skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If GoDaddy released the email address, then all the person had to do was go Google that email address and most likely they would have found it. Or, they could find it using DomainTools whois lookup (if they didn't use whois privay on ALL domains they own at all times), or use Gmail or Google Plus to find out who is associated with that email address.

Once the email address is given out, then it's just as if someone had all their personally identifiable details.
Thanks for the proper permalink!

As a former DevOps engineer turned to development, DevOps has been much maligned. The idea is not to get everyone to wear all hats. DevOps makes deployment part of the development cycle rather than the broken practice of throwing code over the wall. Nothing hurts morale like resting soundly each time ops is fighting fires your code created.

DevOps done properly does not require an engineer to deploy her own code, but it does require a sense of ownership over what happens with your code in production. If that means helping someone understand your code changes enough to fix the monitoring tools or tune the database then your product will benefit.

Most importantly, deploying more often means automation gets better. As Martin Fowler keeps saying, "if something hurts, do it more often." (It must hurt him to say that.) http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FrequencyReducesDifficulty.htm...
For the Pixel, I think he means.
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I'd love to see more civic works projects done this way.
Seconding @robzyb. If the algorithm is out there then people and orgs can create their own implementations that help specific populations without having to license code from anyone or waiting for TurboTax or one of the majors to build a product around the algorithm that supports the needs of the specific population in question.
The data they're talking about isn't anything like that at all, it's actually micron-resolution 3D scans. Here's the abstract of the paper:

>Comprehensive knowledge of the brain’s wiring diagram is fundamental for understanding how the nervous system processes information at both local and global scales. However, with the singular exception of the C. elegans microscale connectome, there are no complete connectivity data sets in other species. Here we report a brain-wide, cellular-level, mesoscale connectome for the mouse. The Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas uses enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-expressing adeno-associated viral vectors to trace axonal projections from defined regions and cell types, and high-throughput serial two-photon tomography to image the EGFP-labelled axons throughout the brain. This systematic and standardized approach allows spatial registration of individual experiments into a common three dimensional (3D) reference space, resulting in a whole-brain connectivity matrix. A computational model yields insights into connectional strength distribution, symmetry and other network properties. Virtual tractography illustrates 3D topography among interconnected regions. Cortico-thalamic pathway analysis demonstrates segregation and integration of parallel pathways. The Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas is a freely available, foundational resource for structural and functional investigations into the neural circuits that support behavioural and cognitive processes in health and disease.
I put Ubuntu on my $200 Chromebook. Works great for programming, statistical analysis using R, org-mode, and pretty much anything else for work that I throw at it.
They need to start using spellcheck. Their website is full of spelling mistakes

"Perfect for developpers and sysadmins "

http://www.exoscale.ch/
You wanted to jump out of planes, you were good at it, and you got selected to be one of the elites. Your talent for this and other things drove you towards your success. However, other people see jump school as the key to success, rather than a door to something they enjoy that having talent opens.

The same thing can apply to YC. There are a bunch of people with good ideas and talent who want to be successful, but they hate jumping out of planes. They think that if they can just get into YC and deal with not really enjoying it that much, then they'll be putting themselves on the inside track and it'll be smooth sailing from there. I don't think that's really a great outlook on life.
This is the new norm now that these web services are no longer a niche product. Some kind of set standard for inactivity would be nice so users are aware of when they are in danger of losing their username.

I know many who set out to register popular Twitter and Soundcloud names when those services launched just so they could sit on them and possibly make a buck. Those username policies are out there to combat this kind of behavior but it's crummy to see when those policies actually affect legitimate users.
I came here to say almost exactly this (including the bit about loving the concept and pitch!).

The Twitter sign-up process was unexpected, and then randomly failed and took me to an error page.

I tried again and this time noticed that the check box that says 'agree to terms and privacy' doesn't link to the terms or privacy agreement, so I don't know what I'm agreeing to. This could get you into trouble in some jurisdictions.

Finally, the google signup worked with two clicks and didn't request a username/password - this is what the Twitter one should be like.

One more piece of feedback - I already knew how the product worked (it's obvious!), and I wanted to skip the walkthrough, but there wasn't a button for that. Add a 'skip' button to ease frustration :).
No, I'm pretty sure it's about taking over the world. Why generate billion-dollar businesses when you can just own steadily more of the entire infrastructure of civilization as time wears on?
For me: I work solo from home, so sometimes I go to the coffee shop for a change of atmosphere & to be around people for a while. I find the white noise of the cafe helps me focus, as does having people around me. It's nice having someone serve you instead of having to make your own coffee/food, and sometimes the food is nicer than what I'd make myself at home. But I try not to stay too long & only go at times when the cafe is half empty.
Do you think the market is limited at first is an initial wedge for them? What's to stop them from later creating other properties related to topics like fitness, or eating out for example?
In fish, type "bash" then return. Now paste in the curl oneliner and hit return. Finally, type "exit" to exit bash and go back to fish.
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"Having said that, most small companies shouldn't bother with PR."

Yep, at least not the typical definition of "PR". Expand that to industry blogs about your niche though, and you might want to put some investment into that type of PR.
I tried to find the context for that image but there wasn't anything on the site. The image is most certainly incorrect -- or more likely, looking at the output of the analog electronics after the DAC.

Sampling theory says that a perfect square wave can be represented at any frequency below Nyquist. That doesn't mean that the codec or the analog electronics are capable of responding instantly at those frequencies, but that has nothing to do with the fact that a 1kHz square wave can be perfectly sampled with a 44.1kHz sample rate. The image is simply incorrect.

Transient response in the real world is generally limited only by the acoustic transducer response of the system, because everything else has the ability to respond much faster than audio rates. With Pono, this means that the earbuds or headphones you use with the player will have a greater affect on the transient response than the electronics inside.
There are lots of amazing startups in many places.

Yep. We have quite a group of amazing startups here in the Triangle area of North Carolina as well:

http://www.downtowndurhamstartups.com/content/startup+direct...

http://www.triangulatenc.com/companies/index

http://www.triangulatenc.com/companies/map

There's also an RTP "Hackers and Founders" group, although we haven't been meeting much lately. But if you're in the area and interested, join the Meetup and/or give me a shout.

http://www.meetup.com/RTP-Hackers-Founders/
not really that they lack good judgement, more that it's risky exposing them to a non-representative sample.
From my experience with the Pixel, using it as my primary personal computer, the hardware of the Pixel is mediocre shit with the sole exception of the screen, which is absolutely fantastic.

I guess if you really have a thing for aluminium then the case is nice enough, but I find it extremely uncomfortable to use at times (the sharp edges have a tendency to bite into my wrists if I am not careful to keep my wrists elevated.)
Not necessarily.

Java 6 and 7 are "almost completely compatible".

Most programs written in Java 6 will run in Java 7, and vice versa. But not all.
That depends entirely on what type of book is being wrote. If I write a history textbook that goes into intricate detail about the Time Slip of 1662 and the Lost Years, and the eventual Realignment that resulted in the Great London Fire, am I being more useful than a critic who points out that my history textbook is full of factual inaccuracies?
Yes, but that's not what was claimed. Of course if it can't be established that there was any further [alteration of the] contract then the written contract will be relied on. But that doesn't really seem to be the heart of what the Four Corners doctrine is about.
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This would be a much more interesting story if it sounded like the authors wife used Instagram more than once a year. I can't help but not care without more context. If someone is sitting on a name on an account that rarely gets used and rarely gets tagged, what's the problem? Now if his wife was using Instagram every day and this happened... Well that would be an interesting story.
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Your website needs work. The title talks about a story yet there's not much of one. This story needs to be on the front page. I didn't really feel like clicking to read it. It also needs pictures to help convey your words. I need to know why this desk is worth $1495. Why I should buy this instead of something cheaper / more functional but sterile?

1. You need to show off more pieces (how do we know each is unique when all we see is one desk?). It will show character that will compete against the more functional boxed desks which are the same for everyone.

2. You need to show the people working on this. Knowing about an individual (or small group of people) working hard on something 'good' versus thinking of a nameless, unidentifiable huge group of people working in a factory for a big corporation is huge

3. You need to convey the quality somehow. (Show the process or the material?)

4. You need to show Detroit.

5. You need to show what happens when we don't reclaim stuff.

6. Going back to points 4 and 5. You need to show that you're making something good out of the bad.

I'm not a designer, but I know enough to tell you that you need a really good one badly.
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Personally, I feel the difference is in the writing style for the medium. For instance, while a critic might remark on how 'this is such a poor recommendation that it should inspire outrage in a security-conscious developer', someone writing a comment on the Internet may use 'this makes me feel like screaming'. The language is less 'refined' and seemingly more direct though it's really saying the same (appropriate for the medium).

My hypothesis is that people expect text that has no obvious signs of being an Internet comment to use the more 'serious' language and this case (an Internet comment that is a bit longer than usual) is being classified wrongly as a result.
Datasheet here:

http://www.chronos.co.uk/files/pdfs/sym/sa.45s.pdf

120mW, 3.3V? Totally doable as a wristwatch.
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Instagram has done this in the past as well, and IIRC; before the merger. But by all means - jump on the Facebook hatewagon and take a ride.
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By it's available on mobile, do you mean you can drag and drop on mobile, or only read? I've been using it for a month and I love it.
Indeed, the classic definition of "phone" hardly applies to these devices anymore. They're Cray 2 supercomputers (well, "super" back in the day) shrunk into a matchbox and include, as one tiny program making use of the mic/speaker/radio, a "telephone"-like capability.
Well, as my link shows, if the second star is a dwarf of any sort and the planet is close to the 'main' star, it should be fine. Of course, habitability is another question entirely.
> If something legitimately makes you stop and stare with your mouth hanging open, it is OK to say "this statement made me stop and stare with my mouth hanging open."

It's okay if you are writing a story about your personal reactions.

It's irrelevant if you are writing a serious critique, which should be about the content, not about your emotional response to it (assuming it is a critique of an informative work -- obviously, if you are critiquing something as a work of art intended to inspire emotional responses, writing about your response as some relevance.)

It's possible to blend the first kind of story with the second kind of critique, but you have to recognize the different roles of each, do it deliberately, and be exceptionally skilled (the set of people who can do this and produce something worth reading is a proper subset of the intersection of the sets of those who can write entertaining personal stories and those who can write valuable straight critiques.)

That being said, tptacek's review seems pretty focussed on substantive critique with very minimal emotional distractions, so while I disagree with the categorical defense of the individual statements at issue as being appropriate to a straight critique of an informative work, I also think that the charge that the tone was inappropriate and a barrier to reading is overblown considering the fairly minimal level at which distracting emotional descriptions are present in the review.
This is Microsoft realizing that Windows desktop monopoly, while mighty, doesn't necessarily translate to other markets, especially cloud services, all that well because the monopoly is based on compatibility and compatibility means leaving those holes that allow for third-parties to hijack the platform to deliver their services. Also in a world that kept needing new desktop operating systems, OS monopoly was far more valuable than app monopoly but in a world where a 10-year old operating system is hard to kill, app monopoly is more important, because OS has already been commoditized.

In this sense, their Office monopoly, which is not as reliant on third-party add-ins or platform openness, and is far more based on product superiority, is more important for them to preserve. Office gives them a strong chance at dominance in business cloud services. Since they are far ahead of competitors at this point, they want to win it as quickly as possible before competitors catch up. This has nothing to do with Microsoft conceding anything - it's simply that Office is far too important to be tied to Windows.
The change that I dislike the most is that if you want to continue using your Google account, you have to give Microsoft access to it. Many other new settings also try to decrease privacy, but like that one, at least they tell you about it I guess.
Besides the issue already raised, I think it might lead to teams optimizing for YC instead of for success. Of course, it would be ideal if the two optimization targets were the same, but I doubt that's true.
Previous discussion can be found at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7547942
My request has been stuck for like half an hour.

(edit, I re-tried and it was fast, I guess site was HN'ed)
> it has to be dirt cheap no matter what

Some people have constrained budgets

> a TV which is next to worthless after a couple of years

Oh, wait, you won't get it, you expect to throw away perfectly working devices frequently.

The desk looks like there is maybe $50 worth of materials and maybe 2 hours worth of work there (I'm taking for granted they know what they're doing and can do a lot of it pretty efficiently). So that's what, between $100-$200 material and labor. Where is the other $1300 of value coming from?
> I'm not entirely sure why variable expansion works inside double quotes but wildcard expansion doesn’t.

That's because a double-quoted expression is supposed to evaluate to a single word. Wildcard expansion can result in multiple words, but parameter expansion doesn't.

(Except for things like "$@". With bash, the rules always have exceptions.)
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Do it yourself! There are plenty of folks who have instrumented their old cars, both for curiosity's sake and to improve them. I'm looking at adding a sequential fuel injection system to my vehicle a la www.diyefi.org among others, instrumentation would be much simpler.

This solution is much more difficult than the post, but can be very rewarding.
Whats App doesn't charge people for the first year of use, and then charge $1/year after that. The model can work for Dragdis possibly.
If I just want to pretend to be a volunteer junior deputy for the Sheriff of the Internet for two minutes, I'll do it.

Spammers would not have their accounts suspended as often or as quickly if no one ever reported them to abuse@some.service.provider.com . There's always the possibility that my iota of caring generated the lead that sparked the investigation that allowed the actual network security guard to take down the spammer kingpin or a portion of his botnet.

Mostly, it's when I just want to kick the spammer squar in the danglies, for annoying me when I'm bored.
I have seen it in corporate environments where specific versions of things like bash (but more commonly, python, ruby, etc) are pushed to machines to places like /opt/ so that the deployed application could use them without fucking around with the package management of the underlying host. The deployed applications would then be kicked off in an environment with a modified PATH to reflect their dependencies being in those locations.

Those sort of deployments got a lot of milage out of /usr/bin/env
Agreed in that listening to your customers is great, giving them what they want is really great, getting lost in all the projects of giving everyone everything is a real problem. Too many 'feature' projects can really damage a product.
For too long Operations and Development have had an adversarial relationship that bordered on belligerent. At a lot of large organizations I've had a working relationship with development didn't really care how efficient their app worked or whether it crashed every half hour, just that it provided the functionality that it was supposed to. This became a nightmare for operations. The same goes the other way around. Operations didn't really care much about how the development environment is setup and don't care how difficult it is for developers to deploy and test their code.

DevOps, as widely debated what the actual meaning is, brings development and operations into a more symbiotic relationship. Whether that means that devs have a more operations minded outlook, or operations looks into how to make development more efficient, or automating operations or any of the other various definitions in the end it's about making sure the entire life cycle of an app is run more efficiently. From initial development and testing through scaling.
For developers, installing Crouton turns the Chromebook into a fantastic portable machine. My Acer c720 has been able to handle everything I've thrown at it, and generally lasts a full day (10-12 hours) between charges.
The spammer appears to be a religious hypocrite, so why not spam the spammer with religious hypocrisy right from their own playbook?

I would begin with Isaiah 45:7 "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
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+1 that is a nice classification, which goes for a lot of devices actually.

I also have a slight impression that 3 tends to come with higher reliability and quality in general? Maybe not for mobile phones and other things where fashion sometimes rules highly over function or is at least very important (like in, ugh those ugly screwholes on your phone), but definitely for tools, audio/video gear etc. E.g. my first rotary hammer was pretty much unmaintainable and died soon. The second, higher end one came with a complete parts list + schematics of every single bit in there + easy to get and complete service manual. Didn't need it yet though. And the same story goes for all kinds of devices ranging for walkmans to oscilloscopes I owned.
Turbo Tax doesn't let you get through it in an hour.

I have a friend who I watched do her taxes recently. TurboTax probably asked her 100 questions over the course of the process, and for about half of those questions it contained at least one term that she had no idea what it meant.
I think the presentation was great, engaging, interesting. You did a bid of Jobs-ian presenting, making the platform look simple and magical. I've been using it for a month and love it. I still use Evernote for screenshotting designs I like, and use Google bookmarks for full articles, but Dragdis is perfect for copy snippets or quotes I want to save for later. Great for idea generation.
The idea is not that it knows the time, but that it keeps time well. It just has a very accurate measure of how long a second is.
A lot of general phone support has been shut down and you are now told to look at the website.

I think the temporary phone shut down during the last debt ceiling government shutdown saga is now permanent.
My thoughts on ads:

I don't mind ads, as long as the following conditions are met:

* They don't present a security risk.
* They don't impede the usability of the website (or, in the case of some ads, Firefox in general! Some Flash ads use absurd amounts of CPU) .
* They don't leak information to third parties who may resell said information.

However, pretty much all ads in practice fall into one or more of these categories.
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Oh guffaw. Even our beloved Github has a means to let you unseat inactive account names.

https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy

(And they should, I think.)

Since at least 2012 Instagram has had this in their terms:

> 4. We reserve the right to force forfeiture of any username that becomes inactive, violates trademark, or may mislead other users.

So whine about the policy if you don't like it, but don't whine that Instagram has materially changed.
I personally do like Dragdis - although I haven't thought of any alternatives.