skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suggestion: Have a 'profile basket' so I can recover the birth date the next time a service asks for security questions.

Actually, generating the "first boyfriend" and "my first car color" would be great too.

Actually, what about generating a facebook and linkedin profile for the fake names?
Do the Thailand floods make any difference to this report? How reliable were those drives, and are the factories ba k up to full speed yet?
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I feel like he has the right idea but the concept of "risk", I feel, is pretty worthless when you've probably got a few hundred million in the bank. In fact, it upsets me in general when filthy rich people talk about risk, because I have a mortgage and a family so for me, "risk" means maybe not being able to put a roof over my son's head.
It allows you to put markers on an embedded google map. You can also do directions to and from markers, etc.
>It's also pretty well agreed on (mainly from scientific studies into the actual results of investors) that this is not only bullcrap

Are you sure you actually understand what nicholas actually argued? All nicholas (as well as me) wrote is that your decision making changes completely when you have something on the line. And of course it would! So what are you talking about?
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Yuck. The idolization of assholes in our industry continues.
Hi simonhamp, Congrats on the project! I'd love to hear more about how you're running it for so low cost! Have you open sourced the site? I'd love to also hear your stack. I've managed to keep all my projects (even one exceeding 5 Million+ ) extremely low cost (pretty much the domain name only as well) and always looking for more ideas to save! Feel free to PM me as well!
This was raised on the OpenBSD Misc mailing list. The response from OpenBSD team members was along the lines of: this stuff takes time/effort away from the development work.

Recall that the original funding request was asking for a Canadian company to basically pay the electricity bill, i.e. one or a small number of large sponsors.

Now: I'd like a laptop that will work with the *BSDs no fiddling. No blob wifi, no need for acpi daemons to control fans &c
Stock market is prone to crashes; also you can't live in your stocks when out of other options.

If you believe in long term economic stability, then go ahead and invest in stocks. We don't. And now we know at least we'll have a place to live.

When economy is stable, realty prices grow; when economy is shaky, realty prices fall but slower than stocks. Stocks are more liquid on the other hand.
What about Chrome Remote Desktop?
Looking at the high layers of society, i can see a lot of open gays, much more than i can see around myself. So being straight is probably not such a big advantage.

Women on freelancing sites definitely earn a lot more than men, i know a lot of men pretending to be women there to get projects easier, and not a single case of reverse. People who make their living of freelancing probably know what they are doing. And that is precisely due to (real or imaginary) positive sides of women as workers - being attentive to detail, better communicators, and more reliable - i can hardly imagine a girl forgetting about her unfinished gig and going drinking while that what's normally happens to guys all the time. If i was a customer i'd be that kind of reverse sexist either.

Being middle+ class definitely helps :)
I wonder if any of this actually applies to consumer-grade drives.

My wife's hard drive actually just died. It was 160 GB WD in a black 2006 MacBook. The drive itself was a replacement from 2007 since the original drive died just over a year into its life.

Stupidly, since her Time Machine backup was misbehaving, I reformatted it and set it to start over. I spent the weekend recovering her data—with a lot of success, so no big deal. At any rate, this machine is long past its expiration date. It's time for a MacBook Air with an SSD, once the tax refund comes in.
Woops just saw the comment below how its on Tumblr. Should've noticed that earlier. Any other hacks?
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Man reportedly outsources his own job to China, watches cat videos
Regardless of my own beliefs about the matter, which I'll leave out of here, I couldn't get past the massive logical fallacy that this article seems to rest on: The goverment doesn't like Snowden. The government didn't like MLK and MLK was a good guy, therefore Snowden must be a good guy as well.
You sort of have a point; the letter explicitly calls out that they're reconsidering providing this data at all.

But... given an adversary's policy of "we will provide this data if and only if it goes unused", there's no reason to give that policy any weight in deciding whether to use the data. If you decide to use it, the policy will kick in and you can't. If you decide not to use it, it's not relevant that it remains technically "available" for other people to also not use. That's not a reason to consider what Yale wants, it's a reason to slam them for being weasels.
Could need some tweaking with the age. You mostly don't want information for a 60-90 year old person.
That's as timely as awesome
> "It's a circular argument though"

I am afraid it is not. You can objectively analyze the past and draw conclusions about the future, without presuming yourself right. (People usually call that "Science".)

When the guy hosting the weather report tells you it is going to rain, does it mean people hoping for a sunny day are on the "wrong side of history"?

Of course, some people make the "silly argument" you are referring to, but I think the original author is more subtle than that.
Yes.

http://evolver.fm/2013/08/09/project-daisy-gets-a-name-beats...
He wasn't born a celebrity millionaire. He dropped out of college (scholarship, and his mother was a professor there who didn't approve) to pursuit a career in music, took him a decade to break out.
I recently read Knuth's "Literate Programming" essay, which is a woven source file.
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The Music Virtual University (http://www.musivu.co) does four-figure sales+RR monthly, a year after starting and just working nights/weekends.
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If his mom was a professor at a college that sounds like an indication of at least an upper middle class upbringing.

Edit: Wikipedia says, "middle class" and the college he dropped out of was an art school so it isn't like he was giving up a sure thing to take a course that was more risky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West
While I agree that HP selling Seven isn't news, the shift in marketing focus from Eight to Seven __is__ very much news.
Apparently that was 2001 and they were IBM Deskstars at the time [1].

I guess this is why companies sometimes decide to rebrand/rename products.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST_Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_GXP...
According to Microsoft's own blog post (http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/01/09/tackling-...), they specifically removed a non-self-updating version of Tor, which was installed by the Sefnit malware. This version of Tor contained a number of security vulnerabilities which would otherwise be left on the victim's computer. They also consulted Tor developers to plan the cleanup.
Chrome Remote Desktop, if you use chrome.
This -- the fact that even highly-optimized inductive charging is about 85% as efficient as direct-contact DC seems to get ignored a lot.

Having said that, I actually understand the appeal of charging mats and the like, because they replace a small but persistent friction (find a charger, plug in the charger, plug in the phone, unplug the phone, plug the phone back in...) with a near-frictionless experience, if you don't count the cost. I'd like to see better conductive charging designs, but it looks like inductive has won out.
Every company bring its own agenda to open source
Created a PHP ad server 'mySimpleAds' at http://www.clippersoft.net and continue to maintain support it. Brings in some money monthly to help with credit card bills. I get some referals from SO and the like, but also spend $ on Adwords. Last year created a hosted SAAS version at http://mysimpleads.com, but hasn't really taken off.

As always with my products - marketing and getting more people to see them is always a big problem. Once they use them, customers like them - it's getting them to the site to even see them.

I'm in the process of re-writing mySimpleAds and adding in a bunch of stuff, but I don't know if it will still be stuck in neutral and not bring in the folks. I'll also plan to write more products, figuring maybe that will bring people in.
Separating a street name into "street" and "suffix" is a baffling decision which probably has a few issues even in the US, and definitely won't work elsewhere.
I've been using logmein for over 5 years and although at times I was tempted to go Pro, I stayed with Free simply because there was no need for it. The free did wonderful job. I was able to login to my computers from iPhone, Mac or PC without firewall or dynamic IP problems (stuff that use to matter back then). I always wondered why they did not charge this awesome product. I do not mind paying for the service now but I wonder how will this impact less frequent users who wants to fix their mom's computer once a year or so? They say join.me remains free but is it as good as logmein Free? I had mixed results with it.
Disclaimer: I own logmein stocks.
TL:DR: LogMeIn decided to screw up the customers who once paid $99 to get their premium Ignition iOS app and wants them to pay monthly/yearly.
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Why would I believe that any of LogMein's other services like join.me or Cubby will remain free. Join.me is no problem because there is no switching cost. However I would never entrust my files to Cubby because of the risk they pull a fast one like they are doing with LogMein remote access.

They really should have thought this through and figured a way to allow low intensity users (I use it maybe once a quarter) to continue for free.

If you do want to depend on free services be ready to switch easily, or check to make sure that the vendor offers free-for-life.
I wrote a sci-fi short novel that received a good feedback (surprisingly not at Amazon, where nobody has reviewed it). It's placed at the iBookstore and the Kindle store, and it sells some units from time to time:

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What's so infuriating about Win 8.x is where it improves over Win7 it's clear, however, MS went out of their way to positively screw it up in whole new ways, such as Metro. It should never be the responsibility of the end user to tweak things to decent defaults - defaults should be right out of the box.

Take Metro etc. out (or, better, have it as an app launched from the desktop, and completely uninstallable), sort out the start menu and a few UI tweaks and they would have had an easy win on their hands, but their efforts to do things no one wants are causing them to fail, even to the point of giving people like Google an in with the latest Chrome for Metro aping a full screen Chrome OS like experience which, ironically, is more Windows 7 like than Win 8 is.

MS really need someone that understands not only what they're good at but why people have stuck with MS software at their helm.
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Yay, I also have more points. Her 66 thousand profile views absolutely crushes my 154 profile views, though.
Sooo.. how much will it cost, and why is the price so difficult to find?
I am (was?) a fairly happy MOG subscriber. Some thoughts:

1. No way to transfer my MOG playlists and favorite bands/songs? That sucks.

2. Tried to sign in through the AT&T family plan for 90-day free trial. Got a text with a code, which AT&T says was accepted, and Beats says was not. ???

3. No web-only option for $5/month. I suppose that was too much to hope for.

4. No information about how the 5-person family plan works. Do we share one login (and favorite bands)? I hope not; we have very different tastes.

This service seems really half-baked. Might end up being good, but for the moment is behind were MOG was, which is pretty bad. MOG was basically a zombie service for the last few months, as they obviously had all their attention focused on this launch. The web interface never had basic stuff like their featured playlists.

Here's to hoping they get it all ironed out.
> I don't understand the hype.

I use a Windows 7 machine for gaming at home, and I have briefly used a Windows 8.1 machine for a personal laptop. I dislike Windows 8 pretty viscerally. The laptop has a split personality, with some applications behaving one way, and others behaving a completely different way. I can guess how it will behave by the presence or absence of a window around my application, but that's extra cognitive overhead which I don't feel I should have to spend on figuring out how to manipulate an application.

I could certainly drop everything Metro, and get a closer to Windows 7 experience, but what is the advantage of that over just using Windows 7 in the first place?
http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/WhyEconomistsShunSimul...
Very well put.

I believe this sort of expression (of remixing and building upon and expanding or contracting) is good and healthy and artistic and should be considered an acceptable aspect of creative expression. How original is original? The fact that we are using a common language already ties us to a past cultural history upon which we build up the meanings in what we say and write (i.e., unoriginal from the get go).

I think there are certainly varying degrees of similarity that can be seen in different bodies of writing; some closer to the exact words of others. But at the end of the day, how much does this really matter? I'm more interested in human expression, however it needs to be done, than quibbling over who did what first and by how much.

What little money can be had, yes, might want to be protected so that more art can be produced, and maybe fame can bring a mild sort of immortality to reward the struggling artist. But I don't think what compels us to write (or create) is something we do for fame or fortune. I think it's more to do with adding to the fabric of culture and playing a part in the drama of human history.
Hilft nur noch Notwehr gegen die NSA?
Despite these statistics, it seems organizations actually hate DevOps
The factories have been at full speed for the past year now.
I don't think it matters how you make your money, just that once you've accrued a certain amount of wealth the concept of risk starts to fade...
This makes me feel better about the 4 HGST 4TB drives I just bought (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145...). They were the cheapest 4TB 7200RPM drives on Newegg by a non-trivial margin.
Whilst I completely respect their decision to withdraw the LogMeIn Free product offering I found the notification period way too short and badly communicated. I received an email this morning saying there would no longer be a LogMeIn Free offering from today and a subscription would be required to continue using the service. Digging further it appears there's a 7 day grace period for existing users - although there's no mention of that in the email. It's a stellar product for sure so I now find myself asking if I want to do business with a company that communicates this badly with it's users.
I've used this on multiple occasions! Awesome site! Do you mind revealing how much it was generating?
Talking about the general pattern, not this case in particular:

I disagree. A downvote is a signal, "fewer comments like this one please". Sometimes it's obvious what that means, but sometimes it's not. In that case it's perfectly reasonable to ask, what was it about my comment that you disliked? A feedback signal is only useful if understood, and sometimes to be understood it needs clarifying.
That's a great return, good work! Are the profits mostly from affiliate click throughs to ThemeForest and the like?
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Fanout is soft realtime, but yeah, we don't block lady gagas tweets to 40 million people until they're all delivered. Note that she counts as 1 in the tps calculation when she tweets. Btw, we're hiring if you'd like to help us make twitter even better.
Doesnt Skype have screen sharing these days? most moms are sure to have skype too.
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If by 'helping publish' you mean 'linking to and talking about what was already published,'[1] sure.

What's the difference between Brown (the "crazy heroin addict" journalist, your words) and Gellman, who helped publish a dump of secret documents on behalf of the person who stole them?

[1] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Stratfor
How does buying a can of pringles or a pack of cigarettes create wealth for the buyer?
This won't work for me - my parents login as restricted user, and LogMeIn allows me to switch users when I need to.

I guess that £29/year is a small price to pay for that kind of feature.
I suspect those infamous disk failures were caused by faulty manufacturing runs, rather than some inherent flaw in the design.
Read the interview. You've got it all wrong. He actually says the risky thing for him to do is to not to anything. It has nothing to do with money. I'm sure he fully understands that he could sit on his bank account for the rest of his life, check out and not do anything. His risk isn't losing his home. It's a different kind of risk.

He stresses that the most important thing to him is actually having ideas and sharing them with the world. He says this over and over again, and I can't help but believe him.

> The risk for me would be in not taking one — that's the only thing that's really risky for me.
I don't understand your "because" statement. Intel added a check for Intel CPUs because vectorization is difficult. That's a complete non sequitur as far as I can tell. It makes as much sense as saying that I baked a chocolate cake because it rained yesterday.

Yes, various optimizations, including auto-vectorization, are difficult. Why does that mean Intel had to add a check for Intel CPUs in their compiler?
I'm not sure how to read security == transparency. Now bear in mind that I tend to favour radical transparency, e.g., in government reporting and accountability, provided that it does not override personal privacy, i.e., data is anonymized, masked, etc....

But there are many cases where transparency != security, or perhaps a better way of putting it would be transparency XOR security.

For example, witness protection programs, police informants, classified military and intelligence information, etc.

In all of these cases, there should be a certain transparency of program governance and policy, with ZERO transparency of program procedure and information details: If you have no need to know, you get to know exactly and perfectly nothing, lest people die.

Like it or not, there are times when transparency is the enemy of security. The trick is documenting those cases well and implementing appropriate policy, governance, and oversight. It's quite a trick.
Extremely misleading headline.

According to the article all they did was remove some malware that happened to contain Tor. And from the sound of it there was no 'remote kill switch' or anything involved, they just added the malware to their MSE antivirus definitions which subsequently removed it.

Update: Yup, that's what they did. Here is the blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/01/09/tackling-...
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She could be a weightlifting coach.
Like others have said below you think you do and you do for a while but then it starts to wear on you, big time. All that extra time you have at work becomes oppressing and personal projects suffer if you work on them at all. I'm looking to either go back to school or find a tougher job, I've even considered landscaping or construction since it's generally non-stop but it would be a detrimental pay cut.
I still fall back on http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/ occasionally.
Do you think he was born with a few hundred million in the bank? He eschewed all the standard hip hop trappings and didn't go all 'gangsta' when that's how people made money. When he produced The Blueprint (one of the greatest hip hop albums ever made) it was backed by soul beats which just weren't a thing in ~2000. He's always done his own thing, his latest album is a prime example of that. He's still just putting out shit he wants to listen to, not necessarily putting out what's successful at any given time in the industry.

It's easy to look back and say, you're filthy rich now so you aren't actually taking risks, but taking risks is how he got there.
This is a pretty big setback for Yale in terms of refocusing more on STEM. But they're in good company. I'm sure 10-15 years ago music company executives were similarly pissed off.
I looked that up; what does it offer that the Windows 7 (and 8) control panel doesn't?

Hitting the Windows key, and typing in any of those names will get you the same content.
According to Microsoft's own blog post (http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/01/09/tackling-...), they specifically removed a non-self-updating version of Tor, which was installed by the Sefnit malware. This version of Tor contained a number of security vulnerabilities which would otherwise be left on the victim's computer. They also consulted Tor developers to plan the cleanup.

(Copied my comment over from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7095429)
Been using LogMeIn's products since RemotelyAnywhere, which was cut up into many smaller products. Their software has generally been the most updated and worked. The few times a month I have to remote login it was worth the free, in exchange I put more active clients onto their own Pro plan.

The LogMeIn product I happily pay for is join.me, it's head and shoulders above anything out there. Having to pay for two that I use once in a while isn't too appetizing.

It would have been nice to decide within 30 days but I suspect LogMeIn has calculated how long it took customers to switch when they limited the plans down to 10 free computers and that 7 days is enough of a squeeze to get the payers paying.

I had been reviewing TeamViewer and a few others, this will likely hasten my review of paid offerings. LogMeIn's pricing seems more reasonable than GoToMyPC which is $10/machine/month. If there's any other options worth exploring please share :)