skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of noble ideals are any of these crackers fighting for? They're just bullies of the electronic era--using their skills to assert power over others.

Re: the FBI. Their job is to maintain law and order. The burden of this is that even though 99% of the time you'll be fighting malevolent destabilization, you're likely to be in the wrong side of history that 1% of the time, and history will pillory you for it. That's OK and it's inevitable. It's intrinsic to the social function of such organizations. Because for every MLK there are a hundred David Koresh's.
Yeah, most companies worth their salt (so to speak) make a point of saying their employees will never ask for your password. That not only frees them up to do the right thing with password hashing, but gives users a clear red flag when scammers call.
That, and typing "select x from table A, table B where tableA.foreign_key = tableB.index and tableA.index=5" is a little long-winded and more prone to error, when you can just do x = ModelA.objects.get(pk=5).ModelB
Yep, and that's not a bad thing. I'm not convinced that there would be much of a profitable market for a group chat tool, but if it convinces a couple of organisations to look more closely a Jira, then it's worth it for them.
Thank you. That's a really informative and inspiring reply.
Premium domain? Not unless it's the .com
It's good that we can worry about different things, but you're kind of making my point for me -- if the information is available commercially, all you have to do is 1) have a business relationship with the broker, and 2) punch in a credit card number to get it, no matter who you are.

What we're seeing is that the brokers aren't very keen on having everybody and their brother coming by to check out folks, so it's a quasi secret type of information. That's the worst of both worlds.

By the way, I keep hearing that phone companies have already set up e-com sites for Law Enforcement to retrieve phone tracking records (which do not require a warrant) Punch in your department's credit card number, type in the guys phone number, and get a record of everywhere he's been. Pretty cool stuff if it's true, but, as I note, folks who do this stuff aren't very keen on letting the rest of us in on the action.
I am pretty sure this is not related to local realism. I would naively imagine the situation as follows (not having read anything related in detail and not being a physicist). The forces between particles become very weak with growing separation but never become zero. Now imagine throwing two ping-pong balls into a pool making ripples on the surface similar to the force field or the probability of presence of the particles. There will be a interference pattern and you can probably find a valley where you can place a third ping-pong ball and it will sit there more or less stable. Now finally imagine every pair of ping-pong balls forming the valley for the third ping-pong ball. This may of course be incredible far off from what really happens - just making up images.
I think you just need help on the business side because it sounds promising to me. If you are truly burnt out or you are in financial trouble, then I certainly would recommend to stop. Otherwise, just take a two week break and find someone to help with the business side of things.

I think a lot of the billing stuff can be handled by Stripe or a similar service. For legal, finding a good lawyer is most of the work. After that, they will guide you through the rest.
If only they'd considered NLP support - eg: 'call http://example.org/zip/zap/rap every monday at 5pm'
No OS X version yet, but it's what they're working on next according to the last part of http://vesperapp.co/blog/vesper-2-0-and-vesper-sync/
Would love to hear how others are approaching this problem!
They're doing two averages that lose useful information. You've pointed out one, which I agree with, but the article also averages salary over the life of the company, which I think is losing more useful information.

I'd be much more interested in an average of what the CEOs make in their first year and second year. The Dropbox, AirBnB and Stripe founders wouldn't impact this average all that much since I doubt they were pulling in 7-8 figure salaries from the beginning. And, if someone is thinking of starting a company, they salaries that they're most interested in are those first two years...they want to know just how little they'll have to survive on.

More than two years into a startup, the values might be interesting, but they're not relevant because outcomes vary so wildly.
"NFS lets you share a directory between multiple servers (think of it as Dropbox for servers)."

Oy vey. ;)
"We use proprietary technology to secure your bitcoins"

Well I'm in then.
So don't give anyone root on an entire data center.
Good luck with those stale NFS file handles...
Nielsen ratings: Why has no one disrupted nielsen ratings?
I have a nielsen box and I find it to be a 50 yr technology. I don't understand why they need 5 boxes (For user input box, one cable box, two modems, and some adapter for power) for what one can nowadays do in a simple phone. Its also very user unfriendly.

Why do TV companies still use nielsen ratings?
My understanding is that your best bet is to buy a prepaid SIM in Taiwan, when you arrive.

Googling for "taiwan prepaid sim" will take you to several English-language options and advice.
If you've never heard of the horror stories, I invite you to read up on that. It's not about the company going out of business, it's about having issues with a "black box" that you can't possibly debug or fix.

The things you don't have control over will end up breaking your promise to the user.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4148628/why-doesnt-icloud-...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/03/frustrated-with-icloud-...
That would definitely be an improvement. When I originally wrote this in 2011, I had just a few hours, so I went with the quickest solution. For little personal side projects like this I find that Redis makes a great persistent hash map for storing bits of data between runs of a script.
We've just released wwdc 2014 parties app, available on the app store
Hipchat does that too

edit: To clarify, we run github freshdesk and jenkins integrations. I'm sure there's plenty more. From what I recall it works in a similar way too.
Whenever I see papers like this, the infamous "Global average temperature vs. number of pirates" chart almost always comes to my mind xD
Would you apply that reasoning to Snowden or Manning?

Is there no duty from a promise of secrecy? Is morality tied to certain organizations?

What if the motivation isn't atonement but self-interest?
More like, "Dropbox is like NFS for desktops"
What's interesting about this is the trend of developing countries that initially have massive economic growth looking for a while like they might overtake the US, but never actually making it. I'd contend that it's the role of the fundamental openness and liberalness of US and European society that fuels the level of innovation needed to really make it to first-world level.

Developing countries are often saddled with terribly oppressive, corrupt, and inefficient governments and societies. They can develop a strong manufacturing economy without really changing that, but getting beyond that to a modern innovation/knowledge economy seems to require deep societal changes that are difficult, time-consuming, and often involve the downfall of the people currently in power there.
China's struggle is going to be the same one we see from other export driven economies, shifting from "fast follower" manufacturing centers to more R&D focused economic leaders. This is not an easy shift to make.

Right now, the big East Asian countries, China/South Korea/Japan are struggling with adapting their education systems to a model that encourages risk taking and creativity, things required to carve new niches and drive economic leadership.

It's happening, but slowly, Japan is very close/already there in many cases but struggles understanding foreign consumer preferences and it's not across the board. Korea seems to have identified it as a necessary growth area and is making massive investments in design centers and other "creative capital" investments -- something like $100 billion so far already invested into making Seoul a global destination regional design city.
From the article:

> NFS lets you share a directory between multiple servers (think of it as Dropbox for servers).

So, ignoring that NFS is nothing like Dropbox, there's nothing wrong per se with using NFS on a cloud setup for shared storage, this setup assumes that your NFS server will always be up. For anyone who has worked with NFS servers, you'll know that this isn't always the case. (Who here has lost a day when your NFS mounted home directory won't load?)

And you don't want to deal with a down NFS server when you're trying to auto-scale. Somewhere you'll always have a single point of failure, but I've always tried to make NFS not be it.
Looks like the janitor needed somewhere to plug in the vacuum cleaner again...
I tend to use /sbin/reboot instead, it amounts to the same (calls shutdown), but it's harder to get it mixed up.
Browser plugins are basically dead anyway. Flash is the only major holdout.

Mozilla's not going to bother replacing NPAPI as it's working on an asm.js replacement for Flash: http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ similarly to what it did with its PDF viewer (now using pdf.js).
Is this like Captain Planet? It's a bit exceptional to divide access servers of similar type between administrators such that individuals have full access to a portion of the fleet. Do they meet up and put their rings together to roll out updates? What if one of them goes on vacation?
Team communication: Teams need to interact in a variety of different ways: public groups/private groups, fixed groups/ad-hoc groups, groups/1-2-1. HipChat supports a variety of different ways of interacting, and does so in a way that's easy to use.
People nowadays use a variety of different devices (and classes of device). HipChat has a range of native clients, plus a web based one, and so can be used on most of the devices that people want to use it on.
(We use Slack, but I've tried and liked HipChat too)
That has its own risks. There might be some catastrophe that need root access on everything to fix, and you can't reach enough people to get it....
It could refer to various Facebook apps/games that require a browser plugin to access native graphics capabilities or to escape from the browser and install files locally.
I think you're fundamentally confused about how computers work. It is always faster to do things in software than in hardware. Naive optimizations are always faster than data flow analysis from profiling. More layers of indirection make things faster, so the fastest languages put interpreters inside of their interpreters. War is peace. Slavery is freedom. The kids are getting smarter.
Who do you think the criminals are in this saga?
Thanks! Do you know any site to find marketing people?
I was encouraged by that too, but I suspect Silverlight just got ported to NaCL... (or whatever else Chrome plugins are supposed to use)
Thanks, I'm looking for work :)
I'm still holding out to see if they add Linux and Windows client support. Until then, HipChat is the only option for us.
Mandatory DevOps Borat

"To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops"

and my fav
"Law of Murphy for devops: if thing can able go wrong, is mean is already wrong but you not have Nagios alert of it yet."
I extended Python SimpleHTTPServer as a data store server for some web games and also as a cross-site XML server for said games. Knod would fit that niche just fine.
Intel teaming up with Rockchip for new Atom based mobile SoC
I don't like the web now... grumps
Why the heck are you posting stuff on this hell hole? Why am I posting stuff?
Definitely (2).. and that puts me in deciding mode again!
I came here to say exactly this. Flowdock is my favorite groupware chat I have used so far.
I assume bash.org?
Can't speak to all of them, but the Github integration with Slack is better than HipChat. The messages are more useful and easier to customize.
If you think that "hire great sysadmins" prevents somebody from fatfingering, you must be hiring from some more evolved species. Nobody is immune to mistakes; preventing this kind of issue is something the infrastructure and procedures should do.
I turned my history off so that I (or someone else) can't see what Google knows about my browsing history (I'm sure Google keep a copy).
As the other posters have remarked, Brent's sync diary provides some of the concrete technical reasons why we rolled our own.

Big picture, though, we consider sync so essential to Vesper's long-term success that we wanted to control it. Dropbox is fantastic. We all rely on it personally. But we don't want Vesper to rely on it. I'm sure everyone here on Hacker News has a Dropbox account, and I'll bet most Daring Fireball readers do too. But we want Vesper to appeal to everyone, including people who don't know what Dropbox is or don't want it. (Plus, Dropbox doesn't work exactly the way we want it to work; we have code running on our servers, not just data stored on them. Vesper Sync works exactly the way we want sync to work.)

iCloud is very tempting too, because it puts all the onus of identity, privacy, and security on Apple's shoulders. But with iCloud, you have to choose between document syncing and Core Data -- neither of which is a perfect fit for the way Vesper is designed.

Lastly, we want to keep the door open for a web app version of Vesper, and a non-Mac App Store version for OS X. iCloud, by design, only works for apps distributed through the App Store.

We wanted to offer one and only one good way to sync. That meant rolling our own.
Bit of a hyperbolic title for an entirely-speculative article here. I'm concerned about privacy myself and I wouldn't be running some surveillance camera that streams my video in anything but an end-to-end encrypted manner anyway, but it seems a bit strange to imagine that this is the end of privacy "forever". The article doesn't explain exactly what the privacy violations would be, but implies that Google would monitor you at all times - which seems unlikely given that surveillance videos aren't exactly machine-readable data. Unless they're just storing videos of everything you do to watch them for market research (seems very unlikely according to their business model, and would likely be a dumb PR move to even do it in secret), what extra information could they really get? When you come and go? They'd probably be able to get that much more accurately from data they're already getting from Android location data.

Sure it's creepy that the company that reads your e-mail and tracks your web searches and locations wants to buy a surveillance camera company, but realistically, this is likely to be much less intrusive than what they're already doing.
Does slack have native clients yet? And by native I mean a native application not a thin wrapper for a browser.
Whats your BTC address?
I have already integrated with 2Checkout which works fine.
But the initial idea was to integrate it with an Indian gateway. The govt here wants to see a decent office in a commercial location before giving access to a local payment gateway.
Probably because it integrates with Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket and because it "Just Works". Sure we could do all that stuff with irc or whatever open source tools but that costs development hours which costs money, or we could just use something that it extremely cheap(or free if you don't want video chat) and works great with no effort on our part.
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> sounds like they're throwing a sysadmin under the bus

at least they didn't name the operator in question...
I posted this earlier this month (contains MySQL database exports of the threads and comments going back to 2011):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687128

In the link above you can get a copy of the threads/comments data up until May 2014 for the HN Hiring threads (I didn't do anything for the Freelancers ones).

My initial goal was to do the same (do an analysis of the data) so I also have an additional schema created that would allow us to associate the variety of programming languages, tools, locations, and companies together in a structured way.

I have an idea of how I want to create a frontend that users could contribute to (I'd like to gamify it a bit so contributors can get some props on the site for helping get the data analyzed, since that is a pretty manual process), but haven't had the time to work on it.
What would you have him do; change his profile pic to a US flag while working undercover?
Isn't Hack the PHP of the future, aviable today? For me it seems with hack there are no excuses anymore to still use php. I'd be glad if someone tell me some downsides of hack, it seems to good to be true. And how do the JITs compare?
Right, I guess I'm basically inferring a corollary to the Streisand effect. The Streisand effect is that once information is out, it cannot be suppressed; I'm going for something more like, the information will eventually get out, it cannot be forever suppressed.
Snail Mail From Any Computer
Most people are terrified of computers.

And most computer professionals are totally oblivious to this, which is one of the key reasons that so much user-space software (and hardware) really sucks.

Instead of whinging about how stupid people are and heading down the path that leads uphill both ways (and we LIKED it!), put yourself in the user's shoes. Computers are magic to them. When you ask them to do something that seems simple to you, like unplug and replug a network cable, keep in mind that they don't know what a network cable is, or what it does, or what might happen, or why they're being told to do that. They're genuinely scared, and rightfully so, given the horrid experiences most people have had with technology today.

Try accompanying the request for action with an explanation of what you expect it to do (in small words), heavily loaded with reassurance that it will not catch fire and explode or sell their children on EBay or whatever horror stories might be rolling through their minds. Help them feel that the person at the other end of the line, the expert they called (overcoming other fears to even ask for help) is sympathetic, wants them to succeed, and believes in them.

And finally, remember, the wise words of one of the smartest people I know... "Intelligence is like four wheel drive. It doesn't keep you from getting stuck, it just lets you get stuck in worse places."
Interesting startup GitHub projects to follow
I'm trying to find good startup repositories to follow and study on github. projects like reddit, discourse, etc.
I'm not disagreeing with you on the meta-point. I'm just saying, even if you're not afraid of the government you have reason to be afraid. As an aside, I think HN gets this message backwards. I think it strikes a stronger chord with people to talk about what their boss could do with this data than what LE could do.
That's great HipChat. Now can you do emoji autocomplete?
While spreadsheets are sub-optimal, the work was OPEN so people could find those bugs. We need to stop beating scientists who share their data because currently there is little incentive for them to do so.

Most scientists do not make their code and resources easily available. I'd prefer an open excel sheet to a closed python analysis which is only slightly less likely to be wrong.
I'd love to add similar features to textql[1]. am currently working on a v2 that does a lot more, but right now it fills a gap not in CSVKit, which is the direct execution of SQL on flat files.

[1]: https://github.com/dinedal/textql
Sorry - are you telling us you had to reboot all nodes because you swapped a router out? Sounds like you need a network engineer.
From Interpreted to Compiled Languages with Go
Isn't any attempt to revive a metropolitan area going to raise property values in the area?
My Experience in the Sensory Deprivation Float Tank
Android Wearables
Did the title used to say "Google Cache" instead of "Google Code"? I need to know (if I've gone crazy yet or not)
Exactly, remember the guy who helped expose all the UBS tax evasion? He got 40 months and a $30K fine, UBS got nothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Birkenfeld
And don't forget AWK!

I've been playing with these old school tools lately on medium sized tabular data files and I've been impressed by the performance and capabilities.
Github has the useful trending section, https://github.com/trending, which shows which repositories are getting starred frequently and gives a good sense of which repositories are gaining traction
What on earth is Erik Meijer doing these days? I always used to enjoy his educational rants about Java and standard OOP.
Yeah, the Android native version is amazing. I know there's an ios one too.
Is there a similar library that can use local assets? I'd prefer to remove an external website dependency from my build process if possible.
I usually answer with this: http://veganbodybuilding.com
I remember coming across this limitation while working on a canvas drawing mobile app.
The work around was binding to touchmove, keeping a buffer of previous touchX and touchY values and then measuring the gradient of change for the values. If the gradient was mostly flat for both X and Y in a given window of touch movements you can assume the scroll has stopped even though the finger has not been lifted.

Here is a jsfiddle which approximates the solution. [0]
This is a very quick reconstruction of the code and has some heuristic values which I remember tuning to get the best response on the ipad.
As an aside, this one has the mouse move event mapped too. But i have never found it very reliable with the same tolerance settings as touchmove.

Sorry if this is useless code info. just thought of sharing.

[0]http://jsfiddle.net/R6yLb/3/
I think HNs idea of old fashioned police work is a Victorian Bobby interrupting a back alley mugging by saying "wots all this then", and anything else is Stalinist
We know the guys at Helloblock and we're very excited to be working with them. We feel that a healthy ecosystem of Bitcoin web services is beneficial to everyone. That way everyone can focus on their strengths. Our strengths are in making and shipping consumer Internet software.
Unfortunately, the same tools that allow someone to automate management of systems can easily become catastrophic.

As one of the other commenters noted, a ~20 character salt command will do this. I doubt Joyent built a Big Red Button to take down a datacenter, I expect this will be the case of somebody missing an asterisk or omitting a crucial flag while trying to do their normal work.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-615
I suspect -- as it already does on Chromebooks -- Netflix will just use HTML5 video with DRM through EME on Chrome everywhere Netflix is supported once NPAPI support ends.
Google changed the logo
And I'm being downvoted for that? Seriously? In 13 years of networking I have never once had to reload machine to help with OSPF or BGP convergence. Good networking architecture and planning should mitigate anything other than a couple of minute outage. No routing change should ever require a reload of a server or end node.
Axe's Algorithm Can Tell You If You're Trying Too Hard On Social Media
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