skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is maybe not as explicit about some of these things as it should be, but I've read about this operation before. My understanding is that they set Sweetie up in a chat room, just like the room that the author describes. The people they caught had to come to that room intentionally. I am reasonably certain Sweetie's operators were well aware of entrapment concerns and structured their interactions carefully to avoid them. (It certainly would have been a phenomenal waste to have gone to all the trouble involved in creating Sweetie and then to have blown everything by doing something stupid in the chat rooms. I don't think these people are anywhere near that stupid.)

> And I have no idea why you believe that the alleged pedophiles had almost certainly done it before

Then you know nothing about child sexual abuse. Perpetrators who are not caught are extremely likely to keep doing it. Even among those who are caught and prosecuted, recidivism is extremely high.

"Vigilante organization"? All they did was collect information and turn it over to the police. A "vigilante" is someone who attempts to enforce the law themselves, by violence. The term does not apply here.
Yes, the methanol that people were poisoned by wasn't an accidental byproduct of distillation; it was intentionally added to industrial alcohol to keep people from drinking it.
i think the quality of the taxis and the medallion system are two different issues solved by different means. There doesnt seem to be any suggestion here that the congestion of panama would go down if taxis were replaced with vehicle ownership.
How does AWS do that with their remote desktop in the cloud service? If you use this service, I have your name and credit card number.
Gabe was raving about the Surface even with Ballmer at MS. I guess now it's time to credit anything good happening to Nadella's chairmanship.
Quantum Randomness
The CPU is required to process the digitizer input, figure out what it's trying to do, communicate it to the application, process it within the application, turn that into pixels on a constantly-updating canvas, and express that canvas as a texture to the GPU.

The GPU is responsible for displaying that texture to the screen.

As a gamer, there's a similar issue in gaming: a lot of modern games are getting bottlenecked on the CPU (just like drawing on the Surface is), because drawing to the GPU requires several layers of software abstraction. This means that a lot of games (mostly MMOs lately) will lag no matter how good your video card is if you don't have a sufficient video card. In fact, up to 40% of the CPU use of some games is not spent by the game, but by the drivers that sit between the game and the GPU.
Storage Giant releases attacks ads against storage startup called MakeSpace
EvaporateJS author here - just saw this on HN! Good to see more people getting involved - thanks. Always happy to see questions, comments, and PRs :)
Radio has a sharing problem. How do we fix it?
It seems like Microsoft could really benefit from having conversations (or hiring) experts in the (ahem) "UI" design of aircraft. The ergonomics, feedback and force required for action on controls, button placement.... all the sorts of things a pilot has to do to interact with the machine are very well studied and, more importantly, quantified by excellent engineers. That engineering expertise could surely be translated to the physical interface of a tablet in a way that is much less possible or relevant for a keyboard and mouse interface.
The best is start with what you use, and are passionate about.

I started with Mozilla, then moved on to OpenBSD, FreeBSD, *BSD.

Find something that you love, with a part that annoys you, fix it, see how it goes.
I felt the same way. A lot of appreciation goes to the writer of that piece!
Ok, This is wonderful.
Surely those stealing it will be able to remove the lock afterwards to register it and post a photo w/o a lock. If it is already registered, it wouldn't matter in any case.
We have a long way to go before we have to worry about the small number of situations where regulation may be necessary. I think we should focus on all the obviously bad regulations (like those at issue in this story) before we start to tackle the more justifiable ones.
Register your bike before someone else does!

These are properly aligned incentives.

Also, investigation can turn up purchase date payment records (receipt, credit card) owners manuals, eyewitness reports, etc
>Now recruiters will be calling me offering ping-pong, beer fridays, and college tuition.

College tuition is a very common perk in the cooperate world as long as you maintain your grades and study something related to your work.
You'd use a jQuery style setter.

isOrange(false)
I'm under the impression that FOIA does not apply to records at state or local level. Am I wrong?
Genymotion is the way to go. Google's emulator plain sucks.
In modern Intel processors (especially in portable devices), the GPU is integrated on the CPU die, so pushing updates doesn't count (unless you count pulling data from main memory to provide to the GPU).
That makes sense and is a great point. My point, however, was not that we should demonize those who do go into fields that stereotypically/socioeconomically favor them. I sincerely hope it did not come across that way. Rather, we should be encouraging those who do have an interest in fields that do not stereotypically favor them to explore those interests. If we can do that, we will have a more equal gender split that will help to break stereotypes by providing more role models. Even if they don't go into those fields, we will have created a culture in which that choice was made solely on the basis of their passions, goals and abilities.

I have never been harassed about being a man for my interest in computer science, biology, chemistry, physics or engineering (in which I ultimately majored). This is a good thing. Many women who have had an interest in those fields have experienced harassment or discrimination because of their gender. Some have also been fortunate enough to have been spared. Some men have probably been harassed for being one of the many men in STEM/ET as if their interest is their fault. Harassing anyone for wanting to explore their passions is unequivocally wrong.
I somehow doubt that those people would stop going out and getting drunk during the evening if there were fewer/no taxis. They'd just be driving themselves.

Sure, maybe you could push it out of one neighborhood and into another, and the residents of Wrigleyville might be all for that, but is that actually much of a net gain for society in general?

I'd rather have drunks clogging sidewalks and taxis clogging roads, than drunks clogging roads.
Australia to delist Tasmania's forests from UNESCO's World Heritage List
it has something to do with psychology; it seems that companies that do an ICQ like messenger are going to make it big; Skype, whatsapp, facebook, you get the idea.
It is much much less. I just timed it on my machine. It was 8 seconds for a decent sized(~12M) app. A build and deploy takes much longer, but the long pole isn't the time it takes to install the app on the hardware. If you are having a lot of latency, I don't think a simulator will help.
The point, as you're no doubt already aware, is that FT employees "pay" for their vacations as well, except that it's a benefit whose cost is amortized over the entire year, rather than taken as a lump sum during the times they might choose (were they consultants) to stop billing.

There's also the fact that they generally have less flexibility with regard to the amount of time of they're able to take off (and quite often, as to the timing as well), and in most cases certainly can't cash in on unused vacation time (by converting it to raw income) the way consultants can.

So in this context (and given the annual net that you imply you're taking in), it sounds like you're looking for something to gripe and moan about, for the sake of griping and moaning.
Hi Eric,

Indeed, you are correct we were a bit worried about that. We about 3-P theft. Also, we are not natural coders so we've been furiously trying to clean up the code so it is somewhat presentable to people who do code for a living. That process should more or less be finished and we will open the repos very shortly. To be honest, we were a bit amazed at such a response to our small proposal and did not bargain on the reception we have received today. In any event the repo will be available at GH:project-douglas/eris before midnight tonight GMT.
Actually the beginning of the first paragraph (repeated below) really made me think 'wtf, apart from the number of people, this is exactly how some meetings with users work at our tiny startup'. Then I realized every engineer/designer/... probably makes such mistakes, maybe becasue of losing sight on the bigger picture, and MS is no different.

I ended up in a conference room with about half a dozen people from the Surface team. More rotated in and out as I worked. I drew and talked for two and half hours while they watched and took notes. Within the first thirty seconds they realised how frustrating the home button placement was.
30 minutes dropping kids at school & gym.

30 minutes breakfast, shower and HN.

3 hours of productive work.

Break for lunch and a hour's worth of random fun.

3 hours in the afternoon.

Done at 17h00.

Sustainable, and over a year it adds up to a frightening amount of code :)
Bitcoin Security Startup BitGo Gets More Funds; Ex-Verisign CEO Joins Team
No, dealers consult the registry when required by law, and police consult the registry when they recover a bike.

Most buyers don't care, they have no incentive to care.
I found that the first medallion in the trip data was the MD5 hash for 9N35, not a good sign for privacy
We only provide instant confirmations for bitcoins we know that are going to get included in a block long before the nlocktime will expire allowing you to spend them.
The video is full of stock footage of business people doing businessy things but light on actual information, which is a shame because the service looks very interesting.
I ran this through the SSLlabs SSL Test and it came back with an F. Perhaps an oversight on their end?
That's actually very much what we are going for. I have spent much of my career at the intersection of international development and legal reform and the idea of having a governance framework which can be used for making collective decisions in a way which will not rely on central nodes of corruption or failure.
That sounds better and worse than LCBO - iirc, importing specialty stuff through LCBO can be difficult. On the other hand, LCBO has gradually caught up with the move to very long opening hours that have become the norm in North America and now you can get your liquor at 9.
Maybe we can open some group for this discussion. Anyway; email in my HN profile if you want to exchange ideas as well.
Hack an old iPod using an Android and an Arduino
Berkeley has Chisel where you write something like C + Scala and you get Verilog for hardware instantiation and C for verification
https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/
Bank Account Screening Tool Is Scrutinized as Excessive
In my experience, this is something you can learn as you go.

To get my first major gig started, a 1-page proposal that outlined how my services would help the client fulfill their goals was enough. A formal contract came later and we have been working together for a year now.

In fact, the client was asking "Where do I sign?" before I even mentioned the formal proposal.

What I learned was that the right clients care about their results and whether you can get them there first and foremost. Pricing and contracts are afterthoughts.
Yes I am one of the "developers" though I do not consider myself worthy of that title. More like guy who codes. :P And yes I made that post. Just to clear that up. And we are really excited to have you all look at the code. Sorry for the delay.

Edit: Its now open. https://github.com/project-douglas/eris was going to be in two hours but we saw no reason not to do it early.
The examples are the worst
Bitcoin users are an even more privileged class of the already privileged population. They have regular access to a private computer, and robust internet access. That is not the case for most people in the world.
Pretty harsh. I'd bet the shirt you are wearing was made by a hard working person you consider not important enough to matter, yet worth taking a shirt from.
I'm not sure what languages you know, but WordPress is a great one if you can program in PHP. The code is easy to read and there's plenty of room for contributions and improvement in WordPress core. Also the community is really friendly and welcoming.
The example is quite illustrative of the difference in what is possible in either method. Figure 1 is not displayed correctly in baidu's viewer, and it's not a matter of details like line width (which are present and quite obvious), but it also fails to display some content (vertically oriented text).

See http://imgur.com/a/khf0F
@dreamweapon,

I see your point and I actually agree with it. It was a total whine post and yes, I am very privileged as compared to most of the world.

However, amortized or not, the true cost of taking vacation becomes so explicitly apparent when you are consulting that it's difficult not to think about while ON vacation.
As someone who signed up on the waiting list but haven't received an invite. Will I have a chance to experience your product at all?
Most states have their own FOIA laws. [1]

[1] http://www.nfoic.org/state-freedom-of-information-laws
How I helped Microsoft Bungie Studios launch Halo 2 with content and engagement
Spew: UI-less Firefox extension feedreader
Well, he actually calls things relating to those areas mentioned (arts, etc) as grey swans because they do happen, but you can't really predict which of the multitude of things coming out will become the next runaway success. Either way, seems to be a sore spot for you. Chill out.
The police SHOULD be able to catch bike thieves like shooting fish in a barrel. If the same person on craigslist is selling more than 5 bikes and they are selling them off racks at colleges and train stations, they probably have a pickup truck with out of state plates full of stolen bikes stashed nearby. It's appalling that such a dead simple MO can't be crushed in a week.
He's referring to the liquor licenses, I think.
Survivor bias is a bitch.
You can do this with almost any service now where you can execute arbitrary code, and a lot easier than running it through an android board.
Everybody that targets business users.

Funny thing: I have the opposite problem right now, I'm using a site that is targeted strictly towards business users and I don't have IE anywhere here so it's been nothing but trouble for me over the last couple of days.
Actually, at least one: the Ruby version is just a port from Haskell and has the same syntax.
You can't. Forget it.

I mean, there is a whole long list of benefits of functional programming, immutable/persistent data structures, macros and so on. But Lisps and functional oriented languages (like Roy, LiveScript) are also unfamiliar, not supported in your favourite IDE, make you think in a way you're not accustomed to and eat your kittens for lunch.

You have a chance with ClojureScript if the backend is in Clojure - other than this there is just no way to introduce something like this.

As for usability, ClojureScript works very, very well. Async is well implemented (if you like CPS model), JS scoping is fixed and so on. LiveScript is also quite usable, although it lacks source map implementation for now. Backcalls make async nice but stay close to JS, currying and partials are nice, easy object cloning makes up for inherent mutability. For my personal projects I use LS instead of JS or Coffee exclusively now.

But they are completely unusable in enterprise environment. And probably won't ever be. It would also be very hard to find a team which would like to adopt them without knowing them beforehand (rightly so, IMHO, because transitioning to another paradigm - and benefiting from it - is not a trivial matter) and about as hard (or harder) to find a team where they are known already.

Your best bet is probably to contribute to LightTable a lot and seek a job in Clojure oriented start-up if you want to use ClojureScript at work.
Freelance Android leads straight to your inbox
Not really true. Buying in bulk is a minor savings that offsets the cost if a big car or big house or whatever. The core issue is that life has transaction costs on that the wealthier folks don't need to worry about, but a poor person faces catastrophic collapse by going over budget with no way to borrow against the future.
This looks like a really cool project.

You can also contribute code here https://github.com/bikeindex/bike_index
While I don't disagree, it's also potentially due to Microsoft being a gigantic corporation with dozens of internal fiefdoms, which can each have wildly varying cultures. It's possible that the people working on consumer tech (or specifically on Surface) are open to user feedback where the people working on enterprise products just aren't.

(Not that I'd say that's acceptable if it's the case, just saying it wouldn't surprise me -- especially given how terrible at these things enterprise-focused people at big companies are in general. Listening to end users and then rapidly responding to their needs is just not part of their culture.)
Here are the torrents:

http://chriswhong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nycTaxiTrip...

http://chriswhong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nycTaxiFare...
Great narrative storytelling talent isn't going to expand much. As technology reduces the costs of everything else, the Spielbergs and DiCaprios will capture all of the profit in the market.
A learning experiment I did yesterday. Installed Lavera, feel free to use.
If someone tries to sell you a poorly maintained, old, high-mileage, multi-owner bike on Craigslist and they are not selling it out of their home, it's stolen.
Show HN: Atraci – PopcornTime for music
You are correct, but every state has its own equivalent. We handle all 50 states' rules and customize it as appropriate.
Genymotion is mentioned in the article, along with the reasons why it's not ideal (aside from the fact that it's not a first-party solution, and that you can't get a version with the Google SDKs running).
So you're using FB to communicate with family and friends. As far as i know Facebook messages are not encrypted. Then NSA could use these messages against you (you said this). Am i right?
This is the $64,000 question and I actually believe there might be a business (or several) to be had in this space. As people increasingly forego marriage and pursue solo lives and careers, they need more alternatives for support and camaraderie. (And these people have disposable cash.)

Anyway, as it stands, I think the best option is to try to work at a place with other young, career-oriented (as opposed to family-oriented) people. I've tried young professionals associations and athletic teams, but they didn't work. The young professional stuff seemed too forced -- like singles dating -- and you don't get enough "talk time" with sports teams: you're too busy playing the game.

Truthfully, most of my friends in this city have come from playing Magic the Gathering. There were a few semi-normal, hygiene-conscious guys in the crowd and we get together on a semi-regular basis. We're not as close as my college buddies and I can't get them to go out doing the fun stuff I used to do, but it's good enough.

If you live in small town america, making friends might be difficult or impossible. I actually went to a therapist when I was really depressed and told him how much I hate this city. I told him I thought it was very cliquish (exclusive to newcomers like myself), that every girl worth having is married at 25 and that every guy friend I make gets stolen away by marriage.

I expected him to say "Suck it up. Go meet people." His response was actually "Ok so maybe you need to move to a place with more independent, career-minded folks like yourself." In other words, sometimes circumstances really are the problem, not you.

I want to reiterate my original point: I'm as white and normal as it gets. I can't blame any personality-related, aesthetic, racial or economic disadvantage, and yet I'm still a sometimes-depressed-and-unhappy loner.

The only thing left to blame is my introversion.

One last point: I, like many millennials, was raised by my parents and the media to believe I am the center of the universe. Accordingly, my empathy quotient has historically been crappy. Then I had some life events a few years ago that jarringly recalibrated my ego. As painful as these events were, I'm not as full of myself nor as big an asshole as I used to be and I'm finding it easier to relate to other people as well as make and keep friends.

Read articles and writings by David Wong (aka Jason Pargin). He's the patron saint of self-righteous millennial deprogramming.
They are fixing the problem for every user, not just him, based on his input. I want a drawing tablet, I have been reading every PA post about the surface with bated breath waiting for the "it's now perfect" announcement. As far as I'm concerned, their model is working. Maybe they just need to expand it to other products too.
Do you think the banking industry will support the unbanked faster than a stable and accessible internet will reach them?
Thanks tesq!
Awesome job! I use Rdio almost exclusively for all of my music needs, but this is great nevertheless.
For those interested in the subject, check out http://www.trnio.com/ who is in a similar space & doing good work
Experiments are far broader than landing pages for nonexistent products. The same thing applies to building a working product and realizing it's not what your customers want. Or building a small feature that turns out to be a product in itself.

The entire product development process is a bit of a psychology experiment. Try to understand what your customers want, build it. Learn from it. Repeat.
A great place to meet people who would legitimately want to meet new people and care about them is a church. Even if you are not Christian you are always welcome to come. I currently go to a korean church in my town and it has been a great experience where I felt welcome and they had lunch there afterwards which made it easy to talk and get to know people too!

Here is a church in Milipitas which may be close to you. I will pray for you too and ask that God brings people into your life!

http://newvisionchurch.org/cms/
I don't like 'no single point of failure' maxim because I think it leads people to make strange or incorrect decisions and neglect things in order to serve the maxim instead of doing what's best.

Being 'fail safe' is much more important than being redundant. That is, you need to design your product's failure. How well it works and how rarely it fails are important, but not nearly as important as how well it fails.

This means monitoring for knowing when it fails, auditing for knowing how it did fail after the fact, backups for after the fact, and most importantly (and harder to define) is predicting what can fail and how and designing your product's behavior after that failure.
Windows only? No wonder it's on sale.
I just signed up, and my post-registration call to actions includes "Visit where to register to find the closest shop to register your bikes."

Looks like you can't just register a bike on your own.