skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't really see you getting a lot of useful advice unless you're able to give details of the product and market. Any branding decisions are going to be completely dependent on those factors.
Sounds like you don't want to go to college right now, and want us to tell you it's okay. Do want to feel like doing right now, you can always drop out, or start college in a year or two.
It's been beat to death, but everything of substance that I took away from college came from outside the classroom.

Socialize. Network. Further develop your relationship building skills.

The way I see it: I entered college as a smart, but normal guy. I had no special connections or family ties, and I subscribed to the 6 degrees of separation mentality. I'm now 23 and I'd be willing to be I could meet anyone in the world with through 3 degrees of separation.

College was that extra 3 degrees, and it was well worth it.
The Knowledge is a very hard test. It can take 3 years to pass, and you need to learn 320 set routes within 6 miles of Charing Cross. My aunt did The Knowledge anf now drives a black cab by day, and a rather expensive Mercedes sports car the rest of the time.
I think of the motor as more of the Operating system and everything is build around it.
Ask HN: Feedback on my new demo screencast?
Hi everyone:
Since launch, the most common feedback I've received is "you need to show the product in action". So, I added a screencast demo. Amazingly, it took longer than coding a significant feature. I had estimated 30 min. but it took several hours.

Lessons learned:

-It takes longer than you expect to get to "good enough".

-Invest in a usb headphone/mic combo (sorry about the audio quality- mine is en route from amazon).

-Youtube couldn't process the swf format produced by Jing (I had to extract the video and ultimately converted it to AVI before uploading for best quality).

-Lightbox libraries do not play well with mixed jquery versions. I had to pull the same libraries used on example sites.

Please critique before I share with my target market (corporate IT and Helpdesk managers).

Thanks!
FWIW: My sons were (and still are) adamant they are not going to college. Their father and my sister and probably a few other people tried to talk them into going. I respected their decision and my position was "I dropped out and went back later and their dad didn't go until he was older, so it makes perfect sense to me for them to not go now. Like both of their parents, they can go later if they so desire."

Not everyone is a hypocrite. I just have first-hand experience with trying to decide a course of action based on all the things you don't like. It doesn't work very well. If someone has no idea what they want to do, there are worse ways to "waste" their time than pissing it away on college classes. And they are highly unlikely to be happier with that outcome. If you do know clearly what you want to do, that's different -- and I think that is part of what was different about people like Bill Gates and Madonna. They didn't drop out of college out of dislike of school. They dropped out because they were intently pursuing other goals and college was a hindrance to those goals.
not working in chrome 7.0.517.0dev on ubuntu 10.04 amd64
Tell HN: Tokyo de Hacker boshuuchuu
We're a well-funded and fast-growing startup in the heart of Tokyo, and looking for a few good hackers. If you're a Rails developer who grocks
PHP, or a PHP developer who's gotten into Rails, then you're the sort of carbon-based lifeform that we want to talk to.

We work in English, but you get massive bonus points for speaking Japanese, or for having experience abroad in Asia.

Benefits include the usual litany of medical, dental, optical, and most importantly, relocation and a working visa. They also inlcude your choice of tooling and desktop platform, close proximity to amazing sushi, and access to all of the unspeakably horrible flavors of Ramune soda they sell at Don Quixote.

Interested? Shoot me an email at: don@piku.jp
Clickable: http://statusdashboard.com
Then hit "Watch demo"
I'm inclined to think that it's a business decision, not a technical decision. If I had to guess, it has to do with ad revenue.

But I agree with the problems, I hate the stupid buffering quirk. It's not as well implemented like say, YouTube.
Try asking women out.
This seems like great advice, or at least it's working out for me. I had the money before college to consider not going, but I never seriously considered it. If you get into a decent school, which most technically inclined people don't have a problem with, you'll meet a ton of smart students and professors.

For something like what you're doing, you will likely meet a lot of similar students in your CS classes, many of which who might not even care for college but go for other reasons (their parents value education, they want the college experience, etc).

I really agree with hedging your bets; if you have the happy problem of creating something that is worth dropping out to work on, more power to you.
I would be pretty surprised if they don't already outsource the streaming to someone else and its just white labaled. Brightcove.com does that.
This isn't an investment scam. This is a bunch of trustees being snookered out of losing control of their corp.

This is a tediously common problem in the real world, the fact that they fell prey to it in EVE just makes 'em chumps :\ (although dude i guess is a con-man or whatevs, but then EVE doesn't seem to be about playing nice and getting along)
"I looked at the video, I looked at your site, and I still don't understand what the big difference between you and Dropbox is"

It looks like Dropbox works on more platforms.
For those of you who don't now, Francesco Cesarini is the founder and CTO of Erlang Training and Consulting, and has been a major proponent of Erlang for years, also having co-written the book "Erlang Programming" (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518189 - it's a great book, I highly recommend it myself)
Not a "DropBox Killer" since I don't think dropping 1 GB Photoshop files into Google Apps is a good idea.

But awesome anyway!
"Every generation is sure that these young kids today, with their hair and their clothes, just don't appreciate how hard things used to be. Every generation is wrong about that, of course."

Funny anecdote: for years, my father kept telling me that "when he was a kid, we called our father sir". Made sense, until one day I read a book in which the character's father complained of the exact same thing, but the book was written in 1900.
They are profitable but the founder isn't earning any thing?
As someone that works for a domain registrar, I can tell you this is definitely true.
In my [limited] experience, it's common for developers who haven't had a formal CS education to never pick up some of the important CS fundamentals. Of course it's certainly possible to learn this stuff on your own, just unlikely.

A few other things to keep in mind:

* You can build things while you're in school, and if anything starts taking off then drop out.

* Or you can just work hard and graduate in ~3 years, especially since you already know how to program.

* College is about more than just taking classes and learning the material for your degree.
I think "vacation" is a critical consideration.

I'd love to spend a few days living 'in' a particular time period. And then get back to reality.
For info of who came late here, the original title was 'Ask HN: Review my friends startup "DropBox Killer" '
You're probably right. I'm not protecting the idea itself, but with more information on the subject one could quickly squat the domains which we're not able to reserve just for fun right now.

All other domains with names we've come up with have been taken.
That's not the case in this situation.

The interview with Fred Wilson is pretty interesting...for those interested in the startup & VC space anyway.
The Basics of Lock-free Programming (Notes from BoostCon 2010 presentation)
My first impression before clicking the link was that this was using searchyc.com 's index.

I guess its based on a search-engine result after all.
Not in my experience. Seems to work as well as youtube once loaded, and to load faster.
Who's this only other stranger next to me in sheepshead bay, brooklyn?
Python Default Parameter Value Gotchas
As with any photographic technique, the technique alone doesn't guarantee anything. A good photographer will use the technique as a means to an end, while to a less skilled one the technique may simply be the end in and of itself.
But only for money that comes in thru Facecash?
Cisco is currently using something like "redefining LOL" in their ads -- they definitely target B2B, so if it's not too edgy for Cisco, then I can't see it alienating "ordinary" customers. In fact, it's evidence that it's not edgy enough to attract early adopters.
It never works here either (South America).
I built one of the fist comprehensive call detail record collection systems for a SIP voip network. I also built a least cost routing system for same.

A options feed aggregation and charting backend.

A package management system.

many many other small apps.

Cheers,
Martin Logan
erlangcamp.com
Go for it. It's a filter, do you really want people who think twice about a "lol" in the name using your software anyway?
I won't lie to you, I built a business with no higher education, and have never regretted my choice. If you're a talented hacker, you love what you do, and you think you have what it takes, I recommend you go for it.

The fact is, you can always go back to college if you fail, and you can always do a startup later in life, but you'll never get your youth back. So you need to choose the path into which you'll be pouring those precious years.

Starting a company is a great alternative to college, but don't expect it to be an "easier" path. You're going to have to learn just as much, and on your own to boot.

The rewards are there, if you work hard. But the final decision is yours, and is largely dependent on what you want to do.
This is front page?
It doesn't have to be -- my co-worker was successful at getting me to agree to go out with the group -- but typically, if I'm around more than a couple people with whom I'm expected to interact, I'm not going to be having fun, so why waste alcohol on that situation? With lowered inhibitions, I might actually announce that I'm not having fun. :)
I'm pretty sure they post their videos on YouTube as well.

http://www.youtube.com/user/techcrunch
"It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle--they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. "

Alfred North Whitehead, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead
Btw, Symbian^3 does actually feature a hardware accelerated UI layer and should remove much of the "slowness" of the S60 5th edition.
Kilimanjaro's JSON data-island example is certainly more readable. OTOH, with that approach there's the risk that, during maintenance, the data island will be overlooked and will become inconsistent with the human-readable information.

Edit: Perhaps that risk could be mitigated by having the human-readable markup issue a JS call to the data island, which would have the benefit of being DRY-compliant.
Debugging with node-inspector
I think you're misunderstanding both the attack and full-disk encryption. The decryption key is not in RAM every time the machine starts; you have to enter material to derive the key at bootup. And the attacker does in fact have minutes to recover whatever's in RAM once the machine shuts down --- which means that if you shut your machine down before leaving the office (which you have to do), remanence simply isn't a threat at all.

Everyone "shreds" their hard disk if they lose the password. That is the point.

Also, the Plans are to the Death Star, not the whole Empire.
This is great fun to use but not very practical, ever heard the phrase "information overload"?

Good crack at it though.
The OP is worried about thieves, not three-letter-agencies.
The first thought that comes to mind is, if you're re-creating something your company uses in-house, you need to watch out for IP infringement.
Why is this a big security problem? This is a privacy problem, for sure, but how could you use it to breach security?
You're looking at a different threat model. Hard drive encryption isn't there to stop the government, the police, or the Girl Scouts.

It's there so that when the Pink Panther walks away with your laptop, he doesn't get instant access to to all of your data. If Mr. Laptop Thief wants your home directory, he's going to need to do a hell of a lot more work than reinstalling the OS and throwing the machine up on eBay.

If your drive isn't encrypted, I'll wager that a laptop thief would take a few minutes to poke around and look for something interesting, like that file 'Corporate Strategy 2010.doc', or "My Affair With The Underaged Intern, Oh God I Hope This Doesn't Get Leaked Onto The Pirate Bay.avi".
No, you can track everything: cash, credit cards, etc. I run Think on it completely, and it has 12 years of data in it. It does the vast majority of my annual 1120S for me, including Schedule L. The nice thing about FaceCash transactions is that there's no data entry required.
one interesting way of market research is twitter search. Twitter search can give you people's opinion about the problem you are trying to solve. Search the terms which you think are related to your product and see if people are talking about it. I found it very useful in our case. Try www.topsy.com for twitter search, it searches older tweets as well.
Perhaps an alternative view: Good software makes the lazy lazier?
"Watch a skilled Photoshop operator …"

I've worked with a couple of people who are pretty handy with Vim, process control, Screen, etc. Watching them in their workflow, the hand movements, is mesmerising in the same way a dance can be. Purely anecdotal but they also have IQs that would be around the genius level.
Android Desktop Notifier
isn't a realistic attack in his threat model

Under different circumstances your solution would be 100% correct, however, in this situation we are worried about "everyday" type criminals. These are the guys/girls that find a laptop in an unlocked locker and snatch it; small window of opportunity. In your analogy the description of the criminals is much more sophisticated; Oceans 11 types.

Stealing RAM can potentially tip someone off to a threat, a better solution IMO is the Stone-Cold Bootkit[1]. The bootkit can hook into Windows in order to gain unrestricted access. It does this by writing to the MBR unrestricted; haven't we seen this before[2]? Once installed it will log your decryption password and do what ever with it.

A BIOS password(windows) and HHD encryption will be enough to keep the NSA out for a while, and a normal criminal out indefinitely.

It would be nice to have a mobo with some type of secure memory encryption programs could write to- digitally signed. Of course that could be owned too, but it's a start. In the words of Bruce Schneier, "[sic] it is very difficult to secure data when the attacker has physical control of the machine the data is stored on."[3]

Now I am thinking about the /boot partition in linux; where GRUB is stored.

[1] http://www.stoned-vienna.com/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643451

[3] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/cold_boot_atta...

[4] PSA: http://zedomax.com/blog/2009/02/23/linux-boot-hack-how-to-pa...
If you haven't seen anyone flying in a wingsuit, this video will blow your mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4U6T_BB1N8

It's amazing watching these guys fly along mountain-sides and dangerously close to the ground.

The article is about Jeb Corliss, who wants to land in a wingsuit, only without a parachute. His plan involves landing on his chest, at a very precise angle and a specially designed ramp. Concept design here: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/diy-flyi...
Yes, but, at the same time, you know you're not /really/ going to be on freaking Mars in a few months! This gives you far less motivation to endure the hardships, I think.
I think this video is really informative. It helped me understand how the browser works and gave me a good view of the DOM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2_6bGNZ7bA
And none of these myths were about the economic side of that business, which is what I half-expected from that author.
I think you are sharply underestimating three things: winners win in SEO, the importance of DM's search prediction ability (their only durable source of advantage), and "buying a poorly monetized site for women that has links from 1995."

Google keyword data is directionally accurate, but cruddy absolutely. Pretend it is quoted in terms of visits per Gestational period of a mythical creature: useful for comparison, not for calculation.
This article makes no real sense, does the author (of the book) have any scientific evidence for any of his claims?
ok fine I have seen these type of examples but where is the weakest link - e.g. does this super secret segregated network backup to unencrypted tape which is then lost or stolen (http://bit.ly/cQZiRd) a hard drive stolen (http://bit.ly/aLH2xI), a legitimate user walks out with info (http://bit.ly/b8Iecp), a laptop stolen (http://bit.ly/cp0h5Q)

The point I'm trying to make is you have to look at security holisticly. Having a super strong segregated network has no point if you are not going to have a similar level of control everywhere else which I can guarantee you the Federal government especially in the US does not have.

So why not take advantage of the cloud, enjoy the cost decrease, increase in resilience and scalability and still have an acceptable level of risk with application of reasonable logical controls?
I think someone said in another thread that some users are not really clear on whether Google is a website, a browser, an OS or something else.

The user that posted this question seems to prove that point.
I'll focus on the "badass" dev aspect.

Head over to topcoder and do some of the algorithm/design/development competitions. Did you win? Place?
That sounds like quite an amazing opportunity. I'm sorely tempted. I have the PHP qualification, but I never really cared for Rails. (Ruby is cool, I just never really like Rails much.) And since I'm learning Japanese, it's even more tempting.

I'm not really sure I want to move to another country, though. That'd be quite a change.

Good luck in finding someone!
Micro-Pigs
There’s a new designer pet called the Micro Pig. It measures just 8 inches from nose to tail and weight 9 oz. at birth, about the size of a teacup.
Do the Mp5 Uzi's protect against people that legitimatly have access, or how about a repairman? or during a fire drill - all doors open?
But the author is a sociologist.
Note: blogs.msdn.com
That is just awesome! thanks
My hat is off to you. It works in Opera and now I can get a glimpse of what Google Instant -- and other Instants that don't play nice with Opera -- is like. Thanks.
you play FirstLife too?
In day-to-day usage it tends to be less of a big deal. You adjust how you use the device.

I'd argue the opposite when it comes to UI. If you're tapping on the same link 2-3 times bc you're not sure whether Android/iOS registered the tap, that's an intractable problem that gets worse with time. You can't adapt your behavior to that annoyance.
ErlyWeb, an open source web framework: http://github.com/yariv/erlyweb/.

Twoorl, an open source Twitter clone: http://github.com/yariv/twoorl/.

Vimagi, a graffiti-like facebook app: http://apps.facebook.com/vimagi-paint.

Also, parts of Facebook chat (I work at Facebook).
I agree with your political point, and I downvoted it, because it injects an unnecessary political element to the thread. The OP is worried about thieves and hasn't mentioned cross-border travel. The best comments will be directly responsive to that request, rather than inject another tangentially-related politically-charged sentiment into the thread.

Your comment was ranking above other comments that were more helpful to the original poster -- and was at +3 when I voted. (I wouldn't have voted your comment down to 0 -- it wasn't inappropriate -- just less-appropriate than other better comments lagging below it.)

I've often suggested comments should have two rating dimensions -- up-promote/down-demote and left-agree/right-disagree -- and some people have said the agree+demote combination would never be used. Well, I would have used it here.
I moved into a new apartment townhome that has quite a few lights recently. A large living room with track lighting, multiple recessed lights in the kitchen, etc.

Between the first month and the second month, I dropped my electric bill by over $50. I don't believe I ran any appliances significantly different between the months. Temperatures were about the same.

What I did do was replace almost 20 incandescent bulbs with CFLs. If they were an average of 60 watts each and the CFL equivalents an average of 15 watts each, that's a drop of 900 watts in power usage for lighting.

There are definitely some bulbs that are slow to turn on and have a warm up period before they reach full brightness. I read reviews on all the bulbs I'd need online before buying, and none of the bulbs I got have that problem.

Sadly there were two bulbs I couldn't find a CFL replacement for, or I'd have cut my power bill even more. They're very small dimmable reflector lights. I can't find a CFL that's both a small enough reflector style to fit the lighting, and also be dimmable.
You've cited Schneier citing the same Felton paper that 'all cited. This research, while interesting, does not mean what 'all think it means. It is simply not the case that an attacker who captures your powered-down machine is going to be able to use remanence attacks to recover your encryption key.

The real-world attack Felton's paper implicates is this: an attacker captures your powered-on laptop, because you left it sleeping in your bag and your full-disk encryption software can't reliably wipe keys when it wakes from sleep. The attacker restarts the system and uses remanence to dd the previous RAM contents into a drive for analysis.

This very well may be an attack that government agencies are prepared to use against laptops, but since it's not going to work against anyone who knows how full-disk encryption works, it's simply not going to be in the arsenal of someone who steals your bag out of a bar.
Seaside 3.0 released
You have a typo on #10 - s/Competely/Completely/.
Heh.. first thought was this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDvqPOn6g4
(Lord of War - plane salvage scene)
Gmail is going to be banned in UAE?
Well "instantly" here probably means a response time of ~ 100-3000ms depending on the amount of processing being offloaded for an internet service.

I agree it's new to be measuring this in milliseconds and discussing fiber optics rather than hours and the transatlantic-cable (or days and the pony express).

If we're in the long view and talking about evolution, I disagree that the underlying process driving this has changed.

I guess it's just a discussion of the merits between looking at the position of a car vs. one of its derivatives such as acceleration. You need to know all of them to predict its future position and there are possibly an infinite number of derivatives.
Thanks! Out of curiosity, how far along are you with your Japanese?

Moving to another country is definitely a challenge, but I think it's something that everybody should do for a year or two, precisely because it's hard and uncomfortable, so few people do it.

If or when you decide to go home, you've got a very distinct bullet-point on your resume that will definitely stick in peoples' minds.