skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, a poorly thought through article. This article seems to only promote FUD regarding information security. I hope the overall goal of creating robust systems is not lost by calling out certain tools. Security through obscurity is not security.
Well, that’s just, like, your opinion.

Design is the worst. Searching for bookshelf speakers during the last month was an appalling experience. I think they all look absolutely disgusting, no matter how much you want to spend. HiFi people all have disgusting taste. But that’s also just my opinion. They seem to honestly believe that their ugly bookshelf speakers are stunning.
AngularJS best practices: Refactoring existing code to use Angular
You... may want to read up on the history of the US's involvement in fomenting revolution, and how well it's worked out for us historically.

Those who forget the lessons of history, &c...
This a seems a clear advantage for bitcoin - scammy businesses don't have access to your account to continue charging you (unlike credit cards).

Sure, you can't do the initial chargeback but the main issue here was with the recurring charges.

Also bitcoin preventing chargebacks eliminates fraud for the retailer.
If it's a bad patent (as is so common with software patents) we have a different problem. One that will, eventually, solve itself in a most spectacular way.
Agreed! Great book.
It's my first commend at ycombinator and I want to say: Hacker News, I love you! ^^

I tried to install Erlang IDEs such as Erlide ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zotonic-users/CdLhhQ... ) and open Zotonic projects but features like code completion and quick reference didn't work. Maybe some folder access rights problems, I don't know.
I read this in a day in high school. It was great, and actually all of his books are great. The crypto one is really engaging, and a surprisingly easy while reasonably thorough read. The one about the big bang can get a little dry in spots, but it's 500 pages and by the end there are more than enough "wow, that's amazing" moments to make up for it.
NK shelled SK recently. Just for shits and giggles.
... and hope no one bribes the guards.
Better to die fighting for your freedom than live in that hell hole.
Life isn't black and white. What that means is that maybe US should get involved in some situations, and not get involved in others. So you don't have to think that either you get involved in no situation, or in all situations outside of the country.

I think US has done at least as much damage [1] as it has helped, which is why the situations need to very weighted very carefully, especially in the past decade or two, when it seems it has mostly used humanitarian excuses to get involved in new conflicts but with the main agenda of helping its economic interests, which is quite far from the goal of "helping others" for the sake of it.

[1] http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
I'm willing to bet it will be available in an open format "on the web".

The additional formats probably exist to serve a wider audience.

It would be nice if I could get it in TeX though.
Open Source CMS Demos & Information
It's a simple black cylinder, I think it's fantastically minimal.
> Yes, this is the rationale the Supreme Court used to justify retroactive extensions of copyright.

No, it isn't. Not only is the stated rationale not addressed in the key case on retroactive copyright extension -- Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003) -- that decision doesn't actually justify retroactive extensions of copyright based on any kind of incentive structure. Its only discussion of incentive was in regard to setting the particular term (not its retroactive effect.)
No Shit Sherlock, it was written 126 years ago.
That's not entirely true. Images are highly redundant and have a lot of structure to them. it might be possible to reconstruct the image a decent amount from that. Obviously a lot of the information and all small details would be missing, but you could make it more recognizable.
This is brilliant because it encourages thinking a little differently to come up with the wrong answer (which helps you learn to identify wrong code). Nice work OP
Unless the server UPS is inside the chassis, disk corruption on power loss seems like a very high risk. Datacenter-wide UPSes can fail (at one of XO's DCs, we had power loss 3 times in 2 months). People can accidentally unplug stuff.
Upvoted because my reading skills switched off half-way through your comment.
> This is why you want to ban GMO, to force people to care about the same stuff as you do...Leftists are just like conservatives, always want to tell people what they can or cannot do with their own body.

Ah, I see. What else can you tell me about myself, generalizing from a selection of opinions? You should extend your logic to education policy, you could provide me with a devastating refutation of all of my new-found ideas.

I'm afraid you're not even wrong. Firstly, I don't want to ban GMO's, secondly, I'm not a 'leftist', thirdly, if you're going to widen the debate to drugs, leftists are overwhelmingly the driving force behind legalization and decriminalization.
Because it's already public domain in Britain, and has been since 2000. Since copyright is per-country, that didn't matter for an American case.

Past that, America is a big enough chunk of the English-speaking audience that its American status is a factor for major commercial projects.
> While there most likely isn’t much of need in styling elements based on their locale

It might be useful for languages that go right to left, etc. since speakers of those languages also like their nav elements (and everything, really) in that order.
Students put AccuWeather long-range forecasts to the test
Does anybody know what technology is used for the Spotify desktop apps? I was poking around to see if I could figure it out. It seems like something perhaps written in C with a hybrid of widget toolkit and HTML. I was just curious because I'm always interested to see how other people are doing cross-platform desktop apps.
My 16:9 monitors look so mundane when compared to a console with two circular ones...
The Right Way to Inflate Harvard Grades
The irony is that the 10 post-1923 stories are mostly sub-par and include some of the most out-of-character moments. In my mind not using them is an improvement, though I doubt that my opinion is authoritative enough to influence the case.
Well I just canceled my subscription. Let's vote with our wallets.
Does Having A Higher IQ Makes You Smarter?
How MustWin tackles large products... one bite at a time.
What do you mean by "rescuing the entire country"? Are you suggesting that we invest in a full-scale invasion of the DPRK?
i thought this was going to be about star wars.
I agree with the author about History of Mathematics and Journey Through Genius, so I did what he said and bought The Mathematical Experience immediately.
That the latter is idiomatic use of nodejs may itself be of value.
Shit, that's me. I thought it was something strange wanting to sleep when the pressure is really on, and that other people are not like this...

And guess how I feel bootstrapping my project right now... :/

The funny thing is that I do think I can change pretty much everything that is bad, while this "learned helplessness" does make sense in the same time, if I really dig into things. So I guess what I say and what I do need to be reconciled. Though I have some guesses what issues I need to process, at least.
Your History of Mathematics is great, but I prefer the two volume work by D.E. Smith. Here's volume 1: http://www.amazon.com/History-Mathematics-Vol-Dover-Books/dp...
They have a lot of unofficial leverage, particularly when it comes to future fund raising, venture debt, and even acquisitions. It's much, much easier to raise an A-round when seed investors are helping, and presumably the B-round is much smoother when the A-round firm is actively helping.
I think you are the first person I have ever seen say that. If I may ask, what benefits would having it TeX bring to you?
Over the years I've come to the conviction that the 2 most important properties of programs are simply
1. Correctness
2. Maintainability

A program that does not do what it's supposed to is of little value. This is a relative metric however, a program can do many valuable things right, yet have a few bugs.

But once a program does what we want, what else do we want from it? We want the ability to change it easily, so it can do even more things for us.

Maintainability is also a relative metric, and even harder to quantify than "correctness". However when looking at two ways of writing a specific part of a program, it is often easy to say which produces a more maintainable solution.
The author mentions that he only evaluated drives that have some form of power loss protection - doing some quick searching around, I couldn't find any Samsung drives in the given price range that claimed to have that.

Did I miss an appropriate Samsung drive in my quick searches? Or is there reason to suspect that a Samsung drive that doesn't claim to have power loss protection would nonetheless handle this case better than the non-Intel drives that did make that claim? Because if not, then I don't think not evaluating Samsung drives compromises the results in any way.
> I really need to adjust my lifestyle for that to happen.

It sounds almost like that's justification for not doing it. Instead, think of that process as lots of smaller first steps.
Seems I'm pretty spoiled by iFixIt - I really like their super high image sizes that let you really see every little bit of the board. These look like they were taken with an old mobile phone, smuggled out of some factory.

Seriously, OWC, nobody on your staff has a tripod, DSLR, and a desk lamp or clip light?
Would be nice to see this test for Samsung drivers which should be closer to Intel's quality.
Here’s a lovely bit of nasty hypocrisy:

"Yoga International could keep the videos on its website until it had a chance to re-film the classes using a different style."

So they say they're not using the patent as a weapon, but then describe themselves harassing another organization with it. Their patience is generous only if we can assume it's no trouble at all to re-film those classes (ugh).

And doesn't the existence of videos they "felt were very close to ours" imply a bit of prior art and/or lack of originality on the so-called patented style? Or perhaps are they are insinuating that Yoga International willfully "stole" or "reverse engineered" their style before the patent was issued?
Using Dropbox with Writer Pro
While the usage of the word "Yoga" to describe spiritual practices is certainly quite old (the Yoga Sutras were apparently compiled a bit before Jesus), Hatha Yoga is only a few centuries old, and the gymnastic practice that is common today (asanas) is pretty modern (~150 years).

Doesn't make patents any less ridiculous, of course.
I apologize. I tend to automatically assume most writers are male. It's a terrible default state.

Anyways, I'm already pretty well versed on that basics of programming. I think the key, as you pointed out, is to get involved in an open source project to build up my portfolio. Python is the language I prefer, but I use vb.net to build the tools I use at work since the .net framework provides a great interface with the microsoft products corporate office workers are slaves to. I'll start searching for local open-source contributors.
You are in the minority. I think it's stunningly beautiful.
Probably, but that's North Koreans' choice to make. When you declare that other people live in a hellhole and start killing them for their freedom, there's a term for that: invasion.
Damn 40$ a month to read this is a lot.
Given the Internet has millions/billions of photos on it yet the authors chose not to do a simple random sample, at all, I'm guessing this is more setting up everything exactly correct to create the answer they want.

This is not how one normally does science.
Highlights, IMHO (still reading, but wanted to make an early note):

- "We human beings have a sloppy, if not outright bad habit of assigning advances to a few ‘great men.’ I call this habit the Pythagoras syndrome, after the tendency in the western world to assign all pre-fourth century B.C.E. mathematics to Pythagoras without regard to actual origins. In evaluating Turing’s contributions, we should be careful not to fall victim to the Pythagoras syndrome, if only to give full credit to his actual contributions, which were specific and great."

- "Babbage turned his efforts to the design of an ‘analytic engine.’ Programmed by punched cards like a Jacquard loom, the analytic engine would have been a universal digital computer."

- "The science fiction genre known as ‘steampunk’ speculates how the world might have evolved if nineteenth century technology had been up to the task of constructing the difference and analytical engines. (Per- haps the best-known example of the steampunk genre is William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s novel, ‘The Difference Engine’ [4].)"

- "Turing’s great contribution to logic can be thought of as the rejection of logic as a Platonic ideal, and the redefinition logic as a process."
It does have the advantage of being extremely quiet. If you find yourself looking at it in disgust, you could probably put it inside the hollowed shell of an old Mac Pro. Or just put it behind your monitor or under your desk.
Subscribe to read?

I think it's clear the general consensus is negative.
Did he do any control studies with spinning disks?

I have my doubts that many of them would survive thousands of power cycles per day.
Snapchat's Response to GibSec
History of Wikipedia by languages
Fixed. Math is hard :P
The Patent Troll PoV of the Innovation Act bill
I flagged this post. It surely can't be OK to link to an article you must pay to read. I hope some of the moderators will remove it.
Haha. Okay, let's see. How about -
eBay/PayPal and Intel?
Stop Saying 'If You're Not Paying, You're The Product': http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121219/18272921446/stop-s...
I develop primarily on FreeBSD (80% C, 20% nodejs) and test for compliance on Centos Linux. My experience is that code written and tested on FreeBSD has so far fewer bugs this way. Package management is more intuitive, too.
Guide to Leaving your Mac
Well the lawyer and the principal plaintiff.
This Is What Happens When You Blow Soap Bubbles at -9°C (15,8°F)
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
Heh - good point! And then there's the "redacted" bits in government PDF that turned out to be nothing more than "Kennedy assassination carried out as requested by Agent F. Castro" followed by "rectangle(colour = black, position = last 9 characters of line)". All you need to do is edit the PDF and you get all the documents you could want. I love it when faith in technology fails in informative ways...
what about others that are doing the same thing.

for example TINT

tintup.com

once you create a free account they have the following:

Dear valued Tint customer,
Would you like to write a review about Tint? In exchange for your opinions/blog post, we are giving away 50% off FOREVER promo code for our Plus Plan. To learn more, click the button below:

screen shot: http://imgur.com/wDnAJ4c
Ditto. This interview needs to make HN's front page, but not like this.
> They are not successful though, are they? There is a low-budget snow-white based TV series that run a year ago (Once Upon A Time)

Once Upon a Time is a (still active) series produced by ABC Studios, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group, which is in turn a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney. The show incorporates dozens of Disney franchises (or, rather, the Disney versions of classic stories) entirely because of its ownership.
I presume he or she means "The Fucking Article".
IP Nav is probably the biggest company of Erich Spangenberg, who is also the owner of TQP Development (
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-on-trial-m...)
This post could be perfect satire in the style of Flowers for Algernon. Unfortunately I think the author is serious.
what about others that are buying links???

for example TINT

tintup.com

once you create a free account they have the following:

Dear valued Tint customer,
Would you like to write a review about Tint? In exchange for your opinions/blog post, we are giving away 50% off FOREVER promo code for our Plus Plan. To learn more, click the button below:

screen shot: http://imgur.com/wDnAJ4c
>Strict libertarians are all about keeping our nose (and military) out of other people's business.

That just makes libertarians bad, not you a bad libertarian. Libertarianism is marked by a lack of concern for others and a reticence to help them. Whether it's social darwinism, isolationism, or opposition to social programs to help the less fortunate, the defining feature of libertarianism seems to be saying "fuck you, help your own self" to anyone in need.
Perhaps scam is the wrong word? Like the online affiliate model, there was quite a bit of fine print that I did not read. Notably the part (I'm paraphrasing here) where I get charged and continue to get charged if certain conditions are not met. As a 10 year old perhaps scam is the wrong word. But, to me, it feels very similar to the affiliate model of advertising online today.
The (Actual) FR Interview (08)
The biggest practical problem with invading North Korea, well-intentioned or not, is that it shares a long border with China.
Code snip server ~25 lines
What clustering algorithm is best for rectangles?
That's a pretty silly idea of libertarianism. I think you're equating it with things like anarcho-capitalism and minarchism instead of proper anarchism.
If it's the ABC "Once Upon A Time", that's Disney owned.
Estimated 18 percent of US drug users bought from Silk Road, says study
Fukushima Radiation Hits San Francisco
Here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/662121/what-language-or-t...
HTC Posts Flowchart Explaining Its Software Updates Process
Servers can go down more than you think. Rackspace had an entire wing of their Texas data center go down hard 3 times within a couple months a few years back. I know because PortableApps.com's dedicated box was in that wing. It was an issue with the equipment that switches form external power to battery to generator power. And there was no secondary backup to that, so it would go down and take the whole wing all at once. This would corrupt our Drupal database and it would take about 8 hours to rebuild. So, having a reliable SSD with power loss prevention could be a lot more relevant than you expect.
Oh, great, American expansionism (let CIA fund "freedom fighters" against villains; what could possibly go wrong?) combined with the American mythology that dictators are somehow afraid of armed people.

That "weak and starving" North Korean army would cut through a town-ful of untrained militia like knife going through butter. Really, stop fantasizing about armed revolution just because it once worked for your ancestor 200 years ago. It fails more often than not, and with near certainty when someone foreign nation has the bright idea of arming insurgents.
U.S Judge rules NSA’s Phone Surveillance program is Legal |DNA Insider
Hundreds of radio-tagged sharks tweet warnings at Australian swimmers
Yeah, that's about the only restriction. From the docs:

Specifically, a raw string cannot end in a single backslash (since the backslash would escape the following quote character).
I love the shape and functionality of the case, but the chrome-plated shiny is IMO unnecessarily garish.

That said, on the whole of it, I like the design. It also looks pretty self-serviceable, maybe OEMs will start making mobos and graphics cards in this form factor. I'd honestly rather get rid of the monstrosity of a tower I have under my desk for something this size.
I agree that white space is important. But why have so much of it on the OUTER edges of the page, rather than in the inner margins. When you read a book the paper on the inner margins is typically curved, and thus the "effective white space" you see there is less than you could conclude from these flat illustrations.

I can see one reason which could have historic reasons. When you flip the pages with your hands, they will wear out more on the outer horizontal margins. If you make that margin wider there is less chance of corrupting the printed content. However that would not apply to online pages.
Yes and no. The majority opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft clearly discusses retroactive effect:

"Given the consistent placement of existing copyright holders in parity with future holders, the author of a work created in the last 170 years would reasonably comprehend, as the “this” offered her, a copyright not only for the time in place when protection is gained, but also for any renewal or extension legislated during that time. Congress could rationally seek to “promote … Progress” by including in every copyright statute an express guarantee that authors would receive the benefit of any later legislative extension of the copyright term. Nothing in the Copyright Clause bars Congress from creating the same incentive by adopting the same position as a matter of unbroken practice."[1]

Stated rational by above post isn't quite the same as the point made in Eldred, but it's based on the same idea -- i.e. parity between terms for newly created works and previously created works.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-618.ZO.html
While we're at it, it would be "Sir Arthur" in short form, though it's really nor proper to use the honorific at all after a knight is deceased -- the knighthood is strictly a lifetime honour, and dies with the knight. In the case of people like Arthur Conan Doyle, it makes biographical sketches awkward, since he was a Knight Bachelor, not a knight of an order of chivalry, so there isn't a "real" postnominal you can use in a list of awards and decorations ("Kt" is usually used these days, but it's easily confused with "KT", indicating a Knight of the Order of the Thistle, when set in traditional small caps); one needs to either break the rules or use something like "in life he was styled...".
I swapped my Spotify subscription for a Google Music subscription a couple weeks ago for the percieved lack of development. I also seriously miss the album view that they removed (why?) and refuse to re-implement[1] - I frequently make album based playlists, and not having the album covers to group songs by is a pretty big usability issue for me (not just a "nifty trick" as they labeled it...).

Compared to Spotify, what I like better about Google Music:

1. Much better Android client (faster, better UI)
2. Collection and My Albums features
3. Can quickly make a playlist from a radio station based on a song (which can be downloaded to my mobile phone)
4. Can upload music I own that is not in the catalog
5. Lots of top / key albums by Genre and Sub-genre - have found lots of new music since switching.
6. No facebook activity stream

What I miss from Spotify:
1. Having a desktop client (though don't miss as much as I thought I would)
2. Some music missing (only 2 artist so far, and I own the albums so I guess its only kind-of an issue)

[1]:http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Please-restore...
It's long been conventional wisdom that you'd have to be crazy to buy anything but Intel when it comes to SSDs. This study isn't too surprising, in that regard.
Non-competes would likely come either when you left the company in exchange for some unvested options, or after an acquisition.