skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. My university required you to change your password every 90 days. Not such a bad idea, however, they compare your new password against all previous passwords to make sure they are significantly different (e.g. you can't change your password from abcdefg to abcdeff). I'm assuming this means they save your passwords in clear text somewhere. Not exactly the type of people I'd trust with sensitive information.

EDIT: meastham makes a good point and he/she could definitely be right about generating hashes of all slight variations of each password. In response to what fname said, I'm wondering if there are any security concerns about being able to find similarities in hashes for similar passwords.
Not all passions monetize.

At the moment, I'm passionate about rock climbing, travel, surfing and computer programming. If it weren't for that 4th one, I'd be screwed.

I currently run maybe the 3rd most popular Travel Blogging site out there. It's had a good 5 years of passion poured in now, off and on, and if I were to slap ads on it today I'd pull in a buck thirtyfive a day.

I also run a little service that processes the draconian logfiles that Amazon provides for its webservices and spits out pretty analytics. It's a subject that no human being could ever be passionate about and it pays my rent.

Sometimes it's better to monetize something boring that people are willing to pay for.
New York's housing prices are absurd even in relation to the average income here.

If people make 30% more in New York than they do elsewhere, it makes sense that housing would cost 30% more. 300% more is unconscionable.
While we're at it: http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
Ask HN: Feedback on my newest project
URL: http://trophysight.com

One of my friends is an avid hunter and fisherman. He had the idea for a social network for hunters and fisherman to share pictures. I'd love HN's feedback on the idea and the current implementation!
Mark Zuckerberg: The temptation of Facebook's CEO
Well, if the standard url naming was chinese characters (ie: what everybody is typing), do you think it would be easy for you? I think you would like to type/access urls in your own language.
If you're interested in implementing this you could just contribute to

Quantlib (http://quantlib.org)

or RMetrics (https://www.rmetrics.org/)
Clickable link: http://trophysight.com
I looked at one specific model (a Corolla)

There's a patently false assumption here: that a "specific" model is comparable across a 7-year span. What happened to the price if you normalized on, say, curb weight?

With expensive items like airbags, air conditioning, and high-end audio, a car is more like a "basket" than a single item.
And someone's already got http://www.xn--b1avn2f.com/ - a.k.a. HSBC.com :/
The functionality you praise is not a function of DRM, though. You could easily provide the opportunity to download and install the game multiple times without DRM.

It will become an issue once steam goes away.

As an example how copy protection can bite you years later: I have some old DOS games that verify the CD-ROM. Not if you try to run them in DOS-Box or something, you will have to find a DOS driver for your CD-ROM drive (at least I had the issue once, when I still had an SCSI drive. Not sure what it would be like now). Needless to say, I haven't played those games again. One of them was "Little Big Adventure" - it is a shame that such gems will eventually be lost forever.
- "girls" == "quines" ...

Are they self-reproducing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29
The biggest change in Norway was mostly that you're guaranteed to hear "Hi! I'm Jonathan from Spotify..." at any party where people haven't bought a premium-subscription. Everyone found out that Spotify is simpler, easier and more convenient than ripping CDs or playing the CDs directly.
I think the idea is pretty cool, but why do you need so much information (first name, last name, email address, birthday)?

If you just required a username and a password, and then made everything else optional, I think you'd get a lot more signups.

I didn't feel like giving you all that information so I didn't bother creating a login... but if you haven't done it already have you considered adding voting to the pictures? This would be a perfect use-case for the new Facebook "Like" buttons. Thinking about it, maybe Facebook connect would be a good idea as well.

[Edit: You may want to do something better for your privacy policy if you are going to require all this information. Big blocks of "lorem ipsum" text aren't very confidence inspiring. You may also want to change the "you're bound by the ToS when you register" text until you actually have some terms of service.]
"it is always beneficial to find ways of turning pirates in to buyers"

You keep making that claim without giving any rationale to it whatsoever? If your way of turning pirates into buyers turns off other honest buyers, it could be a net loss.
Crowd-collaborative animated music video
Any Persian examples? I'd like to surprise a friend. Perhaps HNers can post an example for each script or language.
> can go there today and visit it in London. It's a popular tourist destination.

There's a museum/gift shop there now.

The pictures that I can find now online look a lot more residential than what I remember from 2000 or so. I remember that it was a granite-slab front office building with a pla
The author touched briefly on one thing that's worth noting, but it might have got buried in the article so it bears repeating:

If you build something cool, people will find you and give you consulting work

That's a strategy that has worked for me several times over the years. I mentioned a silly unmonetizable Travel Blogging site elsewhere in this discussion, but if you look at the paying client work that resulted from that site's existence, you could argue that it's been one of my most successful products.
Wife's dementia increases husband's risk
Yup. I think Jeff is making a faulty generalization here. I've worked remotely for years, quite successfully. While I wish that meant I was a super rock star code god, it ain't so. You do have to be reasonably conscientious, but you don't have to be a elite coder.
For anyone planning to write to their MP and up, you should watch this short TED talk on writing to public officials. It'll help you get heard.

http://www.ted.com/talks/omar_ahmad_political_change_with_pe...
The only such Persian URL is the URL ICANN deployed a number of years as part of its testing of IDNs.

http://مثال.آزمایشی
Rob Pike gave a talk on Go at Stanford EE380 last week.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428.html

http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=100...
Well that's a pretty ridiculous thing to say. How can a website make the web a worse place? A website either provides something you can't get anywhere else, which is intrinsically valuable, or you can just ignore the site.
Sculptris
We do need birthday because you have to be at least 13 to register but you're right about the rest, especially the TOS... going to fix that now :)
Agreed -- controls that reconfigure themselves disorient habitual users who begin to rely on spatial memory.

Even the iPad's reflow of icons when rotated is mildly disorienting, even though each group stays on its own page.

Ribbon bars and self-hiding menus do ok in focus groups for first time users because they haven't yet formed spatial memory around the task.

Blur your eyes so you can't read text and you still know where the Edit menu is. You know where it is, so that's where it should be.
I can't stress enough the persistent part of the "persistent mailing list."

I worked as a remote employee in a group where we had half the team (couple dozen folks) in an office in Toronto, and the remainder of us scattered about in remote sites across the US.

We had a mailing list for questions along the line of "Hey, this question is important but not enough so to bug anyone in chat." It wasn't persistent in any usable manner; it archived to an Exchange shared folder hosted in the main office, and I learned that searching these folders over VPN was an exercise in futility.

Basically then you'd have new people hiring on and not having the organizational knowledge pent up from all the decisions made in the past. They'd make bad decisions in their work because either
a) they couldn't search the list for help and just decided to cowboy it, or
b) they mailed the list, got blown off for asking a question that has been asked dozens of times before they showed up, and will just cowboy it the next time.
HTML5 + Java VNC viewer
You may want to look in to FB Connect, I think it will solve a lot of those issues for you.
This is caused in large part because the disposable income excluding housing increases far more than 30% and you don't need a car. Add in a culture of people willing to have roommates and a limited housing market due to rent control and you are going to see huge price increases.
Or Boston. We've got a thriving startup community and we've got tons of techie schools in the area!

There are even some groups who are going around to find all the local resources in the boston area: http://greenhornconnect.com/ and http://dartboston.com/
Hi, from personal experience, our 2-man team found TeamViewer a bit more useful though.

Twiddla has its strengths but it failed when we tried to share a dynamic website. It only excelled in sharing static websites so we were unable to share websites that required a log-in or a form submission. We ran in to a lot of time consuming problems when using Twiddla so we abandoned it because we just did'nt have the time to play around. I guess it is more for communicating with remote designers and it definatly is way better than MS Paint.
What are the Research Topic Ideas
Students must try to find research topic ideas that suit their study area, perfectly well. Hence, they must choose an idea, which is well-known to them,
Netflix, Wii, Xbox and the Future of Digital Distribution
We tried to go for a broad mix of tech, business, and philosophical/fun talks. Hope everyone from HN who's going to be in Baltimore that night comes out!
It is. I agree with you but if you're working with programmers better than you which one of these three is the situation from their perspective?
At least some of the better programmers have to be willing to bend on this or you never work with anyone better.
Westbound and Down: Why Things Are Looking Up for Paul Stamatiou.
In what is sure to become one of the best tech transfers the South has made to the West Coast, we're equal parts sad and happy to be passing one of Atlanta's tech superstars to San Francisco. We (exit) interviewed Paul Stamatiou on his last day in Georgia to discover why he is moving and to hear his thoughts on the future. We then rolled over to Strongbox West to capture the community's goodbye wisdom at a 'special edition' of Startup Drinks. Enjoy the video!
I really dig your profile slider on the trophy board! Is that a plugin you used or something you hand coded?
Collaborative Blogging -- Bad Agile User Stories
Well, it's time the vast majority of people become aware of privacy implications, facebook and otherwise.

Most people don't care even when warned, ("I don't have anything to hide", "I share with whoever is interested" is just some of the responses I got trying to educate people), and deserve whatever it is that is going to happen to them.

Facebook has actually dealt with this brilliantly several times in the past -- they said, "here are the new terms of service. If at least 70% of facebook users vote against it, we won't do it". They even sent this out as a message to all users. That's a good way to call the bluff of the outragees -- almost no one cares, and facebook has the numbers to prove it, should they be sued for it.

Like in previous times, some people will get alarmed, 150 will delete their facebook accounts, and that's about it until the next gross violation. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Mark Zuckerberg and his cohorts pwn you. There is no way not to play, as the game was set up so that all your real-life friends sell you out (by telling all about you, tagging you in photos, etc). And they all do it willingly. Orwell would have been proud.
HN style commenting in Rails - 7 lines of code
Indeed - what's your point? Since both generally involve using guesswork (however educated) in an attempt to increase wealth, it seems reasonable to draw a parallel between the two.
What Paulson jammed into Abacus was mortgages lent to borrowers with low credit ratings, and mortgages from states like Florida, Arizona, Nevada and California that had recently seen wild home-price spikes. ... Goldman then turned around and sold this poisonous stuff to its customers as good, healthy investments.

Actually, that's not what happened. What Paulson put into Abacus was insurance policies on pools of those mortgages. The counterparties were not purchasing the rights to streams of payments from pools of mortgages, they were accepting streams of premium payments from him on a pool of insurance policies on pools of mortgages. Also, he sent a list of suggestions for which pools of mortgages should be insured to a third party, which rejected some of them. Finally, the customers were not individuals, but banks who should have the facilities to properly analyze the risks. There were failures of due diligence by both the institution responsible for the final selection of the instruments and the institutions that purchased them. If I buy a house insurance policy from someone, and they don't bother to check if the house is on a flood plain, why should they get to complain that they have to pay out when the water hits?
> What is that number? Who knows! But it's certainly greater than zero, and there's certainly enough impact of piracy to make it worth it to explore methods of minimizing that impact.

Why should it be greater than zero? There may be cases where people use a pirated copy as a `demo' and decide to properly buy the game later on. I concede that this effect is probably minor--but its existence suffices to justify the need of data before you can assume that the number is non-negative.
Recent versions of Windows have iSCSI support built-in; you can actually just export a normally-installed version via iSCSI and everything will just work (in theory). For XP there's a program called "sanbootconf" that you can install to make it work. http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot has some pretty good tutorials.
How does one regiter these domain names? Are there any registrar who currently support this?
Data Leak Prevention Finally Gets an Open Source Alternative
So how much effort is wasted on anti-piracy, and how many lost sales are there because of DRM?

As TechDirt says about music, obscurity, not piracy, is the problem for many artists. As someone that enjoys playing games, I find this often to be the case when trying to find good games.
I don't think you can share out a folder and get Windows to boot using it as the system drive, but I think you can get Windows to boot without a local hard drive and instead using an iSCSI LUN as the hard disk.

http://www.google.com/search?q=windows%20boot%20from%20iscsi

Has various things which look like guides and relevant discussions.
That was hand coded. It took me forever to get it working in IE6 :)
This is absolutely true. More transparency => more accurate valuation => less bid/offer. Investors might like it, but don't expect the banks to be on board.
It's by far the most accurate prediction of the result.
People putting their money where their mouth is - generally a lot more reliable than somebody with a clipboard in a shopping center asking voters, or the opinions of a TV reporter.
I wonder how the projects like freebsd, webkit, chromium, and thousands and thousands more are successfully going on without such pathos and attempt to impress the world.

Shared culture and vision plus trac with several plugins (or code.google.com) are enough.
RHEL 6 announcement and download link
x64 link: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6/x86_64/iso/
Learning.com - online tech math science curriculum assessments Sky
Apple's iPad Seen Cannibalizing Netbook Sales
Aside from the unanimous agreement in these comments that this is a horrible idea, I wish bloggers quit "loosing" themselves.

> "I believe that it’s a healthy way of loosing control."

Got a problem with incontinence? Keep it to yourself.
It's just about a month into it. There's no way a valid correlation can be made. This is just linkbait.
Direct x64 ISO link: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6/x86_64/iso/RHEL...
Even though it was 15 years ago, I still vividly remember the disquiet I felt the first time I heard the term "human resources". It felt so Soylent Green to me.

Even though he's not universally popular around here, I'm going to admit to liking Seth Godin's "Let's call it the talent department" argument:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/02/marketing-hr...
Even Apple doesn't support Safari on Cheetah!

I'll hazard a guess that this might have to do with the success they've had in getting users to update off of old versions. While you might be able to find a Tiger box out in the wild, I bet you'd never find someone running Cheetah. Doesn't over 60% of HTTP traffic come from XP boxes, in contrast?
Bombing Suspect Faisal Shahzad attempted car bombing in New York City
But you won't go so far alone! You can't code the whole StackExchange engine solo. You need a buddy (may be buddies). He/they should be smart, love code (love his/their work). It doesn't matter if he's not working in the same office as you, so you telecommute. That's what Jeff explains in his blog post.
What about wireless clients? Is it even possible to diskless boot (PXE or otherwise) a wireless laptop? This is one significant change in networking that the article overlooks when discussing the fall in popularity of diskless booting.
Though I agree with your sentiment, I think the point the author is making is that Android is in for a rude awakening.

One thing that apple has going for it with the iPhone ecosystem is the simplicity of the user not having to think 'i need to have os ?' to run this or that. The app store manages that for them (it usually tells me I can't install apps because I haven't updated the OS).

I'm just getting into Android, but from what I've been hearing it is a much more fragmented system, and managing that is going to be a real pain. When that pain point hits customers, it is going to get really confusing. They may just opt for a system where they know what they're getting.
> and if I were to slap ads on it today I'd pull in a buck thirtyfive a day.

Do you mean $1.35/day? If that's the case, then I see your point: even though you're passionate about it, it (in and of itself) won't pay the rent.
Yeah FB Connect is a great idea! I think many of my potential users are probably already on facebook already.

As far as the TOS go, I'm a little too poor right now to hire a lawyer but the university near me has a great program where law students (supervised by a lawyer) offer free services to entrepreneurs. I'm signed up for that program but it doesn't start until June.

Any suggestions for how to fill that privacy policy and tos in the mean time?
Feedback and code contributions welcomed!
This is only about the collections, which are affected by those but not the topic of the article according to the title?
Well, my current strategy is to migrate users when we give them new PCs this summer, then only tell them about the change later. Much later. Initially they'll be using Outlook to access email; they can use the web interface later if they want to. Why would they be interested in which email backend we're using? The trouble with asking them, or informing them in a way which suggest I want their opinion, is that it very quickly just becomes a beauty contest, where I have sound technical and financial reasons to make the move.
What does it mean for NYC to be run by bankers?
You only need to perceive that the other programmers are better, they don't actually need to be that way. And given that competent people generally underrate their abilities [1], you could have a team of equally highly skilled people who all think they are working with a team that is generally better than them. I actually think this would be an ideal situation.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Thank you!!! That site looks really useful!

EDIT: Oops this should have gone under 'oremanj' link (http://etherboot.org/wiki/start) I got the gPXE chainloading working already, took some trial and error.

If anyone else is interested try the 'alldrivers' option rather than the 'undionly' option when making your .kpxe ( http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-git/gpxe.git/contrib/rom-o-... )
What piece of what I said made it defensible? I was merely explaining away the concept that it applies to engineers like it does for "privacy tramplers."
Is Appcelerator(Titanium) still a good bet to create mobile app?
Given the recent Apple developer TOS, how much is a risk to use Appcelerator to create an app targeting iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

Apple is squarely targeting Flash so there is a slight chance that Appcelerator (like Unity) will be able to circumvent the restriction. What do you think?
Time Warner Cable, Cablevision Sink as the FCC Goes ’Nuclear’
You seriously think the rest of the country is different?
The Wrong Reasons To Pursue Venture Capital: Founder Salaries
Well, then I suppose I would need to learn as much as I can to leverage with the better programmers or at least don't bother them to the point they start thinking "Oh, shit, I would be better programming solo than with this moron!"
Apple doesn't sell netbooks, so the iPad isn't cannibalizing netbook sales. If iPad sales decreased sales of, say macbooks, then it would be appropriate to cry cannibal.

Cannibalization from Wikipedia:

"In marketing and strategy, cannibalization refers to a reduction in the sales volume, sales revenue, or market share of one product as a result of the introduction of a new product by the same producer." [emphasis mine]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalization
Because it can: Google’s grand designs for speech
Registered in December last year, it seems.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the related searches are "Virus Software", "Virus", "Virus Trojan", etc. Not sure what "Ford" is doing in that list, though.
In certain countries there is law protecting information about people held digitally. My understanding of this legislation is to allow the citizen to access information held on themselves and give them rights over that information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998

How does this affect facebook? What about other European laws? It sounds like using data on a purpose collected on another premise, without agreement, could be illegal.
It could be but only IF the amount of people turned off by DRM is greater than the amount of sales gained by it. People turned off a purchase by DRM are very vocal but are they numerous?
Darfur, from wikipedia: "Sudanese authorities claim a death toll of roughly 19,500 civilians [72] while certain non-governmental organizations, such as the Coalition for International Justice, controversially claim that over 400,000 people have been killed.[73]"

Compare that to WWII: "Most suggest that some 60 million people died in the war, including about 20 million soldiers and 40 million civilian"

Looking at North Korea and Iraq, every single person in those countries could die and that still wouldn't exceed the body count from WWII, not to mention WWI or any of the truly pointless European conflicts before that.

Even comparing Iraq to Vietnam, do you know what that war did to that country?
Millions and millions of civilians were killed, an order of magnitude worse than even the extreme estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths.

Forced labor worldwide? Slavery was legal in the US 150 years ago. Now it is not -- in fact, we just elected a black president.
Porting it to Mac and Linux would be a good start.