skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"He added he was 'very honest' and the companies did ask why he had a premium number."

I suppose this honesty was directed to the initial acquirer of his personal number - bank or utility supplier whatever. Once the supplier had sold his personal details on, presumably without mentioning the problem, to some unscrupulous middleman for personal data, who then sold it on via a black market to various marketing companies... I mean, does it even count as fraud any more?
It's also a great way to trigger a notification email and reactivate LinkedIn users who haven't stopped by in a while.
As far as I am aware, Google have negotiated an agreement with MPEG-LA to ensure this.

http://blog.webmproject.org/2013/03/vp8-and-mpeg-la.html
I'd like to apologize for my poor grammar in the above comment. I typed it while on a conference call, and am a bit embarrassed by it.
It is impossible to own an idea. You might be given a monopoly on the application of that idea, but by merely speaking or documenting the idea you distribute it to any that hear or read it and therefore can no longer truly said to own or control it. It's the difference between data, and matter. One is copied infinitely without destruction or consumption (although it can be "lost" in entropy) and can travel at the speed of light. The other is a unique instance subject to the laws governing all matter and capable of being destroyed. In fact it's impossible to truly copy or distribute a physcial object, you can at best create a new arrangement of matter that mirrors some existing matter.

This is why property is a concept solely reserved for physical objects, not to information. They are fundamentally different categories of things. You cannot own an idea any more than you can own a frequency (regulation of the broadcasting of certain frequencies of RF waves should not be confused with "owning" the waves themselves).
Also statuses (so not only on/off presence) and ability to log off (not only suppress notifications).
Lack of those make hangouts unusable for me.
Yep, there's huge demand for certain NOS (new old stock) tubes used in tube microphones (like the Neumann U47, U67 etc). I think one of the big factories has just opened up again actually.
USPS is complicit in delivering junk mail, so it's fair game.
They aren't "pre-paid" but rather "we will pay the postage, provided you return the envelope". I.e., the PO charges for the count of what comes back through the mail.

In the U.S., the postage cost is full first class rate plus a service surcharge.
The best cloud security solution is one where you control the encryption keys AND stuff is encrypted on your device BEFORE uploading to the cloud.

We tried SpiderOak but the security was hard for our users. We ended up using Syncdocs which encrypts Google Drive. It lets our team share and use Google Docs normally, but secure folders we need to keep encrypted. They also disclose their AES encryption source.

http://www.syncdocs.com/forums/topic/syncdocs-encryption-is-...
"Cross platform notifications"-> only notifies on Apple Platform (OSX derived OSes)

Um, shouldn't that be "Synced Notifications", but it sure ain't cross-platform.
Isn't the unfortunate ending that very little greatness is achieved by the mean or median person?
Couldn't agree with you more.

And I think your idea is even better than what I did!

Medium is nice, but it might be overkill for this - I've just written a self post on HN for this purpose, I'll post it up around 1am PST tonight (don't want to post the same thing twice in a day).

I think it should be like the whoishiring bot, only once a week rather than once a month.

Other thoughts:

- everyone who posts there agrees to comment/give feedback on 5+ other posts

- everyone who posts something must include a backstory to their project (why did they want to build it)

If you have also tried to get feedback on your personal projects on HN without much luck and want to put some input into what this weekly post might look like, feel free to shoot me an email (cjbarber@stanford.edu)

[Also, I realize a bunch of people on HN have tried to do this. Hn for ideas, a bunch of different sites for posting your product betas, etc, not sure what the right solution is but with some collaboration we might be able to tease it out!]
If you require proof of work equal to, say, 3 "average modern CPU core seconds", they're still not going to send you spam because they could've sent spam to a few hundred other people in the meantime. It may not be costing them money directly, but it is a cost measured in a finite resource.
> What if you happen to enjoy old-school programming?

This describes me all too well. :-(
What is the incentive for companies that don't offer paid internships to offer them? From the numbers I expect the higher take up rate of those who did paid is because the company has already invested a significant sum in bringing the student on board.

How many of those you list in the paid category were hired by the company who offered the paid internship? I would interested to know if we eliminate those if the numbers are more equal.

Playing against paid internships are the new health care laws, companies could bring them on but would many want exceed the hour limit before having to pay out health benefits to what is in effect summer work?

No one is forcing anyone here, students if they become more picky as a whole will affect the situation, but trying to turn it into what it is not; an apprenticeship, is not a solution I see as viable. From numbers on Forbes, more than half of unpaid internships are in government or non-profits. Guess private companies aren't the real bogeymen here.
Shipbuilder: PaaS in Go
10p/minute, or 6 GBP per hour, is probably good enough money if you are on minimum salary (but then you don't work from home like this guy) or unemployed. I don't think it makes sense otherwise.
To be fair, Emacs still doesn't have anything quite like the extensive support for things like refactoring that Eclipse does. Not without bulky kluges like CEDET, anyway.
My understanding is that when an 0871 number is advertised, or at the beginning of the call, you must provide a disclaimer announcing its rates. Since he's putting this number in forms, he can't be giving them a disclaimer, which means he'd need to do the disclaimer at the beginning of the call. If he's not doing that, then yes, I would imagine that this is fraud.
That GigaOM article says "Google is phasing out the use of third-party code provided by the video conferencing technology vendor Vidyo", but this VentureBeat article says "Google will license Vidyo’s scalable video coding extensions for use in its free and open source VP9 video codec". Can these articles both be true?

http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/28/webrtc-gets-a-boost-google...
On turning down the role as the first Uber CTO (podcast)
Having everything is pretty much the same as having nothing.

Ahh yes, grasshopper. But neither situation is the pure folly of being attached to the idea of such possession!
Is there anyway for the generate electricity?

Example:
They stick a tiny magnet in there, have it rotate super fast surrounded by cooper or something.
The first project you link to is marked as dead, so it's impossible to follow the link or post comments on it. Maybe someone should resubmit it?
One thing I keep seeing and feeling uncomfortable about, is this throwing layers ontop of layers ontop of layers until you are so far removed from what is actually happening, if one piece breaks down it's impossible to fix, and you have a ton of overhead. I want fast, simple, easy to hack, and something that just goes.

Isn't there a way to do this super slimmed down and light weight?
I find it odd when people I don't know but I must've hit accept on their LinkedIn request at some point endorse me for stuff. Smh
NYT Twitter hacked by syrian group
He may be within the law however I doubt at the start of the call he tells the lackey that he has zero indent on purchasing the product/service and just wants to keep the lackey on the line.

To me that is a wrongful deception intended to result in financial gain.
PSA: Do not update to Chrome Canary to Version 31.0.1613.1 canary Aura
Fantastic project. Exactly what deserves more attention. Just starred it on Github.
> This is achieved by viewing 'build' and 'install' for the cloud-capable service package as two separate steps, ie. build is the 'gather all requisite goodies' step, and then a version is applied. 'Install' is where an instance is actually created on top of a target OS platform image (also versioned).

This doesn't apply to Docker. You can use the exact same process.

> Take for instance multiple cloud providers. Those guys are notorious for giving you a slightly different version of any OS as a stock image, and running slightly different configurations. Some of them even insert their own distro-specific repos/mirrors. In that case, you are going to see entire classes of weird and subtle bugs appear where you either

These are not issues with Docker. The Dockerfile specifically states its environment, so it matters not what the cloud providers use on their host image.
Sound too good to be true, they could charge half the 'normal' price or something, what is going on here? has communism arrived in CA already after so many years' socialism there ? :)
Trump University called a scam by former students in wake of lawsuit
What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games
I don't think endorsements are meant to be true endorsements. If they were, LinkedIn would have written a weighted endorsement system by now (where an endorsement from someone with expertise in some field means more than, say, an endorsement from your realtor about your JavaScript skills).

It's just crowdsourced tagging with a different name. This way, recruiters who pay LinkedIn $10k/yr can more easily search profiles for keywords.
Perhaps I'm biased because I've been in a few places where HR did the mainline jobs in the firm prior to becoming HR. Those scenarios turned out extremely well, though perhaps we didn't get the best deals in health insurance.

I've also seen (unhealthy) environments where HR's primary job was to protect the company from lawsuits. That's not great either.

In general I've counseled people not to put their career in HR's hands, but that's still a long way from calling it a near-useless function. It frequently turns out that way, but it has the potential to be much more.
It's not quite the lesson if you're making money on simply leaving the phone on the table while you go about your stuff.
My friends colluded to endorse me as 'Mexican.' I'm not Mexican.
The (upside or downside, depending on your view) to this is a lot of stores are looking to provide an omni-channel experience - install a store's app on your mobile and login with your web login/loyalty card #/etc.

The app can send your MAC address along with your login to the store's server.

When you walk into the store.. as long as wifi on your mobile is turned on (association not necessary), access points in the store can see your mobile phone's wifi beacons and do a lot of things: send you a push notification, send the store manager a push notification, track your path through the store for targeted advertising, etc.
I'd put Pinterest and Twitter in the same category as Dropbox and Evernote. Evernote: What I note of the real world. Dropbox: Bring places from physical device A to physical device B.

But if you think it through, the whole list is kind of arbitrary too. Microsoft started as electrons-only company and was hugely successful.

I'd describe it less in terms of atoms and electrons, but in value delivered. And obviously, people derive value from both atoms and electrons. But they derive value differently from different services.

So, hugely successful companies help people to get value from their service and achieve something like money, fame, emotions (music, movies, art). More value for users = more success for the company.
There's your next startup idea! Instead of a vpn-service for privacy/security, offer one to do 4-to-6 proxying.
The difference between the DS and 3DS isn't just the 3D display. The 3DS also has faster hardware, and wider top screen, and plenty of other new hardware aspects that the DS didn't have. So what this is is a different form factor for the 3DS, that doesn't have 3D, and is thus cheaper.

It's designed for children under the age of 7, as the hinge design on the normal consoles is too delicate for young children. It's for durability to withstand the non cautious nature of kids.
Find-large-files.sh: A fancy mini-wrapper for the linux du command
Some smaller VPS companies [1] have this model, giving each VPS public IPv6 addresses only as standard (sometimes with outbound IPv4 going through a NAT), and then charging a premium for a public IPv4.

[1] Examples: http://vds6.net/ https://365networks.net/products_vps_ipv6.php https://www.xothost.com/node/310
I feel this is a microcosm for our society today. Particularly in America. "Let's find a way to manipulate people into giving me money for doing nothing"

As a hardcore coder, a workaholic, and someone who came from rags to riches, I find this kind of behavior deplorable
As someone who bought all the first several "Indie" bundles, the most recent games bundles have been completely irrelevant to me. They're just collections of slightly out of date AAA titles from a major studio at a flexible price. The most recent "Origin" bundle was just an insult to their ahem indie roots.
comment scores used to be shown, but that resulted in people being influenced to vote up or down based on how many other people voted it up and down, or if someone fell below zero, they got piled on.

HN tries to encourage judging something by its content, and hence has removed or de-emphasized things that are used as proxy, such as # of points, the seniority of the user, whether user has high ave points, etc. So in some ways, you have to read through most things.

If it's up high, then that means it's a combination of being very new and it being upvoted. Generally, by the time a convo has settled, the most upvoted threads are up top.
I have a similar problem: I am endorsed for skills that I do claim on my profile by people whose endorsement I do not want. You can remove individual endorsements without removing the skill itself. Here are the instructions a friend of mine found for this:

Login to LinkedIn;
Hover over "Profile" and click on "Edit Profile";
Scroll down to "Skills & Expertise";
Click on "Edit";
Click on “Manage Endorsements”. It is not highlighted but it will accept a click when you hover.;
Click on the skill where you want to remove endorsers and then uncheck any endorser you want to remove.;
When you’re done, click on “Save”;
I was referring to myself, but respect mon.
You disable endorsements from appearing on your profile: http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/33198

What you can't do is prevent getting endorsements in the first place. LinkedIn will not let you disable receiving endorsements.
The truth is, Does it really matter. People look at your skills or skills people think you're good at, and it allows you more breadth and job opportunities.
> Ask yourself, or a software developer of a certain age: what were the guidelines for crafting excellent software 5 years ago? 10 years ago? 20 years ago? The farther back one goes, the less relevant the answers will be to our modern craft. Memory management? Not a significant issue for most programmers today. Multitasking? Obliterated by modern operating systems with efficient context switches. Concurrent programming? Constantly reinvented in the wake of multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and higher-level programming language features.

Uh what? I guess I don't really get the OP's premise here. While the specifics and priorities change, I don't see how mastering the best practices in any of these areas is in danger of becoming obsolete. For example, threadsafe implementation seems like an engineering skill/mindset that will apply across many platforms and architectures.
The main reason why emacs can't be an operating system (or at least a decent one) is that it doesn't support multi-threading. And even if you added multi-threading to emacs, the fact that all of the elisp code out there has no locking and doesn't expect other threads to be modifying various data structures and buffers out from under them, means that it really can't be done at all in any kind of practical way.
Celsius please. But besides that: Very nice, very clear and way better than supid sun and cloud icons with temperatures next to them over some vague areas.
If it's any testament, Baen is still around and has quite a few free books on their website.
I can't get Martin Luther King Jr out of my head today
Twitter design tweak alienates existing user base but prepares company for IPO
This article claims that spin rate is directly proportional to radio frequency emitted by the dust:

http://www.economist.com/node/863276

> What is impressive is the rate at which the particles spin. It has to be equal to the frequency of the radio wave that is emitted, so Dr Finkbeiner's observations imply that many of the dust particles are rotating at ten billion revolutions per second.
Junk mail keeps the cost of other mail down. Not to mention a whole industry and jobs are linked to it. And it works if it didn't the junk mailers would stop mailing.
I happen to think the endorsements are part of one of the dark patterns. They get a set of endorsements from someone, because hey, I know that guy/gal and want to give them a boost. Then they get to email the person being endorsed, and say "hey, so and so endorsed you, you should put those on your profile!". So far, fairly banal, if cheesy. But I believe they hold them back. They don't just email right then, they save them, or some of them, so they can trickle out the info over time and keep emailing you. The amount of useless email I get from Linked-in is silly. They also do the auto opt-in to new (email intensive) features. Lately a lot of the useless info has been endorsements.
I've been keeping an eye on the ShipBuilder PAAS project - the minimalist Heroku clone written in Go. It is starting to look quite promising.

Quoting jaytaylor's comment [1] from below:

> You may be interested in checking out ShipBuilder - it
> is an open-source Heroku-clone PaaS.
>
> ShipBuilder is written in Go, and uses Git, LXC and
> HAProxy to deliver a complete solution for
> an application platform-as-a-service.
>
> http://shipbuilder.io [2]
>
> https://github.com/sendhub/shipbuilder [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6292463

[2] http://shipbuilder.io

[3] https://github.com/sendhub/shipbuilder
The gigaom article also says

"That’s why, moving forward, Vidyo actually wants to support WebRTC and open video codecs. The company is announcing Wednesday that it will contribute client-side scalable video coding technology to VP9, the next generation of Google’s open video codec. Vidyo will also cooperate with Google to incorporate some of its technology into enterprise versions of Hangouts."
Data URIs use base64 which adds quite a lot more the to image size. Ofcause it will be slower. Also, using Data URI over images will hang the users connection longer waiting for the Css to load before being able to see the page.
What's the electricity situation like? Do you need to have diesel generators?
55% of U.S. iOS users with Google Maps use it weekly
>"The thing is that endorsements at least are pretty noisy data. What's the point of shooting for quantity at the expense of quality?"

Personally, the endorsements I receive are fairly noisy, but I'm acting as the second level of informed filter by choosing what to accept.

The endorsements which make it to my profile are accurate.

Unless I'm unique, I'd expect the resulting graph of accepted endorsements to be reasonably useful.
Yes, especially for people in the lower half of the socioeconomic scale. I went to a pretty crappy HS in Pennsylvania (bottom 6th percentile), where there were no programming classes (at least in 2004) and very little college guidance since only 20% of kids (of those who even graduate HS) went to college.

Part of me understands why there were so few AP classes and not a lot of focus on college. I mean, since 80% of kids weren't going to college, why not focus more on vocational classes? While my mom certainly couldn't help me out with college tuition, she did have good enough credit so I could actually secure loans via her cosigning. Contrary to what a lot of people think, stafford loans are not "all you can eat" and most of the time need to be supplemented with private loans that you need to qualify for, even for a state school like Penn State. I personally knew a few people that had to take a year off and build up some credit just so they could get loans to go to school.

Fortunately a lot of smart people are starting to take on this problem via alternative means of education. I think that's really the only solution for people from backgrounds similar to mine.
>> After 10 years it will be not a differentiating factor and the people who control the atoms side will win.

If you look at amazon and ebay, they are doing great. And they started mostly at the information side(but with time acquired better fitting atoms). On the other hand many physical retailers are suffering.
How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”
It's coming! Existing SpiderOak accounts all contain a 3072 bit RSA keypair, which is reserved for this future purpose. But it's not as simple as it seems. Things like garbage collection, and space accounting, and various race conditions between parties become the hard parts.

In any case, it's on the way, and it's entirely open, built with Crypton.io, our new open source framework for building zero knowledge applications. (Which we'll eventually port the main SpiderOak desktop app to use.) For details https://crypton.io/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn9DAwggza0 (...and to be clear, the threat model is intended for for HTML5 desktop and mobile apps, not browser Javascript.)
last time i checked it didnt support full screen which is a deal breaker for screen sharing. Hopefully they change it, who needs HD if its not even full screen anyway.
Pasteurisation, Zumba
I used to just send them back with the entire contents of (and including) the original envelope they sent me... but with nothing filled out. I would usually try to remove any references to me. Otherwise I'd just send the empty envelope back. I figured it put the burden back on them to dispose of the trash they had sent me. But I never thought to put some heavy stuff in them. :)
1. As eli wrote above, it accomplishes nothing but annoying your postman.

2. Why would you try to sabotage a public service?
The Impact of Body-Mounted Cameras on Cops and Criminals
Cached/mirror:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ql0v0ab...
The other companion to this work (recovering COS disk images) is worth a read too [1]. Someone picked up where Chris left off and managed to get the images booting in an emulator [2].

[1] : http://wayback.archive.org/web/20130807191943/http://www.chr...

[2] : http://modularcircuits.tantosonline.com/blog/articles/the-cr...
What is appealing to a 5 or 6 year old is very different to what's appealing to well, anyone else. I'm sure they tested it on them, and I think slab like devices are easier for kids. It's no coincidence that this release coincides with the release of the new pokemon. They want to make sure they get that demographic which probably treats nintendo handhelds as a pokemon machine. Also, a great way to get young gamers on nintendo products.