skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah our school basically had one big LAN (everything got a publicly routable IPv4 address, but nothing within the university was firewalled from anything else). There were networked printers though in the computer labs, some of these labs being on the first floor of the dorms. If you needed to print slides before class (and professors always posted the slides only like an hour before class), you had to go to the lab, hit print, and wait 15 minutes for the printers to get to your job in the queue and the staff to actually fetch it and lay it out. Definitely added to the time it took to get to class.

Since I was already accessing my dorm computer via Samba in the labs (I know, dumb idea in hindsight, even with a password, but this was 2004), I decided to figure out a way to print directly from my room and then just grab it on the way to class. Long story short I ran a port scan on the computer lab to find the printer IPs and had my network port turned off within minutes (I had the IPs though!). Ended up having to go to some office and explain what I was doing. Got turned back on a few days later.

The upside was that I eventually was able to print from my room as long as I converted whatever it was to postscript first. The downside was that I didn't need to know the printer IPs after all (the university's unix server already had the printers setup... just piped it through ssh to it).
I took a quick look at it because I will be in the market for a crm system. A question I have is whether it's possible to add contacts to a campaign so it's easy to see the results per campaign.

In terms of offering more products without making it look like a tiered system.
If it's invoicing, it's perfectly fine to add that as a feature we can pay for.
Lots of SMBs already have their own invoicing system. They know it's something separate. Just give it a name, a different color and sell it as a feature.
I think I would like a to-do list as well.
Not all contacts buy the same thing but some do, I want to automate it a little bit, so it's a step by step approach that I can go through. Give me a list that I can easily copy to other projects and easily change. Not sure if Basecamp offers something similar. Add it to the crm system as a feature and charge me for it. Sounds fair to me.
This is very cool. I've wondered for a long time if sophisticated, predictor-aware lossy compression could be done with PNG. I'd love to read a paper on how this works.
Debt is a time machine. You get today the money that you may have in 30 years. Of course, if you watched any sci-fi movies, you know what happens when you abuse time machines... bad, bad things.

Debt isn't bad, debt is great - provided a) your time machine use doesn't cost too much and b) you really will have this money in the future (or, in other words, can keep up with the payments). Most problems with debt stem from misunderstanding the concept that it doesn't produce money, only shifts money around in time, and does not produce, but rather consume money - and of course from failure, deliberate or out of ignorance, to predict one's future amount of money. People also tend to double-count future money - once they debt-shifted it to present, they still consider it being there in the future, available for another debt-shift. This is where the trouble starts.
Google vs. The Teamsters
His degree is in "American Studies, Business and American Culture".

Cold calling seems like a good fit.
Would love to see this added to the PageSpeed Apache module.
Well yes, but he's still correct. Not all participants accurately gauge what the available information means for their positions, and even for those who do, figuring it out takes time.
After initially positing, I found the Quartz update and it seems the reality is that 20%-time has in reality become 120%-time. So it's the issue in reverse - the program is not officially dead, it's just smothered. In essence, Google is saying it's cool if you want to innovate aside from your core duties but do so on your time - the time that is taken away from your life and family. So the loud and clear message to employees is innovate with new ideas only if you are willing to make sacrifices in very important areas of your life - what a hugely bad move. Some might say, "Well - sacrifices need to be made to do great things." True - but shouldn't the main benefactor be the one who makes the main sacrifice??? Of course they should. In addition, 8h per week is likely not nearly enough time to incubate anything worth while so while the 8h is a great starting point, it is more than likely that folks would need to still use additional time to make any degree of progress.

What should be done is to first decide your company's mission statement and if innovation is anywhere within and is at least on par or above profit, then you need to take that seriously and set incentives that move folks toward that goal. I was unable to find an actual Google mission statement but I did fined their philosophy page (i.e. "Ten things we know to be true") and it seems clear to me that innovation is definitely a core principle for the company.

As to all those detractors who say the 20% has become basically screw-off time, maybe-maybe not. But the proof is in the pudding and if amazing things come out of the practice - as is the case with 3M and Google - then the screwing off is clearly at a minimum if there at all.

For those that have an idea and wish to use 20% time to incubate, then restructure all of their core projects using a 32h week and pay them for 40h.

My dare to Mr. Brin and the rest remains - don't just not smother the policy but rather, embrace it with a massive kung-fu grip bear hug. Make it a top priority for those with ideas to use 20%-time and incubate to the N-th degree!!!!!
Cleaner than the other variants here that use "find".
Idea for improving the JS Callback
I've been using factory_boy until now but the ability to create multiple instances [1] with one call is enough of a reason to try model_mommy on my next project.

[1] - https://github.com/vandersonmota/model_mommy#more-than-one-i...
Soda linked to behavioral problems in young children, study says
It is extremely unlikely that any "Craigslist cats" end up in research. Most animals used in research are bred specifically for that purpose, because genetic uniformity, lack of disease, and other things help to reduce confounding variables. It also is important to select for temperament and other qualities. Wild or domesticated cats and animals are generally not useful for research.

Here's one source of some background information for those who want to know: http://ori.hhs.gov/education/products/ncstate/cat.htm
I think the 80 and 54 million on the linked page are for the total number of cats and dogs in the US, not the number in research.

It also says

> The statistics don’t even cover mice. Estimated are in the hundreds of millions and even billions.

Yet the linked page says 19.5 million animals, 87.5% of which were rodents, which makes about 17 million. So we do have a figure, and it's less than "maybe billions".
Ask HN: Anyone see Jobs movie? If so, what did you think?
Anyone else notice how angellist doesn't have a "report" button on profiles?
Really? I have the 2013 Macbook Air and it's a very capable machine with Linux installed. Last time I used a Thinkpad the build quality didn't impress me.
Looks like if you edit facebook in firebug while you are posting a link to your newsfeed you can change the source userid which is not validated/checked and gets posted even though you dont have the permission to do it
Silly Groupon sales rep, everyone knows only Yelp sales reps are allowed to threaten restaurants with bad reviews!
I'm not sure how far you'd get; since PNG's predictor selection is IIRC only done on a scanline basis you don't have as many opportunities to really leverage prediction. Lossy image compression typically operates using a combination of planar modifications (like subsampling) and block-level modifications.

On the flipside, part of why PNG does so well on lossless compression is due to the scanline-oriented predictor selection - that allows it to beat regular GZIP by identifying ways to losslessly compress 2D image patterns that aren't necessarily obvious in the 1D stream of bytes being sent to the compressor.
37Signals makes the same case for remote meetings in their book Remote. Meetings are expensive in terms of both time and costs. Sometimes a quick Skype call or a discussion over a project management interface fixes things up equally well.
This would be better titled "idiot gets himself fired (from Groupon)", since it's unlikely that Groupon has a policy of threatening their customers in writing, or much tolerance of employees who make it appear that they do.

Incidentally, "As a resident of San Francisco for over 25 years" is code for "this is my first job out of college". Hopefully he'll be a little smarter by the time he finds his second.
Documents printed on quality archival paper will outlast digital media, if stored properly.
Do you happen to know how that works ?
I never used a service like mailgun or mailchimp.
Do they use IP addresses that are not being blocked by the email services ?
I choose to do something about it, so don't project your apathy on me.

This is a heartfelt project I have languished on for months. I care about this project more than anything I've ever done.

If I misquoted numbers, I apologize and will re look everything. The project will go on however, despite your negativity and misgivings.
Bored Elon Musk (BoredElonMusk) on Twitter
So they get the exploit and fix it without paying the person who found it. These kinds of actions lead exploit finders to instead pursue rewards through the black market. Very sad indeed.
In this speech on the history of Linux from 2001 [1], Linus makes it clear that he views the viral nature of the GPL to be a crucial component of Linux's success. He likens it to allowing evolution to take place. I'm not sure when this viewpoint took hold for him, but it would suggest that he likes the most fundamental part of the license (though he disagrees with much of the politics).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w
This article suggests that scientists are adopting pets off of Craigslist and experimenting on them. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_animal_sources, labs must purchase from USDA-licensed animal dealers. 4117 of these dealers breed their own animals, and only 7 are licensed to acquire animals through other means. According to the Humane Society, which also has an interest in ending this practice, the latter "round up thousands of dogs and cats each year and sell them to research facilities," which is a pretty small proportion of the "80 million cats and 54 million dogs" this article claims are used in scientific research every year.

To be clear, I don't believe it's right to divert animals raised as pets to scientific research, and I think the remaining class B dealers should be shut down unless there is strong scientific justification for their continued existence. However, as far as the fate of Craigslist cats, this article is pretty heavy on the speculation and light on the details.
It sounds like there are a couple thing going on. First, the researcher has run out of funding, and second, UC Berkeley is accused of ramping up his lab fees far far faster than his colleagues in order to prevent him from continuing research.

The first is a travesty, and there are many fine and outstanding labs out there that are going through similar situations, due to stagnant funding for years followed by the current sequestration. This is irreparably damaging US scientific research, as once a lab closes and all the specialized reagents are gone, it's going to take years to get back to the same starting point.

The second is puzzling, if true. The only thing that I can think of that would cause UCB to act that way is I they feel that this professor will prevent them from getting commercial finding for other professors. That seems tenuous at best, but I can't imagine any other reason for administrators to blackball a prominent professor. And this would be impossible for the administrators to do at all if the professor was getting grant support for his research.
Just downloaded it. I like the UI and the concept. Difficulty is with no friends on it I'm not able to get the full effect. I don't want to spam my friends so... how about having some public flocks?
Digital media will outlast archival paper, if copied properly.
It doesn't, at least in my experience.
Companies That Did Not Want to Talk About What They Do With Your Personal Data
Aside: The Loebner prize is a terrible implementation of a Turing test because the judges have no idea what they're doing. You can't just try to have a normal conversation and see which one sounds more human. You _have_ to try tricky things like the article mentions; beside syntactically ambiguous sentences, you might also try things that would be obvious to a human but that a computer would easily get confused by unless it was programmed to check for it. Likenotusingspaces. O.r. .i.n.t.e.r.l.e.a.v.i.n.g. .l.e.t.t.e.r.s. .w.i.t.h. .s.o.m.e. .r.a.n.d.o.m. .c.h.a.r.a.c.t.e.r.

Also, both the participants being tested (AI and human) should be trying to convince the judge that they're the human and the other is the AI. Given that chatterbots that insert "one-liners" and other non-sequitors do well, I doubt that's happening, so again, the Loebner test is useless.
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Huh. Stephan only has 1 friend.

edit: Just noticed. I also have only one Yelp friend.
A Groupon Model Without Groupon In The Middle
"This Yelper's account has been closed."
Peter Shih storm puts Medium back on tightrope between publisher and platform
The author's tool is excellent and achieves impressive ratios.

But once you open the "I can accept information loss" door, it might be worthwhile to experiment with other image manipulations also. For example, consider dropping color depth. Some images survive that process well.

Here's a 1-minute experiment... take the lenna.png image from the article... open in GIMP, posterize to 27 levels (or whatever you think is acceptable), export back to PNG... 43% savings.
Thanks. I haven't had much sleep since starting this project, and so it looks like I mucked up the numbers.

I'll redo the numbers and get the stats straight. Stats aren't the core of what I'm doing here though. I'm creating a choice.
Yes, some people take them seriously.

What do you use instead?
Account has been closed.
He hasn't deleted his Instagram yet.

http://instagram.com/p/WF2X88xgST/ (if he takes it down: http://i.imgur.com/GzdJ9su.jpg)

http://instagram.com/p/aJ8ER-xgZO/

http://instagram.com/p/Y-06E8Rgcy/
Note to security response teams everywhere: Not all vulnerability reporters speak perfect English, nor are they all experienced in writing up details on how to exploit issues. It is your responsibility to obtain details from reporters, after the initial report, to avoid situations like this. Facebook should give a bug bounty here, due to their lack of due diligence in following up with the initial responses.
Dust: A Blocking - Resistant Internet Transport Protocol [pdf]
tldr: i'm a dick, but i'm not dumb and i understand that i should apologize.
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Yeah no need to unwrap the packaging of any but the top pack of sheets anyway.
Another great web piece by the New York Times. The other two I know of are Snow Fall [1] and the Riding the New Silk Road [2].

1 - http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/

2 - http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-road/
Yeah, what the hell were they doing responding "This is not a bug." without investigating or asking for more details? What the hell is the point of even responding to possible security alerts from the general public if you're not going to investigate?
Chomsky: The U.S. behaves nothing like a democracy
It's so obvious he is preparing and advertising himself to run for president. And it's about time.

He has something few other presidents have. Success in both Private and Public office.
Making Art for a Living
Can you provide details on how the exploit works? Even in Arabic as am pretty sure someone will be able to provide a good enough translation for us.
I frequent systems where tcsh, for historical reasons, is the default shell, and for all its faults it does have some nice pushd settings that make directory browsing with 'cd +<number>' and 'dirs' very convenient.

I have ported this functionality to Bash: http://thrysoee.dk/pushd/
That's the trouble. Consumer reviews are just not credible to me. They are anecdotes. I find the entire concept to be unworkable.
Thanks for that. Though, LOC seems to fall into the "What is a line of code trap."

Study 2 also supports complexity with errors, not size (small or large).

I hadn't realized how old these studies were, however. For some reason, I thought they were from the 90's. I'd be wary about relying on, what is, frankly outdated assumptions.
Twitter went from protected to closed.

WC's Yelp is closed now too.
Introducing the Open Learn project
Brandon Wiley quote:

"The Dust paper is actually old and documents Dust v1, which only makes the traffic look random. Dust v2 includes the polymorphic layer, which takes the randomized output and shapes it to fit the probability distribution of a target protocol. Unfortunately, there is not yet a paper for Dust v2.

I'm working on making Dust into a library which can be used in other programs, as well as a SOCKS proxy, so there will be multiple options for integration. I'm not sure what the best way to integrate it into a Java application would be, but I'm happy to work with you guys to make this happen."

zzz;)
You're probably right, but I at least appreciate that he didn't try to play it off as a joke or make excuses. That's pretty rare in internet apologies nowadays.
I am neither from nor do I live in New York so I can't talk about validity and range but that was a very enjoyable presentation of the city.
I never suggested in any way that number of characters was a good metric. Indeed, I suggested quite the opposite.
My name is Simone. Try to guess how often my name is pronounced in the wrong way. (hint: it's probably more than 99%). :)
Most of the SF people I know who use a car only on weekends just use Zipcar or a rental for that. Depends on precisely how often you use it, but if you're not driving the car daily for commute, the economics of owning vs. renting shift considerably.
OT: Kudos to the interactive team. I think it would be an interesting job to work for the NYTimes interactive/mobile/media lab just based on the work they have been producing. I hope that they will continue to push the envelope and start to open source more or blog more about the process (which is the interesting part) of creating.
It would be neat to have platform where people can bid for a solution to their problem that require programming. For example, "I need a firefox/chrome plugin to do X...".

I am sure such a thing already exists, but hackableproblems.com still sounds like a good name for it.
RPCS3 emulates the PS3 on PC. More or less
Thanks for the download and kind words! We've contemplated adding existing events from facebook and other sources, but think that the quality of those events are not great. Would it be helpful if it was possible to share flocks with people not on the app through a web interface?
I thought this would be about the dangers of not checking for integer overflow.

I struggled to come up with a method which, in C, safely converts a string to an integer type. I finally did it¹, but I've yet to see someone else use this method.

1) http://stackoverflow.com/a/542833/54435
"10. Bicyclists
Stop being fucking hypocrites. If you want to share the road, then you need to respect the rules of the road and stop running stop signs and lights. Next time I see one of you fuckers bomb through a crosswalk and almost mow down a row of pedestrians I’m going to clothesline you."

LOL because bicyclists always follow the rules in Manhattan, rite guys?

EDIT: I thought it was funny, but I don't live in either NYC or SF. But seeing SF through the perspective of a New York/East Coast city dweller's eyes is somewhat amusing sometimes.

For example, homeless people in Philly don't fucking FOLLOW YOU when asking for money. I think a lot of people out here wouldn't even bat an eye before beating the dude senseless. Sad, but in a way that keeps people in check out here.
I thought the original post was pretty funny. SF does have its shitty qualities. It's kinda scary that you can't criticize it without the pitchfork mob coming out. This will prevent all improvement.
Under the provisions of the Animal Welfare Act, any procedure can be performed on an animal if it can be justified. That hasn't changed in 44 years.

IanCal, please prove to me -show me something- that states the Animal Welfare Act has become stricter.

P.S. Instead of trying to shoot me down, why not try and help me?