skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Twitter should just not count URL's towards the 140 characters. All URL's should count as one character.
Seems reasonable to me. Just out of curiosity since this article is placing the blame at bitly's feet and not tweetdeck, how do the other shortener services behave given a simarly shortened URL. Are they whitelisting?
Do you mean OpenWetWare?

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page
I've been using Zendesk at the company I work at for about a month and at first I didn't like it, but after getting used to it, it's not that bad. We don't use the public forums however, so I can't speak to that. But reply via email, iPhone app, and the macros are all nice touches.
Unless you're in the UK. If you are, don't panic! ... (because you already missed it several weeks back ;-))
About 52k on weekdays.
What's the last 2%?
Try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_zFsPb6qwg
Most cell phone manufacturers see Google's frequent releases as an annoyance they would rather not deal with.

New releases mean re-testing the product. It's expensive, time consuming, and the new software may reveal new hardware/firmware bugs.
http://www.tomamawithlove.org/
K. Eric Drexler's blog
Are any of these identifiable characteristics really that invariable? What if someone starts exercising a lot, or loses 200 pounds, or starts taking medication that affects the heart/blood pressure, etc..?

I imagine being locked out of your account and trying to diagnostic your heart must be a pain...
Switched over to Zendesk a few months back. Our support people love it, and their API is a pleasure to work with. Best integration I've done in a long time.
Traffic is low enough on the weekends that good content can still make the front page. So every Monday morning there is usually good stuff still remaining that bubbled up over the weekend, which sets a good example for the rest of the week.

Comment moderation has gone downhill, but there aren't enough comments that it really matters. Comments themselves are generally as good as the stories, which aren't great but are reasonable. Pretty much every important story makes the front page, albeit a lot of times the specific article that makes the front page isn't the best thing that's been written on that topic.
"if privacy advocates seek to have any real effect on user behavior, they need to stop pontificating and learn to craft a successful meme."

Generalizes to: "If you want to get your message out, learn to craft a successful meme." That's a skill that is missing from lots of groups, not just privacy advocates.
Remind HN: Yesterday was V-E Day
I know we tend to drown in all the tech, entrepreneurship, fresh ideas, ipad news, facebook privacy issues and the lack of HN search. But let's not forget our history :)

I know, V-E day is just one huge commercialized drama nowadays but take it from me (or don't); most remaining WWII vets -do- care about this day!
nah, that's the only one i can pull up whenever i go hunting, its frustrating because i can't even remember what was really differentiating about it, i just remember thinking "wow, this is gonna be friggen awesome... once i learn biology"

ah well.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'
This article is an abomination of journalism, go to the original site (http://www.matousec.com/) for something that makes sense.
A Turing Machine
My startup is currently developing a new ticket tracking system named Tracker, and it might be exactly what you're looking for. Tracker's focus is helping you do email support for external customers, but it also works well for internal company support.

Tracker is lightweight, fast, and has exceptional search and email integration. The web interface is quite quick and has some nice features, but you can also perform most functions (replying to customers, creating tickets, commenting) straight from your mail client.

We're currently in private beta, but if you're interested you can email me at dave AT madwombat DOT com, and I'll set you up with an account.
It doesn't.

The only reasonable hosted support system out there is Zendesk, and unfortunately it's more "good" than "great".
What about Elon Musk?
When you learn that letter in Greek, it's pronounced "key." I don't know if you mathological folks decided to change that or not. ;)
Breed: a computer program that uses artificial evolution to grow sculptures
We are on tender.app hooked up with lighthouse.app
It works great. Your support tickets can be flagged to the lighthouse issue tracker.
Confusing *a* public with *the* public
Localtunnel -- instantly set up a public tunnel to your local web server
Sounds great:) i'll try it!
How Early Adopters Help the Rest of Us Save Money
Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up.
You wouldn't cannonize an ugly person for not commiting adultery. Same holds for poor people. In general poor behave badly when they get wealth or power. That's why there's a notion of class. Look at Michael Jackson and the lottery winners.

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Under three things the earth trembles, yes, under four it cannot bear up:
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Under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is glutted with food;
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Under an odious woman when she is wed, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.
Hugo is interesting person. Totally unclear where exatcly he is: on the left or on the right. I have impression that he has nothing to do with socialism, yet interesting to watch them anyway.
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Python? http://pymacs.progiciels-bpi.ca/pymacs.html
As with fingerprints, your password is always the primary authentication method. The fingerprint / heartbeat authentication support is there as an alternative; to be "cool", take longer than typing your password, and make it easier for intruders to access your device.
Site calculates your heart's health | I Didn't Know That
Ah, the joys of learning English from dictionary definitions instead of literary use.
Ask HN: Where do people outside traditional HN professions go for web content?
Hi HN,
If I wanted to submit quality informative material to software engineers and entrepreneurs, I would submit it to HN, and maybe a few other places.
What if I want to submit material to other niches of professionals.
I am looking for a place online where Realtor's go for good content, but for the sake of discussion, I would like to make a list of niche content aggregates by profession.
Raffi Krikorian's Extremely Preliminary Look at Twitter's Annotations
Even Google now slamming ACTA
Understand what triggers consumers: and Google (aardvark) should pay me
I wonder how the mass adoption of 3D printers will increase the availability of guns. I mean, you can just download and print one (if the material used when printing is strong enough, of course).

And it doesn't stop there. A friend of mine is a transhumanist philosopher at Oxford. He ranks home made viruses as the number one threat to mankind this century.

Anyway, cool video.
Thanks for scaring me! Mother's Day (US) is 9th May. Mother's Day (UK) was in March.
That transcript is misleading. Steve stayed with reddit until Fall of 2009 when our contracts ended. He didn't leave to work as a contractor.

One thing I should also mention is that our deal was structured in such a way that either one of us could've left reddit before our contract ended without too much pain (missing some carrots, granted) but we were still rather attached to reddit, the community, and our friends (team reddit). Personally, I did also feel a compulsion to fulfill my side of the contract and make sure Condé Nast got its money's worth. That may make me a tool in the eyes of most Hacker News folks, but so be it.
This project http://sysjail.bsd.lv/ was dropped because of exactly the same problem with systrace on BSD systems, found in 2007.

Details: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/08/06/usenix-woot07-... (Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers)

It's not really possible to write wrappers which can inspect system calls, allow them to be blocked or modified, AND be efficient. Therefore they're not useful for security purposes because of the inherent race conditions.
Two problems:

1) Efficiency

2) When an argument refers to a large amount of data which is necessarily in the user's memory space - eg memory mapped files.
A great book that espouses this principle is Fire Someone Today: http://www.firesomeonetoday.com/ There's a lot of other practical entrepreneurial advice in there too!
GetSat and Lighthouse are two totally different things. While Lighthouse has been used for support in the past, it's a privatized ticket tracker and not a support system.

We built Tender out of what we learned from dealing with Lighthouse support, which is why we added some pretty cool Lighthouse integration.
Sequence Diagram RE, LINQ, and Lambdas
At least in my test, which was admittedly very small in scale, people almost always clicked "Insightful/Agree" or "Uninsightful/Disagree". I'd love to see a better test of this, though.

That’s very much what I would expect. You generally disagree with someone because you think they have poor arguments – how could something that is, say, factually wrong or not coherent also be insightful? I always cringe when people here say you shouldn’t downvote when you disagree. Should you really not downvote if a comment contains obvious factual errors or if the arguments obviously make no sense? (I have to add, though, that the “obvious” is important here. I think you shouldn’t downvote when someone made reasonable errors in their argument.)

I think there are cases where comments you disagree with can be insightful (when, say, a aspect of a problem is shown that you didn’t consider before) but I would also argue that those instances are rather rare.
This is what we use - haven't found a need to go with anything else. I've heard of some people using this up to large volumes of email, but I guess it could become a problem once you get to multiple support people working at the same time (as opposed to multiple working shifts) just because you could both start writing an email at the same time. But until you reach that point this solution works great.
I do not go to the UK; as a Vietnamese citizen, I need to have a "transit visa" even if I have a two-hour layover. The laws in the UK are especially ridiculous.
The Artistry of Inconspicuous Quality
Because You're My Mom, I love you
Building a ColdFusion/AJAX flickr Gallery
How to setup FreeNAS for Time Machine backups
16 of the Best Free Linux Game Engines (Part 1 of 2)
Http://www.gsmegypt.com/vb/showthread.php?t=43457
This really needs to be at the top of the page!
In this case, even running your own URL shortener will not help in any way. Bit.ly blocks any already-shortened URL. Whether it's xrl.in, tinyurl or your own.

You can only control your own shortened URL but you have no control when people re-tweet it and pass it through Bit.ly. Which then flags it as harmful.
"The highest form a civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust." http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/06/06/charlie-munger/
A great read.

One thing troubles me is that "great businesses" that make more money for their owners and raise prices for customers, seem to be less socially useful than the others, such as those in the airplane industry.

Here's the arithmetic for the 15% pa business, paying 35% tax, annually vs. after 30 years:

1.15 ** 30 = 66.2117720; * .65 = 43.0376518
1.0975 ** 30 = 16.2980583

BTW: My Buffett-based investment approach is to get the total stockholder equity from a while ago (eg. a decade) and now, and calculate its annual growth rate [1], a kind of $-acceleration. Then qualitatively understand what makes the business profitable, and consider whether those factors are likely to continue for x years. Finally, use the growth rate to project x years into the future, and compare with investing in an index fund; but normalize by today's price of the stock (ie you usually pay more than $1 for $1 of shareholder equity). You can see how long it will take before the stock outperforms the index. If it does, with a margin of safety, buy it.

[1] It doesn't account for dividends, and includes valuations of IP and goodwill (which are opinions, not cash), and I'm sure has other flaws. It's crude, but accurate enough if you use a margin of safety; I tend to think more precision is spurious and misleading, like those 7 decimal places above.

Does it work? I've looked at about 10 likely companies, but only one looked really good (30% pa growth rate, and an artificially low price due to bad news). After 5 years, my return today is 212.20%, ie it's worth over 3 times what I paid (and that's ignoring its dividends). Theoretically, it would be 1.3 * * 5 = 4.7, but I paid more than $1 for $1 of equity; the growth rate subsequently dropped to 25% (which is still fantastic!), and the current market is a bit low. So, the margin of safety is important.
The Physiology Of Leadership
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_Day - It's different day in many countries.
> this offer is really targeting the students there

No, it's not. It's really targeting the great software engineers and testers who are already working, maybe bored in their current job and need a new challenge, but who are reluctant to move in the current economic climate.

As for OP - you're correct, we require you already to have a work permit. The bureaucracy and costs are too high, which does mean we lose some great people, but there's not a lot we can do to change that situation.
This was arguably the funniest I have ever seen Conan - you can see how he got his start. He was funny as hell, people loved him, then he got reined in to the standard talk show paradigm.

He was still funny enough in that setting to make it work - in the 12:30 slot, anyways.
Yes, I knew that's what he was referring to. But the comparison to Harvard was obviously intended to imply something more, thus my quote.
Amusing that the url, and presumable the original title, says "Wired meets the girl behind Sugru."

Oops! Nope, grown adult female o' the species...
No, my claim was that the following would put you in jail: (1) shorting markets and then (2) deliberately creating the sort of fluctuation we saw in the last week.

That's all I was commenting on in this thread.

(Selling "insurance" and it was wrongly labelled above wouldn't be profitable even if there weren't jail problems. The sell side loses money on a CDS when the market goes down. You'd want to buy CDSs for that eventuality, and CDSs are not insurance.)
Agreed. IDE with extensive keyboard shortcuts + using the mouse occasionally for the odd-length text jump/highlight VS emacs baroque command structure is probably about the same for those who have mastered each. Years of surfing the web have most people very adept and quick with a mouse.
How  to Send Real-Life Gifts To Your Twitter Friends
This was submitted to HN before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221668
productive django development:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1852237/productive-django...
Bree Olson: It's Time To Choke This Bitch
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Hi

Just replied to your comment on my blog, not sure which one you were. I had a ton of spam to filter, sorry for the delay!

Jonathan
Nothing really, but it is a different market so the cost is not that different for Airbnb and a start-up.
Ugh, reading mainstream media reports on technical topics is almost physically painful. It takes almost half the article to get to the topic.

The subject is BGP hijacking. I assume most people who have taken a networking course are familiar with the basics, but here's a basic link which carries links to more information if necessary. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4975
So far as I know, no plastic guns exist, our plastics technology just isn't there yet. Even if it were, it wouldn't be the same sort of plastic you feed into a 3D printer, or at least any off-the-shelf one.

I too have wondered about this. I also wonder about machinists moonlight as arms manufacturers :P

relevant plastic guns article:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1202/is-it-possible...
Because dictionary definitions aren't based on literary use at all.
Hey,

Thanks so much for the thoughtful response. I agree with you on most of your points.

I think this is the document you are thinking of:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=t1_0CjyeF5QqMwgh6AFGtq...

Thanks for your interest and time.
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Betty White gives her thoughts on Facebook.
It's on the "second Sunday in May"™.

At first I thought it was yet another plot to cover the Victory Day[1] with meaningless holidays like the day of Europe.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(May_9)
You're right, I replied too fast; typed getsatisfaction almost automatically when I read support requests.
Here's a quote from today to supplement top post:

Randy D. Allen, a biologist at Oklahoma State University, argued that a smart-enough species could develop a quantum computer and eventually transfer their consciousnesses into it.

"No more inefficient metabolism requiring huge energy input, no chemically derived bodies to wear out, no reproduction, no death, no taxes. Just supermassively parallel collective consciousness with unlimited capabilities," he wrote. "Perhaps, through super symmetry or entanglement, they can "see" or "feel" the entire universe. Maybe, they've gained the ability to manipulate elementary particles and can control its evolution and its fate. They would have become, by any human definition, Gods."
We do the same thing, with a simple label system ("Follow Up", "Request for Feature X", "Request for Feature Y") to give us a little more overview visibility.

I'd certainly recommend this approach, especially if your workflow is well defined (we answer, then archive - Follow Up and start a ticket in Lighthouse if it needs to fixed. Unread == unanswered).

Have looked at ZenDesk and Tender, but we feel like they force people to jump through too many hoops in order to ask a question. For a logged-in user, it should really just be a "what do you want to ask us?" field, and for a logged out user just email/question. In my humble opinion, of course. ;)
What's weird is the final comment, especially coming from a CTO:

> "You make some phone calls and hope and pray"

With so much phone traffic going over VOIP these days, if there's really a BGP hijacking then his phone calls haven't much chance of be effective.
Post removed?
That, and probably an assumption that the whole plane crash thing was carried out by Russians. There is a tiny fraction of Polish populace who find that more comfortable than the idea of accident caused by excessive frugality combined with incompetence.
Apparently, the post was mis-categorized. It should have been posted in the Services/Creative Services category rather than the Community/General category: http://london.craigslist.co.uk/crs/1731777616.html
The whole idea of someone's fan page being "unauthorized" seems creepy to me. People should not require authorization in order to be fans, or club together as a group of fans.
Normally I hate linkspam, but if you are in any way interested in this fascinating subject and you want to learn more about, you can visit http://www.nanopartikel.info :)
Perhaps you should also add a "No need to add search" option.
That made me think of an old story - never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon.

If the internet does go out (and phone with it, because most main carriers use VOIP in the main trunk lines I believe), how many people would actually think of doing something the
old physical way?

Guess this would be a demonstration of just how seriously we depend on the net in daily life. Would banking be affected - do banks use entirely separate comms lines? Emergency services? Power networks - how is energy usage monitored in nation-wide grids? And what sort of fail-over systems exist?
Summary of the article: AV software hook into Windows system calls. When user-mode calls a kernel function, the AV hook handler first checks that the arguments comply with the security policy. If they do, it passes the arguments to Windows in order to execute the call. However, another user-mode thread can change the data between the time of the check and the execution. The AV will see valid data, but Windows itself will act upon the malicious data.

This is a vulnerability in AV software, not in Windows. If the attack succeeds the system remains just as secure as other operating systems which don't have AV.

How can the attack be prevented? I guess in the same way that the kernel itself prevents such attacks (after all, the kernel has its own checks, which presumably can't be bypassed). There's probably a way to make memory pages read-only for the duration of the system call, so the data can't be changed.
I don't think you understand that people who make markets (add liquidity) decrease YOUR investment costs. These market makers can only trade millions of shares per second (a vast overstatement) IF there is actual demand for that. Suppose there is such demand. Then, the market makers are providing a valuable service by supplying liquidity for people who want to buy or sell.

A sales tax would vastly increase costs for everyone involved. Your parents pension fund would generate lesser returns because it costs them more to enter and exit positions. Your "back to basics" quip is bullshit. What does "going back to basics" even mean? People trade because they think they can make a profit or hedge their risk. That's all there is to it, nothing "more basic".
We need massive public outcry to kill this treaty, unfortunately I don't think we'll get it. IP laws are just to ethereal and abstract for the average American to understand or care about, especially when half of America still ridiculously associates downloading copyrighted material with stealing physical property. After all: "You wouldn't download a car would you?"
Do people want long URLs to be shortened if they fit in the tweet? I don't know if that's true...
This works incredibly well. At my last company I fired about a third of the engineers I hired after 3 to 6 months and ended up with a great technical team. I never know how good an engineer is going to be during the interview process but after 6 months it is blindingly clear.

I am upfront about the winnowing process during the interview, it scares some candidates away but I often get a very positive reaction to this "meritocracy by proof" approach. Another advantage is you can take some flyers on people with nontraditional backgrounds and find the occasionally diamond in the rough.
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why would it be better than say fingerprints ? Is it the fact that fingerprints, or retinal scan cannot be cheaply integrated into a mobile phone... while this can be?
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It must be the built in immune system. If it becomes too popular, stories about Erlang flood the home page.