skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert, but the first search result for 'snooping' on Google turns up this page:

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gc...

It's got some obtrusive ads, so I'll just quote it all here:

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Snooping, in a security context, is unauthorized access to another person's or company's data. The practice is similar to eavesdropping but is not necessarily limited to gaining access to data during its transmission. Snooping can include casual observance of an e-mail that appears on another's computer screen or watching what someone else is typing. More sophisticated snooping uses software programs to remotely monitor activity on a computer or network device.
Malicious hackers (crackers) frequently use snooping techniques and equipment such as keyloggers to monitor keystrokes, capture passwords and login information, and to intercept e-mail and other private communications and data transmissions. Corporations sometimes snoop on employees legitimately to monitor their use of business computers and track Internet usage; governments may snoop on individuals to collect information and avert crime and terrorism.

Although snooping has a negative connotation in general, in computer technology snooping can refer to any program or utility that performs a monitoring function. For example, a snoop server is used to capture network traffic for analysis, and the snooping protocol monitors information on a computer bus to ensure efficient processing.
I am currently working on a Google App Engine based CRM app, which now has a preview of this feature : Bulk-email, using email-templates..

http://blogs.ifreetools.com/2010/05/feature-preview-email-te...

The app is not open-source - but free with resource restrictions and ads. Custom deployments are available for as low as $99/year (yes, per year), which enables you to use the free quota (upto 2000 emails / day) and purchase additional resources as required directly from Google.

Works with Google / Google Apps accounts.
I think many people DO know the right answer, but most of them don't have the wherewithall to execute it.

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
Ask HN: How do I post something in the "ask" section? 
There is something very obvious that I am missing here. But how exactly do I post a question or a discussion here, so that it comes up the in the Ask section?
I know this is a silly question, and trust me, I spent a good 10 minutes on Google looking for answers.
The point is that the iPad is helping, and will continue to help, HTML5 become the new best medium for rich content. Apple isn't always concerned with using whatever is best or most practical at the moment. Sometimes they want to help along less established technologies that have the potential to be even better.
Ask HN's FPGA users: FPGA tool woes & wants?
(From two guys building a webapp for FPGA users)

Any fellow FPGA users on HN? If you don't mind taking a moment to share your thoughts; it'll be really helpful!

We'd love to hear about:
- what you dislike about existing FPGA tools
- what you'd want in FPGA tools; and
- whether we're building would be useful

Here's our take:
1) Dislikes:
- Being forced to choose a specific FPGA before compilation(synthesis, place-and-route etc.) when I don't even know which FPGA suits my application.
- Installing, maintaining, upgrading bulky software tools on local PCs.
- Taking weeks/months to learn a particular tool from just one FPGA vendor.
2) Wants:
- Ways to automatically match an FPGA app to the right FPGAs.
- in terms of speed, size, power, etc.
- FPGA tools hosted and updated somewhere else.
- A single user interface that translates user inputs for all vendors' FPGA tools.

Existing tools don't seem to do these things, so we started building a webapp with the above features.

Ran the idea by the folks at YC and they had questions about how useful our webapp would be after the FPGA programming files are generated and the user needs to test on real hardware.
(Answer: Not very; our webapp will just ensure that the user ends up buying and using the most suitable hardware)

Beta site: http://www.plunify.com

Thanks for reading; looking forward to your comments!
IPad for the disabled 
My wife was born with CP she uses her head with a head wand to access her computers,so I designed a mounting plate for a iPad works great now I am
Working on her head end for touch!
Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library): Building Personal Brand
No support for lala customers yet.
i am watching like a hawk to see what apple does with lala... so far, i can only feel like they killed a great model. remains to be seen what they do with it.
Gold prices break all records in Delhi
Gold breached Rs 19,000 level to touch an all-time high of Rs 19,050 per ten gram in the national capital.

A rebound in the value of dollar, in which most of the commodities are priced, demand support during the marriage season and a flight to safety have seen the prices of the yellow metal hardening in recent times.
A neat twist to the standard pro-rata division we see a lot in bankruptcies.

What I like best is this method penalizes the creditor for extending too much credit. Note that the ones who are hurt most by the divide-contested-amount method are the creditors who over-estimated the debtors assets, while the creditors lending smaller amounts get a small bonus over pro-rata.

Edit: I think the (estate_size == 150) case sucks for the 200 and 300 creditors, though, because they correctly believed the estate would be worth more than 100. It is "pairwise-consistent" as the article defines it.
The RIAA? Amateurs. Here's how you sue 14,000+ P2P users
Peak Wood: Nature does impose limits
Many reddit users (especially on Proggit) are quite averse to people posting links on Amazon with their ref.

Granted, this is different since it as a sponsored listing would give some money to Reddit and thus generate a bit more goodwill.

Still, my wild guess say the poster will be lucky to get his money back.
Yeah, but the question is-- when the time came, who would you kill?

Speaking from experience: as "that point" approaches on the horizon, you'll find a lot of differing (and hotly contested) opinions about when, who, and the definition of "flourish." Your co-founder, or board, or incoming investor, may decide you're reached that point long before you have....
I think we still need this kind of person. We've outgrown the stage where we tolerate armed thugs riding around in Jeeps terrorizing the villagers with AK-47's but we haven't grown so much as to permanently quell the impulse to do so in all of our citizens. So its kind of a compromise. We tolerate this kind of asshattery while we collectively wait to grow up because this way, at least no one dies.
Some research I read recently suggested that it's not software that's the exception, it's chemical and pharmaceuticals (and even there it's not a clear win, nor is it based on high costs, but rather the specificity of patents in those fields creating clearly delineated property rights).

In every other industry surveyed the patents may be felt necessary under current conditions but aren't considered useful in the sense you describe for rewarding innovation (e.g. defensive patents to stop others from blocking access to your own innovations).

I believe the research was cited in Eric von Hippel's Democratizing Innovation, ah here we are from, Chapter 6,

" The real-world value of patent protection has been studied for more than
40 years. Various researchers have found that, with a few exceptions, inno-
vators do not think that patents are very useful either for excluding imita-
tors or for capturing royalties in most industries. (Fields generally cited as
exceptions are pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and chemical processes, where
patents do enable markets for technical information (Arora et al. 2001).)
Most respondents also say that the availability of patent protection does not
induce them to invest more in research and development than they would
if patent protection did not exist."

link to the full (and very good) book: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm
Does the first amendment apply to corporations? No doubt it would apply to government organizations, but I can't see that nattering to BP's shareholders.
It's not unusual to see such a predictably right-wing rant on the wsj. I particularly appreciate the long rant on the ill-guided european "social system" that bogged us down since "the 60s". Hu. Only ex-stalinists can be such free-trade retards.

BTW I know most HN readers adhere to these views (that in europe are extremely right-wing) and I'm systematically downvoted because I'm a proud socialist :)
Can't find any talk with Go and 2010 in the title. Poor Google, they don't bother linking anymore because search is supposed to be so good...
Sad. I like thunderstorms, but stars blowing up could be even cooler.
People criticized Apple for being bad open source contributors, but I don't blame them for choosing to fork over contributing to a project they didn't control. I always thought the "right to fork" was sacred.
Question: Do we still have tubes?
I want to learn how to make your money. please help.i'm from vietnam.
This is similar to a simulation I wrote 3 years ago, called Bluedogs. Bluedogs creates the genomes randomly. It's C++ and SDL and runs on Linux and Windows:

http://tamale.net/bluedogs/
We made it that subtle intentionally. It was supposed to be an addition that doesn't take your focus away from the actual website.

So in a way, it's there to not be seen.
You just did. Simply prefix your question with "Ask HN"

Edit: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=911565
Usability Fails: Fonts, size and color
I think quite the opposite. When you build something expensive and sell it for higher prices, you are attracting wealthy people, who will spend more and more if they like your products.

This is why Apple launched iPod, iPhone, iPad. They have a small/wealthy audience, which makes them profitable more than the larger audience.
Can you tell us how did you make your predictions?
I've been using `git difftool` and `ksdiff` for more than half a year now and it works perfectly.
I'm not entirely sure I can think of a legitimate argument against him, but Jobs tends to have that effect, doesn't he?

We can fuss and argue all we like, but his basic premise of "being selective about features is good for business" is pretty much impossible to argue with in light of Apple's financials.

There's a lot about New Apple that makes my skin crawl, but ditching Flash seems to make perfect sense. Ditching the floppy disk drive in 1998 seemed pretty outré, but it didn't take long for the USB flash drive to make it seem like a farsighted move. That's the thing about being ahead of your time - it only ever seems clever in hindsight.
Well - as he's a security researcher he can usually be considered authoritive.
Here's a bunch of them:
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byurl/Firefox/3.6....

That's not just Flash sites, that's all sites that crash Firefox, but on a quick skim I couldn't see any that didn't involve Flash.
Toughest developer puzzle ever
Ditto. When the G1 came to Singapore, I bought it within the first three days, then paid to register for a developer's account in the Market, only to find out that I couldn't sell apps. It was disappointing, to say the least. I still choose to use Android over the iPhone because I generally support the more open alternative in any tech, but the incentive to develop for Android has been removed because Google seriously flubbed this one.

Any Googlers reading this care to comment on why it is taking so long for Google Checkout to reach more countries? I mean - after what, 2 years? - a list of 9 countries where you're allowed to sell Android apps in the market is pretty pathetic. Why not just allow Paypal accounts for receiving payment if you can't be arsed to do it properly?

We're working hard to add more countries, but we're unable to provide any guidance on timelines. Please stay tuned!

I don't think they were working very hard.
For all those people decrying this, and asking why the hell anyone would want Flash at all:

Some of us would like to play Flash games on the iOS.

That, and the porn.

That is all.
Leveling Druid Guide
http://www.ozonesocks.com/sock-of-the-month-club.html

Looks like you've been beat, mate.
OpenCL is a proposed framework for GPGPU-like computing.

I worked at ARM in their Belgian office, and when they announced considering shutting us down, one of the alternative proposals was to redesign the technology we were working on to suit OpenCL. It wouldn't have been trivial but it was certainly possible.

ARM never took the proposal under consideration, either because they're not interested in OpenCL or because they have different plans lined up for it.
On the subject of OpenBSD's approach to security, check this out: http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-insecurit...

The title is a little provocative, but the article is really worth it.
I remember purchasing a Chinese MP3/MP4 player 4 years ago. It was a hell cheaper than the ipod. ipod costs $250 and that little "sony" player costs something around $30.

Troubles began with the charger, which finally went to trash and I have had to charge the player using the PC USB port. A few days later, half of the memory was damaged. If I put music (or any other files), I can't read it later on. I used it around 40 times and played may be 100 hours of music. The battery life has dramatically dropped from 2 hours to half an hour.

That being said, you pay what you get for. It's not because it was built in China so it's cheap. My HP computer parts were built in China and Taiwan and the computer was packaged in Brazil.

I'm waiting to see the HP slate with webOS or a cool/iPad-like Android powered device.
Ship it to Australia too please. I'd buy.
http://www.launchly.com/ is doing #2 I believe
After watching some of the video footage, I noticed that Engadget's transcription is often highly paraphrased. So I transcribed directly from one of the D8 videos:

Steve: We took a tiny little open source project, and we
created what's called "WebKit" out there, and we did an
interesting thing for Apple: we put it in open source.

So it turns out that he did say they "created" WebKit, but he also points out that it was created using an existing open source project.

Turns out this thread was a lot of hubbub over nothing, as I suspected. Unless someone wants to gripe about KHTML being described as "tiny little".
Twitter's Profile - GitHub
Not really related, but isn't it a little bit sad that out of the 19 D8 speakers that are being emphasised on the right hand side panel only one is female?
US launches criminal and civil probe against BP
There was a time a few years ago when I was absolutely certain that the world was going to return to sustenance level living really soon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe). And then I read The Road and got extremely depressed.

So I've thought about this a lot, and even asked someone (who you may have heard of) if there was already a system or procedure in place so people could keep in contact after a global catastrophe. His answer was a simple "no." My thought was that if people could keep in contact, they could better manage their survival, to access information on crop growing and to get updates on any "nomads" who might be roaming around.

The best answer really is amateur radio. And hopefully information can be recovered from hard drives after the world becomes stable again.

But please don't get me wrong. I don't advocate people freaking out. My dad was a missile engineer (programmer?) who really pounded the peak oil thing into us, and his predictions on "wars over energy" really influenced my thinking, so it's hard for me to gauge how biased I am.
Their library is often missing songs I want.
The mobile web: Finding barbecue
But what happens with these patents once they are sold is just as important. It's short-sighted to only be concerned with the initial sale of the patent. [i.e. Loosening restrictions on the sale of weapons would increase liquidity for weapons-makers, but it's not necessarily a 'good' thing because you have to consider what will happen with these weapons after they are sold.]
Scenario: Google runs Microsoft software, is attacked by hackers. Google has to wait on Microsoft for knowledge/patches to security holes, even though Windows has great security. Logical reaction: move away from Microsoft products due to nature of platform.

That I get.

Google runs Linux, is able to patch things up whenever holes occur due to the open source nature of the OS. A move to Linux makes sense to me. What I don't get, however, is the bit where OSX is allowed.

My theory is that Google made the switch not because OSX and Linux have better security per se (that is, as compared to Windows - because tctacek is right, Windows is rather good with security) but because having a userbase of so many different flavours of Linux and a spattering of OSX is going to be hell for future hackers. Does this make sense?
Who Needs Time Zones?
Here's the discussion from the last time this was submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=461076
Not to the current global system. Feel free to suggest one.
It's a mature environment but not a mature market, because apparently anyone not living in the 9 countries approved by Google cannot sell their apps on the market.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. I recall a scandal with Walmart buying Chinese product and putting "Made in America" on it back prior to '97. And China isn't/hasn't been the only place we get/gotten slave labor. Are you seriously trying to suggest that the people who produce all the cheap goods we buy are paid a good wage?

EDIT: Initially misunderstood the comment. Still not sure I get it.
This is what I thought the article was when reading the title. It totally should be; how hard could it be to hack something together and run it on appengine?
looks deadish?
That's the wrong way to calculate the "flop". 1 in 15k registered accounts quitting is a flop, but it can easily be argued that not all 500 million heard about the day. It's a marketing/awareness issue and language barriers (in how many languages did the day get promoted?).

The more correcet number is how many have pledged to quit and actually did? That's the real number. Even then it's not fool-proof because those pledging are already self-selecting. However, if zero (or very close to zero) people from pledgers actually quit, we even can call it a win for Facebook.
Java stack trace
Clearly gmail tech support.
Google Has Own $26.5bil Trading Floor, Predicts Market With Search Data?
explain the measures you are taking to ensure that it never happens again
It might be country/industry dependent then.

I've been working as a programmer for 9 years now and had 5 jobs during that time - out of all interviews I've went to throughout the years only one interviewer ever (fairly casually) asked me what my previous salary was.

Because I felt like I was under-payed in my previous job I told him I earned 2k more a year than I actually did and asked for a salary that was 7k a year more than that sum.

He eventually gave me a slightly lower offer for 5k more than my supposed previous salary (and 7k higher than my real previous salary) but I ended up going for another company altogether.
I don't think you understand. To sell apps in Google's app store, you need a Google Checkout seller's account. To get a Google Checkout seller's account, well, we'll let Google speak for itself.

Supported locations for merchants

Currently, developers in the below countries may register as Google Checkout merchants and sell priced applications:

* Austria
* France
* Germany
* Italy
* Japan
* Netherlands
* Spain
* United Kingdom
* United States

We're working hard to add more countries, but we're unable to provide any guidance on timelines. Please stay tuned!

This situation has not changed in more than a year, and you can't expect someone who wishes to base a business on developing Android apps to wait on that sort of time scale.
Someone could create a "King of the Hill" system, similar to the one here:

http://www.gamerz.net/c++robots/

I've got a robot "on the hill" and it's great fun.
Badly designed applications have nothing to do with Vista or greater's "security architecture", so that leaves UAC.

Do you feel UAC has a worse security design than the privilege escalation mechanism on OS X?

Or - since you mention teaching end users - are you talking about a user education issue?
If you find a woman who is starving to death and you offer here one hamburger to perform sexual services for you did you abuse her? But why? She would have starved to death otherwise right?

It is abuse because we take advantage of people who have no other options to get them to trade every waking moment of their life away for their survival.

There is no moral ambiguity here. Why do you feel the need to justify it? It's not like I'm judging you personally. I'm profiting from exactly the same system and am not doing anything to change that fact.
I also think this project is really interesting (which is why I'm following it and some of the forks).

May I recommend Microsoft's TrueSkill algorithm for ranking genomes? There's C#[1] and Java[2] implementations available. Full disclosure, I have no association with Microsoft Research, but I am the author of JSkills.

[1] github.com/moserware/skills
[2] github.com/nsp/jskills
USAA membership also gets the fees waived.
reading about the pedigree of the fellow they brought in -- i'd be happy to have him working to make me rich!
That is very nice. Fun to watch. I've included it in the repo.
How about alone in your apartment, in a city of millions of people, non of whom you know and not one even knows or cares that you exist. Your death will go undiscovered for days or weeks and even when discovered, not a single person will care beyond the inconvenience you've caused them. That would a far lonelier place to die.
Neon Text Effect With jQuery & CSS
MagCloud looks great! Awesome to see a growing range of options for self-publishers.

I just purchased a copy of Hacker Monthly and have a few usability comments the checkout process!

From the cart page I clicked "Sign up Now" (which could be a tad more visible) and then chose to select an address from my address book. It was of course empty so I chose the add address link. So far so good but here's where I ran into problems.

1) MagCloud only ships to three countries, but the country dropdown contains the whole ISO list... not necessary.

2) After adding my address it returned me to the address book. There it wasn't immediately clear how to select my new entry as the shipping address. (See Amazon for a clearer approach.)

3) Once my address was selected and populated into the checkout form I ran into the address validation engine:

I'm in the USA so I don't know how you're doing it with the others but the address correction was overly aggressive and the error messages were unhelpful. Take a look at some other sites that attempt to normalize addresses. On my first try it (correctly) had a problem with my submission but the error wasn't that helpful: "Multiple addresses were found for the information you entered, and no default exists. This order would be shipped by the USPS, and it does not recognize the address you entered. Please try to correct the address." Could it offer those choices or be more specific about the ambiguous fields?

4) The address in my address book wasn't updated with the corrections made to the address during the checkout process.

5) There is no way to delete or edit an existing address.

6) This is more of a aesthetic issue but when it corrects the address it UPPERCASES everything (the way the USPS likes it) however it didn't cap address line 2 nor the name. Those could be UPPERCASED too for consistency.

7) The font color of unfocused fields seems a bit light - almost looks disabled.

8) Clicking Checkout/Sign In/Sign Up should also apply coupon on cart page.

9) The error messages could be closer to the form fields.

All-in-all I like the design and layout of the site though!