skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A hypothesis: I think you walked into industry interviews acting as if you were hot shit and didn't successfully demonstrate to employers that you could be one of them. I.e., "I know the leading artificial intelligence language, I don't need to waste my time with Python."

Huh. I've found that I do much better at interviews when I try to act as "hot shit" as I possibly can. Of course, it's possible that me "turning it up to 11" just brings me into the acceptable range because of where I start. but still, I can not comprehend a level of arrogance that would get you shot down in a job interview.
Leaked paper reveals UN split over war on drugs
That is the implication. He got sent very large sums of Bitcoin, you would expect that he'd just get a bunch of small ones, but he got 2-3 large ones ($5,000 a piece).
What exactly makes us a bunch of monkeys?
I do not think that this article is correct about the motivation of the gang members low in the hierarchy.

The Robert Taylor Homes were poor, isolated, and cut off from the rest of Chicago by a highway. The young men who joined the gang didn't have many other options. Most of the men who lived there worked ad hoc jobs. Sudhir Venkatesh coached young drug dealers for interviews (ex: to become a janitor).

I suspect that low-level drug dealers start dealing because it's easy for them to get into and they don't have better options. The gangs probably hold more appeal as a social organization than they do as a way to make money.
Disappointing. The problem is important but I was expecting the author to purpose some sort of solution. Instead the article just... ended.
Sabu gave FBI "treasure trove of backdoors, vulnerabilities"
What I REALLY Think Of The Philippines...
This will give him even more donations^^
I'd argue no. It's definitely some kind of valuable and/or dense, but it's not that simple.

The value is purely held up by what value people ascribe to this information. This can change rapidly (and it does), so the precise measure of value isn't really known until you actually convert it.

If you actually try to convert in a short amount of time, it'll rapidly destroy its own value, because the market doesn't have the kind of depth to absorb a hundreds of millions of USD conversion, so the only way to satisfy that bitcoin volume would be a rapid drop in price, which would lower the amount of USD in order to satisfy it, or conversely, increase the purchase power of everybody on the market.

The true value of this stash is thus, in fact, some fraction of the current valuation of bitcoin. The larger the stash, the smaller the fraction becomes, because the larger the stash, the less able will you be to realize the value.

This is the reason the winkelvii are creating an ETF. They're sitting on 1% of the coins in existence. An attempt to realize profits would take an extremely long time without moving the market quite adversely. So they need to create a vehicle that allows them to massively increase the market depth.
Interesting! Can you explain what are the benchmarks(build,http,json,rpc)?
It looks like after they are bankrupted, they will be going to jail.
For sure... feel free to drop me an email at jonny[at]maptia.com
There is hope yet for the patent system in America.
There's some info here: http://grokbase.com/p/gg/golang-dev/13bs7d4qm3/performance-d...
Can I deploy it on my laptop?
Very happy to see these cases be increasingly either laughed out of court or used to punish trolls.
Yes, if that subscription came with one free (e)book from my suggestion list per month.
What exactly would be the point of sending BTC to yourself?
The city is too old.
Puppet has some limited support for generating manifests based on the state of an existing system:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/resource.html
Theoretically true, but in practice you see millions of programmers doing "more of the same" and "yet another"
I think Vagrant is the best VM management tool for laptop.
More publicity for bitcoin, to drive the price higher.
Comp. Sci PhD here, and I've never had any trouble finding work. Perhaps it's different in that I've never tried to pursue a career in academia, but it's not been problematic for me.
China also started requiring all phones licensed there to use USE charging.
Don't be silly, everyone knows Linus started the GNU movement, that's why he insisted it should be called GNU Linux ;)
Social engineering techniques can be very effective when trying to guess a user's password (birth date, pet name, etc.). Also think about not-so-random password like "password", "qwerty", "12345" etc..
Jajah to shut down in January 2014
Stating they would fire someone over this seems a bit unnecessary, but since he's not an employee at all, it has no direct consequences. But it does make clear what their company policy is: they would fire someone over this had it been an employee.

It seems a small thing to fire someone over, but if gender equality and using gender neutral pronouns are important parts of their company policy, then someone actively resisting company policy and reverting the work of people who improved the product according to company policy, would be pretty serious.

Also note that a female developer was ready to quit the community over Ben's behaviour. Ben directly contributed to a hostile atmosphere where an often excluded minority is likely to feel more excluded. That is definitely serious.

You consider it a witch hunt because you don't care about gender neutral pronouns. Probably because you haven't felt subtly excluded all your life by gendered pronouns referring to other people. Fighting that exclusion is an important part of the fight against sexism.
>Such gaps are resume fraud

Wait, what? I mean, you can argue that they are really bad and maybe you are right; I disagree, but maybe I am wrong.

But how is a blank spot fraud? Hell, I leave off most of my short jobs, I've done a fair bit of contracting, so there's a lot of that, and I've run businesses on the side for most of my life, so there is a fair bit of overlap, but even so, I don't see blank spots as dishonest (even if they may look bad)

>Net, it's much easier for me to be the CEO of my own company, and likely get a few million in venture funding

Hey, good luck. But until it's in the bag, guessing what is in the mind of VC is... not something I'd bet money on. Of course, I have gotten exactly zero dollars of VC, so what do I know? But my impression was that they were even more irrational than your average hiring manager, which is saying something.

Of course, you don't always need VC to run a company.

>A good Ph.D. in a STEM field sets one apart in a way that means that they might be able to get a job stocking shelves at Wal-Mart. Sorry 'bout that.

Huh. See, last time I tried to get a job of that type, I got turned down because I had serious experience (even though my level of official education was appropriate.) - It was actually easier for me to get another well-paid SysAdmin job than to get a job at wal-mart or the coffee shop, even at the depth of the dot-com crash in 2001.

(It was... actually pretty funny when I applied at the coffee shop. It was very clear that the hiring manager thought I was not remotely cool enough to work there.)

Interestingly, most of the PhDs I've worked with were physics majors.
No Apple computers have had a TPM chip since 2006. [1]

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/157966/laptop_security.html
i've been so sick of hearing about these guys "gaming" the justice system and getting away with it. perhaps there is hope.
Yeah, I thought I'd give Debian's gnome3 the benefit of the doubt for a while.

I've switched to xfce4. Gnome3 is crashy and glitchy for me, although I do like some of the UI tweaks.
Why does Google think Danish and Dutch are the same?
Sometimes, but not in this case. Plenty of northern European countries (Sweden is a popular example) mix the good bits of capitalism and socialism just fine, while avoiding the worst excesses. It's not perfect, but they're certainly on a much more productive path than either socialist or capitalist extremists.
I don't know about 'too old', but it is old. It states in the article that..." the London Underground, opened in the city 150 years ago.:

The county I am living in currently, will be celebrating only its 42 birthday tomorrow...think about it.
Just new enough that you can usually safely dig without too many delays, though. A problem with tunnel construction in very old cities, in places like Italy and Greece, is that you have a high probability of running into an interesting archaeological site, and then you have to pause construction and decide what to do about it. E.g.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21743758
Or the job market where he was applying simply changed.

It depends on the field. For STEM jobs, a PhD may not justify the time investment, but it's better than nothing. In non-STEM fields, a PhD can actually be a disadvantage.
Thats close, but not exact. The difference is in the technique of using partial images of the subject overlayed over the painting image, to get the colours and overall colour and lighting gradients matched exactly, at a fidelity the unaided eye wouldn't be capable of. The trick of matching the patch so closely that the edge of the mirror disappears is the real secret. A straightforward over-painting projection of the whole subject wouldn't help with that.
>The Prenda "porn trolls" were really
just an annoyance to the ISPs until
they sued the companies; that put
AT&T and Comcast in a situation
where "they will be strongly
motivated to win the case and
ensure that no one tries this tactic
again," wrote Lee.

If they hadn't sued Comcast and Bell, would the judgment be different?
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6379272
Excluding contributors simply because you want to feel like you're part of some exclusive group, is possibly even more harmful to open source projects than insisting on gender-exclusive language.

People who improve the code or documentation, even if it's in some really minor way you don't care about, are vital to any open source project. If you exclude them, you're voting for your project to remain small and irrelevant.
I'm seeing the same problem, running the phpunit tests from a PHP framework inside a Vagrant box (Ubuntu 12.04 as host and guest, VirtualBox provider, current vagrant). The tests run >3 times slower than on the physical machine. I have no idea what is causing the sluggishness.
Contrary to what people may think, this is not Reddit.
Here's a good article on vulnerabilities in Thunderbolt: http://www.breaknenter.org/2012/02/adventures-with-daisy-in-...

Turns out OS X 10.7 and later at least disable DMA access while the computer is locked (unless fast user switching is turned on).
You can buy just such an adapter from the link below; Version 2 is in the works, which will include a microprocessor to allow for full-power charging.

http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/SvByhCXPwG8/iDyRC...
1HiMoM...

wonder how long he waited to try and get that as 1HiMom... before giving up
This has nothing to do with patents. The article describes a case of copyright trolling, which is a completely different matter.

Of course there are similarities between copyright trolls and patent trolls: Both acquire certain rights and try to extort money out of small actors for allegedly infringing use. In both cases the troll's calculation is that the proposed settlement fee is just below the cost of an effective defense.
True, but it's easier to tell 1d3af66... apart from 3e5d115f... than 2 QR codes, especially if the QR codes are separated by a minute.
He certainly used Vanitygen
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen
The Thunderbird-with-PGP experience on Windows is atrocious, absolutely disgraceful.

Here's what I blogged after trying it a few months ago:

I suspect the way most people on Windows will use PGP is by downloading GPG4Win and Enigmail. The fact that this is two separate things to install is a showstopper for a lot of people. Installation of Engimail requires right clicking on a link to save it, then locating the file in Windows Explorer and dragging it into an open Thunderbird window. I can do that and you can do that, but it's arcane wizardry for a significant portion of the population.

Also, the GPG installer appears to randomly crash under certain circumstances on Windows 8.

That's just installation. Then you have to get people to generate a key using a password that's different from the one they use to login to their email server. I suspect most users would have a difficult time using the GPG interface; it's very reminiscent of desktop Linux applications a decade ago.

There's more, but it's too long for here: http://jamesgecko.com/everyone-should-use-pgp-but-its-kinda-...
You see, it's not about Russia or any other specific country. Russia has a lot more freedoms in certain areas than European countries and the US. It's a matter of principle. As for believing my understanding of the world is better - isn't it what most people who are trying to convince others of anything believe they have? I mean, what kind of moron would I be if I tried to convince people of something I didn't believe myself? Oh, wait, I'd be a politician.

Also, I don't particularly enjoy running around and preaching. HN is interesting because some people here indeed listen carefully and actually read your arguments, sometimes presenting challenging questions.
A language is pretty much ready when it has a compiler, some examples, and similar. (Obviously not all languages compile, but there should be working tools to build/run the code.)

But it is only "done" when it has good examples and a decent standard library. Too often languages don't have a decent interface to legacy/C code, and without that I'm probably not going to touch them.
For those who want to program in Latin, Perl has it covered [1].

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Lingua-Romana-Perligata-0.50...
Foggy, yes.

We moved to various places -- Philadelphia, Shanghai, Costa Rica, Brazil. I can only really speak for Shanghai, which is incredibly hot with about 100% humidity in the summer (I have seen water pool on the floor of my building, just because there was so much in the air) and 1-4 degrees centigrade in the winter. I've never thought of it as misty.

Don't move to Shanghai for the weather.
Of course you also have generation costs, though (The solar panels, the UPS).
The weird thing is that we (society) are fine with this model in sports, movies, music, academia, publishing etc but not in business.
It's easy for a developer, sure. We need to make it Dropbox-easy for the general population, though.
>If you get bit (shocked) by DC, you let go, drop it instantly - AC will not allow you to drop it, you have to be pulled off. If anything its safer.

I know I was once shocked by 120v AC while working; I was reaching around a metal PDU with 15-15R plugs to plug something in. As I couldn't see, I was guiding the prongs in with my fingers, and I didn't get my fingers out of the way before it made contact. ouch. (let us just say that I was younger and... a lot less careful than a sysadmin ought to be.) Fortunately, the case of the PDU was grounded (I think it was a baytech RPC) and the case of the server above it was grounded, and everything was screwed in well, so the circut went through my fingers and arm and into a chassis. my impression was that my arm bounced between the PDU and the next server up for a while before I managed to jerk my shoulder back and pull my whole arm out of the rack.

Apparently I'm not a very good conductor, or there was something up with the breaker, 'cause it didn't blow the circuit. I wasn't hurt, save for maybe some light bruising, and no downtime resulted, so it turned out okay, but I'm much more careful now (and my PDUs use C14 receptacles, making this problem impossible, at least without a knife.)
I don't know how it is in the US but in the UK the chancellor of London Met, a third tier at best university, pocketed millions, before he was forced out in disgrace. I suppose there was little prestige to be had there tho'.
highly relevant: http://balajiviswanathan.quora.com/Indian-Space-Mission-Pove...

"Outsiders have no idea of what this all means to Indians. Even a poor, hungry kid could dream for a Math Olympiad, can't she? In the same way, even a poor hungry nation can participate in a scientific mission, can't we?"
Or even better(if this is relatively easy to do) would be to release voting data(sans sensitive userIDs) and let everyone here analyze it.
270 million Android users in China
I have both actually. And I use both as my tongue scrapper doesn't always work in the way I want to.
PS4 Jailbreaking (with OrbisOS 0day).
He's donating 20 of the 22 BTC to Sean's Outpost so it's unlikely he would've done that with the sole intention of driving the price higher.
I didn't feel like my assumptions were that big.

From the original article:

> “They use sweeps to collect data from all users of web forums. The use of these techniques could easily lead to mass surveillance by the government.”

Which implies that they are not scanning traffic constantly but are instead performing a sweep across the fora and gathering all data. Which implies querying the databases on a schedule and pulling info as the full dataset nevers exists in the ephemeral traffic.

> “They acquire MySQL databases via CNE access”

Which states that they exploit something on the network to "acquire" the data from MySQL databases.

Those two things together suggest periodic access to the databases.

And given the previous behaviour from accessing networks and hardware without permission of the companies operating on those networks (the Google dark fibre intercept) it isn't too much of a stretch to imagine a similar scenario that could give them access to these databases without asking first.

And the easiest way to get access to a large volume of forums would be to use a common platform as the attack point: A common deployment (cPanel, Plesk, etc) or a common technology that could give up credentials (memcached).

Of course they could use a vulnerability in MySQL, but I bet that's harder work than just trying default passwords or pulling credentials from the unsecured memory cache.
Yeah it looks good in theory, until you start really using gpg and promote it amongst friends and contacts...

I actually don't really understand the differences between PGP/INLINE and PGP/MIME but it has given me headaches, because some clients don't support both.

Evolution's devs refused to support anything other than PGP/MIME for a long time (seems to be fixed now):

http://mozdev.org/pipermail/enigmail/2010-July/012617.html

K9 cannot read PGP/MIME
https://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=5864
CodeDoor now supports job listings
The first example renders a form with radio button labels not tied to the appropriate controls, so I can't just click them to select the radio button. Same for the other labels. This is totally unforgivable and such a well known annoyance that I refuse to read anything else. RIP Alpaca.
God forbid people get paid for their work
I'd share your warm view if it were just adults doing it among themselves. But children rely on the advice of their teachers and aren't yet able to truly make their own choices; I think adults steer them towards these dead languages to satisfy their own nostalgia rather than for the children's benefit. And I think that's wrong.
For cookie counter paywalls, I've found the easiest workaround is to right-click on the link and open in a new private window.
how about you fix the issue with the vmware workstation provider -> https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/2239
The Open Source Bikeshed
Maybe from people who didn't realise how much they are worth?
This is yet another display of people discussing the bikeshed:

http://blog.jooq.org/2013/12/01/the-open-source-bikeshed/

And

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality
That's a little like looking at a baby who was born a year ago and calling it old because of another that was born earlier today.
Yeah. AWS marketplace is excellent. Imagine Vagrant has a bunch of modules available. :)

People are already sharing their, for example, wordpress installation, on github. But I am more interested in modules.
I can access it fine - here's a pastebin either way: http://pastebin.com/2d922RbR
NSA gold mine.
I think I stumped into this once, but didn't have the time atm to check what the problem was... I simply rewrote the code to remove the infixes. The good thing with C is that you can decide not to shoot yourself in the foot
Desktop Streaming to the Raspberry Pi using VLC and H.264
London is a Roman town, much older than England (edit: and that's just name, as the poster below mentions the city has existed much longer). the queen still has to ask permission to enter the City (now called the square mile). The underground (aka the Tube) is new, but the city itself is very, very old.
JHipster,Yeoman for Maven + Spring + AngularJS
Multilayer CSS
It’s talked about in the link given up there by kristianp and matiasb. Please follow that link. (Both are the same.)
Calling them fascinating would more approriate since there is no way to understand what these numbers mean. It's like the Avatar film without the sound track. Not sure if it's really interesting yet.
Eye light-intensity response
I wouldn't care if it wasn't an article posted on HN.

IMO when someone posts an article that's behind a paywall, he should at least put something like [paywall] in the title.
Why not? It’s available. But you’ll need GAE setup and Go source code compilation. BTW, it’s actually for the developers of Go itself.
That has happened with Crossrail actually... for example, the Liverpool Street station digging uncovered countless artefacts from Bedlam, aka Bethlehem Mental Hospital. Human remains and other things that can't just be tunnelled through = delays...
Sorry, I wasn't commenting on the age of London, just the method of defining any country/city as old compared to a decades-old country.
Apparently you can get Gimp to look almost like photoshop[1]. You can see it's a fairly simple interface. The screenshot actually makes it look fairly clean.[2]

[1]http://elementaryforum.org/forum/how-to/customization_aa/des...

[2]http://s16.postimg.org/nbs29omth/Gimp_Like_Photoshop.png
It's a common stylistic choice. Exaggerate how arrogant and smart you thought you were, only for it to be pricked by reality, end up humbled.
There is always this tendency to confuse inequity with poverty. India's problem is inequity not poverty, just as it is in America. There is also the reason why Western Europeans and Americans whose combined population does not equal that of India should be judgmental about their choices.

Why should it be okay to for white people to tell brown people what they should or shouldn't do with their resources, not to mention that their advancement is supported by the large numbers of brown and yellow skinned people who constitute a large proportion of their PhDs?
It gets better, they not only printed it out but also scanned it!

http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/

Cryptography software was subject to export-control at the time... so they printed it out, and scanned it in Europe to create a 'clean' version of the software for use abroad (PGPi ). They continued to do this for new releases of PGP until the export controls were released.

Must have made for a nasty devops relationship...
Well, let's not be too fast about throwing away a well known solution because one research shows that there might be (better?) alternatives.
Do you pay apple tax even if you don't have apple priducts?