skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is little point in encrypting traffic if you can't differentiate between a man in the middle and your desired endpoint.

EX: Conceder I open encrypted connection to amazone.com which pretends to be amazon.com they open an encrypted connection to amazon.com. Amazone can now pretend to be Amazon and read all my encrypted traffic.
I realize that, that's what I've been doing. Maybe I'm just slow, and don't like action games.. the only games I've ever really liked are turn-based RPGs, strategy, and adventure.. so I'm probably not the target audience for this anyway.
For whatever it's worth, I personally really like your site design. You likely don't remember my feedback on my difficulty navigating it, but I actually appreciate its simplicity and lack of overweening bells and whistles.

I'm far more likely to be in your target market (despite not being an actual customer) than your average "web app" guy; so I think you're on the right track.
Thanks I hadnt noticed that contest, It should certainly be able to squeeze into 10k
My mother is also computer-phobic yet adores her iPad. Every week she's telling me about some new app she's figured out. Apple has inadvertently nailed the Seniors market.
whoooooooosh
I thought it already was the developer phone. Is this just making that official?
Apple has been so successful with its minimalist approach that everybody else is falling over themselves to imitate it. It's getting a little tiresome seeing one computer after another that looks like a German kitchen appliance. Hopefully in this decade people will have the courage to branch out a little more and explore other aesthetics.
Fulfilling Dreams by Saying No
I'll leave a book and some unimportant papers -- and maybe my jacket over the seatback, depending upon weather -- to retain my table. The laptop, bag, phone, etc. go with me to the john.

Worst case, I'm out the price of a book and/or jacket. The machine and data remain safe.

Even then, I may ask a trustworthy-looking neighbor to keep an eye on my spot. And I return the favor whenever asked.

P.S. Leave also a pad or piece of paper with some writing on it, with a pen/pencil on top. People are much less likely to assume the table is abandoned.

EDIT: P.P.S. From the more paranoid side: Don't leave an unfinished drink that you intend to finish upon return, especially if you are part of what is considered a target demographic. I would guess incidences are much lower in cafes, but I take this lesson from my family who grew up in much tougher neighborhoods. You don't want someone slipping something into your drink. I learned to get my drink straight from the bartender -- watch him/her open a bottle of beer for you if you really have your doubts -- and don't turn your back on it or leave it unattended. (I guess this could apply to food, as well.)
I recommend picking up a few of SitePoint's design books--they're quite good and helped me pick it up quickly.

Also, I'm building an HTML5 canvas-based mockup tool called jMockups, which I plan to eventually have export to quality HTML/CSS. The mockup tool will be ready in two to three weeks. If you're interested in helping test it, sign up for the mailing list on the jMockups.com homepage. Cheers.
A lot of those same workers today don't use nose/mouth coverings (save for a bandanna). The rural poor continue to sacrifice for the urban well-off.
Likewise - I actually think they were very unimaginative. All of that stuff is expensive and obvious. I was thinking we'd see some scoured GitHub/SourceForge/etc. type of stuff or a programming competition, maybe even a super-poach of a good team.

Karma ++ to whoever put up a "hire geeks on the cheap" post.
In my experience, "web designers" arguing in favour of simplicity is for greater usability, not necessarily better design.

On a related note, the giant fixed background image on that website makes scrolling choppy and unusable, so I can understand the argument for simplicity in web design.
Ask HN: How do you back-up your pictures when abroad without a laptop?
I'll be heading through China and Vietnam over the next 2 months and wanted to know how you all backed up your snaps?

Sadly, I won't have the luxury of a laptop, but will have an external hard-drive. If it's any help, I'll have a mixture of SDHC and CF cards which will need to be backed up.
It's possible I'm reading too much into what looks to me like careful wording on the part of Bloomberg, but there appears to be a lot of smoke here for there not to be fire. And one would think that such a high-profile article on page A1 of the New York Times would merit a strong refutation from Google if it were so off-base.
> a voice that I'd hate to see silenced

He's an imperialist war monger. I'll shed no tears. He's certainly expressed no remorse for the tens of thousands dead in the wars he cheerlead.
"If you're engineering a piece of work, your design will surely be better if it is minimalistic."

That all depends on what you mean by "engineering." :-)
On my next serious project I'll look to collaborate with a designer. My problem is that I never know how to pick a good one, and what a "good" rate is.
I'm dead serious, you're going to get left in the dust if you don't use it.
Answers to FFAQs (future FAQs):

1. T-Mobile-only 3G freqs at this time. No AT&T 3G-compatible model currently available. The phone will work on AT&T with the slower EDGE data, however.

2. It still uses an AMOLED screen. It does not use an LCD as recently reported in the media.

3. Limit 10 phones per developer.

4. Limited shipping destinations, per:

The Nexus One is carrier independent, and available for purchase in the approved markets (Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States) by any developer registered with Android Market™.
Ways to develop high-quality topics for term paper
Selecting a topic for your term paper is one of the toughest jobs you have to face. Professors may give a topic that you may find very broad and vague. Narrowing down a broad and vague topic to a specific, manageable and meaningful topic is an art. Here are some advices.
I basically agree with you, but don't think you should worry about someone else coming and taking the laptop. It's the person you asked to watch it that knows you are gone, if anyone, it's they that would get up, take the laptop, and go.

But I think that risk is fairly small if you pick the right person. Ideally someone else with a laptop. They're likely not going anywhere, and they clearly already have a laptop...
>> "Reading Mathematics is not at all a linear experience ...Understanding the text requires cross references, scanning, pausing and revisiting"

The key problem I face is when cross-references go outside of the current article, since almost certainly then those cited articles would cite some more themselves and you can never get to the bottom of it. Even worse is when the author references something from outside without stating it, an example of which could be using some variable without defining it.

Stephen Hawking believes what Euclid did in culminating mathematical knowledge (into self-contained 13 volumes) is something that is needed again but has never been done in the modern times. His "God Created The Integers" I suppose is a small attempt in that direction.

I would have imagined Eric Wittgenstein's mathematics online encyclopedia (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/) could be such a book. But it has too much backward and "forward" cross-referencing.

I am currently reading Bertrand Russell's Principia Mathematica in my free time.
At one point in time the unlocked developer phone they sold was the G1: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/google-offers-unlocked-a...
How to Avoid Being the Asshole Architect
I'm glad you're not making fun of me, I actually do use nano on a daily basis... but I usually run it using `pico`. ;)
Shameless plug: also check out my "floor" game, it's written in processing.js.

http://nuwa.madk.org/game/floor.html
Isn't it obvious that the #1 reason wave failed was because it wasn't backwards compatible with email? If I could I have received all my email over wave, as well as new waves, I would have started using it immediately. But if its separate, I have to add yet another thing to check to my life? No thanks.
What web browser & OS are you using? I'll be happy to check out the scrolling issues.
thats strange, its a fixed and low framerate and it isnt maxing any cpu so it shouldnt really get any faster on a faster machine.

I have been told between this and pacman that I make the games a little fast, but I do like them on the fast side.
The Talent Acquisition “Put” Will Create More Startups and Better Startups
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It's not listed, but the "hacking" scene in Jurassic Park always gets a good laugh from me.

It's a Unix system. I know this!
correction: this is a reasonable discussion forum...
Filtering Out Noise In Twitter Lists
> The analysis is intended to cover any business that faces a downward sloping demand curve. That is, any one who is not a price-taker.

Those are two different things. The vast majority of demand curves are downward sloping. (The exception being products which show strong network effects.) The key thing about a monopoly is that it is a price-setter, not a price-taker.
Most people are basically good.

I completely agree, but for me it is based on how I see and interact with my community (and the surrounding ones). If I am working out of a library, coffee shop, etc. and need to go I will just leave everything as is. However, when I am in some other area I pack it up and take it.
You are assuming that all 2 million customers are on the premiere edition I know at least a dozen businesses using google apps for business with less than 50 users and the standard version which they are paying exactly $0 for.
My goal is to provide an environment for a massive amount of learning.

It seems that the only way you can do that is to solve really hard problems, otherwise learning just becomes some academic exercise, unrelated to your core mission.
Great game and great code.

daleharvey - your javascript is a pleasure to read sir. I'm trying to learn js/canvas more and its good quality stuff like this that really helps.

Well done.
Cheap and Custom Labels 
Both cheap and custom labels are profitable products for small businesses. That is why online printing companies provide the best label print services to their valued customers worldwide cheaply.
Despite the last paragraph in the article, another reason for refusing to upgrade is the costs involved in service pack upgrades. IE 7 is only available for Windows XP SP2 and higher. Upgrading to SP2 was traumatic for many organizations, so quite a few did not roll it out.

No upgrade from SP2? Well, IE 6 and only IE 6 it is then.

A related issue: IE 8 offers the ability to run in IE 7 compatibility mode, with the inclusion of a header in the source web page. Despite dire warnings to the contrary, some website developers for UK government insist on setting the header and declaring that IE 8 compatibility has been achieved. I can't wait to see how that will end, to be honest.
Quick copy comment:

I don't understand what this means on the frontpage:
"We find the keywords distinct to who you follow"

On the feed page, "Why am I seeing this?" shows this:
"How keytweet works: When you click like or retweet. We try display tweets with similar content. If you don't rate or retweet. We build a list of popular topics in your feed. We then try to match tweets from your feed to those topics. The # on the left side is how relevent we feel that tweet is to you. Enjoy!"

It's confusing.

So my advice is for you to have somebody review all your copy.

edit: my comment might sound very dry, so let me add this: I think it's a good idea if done well, though I follow a small enough number of people that I might not need it yet.
...Good story, dude. What's the point? That outsourcing will eventually be abandoned because it will fail? Then why are you afraid of it?

Guys, if you want to start arguing against outsourcing, you're gonna have to start making economic sense. It's a hard position to take--and very few economists take it--because it is very hard to economically justify protectionism.

Right now I'm picturing some hacker sitting in Indonesian-made clothes, typing into his Chinese-made keyboard with ICs from Taiwan (or wherever) angry posts about how globalization is destroying our economy and depriving us of value. Meanwhile, the average wage of the low-class Chinese worker (as an example) rose 17% over the last year.

Outsorcing is just globalization continued. And the people who complain about the low quality of outsourced labor remind me of Doc Brown in "Back to the Future", in a scene set in 1955: "No wonder this circuit failed... it was made in Japan..."
So I signed in, and it basically showed me a bunch of tweets I've already seen, since they're all from people I follow.
Decent post, but mentioning Paul Graham worship is pretty weak. I think you would have had stronger post without appealing to his perceived authority.

It looks like you're targeting the HN crowd though so I see how slipping in a PG reference would feel right.

Also I'll recommend in addition to your list to try out RescueTime. Might find yourself spending too much time on HN or reddit.
Full disclosure: I'm writing this comment when I should be working... ;)

I think the advice is reasonable, but a little simplistic. It could all be roughly summarized as "just buck up and get er' done," which isn't really that enlightening. More interesting, imho, would be something that provides insight into why our short term needs/wants often trump our long term goals, and why we can be so easily distracted. There are certain built in features of our cognitive landscape that I think are better tricked than simply countermanded via force of will.

FWIW, one thing that sorta works for me is using a little tool called Temptation Blocker, which prevents me from running chrome/firefox for a set period of time. In cases where I have to google something work related, I'll have to open up IE, which is annoying and lacks my usual bookmarks. Although I can still find ways to cheat and go to brain candy websites -- just by grabbing my iPhone, for example -- it makes it difficult enough to help a little.
Although it's always possible that the person you ask is one of the people who are not "basically good", if you're in a public place (such as on a train) then the fact that you've asked means the people sat around you will have heard, so if someone did then try and steal it (even if it was the person you asked), someone else will almost certainly stop them from doing it.
24 hours a day.
7 days a week.
365 weeks a... 7 years?
Erlang - Information and Tools
Not everyone has the benefit of schools with computers. Getting kids in many districts to comprehend basic math or science first would be nice.
Sometimes I feel that "minimalism" is used as a crutch for designers who are unable to commit to bold aesthetic choices. The downside, of course, is that it's nearly impossible to distinguish oneself and to develop an idiosyncratic style when everything but function is stripped away. And sometimes the function is to dazzle with more than five colors, to show that the designer was able to harmonize multiple elements, where then we're beyond design as mere function, thus undermining the minimalist program a little bit.
I found this guide incredibly useful:

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/

It gives step by step instructions on building and refining a design.
Chrome and Firefox on OSX both experience the issue. Safari is smooth. The problem disappears without the background-position set to fixed. The transparent effect would be lost, but it actually still looks good when the background just scrolls by default.
Consider someone sniffing wifi. I'm worried about eavesdropping much more often than man in the middle, and nontrusted SSL could provide that if browsers would stop freaking out and just go without a padlock.
Never thought I'd say this so soon, but this HTML5 game is too fast. Great game/code though. Now we need a 3D tunnel version.
"Pandora Radio for Twitter"?
I did a redesign on a couple, using some of the graphical elements and CSS originally created by someone else who did the designs for free but rearranging the page more to my liking. One I designed completely on my own looks pretty bland and crappy to me. Most recently, I started a blog and went ahead and used a free premade "style". So I do a combo of things, I guess. I like being able to arrange the page the way I want it but visual design is something I am quite weak at.
Why don't we just chip everybody? It would save us carrying the gadget that helps us remember people.

Also, there is a reason you didn't reply to their email. No use pretending otherwise for you or them.
This looks promising. It would be nice if they showed why certain people are recommended and let us see more recommendations like a certain person too. Somewhat like Amazon recommendations.
I thought that this was a brilliant article. I often suffer from the problem of starting work only to find myself compiling some code and then taking a quick HN break and then 45 mins later asking myself what I was doing.

I created a very simple tool that measures minutes spent consuming vs minutes spent producing. Now my goal each day is to increase the ratio. It's worked well.
Holy fuck, that is difficult, played for a little bit and got 366.
How a World-Class Checkers AI Was Evolved [audio]
Maybe.

It's a pitty, though. Done right language education shouldn't take any effort at all: Just do it when the kids are very young, and learn languages naturally.
Apple does seem to be a big trendsetter in this regard, so I hope that at some point they will come up with designs that are a little more imaginative. You know, the way they did around 1998-2001, with the colorful and curvy iMacs and iBooks, that stood out from the square/beige box crowd. (Same CEO and same designer that are responsible for today's colorless rectangular products, by the way.)
Even statistics can lie. Having statistically significant results does not guarantee you that the variation will work better than the control. What it actually guarantees is that it is HIGHLY likely that variation will work better than the control. So, it ultimately boils down to what are the stakes involved in an A/B test.
Thanks for the details. Chrome and Firefox on my Windows machine are quite smooth, but I didn't test them on a Mac.

I'll look into this further.
Defaulting to running directly as admin is a settings flaw, not a problem with the underlying security system.
This is like saying that saving taxpayers money today is saving the taxpayers money in general. This is totally untrue - 5 years of malware, support tickets, etc. that need not be there costs way more than doing the transition now versus having to do it later anyway.
What I meant is, how much would all the investments that an investor has made add to his bottom line.

The extract by the poster above states that 80 of the positive return is generated from only 9% of all the investments. It also states that 56% of the investments do not return capital thus -, that would then leave us with 35% of the investments which returned 20% of all the positive returns.

So for an average investor, he might invest in one of these companies which return negative capital, or two, or three, or ten, and only one of the companies which return ten times on the investment. So it could be that some investors are making very good returns, some very bad, some just meagre returns. Just giving an average number doesn't quite help. It is like saying the average high school grade is C. That hardly says much about an individual student. So too the data hardly say much about an individual investor or specifically whether to invest in such companies is a good return for someone with cash, unless of course you are able to invest in all the 1000 companies.

I personally think it probably is a good return to invest if you have great business knowledge, but seeing as 56% do not return capital, its a greater possibility that it would not be a good idea to invest in the companies. But then, of course, as I say we would need the data to know for certain.
Is "relentlessly resourceful" really equal to "discipline" ? This equivalence seemed to be the weakest part of the post.

Discipline (which I define as "doing what ought to be done in preference what you feel like doing" seems to be a different quality than "resourcefulness" relentless or otherwise.

Besides, deciding what "ought to be done" is easy for things like "Go to the gym everyday" but not so easy for "what to do today in my startup ".
I speak conversational German and can read and write some French, neither to my satisfaction. I also know a smattering of words in Russian and Spanish. I consider myself a dabbler.
Skimming through the comments on the NYT site, I thought this person offered the most insight:

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/0...

"I'm one of those U.S. lawyers who outsourced himself to India. I did not do it for lack of a job elsewhere. I'm a Columbia Law graduate and one of the founding partners of a successful New York and London-based media law firm. I went to India enthusiastically, to take part in a much-needed revolution in the way legal services are delivered in the West. Imagine a new legal landscape where high-quality services are affordable. Imagine deals getting done, because the attorneys don't kill them, with overlawyering and overcharging. Contemplate court cases and other disputes being resolved on their merits, rather than simply on the basis of whether one side cannot or will not pay the absurdly high costs of litigation. Think about legal professionals located in places that suit the interests of clients, rather than in the most expensive parts of the most expensive cities in the world. Consider the resultant savings when legal bills are based on services, not real estate. Envision deals and cases staffed by the most talented and enthusiastic lawyers available. Open your mind to the possibility that some of those lawyers are in India. I know from experience that they are.

..."
Google and Verizon 'near deal to end net neutrality'
I can appreciate the value of various styles, and I think the world would be worse off if all artists decided to reduce their work to some definition of its "necessary" components. Art helps to evolve us. It's also probably impossible to define the "necessary" components for most art.

However, I think there are shades of gray in the question of minimalist design for websites. Web applications aren't like Melk Abbey, Queluz Palace, or the Grand Palais. They aren't meant to be beheld. They're meant to be used at an intricate level, and it can often be harder to do that when there are ornamental or otherwise decorative components to the design. I still think the author's thesis is true - that minimalism isn't the end-all of design. But I do think that - on balance - minimalist designs are more effective than other designs for web applications.

Other kinds of websites (Some websites are meant to be beheld, after all) can lose value with a minimalist approach - or not.
This is an interesting hack. I think most of us hold an implicit assumption that privacy is always good. So many hackers would never even consider doing something like that. I probably wouldn't. But this outcome shows that it pays to question assumptions, even (especially) your own.