skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was heavily discussed yesterday [1], where tptacek had a great comment [2], which is well worth a read. Anyone interested in watching the talk can head over to Youtube [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6135833

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6136338

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvVIZ4OyGnQ
Justice Dept. unveils fix for Apple e-book price fixing
Yahoo Acquires Social Browser Startup Rockmelt
But he's arguing that he worked on open-source code, which isn't something he is legally able to sign over the rights of.
You might want to do a little more background on Steve Blank.
I find that my apartment gets very clean when I'm really procrastinating.

The only thing that works for me is a To Do list that I check things off of when they're done. There's something in the gamification that works there. And I do include learning activities in the To Do list, it's just better when they're planned. When they're spontaneous, I usually add them to the bottom of the list.
That's "Rockmelt", not "RockMeIt."
> "Why do so many countries want to attack us?" the person asked.

That's the 1 uncomfortable question that is at the center of the whole mess.

It's literally the vicious circle. The problem is, there are people who have an enormous financial interest in keeping this going.

To understand what I mean, look at the scale of the budget that's being distributed (both the absolute and the relative values): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
Yahoo Has Acquired Rockmelt, Apps To Shut Down On August 31st
Civilized countries have freedom of research written into their constitutions. On the other hand, not every civilized country's constitution guarantees free speech. Freedom of political expression is usually what's protected, there's a difference.
Thanks for the question! Well, production web transaction traces in New Relic are only available to paying customers - and pay you will :).

But also those usually only give you great data about SQL statements or things like this (Application code (in Document#transaction)) which doesn't say much, unless you add more New Relic instrumentation blocks in your code, which then requires a re-deploy.

Also, New Relic dev mode hasn't been updated in a long long time the last time I checked, and it was really buggy in showing you what line of code you were in.
YAML is excellent for resource files, i.e. human editing complex data.

For -configuration- you want a simpler format; INI is worth considering, as is http://p3rl.org/JSONY which is ingy's implementation of a vision we thrashed out for a more sysadmin-friendly config format.
Violence will rise as climate changes, scientists predict
1) In a capitalist economy, the low-hanging fruit tend to disappear fast. This is by design. Unfortunately, the design is such that you can't have 1 great idea and then just rest on your laurels forever. On the bright side, this compels you to give more to the world, even as it challenges you to maintain balance.

2) In a career with a large creative (read: risky) component, it seems that booms and busts are the norm. I've seen this in web dev a lot- one year I'm unemployed for almost the whole year (but hey, I was the first death knight to level 80 on the server, sigh), another year you're making six figures at a hot-shot startup.

I think that the pros outweigh the cons, but you MUST be pragmatic about money and save for the downturns. I'm psyched that you enjoyed your boom times, but I think your lesson was well-learned.
I also hate using reductio ad hitlerum, so imagine my confusion in finding it pertinent.
Hm? Was that meant to be an insult to me? I'd appreciate hearing your full reasoning for the disparagement. From my perspective, I was only sharing a classic piece of literature that had a theme relevant to the parent's comment, with a message we all could learn from, that happens to be one of my favorite poems. I didn't claim to be out there, throwing myself on the line—though I did attend a protest on the matter, and have previously actively participated in a political campaign to support my views. Anyways, you were saying?
As Admiral Ackbar would say: "It's a trap!"

Unless you're committed to MS anyway.
Toilets are awesome. We rarely talk about them (or sewers), but they are a VERY important part of disease control. Toilets save lives, we just don't realise it.
Most importantly, don't say anything that might incriminate you. Even if they have you on video doing it with hundreds of witnesses and DNA evidence.
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The Death Clock, the Internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away...
Logical fallacy (non sequitur), as the comment you're responding to said nothing of the kind, and argued specifically for a middle point in the second of only two sentences.
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I may not agree with the guy but I am impressed by him. He had the balls to go on stage in front of a crowd of people who could be aggressive, and presented his case. Not sure how well it was, since I wasn't there. However, that takes courage.
Samsung's official response to StackOverflow astroturfing,usual corporate jargon
Videos of lightning talks from Docker hack day
Maybe it is just me, but this threat feels like I just walked into a socket puppet theater.
Here's the app that goes along with the toilet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.lixil.re...

At least the poop journal aspects shouldn't be compromised even if your toilet is :)
Actually, there is quite a bit one can derive just by timing the requests and payload size. Given that the size of wikipedia articles at any given time can be calculated, as well as articles they link to, it's quite possible one could reconstruct a given wikipedia browsing session using metadata alone.
And General Alexander should get a costume that doesn't make him look like one of the Love Boat crew.

Cheap ad hominems only detract from the actual arguments to be made. Ad hominems that focus on an individual's clothing are especially weak, given the average attire of a programmer.
Things like this are going to force a confrontation at some point. Either the existing programs for monitoring people are going to become progressively more useless as people switch to HTTPS for example, or the government will insist very forcefully to get access--getting private keys from certificate authorities, for example.
I agree...pretty amazing! What will they think of next?
(peers)
Is it hourly? As an extremely general baseline, TutorSpree found the average rate for tutors in SF and NYC going through them to be ~$55/hr last year: http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/15257341578/state-of-tutorin...

That's not broken down by areas, though, and programming tutors are probably higher.
You have no idea how true your story is to my life, lol. I was in the same situation. When you make $40k a year at your job and start bringing in $40k a month in revenue it's a bit shocking. I didn't handle it right. Traffic and offers dried up. I still ended up bringing in about 80k over a 4 month period after the FTC crack down, by running game install offers. During that time I almost quit my job. I'm not sure now if it was a good or bad idea. It's probably good because I still have the security of a job, but if I would have focused full time I might have been able to really scale. Lately all I do is lose money testing offers. I didn't invest that money back into my business (or arbitrage scheme if you will). After being "rich" for a few months I couldn't really handle normal life. I mean my family never had money, we always lived paycheck to paycheck. So in the end that's what I did with the money. Then I didn't adjust to not having that income and ran myself into debt. I'm actually dealing with some pretty severe depression right. Now I'm just working my normal corporate job day to day trying to figure out how to escape.
> conspiracy theorists

The Gulf of Tonkin being used as a lie to manipulate Americans into the Viet Nam War is historical fact, not a "theory".
> So I don't think it's impossible, but even the NSA is finite. They probably have better ways to spend their time.

IMHO, this is the best argument against such theoretical attacks. For more regular attacks against applications, I expect the NSA to be one of the most advanced organisations, since they can use the entire literature plus whatever they figure out on their own. But to have an entirely different attack vector, they would need to spend a similar level of research on this vector just to keep it competitive with open source research.
How did they get this information about the attack? According to the NSA, the leaking of confidential data to the World last month allowed terrorists to avoid their spying techniques. Apparently it wasn't as big of a hit as they portrayed. shocking.
If you consider terrorism to be a valid means of advancing a political agenda, then you are justifying it.

Your proposal implies that killing civilians should earn you a seat at the negotiating table.
A really good assessment of the situation. I really enjoyed the qltv and qtv analysis - but this being HN part of me was hoping there was an actual solution.

For me personally, the keyboard is the most frustrating, second to lack of cross-app integration.
I rarely nuke my entire history, but frequently prune commands out of it.

As I develop I frequently change parameters/calling conventions on the applications I'm writing. While scanning the history I don't want bad commands to still be there.

Bash history was never meant to be an audit trail and treating manipulating it as some form of security violation is idiotic.
MIT successfully implants fake memories in human brain
I don't think they're so worried about edits. Wikipedia is a go-to source for quick lookups of information.

I work in a nuclear physics lab; if the NSA is watching, I'm sure that some of my searches have triggered flags. Doesn't help that the physics community is small, and everyone is only a few degrees of separation apart.
Has the U.S. Love of the Automobile Peaked?
Yahoo Acquires Rockmelt Social Browser
Think web browsing has hit a wall? Futureful’s approach proves otherwise
So much Grandstanding in the media makes me roll my eyes after a while.
When I took Criminology (or perhaps it was Deviance), my professor made me read this book: http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Going-To-Prison/dp/1559501197

It was written decades ago, and is still relevant today. Sadly, I think programmers should begin reading it, as prison seems to be growing into a larger threat for us.
I agree with the statements presented by the article (i.e doing real work on iOS sucks), but I don't really see what the title of the article has to do with its content.

What led them to draw the conclusion that the productivity app market is on the "cusp of change"? I see only an explanation that the market has a systemic and fundamental problem -- not that there is any definable change in sight.
That's why you put it in binary drivers or protocol libraries, where nobody looks anymore.
Not at all. I bought a System 76 laptop that came pre-installed with Ubuntu. But I don't like Ubuntu.

However, I knew that Linux ran on it out of the box, and that meant I could run Slackware without worrying about missing drivers, etc. Also, it was a great way to support a company that supports free software.

To me, a company that sells pre-installed Linux on decent hardware has my admiration and support, regardless of the distro.
Everyone is thinking CPUs here. What about Intels extremely popular line of network chips? (eg 825xx)

The backdoors you describe are local privilege escalations. How could a backdoor in a device on the PCI bus be constructed to call a backdoor in the CPU?
Fileti.me - Snapchat for file sharing.
One thing I find frustrating is when people associate passive income with non-value producing shortcuts, scams, and poor ethics. Passive versus active income and scams versus providing real value are independent characteristics of a business; it's perfectly reasonable to create a "good" business that creates real value and earns passive income.

Passive income is one of my primary goals, so maybe that's why I feel like defending the term. Maybe the phrase just has bad connotations these days, but I don't think the idea of making money without having to actively work should come with immediate thoughts of shady affiliate programs and scummy endeavors.
Ummm, okay whatever you say...

Enjoy the lame Mac-based "business" infrastructure that you built. Maybe if you'd gone with Windows to begin with, like every other business on the planet - you'd have saved enough money so you wouldn't be complaining about Microsoft's server licensing costs right now.
> But that means you have to touch your phone, probably before washing your hands first.

If you can one-hand your phone, and do the other task with one hand, this isn't a problem.
Ask HN: Surface Pro for web development?
Wondering if anyone is using a Surface Pro essentially as a laptop replacement for web development - and, if so, what their impressions are? (My needs are primarily Python, Django, JS. I currently use a MacBook but it's starting to act up and I fear the end is nigh.) Any thoughts?
I feel that the article highlights an interesting problem, with some good insights. For me, building a productivity app that charges perhaps, $5-$10, may be worth it. But it would have to solve the entire problem, not just one step of their flow diagram. I can't make an app that is good at just editing the document, I should also include the other essential steps the user needs to do once done editing (or before). But this adds to the complexity...

Also, I figured small screen size would be a bigger issue, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I don't doubt he did something illegal and I don't care particularly what his reason is.

What is way more troubling to me is how apparently easy it is for Goldman to get the highest levels of government involved and throw the criminal book at someone over what is typically a civil matter.
(For that specific instance at least) Read the start of that paragraph again. That's supposed to be the FBI agent trying to describe what happened and being completely flummoxed by the use of subversion that doesn't line up with the dictionary definition.

> 'Then he explained what he knew, or thought he knew:...'
I don't think Americans are soft; I think they know that the odds aren't in their favour. America is a massive country, so it is hard to reach critical mass - the point at which people feel they can go out and "raise hell" without simply getting arrested/killed because their group is too small and lacking in support. For example, the Restore The Fourth protests were extremely tiny. They barely made a blip in international news, which tends to feature happenings in the US prominently. An uprising of that size would be extinguished almost immediately if it became violent or destructive. However, if the streets were filled with angry protesters, to the point where local police might not be able to handle it, then people would more open to revolutionary action. At a certain point, people will recognize the risk/reward balance is in their favor, but right now it is not anywhere close. I think you can blame the fact that Americans have fairly comfortable lives. If Americans were going hungry, it would be different.
I'm highly suspicious of Mark Shuttleworth and the Canonical guys... hopefully that suspicion is misplaced. It's true that they've done an immense amount of good for desktop Linux - hell, I'm not sure I ever would have gotten into Linux without Ubuntu. On the other hand, they haven't shown that they're really willing to play nice with the rest of the community.

Going off on their own to develop Mir is a big deal, if for no other reason than it looks alienating. Adding Amazon search (by default) to the unity lens is an even bigger deal! I don't come to Linux for that shit! Unity as a whole is not a big deal because you can still just install something else.

I'm just not sure any more. They've burnt a lot of bridges with the community. How is that a good strategy? How is being an asshole a good thing if what you're achieving is partnering with Amazon to snoop on users? What are they trying to achieve here? I don't want to suggest that just because they're trying to make money means that what they are doing is automatically evil, but intentions do matter. What are their intentions? Just to spread awesome free software? I don't think that's all they are trying to do. And honestly, who needs another Apple, Microsoft or Google? We need something better.
I think it's relatively popular in University courses on compilers and programming languages. We use it for our Programming Languages and Translators course (i.e. the course the Dragon Book was written for) here at Columbia University.
I think it's more likely something actually happened yesturday and retroactive action is somehow considered not a waste of effort.
Costumed popinjays have proven far more dangerous in history than those that make fun of them.

General Alexander isn't worried about social niceties. I won't worry about them either when expressing my opinions about him and his peers.
The phone you want, on the network you don't.
If I read it correctly Germany canceled the contract from 1968 that allows US and UK intelligence to ask German intelligence about data collected with by the G10 law.

But the contract from 3. August 1959, that allows the US, US and France to collect as much data as they want, is still valid, and likely would only end with a peace treaty and end of German occupation.
"After a couple years of work, I was bringing in 20k a month... It lasted for 7 years before it hit the bottom... At that point I was burnt out and was running low on savings."

$20,000 * 12 * 7 = $1,680,000

I wonder what he was buying that made him run out of cash so quick!
Facebook Isn't the Key to Catching Terrorists
He most likely had an armed escort, unlike his opponents.
I doubt most "terrorists" even care about sharia law. A crew of terrorists is basically a crew of thugs and gangsters who want money and power. The so-called sharia ideology is just propaganda to get new recruits. Good example was Abu Zarqawi the Jordanian gangster who went to Iraq to fight for AQIM. He lived like Tony Montana and certainly didn't give a shit about sharia law. He was only interested in making cash G money and running the streets with his coke and guns in Baghdad.

Another example is Boko Haram in Nigeria, who's leader dressed up like Tupac in some photos and cruised around in a Mercedes while denouncing the west. He recruited through prison breaks releasing drug dealers and other gangsters in exchange for membership.
I'd humbly submit that

1) there are lots of non-Americans who are interested in what y'all are doing with our data

2) Hacker News is a forum for "what hackers find interesting," not whatever you think it is. Some politics, particularly digital rights and privacy, are very much part of our interests and responsibility (as non-governmental experts[1]).

3) Everything is political[2].

[1] "experts" - not me, this community at large.

[2] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann
I highly doubt the number of users with accounts constitutes a majority of wikipedia users
This may be a legitimate threat, but the loss of trust caused by the NSA debacle means that someone is likely to ignore it.
Court Rulings Blur the Line Between a Spy and a Leaker
If it's so difficult to earn currency, then is it viable to use for end users? Is it just that everyone uses fractions of BTCs now?
Personally, sites that auto-tab to the next input drive me crazy. It makes it nearly impossible to edit if you make a mistake. Try explaining to grandma why the cursor doesn't stay where she put it!
Productivity will only become better once users regain control of their hardware. Apple will only let its customers be a fraction as productive as they are internally.
> The alternative is auditing every single endpoint to ensure that it won't leak attacker data into the response,

I think you're underestimating how common this is.

For example, view source on https://www.google.com/search?q=pajamas and look at how many times "pajamas" appears on the page.

This is a simple example, but query string parameters (and other attacker-controlled data) get reflected in server responses all the time. Eliminating this behavior is not a realistic goal.
or just use the key "comment" more than once, which is sort of a hybrid of the ideas.
I found this article completely unreadable due to Helvetica Neue Light body font. The Helvetica Neue Ultra Light header is also ridiculously unreadable.
Not quite. He has to be 35 to be eligible. If The Wiki is correct, that's in 2018. 46th maybe.
In my experience, YAML is better for configuration files and human edited files. JSON is better for data and communication between computers. The features that make YAML easier to write (comments, more flexible format, less quoting) make it more complex and slower to parse.

Also, many of the security holes in YAML come from its use as a serialization format which can represent native classes. I wish the YAML parsers had more explicit support for simple data schemas which would reduce the security risk and be sufficient for most configuration files.
It requires some work to set up and use and, probably more importantly, there's substantial risk involved. The $/year this thing can produce is not a fixed quantity, both because the BTC/$ exchange rate is not fixed, and because the BTC/hash rate is not fixed. If the $ made over the lifetime of the unit exceeds its cost, then the buyer wins, and the manufacturer could have theoretically made more money by hanging onto it and running the units themselves. However, that's not guaranteed, and it could be a net loss.

In essence, they're selling a risky bet. It's like a lottery ticket, except more dependent on external factors. The buyers get to make a bet that might pay off, and the seller gets more concrete payment in exchange. It's sort of a physical embodiment of a financial instrument.
The NSA could probably identify anyone on the internet given enough time and resources. I think the point of this is to make mass surveillance difficult, so they'll only target people flagged as suspicious instead of everyone.
You would have to be a complete idiot to not see the hammer coming down on diet. Especially with those blog sites and use of oprah/dr oz/rachel ray without permission. The people profiting from it knew but took their chances. Some of them ended up paying the hard way like Jeremy Johnson.
I believe so. Any changes in our environment also affects our mood and behavior.
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Obviously we were attacked for our freedoms.
This is an appropriate forum for discussing the surveillance of our digital habits, and those of our customers, clients, employers, employees, and the public at large.
Well, Al Qaeda was a tad pertinent last week, but the news was drowned out by a woman having a baby and a man having pictures of his penis published online.

http://www.businessinsider.com/recent-prison-breaks-are-fuel...
No, it’s not. The Netherlands had been invaded by Germany. Canadian forces liberated the Netherlands. The Dutch royal family stood behind the allied forces (Canada, USA, UK) to take the land back, it wasn't an invasion (Only in the minds of Nazis, I guess). Also, most of the members of the Dutch royal family were living in London at that time. At no time during or after WWII did the UK or any of the other allied forces rule the Netherlands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_in_World_War_II#Lib...