skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I shall use this time to graciously thank you by rubbing my nose on the floor with a deep bow.

Seriously, thanks a lot for commenting.

On the other hand I wanted to ask you if you need any help at all in editing your book/proof reading then I am willing to pitch in.

Oh and do you know any good e-reader softwares for the PC? Reading a book in Adobe Reader is a bit annoying.
Python to Shell to Ruby
Can money buy happiness? Gallup poll asks, and the world answers
Hi thank you for the input! It is greatly apreciated and I think it is given that we should address your concerns in the FAQ. Twingly actually comes from being a search engine for blogs, now moving into the social news space. You can try the blog search engine here: http://www.twingly.com/search
All three (SO, SU, & SF) are in there.
Of course steganography is old, both as a concept and as tools to accomplish it.

The article says this is the first time it's actually known to have been used for nefarious purposes. That doesn't exclude prior usage for fun and experimentation, or even for practical purposes (say, wartime or corporate communications).
Money is Not Real
That is exactly the idea.

Incidentally any form of encryption becomes even harder to break if you compress the message first. Furthermore this results in a shorter encrypted message, which is easier to hide. So the correct strategy is always compress, then encrypt, then encode.
Linkbait title. Should read, "Sad state of ActiveX requirements on the websites of major banks and government institutions in South Korea", which hasn't really changed in a while.
With steganography, not only do you hide WHAT you're saying, but you hide the fact that you're saying anything at all. Pictures are easily distributed publicly, so if done carefully, there wouldn't even be a way to know who you had said it to.
I've gotten extremely sick of him on HN. Not just because I dislike his writing style, but also because it inflames the Pro-Apple/Anti-Apple debates. I'll admit that I frequently get sucked into these, but it's not the kind of discussion I come to HN for.
A post mortem on the UNIX SCO litigation
I was on a VT100 when you were in diapers, sonny boy. And I'm sick and tired of green on black. We can do better now. Now get off my lawn!
Ask HN: What's the status of the Kindle SDK Developer Program?
Back in January Amazon announced the Kindle Development Program as a Beta, and all programmers should apply or request to enter the program.

And that's the latest thing I know. Is there anything new?
I want something like this for MailChimp...
Doctors and lawyers are typically self-employed, or they're employed at institutions that require (often by law) that managers actually have to be doctors or lawyers. So you're correct, they are like programmers, but a solution has been reached already for the problem I describe. I'm not sure skilled tradesman (not to denigrate their work) have the same "productivity is determined by intelligence" issue.
And still has the bug where if you use right click+left click to go back a page, if your cursor lands on a link when the page loads it automatically follows it.
I don't think this is correct, at least if you're using a decent algorithm.

What's more, if you encrypt by using, say, ZIP, then the resulting file will have a known header, and that makes it tremendously easier to decrypt.

I've read that one of the factors that led to breaking Enigma was that Germans would habitually end their messages with "Heil Hitler". By assuming that was the ending of most messages, the mathematicians were able to work backward to find the key.
I think this response plan by apple is appropriate because a) the bar dropping is as much a software problem which will be fixed and does not reflect accurately on the actual antenna capacity b) it _is_ a fact of life with built-in antennas and there is no noticeable problem with the iphone call quality compared to other phones, in fact I have not seen any call quality problems, quite the opposite. I'm not on the AT&T network though.
Even better, there was a period of time (somewhere around 2003-2004 IIRC) when the CT police decided that shaking down the Fung Wah bus would be a great way to make their narcotics quota. Supposedly it was being used by drug mules. They were stopping the (northbound only?) busses just south of Sturbridge MA seemingly daily, and about once a week there'd be a story of "$LARGEQUANTITY of $NARCOTIC confiscated from Boston-NYC Bus".

I'm not quite sure what the MO of the drug transporters was; I never heard of any arrests so I think they must have been using it basically as a moving dead drop.

The few times I took it though were, sadly, uneventful. One lady did have a live chicken with her, but that was about it.
You're right, but I find that there are so many tap targets because of the table rows and cells that one double-tap zoom ('auto-zoom') is a hit-or-miss affair in mobile Safari . Even on the iPad, where the default font size is less of a problem.
Diagrams on post-its, are you kidding?
I sympathize with your viewpoint, but I'm not convinced it's correct. If there were a downvote, I might have downvoted it, but not flagged it. However, there's only a flag. I try to use the flag to mean "off-topic" or "very low quality", and preferably both. I think the post under discussion was both -- it certainly wasn't technical or informational, and was it really newsworthy or intellectually interesting to anyone? (Obviously there are exceptions to every rule, but by "anyone" I hope I mean "the vast majority of the readership.")

I really don't like the "point out the flaws" approach. There's no way I would pollute a comment thread on a reasonable post with a discussion of why I think the post is no good, unless it was really bad and I was just trolling. I think that would lead to a pretty undesirable level of noise if it were commonplace.

I guess that my feeling is -- in a community with no full-time moderators who can look at every post, users have to shape the community in a way they consider reasonable, and in my experience online, taking out the trash is a really important part of that. There might be some unfortunate subjectivity in the process, but I think it beats the alternative of doing nothing.

(Anticipation: You may say, don't flag anything, but upvote many more things to indicate what you prefer. Unfortunately, there aren't really a huge amount of great posts that I feel stand out from the average decent posts, and I want to be able to really encourage the great ones in particular. Upvoting so many posts would seem like I was diluting my real preference, so I don't do it; I reserve the upvote for the top 10% or so of my quality range. I don't know if this is really rational, though.)
Two things -

1. That box is really tiny. Could there be a way to make it larger?

2. Here's an example of when I think something should have come up, but doesn't: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=python%20pad%20string%20with%200

What I want is #2 on that list, but I don't get any nice little box.
Well, this is also an LCD screen, so chances are pretty high you'll get eyestrain on this one as well?
The last sentence of the original post could very well be the most sarcastic post on the internet, if it was intended so.
How To Hire An Intern
This is interesting; but I can't help feeling that limiting comparison mostly to primates has potential to mislead his conclusion.

I started from Wikipedia [1] and worked outward with the reference material and the implication is that masturbation to completion is actually quite common.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour#Autoero...
full punctuation should be indexed;

Outstanding, this is a major boost for folks in haskell, scala, F# ! I'll have to bust out RealWorld, staircase (3 pages in index devoted to punctuation!), tapir , Chris Smith's F# books this weekend, see how well this works
Amazon is even creating separately branded subsidiaries from scratch, like Endless.com.
This has already been debunked. Note this update at the bottom of the article. There are also several articles floating around completely debunking the hyperbole.

"*ECT News Network editor's note - June 24, 2010: After the original publication of this article, Google spokesperson Jay Nancarrow provided ECT News Network with the following statement: "This report falsely suggests that Android users don't have control over which apps access their data. Not only must each Android app gets users' permission to access sensitive information, but developers must also go through billing background checks to confirm their real identities, and we will disable any apps that are found to be m alicious." "
Well. There is also quite a movement (one i subscribe to actually) to use the comment downvote feature not for disagreement (which should be a comment) but to "punish" comments not in the spirit of the community.

In that context flag would be synonymous with downvote in some respects.

I think the overriding theory is that on HN neither downvotes nor flags should be used to signal disagreement but to signal a bad/poor comment/article.

(I make not comment on whether that actually works out or not :))
No, they just want you to bear the responsibility of using third party apps.
Yes but if you want to float the label and have it cleared in the next "row", that's where the separation of elements comes in handy.
"The Other White Meat" - an important trademark dilution case
There was topic on this a month and a half ago, if you're looking for more answers.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1349566
I'm surprised at the complaining about the $3 price. If something saves me 2 minutes of time, or makes my life the least bit more enjoyable, I'm more than happy to pay $3 for it. That's less than adding bacon and cheese to 2 hamburgers, a coffee out, or a 6 pack of coke.

It's a truly trivial amount of money, and if you'd otherwise like the application, not buying it because it's "too expensive" astounds me.

(I have no connection to this app, its author, or any iPhone authors for that matter)
If I understand this correctly, https://www.google.com should redirect to https://encrypted.google.com - except it doesn't.

So I don't really understand what they did here.
In dry climates Swamp Coolers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_cooler work well.
They most definitely are, or it's just a media circus. My parents and I emigrated from Ukraine and we have similar qualities in terms of lifestyle and connections as these people, we've certainly never known that we were actually spies for Russia but apparently we are. IMO this is a complete media scandal, rather than an actual case in which spies get caught. If they were real spies they'd at least have tried to change handlers, (what they know about Russia is as valuable to the US as what they know about the US to Russia) as I'm sure this kind of stuff tends to happen, or they'd be you know, dead.
It's interesting because that article (at the time) struck me as an excellent piece of rhetoric - and the provoked discussion was good.

Don't confuse controversial arguments ("What's a disease? Or: shoud fat/shy/alcoholic people be blamed or treated?") with flamebating/ranting ("Law enforcement has apparently become an arm of AT&T and Apple")

> You should try to use a more objective standard when flagging posts.

Surely: poor arguments (as in bad rhetoric - such as fallacies), flames/baiting and so forth are suitable objective standards.

What else would you recommend to use? (honest question; I can think of nothing much)
The classic counterpoint to the author is a fun video from Microsoft about Microsoft:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0&feature=relat...

The author is speaking to a particular definition of "design by committee." The article doesn't address the extrinsic constraints placed on a particular project by people with a place at the table but who don't have any responsibility for the success of the project.
Are Your Passwords Too Weak?
Hacked passwords can compromise company data security. Strategies for creating the best passwords
Thx. 1) Would being able to drag it bigger help? 2) will look into this one.
While I think that Passenger Lite might be useful for development, I would think twice about deploying my production app without a full blown web server, just for the sake of being able to run non-ruby code if needed.
Really? So if a fundamental assumption changes in the code you'll be happy to make a 3 line change and rewrite 10 pages of documentation inline?

Personally I like the code to be as self documenting as possible about the "what", the check ins to be as explicit as possibly about the "why" (and "who" and "when") and documentation for architectural information ("where").
Apparently, the login for Google Docs is within https://www.google.com/, so they can't simply redirect the entire domain.
I'm semi-intrigued, but I'd like to see a sign of life beyond a page from '98. Not trying to be cruel, just saying that'd I'd like to see what's going on now.
Enigma was much more vulnerable to known plaintext attacks than modern ciphers are, because enigma was actually fantastically flawed as ciphers go.

When space isn't a constraint, it's fairly easy to greatly reduce the advantage a known plaintext block gives an attacker by using random padding. Now instead of having to try every key looking for your zip header from offset 0, they have N places to start. There are techniques to mitigate this problem as well, but it's much more of a hassle. In any case, SOME simple compression is generally the order of the day with stenography message passing; you only get a few bits per pixel (usually not even a byte per pixel) so space becomes a premium.

Perhaps known-plaintext attacks are how the FBI managed to produce an example of a message with hidden data in it. To me, it seems like such a thing would be very difficult to prove. Anyone with sufficient sophistication to carry out such an attack probably has the sophistication to hide their ability to do it (via, say, hidden truecrypt volumes as workspaces). Because the FBI & DHS has leveled some pretty absurd allegations at suspected terrorists in the past, including random doodles being secret attack plans, simple home movies being terrorist scouting videos (“Do you see the way the camera flicked towards that trash can? That's signaling the terrorists that this trashcan is a good place for a bomb.”), and innocuous phone conversations being elaborate code systems. In all cases, the DHS and FBI experts swore that only someone hyper-trained could ever detect the hidden messages; a normal person could not even if they were told it was there. It was BS, of course, but people can be so afraid of terrorism that they're too scared not to give that kind of argument credibility.
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Okay, kids, play on my lawn (Roger Ebert responds re: video games and art)
It still disgusts me how people think it's perfectly okay to flaunt labor laws with internships. This attitude of it being "free labor" is absolutely absurd. Do your other entry level positions that may need some training also not get paid? Just because the person doesn't have the degree or doesn't qualify for the job otherwise doesn't mean he should do it for free if you train him to do it. I mean really lets be clear here, there is no job that an intern can hold for which you would spend more money than they would earn at that job in training them.
or "eggcorn", if the substituted term makes some kind of sense in context.
Note that the author doesn't claim that humans are the only species who masturbates, but rather that humans masturbate the most often. The author goes on to speculate that this is because humans have the ability to fantasize, though I think the claims that humans masturbate more than any other animal and that chimps are unable to fantasize dubious.

If you found this article interesting (or amusing, as it very well may be), you may want to check out the Wikipedia page on the Bonobo ape, one of the few species that have been observed to participate in oral sex. Primatologist Frans de Waal described the Bonobo as "the erotic champions of the world."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo]

Another fun fact: homosexual behavior has been well documented in both the Bonobo and koalas, an interesting counterpoint to fundamentalists claims that homosexuality isn't natural. :) [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-...]

Further reading: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour]

And a graphic video of a monkey masturbating with a frog (because, after all, this is the internet): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwegzhXAqaQ]
Ah.. this gives Think Geek's recent cease and desist more of a foundation. I was thinking that it was a one-off misfiled lawsuit, but now I can see that it is more of a full throttle front that they are going after everyone who is blurring their brand whatsoever.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2010/06/officially-our-besteve...

I'm not really sure why they are fighting that hard for the branding, since they are considering pitching it anyhow.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gkivmxUJg5...
So Google made this change to accommodate the schools' inability to filter based on host and https mode. And some of the schools' solution was to block https all together. Basically the schools' filtering is lame, so Google (in the interest of doing things right) solves this by tweaking their side.
Programmable applications is indeed the way things should go. And the programmability has to be immediate.

Then you should look at Smalltalk. Just deploy with the compiler and dev tools in the image. You can quickly visually inspect every object in the image and write a script against it, and run it instantly.
It redirected me to http://google.com/, so I'd have to go to encrypted.google to do an SSL search.

Did it return a 200 to you for https://google.com/?
My main point is you can find all the great talent you want, but people, just like everything else, are not silver bullets.
So, people have downvoted this with no comment. My comment was not frivolous or abusive: go ahead and tell me why I'm wrong.My assertion is that citing concern about 'the service and the customers' being the major reason they didn't sell out is either false, or a bad choice.
Not just a bad/poor comment/article. You can have a horrifically written article on Erlang and it would still be on Hacker News, therefore not deserving of flagging. What's supposed to happen is that nobody upvotes it and it stays in obscurity. On the other hand, even a brilliant article on upcoming political elections should be flagged because it's off-topic.
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I know it's not planned (I asked them!), but for many small apps, it would be great to have a simple flag to tell Passenger "I need 1 worker (delayed_job, resque) for this app, please keep one alive", vs running monit or similar.
So the ACTUAL color resolution is what, about 340x200 or something? Or is it just a vertical/horizontal thing, or?
IOS Icons Made in Pure CSS
> Males report having sexual fantasies earlier in development (average age of onset 11.5 years)

I find that figure to be surprisingly high. My first dream that was definitely sexual was when I was 7 going on 8, in the second grade.

> today’s Internet pornography scene, where zero is left to the imagination.

I disagree. The primary psychological goal of porno seems to be for the viewer to imagine one of the actors as themselves, and/or the other actor(s) as those the viewer knows or sees. The amount of clothing, the level of visual detail, and the nature of the sexual acts performed are merely to cater to the viewer's tastes.
I have seen several [dead] comments in the last week where I haven't been able to figure out why the comment was killed. Is this a case of "three flags from other community members and you're out"? I've really struggled to figure out why these innocuous-looking comments were killed.
What makes us happy?
Ask HN: Source Code for Huddlechat?
Is the source code for Huddlechat, google's open source alternative to campfire, available anywhere?
But, it is a knockoff. They've have copied the look and function of the Stack Overflow sites in detail - INCLUDING the bad design decisions, which is always a clear indication (not that we needed it) of a duplication.
Agreed. With the box so small, reading text in there is a chore.
How Transparency Fails
Visually, this site is too much like Stack Overflow, including the things that are not great about SO's design. Including: some fonts are too large, things that are text should be buttons, wrong amount of emphasis is placed upon certain information because the font sizes are wrong.
It's the pricetag of the Nook?

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp
OK, call me an idiot but I thought this was about Serena Williams getting sponsorship first from Google and then from Microsoft. I didn't know Google had that kind of sponsorship (if you want to play as well as Serena, use Google products would have been the message?) let alone Microsoft. My company used Anna Kournikova and recently Megan Fox, to questionable effect, so I thought, maybe. Duh!
Let's play Vulnerability Bingo
A bit off-topic, but do you have clear recolection of other dreams at that age (or younger) or does this one just stand out because of its nature? I have a terrible long term memory and I can hardly recall everyday things from that long ago, much less one specific dream.
For more details the research article: http://people.csail.mit.edu/bsnyder/papers/bsnyder_acl2010.p...
Hundred pushups
Just stumbled on this site from Reddit. It looks like it could evolve into something really interesting. Add more exercises and a lot of A/B testing, and you could end up with something which learns and gives you the best workout program possible for your current stats.
I'm mostly on-board with this. I hate "7 Ways to X", and titles like "Is styrofoam going to kill us all?" that have the obvious answer of "No". I actually enjoy titles that are clever and provocative though, ones that provoke a smile or make me curious, as long as the article delivers.

Maybe part of this is cultural. I find the over-the-top sobriety of US newspaper headlines unintentionally funny, I much prefer something more in the tabloid style with a little zing.

I'm all for weeding out dumb articles, but let's not go on a puritanical crusade against every title that isn't anodyne and boring.
I won't disagree; although in my mind it is cleaner if the badly written (as in fallacious, factually wrong, ranting, flamebait etc rather than the quality of the writing) is flagged too.
The signs of life are the current developments in the virtualization world. The original MIT Exokernel effort may be dead, as far as I know.
If it would be an ordinary LCD screen like on the iPad it wouldn't be newsworthy.
The Pursuit of Happyness
> By the way, it is proved by countless experience that once salary is good enough, it is disconnected from happiness at work

That's not any different then what they OP is saying. The issue people have at finding good programmers is that they aren't paying enough.

Yes, other things matter, but if you start off by offering minimum wage, a "Good job!" doesn't really matter.
> I would never dream of using a flag to register displeasure with an author's style, arguments, choice of title, etc. as other people are suggesting here.

perhaps some people do this, but i only use flags to report spammy type stuff, or similar.

flagging only brings it under review, too. if the mods agree, they'll kill it. i don't think there's anything that auto-kills things. i could be wrong, though.
sorta off-topic, but might be a valuable lesson in positioning yourself: if Anna Kournikova had never played singles and only played doubles (where she had some success) would she have a better reputation?