skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assumes he accesses the files at the airport or from devices that are known to be his. Lucky for him the future is somewhat non-deterministic. Also, he could have all of the files segmented and say the passphrase in a conference call over the phone, immediately making a single specific document available to a few dozen journalists, assuming he has already distributed the encrypted container around.
How to waste 90,000 Dollars in three months
Take a busy entrepreneur, throw in some megalomania, let it simmer in a sauce of confidence and voilà: the money is gone!

One day, I dropped my computer. It gave me an idea: setup a network to connect freelance computer specialists with individuals with computer problems. It was the start of Guidion which now serves 500,000 customers with a turnover of millions of Euros a month in The Netherlands.

But I wanted more. The power of working with freelancers fascinated me. This evolved to Hoofdkraan.nl, a Netherlands focused Odesk type business.

We have been working at this for three years now and it's going well. But when I was offered the chance to buy the website pimtim.com that was serving the entire world, I couldn't resist.

It sounds a lot better when you’re able to say you lead a global company than when you’re about to conquer Maastricht. Pimtim.com was like 99 Designs but without the clever business model. I thought it should take off by simply changing the model and adding marketing.

After we made the first adjustments, we waited. And we waited and waited. Nothing changed! The only noticeable change was that we were a lot busier than before, now running two companies.

The international aspect that sounded so cool also meant working with foreign languages and various currencies. People designing logos from within a Mongolian yurt had to be paid in their local currency, the Tugrik. To sum it up: we failed.

What did I learn?
Don’t get distracted. Perform a lot more research before getting involved in any new activity and thoroughly assess how much distraction that new activity gives.

Besides knowing when to start it is also important to know when to pull the plug. Sometimes the only good decision is to say goodbye. Was that the best solution? We’ll see. Rest in peace pimtim.
Memory Allocation in Brains [pdf]
It was justified on procedural grounds rather than on the merits, but to interpret procedurally-based decisions as "not ideological" and cases decided on the merits as "ideological" is unjustified.

I disagree because justices habitually take the point of view that the principle established is more important than the result achieved. Therefore a variety of ideologies can result in a procedural decision that rules for a side that the justice may or may not personally agree with.

Take this case. Everyone knows that, no matter what happened in the court, California is going to have gay marriage soon. Popular support is running in that direction and it is just a question of time. So whether that happens now or in 3 years is not that important. Thus a justice who does not like gay marriage would not lose much overturning proposition 8.

But what do they gain? The result of their decision is that states which allow voters to pass propositions that the state government does not like, now have an approved legal trick to undo those propositions. Namely try to get sued, then fail to defend the proposition adequately. The court overturns it, and the proposition dies.

If you're a justice who thinks that voter propositions tend to be bad, providing that precedent could be more important to you than the outcome. But since that's a fairly esoteric legal issue, there is little correlation between your feelings about that, and how conservative or liberal you are.

Thus I would not be surprised if one or two of the justices who decided on that procedural ground actually are personally against gay marriage.

But, you say, why wouldn't they avoid that in a high profile case? The answer is because cases become high profile based on what the justices can do. After they act, they can make them unimportant. In this case they could have declared gay marriage legal throughout the entire country on constitutional grounds. (The case was brought in hope of that exact outcome.) Instead a technicality was established, and California got the result that would have happened anyways inside of 5 years.

That's the difference between the front page story on the NY Times and being buried as a couple of sentences in an article about a more important decision that was handed down at the same time.
ok, thanks for clearing that up. sounds interesting!
You are right. Sometimes its hard to face a dying dream and other connected dots. Its OK as long as you know you there is much more to do in life.
That is an excellent point about micropayments. Creating a system that pays sites without a middleman that tracks visits would be challenging (though I imagine it's technically feasible).
The cases that are most reported on in media are the highly political/partisan ones, and there the votes tend to fall along partisan lines. But most of the cases decided by the court are more technical, and don't show such partisan voting.

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/vote_sp...
It's not a problem. I'm just saying that Infinum seems to think they came up with a certain layout. When in reality, it just came from bootstrap.
I submitted three (minor) patches for improving the performance of a couple of filters in Mozilla's SVG code. Those (minor) optimisations should be in this release.

I hope to do a lot more. I too, like you, am a Mozilla fanboy.

Unfortunately, in the last few months, I have a lot of pressure at my day-job (a few sudden departures). Nevertheless, I did contribute when I could spare the time and I urge you to do likewise. If there are enough of us, then there's always someone helping them out. It's a massive project and needs all the hands that kind developers are willing to spare.
Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA
I really wonder if they lost their first hire because of the hectic hours, even though they mentioned they finally had breathing room. Employees don't just forget how bad it was when meeting those tough deadlines. Perks after the fact may just not work if they don't see the future being any different.
Your comment has convinced me to turn off AdBlock; we'll see how it goes.
This made me laugh, Is true everyone hates PHP on here but in my hometown Seattle all the jobs on craigslist or anything other domain is mostly populated by PHP requests for a lot of jobs. How long does it take to get into PHP freelancing for someone who has experience with some Java.
They are pretty similar. Because of popular UI frameworks, large sites dedicated to design (and design trends in general), it's pretty normal for me to run into two web sites that look so similar I have to wonder if they're part of the same company.

Is there any other evidence that this was a copy or that the design was intentionally lifted and tweaked/modified from infinium, such as large swaths of JS (not from an open source library) or something ridiculous like a failure to remove your copyright, css elements that are unused on their site but used on yours, id tags in the html and the like that are unique enough to clearly have been copy/paste? Have these guys copied other things belonging to infinium?

I agree with others on the kudos: this was fun way to handle suspected plagiarism.
Because software is like writing. It is a creative process.

When we want life or death critical software, like life or death critical writing, we take a lot more care, as in making laws, writing treaties and contracts.

But we can never make it prescriptive.
TamDenholm's comment is absolutely correct. At your stage, the easiest way to get revenue is to learn how to sell something, e.g. present your services in a way that demonstrates value to your customer.

You should read "Breaking the time barrier"[1]. It's a quick read, but it presents some key guidelines on how to accomplish this, and will be invaluable training when you're talking with a potential customer and trying to figure out the best deal for you both.

[1] http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/tag/breaking-the-time-barrier...
Eclipse Kepler 4.3 released
And open source apparently! https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect
> Because a procedural justification doesn't set the right kind of precedent.

Right, so its a weaker outcome. But if we assume that justices have ideological concerns with policy outcome, there is no reason that the selection to make a procedural decision would be any less a subject to those concerns than the selection to make a merits decision. In fact, the fact that it is a weaker outcome (on the subject addressed by the substance of the case) than a merits decision with similar effect in the immediate case would in some cases be the motivation for pursuing it for an outcome-oriented justice.
Perhaps, but I am more interested in the physical affects to the Earth.
Conversely, three very practical reasons to use ad blockers:

1) You save battery life

2) You save data

3) Pages load quicker

And you lose no content in the process. So why wouldn't you? If you're using a fast machine hooked up to fibre broadband, perhaps it's a different matter, but as a mobile user it's a no brainer. And that isn't even mentioning the content of ads or privacy concerns...

If you think ads are necessary for the health of the internet, then they need to be presented a way that doesn't actively harm the experience of using the internet.
I feel it's really unfair for you to compare a sale of a company to crashing and burning in one.

An acquihire and even -fire would seem to be a pretty desirable outcome to our writer.
Boo. Syntax inspired by Python. Fast, easily extensible compiler. All the power of .NET / Mono.

(But shitty website, and lots of confused kids on the Unity3D forum.)
Creepy yes, but that's a decision you make using a social network that "things could get creepy".

I think a van parked outside my house would be weird but anyone that lives in a UK city center apartment block essentially lives like that anyway - it's just that the cameras are bolted to lobby ceilings and lamp posts.

The friending thing is an interesting one - could it be argued that that is warrantless searching or, by accepting their friend request, are you allowing the police to monitor you... essentially inviting them in?
Sure, but what if I place a camera on each side of your property (outside the property line) of your house, pointing to the edge of your property, then use your tax dollars to pay employees to watch you on the cameras every time you leave your property? Would you enjoy that? If not, why would you put up with it? It's your state, not the government's state. The government are your employees, not your owners, so you have to decide which rights you want, not just which rights can still be defended by existing laws.
The irony of you posting this in a previous thread is almost too much to bear:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5900209
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Yes, I paid for MIT with five summers of work in the 1970s. When I graduated I had two months of living expenses left in the bank, the lowest ever in my life. the first three summers were blue collar, e.g. auto factories which paid triple minimum wage then.
Vagueness and Values
Oh, definitely. Everyone hates PHP, and all the 'real' coders won't even learn the language or take the ton of jobs for it.

Although those jobs also tend not to pay much. Wordpress especially.
Predictably, you're confusing wealth with inequity.
Serious accusations against AdBlock Plus
Yep I'd buy it.
What is the best way to start PM2 on boot? Should I just keep using a screen session?
Wait, what? The wage structure is private industry < k12 teachers < garbagemen?
> Journalism is about presenting both sides of a story

Not at all. Journalism is about presenting the truth. You're talking about journamalism.
You're missing my point. I'm saying that while some things seem like they're the end of the world, they're usually not. It's important to remember that when faced with those circumstances, because it keeps you grounded in reality and looking toward the future.
The type of thinking the humanities and social sciences teach is the type of thinking that asks "should we be doing this?" or "what will the repercussions of technology X be?". These are questions that STEM graduates don't typically ask, are not trained to ask, and maybe should not be trained to ask too often because it would retard their creativity.

However, the questions are still important, someone needs to ask them. Just because business has devalued these sorts of questions does not prove that they are unimportant. This web site is filled, on an almost-daily basis with stories of corporate malfeasance and straight-up incompetence. Yet you are willing to use that broken system as a metric for the value of various sorts of education and thought?
A text-adventure based on new book about neuroscience, slacking, and laziness
Boy-oh-boy I wish Google would lock analytics IDs down to a domain. Somebody in a university in Mexico City copied mine into a project they have in their www directory, and I just had to regex filter it out of GA.
In Firefox, it seems like you can only catch Clipboarddata on input boxes still

document.body.addEventListener("paste", function(e){
console.log("paste event fired")
})

In Chrome, this will fire when you paste, in Firefox it will not.
I think you're assuming that Wordpress types aren't worth what a Rubyist might be.

I know a quite a few consultants who are ridiculously smart at business and realize that WP and other off-the-shelf solutions can solve the majority of the problems they work on, and have hourly rates that eclipse the majority of "real freelance programmers" rates.
I'm just over 30, and generally happy, but still single. I think the single part is what worries me (and my parents!) most - generally happy with everything else. :)
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This. I was part of a program managing NASA grants, mostly to universities. The University overhead was atrocious, in a few cases approaching 40%. Of course that's just how the industry works, which means grant agencies get accustomed to it and start giving out higher grants to compensate, and the subsidy increases.

Sequestration must have hit universities hard.
I worked on this one myself, I had a lot of fun building the widget with backbone.js. There'll be a blog post about the technical stuff later, but feel free to ask me any questions.
Pandora currently pays over 4.5X more in total royalties than broadcast radio
Blog spam. Go away.
Price is not always based only on cost, but also on prestige. People think more expensive things are worth more. Once the public universities cost more, then that means they must be better, right? Quick! Raise the rates for Harvard, we have to appear the best!
For Firefox users, there is Adblock Lite, a fork created after the "Acceptable ads" story on AdBlock Plus a few months ago:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock_lite/

"Adblocklite is a fork of the Adblock Plus version 1.3.10 (classic UI) extension for blocking advertisements on the web. This fork will provide the same features as Adblock Plus 2.X and higher while keeping the old UI but without "acceptable ads" feature."
Which apps have access to your online profiles? Check it with MyPermissions app
Snapchat's founder liquidity trap
Well at least their history is consistent. They were also the state that most strongly resisted making interracial marriage legal. (To those who would say that several states had such laws on the books at the time, Virginia was more actively enforcing it than most. That is why it was Virginia that got sued for putting an interracial couple in jail. By, and I can't make this up, a loving couple actually named Loving.)
That's why i said "videotape" not "videotape and sell/distribute it".

But even if you publish it (in Facebook for example) you are protected by some "fair game" clauses, just as you have the right to request that particular photo to be taken down. Either way nothing is absolute and as you said, it gets murky pretty fast.
Yeah this disgraces ars a bunch.
They cannot post an updated version because:

Udall and Wyden were not able to describe what about the program's description was inaccurate, saying that would divulge classified information.

So that if they correct the 'mistakes' they are divulging classified information.

Either this is another Catch-22 or someone (more) is lying.
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You implied that public funding is not a worthwhile undertaking. This means that the whole system gets thrown out. We don't fund certain programs, we fund universities.

Beyond that, I think that training people to think about the problems we have as a society and to come up with and advocate for solutions to those problems is extremely mutually beneficial. Partly because of public funding, universities have traditionally been hotbeds of social activism and progress. This won't happen if these institutions are transformed into mere job-training centers.
Computer Science can often have one of the highest percentages of graduates who can't find a job. We all know that people are leaving university and being unable to code. Maybe we should scrap CompSci then?
I'm not missing the point - I think your point is inconsiderate.
I had a similar experience. When they copied our website they even copied the corporate logo at the bottom of the page, which was linked back to our corporate website. I was looking at the referrer logs for the corporate site and saw click-throughs from some site I had never heard of.
Good question.

We recently talked about that. I was surprised to learn that in-state tuition discounts were subsidized by the state. I had always assumed out-of-state students were charged a premium.

I'm told that, in my state, community college students will (likely) continue to get subsidized, whereas university students won't.
I love this.

Just get out there and do it.
We'll take your word for it, because that has worked out in the past.
This is nothing. Our 100k line vod web app was ripped off wholesale, with a new backend built from scratch, and repurposed to show pirate content. This was some serious engineering chops and time investment that went into a ripping off a site with hundreds upon hundreds of templates and thousands of lines of js and ajax interacting with an unknown backend that had to be reverse-engineered. We discovered it because they forgot to change the Google Analytics code (which they were polite enough to fix once we brought it to their attention via their facebook page) so we saw this huge traffic content ramp up from Georgia. There is no way to view it as anything but flattering.
Just burned a couple of hours of developer time as everyone crowded around my monitor rooting for imaginary cars. Oops.
As a Firefox mobile user, this one is the nicest one of them all for me:

"Plain text files displayed within Firefox will now word-wrap"

It was a pain to scroll sideways.
iCloud backups are encrypted.
Not all iOS files are encrypted with a device-UID-wrapped key, however. See the iOS Security Whitepaper: https://www.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Oct12....

In short, Apple can't read your email backups, and neither can anyone attempting to restore your device from iCloud (they would need your email passwords). iMessage doesn't have the same protection.
Thx for the share, I was just playing with ember last night. Finding it overly complex, but this is helpful.
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Why meteorologist Eric Holthaus is joining Weathermob
The first MVP, which was back then still a personal project, was on "Show HN" about 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616041

A lot has changed since then. There's a new name and now an amazing team behind all of this.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the new platform.
Previously I would say the American public would riot in the streets should a reporter be charged with the crime of journalism. Based on the reaction to the revelation that the NSA is watching every single piece of Internet communication in the world, now I'm not so sure. The apathy to all matters beyond "Kim Kardashian is fat now" is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Edit: Just wanted to add in a thought. The only thing keeping a lawless government from pulling stunts like this is the fear of citizen revolt, and even then they generally proceed if the projected revolution strength is sufficiently weak.
Tips for nailing an iPhone app demo during a presentation
Probably this is fiction but still the content is good to be hooked up. Most likely it will be ended in something like 'I saved my friends and company, and I can still follow my dream....'
Owner of new MacBook Air: 4 GB of RAM is not enough
Nodejitsu brings the npm registry to the Enterprise with StrongLoop
UC actually does raise a lot of money. Last year, Berkeley raised about $400mil from private donations, compared to about $650mil for Harvard and over a $1bil for Stanford. However, those institutions are including a med school. If you add Berkeley and UCSF (a stand alone med/health sciences research university), it goes up to about $730 mil.

Of course, most of this goes toward research, which is probably a big part of why Berkeley hasn't really slipped much (if at all) in graduate standings (UCB actually has more PhD programs in the top 10 than any other university, according to the NSRC). The problem is, what to do with those pesky undergrads.

Stanford and Harvard solve the problem by not enrolling all that many of them, charging a sky-high tuition, and then providing very very substantial financial aid even into the middle class (Harvard will charge 10% of family income to students from families earning between $120-$180k a year). The problem on a societal level is that this doesn't scale, there just aren't enough spots. Berkeley alone enrolls more low income students than the entire ivy league combined.

I'd rather see Berkeley continue this tradition at the undergrad level than emulate an elite private college. But it isn't going to work without state funding. The state just can't demand a huge undergraduate enrollment with lots of low income students and a high (70+%) from California without also kicking in a lot of money.

There's a reason Stanford and Harvard are structured this way - this is the optimal way to run an elite private research institution - more graduate students than undergraduates, and lots of grants and private donations, along with a small but very elite and well heeled undergrad population, with extremely generous financial aid to small numbers of low income students.

Berkeley was different because it was a state supported school with a different mission - and a different and substantial source of funding. You can't keep the first without the second, it won't work.
Group video chat: https://talky.io/
Ed Snowden posts an interesting answer as "TheTrueHooha" in 2006
they may be killing it... you're blogging.
You don't actually seem to be disagreeing with me, in that you don't seem to be making an argument that procedural decisions are less ideological than merits decisions. You just seem to pointing to an alternative ideological goal to the immediate policy goal, and pointing out that it is possible for ideology to be focussed on something other than what the media headlines of a case are about (which is a point I don't disagree with, though for simplicity in the context of the post I was responding to isn't one I wanted to raise.)
Even from practical frames of reference, it has about the same effect on most of the spectators.
what!? if universities can't have their research funded by grants, they just don't do the research. if a professors grant funding gets cut and he can't pay that grad student any more, they don't pay the grad student out of tuition funding, they just let them go.
Mate, this is super cool and awesome.

Next step... support http://www.hummingbirdnotation.com/ ? :)