skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Court provides guidance on responding to defective DMCA notices
It's isn't a chance that Gov't involvement will cause more hard than good, it is a certainty.
Ask HN: What do you think about our political campaign start up?
Ask HN: What do you think about our political campaign start up?

http://www.evoter.com/

We've been talking to allot of Angels, but what better crowd for open start up discussion than HN?

Andy Hawkins
For an example of neighborhood fun, see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/nyregion/10bigcity.html?_r...
To pinpoint it further, the mainstream culture is becoming skewed towards content that has "whatever can entertain me for 2 minutes" value. Facts about authenticity, social value, etc are secondary.

The News outlets cater to this nowadays, which is sad.
Not enough bold type and all caps.
Linked networks can be more vulnerable than single networks.
Aye, pirates be the reason IE6 just won’t die
How many servers does a site like Yelp or Foursquare require
I don't see where the problem is with evolving context-specific altruism. We have numerous strategies that we evolved and use in specific contexts. Screaming, or crying or laughing for instance. Altruism could be another.
It was originally an emacs binding. Then readline picked it up as part of its "emacs-style bindings". The name is not only cute, but also descriptive.
Reading about the wiki and the Group that has formed, it seems to me that things would go a lot smoother if Vinay Deolalikar simply spoke about what he's done. It would be a lot easier to convey the outline of what he's done and answer questions in that format.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but face to face communication will leave a lot fewer people guessing.

Note: I won't even pretend to understand that mathematical discussions, so it's likely that many already understand the gist. It doesn't sound like it though.
Life on the B Ark: an interview with Ian Stewart
Owning a pet can be a delight,
but it is also a burden.
When my girlfriend visits she has
to get a cat sitter and she worries
when she can’t get a hold of them.

If I were going to buy his thesis, I'd want it to be a little better researched. One of the few things that is pretty well proven to make you happier is a pet, pet sitting annoyances aside.
The tl;dr: China (and Asia in general) has a high piracy rate - 82%. People pirate Windows XP, which comes with IE6. 87.69% in China use XP.

Normally, Windows pushes an IE8 update, but it needs to authenticate the OS with Windows Genuine Advantage. Since the installation is pirated (and most people don't know how to spoof WGA), they are stuck with IE6.[1]

With over 400 million internet users in just China, IE6 is going to be around for a long time.

[1] Unless they download other browsers.
Right, instead the Diaspora guys took $200,000 of everyone's money then went into hiding. That's way better...
I've submitted an interview with Ian Stewart here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594526

He's a serious mathematician, and a serious writer of both fiction and non-fiction.
This is the chap who wrote the article referenced here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594496
Do we really need HTML?
If you have a media center, you can also watch Cosmos from Netflix Instant.

ooh, and I also recommend Jacob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man", which is a little older, but it's a similar concept, with a similarly eloquent presenter, focusing on the history of mankind.
Is that jQuery John ?
Real title: Sometimes designers don't align things correctly and it's handy to have someone else's eyes on it as you might miss it.

Other titles from this rather trite titling strategy include:

Your code is wrong (but thats OK).
You are a bad programmer (it's better to know it).
Your Tshirt is inside out (stop being a hobo).
Benchmarking Javascript in browsers
hi k33n,
Sorry about the bounce...The problem should be fixed now.
tl;dr: When hiring a programmer, choose substance over style
We changed course 3 months into the startup, and decided to line up our ducks in a row for 5 months (inc. user experience, tech, user flows, design, etc). we had a lot of mishaps along the way but i think we are on good grounds with our Sept milestones. We both actually have the same timetable. Nice advice. plan and execute. got it. :)
Not having a cell phone means that the world has to run on your time
I understand that, but it took the Perl community years to step up and fill the gap. (Thanks BTW.)

The publisher's problem became the community's problem, which in turn became the language's problem.
How sure are you that itll make money? I mean what are you basing that on?
New iPods are traditionally announced in September, right before Christmas. That’s the way it has always been, nothing to do with love or hate. It would be stupid if Apple changed that, you don’t announce two high profile products at the same event.

The iPod touch has also traditionally been ahead of the current iPhone, as far as I recall the iPod touch always had a slightly higher CPU speed.

I don’t know how you could even get the idea that Apple neglects the iPod touch.
I did a few days' worth of online research on motorcycles when I was in my "hey, let's get a scooter" phase.

The results:

Statistics show that you are dramatically safer on a motorcycle if you take a safety course before you ride at all. Start with a safety course. It teaches you all the nonintuitive things that you need to know.

You are also safer if you dress properly.

Once you've done that, the primary danger is other people. You will motorcycle happily until the day that a driver who is making a left turn fails to notice you approaching (you are small relative to a car, and more difficult to see) and pulls out in front of you, too close for you to stop. Then you are going to dump the bike and/or go flying, because you have no airbags or crumpling metal to help stop you. This will happen sooner or later. There is very little you can do about this, except to do everything you can to enhance your visibility, and to ride very slowly, which can be difficult -- according to many cyclists, once you're on the thing and feeling comfortable you will speed up, perhaps even unconsciously. ;)

Obviously, deer are even worse at noticing you than humans. I hit a deer in my car once. It was traumatic enough in a four-wheeled vehicle.

No motorcycles for me, I'm afraid. The risk/benefit ratio is too high for my personality.
Just because most PHP projects waste a bunch of time writing complicated installers doesn't mean you couldn't do the same with a RoR app. Familiarity can be a dangerous thing anyway, and installers are something to be avoided. Instead we should strive for a simple, single step deploy process. Heroku has already solved this with git and a rubygem.
If it's his work and he want's to remain silent, people shouldn't press much.

Asimov, in robot novels, hypothesizes that the longer life on Spacer worlds lead to less collaboration in scientific research since each researcher has enough time in hand to work on something in detail.

Vinay Deolalikar is 39 years old. Don't rush and give him time to set his own pace. At the end, I believe it was not his decision to release the draft paper to public.

edit: spelling
Collection of UX Pioneers Interviews
If You Don’t Use Tags Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later
A tip for beginners who want to start doing marketing with Twitter
Out of curiousity, what are the social justifications for stereotyping and bullying?
If that kind of thing even makes it on Fox News, at least it proves that "news" are not important.
Google is a very US-centric company. Just look at how few countries outside the US can buy and sell apps in their app store. Their whole strategy is all about the US market with some vague hope that the rest of the world will somehow follow by magic.
I wonder how viral the thing would have become if instead of calling her a HPOA, the offending snippet would have been calling her a fat cow or something like that (with a fat model obviously).
Sounds perfectly demeaning. Google's style is to have no support whatsoever. So maybe they should stick to that.
I can't reproduce this either. What I can reproduce is semi-logging in three accounts (I see them in the list but they don't have gmail, so they're grayed out).

In any case, I doubt the author tried this out. All multiple signon does is allow you to easily switched between accounts which you are logged in. Logging out of one doesn't affect the others, and changing the password of one doesn't change the password of any other account. It's basically a glorified switcher, and there's no vulnerability to speak of. I know this because I pseudo-linked the accounts, cleared all cookies and logged back in, and I was only linked in one account versus the three I had before.

It would be good if people reporting vulnerabilities actually tested them first :/
Are you Skynet?
Yes, this would be a useful service.
When some item becomes really popular it gets linked to from multiple sources in my feeds and I've already seen it because it got linked to on Hacker News or twitter.

Bonus points for marking feed items as read if its only content is a link to a page I've already seen.
You can give up banking?
I've had very good success with GMX <http://gmx.com/>. GUI is very similar to desktop e-mail clients and spam filters are very good. (I still think Yahoo's spam filters are the best.)
s/hypnotizes/hypothesizes/

I'd be interested in a reference for that, as I don't off-hand recall it.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121269
Just out of curiosity, what kind of project "never takes of if it doesn't take off immediately"? What makes you think that?

You don't need to be very specific though if you don't want to reveal secrets, don't get me wrong.
It's that time again: "Broken" peer review
It's easy to solve that problem, work from home. I work 10-12 hours most days but I see my daughter all the time because I work from home and we get to eat three meals together and play after dinner.
Would be great if Amazon considered more 3rd world countries as those countries don't have or barely have any kind of startup support/ecosystem. It gives the few individuals doing the startup thing at least some chance at scoring some "funding."
Nucléaire : arrêtons Iter, ce réacteur hors de prix et inutilisable - Libération
Seven Security (Mis)Configurations in Java web.xml Files
Venous Insufficiency in Multiple Sclerosis
Submitted as a follow-up to a link pg posted a while ago.
OK this is not an actual urban airship - just another website. Disappointing.
http://www.wakemate.com/tour/ is broken FYI - tried in Chrome and Firefox. There is no ability to move through the slides.

Besides that this looks like a great product.
"Pedantipoint" sounds like a delicious software parody of Microsoft!
Why on earth would you link your work and private accounts? This should be titled 'How many clicks does it take assuming you use gmail and you use google apps at work and you link your accounts together.
We've been doing this for over a year. We're extremely familiar with all of the quirks of the process around push notifications and, during that time, have listened to what our customers are asking for. We've implemented most of these features and are in the process of implementing more. Using Urban Airship, you get things like autobadge (increment/decrement), quiet time (no alerts in the middle of the night for customers who don't want them), a super easy broadcast feature, arbitrary grouping by tags, scheduled notifications, the ability to hook up an RSS feed to automatically push notifications, and a web UI to send notifications... features like that, in addition to that, we have great support, so if something isn't work right you have a team you can go to get help.

A lot of our customers don't even have any server at all, they just use us.

On top of all that, we also have a great in-app purchase solution and rich messaging through AirMail.

It goes a lot beyond just a simple API to send push notifications. :)
Just bought it, entertaining stuff ;) E. g. loved how what happens with collagen is broken down (ahem).
Exactly. Physical media is pretty much redundant in the case of things that are easily pirated. I still buy CDs and movies to support the artists I enjoy, but I've pirated albums and movies that I already own simply for the convenience of having a well done rip without the knowledge required to do so myself. (I've started making FLAC copies of albums as soon as I buy them now, but for older CDs that wind up scratched, pirating was generally easier and of better quality)
Above the rate for the year 1960, but not the rate for the decade 1960's. Still, 5.1 vs. 5.4 for such a rare and random event is not particularly meaningful. Also you need to adjust the numbers to compare the same thing. EX: If you compare manslaughter between 1961 and now a similar drunk driving accident would have a different outcome.

PS: I work with these numbers all the time. Murder is for lack of a better term the least reactive crime type, compared to say assault it far less influence by things like age, education, and gender etc.
Old Japanese aphorism: "It's through suffering that we learn the true value of kindness."
Google translation:

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?js=y&prev=_t&...
I think the article has the name wrong. In the article text, they spell the last name "Resig" but if you look at one of the screenshots, the actual name is "Rezig".
Not useful, marking something as read in google reader is as simple as hitting "next". Pressing a key when I'm reading a page or when I'm reading my feeds isn't very different. And you must remember to do it when you read the page.
Interesting. In the face of certain types of adversity, women perform worse on many measures.

If these results are true, and assuming a rational hiring policy devoted solely to maximizing performance [1], a comparably qualified man should be preferred to a woman in roles where popular stereotypes suggest women may perform worse. After all, the woman may be exposed to stereotypes outside the workplace, return to the workplace and perform poorly and become aggressive.

(If the result generalizes to men, then we should avoid hiring men in counter-stereotypical roles as well.)

[1] I'm discussing purely the theoretical rational bayesian policy which maximizes worker performance and ignores things like legal liability. In practice, you must sacrifice some expected performance to reduce risk of lawsuits (i.e., add a lawsuit cost term to your objective function).
The amount required as a down payment to achieve the equal can be too great to make it worth it. Especially so if you are a single hacker living in a 1 or 2 bedroom rental.

For example, to get my mortgage down to the cost of a 1 bedroom rental I can only take out about a $90,000 loan. So, if I want a modestly nice $150,000 to $200,000 home I have to save up to put down $60,000 to $110,000 down payment. That's alot of money and to see it all disappear in a near instant is intimidating and scary. I'd rather stick that kind of money in some sort of investments and watch it grow.

Owning also can come with some undesirables to me such as the location is not as good as my apartment (unless I can up my purchase price of a home to $300,000+ or want a higher mortgage), the house is not that nice (not nice enough to want to live in forever and needs upfront fixing), if it needs maintenance (roof, A/C, lawn, etc) I have to pay for it.

However, what I have noticed is if you need at least a 2 bedroom and preferably 3 (family of 3 to 4 perhaps), at least where I live, a small down payment and mortgage is so worth it. Renting would be stupid. The rent for a 3 bedroom is usually more, even for a 5%-10% down payment.
My bad, it does not appear to be hitting the safe browsing service on every request but just a few times soon after the first request of a session. I guess it's probably just updating the bloom filter.

They're still not off the hook for doing autocomplete on the server by default. That effectively gives them every typed in URL.
Agreed. I have yet to use any of the location based services outside of Google Maps.

I will say this, though: Being able to search for an item (say, cigars) on Google maps, get a phone number, call for hours, click navigate, and be taken right there, is extraordinarily cool. It sure augments my reality.
All in all I'm still so used to this good old courier.... I prefer serif fonts overall. Anonymous Pro is interesting.
Gmail Contacts and Mail Get Improved
New gmail brings an improved interface which makes it easier to use, but no radical changes.
Ask HN:Where do you find good startup ideas?
Just curios about how some of you personally come up with good startup ideas. Many people (including pg) say that the best way to come up with solutions to your own problems. Although many good startups have come out of that, I find that I just don't have enough problems in my own life that pass all the usual tests of feasibility(big enough market, too much competition, passion, technical feasibility, etc). Where do you find good ideas?
Agreed.

$ wget -qO- http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive |
> egrep -o 'item\?id=[0-9]+' |
> sort -t= -k2nr |
> sed q
item?id=363096
$
Philly-Based Incubator DreamIt Ventures Graduates 14 Startups
AppNowGo -- Like Wufoo, but for web apps
Hi,

Thanks for the questions!

The AirMail Control Panel manages a persistent TCP socket connection to our infrastructure using custom keepalives. Our pings aren't adapted to networks yet, as we just don't have good enough data around that - we've got great monitoring set up around this, so I'm not too concerned about that.

We haven't noticed any drop in battery usage during our (very long) testing phase. That was one of our primary concerns :)

Each instance of the layer of our infrastructure that manages the connections can handle several hundred thousand connections.

You can see the integration story around the push library here: http://urbanairship.com/docs/android_client.html

And the library is up on GitHub: http://github.com/urbanairship/android-push-library

Our app handles notifications by default, but if you don't want it to handle the alerting and want to do it yourself (this was a requirement by some of our larger customers) you can by specifying only an "extra" value. We'll pass that data along and your app can parse it.

And, yes, everything is encrypted.

Thanks for the great questions :D
Is the book relevant for vegetarians and vegans as well?
It's strange how I read that as `hypothesizes` first time through, without noticing that it said something completely different...
Point of fact, on modern browsers textarea is better than notepad. You have spellcheck, and the standard range of move/delete by word commands, and undo.
Facebook name extraction based on email/wrong password + POC
Womens footwear,puma drift cat,shoes retail
Growing up relatively poor (at least for Western standards), it feels that I can empathize with the poor a lot more than those who did not grow up similarly.

You can read about poverty, imagine it, and have knowledge about it. But unless you've experienced it first hand, you cannot truly understand what it's like.

I think that understanding can lead people to be more altruistic.
Looks like Craigslist is testing out a new design
I wonder if they count companies using Heroku as "implementation and integration of Amazon Web Services"
This article lacks substance and is overly alarmist. The best advice still come back to: use a strong password for your work and personal account. challenge and investigate any sysadmin that changes your password without request.
I'd be interested to see the motorcycle accident/fatality rate controlled for rider demographics, using car accidents as the control. I bet the difference is much less than commonly indicated.

I think the risk is very controllable. It's also a "dose is the poison" kind of thing. I only average about one fairly local ride a week. I am quite sure I am safer than people who drive on highways every day.

The danger depends heavily on the driving environment. Suburbia and semi-rural areas are rather dangerous because you get a mix of fairly high speeds and many space cadet drivers (grandma, 16 year olds): the kind of people who back out of driveways without looking. In this particular urban area those risks aren't present. It's pretty safe 50mph free-way sprints and then stop & go in a grid system.
Are they exactly the same ePubs that you'd buy from the web site? If so, I'm just stingy enough to do this. ;)
This article is pretty ok, but some examples given struck me as a little weird.

Example for "live()":
var newDiv = document.createElement('div');
newDiv.appendChild(document.createTextNode('hello, world!'));
[...]
document.body.appendChild(newDiv);

jQuery simplifies DOM elements creation and insertion:
var newDiv = $('<div>hello, world!</div>').appendTo('body');

It is kind of funny to see plain old DOM createElement/createTextNode in article about intricacies of jQuery. All of DOM elements creation in article uses non-jQuery mechanisms. Only one commenter mentioned that jQuery support easy elements creation/insertion. That way, article promotes somewhat half-baked usage of jQuery.
I think you're confusing concepts:

>> I'm simply asking if using an entertainment medium to do your job is such a good idea.

HTML isn't an entertainment medium... you need css, javascript, http, sql, apache, php, flash, linux, (or equivalent technologies) and a plethora of other technologies to run this entertainment medium.

Do we need any of them? Technically speaking, no. You could write markup in lisp, network with ftp and run Solaris on your server. Pragmatically speaking though, you do need something and the technology stack that we're currently using isn't exactly going away to make way for a gazillion ad-hoc domain-specific stacks.
My favorite: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=can+entropy+be+reversed...
It is clear that there are genetic differences in brains that cause large differences in "learning rate" - for lack of a better term. Interpret this how you want, but it's obvious to those in the field what this means (I talked to a researcher today to check my assumptions here to make sure!).

It is what it is. If my optimised (via teaching, drugs, augmentation etc) learning rate is lower than your's then so be it. So what? Why do you feel the need to make us equals, I accept your superiority in learning rate and do not care one iota.
A VC: My Favorite Money Manager
Many are available through the Android App Store for $4.99 as well (with the same export to ePub option).
Basing decisions on stereotypes is often statistically optimal in the absence of other information.

For example, to get home, you must pass through one of two dark alleys. Dark alley 1 has a black man in it, dark alley 2 has an asian woman in it. If you base your decision of which dark alley to walk through on stereotypes ("blacks are mostly criminal", "asian women are good at math"), you are far less likely to be robbed than if you choose an alley at random.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/expanded_informatio...
Lessons from "The Economist" - Taking the high road