skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/fog/fog/issues/2525

https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/408977/1820859/8658298e-71...

These are some of the strings I pulled off the root blockdev
- I have no such /var/deploy/chegou, or any of these files. I was
able to recover someone else's webserver logs from yesterday, as well.
"the implementation of the neat idea of block chain is on the basis of twister."

MS Excel uses do...while loops, my latest project uses do...while loops, therefore my project is based on Excel. I was reading it as algorithm use not literally forking the codebase as appears to be the case. Not everything using Quicksort is a kissing cousin of everything else using Quicksort, for example.

Its still cheesy as a marketing scheme. This thing's bitcoin, that means its a currency, right, or a funds storage system, or a psuedobank, or .. oh its a microblog service. LAME.

From a tech perspective I think its cool as an unusual use of the algorithm and technology.
Ah yes, I'm not super familiar with the terminology, a sibling comment to yours specifies that you'd need to use zdat (zero after TRIM) for what I'm talking about to be effective.
The last para - If there is just one thing you should learn, it is: Just speak to prospects and extract their pain, then sell the painkiller (before building the product). If they are willing to buy, do take their money and invest that money into building the product.

Is that really possible? Making someone pay for a product that doesn't yet exist? How can you do that?
Yep, in that case that's absolutely a leak of user data.

The blog post is factually incorrect on that point, what a shame.
__If there is just one thing you should learn, it is: Just speak to prospects and extract their pain, then sell the painkiller (before building the product). If they are willing to buy, do take their money and invest that money into building the product.__

This advice always seemed like a stretch to me. Does anybody pay for a product that's not ready yet?
And The Country Posing The Greatest Threat to Peace as 2013 Ends is …
I hate that practice as well, yet have still been directed to do it by editors.
>Did Einstein say something profound about social issues or people interactions when he was younger than 40?

Jefferson was 33 when he penned the Declaration of Independence. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed when he was 39. Marx published The Communist Manifesto when he was 30.

Seriously, this list could go on for ages. Dismissing the perspective of youth is as indicative of an ignorance of history as youthful naivete.
> What’s your process for making sure you have diversity in other ways?

This can be a delicate subject. I don't like forced diversity for diversity's sake. I think it's demeaning. It says "I would not normally hire you because you are not really qualified for the job but I will because I need to show I have at least 2.25 people in the company with neck tattoo's".

This, I think, is truer in technical fields where it is vitally important that the candidate have the requisite knowledge, skills, cultural fit and other criteria for the job. Would you rather have the airbag in your car designed by a fully qualified engineer hired purely on merit, experience and capabilities or by a lesser qualified engineer with neck tattoo's who got in because of a need (legal or not) to ensure diversity? I'll take option number one please.

This is not anti-women or anti-minority at all, this is anti-non-qualified candidate. Now, all qualifications being equal, what do you do? Well, that's a good one. Do you favor a woman over a man? Do you favor an attractive woman over another, less attractive woman? Do you favor one race or culture over another? What's your moral or ethical compass tell you? Do you need laws to force the right decision? As I said, it's a delicate subject.

I have worked with people of all ages, races, cultures, gender, gay, straight and even trans-sexual. I couldn't point out a pattern if my life depended on it. For example, I worked with this brilliant engineer who would literally throw desktop phones across the room when angry. Another was quiet and somewhat socially inept yet exhibited incredible dedication to the job. And then there were some who just floated by. Notice I never mentioned age, gender, race or any other differentiator of that kind. If you think of them as people and don't favor or disqualify anyone based on some artificially imposed metric I think you are on the right track.
Yes I saw your talk at Eurobsdcon, need to talk to you sometime about adding tests written in Lua to Kyua...
"Are Job Creators and Tax Paying Workers Really Ruining San Francisco? Yes, Says Rebecca Solnit", fixed that for you.

The idiocy of this article is disturbing:

"Twitter got this tax break to stay in San Francisco that they blackmailed out of the mayor" (They "blackmailed" him? Really?)

"young men coming in, and they’re transient. They’re not committed to the place" (which is why they bought a house in a dump neighborhood to fix up and keep for the rest of their lives. Jesus give them time, they're not going to settle down, get married, and have kids right after college.)

It seems no journalist is willing to see this from the other point of view. Which is blaming San Francisco's politics. 1 of 4 things is happening here:

● Politics have bought out journalism to such a degree that a serious conversation criticizing San Fran cannot take place.

● Journalists today really are that one sided.

● The media is trying to fuel a class war, they just got done fueling a race war with the Trayvon Martin trial.

● Somebody has a serious hatred for Google in particular because all of this anger is directed towards them.
A Recipe for writing responsive REST clients on Android
In case you are wondering where the download link is: You probably browse with Javascript disabled. The website hides it by default. Here is a direct (wgetable) link: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/12/26/1321664111.full...
I agree that there is a theoretical scenario that all the production line are trojaned, or that Lenovo is cooperating with the customer's adversary at assembly time. However, my question was intended for what is more likely the practical situation today: that only a subset of computers get the treatment, and that it is applied after the factory, as per the recently liberated information.

Apparently I do need to look into the whole "verifying firmware" area. Maybe I'll try to compare checksums and other data with other owners of the same model and BIOS rev, on a suitable forum.
Sorry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_se
Did he ever think that stackoverflow is about building a library of questions and answers so it is easier for people to find answers on Google?!
On the flip side its kind of amazing that such a beautiful city with a mild climate and massive protected harbor has maintained being so affordable for so long prior to today. Its kind of a fluke that some really awful urban planning disasters happened to blight the city enough in the 50's to open a window for activists and artists to affordably settle down there in the 60's and 70's. Otherwise it would probably never have been a counter culture mecca to begin with
Global Results, End of Year survey
Show HN: New web page for selling my SkillShare class
Great read Luke!
Any chance you could opensource the project?
I've got music that I've the right to and would love to test it.
I really hope there won't be any financial industry like cold response to these issues. It be good for all involved if tech companies and people (who are definitely capable of this) to reach out and allay these concerns.
That quote is hilarious. So San Francisco is returning to it's roots? When the city was built, it was a mining town (well mining support town) and it was disproportionately young men coming in...

Are we sure this isn't how it's supposed to be?
many would be happy to live in low-COL regions (instead of cramming into SF)

Isn't Mountain View (or pretty much anywhere else in the valley) cheaper than SF? If these people have no time outside of work to appreciate SF and can barely afford the rent, why are they living there?
I didn't see it in article, but Kyua is supposed to be pronounced "queue-ay" (QA). Now you know.

Edit: Ha! I see Julio adjusted his stance on this:

The name is Kyua, which is just a play on the pronounciation of the Q.A. acronym. Originally, my intention was to pronounce Kyua as Q.A., but in reality this never happened. Today, just read the name as your instinct would: "Kyu-ah".[1]

Oh well. Now we all know the backstory, and we can all talk like learned experts to others.

[1] http://wiki.netbsd.org/kyua/
My personal favorite: http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/
Zerigo terminates annual plans mid-way to jack rates 19x
aka "How NOT to raise your prices on prepaid plans"

The last few years have been rough for Zerigo customers, with several well-publicized DNS outages.

As a reward for hanging in there, Zerigo sent an email this morning they will discontinued their DNS Essentials plan ($39/YEAR) and are replacing it January 31 2014 with a $63/MONTH plan. (pricing shown for 50 domains)...a 19-fold increase, one month's notice.

And no, they just confirmed, they will NOT wait until your current annual plan expires even though it is pre-paid (September 2014 in my case).

They will jack up the rate 19-fold, beginning Jan 31, applying a prorated credit, rather than letting current annual plans run their course.

To my mind, the rate increase might be reasonable if they really did upgrade their infrastructure to prevent further outages.

What is completely unacceptable IMO is a policy to terminate existing pre-paid plans mid-way rather than grandfather existing customers through the remaining months of their term.
Thanks for the honesty. I'm currently working on a product too. Getting a lot of interest and I know I'm solving a problem.

Looking forward to reading your book too.
Nah, I'm not sure having all the libs bound together is the killer. I think it's having all those libs with a cohesive set of docks and with a "single" voice. I'm not sure that packaging Flask, Jinja2/Babel, WTForms, SQLAlchemy, and Werkzeug (dev / debug server) together -- that should cover the non-admin Django -- would improve the usage. Technically, Jinja2 and Werkzeug are already dependencies of Flask, and their extensions page [0] are fairly instructive on what other libs to pull in for the other needs. There's also no reason one can't use Django, Jinja2/Babel, WTF, SQLA, and Werkzeug... we do!

[0] http://flask.pocoo.org/extensions/
I think the change was that people gradually forgot Pearl Harbor or were never educated about it in the first place. Bin Laden had many virtues as a tactician but was poor at strategy and historical perspective. Now that the lesson has been relearned, we are mostly safe from large-scale sneak attacks for another 50 years.
Unfortunately, some very important papers wouldn't make it past this test...

The startup I'm working with has developed a unique, revolutionary product. (Unusually, this is a true statement - not marketing.) There are a number of published papers, and 8 year follow-ups. But journals won't even publish the 5 year follow-ups!

Why? Because it is a genuine paradigm-changer. We can't get independent confirmation, because no one wants to touch it. It threatens a global multi-billion dollar industry.

There's a 'mafia' in almost every profitable industry. Until I joined this startup, I had no notion that this niche was so full of medical practitioners readily sidestepping the Hippocratic Oath for the goal of profit.
Anyone else burst out laughing after reading this?:

"I met a guy who lives at 24th and Valencia [Street]. He says the Wi-Fi signal on the buses is so powerful that when the Google bus pulls up in front of his house, it uses all the broadband and his Wi-Fi signal crashes. And that’s like a tiny thing that happens to one guy, but it signifies, “We are so mighty, we are crushing your reality.”"
I would really love to see some numbers on that, but thanks to the IPO we will never have any insight into that. They have to make up numbers like that, or they lose money.

"It is an advertising-based business. Twitter also sells data. It will generate about $583 million this year. Twitter is expected to generate a little less than $1 billion in 2014, according to eMarketer.

Most of Twitter's revenue comes from three types of ads, although it plans to have a more robust advertising offering next year."

Aha!
A very unfortunate incident, but there are bound to be mistakes made when there are tens of thousands of developers and over six million questions. Eventually, bugs are going to appear. The kind of dumb mistakes that developers (and other humans) make all the time. That doesn't make the error any less painful. Stuff happens.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.7152v1.pdf

>http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/1u1x56/
Node.js News Round-up – December 31, 2013
Add a custom search option that can filter people by reputation level, or by question to answer ratio.

I want to answer questions from people who are able to Google, and who are able to answer questions.

Another thing: add a custom search option that can find tumbleweed questions. I asked about it here:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14738/tumbleweed-que...

But Jeff thought it was already implemented, when it's not. The advanced search finds questions with a minimum number of views, not a maximum number of views.
> All I'm saying is that we see criticism of Cryptocat over and over, yet, here we are, with people still using Cryptocat.

People make poor decisions all the time. The fact that people use Cryptocat might indicate that it has good marketing; it might indicate that it has a good UI; it might indicate that people are responding to network effects in communications. What it doesn't do is contradict the security criticism of Cryptocat. It's irrelevant to the question of whether or not Cryptocat is secure.

> The author wants Cryptocat shut down, but if that happens, what will the people using Cryptocat do? Communicate in plaintext?

They are already effectively communicating in plaintext; it's better for them to have to do so, and be forced to recognise the fact. Someone who lives in an oppressive regime and incorrectly believes his communications secure may very well betray himself; someone who lives in an oppressive regime and believes his communications insecure is less likely to do so.

> Isn't it irresponsible (and in line with your own reasoning about putting people in danger) to not present the users with a better alternative first?

It's more irresponsible to give them a false sense of security, and lead them into deadly danger.

It really is quite simple: at some point, Cryptocat's bad marketing will cost more human beings their lives than good marketing would; at some point, Cryptocat's bad design will cost more human beings their lives than good design would; at some point, Cryptocat's bad implementation will cost more human beings their lives than a good implementation would. Those lives are IMHO far more important than the warm-and-fuzzy convenience of easy-to-use but insecure communications.
"In well over two years I have contributed nothing to StackOverflow: no questions, no answers, nothing. (Well, that's not true. When my score went over 10,000 I tried out the moderator powers for a couple of edits, just to test them out.) Over one third of my reputation was "earned" from me doing absolutely nothing for over two years."

So what? Apparently his answers were valuable enough and saved the time (and nerves) of many programmers who faced similar obstacles as original posters...

It seems only right to me that a great answer, a canonical answer, like - say - this one: http://stackoverflow.com/a/101561/168719 - can be fuelling its author's reputation long after it was written. Because it holds some universal value, unlike (say) a solution to a short-lived problem with NetBeans 6.1.

"Indeed I went from the top 4% of contributors at my time of departure to the top 3%"

OMG, I didn't realize this issue was so serious.

Now that's just horrible, somebody better stop this madness quick!

(I can't help but read his rant in Sheldon Cooper's voice ;) )
Great idea! I'd too would be interested in testing it as well.
Richter and everyone else go back on stack overflow and answer questions. It is helpful for us all.

You may not get the recognition you deserve but believe me you don't give others the recognition they deserve either.
You already do have to give a reason for closing a question. That reason is displayed when a question is closed. You have plenty of time to edit your question to make it clear before it's deleted. Once you edit it, it can be reopened.
It probably clogs all the internet tubes.
The spectrum WiFi operates in is free for any and all to use, and you don't get squatter's rights.

If you want a frequency nobody else has the right to use, you are going to have to buy your own spectrum.
I doubt it's illegal to embed a track that's been uploaded by the copyright owner, as they can just disable embedding. I'm assuming it becomes illegal if the uploader didn't own the copyright and was uploading the track illegally. This is impossible to verify unless the owner of the copyright gives a notice, YouTube does all it can, if they can't catch this then how can a normal user do so.
The Church of Unix
Yeah that was literally laugh out loud, I needed that today
How many good questions do you see that are "CLOSED AS NOT A REAL QUESTION"? The site is fine for what it is, but there's definitely a market for building a better StackOverFlow.
What language would you recommend, that would have a similar jump in syntax, and still give you more speed and resolve memory usage?

Go? Go is painfully statically typed (painful example: requiring you to cast an int to float32 to do a `>` or `<` operation) and feels a lot more like writing C than Python (not to mention its lack in the "batteries included" department).

Ruby? Same speed and memory "problems" as Python.

Perl? Faster, but its language design philosophy is diametrically opposed to that of Python.

Clojure/Haskel? Syntax and program structure are so radically different from Python there's no comparing them to Python3 when discussing differences from Python2.
Why should I on the death of an author be able to reproduce their work and sell it? Why should that be the case after 28 years or 75 years after the death of the creator be able to take their work and profit from it?

>So if you were an author, you would not write a book because royalties would cease coming in to your grandchildren X years after your death?

The chilling effect on work is not a result of the author, but the company who pays for the work that allows the author to work on the book for years. Why would a company give advance an author, spend money promoting/printing/distributing a book if they can not make royalties on it x years after the author dies?

>People and companies should be able to "own" their ideas for a reasonable period of time.

You tell me what is a reasonable time? 28 years, 28 years + 28 years, life time of the creator, lifetime +75 years?

>Allowing companies to own the Mickey Mouse story in the year 2213 does nothing to promote that. What purpose does that serve?

That serves the purpose of Disney spending billions on theme parks to further develop the brand, to further invest in their brand, establish their brand all over the world which creates jobs fueling the global economy. That is less likely if their work can be diluted by any joe schmo creating independent subpar works creating confusion in the market place in terms of origin.
Why would it be useless? Do you imply that top 100 books are harder to read?
I wish we had an anti-spitting campaign here in Seattle. It's... gross.
All systems that reinforce some behaviors reinforce some bad behaviors.
Despite several attempts, I'm one of those people who has just never had the time to make it through the entire book (I hope to one day).

From what I have experienced (and I have read through The Fountainhead in its entirety), the whole "we're going to take your products, the fruits of your efforts, and release them from your possession for all of the public world to get their hands on" thing (I understand that Rand is dead), the private/public possession dichotomy, just seems so counter to a lot of what the book espouses.

Just my personal reaction.
He wants it taken off the app stores.

I don't disagree with the point that you shouldn't pretend, but literally no one is in a position to make absolute promises like that, yet everyone's doing it.

I'm not saying it's okay, but let's keep in mind that they say on their frontpage (http://crypto.cat) that you shouldn't trust it with your life. That's better than most security software marketing.
Ironically, most of the larger tech companies based out of the valley are closer to the highways than they are to the Caltrain stations; the shuttle shitshow at MTV/PA is testament to that.
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>the NSA isn't compromising the company producing the device, they're compromising the delivery chain which handles all (most) devices.

We have substantial evidence that the NSA is doing this exactly this, in your words "compromising the company producing the device". For example in the case of RSA being paid to use Dual_EC_DRBG[1] or with the unspecified encryption chips that have been backdoored according to the Snowden documents[2].

>These two situations aren't even in the same universe.

From a policy standpoint it might be the same universe. We ban the use of chemical weapons in all circumstances, despite their effectiveness, because we believe the world is a better place without them.

Given the threat that hardware backdoors, either installed at the factory or during shipping, pose to both security and global trade there is an argument that such actions are off-limits. It was the public position of the US that the US did not do such actions but that China did. It appears that was PR.

1: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/report-nsa-paid-rsa-...

2: "(TS//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY) Complete enable for [REDACTED] encryption chips used in Virtual Private Network and Web encryption devices [CCP_00009]" - (U) COMPUTER NETWORK OPERATIONS (U) SIGINT ENABLING http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-r...
Good point, and it is a long game, although Google doesn't yet seem to be incentivizing people to move to Kansas City. And the buses are a good testbed for an autonomous vehicle fleet, like how Uber dispatches human-driven cars today in order to grow the market for 3-7 years from now.

In the post-WW2 era, suburbs like Irvine here in the LA area built up a large economy by providing growing industries with land use they couldn't find in the metropolis. And the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System provided an infrastructure that citizens appreciated and trucking companies were able to use to diversify goods movement. Maybe forward-looking municipalities or larger government entities have an opportunity to enable further economic progress by providing superior access to high-speed connectivity.
I used to believe that the reversibility of transactions was a major benefit of using cards, but it turns out that is really just a reversibility of liability.

Credit cards are an outdated tool. They pass plain text data about a user to authorize a transaction allowing hackers to pull something off like the Target hack. One of the advantages of bitcoin is the ability to digitally authorize a transaction that cannot be reused. In an online marketplace it's far far easier to accept bitcoins than credit cards because you have no fraud risk, which is a HUGE problem in online retail.

I expect a lot of online retail stores to start accepting bitcoin payments at large discounts to cash just for this reason.