skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed I have. Nate's got something great going with Draft, but I don't know if I don't think he's shooting for a github-esque platform.
Be careful about that cultural isolation. I'm an arch-introvert with mostly online friendships. I lived in a small mountain community alone for a year and was happy enough. But I tried working from Ukraine for 3 months, and although it was fascinating, the cultural isolation made me leave. It's a strange feeling, almost like you aren't on the same plane as the society you're in, or as if you're watching from a bubble.
I've installed a variety of Linux distributions on a variety of machines.

The experience has been similar to that of Windows. Some combinations are really easy. Others are fucking awful.

I've never had the problems you describe, and I'm an idiot.
5,800 kcal a day: High Carb vs Low Carb
Notably, Apple also tried and failed to sue Microsoft over the "desktop metaphor" in the 90s, which is also just as well. Things were quite different back then, to all of our benefit. No one had to pay 25 cents per copy to include scrollbars in their application, or 50 cents to include a dialog box.

If anyone is curious about what happened to change things, it was these guys: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appea...

Great article if you're interested in how we ended up in the patent mess we are in.
Awesome!

How did your family/friends react?
What is your next stop?

Moving to Berlin next month to bootstrap.
And with a title in metric units, which is more informative to those outside the US.
Would you please tell more? Country/city? Weather, visas, etc? Thanks!
HIMEM.SYS :-P
Huge Secret Tunnels Found Beneath the Ice of Antarctica
I've been traveling around the world for the last 5 years and have started various businesses on the road. It's been an incredible experience. I just moved to Sayulita, Mexico a week ago where I plan to finish my new startup ForkFox.com. I'll be here for 6-months. The downside is that there isn't much for resources. I'm basically here to just focus on programming but in paradise.

Having been to Thailand several times, the food there is AMAZING.
This comment is interesting (as well as the other 2 children saying they also use Pokemon for host names), as there has been a study about how kids had fantastic abilities at recognizing Pokemon, but could not achieve the same levels of memorization with flora and fauna:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11924673

This inspired a researcher to create a card game similar to Pokemon, but for our biosphere:
http://phylogame.org/
More scientific but there is a paywall: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo19...
RPI does this with many of their dynamic hostnames, search Pikachu to find that section.

ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/etc/hosts
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories
I think you should watch Eugene Jarecki's documentary 'the house I live in.' The source is very much racial, and this was also the case for alcohol prohibition to a large extent.
I (somewhat) disagree. Every machine should have a unique hostname that has nothing to do with its function. It should be in DNS and should be the name you use to remotely manage it. Descriptive names should also be assigned in DNS as functions are assigned to the device (either as additional A/AAAA records or CNAMEs). This is flexible and scales well.

Many years ago, I originally assigned descriptive names to machines as I deployed them, but this didn't scale well as we wanted to move services (and their related hostames) to other machines. So I started assigning unique names to machines, using famous figures born on the day of configuration (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12#Births). That was 'cute' for a while, but now I just generate random 4-letter words and pick the ones I like. The namespace is large enough for my purposes, the names are short enough for easy typing (ssh fang), and everything aligns nicely in text (zone files, inventory, etc.). In some cases, I've even replaced descriptive names with TXT records in DNS associated with the unique name.
The front end was pretty decent using Jekyll and other open source items and I think that was what was all that was hosted in github. The back end was never public nor was it intended to be I think. The back end is the crappy thing. But people keep confusing the two even on HN.

The whole thing is so politicized I'm not surprised that truth and reality are the first to go. I wish HN could be the font of reason in a sea of moronity.
It's a matter of semantics. What does "to skim" mean?

I read the article to mean that the bad guys were using key loggers to skim mag stripe images out of the keyboard data stream (from mag stripe readers attached via "wedges"). That's one level of threat.

Your link, however, calls to mind a higher level threat that happened in Rhode Island a while back. Bank customers were disavowing ATM withdrawals. Bank security noticed that the complaining customers had all used their debit cards at the same all-night Stop & Shop. A review of the store's security video showed a gang of four guys coming in during third shift and installing hacked PIN pads at the registers while keeping the thin staff distracted. They were busted when they returned to harvest their next haul of debit card details.

How they compromised the PIN pads I do not know. PIN pads are supposed to be sealed and tamper-proof. Your PIN is supposed to be encrypted before it leaves the keypad and decrypted only when it reaches the payment processor. The encryption key is supposed to be erased if someone tampers with the device. In order for the hack to work, they would need to be recording the mag stripe data along with cleartext PINs.

I see it happened to Barnes & Noble more recently and on a larger scale:

http://www.esecurityplanet.com/hackers/hackers-compromise-ba...
As promised in my ohter comment, here's another example file, this time a .docx:

http://www40.zippyshare.com/v/24126556/file.html

Try opening it in MS Word and compare it with LibreOffice and you'll see why I ran away screaming:

http://i.imgur.com/4tSWXsn.png vs. http://i.imgur.com/3tBLuff.png
They physically assaulted her and pinned her down on the bar? What I have read translates to her being an independent woman who voluntarily rolled her shirt up and decided to climb on the bar.
There is no inability to empathize. The difference is I'm empathizing with both parties. Everyone else wants to burn the guy without a trial.

I disagree with most of your other conclusions and you've mischaracterized most of what I said.
Like I said, maybe I was just really lucky, but I never had to deal with Word for grad school. Of course, this was also 9 years ago, so maybe a lot has changed since then. Do journals in the engineering/sciences world really not accept LaTeX anymore?
Erlang VM is built on the premise that it runs a functional language. I would argue that it will be extremely inefficient to implement non-function language to run on Erlang VM. By non-functional I mean language that is based on mutable and shared state. You can look at Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org/) to see great example of an alternative language that runs natively on Erlang VM. While offering syntax that is more familiar to many people Elixir retains all basic restrictions of Erlang.
Rather ironically, your post commits the same offense as its grandparents. You just posted yet another angry tirade with no actionable solution bathed in moral righteousness (as a reply to a post which is essentially the same as this one).

Your radicalism is just as useless to that girl as is the opposite opinion you deride.
You can dislike a language for a number of reasons that have little to do with using it while still being meaningful. e.g. community behaviour, community style, and relative number of security flaws in products that use that language.
> We spent $650M on this thing

No, that's right wing spin. We spent $94M on this thing. Still absurd, but don't be misled by the spin campaign.

Also your math is off. A $10M price tag wouldn't be totally ridiculous. Consider the cost of a team of 50, including QA, design, product guys, engineers, management, lawyers, analysts, data entry, etc for a year. Add 30% to cover risk.

So, it's somewhere in the 10x too expensive region.
Security tips for digital nomads
And 'shit's in Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=shit&ref=cmdform
Why is an organization hell-bent on free information trying to censor a movie because they don't like it? Isn't that entirely contradictory to their mission?
Moreover, if they did implement a minimum wage, business would just move to the next country that doesn't
I use locations from the Zelda universe.

my current machines are

lakehylia, lostwoods, termina, koholint, skyloft, deathmountain, minishwoods
Comparing word to Winston Smith in 1984 proves that you aren't a food writer no matter what you use.

Tripe
I've seen that unofficial fact but never heard from anyone that actually had it done. Thanks.

If I go to 10.9 I'll definitely up the RAM.
Blaming the victim eh? "She totally asked for it! Everyone knows that body shots have to be followed by forced public fingering"...

Get a grip man.
Ad hominem is really a problematic point on HN and it seems to be rewarded by these inner social circles. It is truly demotivating.
...and that would be "scarce", not "scares"; my fingers seem to type phonetically when I'm not paying enough attention.
Oh, my above post is referring to living in Bangkok City in Thailand. Here are some visa information:

http://www.mfa.go.th/main/en/services/123/15388-Non-Immigran...

I believe you will need a business visa to legally work here (I am a Thai national so I do not have that issue) and getting one isn't a trivial task, unfortunately.

I suspect that the OP is most likely working using a tourist visa. IANAL but it is likely not legal if caught, but if you can get away with it, more power to you.
That's gotta be the WORST analogy I've ever read. I can't imagine a heterosexual man doing a body shot or a pole dance in a gay bar. That's the most unrealistic situation I could ever imagine.
As for the fingering any woman in a bar (!?), even if it was with consent, it'd be utterly disgusting.
Fascinating. For one thing I'm amazed that $8,000 gets your neighborhood 60 hours a week of private security patrol for 4 months. Sounds way too economical.

Also, in the article, the CEO of Crowdtilt implies that this is a net-positive because Oakland PD will be able spend more time patrolling other areas--implying that Rockridge will now get less police attention. If that's true, I wouldn't want to pay money for my neighborhood to get less real police patrol.
In what way are they trying to censor The Fifth Estate?
Interviewed by a guy who doesn't know how to do audio.

Unfailingly repeats every single question so we can hear it.

Respect.
You forgot to mention the important fact that he's a new account. Seems perfectly plausible that people saw the AMA, and it spurred some lurkers to sign up a new account so they could ask a question.
scientists make good hostnames, e.g. Sagan, Feynman, Darwin, etc...
> Most Thais can get by with $500 USD.

As local, I can confirm this. Though it was roughly three years ago, ~$400 a month back then could get me a very comfortable life in outer area of Bangkok (Onnut), this includes an apartment with to-the-door food service, air conditioning, parking slot, 10 minutes walk to the BTS (train station) and 16Mbps internet. No pool, though!

The trick is to rent an apartment within BTS range at x minutes of walking in an outer area of Bangkok, where x is >= 10. An apartment with 5 minutes walk to the BTS can cost about $200 to $400, but past certain point in the same Soi, the cost could be reduced by more than 50%.

The cost could get much cheaper if you cook. Food are ridiculous cheap, but food ingredients are even more cheaper.
Hubspot is doing some very cool things to the web. Good job guys!
94M for the site. 650M in total awards for related projects to CGI.
Netflix employee raises the bar for awesome customer service
What do you think are the implications (if any) of this change?
You're wrong.

You can't conduct any type business on a tourist visa you will be deported if you are caught. People have been warned that they will be deported for singing on a karaoke in clubs as it's classed as work.

The business visa you are talking about (NON-B) is designed for employees of foreign companies who are conducting business with Thai companies. Not foreign businesses conducting business alone or with each other.

In fact without evidence of this you won't even get your NON-B visa.

http://www.mfa.go.th/main/en/services/123/15388-Non-Immigran...
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
'Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.'

Also, there is nothing 'secret' about these - they appear to be an entirely natural phenomenon.
Now that is clearly uncalled for. I wasn't there, I have no idea how I would have reacted and neither do you. I am responding to what was written in the account.
I can understand that as a reason. In this case it sounds like there is a newer, more efficient format that has superseded the old one. (I'm no expert in circuits, so I'll take your word for it.)

If some new technique/workflow/whatever is newer and more efficient, then I'm all for it. I just don't like the attitude that "newer == better" that has seemed to become more and more prevalent in recent years. (I'm not saying you were doing that, but the phrasing you used is something I typically see in that situation.)
Wow. How long did it take for you to articulate the gem of a sentence "Everything might.. itself" and what have you majored in, really?
I did my own startup for a year and a half. It's reasonable to fear running out of money and plan accordingly.

Some practical tips for handling housing is what I was fishing for.
The US is losing control of the internet
24 / win8 here, works fine
The Checkpoint
Lighting up WireWorld by image processing and exploring complex circuitry
Except that the formulas actually get saved in a tokenized form, without the original names, no matter what localization they're in, in the file...

https://github.com/python-excel/xlrd/blob/master/xlrd/formul...
Why are you talking about rape? I thought rape required penetrative sex, this is a sexual assault isn't it?
And that is great if you are a US-citizen, but otherwise not so much. Even coming from rich Scandinavia and the EU, we are not welcome.
The type system is tough to get a grip on. I would say it's a challenging language to get started in, but it has a combination of features that nothing else really has, so it's arguably worth it. I understand ATS2 improves things but I have only programmed in ATS1 so far.
I think his point might be that once you reach adulthood, you're responsible for your actions, such as how much you drink. Hotels and conferences expect you to control how much you drink. You're really blaming the conference for making you drink too much?? Who held you down and poured the champagne down your throat?
That was precisely my point, and why I'm so confused. You do not verify change requests with the change request, you verify it with details from the system of record.

A classic example of this would be submitting a change of address to USPS or modifying an email address on an account. You don't verify that change with the new information, but rather by sending notification or confirmation to the previous address/email. The fact that a registrar wouldn't enforce such a process is... upsetting.
Prime-generating fractions
What happened is quite awful, but I'm amazed that no one has talked about an important issue: how much her support group failed her if no one was willing to talk her regularily or even suggest that she go to therapy. And they all thought the way to help her through the rest of conference was by getting her as drunk as often as possible? WTF? I think a lot problems in the following months could have been lessened with some proper support, therapy, and dealing with the alcohol issues.
The 31-Year-Old Strategist Behind the Shutdown
Amazing!

At my company:
For machines where usually you should NOT log in we use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distilleries_in_Scotlan...

That is because they are so hard to spell! You really need to put the effort into it (e.g. Bruichladdich)

For the ones you should be logging into we use the most popular out of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Home_appliance_brands

Which also fits in well with what the machines do... number crunching!
After many, many nights spent tracking down servers named after:

Indian food dishes (30 of em! "where is jalfrazie?")
Great US mountains (ugh.)
'win2003' the Sun box (ugh again. don't name the box after the OS running on it...)

...i'd say my favorite was 'appname-colo-number#-rackunit#-rack#.airportcode.yourdomain'. This way, the db server in your new york colo JFK1 is easily found in rack unit 20 of rack #5 (db01-20-5.jfk1.example.com).

Once you have +200 servers, having physical location and role mapped to the hostname is a game changer. Even better would be having just a six digit hex hash that you could look up in a noc dashboard.

Note that all that other cutesy stuff is fine as a CNAME, but the FQDN might as well be made significant since it needs to be unique anyway.
This is interesting timing given the shutdown of the Federal government. With crowd-funding, citizens can be infinitely resourceful in solving their own problems, faster, and without the long, bureaucratic process that plagues governments. There is a real role for government to play here in securing the safety of their citizens.
I know we're all programmers here but stop trying to build rules and logic around this. We all (should) have the common sense to understand when something is rape and when something is not. There is no trigger, there is no conditional, there is no callback, it just is and people who fail to understand this make me sick.

A number of people's lives have been forever changed by the recently surfaced actions and instead of focusing on the "what ifs" and the hypothetical situations we focus on fixing the underlying problems within our community.
How The City Of Washington Responds To The Government Shutdown
You can set up CNAMEs for their atomic symbols, too, to save typing.
They are quite used to me moving around a lot and just want to see me happy. I am now in Saigon and my next stop is probably Phnom Penh and then celebrate NYE in Hong Kong.

Berlin is awesome! What are you working on?
Regarding this, you can also even get started for free by joining microsoft's bizspark program. Since they already know the tech, and its being produced cheap by Microsoft for start ups, I'm guessing most will figure that its worth it to just stick with C#.
(Sid Meier's) Alpha Centauri character and city names.
Previous discussion (2 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528693
Ah, the warmth of hn. Submit multiple articles. Get some upvotes but no comments. Then get the only reply you will get for the day advising you that you are a fuckup.

I believe the original is linked in my comment below. I did not post it as the headline because of the paywall and because I liked the illustration with the Eiffel Tower giving some idea of scale, which the original appears to lack.

But, hey, have an upvote for bothering to comment.
New LAX car rental company offers only Audi A4s – and no clerks
>and the basic math with these companies is if fraud rate > rate loss of transaction volume from security feature then use security feature. Otherwise, don't.

I seem to recall reading a while back that the overall credit card fraud rate is at the level of single-digit basis points. Is that really true? (I can't seem to find a good link.)
A lot of the accounts that were replying were not simply new, they were 3 days old -- incidentally also the age of the account with which Cumberbatch was participating in the AMA.
> First, Motorola's h.264 and 802.11 license demands didn't happen until after Microsoft filed suit[1]. They were asking for a ridiculous rate, but let's get the timing right.

You're right. I got the timing wrong because both Microsoft's lawsuit and Motorola's license demand letters happened in the same month (Oct 2010) but Microsoft did sue first. Most coverage just mention the month, so I thought the demand letter went first, in response to which Microsoft sued over patents, then filed a breach of contract suit later. I had to look at the actual ruling to find the specific dates, and yes MS shot first.

> Second, no one was convicted; it was a civil case over breach of contract. No one gets convicted in those.

True; I used "convicted" simply because it is easier. Is there a simple term to use when the court finds in favor of the plaintiff in civil cases?

> Finally, it wasn't a statutory fine

Agreed, again, poor language use on my part.
Other post by OP is very interesting and helps to ponder upon such questions as:

1. Why it's cheaper over there?

2. What are the downsides and hidden pitfalls?

http://levels.io/make-money-where-prices-are-high-spend-it-w...
Maybe because I actually read the post?
Such a system would surely just put these factories out of business (not good for their employees).
Yes, definitely biased :)

Check out my answer to scheff below for a different (non-native) perspective.
Most customs personal I have encountered are assholes. This isn't much because of policy, it's simply because you're mostly low educated morons who can't deal with the responsibility of authority and will therefore abuse this position at every chance possible.

A lot of these stories crop up in regards to the US but the same thing happens here in Australia and in New Zealand as well.
Nice. I did see some framedrop or something when the animation was at 'max speed' though; Chrome's FPS meter is reporting a frame rate of 30 FPS when the animation runs, instead of a stable 60. Not sure if that can actually be fixed though.
I'd be curious to know more about Bill Joy and how his role has evolved.
Lets not forget portability to any number of languages
I am ashamed and angry and sad for my country every time I read one of these stories.
Back in college I used to rent 1 bedroom apartment in Austin for $400 a month near campus. I never had a car there either. Prices have gone up some, but still you can find cheap apartments there.
They fired him.

They appear to have provided support to her.

She could go to the police and file a report. It's traumatic, and unlikely to have any effect.

But it is not possible for the firm to say "We sacked Bob because he sexually assaulted one of our staff".
Pedantistan
I'm really sad about KPCB and other firms taking the direction they're taking. It hit me hard to hear John Doerr express his desire to focus a lot of his energy on firing up Zynga.

I had a lot of respect for KPCB when they were going all out on cleantech, on stuff that would make a difference. It didn't give them much return, so they're out of that game now. But on a happy note, Khosla and Gates (who's now a limited partner to KV) are the new players there. Let's hope they succeed in some capacity and more follow.