skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, if memory serves, the humidity in summer is hell.
Most modern phones take a long time to start up. Reminds of the time I had one of those Nokia phones. 2-3 seconds bootup time.

I think putting in Airplane Mode should be a good idea.
There's a reason he said toy.
It is possible for people to understand that you are joking, yet not like it and consider it conversational noise.
I'm with you on 2 factor auth, but I'm not sure about the password manager.

I've always felt like putting all your passwords in one place defeats the purpose of memorizing separate, secure passwords (or, better yet, pass phrases).
For some of us, it comes down to whether we prefer Intellij or Eclipse. Having used both for a number of years, I prefer the former over the later (though for reasons that would be outside the scope of the Kotlin or Ceylon Plugins themselves).
I'm going to look him up. Last time I spoke to him was 4 years ago. I wonder where here he is.
Nope.

If Google deletes your comments on a YouTube video, it's not a violation of the 1st Amendment. If Google employees take a good, long look at your email or the documents you have in Drive, it's not a violation of the Fourth.
This makes me smile so profoundly. I created a subreddit for this a little while, I now have a flagship instance.
I probably don't share many views in common with the author, but I think this analysis of the nature of cyberlibertarianism is brilliant and spot-on. In particular, he insightfully captures the disdain with which cyberlibertarians view democracy as well as the nature of so-called "grassroots" movements like the opposition to SOPA being part of a proxy war between big corporate content creators and big corporate content distributors.
Thank you for your comment. Yes, I recognize this shortcoming and currently we are implementing few ways to reduce this risk for the users that would be launched in few weeks time.

But in my opinion, if you are in Asia countries with corrupted customs, as of now, you are taking as much risk as shipping it via FedEx or DHL because either the item will get stuck in customs or you must pay at least double the money to get it out of customs.

we are going to change this in near future on how to minimize this risk.
Just to reinforce your point: Standard docs are already copyrighted. SCSI specs and some ITU specs aren't free. Seems that the more niche the standard goes, the more expensive it gets. (Although if you write your own standard doc based off an implementation's actions, that should be OK, right?)
They could engineer their products in such a way that they don't collect all this data and don't transfer it to servers in the USA. They could also stop cooperating with the NSA, they could also respect privacy of their users, etc.

Google has a lot of things to do. Robots would not be high on my list.
> they would not require a lecture to understand how to recover a commit made on a detached HEAD, a lecture that git provides.

The only real difference here compared to Mercurial is that Mercurial doesn't issue a warning/lecture... In both cases you will have to know the changeset (or revision number in Mercurial) to get back to that anonomous branch (unless it's tip, but tip has its own issues). Git providing a warning for this is fair imho, as Git garbage collects anonomous branches. That, however, does not change the fact that checking out a random commit and a branch are the same thing in UI and implementation.
And yet it still requires a call to google's servers in order to function. That's kind of disappointing.
From the glassdoor.com reviews, its long hours and you're paid undermarket (which is fine if you want to work there, you're probably there because you want to work on something cool).

I applied to their Director of Infrastructure position having 14 years of IT experience managing people and large infrastructure and was told I was under qualified. YMMV.
So just a point I made awhile ago. Not saying which is best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6794327
Wow, thanks for the warning! I'm pretty sure this happened to me once a long time ago, but I thought it was a bad interaction between FoldingText and nvAlt, not nvAlt*2+Dropbox.
Please, I expect better than that from HN!
There have been rather fast Open drivers for the HD3650 for at least two years now. I'm curious as to what distribution you're using that would exhibit these sorts of problems in 2013.
You could always try to use an antenna and software defined radio to pull the telemetry directly if nearby a launch site. Probably encrypted though :(
Real governance of what? There is no pork in this world.
MusicBrainz sent Amazon a cake in recognition of a 3 year unpaid invoice
How are they different? They both do shitty things.
Abuse of power.
They were pretty responsive when it came to bugs and suggestions, but they don't realize that when you login, it is storing your command inputs in local storage, including your password.
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I really like the idea, in fact, I think it would be great to see a trend of command prompt UIs within simple web apps like these. It takes advantage of the fact that beyond all of the colors and paddings on websites, the Text is all that matters. However, I'm not saying all websites should be like this (obviously) but it could issue an improvement in actual web content.
Their homepage says

"Make a ptch (pronounced "pitch") by combining the photos and videos on your phone, or using media from your social networks, like Facebook or Instagram.

Personalize it by easily adding captions, music, and effects."
Google's black bar on top is ok, StackOverlow's is just plain ugly
That's because of the whole "intellectual property" concept. It moves the idea of copyright (and patents) from being an exception to free speech to being some sort of intrinsic fairness. Instead of looking at the tradeoffs with public interest, people start thinking things like "Well he did write it so he should control it. If he had made a chair instead of a poem, we wouldn't just steal the chair from him." In the process, the whole justification for IP is forgotten and we end up in bizarro world.
You are being held liable for a crime you did not commit and you don't even know what it is. Doesn't this perfectly fit the description of a Kafkaesque crime?
Oh god, I hope you're joking.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/youre-probably-stor...
Expanding on what doctorwho said:

ffmpeg -i input.whatever frame-%04d.png

Explode virtually any video format into frames, assuming that you've configured ffmpeg generously at compile time.
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How to make sure your developer presentations don't look like crap in videos
Kubuntu 13.10 (or the latest Chakra if you don't like *buntu) should work, and solve your HDMI pain.
That video is painful to watch. Here's the source of those video clips of Gabe: http://youtu.be/Gzn6E2m3otg?t=12s It's from LinuxCon in September.
How to sell your product
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Use an attorney, there is no other viable option. Consider 10-30% of your 12k as a collection fee and pay the attorney. At best they respond to a single letter from the attorney and pay, at worse you wind up paying about 40% of the money owed to the attorney. If the attorney asks for more than that find someone else.
Prism may have been built by people holding their noses for the paycheck, but it could also have been built by people who genuinely believe that its social benefits outweigh its costs. Even if only 0.1% of software professionals believe this, it's enough to staff the project.
Thanks for the reply. I think I covered some of those points in my post, but thanks for clarifying.

I get the justification for removing the tabs. I admitted in my post that the justification for the removal was fair enough. I, along with the other people commenting in the meta post, just don't like that the behaviour is also unavailable manually with e.g. ?tab=(active|hot|week|month).

As for having to login once but join every site, it's just a pain I was unwilling to go through for the behaviour I wanted. As I admitted, this is my loss and not any loss to stackexchange.
60 chars passwords probably reach the char limit imposed by many different services.
I like the iOS ecosystem, as well the OS X ecosystem. I like Mac products. I have a Macbook Pro. I do all sorts of hacks on it, because OS X is not locked down. I don't see why I can't do the same on iOS. I don't want to use Android or others.
Yeah. Enemy of the state is the one where one of the Gov. hackers wears computer/shooting glasses and looks like Dexter Holland from The Offspring.
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Enemy-of-the-S...
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Seemingly.

They've only been running all their servers on Linux PC's for upwards of 10 years now.
HBase: Just don't.
> The NSA does not target Americans’ location data

and

> ...location data are obtained by methods “tuned to be looking outside the United States,”

Whew, I was getting worried, but now I'm sure we're safe and it's just for foreigners.
Memory allocation in kernel needs special care. Usually the plain malloc() is not enough, once interrupt and memory paging are in place. Since your piece of the kernel code can run in different interrupt level, you really need a pageable memory allocator and a non-pageable allocator. At a high level interrupt (like hardware interrupt), the memory paging service won't get a chance to run and accessing a pageable memory might crash the system. You want to allocate non-pageable, pinned down memory for your code that runs in high interrupt level. For low interrupt level code, it's fine to use pageable memory.

That's why kernel mode development is a lot more difficult and fun.
Dual screen phone using e-ink from YotaDevices.
Cyber war technology to be controlled in same way as arms
This is a fantastic writeup and should be required reading for all founders. Thank you for taking the time to write it all up. Kudos!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/us-usa-sanfrancisc...

I don't see anything absurd here. It's still not clear that cellphones are "safe".

>>Mobile phones are tested to ensure their emissions fall within FCC limits considered safe. The limits, however, fail to reflect the latest research or actual conditions under which mobile phones are used, liked being held in a pocket directly against the body while talking through an earpiece, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
The FCC last month agreed to consider revising its 17-year-old guidelines.

I'm glad the FCC at least were open to thinking about it. I treat my cellphone as a possible biohazard and keep it away from my body. It's almost always in my backpack; about a foot away from my body and I almost never make voice-calls; I'm all SMS. I put in less than 45mins/month on voice-calls.
Mexico finds stolen truck that carried radioactive material: official
While both may be Posix systems, the GUI, mouse and audio apis are much different - so there is still a lot of work you'd need to do. Since both use opengl though, you get rid of half the trouble by porting.

It's also important to remember that many game makers don't make their own engine, and so the engine must support OSX/linux (most classic linux ports have used the unreal engine, or source engine). Unity is quite good in this regard, you can hit a button to export your project to all three different platforms.
Yes it is. Though technically I've never seen Enemy of the State, so I suppose they could theoretically share the dialogue...
Absolutely agree. As a woman in tech, these types of discussions make me sick to my stomach. What an absolute waste of time and energy (except for those using it for political gain, I suppose, but they rarely achieve that through these types of shenanigans.)
It's rude to link to an ugly site when you could link to a better, more readable one. It's rude to lie and manipulate people for money, when you could easily avoid doing so. Advertising should not be encouraged, ever.

When you have the opportunity to show someone an ad-free, single page, uncluttered version of a piece of literature, do it. Please. Always.
> I think putting in Airplane Mode should be a good idea.

And then you still would have to trust this Airplane Mode.

Honestly, I have absolutely no idea what is happening in my phone.
Is it maybe still collecting data while it is in Airplane Mode and sending it somewhere once it is set back to regular mode? Or is it even sending data all the time, because the NSA knows that never a single plane has crashed because of active cellphones? Probably some smart people out there are checking their phone's internals and activities more than I do...
You're absolutely right that changing motivations from intrinsic to an extrinsic can have negative affects. I'm pretty sure there is a study that people paid a dollar to complete a crossword or some other word puzzle did worse than people who were asked to do it for no pay.

However, I think there are cases where extrinsic motivation can be beneficial. This campaign provides a good example.

Those with the programming skills necessary to jailbreak the iPhone may not be as intrinsically motivated to do so as the OS matures, and so they stop dedicated time. But these engineers are by no means the only people who might benefit from jailbreaking.

The disabled community is one such group. They, in general, may not have the skills necessary to write the software necessary to jailbreak their devices, but could benefit greatly if such software existed. Offering a bounty is a way for them to cross that skill gap.

These campaigns aren't meant for the benefit of software developers. They are for the benefit of those who have great ideas, but lack the skills to fulfill them.

Extrinsic motivation may not be the ideal condition, but that does not mean it is something that should be avoided.
The author does not call people leftists or rightist, but rather associates language and causes with the left or right. He points out that cyber-libertarianism tend to use the terminology of the left ("freedom", "open"), while embracing the values of the right. Not every one on every issue, but as a pattern of behavior across many issues. The article points out that because of this language, people who otherwise identify with leftist causes end up supporting cyber-libertarian policies that further rightist causes.

I think the best thing in the article is about the different definitions of "freedom." Cyberlibertarians use "freedom" to mean "freedom from." This is quite incompatible with what many leftists,[1] might mean by "freedom," specifically the freedom of the masses to act collectively to shape their society.

[1] And indeed, many who would probably consider themselves "conservatives" in a pre-Tea Party world.
Flickr uploader
Great program that does auto upload of your pics to Flickr
Not only did they not commit the crime; the crime hasn't even happened yet! Held liable for being the sort of person that might commit some sort of crime, maybe.
Some uploads just use a random file name now making it impossible for MPAA, RIAA, etc. to just simply search usenet posts for their content. If you don't have the NZB then it's unlikely you'll find it. Also if you use the european usenet providers they typically don't comply with DMCA notices and have more complex take down procedures.
I use Soundcloud a lot and their interface is a bit resource (CPU) heavy when I nearly always just want to play my likes. This is totally great and I would use it.

I've tried to list my likes a few times, and it asks me to log in, but then glitches out and seems to enter something as the email and password (which are obviously wrong). Any idea if this is just me?
People don't often realize how poor our visual acuity is everywhere outside the fovea, the area of sharp central vision a few degrees wide (that's a few fingers held together at an arm's length). We need saccades and microsaccades and lots of processing power and plain guesswork on part of the brain to patch together the image we "see". The resolution of a camera sensor, on the other hand, is not a function of the angular distance from the center of the image.

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsaccade
Indeed, cyberlibertarians are all about decentralized power structures. The internet is actually anti-democratic in a sense, as it gives individuals direct power, not just by proxy of representative politicians or collective voting (as in a "leftist" world). Therefore it's the most classically liberal political position around. And one not to be mistaken with the authoritarian-"liberal" style generally upheld in current politics.
Even Windows binaries WINE on 64-bit runs 16, 32, and 64-bit applications! :-)
The real key is to not use the same email address across accounts. If you have your own domain, then it's easy.

I actually don't like the idea of using email addresses as user IDs. I believe that was a lazy approach in the first place and this causes too many problems. I'm sure it all started that way because someone wanted your contact info, and since the only way to guarantee a valid email was to make you verify it. It has nothing to do with security.

Nobody said security was easy or convenient.

Anyway, to each his own. I have my own domains and do, unfortunately, have about 100 email addresses/aliases. Yeah, it can be inconvenient to maintain. I originally started using the aliases because I wanted to know who was giving out my email to spammers. I caught a few and stopped doing business with them.
...Yes, that's what I said. I gain much and lose nothing, because other people are forced to conform to my standards. In the same scenario, someone who speaks only (say) Swahili gains nothing except another hurdle to access, and loses a potential shot at a local online community.
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Ah, OK, fair enough, well, Bastien and Matija have recently been making very good progress on the IntelliJ plugin for Ceylon, and since we expect to be able to reuse quite a bit of underlying code from the Eclipse plugin, we hope to something useful quite soon. Stay tuned :)
I still think this sometimes.
Well, I wasn't joking, but I didn't realize md5 was as vulnerable as Atwood says it is. SHA-2 or Bcrypt.
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Our government has a long history of abusing its power to prevent evidence from being admitted in court. In fact, the "State's Secrets" privilege granted to the executive branch was based on exactly that. The case that established the precedent is Reynolds vs. US Navy (definitely Reynolds not sure about Navy). I was finally declassified a couple of years ago and it came out that there were no secrets to be kept from the court other than government was at fault.
This comes up all the time on HN & I post this link:

http://vimeo.com/22053820 - Mike Monteiro - Fuck you, pay me!

You're probably gonna take it on the chin, but here are a couple options:

You can get around half through small claims courts, which won't cost you a lot.

Find a sole proprietor attorney, preferably a young one, and see if they'll take it on contingency.

Let the company know you'll be hitting their DnB and then do it. Same with the BBB, trade organizations, etc.
Oh come on, if we punished people for that sort of thing we wouldn't have a government anymore.
Three pages here as well.
I suspect you would get great enjoyment out of KXStudio [1]. built-in support for Windows VST plugins (via Carla/Vestige). Wine with the WineASIO setup working means that FL Studio (and similar) works flawlessly under JACK. Also, there is nothing in the windows world that competes with JACK and Claudia.

You might also want to check out the Linux Musicians forum [2]. Most of your itches are probably already scratched by someone.

[1] http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net

[2] http://www.linuxmusicians.com/
20 shades of black.
Exactly. The fovea article on Wikipedia has an illustrative diagram: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovea_centralis
But our economy is already dependent on mobile data. So cancer or not, there's no stopping it. The economy decides what's safe.
It's trivial to transform the units, and it's easier to understand megapixels or xxxxp. Terrible reason to close the article.
One of my addresses was also in the Adobe breach. No idea what password I used there, but I'm fairly sure it must have been either my common "junk" password, shared with tons of forums, but nothing that poses any serious risk to me (just to those forums). Or if they had stricter requirements, some variation on it that I always forget, so I have to ask them for a new password every time anyway.

I certainly don't reuse financial or email passwords. Or actually I do, but only for financial and email stuff. But I probably shouldn't reuse them at all.

But those forums? I'm just not going to keep track of a new password for every site I visit.
That was also my first thought. Kudos to the OP in that you managed to build a product people wanted and paid something for. For creating something you could sell. And then went ahead and sold it. And made a profit. That's better than most wantpreneurs.

But you didn't do better than minimum wage. You could have just done a bunch of TaskRabbit or Odesk or Elance gigs and for the same 26 hours ended up much farther ahead.

What does that mean? Perhaps not much because it's comparing apples and oranges (contract / service work vs. product sales). Or perhaps it does mean that you need to understand the value of income (not just revenue) with relation to time cost. That might actually be the biggest lesson here: yes, you can build something you can sell. And perhaps you learned how hard sales is, but how possible making a profit is. But most importantly, you learned that not all businesses are worth it. And this one most certainly is not worth it.
I'd also add that creating a cash incentive enables you to encourage an open sourced jailbreak, which is doubly important in this case since given all the opportunities for a jailbreak to introduce malicious code
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The logo is pixelated on my Retina Macbook. It's a new bar and it's not even retina. Can you fix it please? :)
They already have 150M+ valid email addresses from the breach if they wanted to spam people.
"this list of American Hijackings"?

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. From that list, there were 2 involving the US in the 90s and 4 in the 80s. Is the huge increase in disruption, inconvenience and intrusion for every traveller really necessary to cut that level of threat down?

And how many of the attempted hijackings since 2001 had anywhere near the impact of Madrid or London's train/bus bombs? If there's really terrorists trying to cause havoc, why aren't they taking this easy option?
Anyone know the details of accuracy and penetration of network-side positioning? Client-side could in principle be detected but network-side would be undetectable.
Would be nice if they made an actual command line application too! Maybe as an npm module?