skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never made a conscious decision, but I mostly talked to my kid like he was a normal human being with all rights and privileges. Not to say I never went loony on him, but "normal" situations got normal conversation, with perhaps a bit more enthusiasm/encouragement thrown in.

And now at twelve he gets compliments on his articulation and engagement, and he treats me as a normal human being with all rights and privileges. Although I expect that treatment to stop any day now, as he approaches his teens. Nice while it lasted though. :)
I reposted these questions at http://www.forceclose.com/questions/1938/.
You don't. No worries there, you're just starting. Find something that inspires you and write code around that (do it in your favorite language or use it as an excuse to learn a language). Do a small project, do many small projects, do projects with friends. Read code - grok some of those libraries you're gluing together. Read about coding (O'Reilly's 'Beautiful...' series is great). If you enjoy programming, it'll come together. Keep the beginners' mind forever.
In order for it to be a Wordpress vulnerability there would need to be a corresponding entry in the http logs showing the request, either a GET or a POST, hitting whichever exploitable file it was within Wordpress itself. There is no such server request.

This is something that they could have seen in about 2 minutes of opening the http file and visually scanning the few hundred requests prior to the file in question being created.

Why should they take action? Really? Your replying as if "taking action" means something more than not ignoring potentially actionable information.

Btw... they do not make any of the other logs available to their tech support, let alone their customers. They should look into it because only they can look into it. To suggest that they were in the right in not at least checking it out seems an odd stance to take, tbh.
No flash on the iPad is a reasonably big deal for me. I almost bought one, then realized that I couldn't use Hulu or Amazon Video on Demand with it.

I use those for ALL of my TV needs. Watching TV in bed with an iPad was actually the most attractive use case to me, until I realized it wouldn't work.

So I didn't buy one.

Edit: I don't particularly love Flash for its own sake. I just want to use the services that I've come to like. And apparently, right now, Flash is the only realistic way to get them. HTML5 is, apparently, not quite there yet.
The mistake you're making is taking the OP at face value when he says he doesn't feel like he can program. That can actually be a good thing. It could be the Dunning-Kruger effect at work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Thus, the OP could say that he doesn't know how to program because he's actually pretty good at programming.
Some of the best programmers i've worked with were weird dudes who learned how to program in college.

Starting early doesn't mean you're any good. 4 years of a serious, programming intensive CS degree is better training than 20 years of farting around with PHP.

We don't apply this criteria to other endeavors. I've been playing piano since I was 5 and I'm still not good at it. You're either good or your're not. Sometimes experience helps, sometimes it is a hindrance. Bad habits form early, too.

It's also curious that programmers claim that programming since they were a kid makes them a better programmer, but they also complain whenever a job advertisement requires years of experience.
Limited autonomy of a four year old is good, but they need guidance and correction to know what to do with their autonomy. You're trying to grow an autonomous being, but you don't yet have one, and treating a kid as such can be as dangerous as treating a car autonomously.
The Perils Of Greed – Stop Trying To Be Google
Next, I need to jump through hoops to stop the syncing. iTunes starts up, and has to do it's thing. I can't just cancel the sync, I have to click through popups coming from iTunes to cancel the stupid sync before I can shut it down again.

No you don’t. There is probably one of those annoying “Check if you never want to appear this dialog again” checkboxes (which are for some reason all too common in iTunes), but that’s a one time thing, after that you only ever have to click once to cancel.

Or you could just slide to cancel the sync on your iPhone or iPod touch. That’s actually the easiest way to do it. Then you are immediately back to where you were and can continue listening. It’s instantaneous and I do it all the time when I plug in my iPod touch for charging and not syncing.
Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
Can someone point me to the apps made by maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com fame?

His blog posts regularly make the front page here. Most recently http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1344062

He has stated revenue primarily comes from app store, where he sells "A lot of small cheap apps.", and also that last month sales came close to 40k.

cubeofm.com lists one "Art you should know" app and a desktop appstore stats app. iTunes shows no other apps by that apps author. So, can someone point me to some of the "small cheap apps" he sells?
Ah, didn't know that. Strange that the interface allows me to write all that text, when it won't show anyway.
Ah, they are explicitly not investments, so as not to fall afoul of securities laws. Kickstart donors get exactly zero property interest in any IP - check the FAQ. It's a sales outlet for custom products offered on a promissory basis.
We could call her Bacteria Zero and build a whole religion around her life and times...
Ubuntu Netbook Edition is considering shipping with Chrome instead of Firefox
Anyone know who 'notifier' or 'awareness' are? I can't seem to find those accounts anymore.
My God, you're so right! I was there as well, same thing - the dot.com boom made ad agencies tons of money.
> IIS, Apache, Microsoft Word, Excel, Photoshop

I can see the enterprise use case for all of those except perhaps the last. I doubt 98% of enterprises rely on Photoshop.

What is the enterprise use case for Flash again?
Daniel Lyons: Obama right, devices like the iPad are rotting our brains
Whether we're talking about WMD, Global Warming, overpopulation, terrorism, hackers, or any other issue, people have this bad habit of falling into "Pascal's Wager" type thinking: identify the worst case, and then avoid it at all costs. This leads to expensive and often unnecessary solutions, and it often results in more cost-effective solutions being tabled because they don't particularly touch on the worst case.

A better approach to risk management: create a table with likelihood on the vertical axis, and severity of outcome on the horizontal. Then look at the costs to move any given risk either down or to the left. Do some cost-benefit analysis on reducing your overall risk profile, and focus your spending accordingly.
Personally, I like that he is standing up for himself.

Playing chicken with Arrington might not be the best idea. From what I've seen in the past (posts like this) he is more than open about what people say in (assumed) private e-mails/phone calls.

My guess is they back off shortly. No one likes having their dirty laundry airing to the public. Thought they could push him around behind closed doors.
What browser do you use at home?
Well someone has to break it to you, I figure I will do the dirty work.

"Don't sweat it, not gonna stop".

This "hell-banning" as it is dubbed by HN users, has been going on for as long as anyone can remember. And despite repeated posts like this, there seems to be not a single indication it is ever going to stop.

(They have even put it on the guidelines

Please do not submit posts complaining about posts were killed or comments that were downmodded.)

Well if you look at the flip side of wrong, we do have a right here. This helps keep the community sane, in a harsh and cruel way of course.
Pretty girls may cause myopathy, diabetes, hypertension and impotency
I will eliminate Lua [because it is not a general purpose language]

Umm... what? It's really hard to take anything from this article seriously after reading that. Other gems include ruling out Clojure purely on the basis of syntax, Objective C because "it is mainly used in Mac OSX and iphone software" and Javascript "mainly for the same reason we don’t program in assembly any more — availability of highly optimizing compilers".
No, it is two different dichotomies. One is one-ancestor vs. multi-ancestor, with the first being correct. The second is no gene transfer between descendants vs. gene transfer between descendants, with the second being correct. So there was only one species to begin with, but then later, after it diverged into multiple species, those branches traded genes back and forth.
Typically, one expects a b-tree lookup to require at most 1 disk seek (for the leaf-nodes), and ideally your indices are fully in memory. So, color me skeptical that fragmentation of the index itself is to blame here.
Why do these folks complain about publicity - it is an initiative of Vodafone for goodness sake, the worlds largest mobile phone operator.
What kind of fucked-up forum community accepts that accounts will routinely be trashed without explanation? Frankly, I find such behavior extremely insulting.
> No flash on the iPad is a reasonably big deal for me. I almost bought one, then realized that I couldn't use Hulu or Amazon Video on Demand with it.

If they don't already exist, I'm pretty sure that you'll soon be able to access these services via dedicated apps. They'll probably have a nicer interface (for touch) than the websites too.
> People with smaller/medium businesses don't typically put a lot of emphasis on websites.

Indeed they don't, but perhaps they could consider a web site as a source of additional customers, or as a way to offload phone scheduling, or maybe they just want to organize their booking system better (they can use admin part of the site for it) and booking via web is just a bonus. Of course that won't necessarily fit into everyone's working process, but I hope at least some might look to adopt it.

> Do you offer your service as module/plugin that they may insert into their site easily?

Well, yeah. There is a way to embed it on site via iframe, and also we're working on integration modules for some CMSs. For a larger customers we can make custom integration, whatever they want, basically, as long as they pay for it :).
> Agreed. Always make contracted work a work for hire.

How? Per the article, you can only do this if the person making the work is an employee, or the kind of work is in that list (which does not include software).

...hmm. I wonder if, say, the Unix shellutils could be considered a "collective work" if each individual program was written by a different person.
Thanks, that's a great idea!
Well, GPG is fairly mature, and so is the BitTorrent protocol, which Bram Cohen launched at ~25. they're ambitious to be sure, but the basic concept is not that far out.

Anyway, they now have enough money to hire a competent programmer or two if they get stuck :)
Looks like they need another kind of bear for their database connections.

http://skitch.com/dolinsky/ddc1i/database-error
Modern Independence: Economic and Technological
How is a contractor working on a code base not working on a collaborative work?
Ask HN: Funny photo editing online?
I am looking for a funny photo edit web application and the ones I found are highly non-intuitive (e.g. putting the photo inside a frame from a movie and other not-so-funny effects)

Is there a good one that you know? Asking here as this might be a good startup idea.
The point, as I understand it, is that you don't get to determine what constitutes a work for hire - that is determined by law, and only 9 categories of things (or work done by an employee) count. Your contract may need to be written more carefully to ensure that you own the copyright when all is said and done.
Arrington is clearly wrong. It's clear that nobody told him to copy paste the whole content, or gave him the permission.
He just trolls now for more hits.
But he'd just lose if he'd come to court.
A Long Handle on Shortened Digital Object Identifiers
Just to be clear, I'm not the OP on Stack Overflow. Someone could link this to her if they have enough rep to comment.
GitHub Issues client built w/ Cappuccino, Atlas, NativeHost and Node on Heroku
Will you comply with section 4.8.11 of the HTML5 spec?

Will you support WAI-ARIA?
Fold often before going "all in"
NativeHost: Run your Cappuccino applications on the desktop
Agreed. In the late 90's I thought a laptop could never replace my dual processor monster of the time in a workstation/server case (which I still happily carried to LAN parties and friends houses with a 19" CRT monitor)
My problem with learning English (my native language) from books rather than people was knowing tons of words but not how to pronounce them.
Shopify for iPhone released
With all due respect sir, try to keep it civil no need to call the community "fucked-up" there are some very intelligent people around.

Also the hell banning comes as a trade off. You want a great community with people talking about cool things then you will have to cope up with this.

I have stated my protests earlier to this "our way,or the high way" attitude but there are somethings you just can't fight which includes what a community, of which you want to be a part of, has jointly selected.

And now I am really interested to know what was your account name before you got banned
iStockPhoto's maintenance page (heading 5) rocks
I find this ad funny in light of this page: http://www.adobe.com/choice/flash.html

The very top of the page is filled with statistics about how absolutely everyone is using Flash. It would seem to me that the best way to bring about freedom of choice is to do away with Flash.

I don't support Section 3.3.1, but I honestly don't feel that way out of sympathy for Adobe.
If that is your line of reasoning for staying married, it's an unhealthy situation, probably not good for the kids, etc.

People in such situations should focus on communication and progress, possibly with the help of a therapist. Or end the marriage. But plodding along blaming your spouse for your terrible lot in life is no way to raise a family (or save some money).

I've been married 10 years. It's up and down, but in the end, it's what you make of it.
He lost me a bit earlier:

"I will eliminate Lua for the same reason [is not a general purpose language], though it has found a niche in the gaming community."

wat?

And then on a comment he says: "I should have written more about Prolog, Lua"

And proceeds not to write more about Lua, only Prolog.
Because when you start talking about good revenue numbers you bring in competitors to the market. This advice is especially true in markets with very low barriers to entry like iPhone apps. Would it be easy to duplicate what maxklein is currently doing? Probably not, but $40k/month is going get some people to at least try and those people may end up being his competitors.
Surely Bacterium Zero?
Aha...now that is very interesting. And I just happen to be a pro audio engineer. Also one that is behind schedule today :-/ but I'll create an account and email tonight. My first impression of the site is very positive.
I just had a revelation about email encryption...
This may be old news to some, but I've been pondering why it is so annoyingly difficult to get anyone other than my computer literate friends/acquaintances to use PGP email encryption for important transmissions. There are obvious chicken and egg arguments about why, but I think it is slightly deeper.

The situation reminds me of the earlier Renaissance period when the intellectual elite (Da Vinci et al.) devised simple encryption schemes for writing correspondance. Or the mirror writing technique...

It's always been this way; and always will be. The layman will simply never use the tools (even though they are remarkably simpler and more straightforward than they were in the 1800's) available to them because they aren't convenient and it requires an investment in learning to use those tools and the nomenclature associated with it...
That's a nice anecdote, but apart from the slanted attack on Michael Arrington (which is obviously proving popular, looking at how many upvotes you got), I'm not sure what it's got to do with the article at hand.

Michael Arrington might act like a douche sometimes (maybe even lots of the time), but that's no reason not to treat this story on its merits, rather than responding with a cute character attack.
I will be highly impressed if the project produces anything.
They threatened legal action. Posting emails doesn't seem like an unethical move after the other side has initiated hostilities.
Not only is it not unreasonable, it's a subtle design touch that you would almost expect Apple to think of. Similar to how yanking the headphones out of an iPod or iPhone pauses the music.
I personally support the banning of posters making ad hominem attacks. Does calling the editors losers add value to your comment or the community ? - no.

You could have made a polite statement on the topic which would have got your point across far better, but rather you decided to make an insulting rant. Purely on the basis of this post it's perfectly understandable why you may have been banned.
If I had to learn 1 language, I would go to Monster, Dice, whatever job site and search- On Monster.com looks like java is the big winner in Houston Tx, followed by C++, C#, VB, and javascript. Lua and scala are pretty much a great way to be unemployed in this city.

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Either way, why would you want to limit yourself to just one- even if its just for the sake of argument?
I believe they said they have a mockup
"So there was only one species to begin with"

The idea that all life shares a common ancestor does not mean that there was only one species to begin with. There could have been many species who contributed genetic material to a common ancestor, and then eventually died out. The article is poorly written because it doesn't make it clear whether the gene swapping occurred before or after the common ancestor.
Facebook, the deal, and you.
Which $100 netbooks/laptops/pads are real?
There are several "announced" machines in the $100 class including the Cherrypal Africa (http://www.cherrypad.com)and the Meng EasyPC E790. Most are linux machines although Android is mentioned as is XP. Screens and keyboards are fairly limited at this price point. Which of these machines are real? Is there a market? And, if so, what is it?
pw0ncakes.

Hell-banning spammers or trolls makes sense. Banning people with 200+ karma without explanation, without warning, when they are not making personal attacks or spamming is inexcusable.

I was once banned (over a year ago) for saying I liked Clojure better than Arc.

Generally, I think the HN community is great, and I bet 90% of the posters here don't know about the forum's management problems, because of the way they're swept under the rug.
And what do people look for when they google themselves? What do you find that's interesting?
I have the same name as a celebrity, so I can't have this feature. (it's not Michael Bolton).
Can you bring back Clippy?
Jaguar Cub Playing With His Mother
This is a black jaguar whose playing with her recently born cub.
I've been using Olark for a few years now, and I've never had any connection problems (disclaimer: I've known the Olark guys since they worked here in Ann Arbor before going to YC).
System searches computer code  where accuracy can be traded for speed
Innovative way to combat SQL injection
Whoa, that title looks like it was SEOd to death to maximize buzzwords.

But in all seriousness, this looks fantastic.
Well, is that real what i see with my own eyes, Gnash ?

Is this just a mentioning of several technologies or do they really allow Gnash existence ?

SWF renderers are the only forbidden aspect of the entire Flash technology.

Is this for real ?
Hah, yeah, we realized as we were building it that the number of new fangled tech products in use was off the charts. There were a lot more we couldn't fit in the title :).
"4 years of a serious, programming intensive CS degree is better training than 20 years of farting around with PHP."

That's really funny and true.

Yeah, agreed, I know plenty of CS degree holders that are top notch coders as well. But I have to say, I don't think a single one of them hadn't learned a language or two prior to college and I doubt they ever thought for a second 'I'm not sure how to program'.
Way to bust one stereotype by using another (php programmers are bad).
Wow, it’s absolutely lovely. Feels like a desktop skin of GitHub.
Why the biggest competitor to iPad news apps may be a familiar icon
I think this would work well, provided the users you target are the early-adopter/evangelist-type people (like us on HN). However, use this on someone like my girlfriend or my mom while they're on your site, and they'd probably freak out and leave.
I guess maxklein himself would be the right person to answer this. He can't be that hard to reach.

Which raises the question, why didn't you ask him directly? Or did you? Is this a show-move because you know what those apps are, and you want to "expose him" for making cheap spammy apps (note: I have no evidence whatsoever that maxklein makes spammy apps, but your post does seem to have some undertones of that)?

Or maybe I'm just overly imaginative tonight.

As we say in French, mystère et boule de gomme...
It's really not about email encryption only. None will ever do anything if the reward is not sufficient.
Arrington's post with excerpts is exploitative of Fortune. Once you've read the TechCrunch post, there's no value left in reading the Fortune articles. Sure, it great for selling the book, but the magazine is screwed. On the fortune side, they were not clear about whether they're promoting the book or the magazine, since their editor is the author, so Arrington has a legitimate excuse by arguing that he's just not very smart and was confused by the distinctions.
I can’t remember the last time I bought something worth more than $100 by paying cash. If every bill with a denomination over $20 went away, or if inflation reduced the largest circulating bill to a value of twenty 2010-dollars, I wouldn’t notice.

Not to say that the government should eliminate the higher-denomination bills—just using myself as a data point to suggest there’s not much consumer demand for them.
Exactly. Plugging in the iPod should not interrupt iTunes. Sync in the background, display a notification if you must, but don't interrupt what the software on the desktop is currently doing.

I don't think it should even interrupt what the iPod is doing, but I can understand that technically that could be more difficult.
I read the whole article and I just can't get rid of one big question: so what?

Seriously, this is just saying how Apple designers and engineers are doing a great job. Okay, but what's the point? Is that it?
I disagree. For Kickstarter, I think this is what the "Paris Hilton cell phone hack" was for Digg. It has proved their model and their platform and will mainstream their service. Only good things for them - I actually think Kickstarter is the big winner in this entire situation, Diaspora is now saddled with sadly unreasonable expectations.