skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open a website, a giant banner is shoved in my face that forces me to click a teensy, tiny close button to be able to view the website.

Sorry, not gonna read it.
> It should be for the really "broken" people who are a danger to everyone no matter where they are. Gacy, Dalmer, etc.

Yeah, but it's not. There are plenty of terrifying cases of people who were considered "broken", who were convicted and murdered by the system and later found innocent. Murder has no place in a modern society.

Don't you have prisons where you live? Do you know what a life sentence is? It is possible to have justice without committing the same murderous crimes as the criminals we have to protect the society from.
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BinaryPig: Malware analysis with Hadoop, Django and Elasticsearch
It's a daily deals / affiliate marketing / e-commerce site... why would that be tech news? Twitter's IPO was newsworthy for being the "second largest in history for a US internet company."[1]

[1] http://qz.com/145227/final-tally-twitters-ipo-was-bigger-tha...
I do love it, because its the same blurred boundaries that let me take a long lunch, leave at 3pm, or just spend an hour doing personal stuff during the day.
A lot of people play games to compete with their friends. If everyone's just hacking to maximize their score, the legitimate players - and these are the ones who see the ads, and therefore are important to keep around - will leave your game.
Does "e-commerce" even qualify as "tech" anymore? Seems to me in 2013 there's nothing special about most e-commerce technology; it's more commerce/retail, and I'd opine that's why the tech press ignores it for the most part.
> I have a philosophical problem with the sentencing guidelines and how it punishes repeat offenders

Can you expand on that?
For the vim lovers, this trick is quite good :

unbind [ # free the weird binding
set-window-option -g mode-keys vi # switch to vi bindings
bind Escape copy-mode # ctrl-a ESC put your pane in a kind of vi normal mode
bind-key -t vi-copy v begin-selection # start a visual select mode with v like in vim
bind-key -t vi-copy y copy-selection # yank with y
unbind p # free another weird binding
bind p paste-buffer # paste with crtl-a p
(original title was along the lines of "Here's WebRTC, because F--K Servers.")
Most or all of my friends on the IRC channels we all used to frequent, for one. IIRC I was on his shit-list too; I seem to recall some threats about going to the HOPE conference I was going to just to find me.

Most of his defenders never really knew him, or saw the shit that would fall out when somebody disagreed with him. Those of us who talked to him on a daily basis know he's a dangerous asshat.
I thought I had seen it before. So it was patent pending in 2011, guess it takes a while in Germany too.

One of the downsides of the new Kickstarter/Indiegogo etc world is I keep seeing article on new "products" which don't exist yet. Interesting that the time to print time has shortened and now come inside the 'time to produce' margin. I think we need some backup words for these things, like "Possibly a new camera that can take panoramas"
No, but there are good time credits which will reduce it to a little over 8.5 years.
Windows XP users will have been without support for a couple of years before this becomes relevant. Extended support for XP ends on April 8, 2014.
Asus X200CA 11.6" notebook w/Celeron 1007U, Ubuntu for $200
I think it's good for a moral compass to be partly dictated by the state. One should not assume that they know the reasoning behind every law and disobey it simply because they disagree. There is value in just obeying the law unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise. The law is intended to be a protection, and it can only do so if we obey it for it's own sake.

That said, I realize that many of the issues discussed on HN of late have been cases where the state also considers itself above the rule of law - and I think that's far worse. So I don't mean to argue with you - just saying that breaking the law needs to be a very conscious decision you do for a good reason. And you should be prepared to accept some consequences.
> Probably people who want to impress their group of friends who also play the game.

Or those who get stuck on one level, and find it more frustrating than fun to keep playing it over and over.
This describes most (not all, but most) of the technical people I've worked with whom I view as heroes. At one point I thought I wanted to be a systems programmer. Then I recognized that I was incapable of the patience, detail orientation, and insight required to be one.
Launched with a Series A in 2009, has taken 3 up rounds of funding in the years since, now files for an IPO in 2013, exactly 4 years later. Not only is this a textbook VC-funded startup, it's pretty much a perfect illustration of the ideal trajectory and timeline for a VC-funded startup.
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That and it would seem that age discrepancy would increase between hetero pairs. I.e. mortgage their 'future' partner availability.
It's not well followed in the countryside as-is, and a quickly modernizing urban lifestyle tends to self-regulate to low birthrates anyway.

The real story is the end of (or reformation of) the re-education camps.
I imagine this is all in fun but there's quite a bit of truth in it. Something old + something new is a powerful formula.
Unless you are trying to make a joke with the title of the post, sha-1 not related to certificates will be unaffected.
Finance relates to economics the same way consumer behaviour relates to investing.

I'm not talking about abuse of the system, or trading. I know HN likes to talk about HFT (understandably so, lots of math and technology) and finance conspiracies and inside trading, but those are relatively minor in the grand scheme of things. Steven A Cohen's firm is getting dismantled, and life goes on.

How economics relates is this: where I decide to put my money (and I DO invest my personal funds) depends on what's happening in the world at large. Do I invest on the HKSE, or in Tokyo, the NYSE or the Bourse de Paris? Do I invest in bonds, equities, or hold cash? Do I buy commodities, and if so, what? Do I want to bother with physical commodities, or futures? Etc...

Deciding where to put money requires us to build a coherent model of what's going on in the world. What is household debt, what is GDP growth, what are interest rates and inflation likely to move to? What is the prospect for firms in the US vs. China vs. Africa? What are the prospects for consumer spending? This is all economics.

After forming that view, then you can look at financial details. Valuations, company balances, technical indicators, etc...

I could go on, but needless to say, anyone who ever allocates capital anywhere should have, if not an understanding of economics, at the very least an economic model of their market/the world...

BTW, here's a job posting list from the American Economic Association. http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/listings.php You'll see alot of job postings for banks and commercial enterprises (Amazon is looking for an economist!).
Awesome, thank you. Will print this tonight for sure
Amusingly, searching for "zulily" on Google Finance gets no results. Even when I go directly to "ZU" I can't seem to get a chart.

https://www.google.ca/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AZU&ei=RWmGUrC8OqKCs...
The same is true of a word for the number 6 in English.
I despise the Spotify interface. I was a customer for years (UK so it's been available here a while) and switched to Rdio last year mainly because the web and mobile interfaces are so much better (imo).
Umm, so the company that is giving away free streaming is stingy? How would you describe someone who complains about free things, or an unwillingess to pay for a service?
I was in a similar boat. I abandoned a potentially very lucrative startup because the owner (my friend's brother) insisted on using Websphere and all the associated apps (he was a former IBMer). There came a point where some misconfiguration occurred when attempting to restore a previous version of the application after that point nothing worked. I tried for days on end to fix the problems but nothing would compile without massive errors. The piles and piles of cruft that Websphere added did nothing but obscure the real source of the issue. Eventually I gave up and said screw it and left.

The startup was already on its last legs at that point, as I was the only active developer since the other developer I worked with had already left after getting fed up for other reasons. After I left the startup limped along for a while but as far as I can tell was abandoned. If they had just used a more sane environment I could have easily developed the entire thing myself as it wasn't anything more complicated than a straightforward CMS + payments. I still kick myself for not making a better case for a more sane environment but I was wet behind the ears at the time and I didn't trust my instincts in the face of guys with masters degrees and X years at IBM and other top companies. I know better now.
To be fair, the dig was on the tech press not focusing on Seattle and being Silicon Valley-focused, not on a lack of tech in Seattle, which is certainly not true :)
This is not true.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9tsc5d0z(v=vs.110).a...

The second parameter is the digest algorithm.
how is this better "tech press"?

only one intrepid reporter was brave enough to create a barely 6 paragraph article long on opinion but short on facts.

yes, everyone who didn't throw up a blog post within an hour must believe amazon is in palo alto, have never gone to seattle, and the seattle area does not have a tech scene worth mentioning.
I'm 30, and was explaining what SnapChat is to my 33 year old co-worker while our 22 year old co-worker was listening and chuckling.

It was then I realized we were old.
It's not the Zulily team who are missing out for lack of coverage, it's the rest of us who are still trying to build profitable businesses.
Snapchat: I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself.

Look what I did to the tech media with a few snaps and a Colbert Report appearance? Hmmm? You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan."

Even if the plan is shareholder rewarding! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a maternity clothing e-commerce site goes public, or IBM buys a Blue Bell, PA based mobile device management company, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan".

But when I say that a two-year old, non-profitable messaging company run by 23 year-olds is going to refuse a $3 billion offer from Facebook, well then everyone loses their minds!
[Snapchat hands HackerNews an upvote and points it at himself]

Snapchat: Introduce a little disruption. Disrupt the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about disruption? It's fair!

http://vimeo.com/69674685
What do these have in common: Criteo, Cvent, Benefitfocus, and Veeva Systems

They're all recent tech IPOs (last few weeks). They don't get a lot of coverage in Techcrunch, etc. because that's not what they cover. If you want more comprehensive coverage try something like VentureWire.
Building Your Own BSD Router
I think what's more likely is that MySQL goes the way of Hudson/Jenkins. Oracle strangles the open source community and pushes people to use a fork of the original software. Oracle's in the database business, and I just don't see any reason for them to kill off one of the most popular databases in the world. More likely is that they make it serve their purposes to the exclusion of the open source community's.
Mind = blown. This could mean:
1) No shopping needed: you print your clothes in the morning
2) No need to wash your clothes. You can dissolve them, clean them chemically and reprint you clothes.

This could affect a lot of industries and companies...

Have you seen this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZuPPjoxHQ#t=201
>someone will have a happy and prosperous life.

the driver of adaptation, survival and progressive development of the species [and its civilization if any] are not necessarily the ones who live happy and prosperous life.

30+ years ago China made a choice between 2 alternatives - "1B population with IQ 135" or "2B population where 1B has IQ 130 and 1B has IQ 120" (the specific values 135/130/120 are just for illustration)
I think the sentencing guidelines are an ad-hoc grab-bag of poorly justified moral assertions. Why should someone who "seems sorry" when he pleads guilty get less time than someone who doesn't? Why should repeat offenders be punished more harshly for any given crime than those who are first offenders? It all shades into punishing someone not for what they did, but for who they are.

I believe in judicial discretion in sentencing, but it should be used to account for extenuating circumstances of the offense, not the character of the offender. E.g. someone who stole food to feed their hungry child should get a reduced sentence, whether he or she is a hardened drug dealer or a sympathetic single mother.
How is this post about working remotely being the best situation for everyone?

How is it linkbait?
It's started just a couple years ago, made a new business niche, had explosive growth from zero and is going to IPO - a startup by any definition.

Having a web outlet to customers is completely unrelated to that; a niche company selling their stuff to a small handful of large companies and not even having a website can be a perfectly valid startup.
I don't work right now, but I do talk to other founders/investors. He's got a few friends that can try it beta.
Robo Boogie
He is actually correct if you define rich as being able to buy big ticket items. 1 mil cannot buy a luxury mansion. Let alone staff it. You can't have a luxury yacht. No private jet. It is not rich by a long shot.
That's sort of the point. When someone justifies an action because it's "impossible" to stop bad thing X without doing morally questionable thing Y, be skeptical.
Personally, I invest in individual stocks like Starbucks (companies you think won't be going away anytime soon). I've tried to think like Warren Buffet. If you're investing in a company like Gillette, you're asking yourself, "Are men going to stop shaving?"

That being said, I also put money in more conservative investments like mutual funds. You can usually set it and forget it. With the markets doing pretty good the last two years, I think I was able to grow at 10-15%.

I also try not to spend too much of my time reading up on this myself. I pay Motley Fool for investment advice and follow their thesis. They have a pretty good track record and they've gained my trust.

It's also important to have no fear. I've known people who lost out on the recent market gains because they were too scared to buy in at the low point. Now, they put themselves in the market when it's booming.

I've also played around with Bitcoin, but that was more for fun and I definitely wasn't planning for the long-term there.
Been doing this for my last few projects and loving it. Using yeoman helps simplify the process a ton.

Now if there was only a simple way to exclude all of the styles that are never used across a site I'd be able to cut my CSS down like 75%, but that would probably take a headless browser crawling the whole thing.
So, the idea is making remote work so unappealing that employees reject it actively?
Veeva Systems is another that flew under the radar. B2B Life Sciences software company that raised $4M five years ago from Emergence Capital - a stake which was worth $1.2B at the time of their IPO in October.(1)

Good on Dan Primack to shed some light on the "boring" side of VC.

(1) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-16/veeva-ipo-generates...
Good idea. This might meet my JQuery-able requirement.
Why Founders Don't Sell
Great story. I think it's less about cheating and more about poking your way around public software. I appreciate the spirit of adventure in searching through the game.
It's probably not complete fantasy to believe somewhere in the billion dollar funded NSA machine, they have cracked RC4

Despite beast, I've disabled it completely and gone to AES with EC ciphers.
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Forbes Media Is Working With Bankers to Sell Company
Without commenting on the politics of the thing, I'd suggest the proper lens to look at this situation with is one of an insurgency.

When you look at insurgencies you start asking, it feels horrible to say this, what a life is worth to a cause. If the insurgents take out a couple of soldiers but lose a bomb-maker then they've done poorly on the exchange, if they take out a general or political figure but lose a few dozen suicide bombers they've done well.

Some lives are more valuable to a cause than others.

Here someone relatively smart, a high value target so to speak - though apparently not overly skilled in opsec, has been taken out of the game. That's a win for the powers that be, and perhaps helps to explain the punitive nature of his sentence. Anonymous has a lot of people who turn up in crowds, but we don't hear about them having a lot of high-quality hackers.

There are people that it makes more sense for them to sacrifice. To have the attacks that these people do executed by someone other than the people capable of making the tools in the first place.

They could do everything through encrypted channels, that could be made largely immune to traffic analysis, with the sort of really fluid cell structures that would facilitate. Just the first idea that springs to mind: uploading an encrypted steg'd message as part of a lolcats image on reddit that thousands of people are going to download - the noise to signal ratio would be enormous.

But then, insurgencies - in general - do a lot of things that don't make sense when taken purely from the perspective of their cause. I wonder how that sort of approach would interact with the social dynamics of A, how they'd find people who were up for it. Whether that's more what we're going to be looking at if A gets to mature as an organisation or whether their largely ephemeral nature excludes that sort of distribution of risk.
You sir are a gangster. Thank you.
It makes me very angry that this known scumbag tries to associate himself with a true hero like Aaron Swartz, so in my opinion he is getting what he deserves, regardless of drug law incarcerations.
Justice is complicated. Usually it's very difficult to quantify damages, specially when those damages depends on a POV. What I think we all can agree is that sentences times are disproportionated: committing a crime to a corporation is one of the most dangerous things you can do, even more than killing or raping someone.

For example: "Causing or encouraging prostitution of, intercourse with or indecent assault on girl under 16" gets you a max sentence of 2 years.

So, a guy use his computer to show us some nasty things the government is doing with our money: 10 years

A pimp manipulates a 13-years-old girl to have sex with pedophiles: 2 years

EDIT: Another example is Chelsea Manning, who now have a criminal sentence of 35 years, and on the other side the guys of Collateral Murder video from the Air Force who killed innocents persons have no charges and are free...
While there are perhaps many issues regarding whether or not merchants will accept this product for payments, one thought occurred to me.

What happens when merchants/banks start offering the ability to make purchases using your smartphone? Doesn't that render this product obsolete? (if I'm not mistaken, you need a smartphone to set it up)
Hacker Jeremy Hammond Gets 10-year Sentence
I can't really see this replacing Spotify for my streaming music services. If anything is going to do that, it's going to be Rdio. But I really can see this filling the hole in my phone that is streaming purchased content that isn't available through the streaming service. The fact that iTunes (or Spotify, or Rdio) doesn't have this is pretty disappointing. When I download an album off of Bandcamp, I have to download it to every computer I have iTunes on, and then sync my phone to listen to it. That's difficult, and it means I have slightly different libraries on every device I own. This is a decent enough stopgap until hopefully a better app implements it (preferably Rdio, because I'd love to move to them if it wasn't for their less than stellar music selection in comparison to Spotify).
Agreed. I've posted this on HN repeatedly, I believe the solution is taking a "Restorative Justice" approach (which is a concept gaining momentum in the legal world):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice

> Restorative justice is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of the victims and the offenders, as well as the involved community, instead of satisfying abstract legal principles or punishing the offender. It is based on a theory of justice that considers crime and wrongdoing to be an offence against an individual or community, rather than the state. [..] it shows the highest rates of victim satisfaction and offender accountability.

So the question is would 2, 5 or 10 years in prison make any difference in making Hammond (and others in the community) stop conducting political property destruction? I doubt it.

Focusing so heavily on the punishment side of it is an incomplete solution and often creates a negative reactionary effect in the community.
Notable point being this part:

"Working from the tracking numbers IDC released two weeks ago".

Extrapolation, like this, has very limited use and is vaguely indicative at best and nowhere close to being reliable for anything other than fancy-sounding talking points.
Court orders Homeland Security to release 'kill switch' protocol
Is not terribly exciting,or innovative.... It's another incarnation of groupon typed on a niche market.
Sorry for being negative, but another shopping site, yeehaa, just what the world needs.... :-(
The Initiative to Create a Unified Browser Remote Debugging Tool
Bill Gates talking about investments and aid in Oslo
Force catholics to start using birth control?
In that case, does Snapchat qualify in any way whatsoever? There are at least some technologically-interesting challenges in building large scale e-commerce, but there's nothing special about limited-functionality mobile app technology, in 2013 everyone knows how to do that and it's just more about socialization habits than technology.
That's not what instagram does. Instagram replaces noise and poor color with an artsy layer. The missing detail was never there (or if it was, t was ugly detail like harsh shadows and pimples)

Shots with good cameras and lighting and faces don't get instagrammed.
Daily deals were really hot in 2009 and 2010.

By late 2011, the business model was considered "dying" and the tech press moved on.
This guy was an off-the-grid thief and conman who justified his hacking by "sticking it to the man" which, unfortunately, a lot of HN readers apparently agree relieves him of any moral or personal responsibility for his actions.
Isn't this just an another Groupon for kid stuff?

Tech reporters may not have kids, but they certainly have their fingers burnt after salivating about the Groupon IPO
As someone who talked to him on a daily basis, I truly have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. This sort of libel is really poor taste at a time like this.
Maybe writers are staying away because the efficacy of the business model at scale is in question. I think some observers are still (justifiably or not) self-aware of how they think the story ends with these kinds of companies.

On Twitter, Primack brought up Fab as an example of this kind of company generating news. But the only news I've heard about Fab lately is bad news.
In the original there appear to be more iterations in the both of the loops. Something like 720 vs 250 iterations.

Also, in the original he is calling math functions a few more times in each loop.