skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By 'older hardware' I meant a couple of years old, maybe five.

I take your point about (I'm guessing) an 800MHz P3 with 256Mb. I'd use AntiX for something in that range as I am a bit lazy. But I could still get use from it.
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You're an idiot if you can't see why this would be unreasonable.
After Dust 514, CCP boss hints at mobile games in the Eve Online universe
The article is incorrect in stating that "But actually, of all the automotive entrepreneurs of the turn of the century, only Ford and Mercedes survived"

Off the top of my head automotive companies that were around at the turn of the century and are still around:
Peugeot, Renault, Fiat, MAN and Opel
(the latter two are owned by other companies now)
I was going by this Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort

"Most archaeologists now consider that vitrified forts are the product of deliberate destruction either following the capture of the site by an enemy force or by the occupants at the end of its active life as an act of ritual closure"

I suspect the real answer is that nobody really has any idea how or why this was done - which makes it all the more fascinating :-)
The burden of software patents - how many must be read to clear rights?
No, they can't share it with your insurance company, because your MAC address is never correlated to other personally identifying information. Best they can do is the brand of your smartphone.
I gave him more hair http://cssdeck.com/labs/e8djo69n
I think you can automate most or all of that with the git annex assistant now (and I think most of its functionality is exposed as commandline commands as well, so you don't have to use the GUI if you don't want to).
I just watched the video. They mention that they use equipment from http://www.aerohive.com/, which just seem to be normal wifi infrastructure.

It seems like only people who actually connect to the wifi can be tracked. There's no way to harvest the MAC address of a wifi device that hasn't connected to your network, is there?

As a store, this seems to be not that valuable to me. I can't imagine that very many shoppers actually take the time from shopping to decide to connect to your wifi. I get that they only need to do this once, and after that, it will auto-reconnect. I'm still not buying it as an effective tracking method.
> It's their and their citizens' prerogative.

No it's not. Our states are not pure democracies. If a majority of people decide by referendum that we should kill all Arabs, it would not be their "prerogative". That's because we are constitutional republics before being democracies. That is to say we all have to abide by what our constitutions say no matter what the majority say. And last time I checked, our constitution protects private and individual property. Therefor, a 75% tax or even 50% like we have in France goes against the protection of private property in our constitution and it was rejected by the supreme court here. Any taxation goes against the very basis of our constitutions and therefor should not be treated lightly or abused. Or do you think that if a majority decides it's ok to tax people 100% then that's ok because it's "their prerogative"? How about if a majority decide women shouldn't vote anymore either, would it be their prerogative too? The answer is no. Google and Amazon already pay lots of taxes in the US, if they had to pay in every single country, they'd have much less money to invest in all those products we enjoy while the government would just create more debt.
Leaked letter shows ISPs and uk government at war
I can't wait for the social media IPO coke binge hangover to wear off and the Valley to rediscover its roots as a hotbed of real innovation, real intellectual daring, and the courage to dream big and then do it.

Bigger and better things than, you know, Facebook games and click through ads.
So isn't DuckDuckGo but that doesn't mean anything. Maybe Bing and DuckDuckGo isn't used enough to catch the attention of Chinese officials.
Again, your mypoia to history does not make today worse.

Widespread, blatant, unmonitored wiretapping has occurred in our history many times. Whether during the Cold War, or before, in the earlier days of telephony when checks and balances were quite literally impossible, the government has absolutely taken full advantage of the prevailing technology without respect to Constitutional rights.

You can argue that the technology makes the scale worse, but the same people are making the same decisions they always have.
"And can you just imagine how much more sales Apple would get now for not being on that list?"

Barely any change at all, I'd bet. And not worth the legal hassle they could have been up against if it came to a knock-down, drag-out battle with the US Government over <spins the dial>.
I read it carefully. Name "Putin" is not mentioned anywhere in the Investigation section.

Please stick to the facts.
It does not however, preclude the possibility that the tool is in fact a bad tool, and that the tool is bizarrely the only tool we have.

They say poorly skilled people blame their tools, and that highly skilled people who know their tools well, will know how to use it well. That being said, see that circular saw over there that will occasionally bounce and cut off its user's fingers? I'm not gonna use it, no matter how skilled I am.

I for one am hoping for a replacement for JS (that isn't Dart, which feels like JS Patched). I have more than just a hairy experience with JS lately.
Set up an email server in two hours
The same thing is happening at Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and other tech companies. Why single out Microsoft?
What about ubuntu tracking/sending our info to Amazon? Which Linux distro would you recommend, that is easy to use, and not sell out it's users?
Secureness of Brazilian voting system has been contested many times.

There are "The Alagoas case" which the candidate Joao Lyra requested a recount because he found out 1/3 of the ballots contained incorrect data and then asked for an audit, the court demanded 2 million for this audition, Joao Lyra then asked the the court itself to pay for it, since it would be in its interest to demonstrate the fairness of the process, the court refused to pay and even condemned the candidate for "bad faith litigation" for asking for an investigation and not paying for it(despite showing inconsistent ballot data).

It's true, our eletronic ballot prints the report but there is no way to check if the sum of digital records are the same as the printed reports. We have no way to tell if our votes has been correctly collected nor the political parties that the votes were correctly summed, thus impossible to make a recount. In a voting system where you are not sure on whom your vote was recorded and the Election Court goes against political parties that accuse it, IMHO thats a true threat to democracy.

For a safer election it must include a voter-verified paper audit trail, a VVPAT allows voters the possibility to verify that their votes are cast as intended and can serve as an additional barrier to changing or destroying votes.

German and Holland Court already banned this first generation eletronic ballot box for not being secure enough, and Brazil is the only country on the world who still uses it.
Fundamentally, even the ladies and bongos were by his own description iterative application of the scientific method. In his writings it seems to boil down to the same formula for all. Including his story about spinning plates. Gets a bit repetitive once you recognize the formula.
Even if they're getting it encrypted, they can still learn a lot from correlations of addresses and times and such.
She nailed it: it's a waste of my time to be invisible to half the people I need to talk to.

The danger with women-only events is that they become perceived as a ghetto. By opening the doors to all, the entire community has a voice, which is as it needs to be if women are to be full, mainstream members of tech communities.

There's a place for "safe spaces" if people are sharing extremely personal stories (e.g. sexual assault, legal issues), but those tend to be done best as small groups anyway - it's a lot harder for a 1000 person auditorium to be a true "safe space".
Talk about JavaScript being replaced wholesale should be regarded as therapy. Therapy to dull the realisation that JavaScript is now immortal because it gained such massive reach and entrenchment. It's the web counterpart to C the immortal.
Applying the "Lean Startup" to Publishing
Ask HN: SaaS legal and insurance questions
I'm developing a SaaS product and really don't know much about the legal side of things.

Do I need Professional Liability insurance, how much if so?

Do I need a terms of service, eula, other?

Anything else a non-business person should look into from a legal point of view?
MIT shows off a way to program using natural language
I haven't had any trouble with OTR, and this is the first I've heard of interoperability problems (but I haven't gone looking for information on them before). I wonder if it's due to a lack of client diversity among my contacts. Most of us use either Adium (which has OTR built in) or Pidgin with the OTR plugin, and they seem to interoperate ok.
To be fair to SkyDrive, it does quite clearly ask you about that during installation. (At least, it did when I installed it recently.)
> We often do unscalable things for as long as possible and then figure out how to fix them later.

Funny... just yesterday we had pg's post about doing things that don't scale as long as you can http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
People don't use javascript because it's a beautiful, well thought out language. They use it because it runs everywhere.
> It doesn't matter whether a specific company uses tax havens or not.

The only reasons there are tax havens is because there are tax hells.
AddEventListener polyfill for IE8
Hackers turn Verizon signal booster into a mobile hacking machine
Funny how I get -2 because people are to lazy to look things up on their own...

I've also noticed people feel threatened when you talk about their food.

[http://www.unionccs.net/images/library/file/Agricultura_y_al...]
[http://geneticroulettemovie.com/]

There are a lot more...

Wake up people, they care about making money not your health!
http://livelovely.com
> I think he was also involved with the Debian GNU/Linux installer.

Yes he was (might still be, too). That where I'd first heard of Joey.
The car with dark windows example is how police surveillance has worked for decades. So while it would be uncomfortable, society is pretty clearly in agreement that that's an allowable investigative tool.
I'm not comparing XP to Ubuntu. A few years ago I experimented with a Pentium 3. XP beat "mid-level" Linux distributions handily. Mid-level distributions would be something like http://www.zenwalk.org/, typically using user friendly but lightweight software (like XFCE). Note how they advertise for speed on the front page.

I also owned a first-generation netbook, and there XP was better than Puppy, Slax, etc...
Thats useful, I really should explain this a bit more on the site.

In the browser PouchDB will store its data in IndexedDB or WebSQL, in node its LevelDB, with the HTTP adapter you can use any product that implements the CouchDB HTTP Api protocol, currently this is CouchDB, Cloudant, PouchDB-Server and Couchbase Lite (previously TouchDB)

The important part is that it can only sync with a backend that implements the same replication protocol.
Anyone who serves in a role as top leader of a country or large corporation is an asshole -- it's a job requirement.

What you're seeing in Putin is the ability to be independent. He gets to enjoy watching the Americans squirm at low cost. What's the US going to do to Russia? Our diplomats will be rude to each other, maybe we won't attend the Russian summer ball and snub the Russian ambassador, each country will declare some spies persona non grata.

At the end of the day, the areas in which the Russians and Americans cooperate are areas that they have a mutual interest to do so.

Others, like the Germans or Spain are different. They piss off the US, we cut off the faucet of intelligence, money, privileges, etc.
The magic of writing game simulation code
Yeah JavaScript has problems, so do all programming languages. JS has some particularly egregious ones, but the abuses and problems the slide complains about are not a symptom of a defect with JavaScript. They would be the same problems with any other language being used by incompetents.
Taxi app company (Uber) faces backlash over raising prices during flood
Ask HN: How to find a non-technical partner for a side project?
So here is my situation: I developed a B2B SaaS product as a side project and things are looking promising so far. People seem to be interested in the product, there are sign-ups, people are testing it, asking questions and using the free plan.

Naturally, I would like to bootstrap it to a sustainable business now.

There is just the problem that I don't have any expertise in selling stuff and I also don't really like it. I believe that having a non-technical partner would be the perfect move for me. Someone who is interested in sales, marketing etc. and who is ok to bootstrap, meaning no salary in the beginning but equity.

So my question to HN: Where would you search for this kind of person?
Send in the (Arduino) clones
Could NSA spying hurt California's economy?
Purely functional data structures in Clojure: Red-Black Trees
Emailing Your Users Worst Mistake
For the US, IRS publications 515 and 519 clarify all that stuff. The IRS wants to tax "US Source Income", there are various criteria that define it. For goods sold from overseas and shipped to the US, it call comes down to "where it is sold", which is at the discretion of the seller. It can be at the customers end if that's convenient for you (but it rarely is).

I worked for a Canadian company that sold niche hardware primarily into the US market. We were based entirely in Canada and just shipped to the US using UPS.

We regularly had to convince US business buyers that they didn't need a W-9 from us, nor did they need to withhold taxes.
Hah, cool! i have done the same thing, just without the motor shield: http://matsimitsu.com/blog/2011/05/21/control-an-rc-car-with...
I mentionned Debian in my comment as a poor example of performance. Drivers are more an issue on Linux than Windows (in my experience, your mileage may vary). As for install, I install Windows from USB key, there a lot of software out there that do this for you (similar to what UNetBootin does for Linux).
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Correction: Yahoo did fight, and lost. The details aren't all released, but here's a precis of what's public:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/yahoo-failed-fisa-f...

It's possible that there's as-yet undisclosed legal action with some of the others; the secrecy around just about any proceeding in the FISC makes it very hard to tell.
Sanskrit was not a natural spoken language. I was created as a language for worship. Although Sanskrit was spoken among the educated circles in India, but not in a natural setting. The example that our language teacher gave us, was of couple of students speaking French (say) who are learning it as a foreign language.
It doesn't pay very much (corporation tax), but it does pay: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland/google-de... - it took me 3 seconds to find this.
I will never understand the utility of posting slides from a talk online without the audio.
Well you don't really offer any argument as to why it's wrong. Granted my arguments are not really strong either. I have a hunch however that if you made stats about attacks against stream cipher vs attacks against block ciphers, you'd see proportionally more of the former.
I use Arch at work. It's great and all, but I haven't really seen too much ROI (in installation & configuration) vs. using something like Mint and simply swapping out the tiling window manager.
"or that was quite an easy/poor class."

That sounds like an easy class to test out of. If the prof provides an entire semesters homework, and you can provably ace "class A amplifier bias circuit design" without attending the lecture that supposedly teaches you how, then don't go. I never skipped entire classes but I certainly skipped lectures where I could prove to myself I knew the material.

This works really well in most engineering classes where you can check your work. In fluffy stuff like English Lit being "right" means knowing the prof's politics and personal belief system, so its a bit harder to know if you're right or not, so you can't skip that lecture.

Think you know "integration by parts"? Already did the homework and got it all eventually correct? Then not much point in attending lecture that day. This has a bonus in that you get a lot more out of a lecture if you already struggled with the topic for a couple hours rather than walking in cold.
I think the summary is more helpful than looking at the slides. Does anyone have a link to the video talk about this?
Math is stronger than courts. If communications and storage are routinely encrypted, governments will have to focus on the truly high-value cases where planting and monitoring a bug is worthwhile.
> It's true, our eletronic ballot prints the report but there is no way to check if the sum of digital records are the same as the printed reports

Yes, there is: you can check the electronic records online and compare it against the printed reports.

The other allegations are surely important to the voting transparency discussion, but are not related to the allegations on the OP.
emmmmmm to you brother!
Sounds like she was living in a real-world circlejerk without realizing it.
Me too if possible thanks.
They knew what they were signing up for.

Maybe their minds are not that great after all.
That's a whole lot of "No True Scottsman". Just because you don't know individuals like this personally doesn't mean they're not part of the community.
Fundraising: take full advantage of loans, grans, donations and investors.
It's been my observation that revenue in the tens of billions of dollars doesn't enable a company to make bold, risky moves -- it hinders it. People become very risk-averse when there's a lot to lose. Many of these well established, high revenue companies can't even take the risks that are necessary to continue having revenue in the tens of billions of dollars, much less stand up to nation-states.
Native methods from shared libraries in Java/JSP code
Stellarbrink Video Game - Minecraft in Space. 
New Video game combines tile based crafting/exploration with space based combat.
>Windows should be banned in all countries except America. Open source OS is the only way to go.

That is a very close minded way to look at things. Closed Source does not always = Evil and Opensource does not always = Secure. Competition and choices should always be sought for. Without competition, stagnation is as prevalent in open-source community as in closed source. I rather have the right to choose between a Mac, Windows or a Linux variant than someone making the choice for me.
That's a danger, but it's not a guarantee. And I think you're not seeing some of the benefits of a single-gender event. For example, Mz pointed out one reason you might want a women-only event: a good reason to have some "ladies only" groups is because of the way a lot of women behave around men, not because of the way men behave around women or because "men are all sexist pigs". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272532

That said, I don't think the article is about intentionally women-only events. I think she was planning to talk to men as well, and the men though she wasn't talking to them.
I have a couple of ST33000651AS in my server, they failed several times, but the current pair has been running for more than 1 year, I guess they just got a nasty batch.

Needless to say, rebuilding 3 TB raid took a long time and downtime and pain... but all in all, it was worth it, considering the prices.

I can also confirm support was quite fast, even if some of the replacement drives were not new and some even came with bad sectors lol ... such is life.
> Come to London

... and don't forget to bring your mobile phone - we'd like to get to know each other a little better:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10177765/Travellers-mo...
Well it is good that NSA have never heard about zero day exploits. Otherwise think of all the nasty stuff they could do to a machine.

Stop with the proofing stuff already. Security is hard and relative. Having a very hardened system can only take you so far. Also it makes you visible - a lot of encrypted traffic is red flag for these kind of agencies. By claiming something is "Villain of the month" proof you just may put someone that really needs security in hot water. In some parts of the world literally.
I like to think of it this way: Some languages allow you to shoot yourself in the foot easier than other languages, given the context and environment.

Abuses and problems precisely show Javascript's defects. The more easily abusable a language is, the more defective it is.

A lot can be said about familiarity with the language. Many examples in wtfjs.com boils down to (mis)understanding the language itself. Let's call this the cognitive overhead of a language - the amount of corner cases you have to store in your head about a language.

Surely a language with high cognitive overheads is more abusable than languages that have low cognitive overheads.

Incompetent python, C, or even scheme programmers wouldn't be able to shoot themselves in the foot (by shooting themselves in the foot, I mean having unexpected results - even with Undefined behaviours) as much as incompetent javascript programmers. That's my beef. I currently have no way of empirically proving that, but my gut is leaning that way.
How would you feel about an event with a female only speaker list?

Instinctively, it raises my hackles, because positive discrimination is still discrimination, but I've seen it work really well in stand up comedy.

Women standups only events have a very different feel, but you are also more likely to see women do standup that is normally male territory. So you might see an angry female political shock comic, whereas mainstream female comics tend to do observational humor about life.

I'd suggest that there is value in creating a situation where vacuum causes people to fill roles they normally feel they don't fit the expectation for.
Mere military service does not mean a President is hopelessly compromised.

One of the most-quoted critics of the military-industrial(-Congress?) complex was the former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII, after all. Sometimes the guy from the military can tell you exactly how screwed up it is.
Email in profile if this is still a thing.

Much appreciated!
But is that really a reason not to come work in London for a few years? Is the situation any better in other EU countries?
This is an excellent point, doing away with a lot of the ethical concerns of the original project.

At this point, though, I'd be tempted to just remake the whole thing as a proper program, if we're going to be asking people to download it anyway.
His job was to represent Microsoft, which involves answering questions (to the best of his ability given the access to information that he has). As long as the questions were not worded or spoken in an unnecessarily pointed/aggressive manner I really can't see any reason to call the question asker rude. "It confuses me to find you here, could you please explain so I can fill in the blanks in my knowledge about your company" seems a perfectly valid question to ask of a company representative, and raising a security concern for said rep to respond to is valid too.

You can't expect a show rep to know about anything like prism though - that information would have been "classified" and available only to those well above his pay grade.