skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woah! 90 bucks for the App? Cool idea, but I'll pass.
If you like this you may be interested in a new waste disposal system being trialled in my city (Perth, Australia) - http://www.anaeco.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view.... It basically takes general household garbage diverting approximately 70-85% of it from landfill. Plastics, glass, metals and biodegradable organic matter are automatically separated out at different stages and the whole plant uses biogas generated from the organic matter to generate power (excess power is fed back into the grid).
Apart from the massive sales, offline mode without calling home every 24 hours, the ability to download all your games then go offline without connecting.

But they don't let you swap/sell games to other accounts, however there are massive sales multiple times a year where games are actually is cheap (even in terms of Australian pricing, which is crazy) enough for you to buy.
Can someone examine the cookies that they set and tell if there is any sensitive information (passwords?) that are hashed in there? Should we consider this a password breach?
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SMTP doesn't though (although gmail-to-gmail is probably OK).
You're thinking a bit closed minded. There are other ways to tackle the problem depending on how user friendly or user unfriendly you want the console to be. For example:

1. Converting to cloud could require users to trade in the physical disk at a local store for a digital CD key. A pain for users but by making this a known requirement up front, users won't be able to complain about it and it may convince users who are on the fence to just get the digital copy from the start.

2. Require all games to have a CD Key (acts as the same key for converting to cloud) and a small footprint installable component. Tell users that you don't need an internet connection to validate but if you do connect to the internet, the Xbox One will periodically "phone home" and check to see if your CD keys are legitimate. It won't stop sharing the physical copy after converting to cloud, but it would make it much more of a hassle and prevent multiplayer games from being shared easily. Bonus for users who are converting - the digital version of the game can be installed via the disk so they don't have to wait to download the game to convert it to the cloud. This would also make reinstalling much faster so long as users keep the physical copy.

There are many other possibilities that have been mentioned already so I'll stop here. Just note that this isn't an either or situation. There is a lot of flexibility here.
Would it be crazy to think that Google may have given the NSA a copy of their SSL certificate?
Absolutely nobody uses that scheme for referring to memory speeds. Everybody uses the effective clock speed, and there's really nothing technically wrong about labeling that with MHz, since Hz isn't restricted to referring to only sinusoidal clock signals. If you're going to be pedantic, then you ought to make clear when you're referring to the memory clock speed or the I/O clock speed or the transfer rate. For anyone who is interested only in using a memory module and not implementing the memory bus, 1866 is the only number that matters.
To be fair, Steam became popular back when offline mode was really buggy and problematical; it's a lot better today, but back then is was not uncommon for it to just forget what it was doing until you could reconnect.
In my town you can arbitrage them by buying quarts of yogurt at the farmers' market where the deposit is $1.25, and returning the bottles to the grocery store, that carries the same brand of yogurt in the same bottles, where they pay $1.50 for returns.
FYI: It is called +POOL. This was in the title I created but it seems someone much smarter than me figured it wasn't needed to name the product in the link title. Thanks.
Agreed.
To quote the words of the author from http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/1dvnem/above_the_...

--

"[The greatest seducers in history] aggressively escalated physically with every woman they were flirting with. They began touching them immediately, kept great body language and eye contact... Even when a girl rejects your advances, she KNOWS that you desire her. That's hot. It arouses her physically and psychologically."

"Decide that you're going to sit in a position where you can rub her leg and back. Physically pick her up and sit her on your lap. Don't ask for permission. Be dominant. Force her to rebuff your advances."

"Pull out your cock and put her hand on it. Remember, she is letting you do this because you have established yourself as a LEADER. Don't ask for permission, GRAB HER HAND, and put it right on your dick."

--

This is not okay. This is sexual assault trumped up as "Dating Advice".

Thankfully there is a report button: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tofutofu/above-the-game-...
>I think a better strategy is (1) your own domain and/or (2) a site on github with actual code to validate* your talents.

That's because their target audience is not restricted to the tech savvy. Not everyone knows how to host and maintain their own domain. Not everyone uses github or know what git is.

This was basically why LinkedIn came into fruition in the first place.
More than a few other choices (Go...), not to mention alternatives still on the JVM.

Nobody ever got fired for building with Java.
Open source alternative to Yammer and Moovia
Opening new offices overseas is obviously not feasible in all cases and scalable.

And I don't think companies like Linkedin, Facebook, Google etc abuse the H1-B system. People there are genuinely smart.

However, there are certain consulting companies like Accenture, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, various body shops etc that abuse the shit out of it. The govt. should definitely be more proactive in banning these companies and not play to the likes of NASSCOM. Infact, I'd argue that the govt. should come up with a whitelist of companies to grant H1-Bs to.
I've been wanting Freakonomics (or anyone, really) to systematically contrast death rates of more-powerful v.s. less-powerful parties* after it has become known that the more-powerful party has become significantly aggrieved by the less-powerful one.

*if it's possible -- I'm not certain that it is
Why would the NSA be building a facility large enough to store a big chunk of the planet's digital info if they'll have data for only a few thousand Google users?
I like this theory a bit but I don't think the part about getting positive publicity works out. They don't really look good here and, though I haven't read Reddit's response yet, I don't think they're going to look good to hardly anyone. At least not the 20-35 year olds who were aware of the snafu.

I think I cleaner interpretation is that they were aware that the push might fail but figured going back on the setup as they've done wouldn't set them back too far. And the move, even if it failed, would set them up for basically the same change in the future of the consoles life. Remember they changed the Xbox dashboard a lot. They can still add the planned sharing features to download only games. At first only to developer opt-in games then just the MS published games will have the additional features. After that other publishers will need to have their games use the extra features for licensed download games.

So everyone saying they ought to have done both may be right but maybe it wasn't ideal and they reached a bit too far. So they've fallen back and are retooling. I just wish they'd let me take off adverts on the damned main dashboard! I never buy anything and they know it.
>created a near-ubiquitous OS that was so insecure that it allowed rootkits to be installed..

For a second I thought you were referring to Google.

http://www.crn.com/news/security/240155643/microsoft-warning...

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/operating-systems/...

The same company also created a console that wasn't hacked like its biggest rival for 8 years and still counting. Not to mention highly secure phone OS and tablet OS.

If you think a general purpose OS can prevent rootkits, you're mistaken. There exist full featured rootkits for OS X and Linux too.

Secure boot was a step in a good direction to prevent some rootkits, but alas, that gets shot down by internet rage too.
I think the idea is that there are orders of magnitude more content consumers, than content creators. To a greater and greater extent, mobile devices are fully capable of displaying all the content you might want (tellingly, the exception being high-end 3D games). Once traditional PCs are only useful for content creators, the economy of scale for manufacturing those systems may no longer apply.
Microsoft Dumps Xbox One DRM Restrictions
> But doesn't that just mean you have to trust the light?

This problem is solved by having the power to the camera hardwired to the light. If the camera is on the light will be on, well until the led burns out but that takes a while.

Last I checked and my model of macbook has this but I do not know how common it is over all.

I do not think this is common practice for microphones and it seems like it should be.
The gaming industry as a whole has gone backward.

The idea that a game would ship which allowed users to set up their own networks and play their buds seems alien. Instead, many franchises shut down their subscription service after a couple of years - e.g. to force the upgrade from FIFA 12 to FIFA 14.

I remember Quake - the free demo, and fragging my coworkers over the Novell after hours to the point that my wife would call the office...this was before cell phones...just to make sure I wasn't really out drinking and perhaps chasing skirts.
I believe they are planning to have day-1 digital downloads. This backtrack does mean that, at least for day 1, the family sharing and used-digital-game features won't be available but you can still get all the games without discs.
The site features another falsehood: "There is no evidence that anyone died as a result of the leaked information"

Not true. The cables contained the actual names of Afghans who helped us fight the Taliban. Once their names were exposed, unredacted, via the Wikileaks calbes, "punishment" and death -- courtesy of the ascendant Taliban leaders -- came quickly.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/07/28/murphy-rides-...

Wretchard continues his story:

"Yet the dead are the lucky ones. The more unfortunate may wind up in a torture chamber similar to one found by Coldstream Guards. It features such amenities as chains to hang prisoners from walls. Not that the inmates would want to walk on the floor: that features broken glass. And there is limb amputation, kneecapping with an electric drill, eye gouging, bone-breaking or ritual rape to smash the will. Where the offender is not himself available punishment will be visited on his relatives."

No, the antics of Manning and Assange were not without bad consequences.
> that same exact logic would also justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq...

Tony Blair dragged the Brits to war by lying in parliament when he said there was evidence Saddam's military had a WMD capability that could reach London and could be ready to go within 45 minutes.

Colin Powell stood up in the UN a rattled of another bunch of lies with assertions of mobile Iraqi biological-warfare labs and a "sinister nexus" between Iraq and al-Qaeda terrorists.

The war was started on lie after lie and the administration is still lying about it today.
> You could install all your games onto your hard drive and not have to get up all the time to swap discs

Holy crap, that's lazy. Who wrote this, Eric Cartman?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRjjVtvxRMs
> This would be a hassle, but would probably make Nature more prestigious...

Prestige is a relative thing, and there's nothing more prestigious than Nature (or Science). Your suggestions are good, but I think they would be more likely to be adopted first by a journal that isn't Nature or Science, that possibly wanted to compete with them.
You could mail them the disk, and maybe a small processing fee. They could then destroy the disk and convert the license token to a digital copy. It would cost the customer, but since they could have bought a digital copy in the first place it seems fair.
We've known about the AT&T closets for years right?

My understanding of SSL is weak, but if the NSA theoretically acquired the right private keys / SSL certificates / whatever through hook or by crook, they couldn't just watch everything then could they?

Are the PRISM slide dates when they acquired said certificates/keys for said providers? Were non-legal means of acquiring used?

My real question is - Does it matter that the collection of data is outside of Google's control?

Should Google care that in the process of Google collecting data the NSA is intercepting it. Should Google want to stop that, if it were theoretically happening "in the middle".

Google's attitude scares me.
I guess Epsilon reads something like Yahoo! Answers or celebrity tweets? What do Alpha or Beta classes read?
Pretty sure it goes both ways.
How exactly is OpenStack a poor abstraction for what people want?
It seems strange that they didn't just say this in the first place.
The only way to do that would be to limit used game sales to specific retailers that have the ability to check if a disc has been deactivated before accepting it. You know, that thing that people got really annoyed at because they want to just hand the disc to another person and be done with it.
A pretty clear historical prospective starts around the TIA discussion: http://www.npr.org/2013/06/19/192770397/the-watchers-have-ha...
Why? Indiscriminate leaking, without caring about anything is what will make Snowden radioactive to most people.
edited my post
I would really like more details about this software.
Aussie senator quotes rapper in speach on NSA whistleblower
They address different parts of society. I wouldn't say either is more or less likely as they could both end up being true or neither.
I've often thought there was space for a nice IRC wrapper in the form of an app. I don't need to type out /msg nickserv on my phone, but a series of buttons to help with things like that would be awesome.
This had me rolling!
Hz refers to the number of cycles per second. Everybody uses this as the effective transfer clock, but hey, everybody is wrong.

It's correct to use MT/sec instead, but you're right that it's being pedantic and it's unlikely to confuse anyone who really did care. On the other hand, it does stink of specmanship to quote the doubled frequency. I would have hoped a Pro spec machine would rise above that kind of thing.
ref. rap news #19
http://thejuicemedia.com/
You're being rational about DRM, that's not going to get you anywhere.
This person would just be reporting a exploit and and getting paid for it.

They would not know about the program which takes that exploit and then gives it to the NSA.
Evidence shows intelligence assets and allies were in fact killed due to the leaked information. Some key items were redacted, but the names of many Afghans were left in plain text ... and they met terrible fates as a result.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/07/28/murphy-rides-...
I'd like to meet that dad.
Microsoft is advertising the Xbox on the 360 dashboard with the preorder pointing to Microsoft Store, same with the emails they sent to every Xbox Live user, while the PS3 is primarily bought on Amazon, so it is hard to make predictions now.
In theory, the hardware should be designed so that it's impossible to use the camera without turning on the light, so it would require the device manufacturer to be malicious in advance, which is even less likely. Of course, there could be bugs, but it shouldn't be hard to design such a feature correctly. (Note that since there are cases of people being spied on by their laptop webcams, as mentioned elsewhere on the thread, but always with the light on, it would be quite a serious issue if someone discovered a way to disable the light.)
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how many (if any) FISA orders were for SSL keys. If I were Keith Alexander those would be high on my list.
I totally get it. I'm only talking about me.

I'm sure this community is generally capable of rolling their own LinkedIn.
bah, I would only want the stairs if at the bottom the praise was realistic and accurate.
The best way to increase ridership is to make buses significantly more expensive than they are, not less. That way the crazy, drug-addicted scum won't be able to afford a ticket, and then decent people can use them without being hassled by dudes who have steel plates in their heads and smell like pee.
Who's the provider you're renting the box from ?
Gonna have to invoke Hanlon's razor here.
My thoughts also. I'm going to start up a blog and get to it after work.
Feynman: Mathematicians versus Physicists
Are the homeless living in shelters in Amsterdam actually fixing their issues and getting back into the workforce and becoming prosperous though?
>> I don't think datacenter monkeys cost that much... are you including the costs of the drives themselves?

Fine, so you should have bought them 600 new hardrives, maybe they would have done the labor for free. It's not like they cost that much. Or maybe Kim should have done so, instead of starting new companies and living large in NZ.

You lease servers--for as long as you keep paying them. You get a 30 day or so grace period if you do not pay, but Kim got way more than that.
You can also add the dual naming scheme that gives us gems like "PC3-14400" where the latter number is the MBps of bandwidth or something similarly confusing to 95% of people, myself included.
I don't "deny any scientific subject", nor do I think any research is worthless, but over the last few years as these sorts of stories have come to light more, I have become convinced that publication and peer review as currently manifested are worthless.
From the plot summary on Wikipedia: "Michel discusses women with Quinsonnas, who sadly explains that there are no such things as women anymore; from mindless, repetitive factory work and careful attention to finance and science, most women have become cynical, ugly, neurotic career women."

Is the novel really that off-putting or is the character holding this view an anomaly? From what I can find in reviews, it sounds like the book predicts women will become better educated and career-oriented, and depicts them as acting and appearing masculine as a result. If so that reads to me as pretty shallow dystopia - a lack of understanding of human nature and a lack of imagination (as evidenced by simplistic views on gendered traits) do not compelling speculative fiction make

Doesn't make me have the intellectual hots for the work.
There was no IP limitation, as I understand it. Everyone on your console could always play all of your games. And you could designate 10 people that had access to your library from anywhere.
Maybe there is more to this Renaissance analogy than he thought. During the period, which ultimately led to the Age of Enlightenment that made today's society possible, a lot of development happened and a lot of things that were lost from antiquity were rediscovered (we may never completely know the extent of it because of the Alexandria infocalypse). But the point is, the discoveries of today are usually obsolete tomorrow, in the sense that origin and context are lost while the discovery itself remains in place as a hidden stratum on which the technology of tomorrow is built.

Maybe it has never been different, it's just that in IT the process is much easier to observe due to its speed. But who really "invented" steam power, optics, advanced mechanics, or programmable systems? The more you dive into those things, the less clear the answer becomes - precisely because almost all of our advances are stratified.
Idea: Manage all of your subscriptions in one place
I don't know if this is the case, but shouldn't a lot of the transportation costs be happening regardless? The distributor ships product to a store, and when they're done offloading the product, they take the recycled products from the store back to the distributor where they're headed regardless. You'd still have to transport it to a recycling center from the distributor, but I don't see why you can't build recycling centers next to distribution centers.
What if you just said something like 98123 give then the a fake one? What would be the harm in that ?
> "xbox on" will I hear be the only way you turn the device on.

Really? What about mute people? Microsoft can't be that accessibility-impaired!
All consoles have exclusive games so every single one has "new games that neither system can do", however Wii U has the weakest third party support so it won't get most of the games either system can do. It's a current generation system so it will get some multi-plat still coming into this gen, otherwise it's pretty much Nintendo first party titles all the way.
the emulator is quite good. Worth keeping an eye on.
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Ask HN: How can I make some side money?
Here is my situation: I am living in San Francisco at the moment while being a student at App Academy (www.appacademy.io -- a Rails boot camp). In a little under a month I will have graduated and I will be in need of a job, but my financial resources will be thoroughly depleted and I will most likely have to move back to Florida where I can live rent-free for a short time while I look for a job.

It would be easier to find a job in San Francisco if I were already here, so I would love to know what I can do to make enough side money to make staying here in SF an option. Also, if you are hiring junior engineers (Rails or otherwise), we should talk. ;)

For anyone who is curious, here is my GitHub account: https://github.com/jmsbrwr. My email can also be found in my profile.
Watershed moment for ADN?
One of the Cloudera devs told me 80% of all Hadoop users run Hive. This suggests most devs secretly want to continue using SQL, but want more scalable relational solutions. Thus why Cloudera is backing Impala, and Facebook is about to open source Presto.

I worked on an entire team of developers where I was the only one who understood the raw Java MapReduce API. Almost everyone else on my team got by with learning HiveQL, and a very minimal understand of MapReduce design flow.

Your belief is absolutely correct.
We left intercom a couple of months ago, and that was down to a pricing decision on their part.

I know of other companies that will now leave due the price changes. I'm sure they'll run the figures, but my guess is that not truly grandfathering in the existing prices for existing customers will bring in less revenue due to the number leaving.

Plus is it worth upsetting existing customers and advocates for the sake of a few dollars?
Although it didn't sell well, the WikiReader [1] ran Forth.

[1] http://yannramin.com/2009/10/16/the-wikireader-cool-device-f...
I don't know if tape covers all the spectrum of its camera (I assume it does, since its infrared only IIRC).
If you have a homeless population that sizable and aggressive, you have bigger problems to worry about than people stinking up free buses.
Outsourced Intelligence: How the FBI and CIA Monitor Social Media
Ex Kinect engineer here. I wrote a bunch of firmware in the original Kinect and a bunch of support stuff on the 360 console. I also did a lot of design on the new Kinect system before I left MS.

I won't reveal any secrets, but:

1) It should be very easy to determine if the Kinect is listening when it should not be, at least when the unit is off. So whatever MS claims the unit does should be verifiable.

2) I trust the Kinect team to do this right. They're dead serious about privacy issues.

You don't know me, so my trust in point #2 isn't necessarily transitive. But you should be able to look at signals and verify #1.
The point of the whole free argument isn't making it easier to ride, it is to remove the overhead of having to gate access. If the bus just let people on and off and never had to do an exchange over riding it they would be more efficient.