skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder, do modern people store all their photos in the cloud? I still have folders, and only upload the occasional pic into the cloud.

Not to detract from picurio. My initial reaction was "I don't need it", but it could well be one of those things you don't want to miss anymore if you have tried them once.
No, you can add new syntax, via quasi quotes.
The problem is that there is far more things that you could fix than you would have the time to fix, even if you lived two centuries.

The best you can do about those is to bitch and hope somebody else is going to fix them.
Wasn't aware that Lil Jon knew how to develop Chrome extensions...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skeet

To the window! To the wall!
I've had this discussion hundreds of times with talented foreigners (India, German, Polish, and Chinese just to name a few). They all have had the same generic complain "why can't I just live in this country... I'm talented enough".

I fully agree...but unfortunately for these people they are tied to larg-corp H1B visas which restrict their freedom to leave the company and create jobs elsewhere.

Here is the key issue...how do you decided who is talented and who is not? This would become a highly bureaucratic issue.
After TARP passed in the midst of one of the largest protests of a congressional action that I've witnessed in my life

I guess you weren't alive in 2003 for the Guiness world record largest protest in human history against the Iraq war, including 400,000 in New York, 200,000 in SF, etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_prot...

EDIT: took out the London and Rome references
I suspect that a great many of these individuals share the following traits:

- extreme intelligence

- experience riding an extremely succesful company to the top

- conifdence from that ride

Many of these folks were in the right place at the right time however, and do not neccesarily have the experience as investors and business advisors.

Should be interesting though. It doesn't matter how they got the money, they are putting it to work, and the relative efficiencies that startups have today vs 5 or 10 years ago will make these investments even more effective.
I worked a saturday in manufacturing years ago. Quite different from software development! I learned they entered the hard disk badspot table into the bios three times during testing! We went right back and fixed the format tool to preserve the entries. Saved manhours of work per week.
What distinguishes Olympic athletes from enthusiastic athletes is that they don't have passion; they have dedication. Day in, day out, regardless of how they feel, they follow a structured training plan. Feeling enthusiastic on a day scheduled for resting? Tough, you rest. Feeling down on a day scheduled for training? Tough, you train. It's not about being passionate, it's about what our fathers tended to call stick-to-it-ivness.

Perhaps a better example is going for a doctorate. Everyone with a PhD will tell you the critical requirement for getting a PhD (if they're being honest) is neither raw intelligence (beyond what you needed for the primary degree), nor passion for the topic, but the dedication to spend four to six years of your life in the focussed, deliberate and pragmatic pursuit of a goal. Passion will do nothing but cripple your efforts - you have to remain objective, be able to drop an approach if it's not proving useful without a second thought, and not get married to the central thesis lest it distort your results.

Same principle applies to programming. Dedication, professionalism, these are the real virtues - passion just produces fanboys for whatever the method de jour is.
Close...

http://www.google.com/ventures/
It's a bit too soon to be saying TARP was a good piece of legislation. It's also a bit of fantasy to say what would have happened if TARP hadn't passed.

The thing is, TARP hasn't led to any reforms in the financial sector. It simply shoveled taxpayer money at private corporations with very few strings attached, which propped up the banks long enough to say "hey, thanks, we would have been fine anyway, really, now piss off".

I think we'd be a lot better off without TARP. Your smug "the protestors were wrong" is unjustified.
Most people when prompted to install something will install it because the prompt (and the plugin) is between them and the task they want to finish.
A similar little project I undertook recently: http://purepistos.net/thankful-eyes Still needs polish, but I use it often instead of browser zooming or Readability. Feedback or patches welcome.
> Indeed. The banks paid TARP back very quickly

Not quite: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/10-ways-say-no-banks-have-n...
TinyGrab Roulette: randomly shows you screen grabs from strangers.
I was also very conscientious of that, but the general consensus of the HN community is that self-posts are completely acceptable (or even preferred).

(see thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1016713)

Concerning the content of the article, if people don't like it, they won't vote it up.
"2) Reject the current law. Very little upside: the doves, paranoids, libertarians, and tea party activists who might actually care about this options are insignificant minorities within the electorate. Significant downside: it opens a legislator up to all sorts of "<insert incumbent name here> is making it easier for terrorists" attack ads regardless of the actual merits of the argument."

If you haven't noticed, the Republicans and their mainsteram media lapdogs are going to attack the Democrats as being "weak on national security" and "weak on terrorism" no matter what they do.

If they want not to be attacked at all, they should just stay completely out of politics.

Of course, they should pick their battles, and fight the ones that are really important. It's obvious from their inaction on and even outright support of the PATRIOT Act, that civil liberties just aren't that important to them, no matter what their rhetoric might be.

The same has been true regarding their "opposition" to torture, to the Iraq war, to Bush's Supreme Court nominees, their support of the "public option" for health care, etc. The Democrats have shown very little spine on these matters, when it comes time to walk their talk. And the public is noticing. That's why Congress has such a low approval rating, and why the shine is wearing-off Obama.

Their spinelessness and willingness to be the Bush-lite party could cost them dearly in the mid-terms and 2012. They're just lucky the Republican party is tearing itself apart with their "tea party" splintering and fighting over who are the "real conservatives".
Make a little circle with your index fingers and thumbs, put it over each square, that breaks the spell.
They know who their senator is after his opponent starts flooding the airwaves with "$SENATOR name voted against protecting american citizens" overlayed against video of a terrorist attack.
Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (uncut)
What would be a summary of that part of "White Box Cryptography" which is new and distinct from the software obfuscation techniques that have been around for most of the history of programming? Is it more than just a bit of mathematical formalism applied to such? That's all I can tell at a first glance.
this is NOT worthy of the front page. this has happened before and it will happen again. nothing interesting to see here. moving on...
> TARP probably saved us from a Great Depression,

Oh really? How did forcing "loans" on Wells Fargo and other banks that didn't need money save us from anything?

Note that as the money is repaid, it's being spent on pork under the "hey look, we didn't expect that" theory.

> the bailouts are in the black except for the segments bailing out the government mortgage banks

The payments to Goldman via AIG?

Note that Fannie and Freddie are continuing to lose money in a desperate attempt to delay additional housing market loses until after the election.
Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ
You can get in trouble for anything. You probably won't get the lethal injection for this, though.
curious - does the distinction between cabinet makers and carpenters not exist any more? only the former were considered craftsmen by my grandfather.
How can you steal someone's ideas? If something is not copyrighted or trademarked or covered by a private contract, you didn't steal anything. (Right?)
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"Here is the key issue...how do you decided who is talented and who is not? This would become a highly bureaucratic issue."

I agree, and it makes me slightly uneasy when I say it. It does require what will ultimately be a bureaucratic judgement. I'm not sure there's a good alternative.

While I don't relish the idea of the government assuming this role, I'd still prefer it to Oracle's HR department, which is not (and probably should not be) accountable to me or any other member of the voting public. Guess it comes down to Churchill's statement "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Probably a little of both.
There's going to be someone with the knowledge and ties to the gaming world who's going to try and win acclaim by applying that knowledge.
Ideas by themself are worthless. It's execution that matters. It's the same story that every one of us running a business faces every time a new competitor shows up.

All this guy can do is hope that you don't execute as well as him.
>"Ice caps are getting smaller and breaking up more rapidly over the last 30 years"

Actually, I'm pretty sure the south pole ice cap is growing, though this is also thought to be a symptom of rising temperatures.

edit: uh..what? You think I'm making this up?

http://www.slate.com/id/2192730/

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2008/0110/p14s01-sten.h...

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomal...

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.anom....

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/a_new_record_for_ant...
And if it doesn't work that way, would you concede that this model of the world needs to be amended?

(I would prefer that reality works this way. I am a big fan of 2D Boy for one.)
Perhaps I'm just reading you wrong, but I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. :)

Neither party pushes for the right to give — their ideas are funded by borrowing and taxation. A right is a choice, and taxes are involuntary.

There is a clear philosophical difference between Democrats and Republicans regarding the role and size of government, but of course, whether or not these differences play out in practice in a consistent manner is another story.

The politics of war is simply a game of public opinion.
For example, here's a video of Sen. Clinton (D) arguing for the invasion of Iraq (without citing Bush intel): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYATbsu2cP8
You're indeed correct, both on the technical issue, and the more general question of exploit demonstrations being the best way to understand vulnerability issues. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Not really.

Frivolous harrassment is always an option of course, sure. The advice I give at the Founder Institute is to try not to needlessly annoy or upset the people who are likely to sue you.

So while posting the letter would be fun, it would also make it more likely that you get hit with legal fees. Your call.
Because throwing a trillion dollars worth of resources down a black hole is stupid in a world with limited resources and billions of poor people.

Also worth noting: despite the writings of Pascal, you won't find many atheists in church. Most of them decide the cost is not worth the (odds-adjusted) expected benefits.
> Lobbyists for those companies are fighting to the death against efficiency and progress (nationalized health coverage)

In what universe is nationalized health coverage efficient?

Govts don't do efficient. Disagree? Provide three examples. Bonus points if more than one involves the US govt.

Note - valuable and effective (such as the US military) are not the same as efficient.
How to get better at UI design
The Great Depression was not caused by a sudden catastrophe but rather a crawling plague of failures that was reinforced every time the snooty holier-than-thou politicians living in Congress and the Fed refused to lend a hand to banks, even ramping up regulatory requirements in mid-crisis.

Nobody knows what would have happened for the current crisis, but history suggests attitudes like yours are not a good idea. The last thing we need right now is a nation of Hoovers.
"some obnoxious people who dare dub themselves members of the “web elite” [citation needed]"

Anyway, I clicked the examples the author gave of good all-Flash sites. As expected, they act weird, they pop up "loading" indicators all the time, information density seems tiny, I can't copy/paste text that I should be able to, scrolling doesn't work the way it should (argh that's so frustrating -- that's a fundamental interaction!)... oh and I didn't even try hitting the Back button.

Sure, all those presumably "could" be fixed with enough work. And an MFC app could be written that rivals the latest .NET or Cocoa app. But in practice, the vast majority of apps are going to "feel" like the platform they're on. And the Flash platform feels super-sucky for information-heavy websites, if you ask me.
Chicago startup support on the rise?
Consider, in the context of Two big reasons why Flash won’t disappear any time soon. The first is porn. that there was porn well before the invention of .gif or the img tag, and well before the invention of flash.

Also consider that an important property of the web is that its content is searchable.

Finally, I think that there is a desire to have a more open video standard.
To start, you need to know that JavaScript has type coercion. Numbers can become strings, strings can become numbers, and arrays can become strings.

Thus, for example: [] in a string context becomes "". "" in a number context becomes 0. Thus if we were to do: "" - 1 we'd get the number -1. Additionally if we were to do [] - 1 we'd get -1. ++ is also able to coerce a string into a number.

If ++ is able to turn a string into a number then you're probably wondering why they just don't do ++[] and be done with it (to get 1, that is). The problem is that ++ is attempting to assign that resulting value back somewhere and since [] doesn't exist anywhere yet (it's temporary) it throws an error instead.

We could do something like this:

var a = [];
++a; // 1

But we can't actually assign the result to a variable because we can't use alphanumeric characters. So what's another way in which we can assign the results to a variable? We can stick it into an array.

var a = [ [] ];
++a[ 0 ]; // 1

This also works:

++[ [] ][ 0 ];

Now, we can't use 0 because it's alphanumeric so we swap 0 for +[] (+ turns the string "" into the number 0, [] turns into the string ""). Thus we get the final result:

++[ [] ][ +[] ]
No, I don't think you were wrong. (Unless you're one of those people who used the word to mean "willing to work really hard to make me rich", in which case, you're both wrong and evil. ;-))

I think that a lot of well-meaning people (like yourself) were using "passionate" in the 'enthusiasm' sense. My feeling of this essay is that the author was taking on the people who mean it in the other sense. Personally, I think they're much more common.
Yea putting a competitor's name in your materials is probably a bad idea, unless you're Verizon...

I'd imagine its easier to stay under their radar if your site doesn't directly come up in google alert results for their name too.

BUT, considering that the battle is over the PR business, journalists should be eating this up! I bet a lot of startups wish they could get a high-profile cease and desist hahaha
The question is though would they make up the difference on the volume, it really depends on the game. Games with the latest graphics and massive game worlds that take years to make do need to sell at a certain price to turn a decent profit.

Selling everything around $30 would probably mean games would have to make do with smaller development budgets.
Webform still won't let me submit. Did I fail a test?
There's ways of making it very difficult to find the keys. tptacek is in the business of doing just that, apparently.
Microsoft warns over rogue Security Essentials
First, let's be honest, you set yourself up for this by referring to Shankman and HARO. That was a mistake.

This is typical in a marketplace where people run out of innovative ideas (or never had them in the first place.) I've been around the "sender" side of this type of thing before. Honest truth, you might get outgunned by legal tactics and that sucks.

You have a more innovative, more focused product. If you're bankrolled then fight it. If not, tread lightly. Once you used his name you set this up. Either way, they will keep sending ridiculous letters.

My advice:
-Call an attorney, get some advice.
-Setup a backup host and confirm your DNS is separate from your hosting account. (Next up is a C&D to your host)
-Send an urgent appeal to everyone on your list, even journalists. You might lose a few followers in the process but if people value your service they will fight for you (particularly nice because your service helps journalists.)
He also mentions: the official integration date here in Canada is March 1st, so I won’t ever have actually been an Oracle employee.

It seems he didn't really had a chance to meet many people from Oracle, Of course all the Sun people he liked would soon be Oracle people
Of course, they should pick their battles, and fight the ones that are really important. It's obvious from their inaction on and even outright support of the PATRIOT Act, that civil liberties just aren't that important to them, no matter what their rhetoric might be.

It isn't just that it isn't important, many of them actively oppose it.

Joe Biden's opinion on the patriot act: "I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John Ashcroft sent up [the patriot act] was my bill..."
I think we're gonna look back at these wacky offices in 10-20 years and just have a chuckle.
The concern is that sharing the idea is more dangerous than not sharing it presumes that the sole and only reason for being stealth is for the ideas.

Regarding Google starting up with an idea that had actually already been done, there was still a bit of "stealth" there, if you will bear with me. The stealth was that none of us thought that search, which was regarded as a solved problem in certain ways, was at all interesting. We (or at least many of us) were quite surprised that search indeed became very interesting. That they hid from us.
The captain of the marine salvage ship Odyssey complained about this system on one of the Treasure Quest TV episodes because it allows competitors and amateurs to know the location of his ship. He has to employ countermeasures, such as not staying over the location of a promising site for too long. That suggests it cannot legally be turned off.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/treasure-quest/ome.html
other security objectives besides piracy

How about identifying someone who plays a cracked game, not immediately but a week or so later? There's all sorts of stuff you could do with that to discourage piracy. It would also be more easily hidden in code. Not sure if any of these strategies are really new, or if they've ever really worked.
Well, I've tried to worry about this stuff, but it's too much of a hassle. Instead, I replace the cells in my battery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtqRvAu71Gw

Works for my laptop battery and is super cheap, though caution please.
First, let's be honest, you set yourself up for this by referring to Shankman and HARO. That was a mistake.

Yeah, I know that now. I can't believe how shitty this move is on his part. When I built PRManna, HARO was literally just an AWeber mailing list. I was inspired by the idea of connecting journalists with sources (which is hardly Shankman's original idea) and thought I could do a better job, but I wanted to give him a shout-out and some credit. No good deed goes unpunished.
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> Their spinelessness and willingness to be the Bush-lite party could cost them dearly in the mid-terms and 2012.

The republicans could pick up some disaffected democrats as single issue voters on hot-button topics. But the social conservative agenda that the republicans are married to is fairly distasteful to people who regularly vote democrat - even if the parties are 95% identical in practice.
> including 2 million people in London, 3 million in Rome

Is that outside the US? I don't recognize these cities.
2010-02-26 beyond the door (warp speed)
I think the implication above is that you can't prevent _every_ terrorist attack. I think that's a pretty defensible argument to make.

Geography alone makes it pretty obvious that you can't stop a determined group from carrying out an attack. So that leaves making nice with those groups so that they don't want to attack us.

Given the fact that there are radical groups at either end of just about any political or religious spectrum you can think of, the idea of appeasing all of them is nuts. The very actions necessary to appease one group could incite another to attack.

This is, of course, putting aside the idea that the motivation behind some violence isn't motivated by our actions at all, but rather by internal politics within extremist groups. There are a lot of folks out there who are awfully fond of power, and one of the easiest ways to garner power is to rally people against a common enemy (who cares if that "enemy" actually instigated anything... that's easy enough to spin)

So, all that to say... We're never going to prevent every terrorist attack, we can only work to minimize the collateral damage. In my opinion, the Patriot Act is just about the biggest example of collateral damage we've seen resulting from terrorist attacks, and I'm saddened to see that Congress chose to do nothing to limit that.
From the video, the CEO is upset they are throwing away donuts. Donuts are unhealthy and they shouldn't be giving those away to poor people anyway.
people rarely bitch about things they can't change

That's not my experience, at all. As far as I can tell, people bitch about everything they don't like - whether they can change it or not. It can be cathartic, and some people seem to need to bitch about stuff, even when they know they can and will do something about it later.
Is the source code available on the web for the sinatra app?
I would think the problem could be broken into smaller detection problems:

* rings voting up new articles

* rings voting down new articles (burying the competition)

* rings voting down popular articles (consistently going against the grain)
Are HN readers so insecure that they need constant pep talks? Come on you alphas, at least pretend you've got it together.
What was the distinction there? As far as I understand things, "cabinet maker" would be a proper subset of "carpenter".
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From the article:

Edit 2: One quick question for the "Anything can be cracked
right away." crowd. Where do I get my cracked copy of World
of Warcraft that can play the real game (not some cobbled
together emulation server) without paying. Answer: You can't.
This is certainly true of older, failed companies like Netscape.
Actually those measures are popular among regular (meaning non-powerful) people. Both the left and the right are in favor of a non-interventionist foreign policy in the US.
This reminds me of Acme::Bleach for Perl :)

http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Acme-Bleach-1.12/lib/Acme/Bl...
The only thing that these studies tend to suggest with any degree of certainty is that the IQ test is not a valid measurement of intelligence.

To keep this in perspective, vegetarianism has also been linked this way.