skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So she doesn't have to stan herself out, I will.
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stan)

Lately...
She's a Javascript/ front-end developer (co-creator of Twistori + everytimezone for example), business thought leader type (did i just say "thought leader?" Sorry.), and co-founder of the SaaS service http://letsfreckle.com. But none of those things would get much as much attention as they do if it weren't for the fact that she is an amazing user experience/ interface maker. These skills make the things she works on (from books to slides to web form interactions) really friendly and fun.

(I have no professional affiliation with her. But full disclosure: We are Twitter friends. #realtalk)
It is a risk and reward game and the best part is it varies from one another. What works for me, might now work for you. Someone like me who enjoy huge rewards, is quite comfortable to long USD, buy citi shares, etc. but for someone else the bonds market seems just about right for them.

You really have to find what suit you best.
- currency
- bonds
- options
- futures
- warranty
- etf
... ..

For someone who do not have the time to invest I would say think Vanguard, think Bond, think ETF. Alternatively, I would invest in startups that Kevin R or Gary V invests in, or startups that Google or Oracle might one day acquired.
Are you saying "we already have wikis and they're good enough" or sharing a starting point?

When I look at those pages I see a fracation of what an HN wiki could be.
Wow, that's a great package for young startups.
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Ask HN: Did iOS 4.0.2 just fix the proximity sensor?
I have been struggling mightily with the iPhone 4. Most of my issues stem from problems with the proximity sensor. The screen does not shut off when making phone calls and my cheek ends up making the phone do all sorts of crazy things. Usually the phone just hangs up but sometimes it calls other people or sets off the alarm and other strange stuff right in the middle of a conversation. It happens often and drives me crazy!!

I just upgraded to iOS 4.0.2 via iTunes and called my girlfriend immediately afterwards to see if it made a difference. I had a 7 minute conversation with no problems...so fingers crossed.

How are your iPhone 4's working?
If you didn't notice, we released Shoes 3 today: http://shoes.heroku.com/
Buy well priced stocks. I reinvest everything into our company now, but before I tucked it away in solid or surely growing companies like Berkshire Hathaway and Apple. Look for sub 15 P/E, preferably much lower and choose companies that you can be sure will be around for a long time. If you can foresee their profit doubling in the near term (like Apple in the past 5ish years) you its still a good deal at a higher valuation.

Don't fuck with currencies or commodities unless you have a you have a competitive advantage over everyone else (like if George Soros was managing your macro currency bets).

Personally, I'd rather have a lot of cash on hand or in something very liquid like stocks, as oppose to CD's or bonds, because not only do they pay almost no interest right now, but investment opportunities can come in the blink of an eye.

Edit: I would recommend staying away from tax free municipal bonds, there is going to be a wave of defaults coming with all these over-leveraged cities and local governments.
Org-mode on your iphone - sync via dropbox
The Developer Preview of the Chrome Web Store is here
I think there's a bit of an agency problem on that one. Paying large dividends to return cash is sometimes a good choice for investors, but some executives, especially in tech, see it as some kind of failure: you're doing the opposite of an IPO, giving money back because you admit you don't know what to do with it! A bold new move is more interesting from an empire-building point of view.
I'd have taken a dividend check...
I'll admit I had no idea what I was getting into when I clicked...
Well, what need of yours is not being met? Let's start with the problem you're having, and build something that can fix it. I'll even help you with the coding. :)
Unless that bird can hover, I'd hate to think what the next frame looked like.
A wiki just doesn't seem aligned with HN to me. It's a place to post links, not generate content. What are you trying to achieve?

I just do the following:
http://www.google.com/#q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+topic

I guess if posts could be tagged you could have a nice browsing function. wiki doesn't seem like the right tool though, maybe a del.icio.us clone that monitors HN and auto-tags?
Ask HN: Want to help us test Ninite.com (YC W08) for Linux?
We've made a Linux version of Ninite, our popular Windows multi-app installer. This is still pre-launch, but if you use Ubuntu we'd love to have you test it and let us know what you think.

This doesn't replace APT, it actually uses it. We were surprised how many people asked us for a Linux version since APT works so well. But when we thought about it, adding a non-standard repository and its keys is confusing (like for codecs, Chrome, Skype, etc.) and app discovery is impossible when you have 28,000 packages.

Please let us know if you try it and the Ninite terminal never pops up. We're trying to get this to work reliably, but we have to get a little tricky to break out of APT and then start running it again. Say what you will about Windows but it's amazingly simple to serve out a .exe and just let people run it.

Here's what it looks like: http://ninite.com/linux/static/ninitelinux.png

And here it is: http://ninite.com/linux/

I'll watch the comments here or you can talk to us via feedback@ninite.com

Thanks!
Duck Duck Go is pretty neat.

In the article, the link for 'an image' is http://thor.duckduckgo.com/Yahoo!_UI_Library , which appears to forward the search term 'UI Library' to Yahoo Search.

I'm just curious why this is implemented this way. I was expecting a search result on DDG when I saw the URL before I clicked.
Somewhat misleading title.
Distributions in R
It seems far more plausible that there was an exogenous factor causing the book boom in Germany: the number of Germans that actually knew how to read

The article hints at this when it suggests a German earned more in royalties (without effective copyright) for a treatise on leather tanning at the beginning of the century than Mary Shelley did for Frankenstein.
Either UK publishers were exceptionally bad at maximising revenue (or sharing it with authors), or there was a much greater demand for books in Germany which had little to do with the supply of cheap copies

A highly plausible explanation is that German appetite for reading was driven by compulsory state-sponsored primary education, contrasting with the part-time, parochial education available in the UK at the time.

Despite low literacy rates the UK did a pretty impressive job of industrialising in the 20th century; to argue otherwise is to ignore the rate of absolute progress in favour of dubious relative metrics in the manner of Wired's recent "web is dead".
Do a bit of homework on Technical Analysis MACD, BB, SAR, Mov Avg, RSI, etc... it is not difficult to get 4% return. getting the 20% return year after year is the tough part.
Google Begins Charging Devs $5 To List Chrome Extensions, Themes, And Apps
What I like most about a meeting is when it's with a customer of mine and they have an opportunity to explain verbally what's important to them and why. Often I will have a number of requests, a few of which may be critically important for reasons I would never think to ask or make an item on an agenda.
Because my neighbors aren't that cool?
If I would have known just one thing...
I was actually thinking about how this might work while on my way to work this morning.
things like this http://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1sNOzHa2orgpK5BIp4eE...
Thanks for sharing that. I didn't think there was an equivalent.
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One way to confirm what I'm saying is to look at the roles women are allowed in the US Army:

The US Army has traditionally been composed of a number of branches, see this Wikipedia list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Army#Branch_Establishment

The major combat branches are Infantry, Artillery and Armor (originally Cavalry). Women cannot serve in these and other related front line combat branches, e.g. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_military.

Note for example that Sgt Leigh Ann Hester, the first woman to earn a Silver Star for "direct participation in combat", was a member of a MP company escorting a supply convoy. That woman who was captured and then rescued in the hotter part of the war was a member of a successfully ambushed supply convoy.

Also go back to that first Wikipedia page and look for where combat vs. support is used to describe. E.g. in the context of the new standardized combat brigade system (Heavy (mechanized infantry or tank), Stryker (wheeled death traps in the wrong terrain) and Infantry (light infantry or airborne)):

"In addition, there will be combat support and service support modular brigades. Combat support brigades include Aviation brigades, which will come in heavy and light varieties, Fires (artillery) brigades, and Battlefield Surveillance Brigades. Combat service support brigades include Sustainment brigades and come in several varieties and serve the standard support role in an army."
Org-mode is awesome, admittedly, it takes (just like anything Emacs related) a lot of up-front configuration and tweaking efforts but is well worth it.
Seems like it wouldn't be hard to support any WSGI application...
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My mistake then. I apologize.
The glass-steagall act which was repealed in the late 90s and which many people point to as the key piece of deregulation that kicked off the housing bubble?
How to install Flash on your jailbroken iPad
Make sure your output file is on a different filesystem! Otherwise, it might be saved in the newly-freed blocks of the file you're trying to recover.
Spamhaus is the most rabid group of extreme anti-spammer teenagers out there (or at least they act like teenagers).

I've had various SMTP servers (for various companies) blocked by them, usually for very questionable reasons. You used to have to argue with them on their forum (and take a beating from all of the kids on that site) before they'd remove you.

The result is that SMTP admins get it from both sides: Spammers make your life hard, rabid blackhole lists combatting spammers make your life even harder.
If you like live(), you'll enjoy delegate() more.

But, regardless, event delegation needs more love, yup.
Got your email and replied. Thanks.
Oh, the UK’s industry was and still is impressive. But the German states were far, far, far behind in the 19th century. It’s just surprising that they could catch up at all.
What do you mean by 'wholesale DNS-based blacklisting'?
Disk encryption.
I know the google fanboys will hate this, but the problem is letting just anyone or just any machine create an account and use your service. It's google's responsibility to can the spam coming from their domain. Google doesn't care though. If they make it harder to get a gmail account, then they make it harder to spam their "legitimate" users with advertisements and why would they want to do that?

If you are a company that provides spamming capabilities to anyone and everyone, then it is exactly valid to add them to a spam list.

You could say, "Plenty of legitimate users use gmail." Fine, maybe so, but if you are someone who uses gmail, you are surrounded by a cadre of spammers and should understand your credibility is instantly devalued.

Birds of a feather flock together. The solution is to stop using gmail.com.

A VERY VERY high percentage of spam in my inbox comes from gmail accounts. If tens of percentages points of spam is sent from a domain, then it's valid to add them to the list of spamming domains.
It isn't one in 2.4 million frames--it's the one that got found out of all N webcams running since the beginning of time.

Glad the title wasn't replaced with '* * *'.
Nice tit. Thanks for finding this, hackers.
I shudder at the thought of how the "Do I need a co-founder?" wiki would look. Absolute mayhem.
If its a wiki in the traditional sense, it will fail here. Why? Because its just another freaking wiki that needs updating.

If there was an HN-endorsed crawler that could aggregate posts/comments about particular subjects intelligently and allowed posts on that wiki to inject into the relevant parts of HN (say, to a comment or a post), then it could be a Wiki-style meta-filter on HN.

Just an idea. Otherwise a technical wiki would have nothing in common with HN other than audience and launch base. People won't go back there and it won't beat Wikipedia at being a wiki.
SpamHaus has listed various gmail servers loads of times for short periods of time.

It's a good idea to maintain a local whitelist, or use DNSWL.org or http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Spam_DNS_Lists
Pure inefficiencies
Also useful for fake cron, etc (http://quirm.net/2008/10/02/fake-cron/)
I guess that depends on definition. At yahoo the ability to use a product for spam is a vulnerability. If a spammer can email a link to yahoo.com/something/random which redirects them to mypharamasite.com then it's a vulnerability because the site allowing the redirects helps trick the end user into buying vicodin :).

I can't imagine why javascript redirects add much value in a blog post. But everyone picks a different spot between features and security - and that's okay by me.
Your own title misses the important point of "claims" in the original title.
It _was_ originally just a place to post links, but I think it's clear by now that it's grown into something much more. Many of us value HN for the quality of the conversations -- there are so many other places (like our personal Twitter feeds) where we can find links of interest.

Much of the value we get is from the content we all generate through these comments. It's clear to me that there's room for improvement when it comes to giving structure to all the great stuff that's discussed here. My gut feeling is that a wiki isn't the right way to go about it either, but there is certainly a lot of quality content being generated here.
I've run large email systems for an ISP and a University. SpamHaus's services have been a god send.
Had nobody ever attempted to fix these problems in a non-backwards-compatible way? I'm imagining a new "almost-c++" that ditches the preprocessor for something better and makes a few other changes with the goal of vastly improved compile times. Then it should be possible to produce a GCC or Clang++ plugin that translates from C++ to "almost-C++" automatically, making it trivial to switch.
I just came out of a 2.5 year stint. Before that I went into consulting because I couldn't hold down a job for even a year. I figured it was boredom and thought the solution was to simply expose myself to a constant stream of new problems. Turns out it was simply ownership that was the problem. I never felt in control.

By ownership I mean ownership of my domain (area of involvement, etc) in the project. I don't mean ownership as in control and possession. The kind of ownership that kept me around at my last gig was the kind that let me make suggestions, criticisms, and decisions that were taken seriously. I had responsibility to back up every claim I made and that responsibility kept me highly motivated to produce software I could. It made the project feel more collaborative and kept me involved as a part of its development.

What kills that motivation is a loss of that ownership. In the final months of my last gig we brought on someone who took total ownership of the project practically from design to implementation. It no longer felt collaborative. I felt like a monkey in a room of monkeys trying to type out Shakespeare; as if I could replace myself with a junior programmer at half my salary and things would still run smoothly. That's not a good feeling and such loss of ownership (or lack of it in the first place) is completely demoralizing.

I get the sense that the OP was referring to this kind of ownership. The kind that makes you feel involved and responsible.

But does that mean you should quit your job? I don't think so. Some jobs will have ups and downs. I didn't leave my job when they brought the new guy on. I was going to stick it out... just circumstance brought my tenure there shorter than anticipated. I think you can stick it out in this way as well and avoid "depression." I take pride in my work and it does affect me very personally.. but you have to keep things in perspective. Especially when you have other people relying on you to keep your job.
What we need is operating systems that are escalation attack proof, not hardware based anti-virus.

I was hoping something like this would break through:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

Not that I've bought any anti-virus stuff since we stopped using Microsoft. In fact, the anti-virus stuff was a good part of the decision to quit using microsoft completely. It turned perfectly good computers in to space heaters.
This was a bug I apparently introduced this morning. Fixed!
AFAIR from a course at university, the status quo (about five years ago) was that gcc did not implement many of the advanced optimization techniques, such as IPS (integrated pre-pass scheduling). I have not checked myself, just promulgating--albeit competitive--hearsay...
Every time I visit your blog, I open up firebug and disable that background image. Scrolling is awfully slow. Please disable it, its annoying.
Ask HN: What do you still not understand about the Financial Crisis?
Are HN-ers still largely in the dark about what happened inside of a CDO^2? What happened to all of those mortgages the treasury bought?

What still doesn't make sense to you about the financial crisis?
Google isn't even close to the biggest email provider (by some sources both Yahoo and Microsoft are more than twice their size)... but your point stands :)
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I'm going to add to that:

If you haven't started programming before you finish college, you've waited too long. The people that work well at startups are self-motivated and want to get things done. That means they spent at least some of their free time making something cool and (at least to themselves) useful. Or fun. Or both.
True. I agree that it's a really clumsy "solution" - if you even want to call it that. I know for us it expedites our efforts to remedy our part of the problem.

Not the right motivation and perhaps more harm than good but I'm not 100% sure.
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3. Review a subject with stakeholders to turn up issues and questions you didn't know about before.

A release meeting is a good example of this. You might plan a code deployment to the production site. Before you execute it, you might have a meeting with all the stakeholders, giving them a chance to see what you're going to do. Maybe there's a person there whose only role will be to say: "hey, wait, if you deploy content before updating this other component then the images on the cdn will get screwed up." He can play iPhone games for the rest of the meeting, he potentially just prevented a partial service outage.

There's a nice theory that this could be done with email, but the reality is that having meetings and reviewing documents via email tends to turn up different issues. So doing both is helpful.
It's definitely a cool shot, but I'm not sure what the point is in trying to calculate the probability of it happening after the fact.
Cheers--plan on implementing this on a project later today :)
> If they want to do software, they should develop a OS,

> maybe for Atom or some kind of mobile platform or otherwise.

I believe that's MeeGo (http://meego.com/).
Oh yeah, McAFee has given blue screen to me many times. I bought Dell laptop for me and my gf. After McAFee free one year subscription expired, we decided to move to different anti virus. Once we uninstalled McAfee, both of our laptops got blue screens and crashed. My friend also had same experience with two of his computers.
Probably a smear, since the next frame would have been 60 seconds later.
Good point. If the bird builds a nest in front of the camera, that blows your expected value out of the water.
I think you're on the right track, but I don't believe this is about AV on the desktop. Enterprise-grade AV is a much bigger business, and tends to get pushed in to categories like IDS/IPS, web proxies, and email scanning. This all of happens "in the network" before packets ever hit your pc. It's extremely regex heavy, and in order to scan at high data rates we often rely on purpose-built regex accelerator cards.
A fun application, but still a little rough.

1) The experience required to advance the first level seems quite high. In order to get people hooked, you should give them a quicker reward up front. As it stands it looks like it'll take me a couple of weeks to become a level 2 whatever.

2) The task scheduler needs to be more flexible - at a minimum, including days of the week in the interface, plus the ability to schedule a quest for 'every weekday'.

3) It would be nice to set a standing goal, which can grant experience every time it occurs. I might like to award myself 100 points every time I get positive feedback from a customer, for example - not something I can easily schedule in advance as a 'quest'.
> languages poised to take over the roles of C and C++

D has been around for ages, during which time C++ usage has grown quite a lot, essentially at the expense of C and assembly.

First of all, I don't get the sense people are actually casting about for a C++ replacement. Secondly, garbage collection makes D a non-starter in probably over half the areas C++ is used.
Exactly! Also, I think his disappearance was a strong statement, too (we just don't know what it is). He appeared to be whimsical, but if you read his writings (since I don't know any Ruby this is all I can do) you quickly see that he is anything but. It is obvious that a lot of thought and planning has gone into those "whimsical" essays.
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Better yet, mount the hard drive read-only (on a different computer if necessary).
Won't you just steal my idea?
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You need an android app. But I suspect that you know this. Good luck.
TLDR; It's a tough problem to which I have no suggestions.

It's not just Google. Trust me when I say that combating spam is a full time ongoing job that never ever ends and you never ever win.

I do agree that it's the responsibility of the email provider to mitigate spam but it's an incredibly difficult task to accomplish with near zero false positives.

Perhaps Google could do a better job but restricting the "open" nature of signing up for and using email is not the solution. If Google does that then someone else will offer it unrestricted.

It's simply too cheap for spammers to send emails. Identifying usage patterns and rate limiting or gasp charging based on them would be a step in the right direction. But that means losing users which in itself has tremendous cost.
If I'm using Google Apps for my domain, does this mean I'll have worse deliverability on my email?
I think we've established it should be user-editable. What structure would you suggest?
A lot, but the This American Life series on it was incredibly well done. Definitely better reporting than any other news agency out there.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/t...

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/375/b...

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/365/A...

*My personal favorite -http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/i...
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