skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What scares me about it is that these kids have likely gotten used to juvenile detention (and detention in general), which'll lead them to view it more lax.

Adding to that the time they lost outside of the school system, the social stigma that goes along with having been to "jail" and you've got yourself more a more explosive cocktail than anything described in the anarchists cookbook.

If you're socially sidelined and have no options for a career, crime is enticing. Especially since you've been stamped a criminal allready, and you've been locked up (yes, they were aquitted, but they won't realize that, and their peers won't either).

Assuming they just took problem kids across the whole spectrum, assuming 500 non problem kids, you have 3500 problem kids. A rough guess of mine would be that 1-2% are too smart for school kids that cause trouble out of sheer boredom. So you've got 70 bored hacker type kids that suddenly have someone who's mistreated them, and I'd want to get back at them. A couple of them proably took the frugal coping mechanism of sociopathy.

If your school system gets kids to come to school armed, prepared to kill, how the hell will that play out?
Do you really need to break iOS encryption? I'm not a big pro in iOS but I heard there are many forensic companies which specialize on extracting data from iOS devices, and from their pages[1] it looks like you can extract quite a lot of stuff from somebody else's phone.

[1] http://www.cellebrite.com/forensic-solutions/ios-forensics.h... http://www.elcomsoft.com/eift.html
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that does make it psychologically harder - I have to go to a site with clear malicious intention, rather than pay a visit to a setting which the browser itself provides.
Unless you are doing it totally wrong the license will cost far less than paying developer wages and if your team is more productive in that environment it is a net gain. I agree that if you have a startup with no revenue and everyone works for free the licensing can be an issue (unless you use Bizspark).
By that logic, there's no need to have an investigation in the first place. Snide comments like this are informative only of your attitude.
3 better-safe-than-sorry-in-improbably-scenario ones and one that requires an attacker to have physical access to your machine (or just to your memory and a good freezer, if you remember that hack hack :)

Seems like the best time to upgrade is in a few weeks after the crypto community had some time to analyse the changes. Maybe upgrading in a rush is as bad nowadays than not upgrading, with all the ... terrorism?... going on.
I already admitted the possibility that Amber Alerts themselves may be overkill and ineffective, so that doesn't really respond to my comment about 'trivial' and 'mundane' descriptors being applied to the actual abduction.
Yes, when the 60s came around, guitar distortion was already a pretty common sound. Just think Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones, and of course Chuck Berry before them. What the fuzz changed is that it was the first distortion pedal, a smart alternative to destroying your amp speakers.

Link to Rocket 88 (1951): http://grooveshark.com/s/Rocket+88/24PPYE?src=5

Rock a While (1949), featuring the trademark rockabilly riff: http://grooveshark.com/s/Rock+A+While/3pQhHy?src=5
If you're prone to addictions, avoiding addictive systems is probably a good thing.

I played WoW for something like 7 years, doing the high-end stuff like the high-difficulty PVE content and high-end PVP, got married, had kids, and launched a startup while doing it. I quit because I got bored with the game, and my interests moved on to other things. It's not inherently evil and guaranteed to destroy your life. The danger is that it offers a relatively quick and easy work-and-reward cycle, and can give you the illusion of accomplishment. If you let that illusion substitute for actual accomplishment in the real world, that's when you get into trouble. Having and keeping goals is a great inoculation against that sort of thing.
Shitty mobile pix...

Store-brand ingredients and nutrition info: http://screencast.com/t/KhqgkXT73Ofe

Major-brand: http://screencast.com/t/KhqgkXT73Ofe
Those are actually more than two clicks and sadly enough to frustrate me every time.

There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.
I'm a huge fan of Python. I've recently started to benchmark websocket servers. Python (gevent, eventlet) completely locked up when I subjected it to the load, ~30 frames per second, I was sending to a Node.JS and Go server. I kinda expected that. Maybe i'm doing something wrong. For now I think i'll stick to nodejs.
Oh nice! =)
Ask HN: Suggest me a Utilite like linux computer for free giveaway to kids
I know some kids I want to give Linux running computer for them to learn programming. I was looking into Utilite but that's not yet released. Is there something like it already? Also Utilite will be out of budget if I am going to buy few of them. What would you suggest?
Like a lot of good advice, this is easy to say but sometimes difficult to implement. But it's good to be reminded of this. When you say "If I only had X, I could do Y" what you are really telling yourself is that now, you can't do Y. So you don't do it. Excuses are easy to come up but hard to get out of.

As a shameless self-plug, I've put together a course that helps developers reduce the tendency to think that the grass is always greener. If you're interested, see my profile for the link.
Google, I remember reading they use it internally like crazy.
I think the main reason shared role accounts are worse then individual accounts is because it is easy in a computer to change a role, but harder to change the accounts for many people.

With hardware, changing a "role" requires swapping logic inside of every lock that for the user's key: the lack of an abstraction layer makes it impossible. So, in the mechanical world, key-per-group is equally expensive to key-per-user in terms of replacement costs, but far harder to implement.
Digital Ocean offers users inside view of their droplets with new Graph feature
> “My phone fell in the ocean!”: Backup codes generated in the application can be written down, stored in a safe place, and used to access your account on twitter.com even if you lose your phone.

You should probably take a look at Twitters official blog post which has a bit more explanation[1]. I hear what you're saying about the "Well what if i lose my private keys" because we had the same issue with CACs. Every private key was escrowed somewhere, but you have to remember that this system is optional, not mandatory. This is security measure is designed to help prevent future AP incidents[2].

As far as phone compromise, that's a valid concern. Any large company should policy in place to regulate devices for validating logins (which don't happen that often). As far as individual users, we'll have to see. Since Android is the dominant mobile platform, I'm guessing that malware will be more prevalent on those devices.

[1] - https://blog.twitter.com/2013/improvements-to-login-verifica...

[2] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/ap-twitter-hacked_n...
Of course, they can build an ironclad case against ANYONE.

So...
It's a list of myths, with the thesis that things are getting better. Try some reading comprehension.
sehr interessant.^^
mal schauen was es da gibt. Ist nur ein Test

Grüsse aus der Schweiz
That 'logic' was how the US telcom wiretapping and their subsequent granted retro-active immunity[1] issue played out.

It was not snide, but a historical reference. Sorry if you did not get it.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/09/us-usa-court-telec...
Regardless of their age, 28 years is more than enough time in prison for any crime.
You could probably export a Registry file that has all your settings and then import on a new machine.
I mean ecosystem in a broader sense, including help on Stack Overflow, sample code, etc.
What? That escalated quickly! I'm not saying that. I'm obviously not aware of the technical details of how the system works but I'm saying if there were links, I could see this becoming a target for spammers to exploit to use for personal gain.
Not currently. Every system has exploitable flaws though.
Every time I see a Soylent article on HN I hope that it's all just a sick joke that will soon be revealed as an elaborate hoax and forgotten about. Why the hell would anyone in their right mind base their entire diet off of some liquid concoction made up by some random guy who is clearly not a nutritionist? Why don't you guys just learn to eat a healthy and balanced diet?
Both.

these names will be made available to registrants who not only reflect the core attributes of the .ORG domain but also reinforce the trust and value of the .ORG brand.

And if there's no price, you can't afford it.
Great concept, but not sure about the claim that legal bills aren't "work product" - it depends on what they say. And it's quite probable that the most effective legal bills for data analysis purposes (i.e. detailed ones) would contain work product or attorney-client privileged information. When I was a practicing lawyer, I always redacted bills before filing them in court to support fee petitions.

Separate issue whether disclosure of the bill to you as vendor, with a documented expectation of confidentiality, would constitute waiver either of WP or A/C privilege. No obvious reason that disclosure to your service would be different than disclosure to TyMetrix, Serengeti, or Sky Analytics, assuming your T&Cs are well-crafted. But obviously check with your lawyers on that.

Also, purely from a business standpoint, you can bet that some lawyers will raise the confidentiality objection to discourage/resist adoption.

All is to say, the issue is an important one. Glad to see you're taking it seriously. Good luck!
Nice link! And I agree the daily rotation is a bad idea, however we're leaning towards doing a Tuesday-to-Tuesday week long shift.
There's always money that can be made, even if it's a "commodity" by being a knowledge person / service provider. By open sourcing, that's a signal of so much confidence on a mfgr's part that people would stick with a particular brand the existence of a recipe which can be easily replicated. Most people aren't going to bother. Knock-offs can come in and try, but probably aren't going to dent brand-affinity.

Many people, especially high income people, would gladly pay for the convenience of ready-to-go product.
This is lame beyond believe.

Do you know how in the 80's and 90's everything that everyone was already doing was 'changing' because of computers.

it's the same now with 3D printers. Forever you could duplicate a key in a machine with just a picture of the original. just because the machine to duplicate it become easier it's not going to change the world. dammit you could already do the same with a blank and a hand file, it would just take 40~200min depending on skill instead of 5~15min on the machine.
I think this is not much resourceful. I am sure they are not going to just use it to learn programming. They would use it for browsing and basic stuff you know.
1. What do you mean?

2. Countries can be attacked too. I don't know what your point is here. If bitcoin survives its infancy, it could become more resilient than any other currency.

3. Could you explain it in practical terms? Because as long as it works, why should I care about what theorists say? Bitcoin's creator said himself that it was an experiment, and rightly so, we have never seen anything like Bitcoin taking off before. Seems like he nailed it on his design.

Yeah, I have seen a lot of people raging. How is that evidence of anything, other than fear of the unknown?
Justin is right. This is why the browser I'm working on flashes your passwords in plaintext ever few seconds. Let's not pretend an attacker couldn't look over your shoulder anyhow.
I believe eBay said they used it for some things?
Probably a good idea to deprecate your POWER infrastructure. This can only mean bad things for the customer support. Getting your APIs twisted in this so-called "open" software on proprietary, niche hardware mess with no single POC will mean you're dependent on them for a long time to come and your software will only become more and more complex and integrated as time goes on, until nobody on earth can untangle it.
notice.js - A bare-bones notification tool.
Big Data Debate: HBase
His comment may be snide, but the expectation that the investigation will be a sham is, I would wager, a common opinion of the general public.

If anything, it goes to show that we've lost faith that the government can keep itself in check.
This is why IBM is betting on the private cloud.
I assume Paramount will be the winning bidder here.
I skimmed it because it was not worth my time. Try civility. Mmm tasty. =)
IBM is betting on the private cloud, that is, companies running their own AWS type system internally.
I would prefer that the public defenders office and the DA office have to rotate their staff out to eachother... so you cannot just serve as a DA.
Agreed. To assume every YC startup is going to be a beautifully-operated dream company would be to fall prey to a seductive mythology. Tech startups are run by human beings, creatures that can be brilliant, passionate, and level-headed, but also vain, delusional, overconfident, and naive. The best you can do is know what you're getting into.
Er, are you sure? I just tried this with Facebook and what you describe did not happen.

The access control tab in the keychain entry had Safari as the only listed application. When I then visited the site in Chrome, it asked for permission to access the keychain. When I clicked "Allow" it worked, but Chrome was not added to the "Always allow access by these applications" list and re-prompted when I refreshed the page. When I then clicked on "Always Allow", it added Chrome to the application access list, and I'm no longer prompted for access to the keychain.

At no point was an additional entry added to the keychain.

I did notice that when Safari offered to remember the password, with an additional option to make it so that only Safari could access that password. Is it possible that you clicked on that and Chrome had to create a new entry?

Edit: I tried getting that option again to test setting it, deleting the facebook entry in the keychain and then logging in again in Safari. It no longer asks me if I want only Safari to have access to that...not sure why it won't.
So the key test is: have you persuaded a new investor, new employee, or new client, with no historical relationship to your business, to invest time and/or money in your firm? If so, that’s a sign that your business is likely worth persevering with in its current form.

That's an interesting test. By that standard, we're definitely justified in moving forward as we've added an intern who may be joining the team on a more permanent basis soon, added a new member to our advisory board, and reach tentative agreements to formalize our relationships with 4 other members of our advisory board. And while we are still pre-revenue, we have some irons on the fire that give us reason for hope.
I'm surprised he was able to say that. I thought the party-line was and remains to neither confirm nor deny. Unless he has no special knowledge and is just assuming, based on his knowledge of the NSA (which is extensive, admittedly).
You didn't respond to a single one of the criticisms made.

1. YC startups, on average, are more likely to succeed all other things considered, thus the perception. But YC itself can't guarantee success, are you claiming they should?

2. "Based on how he explained it" .. therein lies the problem. He hasn't given any evidence or provided the company a chance to respond. So effectively, he's targeting the reputation of YC rather than a specific company.

3. The problem isn't that the author is claiming "all" startups have issues, but that he is attributing these issues to YC Startups in particular. Even if this particular story were true, which we have no way of knowing, it seems like a bizarre attempt at schadenfreude against YC.
Although companies that aren't growing fast aren't hiring much, so those opportunities are harder to find.
I don't really think is is mudslinging. He purposely left out the company's name, and YC as a whole won't be hurt by this - there have been enough YC successes that I'm sure everyone here would consider a YC startup to be better than the average startup.

This is just one engineer warning people that you should still take a solid look at a company before you hop on board, even if it is a YC startup.
Is there an open-source version of this or does anyone want to create one? I need something like this for my next project, but this doesn't add any value to my product.
IBM just have had a large series of layoffs. People have suggested IBM is trying to get more employees to quit.
> so pushing mainframes as a cloud service doesn't make much sense.

I find this hilariously ironic.
Philosophical, religious or political motivations can be reason enough to many.
Adding a few of my own peeves:

4. Bitcoin is inherently deflationary, which is an awful idea if you talk to anyone who knows anything about money

5. Bitcoin is fundamentally backed by pointlessly wasting CPU cycles and wasting energy trying to reverse hashes.
Not personally.
Hanns Johst - Nazi Poet Laureate if anyone was wondering.
Isn't this what DRM is?
I was curious about single-character non-.org domains and found this to be an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_doma...

Essentially, before Project94, all single-letter domains in .com/.org/.net were reserved except for those that existed in 1993 (i.net, q.com, q.net, x.com, x.org, z.com). Nissan (famous for not owning nissan.com) owns z.com and has a Z series of cars but doesn't use it.
I'm disturbed by the "lock 'em up" mentality that calls a 30-year sentence a 'slap on the wrist'.

It's exactly this kind of harsh desire for repercussions that enabled the judges to get away with what they did in the first place.
Moving to 2.x still seems like more trouble than it's worth, but maybe I'm just burnt out on learning another templating system =/
Hailing a cab with smartphone is not as popular as you think
Yeah, somehow I don't think using l.h.o.o.q.org as a private joke is quite what they had in mind.
> And you've already concluded that that is indeed what was going on at this start-up. Just from the mere use of the word "micromanaging"?

Nope, I was responding directly to the parent of my comment, to the line I quoted, which was phrased to state that engineers have no business making product decisions.

> Sorry, that might have been true a decade ago but today, everyone knows that engineering and coders rule the world at most start-ups. If anything, we may have gone too far to the other extreme where coders don't value a good business guy as much as they should.

That may definitely be the case in a few firms in SV, but outside that little bubble, the rest of the world still often falls into the "old view", something akin to "management" and "labor"
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>"The first person to go would be the business guy" - maybe they thought that a whiny child, that you are, was impacting their focus and productivity.

If you don't think there's an anti-business-guy bias in these parts (and the startup world in general), you haven't read enough comments.

I'll go out on a limb and say that a big reason most startups (and small businesses) fail is that there isn't enough thought being put into the actual business.
And, you know, the ones in the middle that are actually successful because they have people who know how to balance both.
IBM has also forgotten that great companies are built by the people they employee. Instead they are cutting benefits, hours, and are falling behind other companies, all in an effort to chase shorterm shareholder value.
See where codeigniter, cakephp, django are all from rails? Just look at http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ You are comparing a language to a CMS?
I would say the judges got fair prison sentences, but they should also have been forced to pay all the 4000 kids damages.

All others involved on the other hand got a slap on the wrist.
Just as long as they don't mouth off to their teachers online...
What about one of those skin tight spandex suits with shock electrodes in it? Then give the kids a smart phone with an app that allows them to shock on demand. Every time they feels angry or frustrated at their lives being ruined, then can seemly shock the judge...

"Shock the Judge".... Now there's a game show I'd watch.
""Privatization" where the government contracts to third parties, is not privatization."

Yes it is. The definition of privatization is simply "denationalization: changing something from state to private ownership or control."
Lots of people have asked "Why not Nginx? Why not thttpd?" ... but if all you want to host is static files, why not AWS S3 or similar CDN?
Privatized prisons will always have an incentive to increase occupancy because they will always benefit by having more prisons and providing more jobs.

The problem with having an independent body provide oversight is that in the worst case it's just another level of corruption. Even in the best case they have an incentive to keep the prison system larger because it means more work (aka money) investigating and auditing.

I'm not a big fan of the government, but I think prisons are one thing the government should do itself.
It should be pretty obvious from the post that I am a huge YC fan (and I added a disclaimer in the post in case you missed it).

You misjudged the intention of the post. Read the last few paragraphs.
they vote the way they did, didn't they? Actually, twice!
This just in: People Viewing Post On Internet Believe Everything They Read. Common Sense Responds, "I Give Up!"... HINT: People who work for Blizzard don't work for every Blizzard office, as Blizzard operates offices in multiple countries... In other news: Apple Inc. Still Operates Sweatshop-Like Conditions As Internet Cares About WoW Instead.
4. Last time I checked, gold was still very valuable. And it has been used for what... Thousands of years? The economies of the world did just fine without forced inflation and consumerism.

5. Printing paper money wastes way more resources. And how is using energy to create something of value a bad idea anyway? Bitcoin doesn't even require that you use a contaminating type of energy, for all I know you could be hashing with solar energy.
As an alternative to twitter+linkedin, you can also shoot me an email at infona+yahoo@gmail.com
Still, Android also has root. You're trying to keep a superuser from being able to access a file...
WebGL GPU Particles
I thought I was alone in getting bummed out over this. I've had nothing but negative experiences interviewing with Silicon Valley Internet companies. What kind of super-humans are they looking for?

I love writing software but some days I hate my profession. I'm seriously considering getting into a different career (where knowledge capital doesn't degrade as fast) and code for fun (as a hobby). The problem is I'm in my mid-30s. Starting over has a very high opportunity cost.
How is he supposed to tell us the "other side of the story"?

Are you somehow involved in this? Do you recognise the situation?
This is art. To some people it seems like a joke. There is not much else to discuss here since it is all very subjective.
I've been following this case for a while .. extremely disturbing situation and the sentences were far too light for many of the offending parties, such as the builder of the facility who bribed the judges. Just imagine how it must have felt to be one of the kids. It's sick, really.

It seems that if you hide behind corporate structures and contracts you can transform the nature of charges against your actions. In this case, the offenses committed involved enslaving children for personal financial gain. If there is any offense worse than that, please inform.