skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have a server running a timer that needs to be reset periodically and can only be reset by the person with the password.
"I'm not seeing any animation?" "Try IE6," only a decade later.
Mr. Musk regularly commutes between the SpaceX office in Hawthorn and Tesla office in Palo Alto. [1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHHwXUm3iIg
Oh the classic and secure "Password1". Mixed case and even alphanumeric.
Most (probably all) of the Federal government requires password changes every month or so (not completely sure of the timeline) and you can't use previous passwords. This leads to shitty passwords just so people can remember something that always changes.
This goofy comment made me lol:

> I want a dead man's switch that deletes all my porn.
I'm willing to bet the problem can be solved today rather easily with tools we have right now. Live streaming is not an unknown concept. You just need access to a video source that you can then output in a way that allows other people access to it.

But I'm willing to bet that a good reason for low piracy for sports is because not enough people really care to pirate sports broadcasts in the first place.
There are many rendering filters and pipelines available for DirectShow (and therefore MPC-HC) that VLC does not have. For example MadVR[1] improves upscaling and display rendering quality dramatically and xy-VSFilter can render subtitles many times faster than libass which is used in VLC.

These are just two examples that I came up with off the top of my head, but there are countless more. The advantage of VLC is that it's simple and just works out of the box for 95% of stuff, but MPC/Directshow gives you far more flexibility as you can construct a very custom filter chain (eg. using different decoders and renderers).

[1] http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=146228
[2] https://code.google.com/p/xy-vsfilter/
I'm pretty excited about this site. I love the code behind it--it evaluates arbitrary JavaScript, traverses the object-graph in memory, and then uses an Emscripten'd GraphViz to render it in SVG. I'm also proud of the screencast that goes along with it. And most of all I'm excited because this is the beginning of my attempt to do inbound marketing for my Let's Code JavaScript screencast [1].

I'm happy to answer any questions people might have about the site or the marketing sausage-making. For some background on the marketing piece, check out my comment on the recent SaaS thread here on HN [2].

[1] Let's Code: Test-Driven JavaScript is a screencast series on rigorous, professional JavaScript development. http://www.letscodejavascript.com

[2] My comment on the HN thread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6038226
Looks like iConstituent is a CRM that they probably all use.
You should check out some of the newer pumps in the past few years - specifically the Tandem t-slim and the OmniPod. A lot more functionality, and a lot less pager like.
Longtime dissenters and critics of the government have been vindicated as of late. Please recall that the "tinfoil" has melted because of the recent USG/NSA conspiracy. You need to drop the term "tinfoil hat" as it no longer has legitimacy.

I'd suggest Dissident, but that's just me.
You'd be surprised. Just a week and a half ago ago a large section of Lac-Mégantic, a town east of Montreal, Quebec, was levelled by an unattended train that started rolling in the middle of the night. It was carrying a large load of oil, which ignited when the train derailed in the middle of the town.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_derailment
So the vehicle basically surfs a sound wave?
As a company you always have to temper playing the long term game vs the short term game. The temptation will always to play the short game, so you will probably want to over-emphasize the long term game.

If you have $15k left - and that employee needs $15k in severance - it may be a good idea to explain to them that you really want to help them out but cant.

If you are still at $1M and the employee needs $15k in severance - then that it is obvious that you should give it to them.

Anywhere in between - use your gut, but lean on the long term game.
You can install a third party launcher on Glass. Here's one that lets you switch between launching APKs and the standard Glass interface pretty easily:

https://github.com/kaze0/launchy

There's also a Mirror API based Glass app that lets you launch apks, but it's a bit more work setting up. It actually requires you install a couple APKs as well: https://pontedivetro.appspot.com/
Getting Horizontal with Vertica
Nuclear fusion has always been 10 years away. Lets hope that they will succeed this time.
At this point, the problem is that people actively want only certain programs.

For the vast majority of people, this isn't true. It's not even true for most people who insist they want a la carte.

People hate being nickled-and-dimed. Three quarters of the cell phone market are people paying more for a bundle so they don't have to worry about how much each call to grandma costs them even though they end up paying more than they would if they kept careful track of their minutes and only bought what they needed.

People want to be able to flip to Mad Men without clicking on the "Buy Now" button.
You know, I bought a Pebble watch so I could help an organization I love (the Long Now) develop a Pebble watch face. I expected to hate it, as I hate most gadgetry.

I've ended up loving it. One of the most annoying things to me about a modern phone is its intrusiveness. Text messages, calendar alerts, phone calls, and other interruptive communications. The Pebble makes all of those notifications a) quiet, and b) subtle. It's fantastic to be in a meeting, see who's calling, and decline the call, all without breaking flow.

I think it will also be good for a variety of special-purpose interfaces. E.g., one person already has built custom software such that when he starts moving on his bike (as triggered by phone-measured movement speed) it switches over to a bike computer display.

And the nice part is that it looks just like a watch. Unlike Glass, people are entirely ok with it.
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Unless your WriterTo method does something different than the caller assumes it's going to do.

Unless the special functions are predefined by the language (e.g. Python's __str__, __len__, __iter__, etc.) or specified in an interface that the class explicitly inherits from, making assumptions that the language developers and I meant the same thing is careless at best and dangerous at worst.
You mean everyone should give your brother a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding his online information?

Totally agree.
There is a custom launcher on github called launchy.
Really, it seems like a dream gig. Just being a student for years and years and continuing to get financial aid to continue your thesis work. I've often said if I could be a student for life I'd be happy. I was just picking the wrong field of study. Viscous fluids, here I come.
I recently read a book on capital punishment through the years, and pickpocketing got so bad in the middle ages that it was punished by death. Every week the cart would bring the condemmed pickpockets through the street. The criminals would jeer at the crowd, the crowd would cheer and pick favorites. The soon-to-die would make a big speech before their death, often bawdy and unrepentant. All the while, more pickpockets were working the celebration, making their living.
You are assuming a dead mans switch that is not set up (whether technical or depending on people) to get triggered if he is taken into US custody.

Given his previous statement that he "can't be" tortured to give up the information he has, I am assuming he does not himself have direct control of the dead mans switch, but have left information to other parties on when to release, so it might be entirely out of both his hands and the US governments hands whether or not their actions will trigger "the switch".
Carter said nothing (at least, nothing quoted in this article) about this being the first such moment. You've read something into his comment that just isn't there. Unless you have an expanded quote from some other source?

I would agree that his comment is somewhat hyperbolic, but I think there's enough truth in it that I'm glad he said it. I'm also glad to see him publicly defending Snowden.

And although there certainly have been times that our government kept secrets from us that we would have wanted to know, I am inclined to think the danger is greater now. If Carter's statement wakes even one person from the complacent slumber that so many seem to be enjoying, I think it will have served its purpose.
There is no limit on number of devices for iOS apps (provided they are devics you own or control for your own use). The 5 device limit is for DRM protected iTunes media.
It is quite a quandry, but here's my take for what it's worth:

At Fogbeam Labs, we've chosen to go the self-financed route for now, and for as long as we can. Here's why (in part):

A. Taking outside money means spending time fund-raising, and not time talking to customers or building our products.

B. When you take outside money, you take on a different set of expectations and goals, which may or may not align with your own.

C. Due to (A) and (B), you can find yourself on a merry-go-round (as a founder) where as soon as you finish raising one round, your focus has to turn to raising the next round. You literally take yourself out of being able to focus on customers and/or product.

D. Dilution cuts into your equity stake

E. Investors will likely have veto rights over any acquisition or liquidity event, and - again - their interests might not align with the founders' interests. You may have a chance to sell that would make you rich on an individual level, but which the investors my veto.

F. The investors are likely to want to exercise at least some control over what you are doing and how you do it. Especially if they think of themselves as "smart money". But they may or may not actually have good advice to give, but you feel pressured to respond to them since, well, you're spending their money.

G. The earlier you take outside money, the more favorable the terms are going to be towards the investors. If you delay until you have traction, or even - FSM forbid - are cash flow positive, you have a lot more leverage and can negotiate terms that are more favorable to you as a founder.

The flip-side, of course, is that - unless you are already wealthy - the self-funded route is probably going to be a lot slower. I mean, we could certainly move faster right now if we had a million dollars in the bank and could go out and hire employees, and advertise, etc. But what I disagree with is the notion that moving slow means giving up any given bit of "land" (to use the analogy from TFA) indefinitely. I'm more of a "slow war" kind of guy - the attitude here is "sure, have the un-seized land for now, we'll come take it when we're ready for it."

We also realize that you don't have to "rule the world" to be very successful. I mean, yeah, I'd LOVE to build the world's largest and most powerful enterprise software company, and that is the ultimate goal to be quite honest. But if I still own, say, 50% at a point in time when a chance to sell our for, say, $50,000,000 comes along, then hey, that would be something to talk about, as that's into "FU money" territory.

OTOH, if I wind up with my ownership share diluted down to 1%, then we have to reach a much larger valuation in order for me (on a personal level) to achieve that same standard.

Probably the one thing that messes with my head on this, though, is that I'm not a real young guy. I'll turn 40 in 2 days, so there's a little nagging thought that going the slow and steady route might mean that - even IF we're successful - I'll be so old when we get there that I won't get much chance to enjoy it. :-(
I'm reasonably confident you're assigning too much significance to what was probably an offhand remark in a particular context. I just looked at slides from a 2010 talk[1] by Pike which was pretty explicit about what they were doing in this area:

"It's a form of duck typing, but (usually) checkable at compile time. It's also another form of orthogonality."

And this one from Russ Cox in 2010[2]:

"Compiled, statically-typed languages (C, C++, Java) require too much typing and too much typing:

* verbose, lots of repetition

* too much focus on type hierarchy

* types get in the way as much as they help

* compiles take far too long"

A common theme for Go from the beginning has been the balance between type safety and not getting in the way of the programmer. The analogy to duck typing has been a consistent observation throughout Go's public existence. This is incompatible with the sentiment you took from whatever talk you saw.

Go's architects didn't set out to make a Java clone. It's more like Java's evil twin.

[1] http://talks.golang.org/2010/ExpressivenessOfGo-2010.pdf

[2] http://talks.golang.org/2010/go_talk-20100112.html
The problem with a positive control system is that he's being watched, intensively. So how do you reset that env variable without someone seeing you do it and thus discovering the server? Once they know the servers, they just need to take them out and the deadman's switch is neutralized.

If he had a way to do one-way broadcasts, like over the radio, where any snoopers could not discover the receivers then it would make more sense to do a positive control system. But there really isn't a mechanism for that on the internet. Even if he posted to usenet, given enough time, a sufficiently motivated nation-state adversary could probably trace through enough usenet servers to figure out what clients were looking for those reset messages.
Well said, I was trying to be a little too PC. I don't particularly like their methods or ego either.

Something about this attack feels... "wrong" to me. Like a petulant child who is angry and lashing out, rather than a concerned citizen who is attempting to do the right thing at the cost of his own welfare. It's a mighty fine line though.
>NOTE: FOR THE PURPOSES OF BEING FAR TOO GENEROUS WITH YOU GUYS, WE HAVE REMOVED SOME OF THE PASSWORDS AND SHUFFLED THE ORDER OF THE REMAINING ONES. THESE ARE ALL CURRENT, VALID CREDENTIALS BUT THEY ARE NOT IN THE ORIGINAL PAIRINGS. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDE THIS RESTRAINT WAS UNJUSTIFIED.

Some are pretty easy to guess who they belong to. like TX32republican!
Try not to be a jerk but we don't need to be friends. Most IT staff are professional enough to do their jobs. Personally I value clarity over attitude.

How to work with IT:
Communicate your needs properly and get buy in from people who write the checks. Make it so your IT staff only has to solve technology problems not political ones.
This needs to be communicated better. I signed up, created a session, but when I tried to make the session private I got the message about being over the limit and assumed that the attempt to make the session private failed and it remained public, so I deleted it and that was the end of the tryout for me.

Also, I was alarmed that my session started off as publically listed and viewable as it was created from a private codebase. Ideally it wouldn't ever be public unless explicitly set to be.
Anonymous hacks Congress
No, it's adverb. Literally "too bold", meaning "you are trolling too bold".
Software can only do so much without good hardware sources. A small embedded box, barred from networking, has roughly zero entropy available. But if you combine microsecond network timings, only vulnerable to local attack, with third party random data that is safe from mitm, you get resonably good random numbers. Don't use it to generate a root certificate, but it'll work for general purposes.
Yeah, breathing difficulty is listed as one of the effects of sonic weapons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon
What is the point of doing this?
> 9/11 was definitely planned by KSM and indirectly by his nephew Ramzi Yousef.

Then why wasn't he placed on trial for this crime?

He's still sitting in Guantánamo, supposedly "awaiting trial".
Founders: Stop Selling A Product... Start Selling Transformation
I'm not a part of 30x500. Is that what you meant?
The peer-to-peer Skype system was dropped shortly after, and all Skype communications were centralized through Microsoft servers.

People keep repeating this, but I've seen no evidence that it means what people think it means. The location of supernodes has no bearing on encryption or whether call data goes through supernodes.
Same here, on Chrome on Windows (haven't noticed when I first looked at the example on a Mac). Also, only some effects leave the text blury. "Let me in" for example, doesn't.
Severance doesn't reward the incompetent employee, it penalizes the incompetent employer.

Writing too many severance checks? Figure out how to improve your hiring process.
Account created more than one hour ago. Troll. Pick one.
You guys should sponsor an event where some famous programmer leads a programming session with an audience on your service.
Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library
The US has a substantially worse history of assassinations over the last century than any of the countries he's seeking asylum from except Russia (assuming you count the Soviet period). Even more so if considering assassinations on foreign soil.
A lot of comments about heat sources in cities.

I learned something interesting yesterday, when I came into work soaked and complained about how hot Boston's Park Street Station is.

An older (70s) coworker mentioned that when he was young, Boston subway (T) stations were the place you went to cool down, as they were underground. Once they added AC to the subway cars, they dumped all their heat... into the stations. And now they're a furnace.
I'd really love to see this integrate with the newish BitTorrent sync:

http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
> Many people enter the political realm to affect policy change.

Most people I know in the political realm are looking for a paycheck without having the bother of producing anything.
What's sentiment like about Anon being false flag?
HN please help remember, anon hacking sites where a (security incompetent) US official worked at..
Deserts generally only have 2 seasons: winter and summer. Winters are usually moderate, and even very cold at night. http://www.splendidarabia.com/trekking/ksa_weather/
I don't consider Congress to be an honest career. Do you?
I do believe it's pan and scan. I just didn't mention it because it wasn't really necessary in my point.
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He was talking about "eroding ear drums".
>...information that is detrimental to the security of the USA.

"...A few months following the “successful” exercise in cyberattack response, FEMA Chief of Staff Jason McNamara joined Obsidian Analysis as vice president. For the hackers, the quick switch from the public sector to a closely associated private contractor was enough to raise suspicions of collusion. Anonymous alleges that McNamara’s transition to the private sector is evidence of a profit-driven motive for the escalation of cyber warfare. "

If the underlying suspicious implication is true, it is these revolving door collusions for profit abusing the public trust and federal budget theft, that are seriously threatening. It can only snowball without any oversight. If more than just scree smoke, I welcome anyone, anons, script-kiddies, whomever, to expose these potential cases of alleged abuse of this potentially unchecked escalating corruption.
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I'm sorry - did you not see the recent election where the Republican candidate ran on a platform of forcing 12m people to "self-deport"?
In the other hand, that could give them a hint on what is being done by their employers to the rest the world, and that they are directly or indirectly helping to keep being done. Don't twist something into being bad only when is done to you.
How about a script that watches for such phrases (perhaps using Google Alerts), which sets off a timer for the release of the key. Then Snowden could disable it if there's a false positive.

The only problem is, that complicates the system with a critical point of failure.
Building Xamarin.iOS applications in Visual Studio
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Depends what the alternative is, I guess.
If only it were true.

In Australia, they give you 3 years (plus an additional 1/2 year extension, which isn't always granted). After that, you're on your own, and many people get a full time job to support themselves.

I've seen quite a few people abandon their PhD because of the need to pay the bills once their funding runs out. It's quite sad.
I'm stumped when 5 interviewers in a row ask that question, and at a company like Google. Given that I have enough friends there that I have some sense of what the culture is like a priori. Asking the same question or variant thereof is painful :(
Thanks for the feedback. As it turns out, getting the user experience right is harder than making it go.
But if ESPN is unbundled and charges $30 a household, would more people care?
Man Sues Apple for His Porn Addiction
As of January 2010 it had been featured in 2,400 newspapers worldwide and there are 18 books with combined sales of nearly 45 million... Reruns of the strip still appear in over 50 countries.

He's married but has no children and seems, from what you can read, to live a relatively modest life.

I'm assuming that adds up to being secure and I suspect if it were to go one way or another from secure it would go towards being very well off indeed.
How we manage our Rails servers and set up deployments
I had a friend who wrote his doctoral thesis on the history of movie projection. I wish I could cite it, but A/C came about around the same time TV was starting to cut into movie theater profits. A/C not only was a major draw, but it may have save movie theaters.
Movist for Mac, MPC-HC for Windows.

VLC has gotten heavy and some defaults have me thinking the user is not in mind. Holding CTRL / ALT with arrow keys to skip? This is awkward with one hand. The arrows default to "Navigate" for DVD menus. DVD's! Rebuilding font cache? Yes, yes these are all customizable...
As someone commented on Schneier's site, US would have an incentive to keep Snowden protected because if any enemy of US would kill Snowden, then the information would become public, and I guess US wouldn't want that. Personally, I haven't invested a lot of thought into this, just wanted to point out an interesting angle. :)