skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use the streaming api, instead of the search, and favorite every targeted tweet with a 20s-60s delay, that's incredibly efficient.
Hackers to NSA chief: Read the Constitution
Sorry, but the grammatical errors in the text of that site are awful, such that I don't even want to re-visit the site. The only thing going through my head while attempting to decipher some of the 'suggestions' was "All your base are belong to us".
I am not trying to be rude, but that hurt.
Yeah, when I was working on affiliate websites, I created a web framework and then paid people to be researchers for me. I made about $3K over 4 months for each $250 I invested into people doing research for me.
You can't expect a source of passive income to last forever without regular maintenance. Just like you can't plan on staying on the road forever after you let go of the driver's wheel or stop putting gas in the tank.
I noticed that if DuckDuckGo returns a link to a Wikipedia article, it always seems to be an https URL. With Google, Wikipedia links seems to vary between http and https.
As discussed two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826579
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While the median -- which this article and its source headline refers to -- is an average, its not the usual thing people think of when they here "average" (that would be the arithmetic mean). Its probably better to refer to the measure specifically as the article and its source headline do, because with the usual average, this is not possible.
But none of those methods can happen on the checkout page. My mom already knows her credit card number; why is she going to put off her purchase until she can buy BitCoin somewhere else?
Yeah that's what I'm thinking as well, this isn't a switch-flip, I hope this doesn't impact their operating cost too much. :(
>What is a desktop but a tablet or smartphone with a keyboard and mouse?

Hardly anyone uses Android with a keyboard and mouse (for good reason).

You might believe that that will change, and that is a reasonable conversation to have, but it does not make it unreasonable or silly to have a conversation about desktop Linux that ignores Android.

(When the person I replied to wrote, "what kind of bizarro world is this where Android doesn't exist?" he implied that such a conversation is unreasonable or silly.)
You may be right. But in my opinion it's not the severity of the action that's brought to light, it's who gets hurt. The elites of the US are usually fine with extraconstitutional shenanigans and human rights violations when they only affect foreigners, or relatively powerless people within the US.

When it affects the domestic balance of power, then you start to see elite consensus building against it, and the wheels of reform start turning. This is how a hotel break-in is more serious than a secret war in Indochina.

It's possible that US elites will perceive surveillance as a threat to themselves. If they don't, you're probably right and then everyone just gets used to it, and any reckoning is kicked down the road for a few more decades.
Is TLS really secure from the NSA?
Unfortunately, the spammers have already figured this one out before James. Nearly every tweet of mine that has certain product or service keywords gets favourited by a spambot or two attempting to grab eyeballs.

(I also vaguely recall a front-page article about this on HN a year or so back..)
Bluehost is down
Their site is up but the sites I run on their aren't responding. Then I found this:
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/bluehost.com.html
Don't Lisp much do you?

Code is data and vice versa. Look up what the acronym JSON means sometime.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

Switches to https automatically when visiting Wikipedia, even if you're not logged in.
JSON is not actually a strict subset. Certain characters when left unescaped in a JSON string make for invalid JavaScript: http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset
Nice. Works without javascript, too!
Hey guys, I can't remember my PIN number.
Personally, I don't want to carry around a bunch of USB cables and a bunch of power cables. USB provides enough power to charge my phone. I'm glad I can charge with a "standard cable" (as long as I take a few simple precautions).
in one month, you can expect to earn $20,724.53 dollars

They were selling the kit for $22,000, so it'll take at least 5 weeks for the ROI, probably longer given there will be at least 2 difficulty resets in that time frame.

I looked at investing in one but I couldn't come up with the funds. Instead I have pre-orders out for gear due in October.

If everyone begins doing this, then it will become extremely difficult to mine any Bitcoin without any sort of gear

This is already the case. I'm mining at about 250GH/s with 3 Avalons and I earn on average about 1.2 BTC per day per machine. A month ago is was closer to 2BTC per machine per day. Right now, GPU mining is dead. It's literally cheaper to buy a bunch of USB sticks that mine at 350MH/s for $100 each than to buy a bunch of video cards as the USB sticks are more power efficient. Even so, depending on the difficulty, those USB sticks could take a year to earn back the 1BTC.
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i was hoping that my rsi pain was either bad ergonomics or just mental, then last week i got the results from a 2nd MRI of my wrist:

- torn TFCC
- positive variance of distal ulna as well as an intraosseous cyst

it's going to suck to get this fixed (especially the bone saw + plate + screws part), but the pain is pretty bad these days and the success rate is pretty high for what needs to be done. it's hard to bring myself to the keyboard when it's not absolutely necessary these days.
> JSON is code because I use it as code

You could use JSON as code, but that's somewhat silly, because there's already a superset of JSON designed for that use.
IOS productivity app market on the cusp of change?
>So is all opinionated design "stupid"?

He never said that.

>I do not presume to know who you are, or what you have accomplished, but there are few people with the professional and academic background that qualify to be able to call Douglas Crockford "stupid".

Why, who do you think Douglas Crockford is and what is his "academic background"? He doesn't even have a related degree. Most of his JS fame he ows to his book.
It's just a particular kind of plastic that could be melted down and used for any purpose. There's no stockpile.
...like blogging about procrastination...
There's a difference between procrastination and play.

Children play all the time. They don't usually engage in orderly head-down strictly optimal activities unless parents or school forces them.

Still, children learn a lot of stuff. (Have you tried to learn a language in 3 years without a single grammar book and no dictionaries? That's what babies do playing.)

Grown-ups can optimize their activities and learn the urgently necessary things faster, while also doing the chores that win them bread (and hopefully some bacon). But stopping to learn random related things, stopping to play with things that are related with whatever makes them "productive" is a mistake.

Well, maybe one can learn how to fell trees or milk cows in one year and then never have to learn anything new. I suppose that HN crowd is not like that.

Any member of the IT crowd is facing a constantly changing landscape. There's no chance to stay relevant in 10 years unless you constantly learn about a lot of things and take time to get your hands dirty with some of them. Often you don't have a chance to learn many new things while being paid for it, so you have to find time and play with them.

This playing gives you experience that may be relevant and valuable for your next gig. it may land you on your next gig.

~15 years ago I started to play with then-immature Python, Java, and Web, on my free time that I could be spending on making more money. In a few years I found out that people with experience in this are in demand, and eventually it led mo to a job at JetBrains, writing a top Python IDE in Java. (Regarding the Web technologies — should I even comment?..) Have I not played with Linux when it still seemed "pointless", I'd have much harder time getting me a number of my programmer and sysadmin jobs.

Currently I play with things like Haskell and Clojure and many others that don't win me any money. Well, maybe they never will. In any case, it's still fun!
Don't use one toxin to clean up another.
This post, especially the Joel Spolsky quote at the end, reminded me of the advice for new startups (especially bootstrapped ones): Don't do anything that doesn't help you get your first 10 customers.

For example, move a site from Linode to EC2? Doesn't get you a customer. Add a feature you think you'll need to the admin dashboard? Doesn't get you a customer. Finally write your landing page and start using adwords? Does help get customers.

I think this advice can be generalized to the common case: Is what I am doing right now really something that matters, or just something to do so that I can say it is done?
Seems like the NSA could still easily fingerprint some users:

1) Find the first edit made by a user

2) Search for IP sockets with a spike in outbound traffic to Wikipedia at around the same time (editing a large section submits a large POST).

3) Follow the users' further edits, and do the same as above to keep narrowing the candidate IPs down.
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> we stop using it for hand-edited configuration.

Bing, Bing, Bing. We have a winnar!!!

XML sucks in large part not because of XML but because people used it for everything, everywhere in places it was highly ill-suited. Don't fuckup JSON the same way.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-16/bundesbank-to-repat...

"Bundesbank to Repatriate 674 Tons of Gold to Germany by 2020"

374 tons from France, and 300 from New York by 2020 apparently.

The Bundesbank is negotiating auditing rights with its partner central banks. Thiele said he visited all storage locations last year and the returning gold will be examined.
The good news in all of this is that people are realizing that it's not that hard to be more secure with their data. The information is getting out there about how to be secure, at least.

Maybe not against the NSA, but against your everyday problems people are going to be better prepared.
Brandyn, I ended up shipping my Glass back last week. I wish your team and you the best of luck. As I have said, I am not sure Google Glass is the correct vessel for my apps, but you guys are really onto something. If they happen to send me an 'invite a friend', I'll toss it to your team. I will be back in IRC in a week or so, still moving into the house! I'm still designing ideas for that 'Location aware meets Zelda meets Motion Detection meets Rest/turned based' Glass game.
Personally, I'm sick and tired of "OMG! SHARIA LAW!" being used as the excuse to spy on all of us. The same demagoguery was used by the Nazis (using Jewish law) as the basis for their depredations.

> "Why do so many countries want to attack us?" the person asked.

> The general replied that America stands in the way of them reaching their objective, which is to force everybody to comply with sharia law.

> "They want to attack us because we're bombing them!" shouted another person, to much chuckling from the audience.

And General Alexander should get a costume that doesn't make him look like one of the Love Boat crew.
Errrm, you didn't note one of the ventures he worked at was the MIPS CPU vendor? Granted, he was "Co-founder/VP Marketing" per http://facultybio.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty-list/blank-steve, but its not unreasonable to assume he picked up a technical thing or two, he was after all marketing an intrinsically very technical product. He probably still has some contacts with CPU types, maybe even the obscure John Hennessy, who's now the president of Stanford.

I remembered this because he cited a few critical things he learned about Customer Development while at MIPS.
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The US government is going to attack itself again and blame "terrorism".
I think Shuttleworth/Canonical are wasting their time with the phone stuff.

They should focus on building a branded/licensed ARM desktop/laptop ecosystem. That is where they can best compete. If they do well there, then they could move to tablets and phones.

One thing holding back desktop linux, is that the options for programming linux GUI's are not that great. There's basically C++, python, and various red-headed step children. Canonical should put some backing into bindings for Rust, Dart, and ES.Next on node.js once they become stable.
If we were to, say, deconstruct the relevant processor and image it under an electron microscope, how obvious would these mechanisms be? I imagine intelligence agencies in countries which are not huge fans of the US would have every incentive to do this. They might not be able to figure out the mechanism (i.e. access the backdoor), but they would obviously try to work on processors that aren't compromised, which might be noticeable (Loongson?) or they could simply reveal this knowledge to embarrass the United States, and it would certainly cause some political backlash if confirmed. Basically, "I can't tell" is a much weaker guarantee than "nobody can tell" and ensuring this latter statement is going to be difficult even for the NSA, I would presume.

Also it is not entirely clear why, if such vulnerabilities do exist, why they would not have ever been used for anything, such as Stuxnet, because if they cannot be used for anything then what could be the point of having them? We're all familiar with the argument that the government will not disclose a hidden surveillance mechanism to catch a target that isn't "worth it" relative to the loss of secrecy, but if a suspected (however weak those suspicions may be) Iranian nuclear weapons program isn't worth it, then what, precisely, is?

Furthermore, is it politically feasible? The government has already seen leaks by the likes of Snowden and Manning, and this development would require even more time and effort and cooperation across teams of people who may not be entirely supportive of the far-ranging surveillance this would imply. It's one thing to backdoor a server, but to modify the architecture of the most advanced consumer products in the world is probably not going to be easy.

So I don't think it's impossible, but even the NSA is finite. They probably have better ways to spend their time.
Webpass, if you live in one of their on network buildings, if you just mean no longer having a regular telco pstn/dsl/cable modem.

For pure wireless, enh.
Quite a few companies are based on finding those exploits and reverse engineering them in order to allow 3rd party remote starters to function correctly.

It's nothing new and has been around for a while. I've worked for 3 years at one, very exciting job!
That's not really a problem with JSON though is it? Anything you run through eval() is a disaster in the making. Maybe the problem is that people are trying to make data formats too powerful, and too many things seem to be creeping towards Turing completeness that don't need to be.

I think parsers for JSON and Yaml, INI etc should be designed in such a way as to make it impossible to assign anything like an object, class, function, etc. Numbers, strings, and collections of numbers and strings... that's all you should get (though obviously "string" is frought with peril.) Anything more is unnecessarily complex.
I know a lot of programmers are focused on being efficient and trying to maximize productivity.

But, it isn't nearly as cut and dry as you think it is.

Yes, you should be concerned if you aren't getting your work done, but this seemed liked a decent use of time.

He learned something new and realized it wasn't exactly worth his time. So, now, he won't do it again.

That is worth the effort in my opinion. If I learned that lesson every time I did something "unproductive", then I would be super efficient.

We are not machines, although we would like to be one sometimes.

Sometimes being efficient at a task is really wasting time, sometimes wasting time allows your brain to disengage and re-evaluate how you are allocating your time.

If you try to work like a machine, you will burn out and end up hating your life.
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Position is in Zimbabwe, BTW.
Frankly, you don't know that.

We can wax Orwellian as much as we'd like, but until you actually have evidence of these supposed abuses happening, most people will recognize your slippery-slope for what it is, and stop paying attention to you.

Pre-crime goes both ways; are you really prepared to string up an organization for a crime it could commit, because you've "seen the future"?
I think the best analogy for something like this is getting coupons/ads/"special offers" in the mail. They aren't sent out completely indiscriminately (good distro strategies will use a fair amount of segmentation), but they're not exactly bespoke. You're basically shoving your content into a traditionally high-signal-to-noise ratio arena, hoping that the mismatch works in your favor.

Still, there's nothing incredibly malicious about it besides the fact that its annoying and is a signal that you're a low-value brand. Besides, some people really like leafing through a valpak; similarly, if a customer sees your favorite, clicks on your handle and decides you're worth the follow, what's the harm?

If you're a company or startup seriously considering doing this, consider two things:

1. Think about the mechanics behind a drip campaign. You don't want to inundate your users; you don't want to annoy them; you don't want to overgeneralize them. One of the difficulties of these auto-favoriting campaigns is that a favorite is a very low-value, low-information interaction; have you thought about creating multiple accounts and working on a reply queue system (just as one would create multiple email campaigns to target different consumer segments?)

2. What would the potential consequences be if someone posted a blog post about you using these tactics, and that post got a lot of coverage? Would it be worth the extra few hundred followers? (Honestly, in some cases, yes! But in other cases -- particularly if you're targeting developers -- probably not.)
Nice hack but fails JSHint.

[1] http://jshint.com/
When I was a kid the big problem was the lake water rising (at least with Lake Michigan). I remember walking down what was left of an eroding lake front road, and seeing a bunch of septic tanks out in the water. That is where houses once stood.
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Technically not true: http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset

{"JSON":"ro cks!"}

(there's a unicode line separator -- 2028)
When did the US government attack itself before and blame terrorism?
Not sure why this article has been flagged, but here's an anecdotal counterpoint. I run a public XMPP server listed on [1], and since the PRISM revelations the number of new user registrations has increased significantly. I've seen no sign so far of a downturn in new registrations.

[1] http://xmpp.net/
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Great security by obscurity. Didn't we try that before a failed miserable?

Then again if they start enforcing it like piracy with ridiculous fines and jail time they best researchers would be criminals.
I don't know if I have the "proper background". I never designed CPUs for a living, but I do have a B.S.E.E. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and I was once the co-founder of a hardware-based startup (though I did the software). IMHO this is all quite plausible. The idea of accessing the backdoor through a sequence of obscure instructions sounds particularly plausible to me.
With the associated cost of inventory. Unless the replacement formula is significantly more expensive, it doesn't make sense to have years of product sitting there collecting dust.
> There's a few niches where affiliates provide nontrivial value as well.

Very true. I've been speaking at marketing conferences for several years, and one of my core messages to affiliates is "don't build a site or campaign, build a business". If no one would miss your site if it was gone, you're not building value.
You can represent annotations (which describe most of your examples) by adding keys:

{
"data": "some data",
"data_comments": "here are my comments"
}
Baltimore, MD; Reston, VA; - Videology - FULL TIME, INTERN (H1B maybe if already in US)

Videology Group - http://www.videologygroup.com/

Internet advertising startup looking primarily for server-side Java developers (if your Java is rusty but you're good, drop us a note anyway). I was working for a start-up called LucidMedia Networks (hence the "lmn" in the e-mail address below), which got acquired by Videology. The Baltimore office is a .NET shop, but the Reston office is Java on *nix (Mac for dev, Linux in production, and no plans to use Microsoft anything for development). Our stack is Java on Spring with MySQL and some NoSQL stores on AWS. We have some big projects in the works involving big data and volume as we scale globally and across mediums (video, mobile, etc.). Currently, our Reston platform alone handles 4 billion requests a day.

Contact me directly at sahil_lmn@yahoo.com.

I actually got hired through a HN "Who is Hiring" thread, and I hired an intern through these threads. These things do work!
After 5 it becomes unmanageable for me. I typically have a little more than that. My remedy is similar to my data management strategy: If its junk deal with it now. Delete/close the tab now rather than filter through it later. Anything I think I might need later gets tagged into Delicious.
Baikal has a volume of 23,615.39 km³, the Great Lakes is 22,671 km³ for those that use standard units.
When it's a government agency violating my privacy against my will, and against the spirit of the law, then yes, absolutely I am prepared to put limits on their ability to do that due to the extreme risk of abuse. Limits on government power exist for a reason. Because governments inevitably expand and abuse their power.
I don't think this is wrong. Now everyone knows there is a method to break it, why reveal specific details to the public where it can only be used to help steal cars?

I think dangerous information in general should be censored, though that is a very dangerous road to go down. But if it was possible to do so without corruption or having good things censored too, then I think it should be done.
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I cleaned up the audio a little bit (using Audacity and Auphonic) and uploaded it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVNC3q_Dqg4
Wrong section. Try the freelancer one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139937
Idiotic comments like this.
Breaking down Google's impact on the Moto X
Active Display is pretty cool on the Moto X, low power drain but puts your notifications on your screen so you don't have to turn it on. Reminds me of Facebook Home. 252 different color schemes can be ordered and delivered in 4 days from a Google Motorola factory in Fort Worth Texas employing 2000 people.
I've thought about it, but as soon as I do, I think about all the paperwork inevitably involved in making sure my medical history follows me, my pensions and other financial records get updated, and all that other nonsense, and, having nearly half a century of paperwork that ought to be updated, and being an essentially lazy old cuss, I decide that I can live with the annoyance.