skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why the hell they didn't launch it as a second site under new branding -- there would have been no pushback at all.

Some people want a better MySpace, some want a better Pandora. There's no reason the two demographics can't have their own sites based on the same data.
I am really excited about this because I have trouble sleeping. It would be helpful for me to actually use this.
They actually were upset. I wrote a comment describing the points of issue, but there is already a concise description here: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0014-learning-from-wakemate.ht...

They were willing to give a refund for the $5 down-payment, but there was still an overall bitterness. This was a wise move for wakemate, even if there is nothing wrong with providing more than what was promised/planned for an additional fee.

The customers they have now are very early adopters who will be spreading the word and writing reviews. It's essential that they do whatever they can to make positive first impressions.
Wasn't PyStar nailed for producing and distributing a modified copy of OSX? (Which would fall under general copyright. PyStar didn't have the rights to OSX to make modifications to it's boot-loader)
They are regulated by the CSSF.
Is anyone else completely turned off by most incentive devices? I don't want your damn point for leaving a comment on my friend's wall. I don't want to be "mayor" of a damn coffee shop. Ever watched a bunch of 5 year old's play before?
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067342

Many comments there already.
just remove the underscore: http://why.usesthis.com/
How troubling is it that Tor Project hasn't revealed an attack vector yet (maybe they don't know)?

The source message indicates that they don't think the hackers knew that they had compromised Tor servers. How likely is that?
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064789
Only if you use a noncompliant DNS server. Only letters and digits are permitted to start a hostname.

http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.html#sec-2.1
http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc952.html
http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc921.html
Hmmm; let me only pose the question, was Austin or Citizens United the judicial activism? (Citizens United explicitly reversed Austin.)

As for the foreign corporations, yes, that's an interesting question not touched up on in Citizens United. As a matter of policy, those US citizens working for a "foreign master" (to put it in the worst way) are nonetheless affected by legislation, and I find it hard to justify completely excluding such a corporation from the arena of politics ... especially since full disclosure in this case is not as problematic for a company.

Pat Buchanan had an interesting/amusing proposal for dealing with foreign influences that I like, except that I don't see how to put it into practice: outlaw (in whatever method needed) lobbying by them unless done by foreign nationals.
Just installed it. An excellent client. Seems full of features and well thought-out. Thanks.
And even if you do have a linux-compatible PS3 it's pretty useless. It's tough to find a PowerPC compatible flash player that works for the PS3 so you can't even use it for Hulu (which is blocked in the regular PS3 browser).
Why the NHS can't get its browser act together
I worked at Achronix Semiconductor (San Jose startup) for over a year and a half designing Asynchronous Circuits. I can answer any questions about the specifics of designing these circuits.

Anyone interested in this topic should definitely look into the Cornell University research ( http://vlsi.cornell.edu/ ). Unlike most researchers in asynchronous research, they still tape out chips.
They should have filmed their subjects over the span of sobriety to high levels of intoxication. The results would be interesting since confidence should go up, but coordination should, at some point, drop off.
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I can imagine this being useful for knowing to stop when things start going wrong. One problem I've had with GUI-automators in the past is that they've just kept automating after something unexpected happened and put them into an invalid state. It seems like Sikuli could avoid this by literally knowing when the screen looks wrong.
http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.html#sec-6.1.3.5

Looks like underscores are valid in /domain names/ but not in /host names/.

You'll see underscores used many times for SPF records and in Microsoft's Active Directory.

Also, when you use dig I'm pretty sure it manually recurses the name server hierarchy while an application will just connect to your local name server which might have its own policies.
Hiring lawyers is probably a large cost for them, not to mention that mediawiki as it is isn't exactly the most server-efficient software in the world.
It's important to note (the article does, but it's worth emphasizing) that the correlation for coordinated dance moves is not with present testosterone levels, it's with pre-natal testosterone exposure. The first is measured with blood tests, the second with finger lengths. Present testosterone levels correlate strongly with height, muscle definition, and beard thickness. Prenatal testosterone levels correlate with "male-typical" personality traits (increased visuospatial abilities, impaired empathy and language skills), taste bud insensitivity, autism incidence, homosexuality incidence, and decreased autoacoustic emissions.

In short, the best dancers aren't necessarily jocks, they're geeks and homosexuals.

Honestly, I'd like to see this same study performed with self-identifying homosexuals screened out from the sample pool, as they tend to have much higher 4d:2d finger-length ratios and could drastically affect the results. I'd bet money that the correlation still persists, but the social dynamics are so obviously different between straight and gay men at a dance club that it's worth controlling for.
I really like thesixtyone, but talk about TechCrunch astroturfing - are there really that many users to the61 that some of them being upset is a TC-worthy story?
cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1069608
Subjective peer ratings. Plus if you were to go to any given club, you can usually tell who has it, on the dance floor.

Not everything can be measured. There is a reason why there are no accurate algorithms to detect the beat (most rely on tapping a keyboard or pad) - it's complex and simple at the same time.
So what, we're just supposed to accept that if we use Paypal or Google Checkout we can't have sales, promotions, or donation drives? That we must sell a consistent number of units per day?
This seems like a really compelling tech for automated testing of GUI and games.

Sometimes there's a long-term advantage to not doing things in a minimally-complicated way.
Their example is a bit juvenile. Even so, keep in mind that it is a one-line ifconfig invocation for those that understand the terminal and know about ifconfig, which does not hold for the vast majority of users. This is about making automation more usable. I'm not sure if it is a productive one because my perspective is adulterated by technical knowledge. But at the very least, it is a very interested approach which could prove fruitful for your average user.
I'm going to guess before even looking at that tab, and having never seen thesixtyone before and not knowing what it is:

Bright white background

Sans serif text forced everywhere

Font size forced large

Large colorful buttons

Text boxes with few labels so you're forced to guess if
your input will or won't work

Doesn't work in elinks

Doesn't work on my Centro
Ask HN: Any hackers in Hong Kong?
Hey Everyone,

In Hong Kong by myself for about a week and would love to meet up with some Hackers if any of you are around. Shoot me an email (lefstathiou@gmail.com) or call 852-6807-1354

Best,

Leo
Kudos guys. Appreciate you taking all the feedback and criticism to heart and righting the ship.
Ah, that was the /old/ site (and I forgot "Facebook connect button"). The new one is even more incomprehensible.

That said, it's kind of fun, visually attractive (although incomprehensible), and I like the ANGLERFISH HAILEY WOJCIK song that plays on first load. (That's a verbatim cut and paste, and I guess I should say it's to their credit that cut and paste works at all. It's so old media, after all.) If I can budget some time for doing nothing but listening to music, I'll play with it some more. I don't think it's useful for people that don't have that time though.
I’m not quite average but certainly closer to average than most here on HN, so let me just say that I found this immediately intuitive. I wanted to try it.

It’s a Rube Goldberg machine, but playing with those is always fun and intuitive.

(By the way, that was all very explicit and non-automatic, would it be possible to do this in some way where you just hit record and then click your way through? You would just have to snap screenshots whenever the user is clicking. Might be a problem with things that change their appearance on mouse-over like drop down menus, but I guess that’s solvable.)
Being called "faggot" is not the same as being accused of homosexuality.
Don't worry, I'm sure we'll eventually kill ourselves off.
Sure, but there's also a precondition for using this: you have to understand that it's actually even possible to automate repetitive tasks on a computer, and have the motivation to do so. Hell, I know programmers who don't do that.

How many people fit that description, but will still find this easier than ifconfig? My guess is few.

That said, I think this is a neat hack.
"Alaska and Hawaii become part of the states of Washlaska and Coronado, respectively."
In light of this I like your choice of username.
This is what I do on my Droid. Everything goes through Google Voice, period.
it's not like that facebook vanity url is making the millions.
it is a one-line ifconfig invocation for those that understand the terminal and know about ifconfig, which does not hold for the vast majority of users

I know people who are just as much afraid of the terminal as they are of the network settings. And stepping someone through opening the terminal and typing something is approximately the same number of actions (in clicks and keystrokes) as navigating to the settings panel and typing in the info.

And while I agree that the example of modifying the network settings is contrived and thus not a good example of the usefulness of this setup, the difference between modifying network settings via the system settings GUI and from the terminal with ifconfig is that one will be remembered after a reboot and one will not be despite both having similar surface complexity to change. This is mainly because the actual settings are buried in some obscure, OSX specific file somewhere that most likely isn't even editable without the GUI (same with Windows (buried in the registry) and with Gnome's Network Manager (buried in ~/.gconf/system/networking/connections)).
I don't really "get" GUI automation. The only bugs that GUIs can have are "this is ugly", "this is spelled wrong", "this is confusing", and so on. You can't automate that testing away; a human will have to click through and tell you what he thinks.

The actual program logic is tested by the usual integration/unit tests, not by clicking buttons in the GUI. (And if you are worried about "what if clicking button foo doesn't run function foo", then you need to write more tests for the GUI generator library, not for your application.)
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Underscores have been allowed in domain names for quite some time. DNS based Service Discovery even requires their use.

EDIT: If I'm interpreting the specs correctly, underscores are fine in a domain name but not in a hostname.
A lot of those bombs are hacked together by the user himself.
I think its usefulness (or lack thereof) can't accurately be critiqued by anecdotes from technical users, but rather needs to be quantified through usability testing. It's easy to blow this idea off, but the "solve something your users didn't know needed to be solved" advice I occasionally see on HN keeps echoing in my head.
There are public meetings on "secret" treaties? That doesn't sound very secret. Was the activist ejected for breaking the rules. When you attend an in-progress House or Senate debate in their galleries, you aren't allowed to have any electronics out, and you aren't allowed to write or draw. From the capital website:

The Gallery "staging areas" are located on the upper level of the Visitor Center near the Orientation Theater exits. Visitors are not allowed to bring battery-operated electronic devices (medical devices are permitted); cameras; creams, lotions or perfumes; strollers; or video recorders or any type of recording device into the Galleries. These items may be stored securely in the Gallery staging areas while visitors are in the Galleries.

What happened to those promised televised health care debates?
The model reactor I have in mind is targeted at Inuit tribes near the north pole, and nobody deems them a menace. Do you really think anyone would mind nuclear reactors in Iran if they imported their fuel and said nice things about Israel? Would North Korea be a problem as a nuclear power if it weren't a nation gone completely insane?

Anyway, wind/solar/whatever could also work. But the nuclear appliance is really appealing.
I can't say it's gorgeous. It's a little hard-edged for my taste. But i use it nonetheless. Isn't that all that matters?
I wonder if wearing a WakeMate may just train me to keep very still towards the morning hours of my sleep?

Maybe, but I assume you can just go back to sleep if you don't feel like getting up when the device thinks you should. I do this with my alarm clock; I set it for a time that would be good to be awake at, but if I'm not in the mood to be awake at that time, I just re-set it for another hour or two.
It looks like a more advanced version of tools like Quick Test Pro.

There is big money in tools like that, but I can tell you, its a real PITA to write test scripts using tools such as these. Given the option, you are better off exposing your app's object model to a scripting language, and letting testers script it like that.

Obviously that doesn't work for third-party or legacy apps. So it definitely has a market. And their computer vision algorithms have to be better than the godawful bitmap comparison tools that QTP used.
One of their funniest pieces of "buy your way into being adored by the press" is their reporting on the job search industry - http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/1/J....

But looking at Compete.com (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/careerbuilder.com+monster.c...), these numbers show they're heavily inflated for those on the list, and ignore some of the bigger new-comers (like JuJu).
I found your exposition on the other limit--bandwidth outside the brain--even more interesting. Assuming life expands to fill the available resources, once you create a Matrioshka brain you're pretty irrevocably tied to your star, for good or for ill.
That's if they pay staff salaries. 400K is really only 3.5 FTE's if you assume a baseline of 50K/yr (and that's being very optimistic about some costs).
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Though that's been said, there is much more than clicking button under the GUI. Tons of message passing through/to the window and it triggers a lot of system events which cannot be tested without mimic mouse/keyboard movements. Besides, some tests rely on the visual elements. See the Google Chrome blog for automatic GUI testing: http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/distributed-reliability-tes...
Worthless writeup
Sometimes I see failures of HN to collaboratively discover this kind of interesting topics. I've posted the paper much earlier than the media coverage (more than 100 days ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810986 and there is no vote up.
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You actually do. Its just a big flat video (albeit panoramic) that's mapped by the flash widget onto a dome.

I have 15Mbit service here. The entire thing downloaded in about 20 seconds and did not request any more data no matter what I did with the mouse.

Its just high compression and not overly high resolution. It probably could be though judging from the hardware that makes these videos. That's where the real magic is. I think I'd pay good money to get an hour or so in HD on a dvd.

I'm already thinking about how to tape my iphone to a hat so that it will follow my head movements...
If you skip to the last 30 seconds of the first SIX MINUTE video tutorial, you can see the app in action. Otherwise, you have to sit through a whole class on how to use the app before you even know if you want to use it.

Little lesson in creating a good video demo....

Get to the point.

Then provide more videos for details.

(I guess you could say this should be expected from an MIT project website)
I don't know why financial institutions don't all require two-factor authentication these days. Nothing else will stop attacks like this.
There are lots of counterexamples, where GUI bugs represent real functionality problems. Such as "option X is disabled under condition YWZ, though it shouldn't be". However, GUI tests should be a small subset of all tests, if not you run into very difficult problems, as most GUI test frameworks are very fragile and require extensive re-baselining after even relatively minor changes.
what skills would you need to be able to do what he does ?
I have Google Voice forwarding working perfectly on AT&T on my Nexus One. The problem must definitely be that the FlexPay plan has restricted voicemail, as everyone else is saying.
If someone could take this concept a step further and let you create a self contained process that users could download and run just by clicking (like tasks in photoshop), I could see some uses:

- Some tech support situations where you have to have a user do x amount of steps on their computer that are the same for all users. Sort of like an automated Geek Squad.

- Sell a prepackaged GTD style organization system that creates all the folders for you in the right places, downloads files (pre-made budget spreadsheet for example) into them, etc. (trivial, but it's a pain point for people)

- Make a bunch of different productivity apps that mimic the steps a professional programmer/ photographer/ marketer etc does when they first setup a new computer (bookmarks, preference settings, etc.)
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After millions of years of being forced to use our wits to survive combined with periods of inbreeding (resulting in a relatively narrow genome), humans are now a super-race of genetic mutants ahead of our time on the evolutionary scale. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if being too smart for our own good contributed to our demise.

Edit: By "inbreeding" I mean - if the human population were reduced to a few thousand breeding individuals, and those individuals were also spreading or migrating into different areas of Africa, the middle East, Europe, etc. at the same time, that would mean much smaller groups of people who breed within their "community." It may have been thousands or tens of thousands of years before those different communities met up with each other and combined genetic material again.
It's not about you, it's about users. This stuff either works on the body of users you care about or it doesn't. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant.
If it had occurred to him to look. Without already knowing, I can't think of any reason he should have figured out he should search for call forwarding options on FlexPay... the default assumption would be that everything would work fine, wouldn't it?
It is, but it's not exactly the same. They provide prepaid service (which Even More Plus is), but they seem to prefer that you sign a contract.
Here are some you don't have listed:

Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book:

http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby:

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

Think Python (Or: How To Think Like A Computer Scientist):

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

and my own (still in early alpha): http://learnyouanrubyforawesomepower.info or http://learnyouanruby.com once I get some free cash :o
antisocial in a social network, yes. But then again we're not the target demographics of such apps.
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What about caller-id? Can you make it show your google voice number?
Exactly. I really couldn't care less about the money if it helps avoid being tired every morning!
I remember reading that one reason homophobia is so difficult to address is because it may be rooted in misogyny (e.g. they hate women and because of that they hate men who act feminine, like women).
Do NOT bite your lower lip!
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I'm guessing the software involved would be fairly simple by comparison and thus there wouldn't be as many complications as in a normal program's installation. Are there any bot nets that use DirectX for example or .Net? I'd doubt it.
I think this article misses the point. If my medical records are insecure because of vulnerabilities in IE 6, they'd be insecure whichever browser was being used -- none of them are anywhere near secure enough to provide an acceptable guarantee for information of that sort. These systems shouldn't be designed in such a way that the security of the data depends on the lack of vulnerabilities in a web browser. (If indeed they are. The article provides no evidence that the NHS systems in question could be compromised via IE 6.)
This is a much nicer and an intuitive alternative for http://autohotkey.com on windows. I've tried introducing autohotkey at work to automate some of the mundane tasks, but the learning curve of autohotkey was difficult for most of my co-workers. I'm going to introduce this at my workplace.
Ask:  How do you actually launch a beta?
So recently we finished up our platform (finished in the sense that we locked the features down and cleaned up all the loose ends, as opposed to 'truly' finished).

We have a business plan, fantasies about investors, dreams of adding and doing 1000x more than we've already done and conquering the world, bla bla bla.

So how do you "launch" a beta, what do you to do interest the relevant startup blogs and generate some publicity and attention for your freshly baked business? Or do you just skip that and quietly launch while you go fund-hunting? What do people here suggest?
Renraku is an operating system. More information here: http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os
I don't understand the point of this article. It sounds like the problem has nothing to do with the Nexus One, and everything to do with limitations in the TMobile pre-paid plans. Wouldn't he have the same problems trying to use Google Voice on any phone while using the TMobile pre-paid plans?
Yes, but the "best solution" to prisoner's dilemma is to actually rat the other person out.
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Also multiple:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067111

A snazzy title apparently makes all the difference.

'You don't sell the steak, you sell the sizzle'
Not all quant work deals with high-frequency trading.
Two wonderful things about this:
1. as frankenstein-ed together as the tech is, it works*
2. this is arguably more natural than 'workflow' recording functionality like automator, and I found the actual 'code' highly readable(although inscrutably hard to debug or test or _run_ without the IDE...)

All in all I love the way the idea works right now, although Java feels less than elegant on the Mac.

*(er, although for me it's got a killer bug - using the hotkey to make a screenshot does not work, gives no option of cancelling... hardcore crasher in my book)
Yeah, I know. Chris is a lot more sane and doesn't have quite as much of a "fun" attitude, but he has a pretty cool attitude.

I strongly recommend reading his keynote from railsconf 09. The first half is him totally mocking the whole "rock star/ninja" idea: https://gist.github.com/0a2655aed6a26fa15a02