skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not use GitHub? You can file and look up commit histories, write comments, track Issues/bug reports, collaborate with others.. all in one place.

If you want a public debugging journal for a private or self-hosted project, I think Evernote combined with http://postach.io would work beautifully.
I take it you've never heard the term "6 year job interview"? :)
He looks just so incredibly ill, but you just have to admire his moxie for getting up on stage and doing WWDC. He was probably terminal metastatic at that point... but he never gave up.

I agreed with what a lot of Jobs said, disagreed with much more of it, but his dedication is deserved of some immense praise and respect.
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As was noticed on habrahabr it is not "pure" javascript as it requires document object. Neither is

console.log("Hello World!");

As it requires console object.
So we are left only with

throw "Hello World"
> Where on Earth do you think labeling a button "Delete" is a legally binding specification with an incredibly specific required implementation?!

It may not be "legally binding", but it certainly is a big risk: look at all the hoo-ha when (e.g.) Facebook/Adobe/etc. don't really delete your profile.

Note that I'm not saying they should/shouldn't: I'm arguing that there's many cases where indicating something is deleted (and not deleting it) can cause user outrage.
Sure. But again, Apple didn't kill anything Steve vowed to demolish, if anything, those products have increased in popularity in recent years.
"Show HN: 30 lines of pure JavaScript in 30 lines of pure JavaScript" :)
Yes, this is the same app I was showing to people at Super Happy Dev House pretty much the whole way through the development process. I'm a big fan of SHDH. So many creative people.
Quote:

"Now some people think that the cloud is
just a hard disk in the sky. You take a
bunch of stuff and you put it in your
Dropbox or your iDisk or whatever, and
then it transfers it up into the cloud
and it stores it, and then you drag
whatever you want back out on your other
devices. We think it's way more than
that -- and we call it iCloud."

All Steve is saying is he thinks they have a better idea for how the cloud should work. I don't see anything remotely similar to "vowing to kill" any particular service. I think his quote misunderstands the beautiful simplicity of Dropbox, but that's about it.

Most charitably, you could argue that when Steve has previously said words to the effect of "we think we've done something better," entire industries were occasionally upturned. For the CEO of Dropbox, to hear that phraseology used in their direction, I can imagine how they might interpret it that way.
May be my definition of HN being "news platform for news which justify the philosophy of word hacker" being wrong and I should just refer HN as "just another any news dumping area which has the word Hacker just as a word"
Agreed! It is indeed an interesting question, and more to the point, it helps to relate this article to the topics relevant to HN. I believe many social issues can be relevant to these boards... But too often they are shouted down with "Why is this on Hacker News?"
Apple's page worked fine for me in Firefox. Also, it's available on YouTube. Apple hasn't (to my knowledge) ever objected to the redistribution of their keynotes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjelKEE3LSI
I slightly prefer advocating job experience over academic experience, usually. There are a lot of things that factor into that, but at least for me, graduating high school, I knew good and well that I'd never be able to commit to caring about college, and that despite the multiple scholarships I had offered to me despite an abysmal graduating GPA (I graduated 148th in a class of 150), I just knew that if I'd gone, I'd have pissed it away.

Moreover, I was really excited about technology (I'm 36 now, and it was a very different field then), and even tech support seemed like a way to learn more/faster/better than whatever I might have learned in school -- partly due to how sad CS education was back then, but partly because IT was still a developing field, and real world experience trumped college experience, at least in my mind, and at least at the time.

That said, if you've already gotten to your final year, it would be literally foolish of you to abandon your current investment for a job, especially when that job will be there later, and especially when that job isn't already paying you ridiculous amounts of money.

In short, if you aren't already a millionaire, finish your degree. Even if it's just to have on paper, throwing away > 75% of your current education costs is just a silly investment.
If you're on a Mac, it's nearly plug-and-play — I use a small menubar app called sidestep[1] that automatically tunnels over SSH, but there are also a few (Viscosity comes to mind) that work in a similar fashion with OpenVPN.

There may be similar bits available for Windows, but I haven't looked into it there in some time.

1. https://github.com/chetan51/sidestep
Yes, it works best with larger fonts. There's not a lot we can do about the focus on the software side unfortunately.
GitHub do say in their post:

> These addresses were used to slowly brute force weak passwords or passwords used on multiple sites.

..."multiple sites" could possibly refer to a compromised list, like Adobe? Of course, it doesn't have to be Adobe - Macrumors was compromised recently, etc etc.
In uni a number of young philosophers attempted to sound intelligent by saying nothing in a cryptic manner. It worked pretty well for them.
Actually, this answer isn't by Jeff Atwood. See http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/95172/old-problemati...
Haven't you heard? We're supposed to hate Microsoft again and buy PS4s. You must have missed some meetings of the internet trendy hate club.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joy-weese-moll/i-am-not-afraid...
I already pay nine bucks a month for the subscription. I found user-made scripts to download the files on his site, and did so, but that's not a real solution because I don't like storing that kind of stuff on my laptop, and Dropbox or whatever isn't any better than just getting it from his site, save having them in two places. I'd definitely pay more for a web viewer.
Resource in the sense that the item in question has some inherent value. If I can't exchange Bitcoin for anything, then Bitcoins have zero value. If I can't exchange rice for anything, that rice will still have some value to me.

It's important to realize that all currencies, including Bitcoin and the USD, are only as valuable as the stuff I can buy with them. There's no point in having a million dollars, if I can't buy anything with it. That makes currencies distinctly different from "resources".
EU member states are subject to the (soon to be rewritten) Data Protection Directive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_95/46/EC_on_the_prote...

In the UK, for example, this is implemented by the Data Protection Act 1998: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998

The guidelines for complying with the DPA talk a bit about deletion here: http://www.ico.org.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_...

"If you offer users the option to delete personally identifiable
information uploaded by them, the deletion must be real i.e.
the content should not be recoverable in any way, for
example, by accessing a URL from that site."

In fact the DPA takes it even further by requiring that personal data "shall not be kept for longer than is necessary" ie. you are supposed to delete any personally identifying data once you're done using it for it's original purpose (or another legal use). Granted, I imagine it would be pretty hard to bring a case against a company for either of these things, and I can't tell if the former is legally binding or just a "guideline," but it's not outside the realm of possibility...
Dropbox also against to ALL the online/web services. All the web services are using non-file abstraction of data.

If all the apps go to cloud, Dropbox will be dead immediately. The problem is, that's actually happening now. So number of potential user of Dropbox is decreasing. Doesn't seem to be a long-term sustainable business if you believe web will conquer the world.

Also, Dropbox can't offer very high level user features, or platform specific features. It breaks symlinks, erases file permissions. Dropbox drops many kind of informations which can be essential to high-end users. Their speed and capacity is too low for high-volume data users - such as media works.

So Dropbox is losing potential users in both ends, and honestly, I don't know who will use Dropbox for what in future.
And then he never actually tried to replicate the core features and use-cases of Dropbox.
Very telling, a reply of a sceptic and of a dreamer, everyone else just ignored.

I wish I could be such a dreamer, capable to understand the idea and its potential and have a bit of drive and courage to give it a try.
IPs aren't stable. For instance, the legacy SSID broadcast all across my university assigns you a new (usually different) fully routable public IP every time you authenticate through the captive portal. Some random person enjoys the "trustedness" of your IP at the time of login; you never see it again.

There is a new SSID with WPA2-EAP replacing the captive portal and the usual DHCP/NAT business replacing our massive waste of IPv4 space, but that was implemented last year. This introduces the opposite problem: one person out of thousands can't remember their GitHub password so GitHub mysteriously drops all traffic from everyone on campus.

IP addresses don't identify people, computers, or usefully discrete units of any kind.
"Designing REST + JSON APIs" by Les Hazlewood is a good starting point:

http://www.stormpath.com/blog/designing-rest-json-apis
> How can anyone have faith in such a system with such gross inequalities?

Keep in mind that you only consider these to be travesties because you're in the 21st century. You've had the benefit of hundreds of years of philosophy and public discussion, now passed onto you as an obvious truth. That would seem like a perfectly sensible inequality to someone three hundred years ago, who wouldn't.

It would also seem like a perfectly sensible inequality to a lot of people today. These are the same people who will back tough-on-crime bills and political platforms. Not politicians, who are taking up their vote. Find these people. Talk to them. Figure out how to convince them. Show them the human faces and human stories. Explain the systemic problems that are causing this. Bring them over.

Break the support for these policies.
Can you turn this off?

Does Chrome respect /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hosts?

The user cannot choose their own DNS servers?
Clicking a bunch of buttons definitely seems easier than just writing some simple Markdown.
Yeah, it's sad to see someone use their last few breaths to threaten to kill somebody else. Only in the tech industry would this be considered a sign of a successful life.
Wait a second here. He asked you what a "negligible" felony is, and you say:

> How should I know ?

He's asking because you wrote "If an African American man walked into your startup, given some negligible* felony history". Are you now implying that when you wrote that, you had no idea what you meant by it?
This site is a mess on mobile though
Here's something you probably will not hear: "Free Jon Corzine"

Here's some info about Mr. Corzine:
0. 'Jon Corzine still doesn't know where the money is, and it seems nobody else does either. A "significant amount" of the missing $1.2 billion in MF Global customer funds may have been "vaporized," the Wall Street Journal reports, citing "a person close to the investigation" into the missing funds. The money could have gotten lost during chaotic trading leading up to the brokerage firm's bankruptcy filing.'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/missing-mf-global-c...

1. 'Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is an American finance executive, philanthropist and politician. A Democrat, he was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 and was the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. He also worked as CEO of Goldman Sachs[2] during the 1990s and was CEO of MF Global from 2010 to 2011. He was charged by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in connection with MF's bankruptcy in 2011.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Corzine

2. 'It’s official.

Jon Corzine will not be cuffed over MF Global’s improper handling of customers’ funds leading up to the commodity brokerage firm’s spectacular collapse in late 2011, The Post has learned.

Federal investigators have found no evidence that the disgraced Wall Street titan broke the law.

“After 18 months of investigation, the criminal probe into Jon Corzine is now being dropped,” a person with knowledge of the probe told The Post.

“There is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing,” this person said.'
http://nypost.com/2013/07/08/corzine-off-the-crook/

So, how can we transfer such judicial munificence to the "inner city"?
http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/tips

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Rate limiting is not the only thing they could have done. They could also notify users of failed attempts and ask them to confirm it was their attempt (once they were logged in of course) - the offending IPs could then be blacklisted.

Of course, this works only if the number of attacks is small enough.
Yes you have correctly identified the flaw with such analogies, they are constructed with some biases in them and enough whitespace such that everyone will insert different meanings (you can see in my last (3rd) paragraph I kind of explain that a bit). The point in the 2nd paragraph was that stereotypes sometimes work on a subconscious level.

Here is apparently even a project that investigates it,

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/

Give it a try, about 10 minutes or so for the test. It is a very raw test and doesn't test for secondary signals (clothing styles and so on), just race based on photographs cropped to show only the face. Anyway the point being, as original poster said, "cultural fit" is sometimes used to reflect these biases.
Review: Microsoft Xbox One
How Clojure works: a simple namespace
Broadband: Good and bad connections around the world
It's just social media memetic jibber jabber.
I assumed the author meant you should only use incognito mode AND only browse public (non-login) sites or HTTPS sites.
Ah I had missed it too. Is there a bound on the gap between subsequent primes as well?
Wow... a botnet-orchestrated massive brute force attack to try and game a cryptocurrency giveaway? o.O The future was yesterday.

As of this comment, 2020 RXP is worth ~ 0.03 BTC. Multiply by ~$500USD/BTC and you get ~$16 USD (over $20 when BTC was peaking $800+USD/BTC in the last couple days). Multiply that by the number of compromised accounts that meet the cutoff date criteria, and you get the take.

Potentially some good money depending on your success rate, but maybe not worth the cost of renting a botnet?
No. "Negiligible felony" and "felony" will incite the same quibble. The point is having a history as a felon, period.

I'm dodging the question because you should be focused on the "shady" characteristic. Even a morally reprehensible felon can appear non-shady. And a "shady" person with "negiligible" felony probably overly skews or augments their own perception of it, which makes them appear even "shadier" than they would without the felony, whatever its stripe.

Whatever the case, "felony", whatever its qualification, has a legal (non-personal) meaning, and it only has a meaning in that sense. Look at GEM Anscombe's distiction of institutional and brute facts. There's no such thing as a "brute fact" of felony.
ripple.. you bastard,.
Googles Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives
"It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this
type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."
How VCs “Win” in Increasingly Efficient and Transparent Markets
Oh, I've said that before.

In the end, nothing beats a Classical education.
> And if he "breaks" in wearing an argyle sweater?

I feel that enough won't quite cut it, must be also wearing tight jeans, an emo hearcut and a leather messenger bag. ;-)
I didn't watch the video to see Jobs saying this, just reading from the parent transcript, but can we be sure Jobs was actually referring to Dropbox here? And not the default shared folder that ships with OS X called 'Dropbox'? (Which many people had automated to back up dropped files to a remote server in the past).
While that seems like a logical solution arrived at through a pragmatic approach, it's toeing the line of a really bad practice. IP addresses are not, and should not be, identifiers like this, especially when you're talking about a whitelist. What happens if the ip address changes (happens all the time for the majority of US internet users who have dynamic IP's)? What about if they want to work at a coffee shop?

While it might be possible to do all this correctly, it's just so easy to do wrong that it's hardly worth it. Given that there are existing better ways to do it, it's the kind of thing you probably don't even want to mess with.
8 Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of
the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For
example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of
Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention", a study which explains in great detail the distractions and
risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because
of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on
the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone
ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this
type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising
funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the
consumers.
Since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly
insidious. A good example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the right to be
listed at the top of the search results for particular queries [Marchiori 97]. This type of bias is much
more insidious than advertising, because it is not clear who "deserves" to be there, and who is willing to
pay money to be listed. This business model resulted in an uproar, and OpenText has ceased to be a
viable search engine. But less blatant bias are likely to be tolerated by the market. For example, a search
engine could add a small factor to search results from "friendly" companies, and subtract a factor from
results from competitors. This type of bias is very difficult to detect but could still have a significant
effect on the market. Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor
They're people who have been trained to be afraid of normal citizens and feel an obligation to protect those who understand their stresses and burdens from those who don't.

You want sympathy from a cop? You want to get the good cops to push out the bad ones? Show them that you understand what they go through. Show them that you're not exceptional in that respect. Show them that they have nothing to fear from you and yours. Show them that you'll back them up if they do the right thing.

It's like hackers. They're all spoiled white neckbeards living in their parents' basements slobbily eating pizza, right? Just like all the cops are donut-munching bullies cruising around in their cars banging on doors because it's funny, right?
GitHub bans common passwords amid mass brute force hacks
Task Lists in GitHub Flavored Markdown (1/2013)
"shady look" — "shady look" — "shady look"

As I said above, even a negligible felony can be augmented or skewed by the felon, thus making them appear "shadier".

What you ultimately find out about the felony is irrelevant to the fact that you've just breached the trust of a potential relationship.
Another article is posted to HN right now about cloud storage. It seems significant but I guess it is not worthy of the front page: Tencent will apparently be offering up to 10TB of free storage, hosted on servers outside China.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759714

Will they be an Amazon S3 reseller like Dropbox? Amazon storage is expensive. I do not know how Dropbox can compete with companies who build their own datacenters.
I'd say, experimental results show that the canadian way produces safer civil society. But then, I'm completely biased, being Canadian.

Anyhow, I do feel much safer in any Canadian city than in the places I've been to in the US. Just compare crime rates for major cities and you'll see for yourself.
Not really. Some ISP provide same external IP to multiple users and you have to take that into account. I think otherwise a good part of github's users would never be able to access it.
Splitting does not resolve the issue of deflation that is that a given unit of value (1 btc, 1000 micro-btc post-split, whatever) increases over time. It doesn't matter what you do to it or how you measure the quantity of value - if that same value is worth more tomorrow than it is today, there is a prevailing negative pressure on spending it and the result is that people will prefer to hold on to the currency rather than exchange it.
Just the opposite. The frequency of primes is known to be logarithmic, and therefore asymptotically approaches zero. From this, there cannot be such a thing as the largest gap between primes, because that would put a lower bound on the frequency of primes.
How does IPV6 affect things?
No problem! Very happy to convince someone new to try IPv6. Please feel free to get in touch if you run into trouble.

Re: DD-WRT, last I checked it did not come with an IPv6 firewall, ip6tables. I ended up recompiling it using what seemed to be Voodoo magic (match the arch, release, kernel version, etc.) OpenWRT comes with the firewall on by default and a web GUI to control it.

As for the different tunnel brokers (of which TunnelBroker.net is one), I should not assume you are in the US. Freenet6 is great. So is SixXS, though watch out to not lose credits and have your tunnel cut off. TunnelBroker.net is run by Hurricane Electric, has been rock solid for me and their support (for this free product) is fantastic.

Also, check out dns.he.net to set up reverse DNS, or just use them as your DNS provider. This service is also very nice and free.