads will be pissed if they dont get free refills.
Subpoenas are a basic tool of discovery, a very broad instrument for collecting relevant information. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena_duces_tecum
Since unless a revolution succeeds it's morally wrong, yes, they can be morally equivalent.
Queens: New York’s New Tech Hub
Hm? We absolutely do perform the underwriting ourselves.
A 747 at 12km is silent from the ground in every populated area I've ever been in; how could an MQ-9 at 15km possibly not be silent?
I am more concerned with 2038, when the memory on time_t runs out. I plan to be stocking up on baked beans prior to then. :-)
This is ahistorical. As another commenter said, you can look into the factual history behind the slogan yourself before it became an advertising company.[1]

[1]: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-16-n55.html
It doesn't matter they already showed me what kind of company they are over and over again. The fact that they would try this in the first place says something about them. After all these decades, nothing's changed about Microsoft.

And don't even try to feed me that BS about "companies exist to make money". No. They. Do. Not. A company exists to create a solution to a problem or fulfill a need. In exchange for providing that to a consumer or user they are rewarded with money. Money is not the goal, it's the result of achieving a goal. People don't start companies thinking "I'm going to start a company to make money" . They do however start them by saying "I'm going to start a company that makes ______ for money".

I'm just glad this whole thing backfired and I hope they feel the wrath of the gaming community for years. Their entire plan was to kiss the asses of publishers who would in turn make more exclusives for Xbone and the players would have no choice but to get an Xbone. Now that is a dick move.
OH! Very interesting!
Want to drop me a note? patrick@stripe.com.
I assure you know one is talking about predators.
Ask HN: How to focus and work on something that you hate and disgust
I am working on a project that I inherited from another developer. It's a nightmare to me; coding styles, complicated logics without one line of comments. As a result, my performance has been below average. I want to get it done as soon as possible, but it seem that I can't focus on working on it. Looking at the code for few minutes, I can't help but looking for other interesting things on the web (HN, Reddit) to ease my frustration. Any advice is appreciated.
In the 18th century as now you could have chosen to give all your personal correspondence over to some company.
Justin:
1. Hadoop is multi-tenant. Another job could burst your cache. Unless things have dramatically changed since I first read the source a year or two ago, spark jobs basically grab control of the cluster so that the cache won't get evicted.
2. Think of Pregel and other iterative-style jobs. You may run several iterations before writing to disk to checkpoint. This can speed up your job immensely since you don't have to write & read data from slow disks. Of course you lose on fault tolerance but the speedup may be worth it.
>with limited plans

I'm just pointing out that $2600 for an iPhone over 2 years (Verizon Share Everything, 2GB data) is only 8% more expensive than a "free" low-quality Android handset on the same plan ($2400).

Limited and prepaid plans would explain the class difference. If it weren't for the shitty suburban/rural coverage, I'd strongly consider Nexus 4 on T-Mobile.
Short, sweet, and to the point. Thanks!
And you consider that rational?

Obviously I do, since I'm the one who said it.

Do I care if my car mechanic believes in ghosts?

Do you care if your electrician believes in Ohm's Law? Because that's what it means to deny evolution, for anyone whose job is even remotely connected to biological science. Your car mechanic analogy is irrelevant, because car mechanics don't confront decisions in their professional life that may bring them into conflict with their religion.

A better way to phrase your question might be, "Do you care if your car mechanic believes in phlogiston?" That would be "Yes."
That's an okay strategy if you're going for "maximin": the best possible worst result. More refined speakers of English will notice and take umbrage at your mistakes, but a wrong "who" is so much less irritating than a wrong "whom."
You can find closed-form expressions for SOME likelihood functions. This is the case for logistic regression.

Anyway, the takeaway that I think you were downvoted for omitting is that if you can bypass the serialization, startup, and shutdown steps associated with the traditional Hadoop iterative process you'll get a huge speedup.
Does anyone have any corroboration of this?
It would be interesting to have a post about how to get a design job after working in another field. What does your portfolio look like? What does your cover letter say? What happens during an interview? Did you know the people beforehand? (#1 way to get any job) What do you actually do the first month on the job? Is it better than your old job?
Both focus on integrity. Read the dnscrypt project description and grep for "authentic", then grep for "encrypt".

DNS confidentiality is useful when running an IP-over-DNS tunnel like iodine, not so much in combination with other protocols.
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Seeing 204.11.56.17 for their A record which is

OrgName: Confluence Networks Inc
OrgId: CN
Address: 3rd Floor, Omar Hodge Building, Wickhams
Address: Cay I, P.O. Box 362
City: Road Town
StateProv: Tortola
PostalCode: VG1110
Country: VG
RegDate: 2011-04-07
Updated: 2011-07-05
$Trillions in war spending is sufficiently plausible reason for me.
New game for introducing Programming for Kids
> "James Watson of IBM was given a medal of honor."

Specifically the "Order of the German Eagle", if anyone else was confused about this.
Light-bot is a game where players program a robot to solve puzzles. Players use visual
commands, instead of code, to guide a robot to light up tiles to complete levels. The all-ages game
camouflages difficult programming concepts, like instructions, procedures, loops, and conditionals,
as simple game mechanics.

Given the success of the original games, Light-bot has been recreated for mobile
devices and tablets with brand new graphics, levels, and challenges.
http://www.cio.co.ke/news/main-stories/google,-microsoft,-li...
That is from April 15th.
I was asking what your intended contribution to the conversation was. What point were you trying to make?
This Could be Humanity's Final Game
I'm getting 216.52.242.80. Looks legit:

[prhodes@captainchaos ~]$ whois 216.52.242.80@whois.arin.net
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]

#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
#

#
# Query terms are ambiguous. The query is assumed to be:
# "n 216.52.242.80"
#
# Use "?" to get help.
#

#
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=216.52.242.80? showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2
#

LinkedIn Corporation INAP-LAX-LINKEDIN-38682 (NET-216-52- 242-0-1) 216.52.242.0 - 216.52.242.255
Internap Network Services Corporation PNAP-8-98 (NET-216-52-0-0-1) 216.52.0.0 - 216.52.255.255
Does it really have to run on a real PDP? Certainly modern computers can emulate a PDP easily?
I guess they didn't mark their cookies as 'Secure'. Oh well, the real story here is an app.net link at #1 on HN.
Aussie Beachside Incubator SLINGSHOT announce 2013 intake of tech companies
> In fairness to your latter point, we also call the U.S. a democracy despite the threads on voters, fraud, etc. ;)

Democracy is not only about the election process. I was just highlighting the fact that you cannot even START a democracy if you do not have proper elections in the first place. The US may have issues as well but it's an established democracy for a number of other reasons and it would not stop being one unless drastic measures are taken against accepted civil liberties.
well, certainly the photo upload still is not working, you can update your photo via their website apparently.
Apple's New Mac Pro Begins Showing Up in Benchmarks
To clarify: Stripe underwrites you as the merchant. Balanced lets the API user underwrite anyone (yourself or someone else) as a merchant, allowing for example the operation of a marketplace, where each merchant has their own merchant account. Balanced allows you to underwrite an arbitrary number of merchants programmatically via API. Correct me if I am wrong, and I am sure pc will do if this is the case, but Stripe does not offer this functionality.
Indeed. But it happens rarely enough that its usefulness to video chat with friends outweighs the risks for me and many other people. Most people are already okay with a camera on a device that is constantly pointing at them.
People do however use "y'all" and "you guys", and others. Just because we don't have the words doesn't mean that they're unnecessary.
The title is total linkbait, but very well done. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of 1984 readers go on to read the appendix, so Quartz's title immediately draws in everybody who did.
The Internet Just Made Microsoft Kill a Car for a Faster Horse
Can we have it all?
Yes, I linked to IfIsEvil. The fact that you need a page to document the horrible behavior because it's too late to fix it is a sign that something is very wrong with the config syntax.
You know who else ticked off some powerful people? Daniel Ellsburg. Seymour Hersh. Bob Woodward. Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. All of whom are still alive.

Hastings wrote a magazine story that forced a general to retire. That general is now making a very cozy living as a speaker and consultant. Not exactly horrible stuff.

I just object to the mindset that ticking off powerful people is likely to lead to murder, when there is so much obvious counter evidence.
Sometimes they do. This is why both fire and ambulence are dispatched to accidents. Would you like me to start sending you all the nasty images from accident scenes that my EMT brother gets to go to?

I find it fascinating how quickly he's able to go from bouncing off the walls to stoic when he gets a single car accident call. They're never pretty.
Locks to only one editing user and confirms syntax is clean before saving. I'm not aware of nano enforcing correct sudoers syntax. Plus plenty of us don't like nano.

man visudo for more info.
No More Secrets: Medtronic Shows How Open Science Might Work In The Real World
Try using tapping, the EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). It's endorsed by Dr. Mercola (http://eft.mercola.com), amongst others. It looks really silly, admittedly, so don't do it around people with which you want to maintain a level of respect, but I've personally used it at times. To be clear, I'm not sure if it truly unlocks the emotional blockage, or whether it's the personal embarrassment of having to put yourself through such a stupid looking exercise that makes you want to JFDI.

I'm sure this will attract some jeers, but I'm not saying this is explicable and robust science--but it got me the desired effect.
I wouldn't be surprised if it impacts it a bit. While I wouldn't mind paying in Euros, my currency is USD. When I see prices in Euros, my first thought is "that's not actually that much, it's actually more expensive." Then I catch myself and go and covert the price to figure out how much it actually is.

I have an aversion to fees though, and while I wouldn't mind buying the SaaS, I then have to remember which of my credit cards charge foreign exchange fees and how much they are, and then add that to the price of the service I'm buying.

So I guess it depends on how logical your customers are, where they would stop in that thought process, or if they would care if your prices were 3.5% higher to them.

EDIT: Also, on pricing I think maybe you should consider getting rid of the 0.99 cents on there. There's a bunch of logic in pricing, but I think in general $X.99 is what people expect to see, whole numbers is premium (think upscale restaurants), $X.95 is a bit better than $X.99, and then if you have an odd amount like $X.82 they would think it's discounted.
You state this, and then wonder why people think its a big deal and don't just forgive them? So people got pissed enough and Microsoft got scared enough to change their mind but that doesn't change the fact that they actively wanted to screw over their customers because they wanted more money and they thought that you would just submit to it and be hyped by all their buzzwords. They haven't changed at all and things like this will happen in the future until they do.
Feel free to use it. I wrote it to:

A) Solidify what I had learned by putting it into writing.

B) Help others avoid my dumb mistakes.

So if it helps people I'm all for it. :)
I created a version of this game back in 2008, for the 3 major mobile platforms and PC:

PC:
http://www.tictactoeten.com/play

iOS:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tic-tac-toe-ten/id317168510?...

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livelovele...

Windows Phone:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/tictactoe10/d84e...
I agree that Stripe has built a great product, and they have a great team. I too have had the absolute displeasure of working with a host of other gateways, and it's easy to separated Balanced & Stripe from the rest of the pack. They are both in another league when it comes to ease of use, integration and features. However, for a marketplace with any volume, the ability to change the soft descriptor for charges across different merchant accounts is a non-negotiable necessity. You can find this gem in Balanced Docs: appears_on_statement_as: optional string. Text that will appear on the buyer's statement. Characters that can be used are limited to...:(https://docs.balancedpayments.com/current/api?language=bash#...) Just try charging a few hundred credit cards with a generic descriptor and the wave of charge-backs will help you to understand the importance.
I was recently at an AngularJS meetup at Google. One exciting (and drool-worthy) advancement the devs are making when it comes to Angular's documentation: a fully interactive Codecademy-style 5-step tutorial. You can see a rough demo here: http://198.199.117.192/. They said they'd finish it in the coming weeks.
Ah, that's unfortunate. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/5...
Microsoft's betting on a new input device, and for it to work it has to be ubiquitous. This is the same reason why, when Apple shipped the first Macintoshes, they came with a mouse in the box.

I'm sure there were people posting on cix in 1984 right after the superbowl, "I want a mac cheaper therefore without a toy I will never use. If you want to 'hack' a mouse,then buy one separately. Or at least Apple should give the choice to buy a computer without one ,at a lesser price."