skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you would be hard pressed to find a public well known service that is depended on ISP CDNs.

Google? No. Games? No. JS libraries? No.

Even if some might use CDNs, they are likely to also use geo-aware DNS servers. It cheap, don't cost anything, and can be combined with CDNs on ISP level.
It doesn't shred anything with an SSD, though...
year++;
Smuggling data across borders as you suggested could land you in a much larger world of hurt than bringing across a clean laptop, I would imagine.

If your desktop was on 24/7 and you're the one who set it up, it would be trivial to determine if somebody other than yourself had physically accessed it. Applebaum's computer equipment was turned off when he left Berlin from what I understand.
I think Australians get 2 years free as per the legal requirements. However I suspect they increase the overall price to compensate so we are not really better off.
http://www.pomodoro.me/ do stuff in chunks of 25 minutes of uninterrupted time.
Which is why I was wondering why OP asked the question: Only if bandwidth, latency, and network connectivity are an issue.

Perhaps he meant "...are NOT an issue." ???
Walt and Kara's new site is Re/code, which will launch tomorrow: http://recode.net/welcome/
And done... https://github.com/mikispag/bitiodine/issues/3

This whole incident reminds me of Reddit doxxing. This could have ended up much worse for me. I'm just glad I found out this way instead of the police requesting info from Google about my youtube account and gmail inbox then busting down my door in the middle of the night.
The author chose what to write and the editor chose what to edit and the publisher chose what to publish. Likewise, Apple chose what to send AnandTech, and chose to send the influential publication an $8300 machine rather than a more common model for benchmarking.

In light of the fact that much less expensive machines often performed better, it seems obvious that the favorable conclusion of the review ought to provide some rational case for being so.
ANYBODY could make them aware, not just the rightsholder. That's what happened with Mega: users complained about the quality of Dexter videos.
Happy New Year. Have more fun this year!
Ask HN: What are your 2014 Predictions?
What are your predictions for the world in general for 2014?
Ha. I have never started contributing to Stack Overflow, because it won't let me. It appears that you can't provide answers without first asking questions. When I have questions, I use Google or IRC. Every now and then Google throws up SO questions I can answer (or improve answers to, or point out FAIL in the answers to) on the way to my finding an answer to the original question, and I log in to SO and try to contribute...

So my attitude to SO is pretty much "meh". I'll take useful answers (and sometimes there are really good ones), but if they don't want me to contribute, stuff 'em.
Top Ten Articles of 2013
The money quote:

My Mom actually made me collect all of the pieces, lay them out, and try to root-cause the failure.
Thanks for reminding me how much I want to escape to the countryside.
New Year's Resolution: to get the leap year conditional right this time.
I hope for the sake of everyone here that productivity implies more free time to spend with friends and family.
I've definitely leveled up over time, but have always been able to selectively process input :)
So they're not exactly shutting down, as much as they are changing brands?
>Linux hasn't succeeded on its own merits but as an economical way for companies to bootstrap their own products to fight for Apple's leftovers.

Please. Apple makes decent products, but I'm not aware of a single market they dominate. Microsoft (still) dominates laptops and desktops, Linux (still) dominates servers, and while Apple enjoyed a brief period of dominance in the US smartphone (but not overall mobile phone) market, they dont dominate that either now (and the in the international market, they are borderline irrelevant).

Apple is an influential but marketshare minor player in consumer electronics.
The shutdown is also separation from the Wall Street Journal.
It's the news-blog equivilant of "pivot."
This seems a lot like Lua metatables. I don't know why people don't just give up on JavaShit and just name Lua as EcmaScript v6. It's vastly superior in every possible way.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Best to everyone!
I suspect a high score might lead to higher income potential. I knew a guy who claimed his high SO score led to more recruiter spam.
As a fellow entrepreneur also running a bootstrapped startup, I have a question regarding the setup of your employees. Do you have offices in NM and Karachi, or do you have employees in these cities who work from home?

What channels and methods did you use to find them?
>Apple doesn't think people need them

I am more inclined to say Apple doesn't want people to think they need them.
The quote was "If you're under 40, I'm largely uninterested in your take on the world."

See the words 'largely', and 'uninterested'?

Do you understand what those words mean? Fucking hell.
This is going to sound sad, but I can't figure out how to install Python 3 and run a script with a single package.

Seriously. I've programmed for 5 years, studied CS, and I really don't understand how to do it.

I have a Mac Book Pro Retina, so it ships with 2.7. I write Ruby in various versions via RVM, and I have no idea what version of Node I use, but I use it a lot.

Over the Holiday I decided to try to port some Node services to Python (mainly because they are analytics projects and I'd like to start using Python for analytics and "data science" ). And I struck out. Bad. Using Homebrew to install Python 3[.3] and no success with virtualenv and Pip. At best I get a pip-3.3 to install and crash anytime I try to install a package.

I would love to convert these services to Python 3. In fact, I'll regret not doing so. But at this point, it really isn't worth my time trying to figure it out. Once I accepted installing my packages via 2.7, I was able to convert the services (with tests!) over a long weekend.

I did a fair amount of research through Google and Stack Overflow, and each confirmed my suspicion that this process is shit.

I just saw a tweet by @holman where he described a friend saying 'how can ruby be such an easy language but be so hard to install?' And asserted that our industry still sucks (and in my opinion Ruby in any incarnation is infinitely easier than Python).

He is so right.
If you have a SF Bay Area phone number, it's probably in there.
That's a serious move against someone like Mass Relevance. Super congrats, Randall! Would love to talk sometime :-)
Thinking in rhythm can help you focus. You run a clock in your head with a rhythm pattern imposed on it. You create anchors in your short term memory at the start of the rhythm cycle that tell you what you're currently thinking about. If your mind strays while you're working, your thinking clock should keep running. Then you can remember your last anchor and return to that point to re-focus yourself on what you were working on before you strayed. Thinking in rhythm makes you more aware of the temporal aspects of your thinking. Over time, you begin to gain control over when you think.

For a more in depth discussion, see http://bit.ly/JIXwSf
They start with 200-200-0000.
I got a genetic test done with 23andme. It said I had a (greater probability of a) warfarin sensitivity. This was interesting because my grandma had a stroke after being given warfarin. The stroke put her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life - it ended her independence and she had to go into a home with 24hr care. It was horrible.

After this I got my entire family tested. As expected my mother carried the warfarin gene (the grandma was on her side of the family).

Knowing this information is hugely valuable to me. I think it's awful that the FDA deems fit to prevent me getting information about myself.
Hackers Claim To Publish List Of 4.6M Snapchat Usernames And Numbers
> > When 90% of your "students" fail to complete the courses, you have an epic failure on your hands.

> What is the percentage of dedicated students, that have the right background to understand the material, complete the course?

What we have now is too much marketing. The reason 90% of students fail to complete the course is because 90% of them aren't really students. But the MOOC purveyors insist on calling them that despite the fact that a lot of people enroll in a course they don't have time/ability for. And people do that because there's no reason not to.
Those caps in the PSU are going to get pretty cooked judging from their position...
µSpeech - Speech recognition toolkit for the arduino
Netflix might do something about freeloaders: cut prices for everyone else
An Arduino With Better Speech Recognition Than Siri
happy new year everyone! :D
> The converse problem is having to write iterator versions of map, filter, and other eagerly-evaluated builtins

Well, in Python 2 you just use imap instead of map. That way you have both options, and you can be explicit rather than implicit.

> That's not a list of numbers... that's a list of bytes!

The point being made here is not that some things are not possible in Python 3, but rather than things that are natural in Python 2 are ugly in 3. I believe you're proving the point here. The idea that b'a'[0] == 97 in such a fundamental way that I might get one when I expected the other may be fine in C, but I hold Python to a higher standard.
Just like to remind everyone that snapchat was aware of this exploit and dismissive in regards to it.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/27/5249304/snapchat-dismisse...
Shouldn't this have been posted at 0 GMT?

Or has doing time math gone to my brain...
It looks like they only bothered with most populated area codes.
I would love to see Python seriously consider dropping case and underscore sensitivity in order to speed up developers

How? By making it harder to find all occurrences of an identifier? Case sensitivity is debatable since editors have the option to ignore case during searches, but ignoring underscores isn't something any text editor I've seen has as a default search feature.
Science-based medicine throughout time
Ha, what. Your site says I'm leaked but gives a totally wrong phone #.
The problem becomes apparent if someone is "diagnosed" by 23andme as having a predisposition to something that they don't actually have. For example, your test says you're sensitive to warfarin and you choose not to have that drug administered in a time when your doctor says it would be the best option. Not only are the results questionable, perhaps warfarin is the only good option. If you refuse it based on an invalid test and you are seriously damaged by the lack of proper care, that's a problem.

I'm no expert, but it seems like the validity of these tests are being drawn into question. While it may help, it may also really hurt. Questioning these interpretations is exactly what medical science should be doing. You're not getting information about yourself, you're getting (to you) incomprehensible data and a guess as to what it means. Is that more valid than the family history that your doctor already has?

Humans tend to make emotional decisions when it comes to their own health. The goal of medical science is to get past the emotion (look at what this drug did to my grandma) and find provable facts instead.
There is a HUGE difference between "buying knock offs" and copying something that should be in public domain. For one thing knockoffs tend to be cheap and poor quality. But this isn't just about "copying" it is also about using, and remaking and recreating. If the 1978 law was still in effect I could create a cat in the hat game or movie, without having to pay licensing fees.
As a casual user, can someone explain the implications for me? They seem to have my username and phone number combo; can they use these for nefarious purposes?
I think a more important lesson to learn here is to have the uncomfortable conversations ASAP. The sooner you communicate clearly, the fewer opportunities there are for misunderstandings.

If I had to give founders one piece of advice it would be, "Just Ask"... Ask for the sale, ask what youll get in exchange for equity, ask, ask, ask...
I really wish these "check if you've been hacked" sites gave some sort of reason why I should trust them. How would my mom know if this was a secure check or just a phishing scam?
Yes and No. Essentially Kara/Walt and WSJ/Dow Jones/NewsCorp "divorced".

The "divorce" left Kara/Walt with the writers (as they were employed by them) and WSJ/Dow Jones/NewsCorp the AllThingsD brand, website and conference business. However, it appears the AllThingsD site is being completely shut down and redirected to http://wsj.com/tech - probably because NewsCorp who struck the original deal with Kara/Walt don't want a situation like this to happen again.

Recode is a completely new business (site and conference business; WSJ/NewsCorp/Dow Jones still owns the D Conference) albeit with the same writers from AllThingsD.
Indeed, documentation is another thing that is going to show schisms, not just code. Backwards-incompatibility means that the majority of Python tutorials and books are just going to be broken, and one of the worst experiences I've had is with finding example code/description online for something, only to discover it won't actually work for the latest version.
Hacker New Year
Orange to take legal action after report of spying via its cable
Didn't we just have a discussion about Sherlock Holmes. The last few stories are copyrighted in the US but NOT in Britian... Good thing we have hamornization.
I'm all for a more world wide copyright. But keep it to a realistic term. Amazon claims they have few books older than 25 years, so 25 sounds like a good length to me.
The Constitution says "for a limited time" I would claim that anything time that is longer than the average human life span is NOT limited.
Tick Toq: Qualcomm Takes on the Smartwatch
wow. ew. what a sad story that graph tells. will these trends continue?

i'd be interested to see these graphs over a larger time scale too.
At least one of the major oil firms uses a pool of laptops requisitioned and distributed outside the US. Leave your company laptop + phone at home, fly to your destination outside the US and the local office will provide you with temporary equipment.

The company in question doesn't use this policy for all countries, typically just China, Russia and some of the more questionable nations they do business in (Nigeria, Kazakhstan, etc). They don't bother for travel to, say, London.
That's not really the definition of hacker in regards to hacker news.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
People hate the Disney Corporation because they were a driving force to extending copyrights. This has nothing to do with liking Mickey Mouse or even wanting to use Mickey and its image. It is about wanting to use OTHER works created that should have entered into the public domain. Consider Mickey was introduced in 1928. This article was about things that would have entered public domain that were created in 1957. Over 30 years of stuff that did not enter public domain thanks to the likes of Disney.
Any 2014 wishes for HN headlines, improvements, milestones, technologies and hacks?
FYI, that "half meter cable" is not simple electrical continuity. There are microcontrollers in the ends handling the data as it passes.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/06/29/thunderbolt.ca...
If you're not a hot underage teen girl, then prob not. But now it blows up the spot for where a lot of teens are hanging out. Now it's another step to getting to you if some creep wants to. Or take it to a grander scale, it creates a viable link of who a person and their digital mask is.

That's kind of the thing about privacy. It's kind of slipping away, but if you don't care that it is then it's prob cause it doesn't matter to you yet.
It does seem to have been a design defect in this case:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4127
Here's another novel idea. How about to fucking riot and repel this policy?

So far, the reaction on intrusion of privacy by the government from the people was to circumvent it, go underground. A reaction commonly expected from a country like Soviet Union where people had zero say on the rulings and had to be creative to avoid surveillance.

I'm saddened to see a similar attitude in the US.
Comparing Steam to Windows is invalid to begin with. The only valid comparison is comparing Steam to a similar Microsoft offering. The Windows 8 marketplace and the Windows Phone marketplace are not dissimilar, so my point remains valid. Microsoft cannot remove applications from Windows because they do not control the distribution. They can and have removed apps from their controlled distribution channels which are comparable with Steam (which is what Valve considers their competition). Valve isn't worried about Windows 8 desktop, they're worried about Windows Marketplace. Your attempted comparison is like saying Netflix has never broken into your house and stolen your DVDs. They can't do that because that's not a distribution channel they control. They can and have removed movies from their own distribution channel.

If you want to argue Windows desktop versus Steam, though, Microsoft does control Windows Defender anti-virus which can force-remove applications or prevent them from running. In that sense, Microsoft surely can deny you access to application you've purchased. Your comparison is still uniquely inappropriate, though.
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I was comparing the 3G prices to India and other Asian countries. I guess US has some of the highest prices around.
self-fulfilling prophecies?
Part of the problem is the character isn't exactly copyrighted. It is the reason why we just had a recent lawsuit about Sherlock Holmes. You are free to create a book or movie about Sherlock Holmes. Just don't use any of the info from the last few books in the series.
I think that Disney should be able to protect Mickey in a trademarked way, and do it at a cost. But it is going to be more complicated than "you can't use the characters"
Does archive.org need to grab the site before WSJ break all the links?
Please keep doing this. I'm a total newbie - my first app (a very specific calculator for a small profession) is awaiting rejection from Apple. I'm yet ready to ask questions on StackOverflow as I know perfectly well that everything I could think of asking has been asked before. I spend hours reading there and have always found my answer. Those who take the time to answer are appreciated.
Among other things, it means that the cell phones of people who have predictable user names are now very easy to discover. I don't use SnapChat, but if I did I would be patio11 on it. My cell is fairly closely guarded. You could imagine some people with similar situations who'd be at higher risk of misuse, because of a higher public profile, higher perceived payoff for contacting, notoriety, or demographic interest to people with poor impulse control.
I was ;) The band was trying to go national, which is why they signed up on a NY label.
No way man, here on the left coast you'll have to tare 2013 out of our cold dead hands!

... for another 60 minutes anyways.

Happy new year!
What would happen if you have a non-standard setup? For example, on my computer, I could show them `locate *.jpg`, but I doubt they would take my word for what that does. I think I have Gnome and Unity installed, which probably have GUI searches. Of course, I could always arrow down to my Windows installation at the grub boot screen, but than they would never know about all of the pictures I don't have on my main installation. Thats not even counting the encrypted loopback file I have, or the "/ram" directory I have which is hidden by the tmpfs filesystem mounted on top of it.

Of course, these are all without me trying to hide anything (the encrypted loopback is mostly a matter of principle, I don't actually have anything stored in it).
So you're telling me it's all in who you know?!
The continual focus on completion rates is rather misguided. Like others here, I have taken many a MOOC, and consider the experience useful and successful. I have also never completed a single MOOC, doing little of the homework in most cases. I have no use for more pieces of papers, and really no time to do homework, but I get what I want, which is an overview of a subject area and some entertainment while doing the chores. Learning about behavioural economics from Dan Ariely's course was one of the most useful things I did in 2013, and I am independently learning more about the field.

Obviously there are issues the MOOC providers need to resolve. It's not clear how they will make money, and if they really want to go the volume model they probably need to lower the level of the courses offered -- more Udemy than Udacity -- or offer some kind of recognised accreditation so that students can justify devoting the time required to really learn material. In the language of startups, with which I'm sure we're all familiar, they haven't found product-market fit. It may be the case that people like me are not considered useful by MOOC providers -- I'm unlikely to ever give them money. That's fair enough and I have no problem with it.

I find articles like the one linked rather annoying. It's clear that MOOCs are a thing, and what we really need is discussion of how they're going to integrate with the educational landscape, not sniping from the sidelines. In this case it's ok, as it's a journalistic organisation reporting on what happened. However I read the same thing from academics, which is a real shame. Many seem to get joy from the failures of MOOCs, no doubt because they see them as a threat to their livelihood. I'd rather see some engagement with the issue.
The game's actual page is here
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/comment-page-2/...
and if you have the Unity browser plugin installed you can play it here:
http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/ludumdare/sect/To%20That%20Se...

The game isn't that unique or challenging. You're in a maze with giant 3d models in reference poses strewn about. You can only walk around and jump. You can collect the untextured white cruise ships that move around slowly. The enemies are some untextured white statues that seem to tumble around aimlessly and slowly. They do not pose any challenge or threat. Then you find the exit which is just a yellow cylinder.

I don't really find the game exceptional or noteworthy as it stands right now. I also don't see any relation between the game and the thematic prompt given by the contest ("You Only Get One".)