skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the 9-county Bay Area which is smaller, in population, than NYC despite having more than 20 times the land area.

LIRR, NJ Transit, Metro-North and the Port Authority easily cover more land than the Bay Area – note that these are all state-run agencies. AFAIK California has never taken an interest in creating its own state level transit agencies? The states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and the city of New York have been able to cooperate perhaps much better than SF and its surrounding counties.
Good point! Altough bad example with the CPU: I do want a 20 GHz one and so do a lot of others. But I can see if it works as advertised very quickly whereas you cannot really absolutely with ultimate certainty prove that this bracelet doesn't work...
It's call PII, Personally Identifiable Information. In many industries, there are indeed strict requirements for protecting it... just not at Ebay, who, for it's age, probably predates any such standard practices.
I'm wondering why this comment has been down vote, what's wrong with this comment?

I am a newcomer to hn, and I really can't get the point...
please anyone tell me?
When I tried to change my password to a twenty character pass phrase, I wasn't allowed because it was "too weak". Adding a single digit made it "strong." I am not particularly comforted by this.
> people migrate to alternative DNS schemes, such as GNS or Namecoin

"GNS" does not find anything relevant on first page of google results.

Namecoin would hardly be an improvement over current system, on the contrary a system where anyone can snatch any domain without any kind of mechanism for dispute seems like a step backwards. Especially when there is no top-level division of the namespace.
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> And I fail to see how that damage can ever be undone.

The only way forward for the US tech industry is to enable end-to-end encryption, web-of-trust, and make it simple enough for mom.

If it's not the NSA it's the Chinese or Russians. Everyone needs security. The next center of gravity of the tech industry will be the place where people can get security. Silicon Valley could do it, but are they too mobbed-up with the Military Industrial Complex to actually get it done?
"Second, it is impossible to meet Google's terms of service with an RSS reader. They dictate that ads may not be shown along adult or copyrighted content. Determining that for external sources of data was not going to happen. I got a few emails about violations and added a system to prevent ads on certain feeds. But I was playing whack-a-mole and it would never end. Eventually I made a mistake and they banned my site. I gave up on ads at this point."

I've experienced this myself, and I'm hearing it more and more from others. Maybe this is a market need that is going unfulfilled.
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Anyone have any theories about what will happen to the coins?

Smart money says "A lawyer at a downtown Tokyo legal firm with sterling reputation informs the bankruptcy trustee of their desire to purchase certain assets of Mt. Gox. The lawyer demonstrates that they've been engaged by a consortium of foreign investors. The trustee looks diligently for other options to liquidate 200k BTC, finds that the Bitcoin ecosystem is a hive of scum and villainy, and says that he's willing to consider the consortium's offer. They offer $PICK_A_NUMBER, which represents a substantial discount to what many Bitcoiners believe the spot price of 200k BTC to be, but which is -- crucially -- actually available, in actual honest-to-the-Constitution yen, from someone who is almost certainly not a criminal enterprise. The bankruptcy trustee, satisfied that he has diligently explored the options, counteroffers with regards to the price. Terms are reached, a contract is hammered out in an afternoon, and payment is made via a wire transfer. Physical delivery of the Bitcoins is accomplished by the technical experts nominated by the buyers, in the company of the bankruptcy trustee and the representative director of the company. The bankruptcy trustee writes them a receipt and enters the transaction into the books of the company. The universe quivers in anticipation but then realizes 'Wait, much more interesting commerce happens in Tokyo every day.' The bankruptcy trustee then begins drafting a memo to stakeholders of the corporation on the likely amount of liquid assets which the corporation controls to satisfy claims made against it."
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Burp has a lot of features, but at it's core it's four things:

* Proxy records, categorizes, and makes searchable and navigable all the requests you make through Burp, and includes an internal CA to generate on-the-fly SSL certificates.

* Spider crawls websites and discovers new pages.

* Repeater takes requests from any other part of the tool (or, if you're masochistic, requests you write from scratch), delivers them to the target application, and renders their results. Repeater includes Burp's UI for breaking requests into keys and values for quick editing, and a small battery of fixups to make sure that edited requests are (if you want them to be) valid HTTP requests.

* Intruder takes a template request and a series of rules to transform that request, delivers the permutations rapidly to the target, and records and classifies the responses they generate.

Of these four tools, only the "Spider" is really particular to penetration testing. The other three tools are incredibly valuable for day-to-day debugging and testing. Intruder, in particular, is criminally undersold to web developers.

There are a bunch of other things in Burp (the Burp Scanner, for instance, is a second-tier web application security scanner that nobody I know relies on; I justify pulling it out of the core four features because it's also a recent arrival to Burp). Some of them are given whole tabs in the UI, but are really simple features --- the "Decoder", for instance, simply does character decoding. In any case, even penetration testers don't use them often.
Oracle and MySQL are still the most popular DBMS in the market according to many sources, e.g. this one here:

http://db-engines.com/en/ranking

Also, note that MySQL was the only half-way trustworthy free database in the market. The popularity of PostgreSQL has been on the rise only since a few years. So if "free" (as in beer) is what you're after, then MySQL was the only choice for a very long time. Once you build upon MySQL (or any DBMS), you don't switch easily...

Given that RebelLabs is not mainly focused on JRebel users (it's more of a general ZeroTurnaround content marketing platform), the target audience is certainly JRebel-friendly. So yes, the results are biased towards that sort of audience.
So, in essence, "we reinvented public transit, but we need to market it as 'cars' to Americans, because cars good, public transit bad"? Interesting, both in practicality and marketing.
Node.js How-to: Publishing modules to multiple npm registries
Except that the quantity is roughly 11x the amount currently for sale (at that one exchange). It's going to depress the price like crazy, unless the court authorizes it to be sold in pieces over time.
Thanks for pointing that out, there is a technical difficulty with the builtwith stats right now, looking into it.
Yes, "the disclosure shall be made in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay".

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

If the breach affects more than 500 California residents, an online report must be filed with the Attorney General.

You can search breach reports, and I could not find any from ebay.

http://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/list?field_sb24_org_name...

You can also file a complaint against businesses that fail to disclose breaches here:

http://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-busines...
Show HN: Google Panda 4.0 Hits The Technology News Sector
oh, i got the bestest idea:

.amazon·com

I can't imagine anyone being confused about that.
Would have been to nice to see some quotes from a woman who was also a minority. But clearly ethnic/racial diversity isn't a problem for this conference. </sarcasm>
If internet access regulation can be compared to railway regulation it seems like providing a fast lane service is a fair option from the ISP point of view. The only wrinkle is when the ISP is a monopoly, in which case the definition of the tiers and the pricing in the individual tiers must be regulated.
You may be interested in the white paper posted here:
http://www.axionpower.com/Investor_Relations

The last section covers the PbC characteristics.

I would also read the ASME Conference paper, written by Norfolk Southern's engineers about their electric train utilizing the PbC.
In fact, it is actually crashing the whole "web server". As the whole "web server" in Erlang is an Erlang process. And you can have millions of them. Every single request is handled by its own process "web server" spawned on demand for that request. And it's still reasonably fast.
Not too impressed to be honest; singular/plural forms are not treated equal; not familiar with LDA, but I've written and LSA implementation in the past, and it did a lot better than what is shown here.
I completely agree he shouldn't have been running this service in the first place. I also agree it's a bit late to find some principles when you've been happily complying with these requests in the past.

But! The period you describe as him stonewalling the DOJ, he claims he was talking to them every day while trying to find competent legal representation.

Now, this sounds like something I would want to do if the nature of the request were different from the previous ones. (whether it was technically different or just the fact he had a personal interest in the account as you suggest doesn't really matter, just that for whatever reason it wasn't to be handled in the previous manner)

I certainly believe it was difficult for him to find good representation when he was under a gag order.

So I have some limited sympathy here; the DOJ are forcing him to move to their timeline, and he's scrambling to find good lawyers.

I think we can say he was happy to sell out users or that he was fraudulently labelling his service as secure, while acknowledging the fact that he was trying to seek legal advice at the same time.
Finally, the FCC is hearing the demands of users/consumers of internet service. The fast-lane idea was terrible for businesses - other than huge companies who can pay the fast lane fees - and for users who already deal with pretty widely terrible experiences with ISPs.
Great - but what if I need to dynamically load some JS?
Reminds me of textro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twBgcuaZVOA
Shortest, simplest code that prints an unexpected obscenity
This does well on the 'T Shirt test' on some sites, e.g. http://www.riverisland.com/men/t-shirts--vests

This could be really useful in ecommerce for creating search keywords for category pages. The noise in the results matters not, so long as it gets 'T-Shirt' and someone searches for 'T-shirt' then all is well and good.

Are you looking to plug what you have into something such as the Magento e-commerce platform? The right clients could pay proper money for this functionality. It is something I would quite like to speak to you about.
Let me just point out that $500 billion is larger than the entire yearly non-defense discretionary budget of the US, itself the largest discretionary budget of any government.

>But criley2, how do we spend trillions if $500B is larger than our budget

Discretionary budget, not mandatory spending like social security or welfare.

$500B is an enormous sum of money, it truly is.

$500B/10Y would still be an incredibly large sum subject to an incredible amount of corruption and graft...
You can talk about theoretical chemistry but can't figure out how to rent a lecture hall and host your own conference?
I have my personal email on a subdomain.org.uk address, and this has occasionally caused problems with people leaving off the '.uk'.

On the other hand, almost everyone I want to give my email address to over the phone will just use it for marketing, so I give them a gmail one and let the NSA index my spam.
There's some more info in the previous submission/discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638904
To replace Burp, you need at a minimum a proxy that reliably works at high speed on a huge variety of sites, a UI for capturing, altering, and resending requests, and a "fuzzer" that will transform a template request according to a ruleset.

This turns out to be a pretty difficult thing to build well. Every pentester who can code that owns a Mac wants to rewrite Burp; I myself have died on that hill several times. But rewriting Burp is a bit like rewriting Microsoft Word; so much of the value is in the details, and there are so. many. details.
Great summary, thanks. But I just have to comment on this:

> unless that third party is insured by a government in the event of disaster.

"Insurance by government" does not help those who save money. Dollar lost 98% of value over the century. It did not help those in Cyprus last year who got their deposits locked up indefinitely within the island. And it will not help EU depositors if ECB starts using Cyprus case as they suggested in last year's paper. According to your own words, "your money belongs to someone else" and those guys will be able to take it from you should they need it before you run to an ATM.

Also: all those bail-outs and QE? Those are effective taxes that instead of changing number of units on your account, make your share of money supply (and therefore purchasing power) smaller while someone else's share gets bigger. Primarily, of some big bankers or investor groups. (Example: did you notice how businesses struggle to stay up, or how prices rise, especially in the places close to money distribution centers: e.g. NYC, SF, London, Paris?)

So I would say, considering all of the above, "FDIC insurance" (or alike) is more like a red herring. Your bank will never fail and take all your money outright because it allows the entire system of banks to steal from you steadily in a more obscure manner. Anyone who brings up security of "FDIC insurance" either does not see the whole picture or is taking part in the fraud.
This is a good reminder, to me, of why I have chosen to delay any ambitions of my own startup until after my kids are grown and no longer want to spend (as much) time with me.

However, I think it's important to remember that we can just as easily get caught in the trap of being present with our family, but not "present", because we're stuck in a 9-5 job that is sucking the soul out of us.

I'm currently in a position that consists about 80% meetings and 20% reading/responding to email, when I would so much rather be coding. I come home feeling unfulfilled, and am irritated way too easily.

Some people can still cope with a job like this and separate themselves from it as to not affect their home life. I wish I was one of those, but I'm not. And since I recognize that I'm not, I have chosen to find -- and have found -- another job that without a doubt will not have this impact on me.

If you're in the same boat, and are not able to cope and separate yourself from the drudgery of your 9-5 job, find one that you enjoy better. And I personally think it's worth even taking a cut in pay, if you can and if you have to.
Depends on the bank, but it's definitely not protected by law the way a credit card is, at least in the US. That goes for debit cards too by the way.
this always gets me, and every time i ask i can't seem to find a direct answer why so many sites have this 20 character limit. bank of america does as well, with the additional restriction that you can't use the following characters: $ < > & ^ ! []. bluecross/blueshield allows up to 30 characters, but only numbers and letters.

if passwords are being hashed, which i guess i would have to believe they are, at least in the BOA case, what's the point of restricting character counts (especially to 20), or choosing random characters to exclude?
I strongly suspect they'll set the price at the final prevailing price prior to declaring bankruptcy, which as $135 USD.

If they were able to sell for $500 (choosing simple math here), that'd cover about 85% of coin balances (not that simple of course, as they still have to reconcile fiat accounts, as well as non-customer creditors)
> The author needs to consider which thing will cause him more regret in the long term--working a more normal schedule and potentially missing out on whatever rewards living the startup life may give him, or definitely missing out on his daughter's childhood.

Given the psychology studies on creativity and productivity given the mythical man hour, it's not much of a choice.

Beyond that, missing his daughter's life and working many hours, sleeping less will ultimately lead to a shorter life due to the physiological effects.
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I would be so fuckin' mad if the passwords aren't hashed.
True, but besides the point. The problem is users are conditioned to think that personal addresses don't exist beyond the big e-mail providers. "Not GMail or Yahoo? You, sir, are a liar, such e-mail address can not possibly exist!" (that is an exaggerated version of what I get with firstname@lastname.com: "so, firstname.lastname@gmail.com?" "no, firstname, at, lastname, dot, com." "so, firstname, dot, lastname, dot, com, at, gmail, dot, com?" ...)
Glass is at the stage tablets were at when the Newton arrived: the concept thrills the imagination, but the hardware is so far behind (despite the laudable attempt) expectations that odds are it will fade into oblivion until significant factors (battery capacity vs size, processing power, significant FOV coverage) are improved 100x and the "right" UI/UX is designed (which will look staggeringly obvious after it's invented).
> We tell ourselves it isn't a choice but for many of us it is. Most of us could earn enough money to support our family comfortably in a relatively regular 9 - 5 job. We might not be personally as satisfied and we might not be as financially well off, but we can choose one possible version of our life over another.

I'm currently in the 9-5 job and maybe I'm just a whiner, but I feel the same as this guy. I hate the commute through rush hour traffic that I am required by the time window to make. I hate that once I get to the office I sit in a 8'x8' cube, with two 8'x4' desks taking up 50% of the space. I hate that I've just been reassigned to a new cube, same size, same desks, but now with a structural 4x4 pillar taking up another 25% and my back to the "door".

I hate that I spend all day patching the same kinds of holes again and again without the authority to fix the root problems. I hate that I have no real ability to influence the direction of my organization. Without agency it become very difficult to keep caring about the product. I hate that nobody else cares either. I work purely to support my family. That is the only reason. I used to love writing software, and I still do, but I hate my job. I hate that I feel like everything that makes me who I am is being slowly ground away into nothing.

I get home with time for the kids but I have nothing left. My mental tank is completely empty. I almost can't get up in the mornings, I don't want to get up. If it wasn't for my wife and kids I wouldn't get up. Somehow this wonderful, exciting process of solving problems and finding solutions to people's needs has turned into torture. I'm on a sinking ship and am too burdened with responsibility to jump off. So I'm frantically trying in my spare time to build a raft so I can find my own island. I feel like I'm racing against time. I have to finish the raft before I have a mental break and land my family on welfare and me on a psychologist's couch.

There are great things about my job, those benefits that you mention: 40 hours a week (well, 50 including the commute), an above-average salary (my wife can spend her quality time teaching and raising our kids), job security (we've been planning to end-of-life the product for longer than I've been here), a reasonable boss (who is just as powerless to change things as I am).

I guess I'm not really disagreeing with you, just sharing an admittedly depressed view from the other side. We do have a choice, and right now my choice is to pull late nights after the kids go to bed. I'm scrambling to create my own software that I can sell so I don't have to go to this 9-5 which you advocate for OP.
In my case, the credit card was the most important piece of data to protect.

However I just realized that the credit card might be the only legitimate piece of data that they have left to verify against.
Try using tf-idf instead of raw word frequencies.
It is very slanted and dares you to disagree, which has become the modus operandi for some groups. Now there is the distinct possibility that someone was purposefully excluded it also is quite possible that with so few in the group that none stood out. Did the query the female members (what, are there like four?) if they wanted to present?

Still, make a competing organization. Don't follow the route of protect the children/etc/etc. Just as bad as highly educated groups are in thinking they are too intelligent to be sexist/racist/etc we don't need strawman arguments or worse.
If there were no male speakers you would think there was no bias? It just happened that every female scheduled had something truly "scientific" to talk about, but the available men had none?
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Falsehoods programmers believe about addressess: http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-ab...
fun video on how they found the images:
https://vimeo.com/92583299
It does both (infinite scrolling is a horrible idea). If you try dragging the scrollbar it will jump around every time more content is loaded and you lose your position on the page.
Good. I keep wandering past the Apple Store at the mall, lamenting the fact that nothing interesting has been introduced for many months.
"Does PG really want a bunch of code obsessed, single minded founders with no hobbies or life outside of their startup?"

Yes. He wants his startups to work, eat, exercise and sleep.

http://adii.me/broken-idols/
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Then you're "stuck" with a script loader. Make sure your script loader is itself not being blocked on CSSOM, and is not blocking DOM construction.
I seem to remember that Venus image came with Deluxe Paint. Adding a third eye to it seems like something fun you might do when messing around with cut & paste.

You can watch him on stage working with Deluxe Paint here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQCdI4qLjo
StaticGen.com has actually been around longer, we just recently relaunched it.

I was thinking of just letting it lapse, but after using staticsitegenerators.net myself, I found I wanted a list that was a bit more strict, in the sense of not including anything that's not a static site generator (flat file CMSs like Kirby or even hosting services like BitBalloon or Fjords).

Also wanted some more details on the list, and there's a lot of potential to do more with a site like this in the future: more meaningful comparisons, guides to picking the right static site generator, etc...

Apart from that it was also just fun to redo the site with Middleman :)
Is Amazon RDS hard to manage?
It's a noop.
How does this differ from the requirejs module for Node?

https://www.npmjs.org/package/requirejs
Not disastrous, but merely a matter of supply and demand. Also as an individual, if I don't like the market price, I can go "meh" and not sell. Court will order sales, so it'll be forced market incentive.