skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brings up an interesting point of social engineering compromising LinkedIn.

LinkedIn should immediately put a Captcha on their contact info display to stop this JS attack!
Response to OkCupid's blocking of Firefox users
They are legally the same in Connecticut and other states. Not all, but in some. But it's not equal in the "institutional" sense so we should just redefine marriage in states instead of building civil unions with the same framework as marriages and have two seperate but equal legal frameworks.
Well, then I'm glad we're all busy porting Quake to this device instead of all the noble things you listed above.
I've only known about HN for a few weeks so maybe this has all been covered before. But as an outsider looking in, it seems like an awful lot of time and effort has been expended to try to make internet comments into something they're not. If you don't want comments, just don't accept comments.

There is no algorithm that's going to change human nature. Sorry.
I don't think Azure has a live migration. In fact, out of Google Cloud Platform, AWS and Azure only GCP has live migration of the running VMs.
I didn't see enough of their work to judge the early eliminations. They could have been great, I don't know.

Of the last two, Abby should have won IMO.
Yeah that caught my attention too. Personally, I really don't want my HN to be different from anyone else's. I come to HN not only to see stories that will interest me, but also to see what's captivating the community as a whole right now.
Boring is safe. I wouldn't call being boring "living poorly."
> I have yet to hear why bitcoin reflects a better choice than cards for the consumer.

I think security would be an obvious answer.

Credit cards are like symmetric cryptography: there's only one secret (a number), which you must share with everyone you ever want to send or receive money from. Any malicious actor who gets that number can then use it to extract money from your card. Sure, it's probably FDIC insured, but they still make out with some of your money.

With Bitcoin, you only ever share your public key. It operates entirely on public key crypto. You can safely share your Bitcoin account public key with anyone and everyone to send and receive funds. Plus, anyone can verify any time you send or receive a payment very quickly. That way you can't lie and say you paid when you didn't (no checks in the mail). You also can't do chargebacks or otherwise recall your funds, like you can easily do to scam with credit cards or Paypal.
Fortunately, momentum is building for marriage equality here in Georgia. Maybe this state isn't so bad after all. The editor of the local small town paper even came out in support.
Maybe that's because it's doing a pretty good job at the moment?
Cynical side of me says "hey look! More cameras for TLAs to use!"

Also, unsure about cost/benefit here.
It's scary style (and speaking of style, this code is really inconsistent in its formatting), but from a quick search of the usages of the logger function, I didn't see any way to overflow the buffer.

* BUFSIZE is 8096.

* logbuffer (the local variable) is BUFSIZEx2

* s1 looks like it's always trusted and an order of magnitude smaller than BUFSIZE.

* The format strings and numbers are nowhere near big enough to make up the difference.

* Where s2 is untrusted data, I think it's always guaranteed to be <=BUFSIZE and zero-terminated.

But there are definitely other possible issues I haven't looked at closely, and I'm certainly troubled that this mess has showed up on an IBM site as an example of a "safe" web server.
> Most consumers would be better off paying with a card: same cost (none)

Correction here: There IS a credit card cost, but it is billed to the merchant and passed along to the consumer by being built into product prices. The fact that you think it is "none" when it is merely "hidden" speaks volumes.
It's always misleading when a CEO has a "$1 salary", because of the options. Options are very valuable lottery tickets for the CEO of a public corporation; they can be valuable due to inflation or because the stock market as a whole went up, even if the stock underperforms.
actually, there's no big big items but opensourcing isnt magic, you want people to look at it.
if the project looks nicely managed, its a lot more attractive :)
my boy! #hero
AWS and Azure are getting defensive against Google's price drop: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/googles-cloud-platform-goes....
A simple site that stops heroku servers from idling
Most people understand that, and also understand that it's irrelevant so long as there is no discount for using a different payment method. If you're going to pay for the protection of credit whether you use it or not, you might as well use it.
It's not FUD. I've had a few IP's end up on Comcast's nullroute list. It's pretty visible from their looking glass.

BTW, appreciate all the downvotes from the kiddies who have never heard of NANOG, let alone actually been to meeting.

Appreciate the lecture about FUD from a foreigner who knows nothing about our market.

Canada filters, too. Hello Rogers and Telus.
I created this side project :
www.snailmailpics.com
and
www.snailmailpics.com/DropBoxHome

for printing photos using text message and through DropBox.

We generate around $100-$200 every month..mostly through our DropBox application
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I tried it and it didn't work. I just uninstalled it.

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I hope this fiasco has a detrimental impact on his career.

I hope it, but I doubt it.
Trying out DalekJS
www.snailmailpics.com
There's this one for android - https://github.com/OnlyInAmerica/OpenSpritz-Android

It doesn't support web pages, its mostly for ebooks (epubs).
Go development box on Vagrant Cloud
The comparison to race still fails to make me think publicly denouncing a company in its whole because of the personal beliefs of one member is in any way justified.

People will never be homogeneous in their beliefs, and I think that's a good thing. But when you're unable to interact with another person in any way at all because of their private beliefs, you're being an idiot.

A person's beliefs do not define their contribution to society. Life has a lot of shades of grey, everyone has opinions that run counter to the current societal ideal. It's not ok to shun or denounce that person, all you're doing is spreading hate. It IS ok to speak out about what you believe. Do some good. Instead of getting angry about someone you've read about on the internet, go volunteer somewhere. Spread some love instead.
doing 20 rounds in a browser represents a non-trivial amount of work. that's much better than nothing, as it helps defeat existing rainbow tables. iirc, 1000 rounds will take a

however as you suggest, on the server side, I would expect them to use a much higher 10k or so round count.
How I despise April Fools in the post internet world, but that said this was funny since it did actually bother to go to the effort of actually pissing people off, old school -

[school sms system hacked]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-01/april-fools-joke-fails...
I'm a bit surprised Nintendo hasn't released their own pokemon app for iOS/Android. Though I guess they're seen as a competitor to the DS these days...
In that case, a merchant would have to offer a discount in order to make Bitcoin worth pursuing.
Kind of difficult to design a truck that does not have this problem. The Ford F-series truck is the #1 selling automobile in the US (Chevy Silverado and Dodge Ram, also trucks, are #2 and #3).
I notice the only inbound telephony provider is plivo, do you have plans to support asterix or dialogic.
Bandwidth pricing is a very murky field.

I've worked on CDN pricing, too, although mostly outside the US market.

Depending on who you are, in some circumstances you can actually make money from cross connect charges. This is typically the case if you are a telco, but it depends on your place in the market.

You can see some hints of this in the differing ingress and egress pricing on AWS.

Anyway: Yes, AWS bandwidth is expensive and most people would be better off going elsewhere if you are using a lot. But don't be too quick to judge the margins because we have no way of knowing what Amazon pays under what circumstances.
This pattern of thought is not new as noted by another commenter but beyond that, it is dismissive. If, and a big if would be given should marriage be a truly sacred multi generational ceremony. It's not, it began with ownership of people and is presently accompanied by a farce of a concept that diamonds are actually worth anything.

If you could look beyond that joke of a concept you can see it's really about EQUAL rights, not about samesies.

To some the concept of marriage means something, to others it's a way to get insurance or better tax deals. This debate is about equal rights. period.

As a side note, the only real argument i've heard against same sex marriage was it opens the doors to lawsuits, because if you have the same rights you can be sued you when you infringe them. And that's what the true opponents of equal rights fear.

pps the only thing about the quote that makes any sense is it is wasted resources, this should not even be a debate.
This doesn't work....also I now feel violated...it seems like it is harvesting your contacts email and uploading it without your permission.

Sigh. These guys are about to feel the wrath of Linkedin's legal team.

I deleted it, it's useless.
I think you're missing the point which is just to loosely suss out the 4 or so major card brands.
I'd personally love to see a weekly recap hosted on youtube and embedded in your site. You could do a 2 minute interview each, and further down the track start including screencaps.
Huh? I can rattle off a dozen towns that were once solid industrial cities, now creaky shadows of their former selves.

The ante to get into the quality job market has been raised substantially. Very few moderate skill jobs exist that are allowing folks to live a lifestyle equivalent to an average Amercian circa 1965.

I'm starting to see decent contract workers in IT roles coming in around $25/hr -- so they are making something like $15-18. I made 2.5x that with zero experience in 2000. This is happening because the big employers around here are embracing new tech and are automating lots of IT work away.
I've held the theory for a while that drone strikes create more terrorists than they kill (and that the US govt knows this). Nice to see others are observing the same.
I previously ignored your comment because in the context of the conversation, it was completely irrelevant. In the comment you replied to, I was asking how one can "cut in front of you". Your comment was just about rapidly trading and rapidly waving one's hands in order to somehow do something evil.

"Use pattern recognition software to outcompete other traders" is not a trading mechanic.
Awesome tools a happy startup shouldn’t live without
Srcset and sizes
Not to mention that $100 per vehicle is probably wildly high. The quality on these things isn't great (and doesn't need to be). If I can buy a fully featured IP camera at a retail price of $50 complete with pan and tilt, I doubt car makers are going to pay more than $10 or so wholesale for a lesser camera with no networking and no motors. The screen is going to cost something too, but most cars already have those now.
it works great, has constantly worked every time I tried it
what is composer, and why do I have to learn it if it is completely unnecessary?
I was thinking about that, too. I suspect, though, that no matter what the devs signed, Matti Leshem never signed away the right to have himself shown in bad light He would probably raise cain if any of the footage of his flopped interviews gets aired. Doubly so if he's as well-connected as it sounds like he is.
YEAH! Mozilla and Uganda ... I get the two confused all the time!!!
"application build process" or simply the checkout process? I'd suggest your deployment process shouldn't include a public git repo others can change. Instead, use your own fork on Github, or alternatively host a git repo local to your deploy network. After all, you're trying to avoid dependencies on things like Github working/failing, right? ;-)
His business isn't going to survive very long if he keeps uploading security credentials where everyone can see them.
And water is still wet. Really, it doesn't make sense for robots to not be a net drain on employment.

As a thought experiment, let's say that a company fires n workers because it is in the process of automating their jobs. Now, let's also assume n workers get hired, at the same wage as before, producing the automated systems which had previously replaced them. How can it be economically viable to automate, if instead of only paying your original n workers, you are now indirectly paying n employees producing the equipment you are buying, plus the capital costs of automation? Since we know that it is in fact more cost effective to automate, then the only remaining possibility is that there are either fewer workers producing the automation equipment or they are being paid less.
I'm curious to hear what you think about the various bootstrapping threads linked from my comment at http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9x15g/programmi.... Several of them were inspired by your blog post.
Why should we believe you over the NHTSA on this question?
Google+ adds Auto Awesome David Hasselhoff Photobombs
Seth Goldstein, Co-founder of Turntable.fm, Crossfader AMA
Scanning the responses on HN, I haven't read a lot of hate. Lots of constructive criticism. I'm personally looking forward to it improving and trying it out again soon.
There's ways for apps to detect when the device is in motion at a speed that is most likely a car and prevent the user from engaging with the app. A good example of Waze which prevents users from doing car to car chat when driving.
Any reason why contributions on the ocall.org site goes to a contact form?

A change to BSD instead of GPL would be nice too :)

I've been meaning to build something similar so I'll probably be bit of a contributor
... and the April Fool's posts have already started.
do you have to be connected to the person? I tried it and the spinner just loads forever.
How about a robot tax: any profits made by companies employing robots are taxed where that tax is put into a guaranteed wage pool.

Much like how Swiss have implemented a min guaranteed wage - feed that wage payment by industry that benefit from implementing robotic workers...
Trolling the GFW... that could be an interesting experiment :) http://gov.cn/taiwan-is-a-sovereign-state/
The point wasn't to port Quake (it already ran on the device), the point was to port the recently open-sourced BCM21553 graphics driver to run on the Pi's VideoCore IV. Getting Quake III running on the resulting stack was just the defined endpoint.
Institutional computer buyers pay hundreds of dollars to Dell for every computer they purchase. Is Dell "taxing" them? Of course not - if they don't want computers they don't need to buy them. If you read the article, you'd realize the RBC guy was buying liquidity. He wants to purchase what HFTs are selling.

There is a simple obvious way for anyone to avoid paying the HFT "tax". Use ALO orders. They come with execution risk, but you don't pay the spread and the matching engine will pay you rebates. Can you tell me why anyone anywhere would choose to purchase from HFTs rather than using ALO orders?
Exactly. It would not make any sense for companies to automate anything if it did not end up reducing how much they're paying for employment.
The problem with Dual_EC is that you're disclosing state at all; most RNG designs don't do that.
Great stuff @scottybowl! You can test the system live by signing up and getting a free number at https://manage.plivo.com/accounts/register/
This slide deck worked for me, with the explanations in understandable chunks: http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/
I would assume the leak is with the connections you've given permission to view that address -- not with LinkedIn itself. I'm sure this isn't the first extension/toolbar/malware that scrapes your connections' pages.
Five Years And Seven Bets Made By Andreessen Horowitz
Selling your soul is bad business, you want to rent it out so at the Oscars you can still rail against the man.
Thank you, Sylvain. I don't entirely agree with your line of reasoning but appreciate you're "stepping up" with this blog post.
That last graph is pretty neat... Have you charted the later games? How about a way to do NBA games? Other sports?
> right now, we really don't have a surplus of labor. If we did, then the average standard of living would be really high

That doesn't follow. It's quite possible to simultaneously have

1. Capacity to produce plenty of available food, land, shelter, etc

2. Plenty of people willing to work for the food, land, and shelter

3. Lack of fed and sheltered people due to #2's labor having lower value than #1

There is no reason why the market determined value of labor (VOL) must exceed the market determined cost of living (COL). It happens. This is what people mean when they say that famine is a distribution problem, not a production problem. What they really mean is that it's an economic problem. Markets are entirely compatible with the notion of an underclass that cannot put food on the table, even amid abundance. Refer to the (e)book "Poverty and Famines" by Amartya Sen for examples and analysis. Exporting food while part of the populace starves isn't a stunt reserved for communist countries.

Thought experiment: there's a village with 100 peasants and surrounding land capable of producing 100 units of food if tended to by 75 laborers. The landowner hires 75 laborers, providing them each with 1 unit of food in return (supply of labor exceeds demand, so he has all the bargaining power). He sells the remaining 23 units at market in the neighboring town.

What do the 25 peasants that weren't needed do? Go to the neighboring town? What if nobody there is hiring either?

> That fact that we cannot provide a high enough average standard of living even when the incentive to work is very high, proves that drastically lowering the incentive to work would not provide a sufficient standard of living.

A high standard of living requires more than products of labor. Crucially, it requires control over resources. The market provides sufficient indirect control if VOL>COL. We can empirically and theoretically observe that that's not always the case.
OKCupid piles on Mozilla, calls for new CEO to resign
I showed it to my wife who is a account manager at a branding / design firm. She is someone who would be a potential user of the site as someone looking for a designer.

Her impression was that the site made her sign up and then provided no value. She showed me a very plain looking page that just said "I am looking for a designer." Now she is worried that the site is going to spam her forever.

Hope that feedback helps.
What is <insert technology>, and why do I have to learn it if <insert worse technology> is sufficient?
Some notes :

OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder wrote, "Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure."

However, instead of simply posting the letter on the company blog, Rudder made sure that every person who visited the site from Firefox saw the letter, by using the browser's User Agent to redirect them to the letter before allowing them to continue with their heart-felt intentions. Browsers have broadcasted their User Agent, which is basically the browser make and model, since the mid-1990s.
An amusing April Fool's joke from LinkedIn. We all know they don't use anything that up-to-date there.
It's hard to believe that we have no surplus of labor when politicians are clamoring to create new jobs.

What's wrong with wages as an incentive to work? Why should the government provide an additional incentive to work by depriving people of their basic needs?
Maybe what your clients want isn't high design, but good design delivered on time, within budget, and incorporating the feedback they were given.
Thanks. As a conference organizer who's trying to welcome everyone to his events, it feels a bit risky, but ultimately right.

Can you detail what you don't agree on? Happy to have a sane discussion here.
>Yes this worked out so well which is why our laws are based on vagueness.

Actually this is a common thing in Law. Many times we can't objectively define something, but 'most' people know it when they see it. Some examples you should look at:

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

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

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

It is a mark of our intelligence as humans that we can rapidly integrate the available knowledge and render judgement--at least tacitly.
today i learned: there's still AIX. Huh, really?
There are many things that could be considered wrong with HN - the stuff he is complaining about, IMO - are not really important - HN for the most part serves the interests of the community in which is operates.

That said, there are things that irritate the hell out of me about the community; banality, lack of relevance in posts, lack of clear context in posts.

To expand - the posts that I consider banal - 'New framework for X' or 'Blan, a X for Y.' - Relevance Posts, the post that was about the libertarian police force that briefly surfaced on the front page today - Context Posts that require you to know all about the subject before you can understand the posts content (the one about the game jam, or the one about keybase.io) in most cases I've never heard of whatever it is that they are posting about, and I need to try to glean context from the post - which is often missing.

I don't begrudge the above, its as much a part of the local flavor as anything else is - so I accept it as a part of being in one of the best places to get interesting tech news on the net.
It's the popular definition of sociopath.
I took an entrepreneurship course a while back that would have us do daily "opportunity reports". These reports were a list of 50 business ideas. They could -- and most were -- awful and not feasible ideas, but the point is to produce 50 ideas every day. After the course of a few months, I noticed it started changing the way I see the world. Everything that I came across (blogs, standing in line at the grocery store, etc) I would be looking for opportunities.

I think that's a good place to start.
Google Maps Pokemon Locations
I wonder how many people making this "public face of the company" argument could name the current CEO of Netflix.
This is nice in theory, but the masses (aka mobile game players) have mental space for three game types: free, paid, and scammy/clone/ripoff.

You will put a sizable dev effort into a 5.99 IA purchase that statically will not sell nearly as much as the game itself. Maybe that's not the exact case but this is the balancing act.

Personally I'd like to see the brothers produce concrete milestones. For instance, in the first month you have to ship the first paid version. Or whatever. So far, they haven't put their butts on the line for anything less than a year.
Kreuzberg might be "painfully trendy", and the weather does kind of suck.
Does it work for individual designers only or design firms can apply as well?
Seems like OpenVBX is a call router of sorts, whereas Opencall is call tracking software. Similar, but different.
The Swiss have only collected enough signatures to get that initiative up to be voted on this year.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-16/inequality-f...

It is yet to pass. Less than 50% of Swiss referenda pass.
See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7505882