skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They tested that:

For example, we tried a prototype where we waited for someone to stop typing before showing results, which did not work. We realized the experience needed to be fast to work well.
I hear you. And my reply is: there are other password managers better suited for you.

> ability to store passwords for non-web services

That's not what PassKey was built for. My main goal was to provide 1-click sign in. Web app (which PassKey is) won't be able to sign you in to, say, Skype client. It's technologically impossible.

> automatically generate passwords based on certain rules (ie always 6 digits)

That might be an interesting tool within PassKey and I may consider it.

> have an API to fetch/store passwords

That's an interesting idea. If there's enough interest I may provide an API to fetch/store encrypted passwords. Encryption/decryption would have to happen on API client level for security reasons (ie I don't know the decryption key).

> have a browser plugin instead of a bookmarklet (I don't use the bookmark bar in chrome)

That defeats my goal to make it a "nothing to install" app.

Bottom line: PassKey was created purely to give you a button in your browser that you click on and it signs you in to the website you're on. Nothing more.

Thanks for your input!
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I wonder if he (and others) should have completely ignored the issue. Clinton, for example, made a couple of mentions of it in recent speeches, also saying that she wished it weren't in the media, but it were her mentions of it driving the media stories. Take away those things and it starves the media fire of fuel.

And, of course, the media themselves aren't going to stop publicising it because issues like these (the mosque in Manhattan, blah blah blah) are moneymakers and talking points. You have to wonder if enraged protesters abroad would even know about this nut-job "pastor" of "world outreach" (laughable!) if he had been more or less ignored from the beginning.
Did FTC Probe Cause Apple to Change App Rules?
Cursor down + return is pretty fast.
Is this title ("Is TechCrunch doing sponsored posts now?") just a snarky way of commenting on a CrunchGear story that you think the reporter is in the bag for GM, or is there something in the story that is literally evidence GM paid for its placement?

If it's the former, please don't do that; it's against the site guidelines. Use an accurate title and put your editorial comments in a comment.
There is also the rapportive suggestion (accidental launch): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1595743
That's what my startup is doing - fleapay.com - sort of.
No. Was there something specific about the article that made you wonder that, or is this merely one of the knee-jerk reactions we get every time we write a positive article about anything?
Whatever consequence is direct in this case does not eliminate the logical reasoning that provoking the Muslims would have its effects on troops and civilians serving in Muslim communities around the world.

Terry Jones probably doesn't see this 'DIRECTLY' but if the burning ceremony does happen, I bet it will become the headline speech for radical clerks and recruiters for Al Qaeda and the Taliban for months maybe years to come. We forget that not all non-militants in these areas like the United States...many only seek a more valid reason to join the cause.

It amazes me that this guy who preaches peace and the 10 commandments does not think his actions could lead to the deaths of Christians one way or another. I don't go as far as saying "burning a book does kill troops and civilians overseas" but the indirect result of this action is probably the same.

This is free publicity for radicalists, an event that would be preached as prove America is an enemy of the muslim world and their actions in the middle east are unsincere and what not.
It’s never fast enough until people can’t tell the difference. “Pretty fast” is meaningless in that context. What matters is whether it is perceptibly faster or slower.
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I've heard some Python developers mention using Jython as a way to do this.. simple write in mostly normal Python and compile to Java bytecode.. http://www.jython.org/

Be curious to know if it has been done already and if so, how well it works.
I find writing something I want to use the best way to go about it. I wrote a few things, private pastie, bookmarking app, blog, remote log viewer. Just write something you need and keep building on it.
Why does the fact that most Americans qualify for some aid make the Yale's 55%-on-financial-aid stat a red herring?

(I suspect that, in what I write below below, I must not be responding to your actual point, but can you clarify what your point is?)

It's not like Yale is giving lip service to aid - it's giving $92,000,000 annually. This means that, on average, each Yale student gets $17,700 per year.

But since we know that 55% receive financial aid, it means that among those who do receive aid, the average package is $31,000 per year.

55% of Yale students get almost their entire tuition paid for by the university. This is not counting outside scholarships, etc. This isn't just "some" aid - this is a huge amount of aid on an annual per-individual basis.
Mozilla has really got to find a way to generate more profit. They live off of Google and that support may not always be there.
All of this only applies if you buy a subsidized phone from the carriers. Until the carriers can legally forbid non-branded phones from being on the network, they only have the power that their customers, who apparently like giving up their freedom of choice for a low upfront phone price, voluntarily give them.
But the thing is that is religious text, and also isn't particularly inflammatory. We know that religions don't usually accept homosexuality. They're not saying to burn a couple hundred.

But really if some organisation was to round up a few hundred Bibles, post on their site that they were going to burn them and here's an invitation, bring your family and your friends, we're doing it to show how we don't like Christians, you can bet that the ISP servicing their site would likely go "uh.... yeah not so much" and also pull the plug.

If they just said they were having a meeting to talk about how they don't like Muslims, fine. You can do that. But it's a bit more drastic to burn a bunch of their holy texts which is DEFINITELY with the intent of inciting violence or hatred toward a (very LARGE) group of people.

Edit: The "very large" bit is not to say that the numbers matter in this case (I'd be just as much against doing that to any other religion or group regardless of size), but only that they are spitting in the eyes of quite a few people and that it's unfortunate.
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The two topics are wholly unrelated. Net neutrality relates to ISPs and their customers rights to access any data they please, not the choice of a hosting company to accept or reject content.
What do you mean by saying it might make a decent open source project? I'm more than happy to open source it.
My initial response is "great", but it makes me wonder about other situations.

What if a hosting provider refused to serve another group based on a more popular viewpoint? Would there still be support for rackspace if they refused service to planned parenthood? Many organizations "incite" the devout of various religions.
I'm not so sure. Years ago when I went to business school, they tested all 400 of my classmates. At the same time in the same room.

Then, they lined us all up on a scale from I to E and asked us to group up with the people next to us and do some simple things - like "plan a party".

The people at the I end of the spectrum planned a very, very different party than those at the E end. The difference was shocking. I think the extreme I people invited two close friends for dinner at their apartment. The E extremests planned a 10,000 person rager. All from the simple instructions "Plan a party."

Similar raknings for the other three pairings produced similarly dramatic differences in the way we approached common tasks. So I'm pretty sure it's not just entertainment.

You could argue people were just doing what they were "supposed" to do, but being one of those people - I don't think that was the case. We were just playing goofy icebreaker games as far as we knew.

On the other hand, practically speaking, all it taught me was "Don't assume everyone thinks like you." Not exactly a huge breakthrough, but not astrology either.
The "constitutional" aspect (if there is one) isn't the issue, though. The issue is whether I, you, or anyone else, wants a web host that takes down web sites it disapproves of. A web host can take down websites for misusing apostrophes, if it is entitled to by contract (if there's a broadly drafted term in the contract, this might even be possible in the real world, not just hypothetically). But would you want to do business with them?
I think that's probably true, but I'm wary of this line of arguments. For example, anti-Vietnam-war protestors were accused of endangering American troops by emboldening the Viet-Cong, and the journalists who published the Abu Ghraib photographs were accused of inflaming Muslim opinion by doing so, some commentators even going so far as to say that the decision to publish the photographs meant they had blood on their hands.
Hey, this is John, I'm Randy's minority partner in the site (and so far, I've lost 43 pounds, though as someone with an interest in the site, my own success isn't really relevant.)

Anyhow, I like the actual foot _photo_, not just an integration. It might just be personal preference. I use a withings scale, and weigh in daily, but then I "capture" that with accountability by taking an actual photo of my actual feet. It's a trivial task for a once-a-week thing, and it brings that integer number into the real world.

As far as the "why not charity", people often ask that. Our feeling is that if you want to donate to charity, great! Donate to charity! Don't entangle that with your goals. Besides, then your interest and the charity's interest are at odds. Consider donating your _winnings_ to charity, so your interests are aligned! You can check out the FAQ on the site for more of our thoughts on that.
Nice work. Runs quite well in a small FF window which suprised me with the glow you have going on.
Google Instant is shockingly fast. It is hard to imagine a small startup creating it and having it work for a few beta users. Even harder to imagine Google scaling up their infrastructure 10-fold.
Net Neutrality is totally beside the point about whether a hosting service agrees to have you as a customer or not. This isn't even about transport.

So, 1 so far if you're counting me.
I think the real issue is something that Google is not telling us.

Maybe most people can't figure out they can press cursor down + return.

Or maybe this is a flashy way to distinguish their product from the competition.

Or maybe this is a way to encourage users to use shorter queries (as they can see how effective they are from the search results), thus forcing advertisers to pay more for more general terms.
We already do.

My pictures are all stored "in the cloud" (on facebook, or flickr, or photobucket). "My" music doesn't even really exist anymore, it is playlists on grooveshark, or stations on pandora.

Documets? Google documents.

I do all of my web development on VIM running VPSs.

The only stuff that doesn't happen "in the cloud" is specialized, media-creation type things, an activity that I would be surprised if more than 5% of the population participates in.
The author of this one doesn't even consider The Most Holy Intellectual Property. Why not?
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Yup. We call the tips "happy" money, and the penalties "sad" money. We like happy money! Plus: what's more valuable -- a site that skims a couple of bucks off of failure, or a demonstrated and proven way for folks to achieve their weight-loss goals? Hell, we'll write a book and get our faces on Oprah! :)
>"The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore."

Anymore?! What, it was working sometime during the past half-century of murders, starvation, political imprisonment, destruction of wealth and civil liberties, poverty, de facto slavery, and general screwing-over of generations of Cubans to the extent they'd be willing to risk their lives floating in a cardboard box to Florida?
Glad you had a good experience with the service! It feels good to know that we're helping other entrepreneurs out. :)
Stop making mobile phones, Motorola won.
>i used to own a lotus exige that had an all-fiberglass body (weighed about 1950 pounds wet).

Jealous :). How did you like it, do you still drive a sports car?
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did they blend it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI
I'm usually impressed by the discussion on Hacker News but the amount of ignorance about the nature of the 1st Amendment and the difference between government and private actions in this discussion is disheartening.

The US 1st Amendment is a restriction on government actions not a restriction on private actions or private contracts. There may be other legal reasons why private actions might be controlled or regulated but please don't point to the 1st Amendment in order to justify that control.

Finally, where do people get the idea that the concept of 'free speech' includes the notion that other people, companies, or the government are required to support and assist you in communicating your message? The freedom to 'speak' without government coercion is not a guarantee that your speech won't be met with ridicule, criticism, rejection, or counterargument and appeals to your 'free speech' rights being violated when that happens is absurd.
Very true. But it's also advantageous to a free society if you didn't get harassed just because you host some douche-bags on your network, as long as they aren't spamming or dDoS-ing someone.
I was a hipster before it was cool.

The article basically states what we already know. They hate to think of themselves as pop-culture pawns.
Wrong analogy. Several SE can have access to the same data (documents on the web) and the new one which offers most relevant to your query subset of those can win. Also there is a very little switching cost.
Now the new social network won't have the main ingredient - the network itself. To get the number of users that facebook has is not an easy task. Swithching is tricky, unless all your FB friends are on the new network too.
I am not saying it is impossible. It is just much much more difficult than launching a new SE.
We've been in the same boat - spending our money to get our startup off the ground. However, I never became jealous of the "Garbage Man."

If anything, it's a motivator for me to see that's NOT what I set out to do - some routine job with defined inputs and outputs.
That’s rationalization which is not the same as rationality. If you were interested in being rational you would learn as much as you could about rationalization and try to detect or avoid it.

Rationality is also not the opposite of emotionality. You don’t have to be Spock to be rational.
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Sad, but true. I know my daughter dealt with a bit of this a couple of years ago and we did a lot of bolstering of her self-confidence and talking through various scenarios during that period, until she eventually got to the point where she realized the issue was theirs, not hers. Fortunately, since then, she hasn't let it bother her and hasn't looked back and, really, once the kids involved saw that it didn't bother her, the shut up.

I was actually teased/bullied a lot as a kid, particularly around age 11-12, but it was more about my disability (I'm legally blind) than the stuff I was into. I kept a low profile at school and most of the kids doing the teasing didn't know me well enough to know my geek ways. I come from a long line of stubborn, though, so it didn't really have a lasting impact.
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Um, credo, you just said this is "clearly wrong" and "unnecessarily insulting and provoking millions of people".

But when Rackspace comes to the same conclusion, they're "making arbitrary decisions".

Really?
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Believe me: you can’t build the next MySpace (2006)
I vote “people can't figure out they can press cursor down + return.” And that’s a perfectly good reason for changing the UI.
Headline omits a critical piece of info. Semi-trucks can do the headline claim easily, provided the driver is male and from Washington state. It may take them 250 gallons to do it...
Starbucks was/is notorious for a similar policy.
At the end HTML wins. Flash and silverlight lose.

A victory we all celebrate.
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More than enough with what battery life?
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Hey, that was my blog post. Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I'd be alarmed for the future if folks on this forum agreed with what I was saying! FWIW I posted an update motivated by these comments:

quick clarification in response to feedback. I'm not saying "don't compete with Facebook", I'm saying "don't build something new where I have to enter a new list of my acquaintances."
I'm a pure coordinator on the DISC[0] test, with natural values of 23, 7, 100, 100 for D, I, S, and C, respectively. School has brought the high values down and the low values up, but not too much.

This is a fairly common result for programmers, but rare for the rest of the population. Successful startup founders tend to be high D and C, iirc.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC_assessment
http://i.imgur.com/b1oLx.png is what I see when I visit the site
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If Rackspace doesn't like your idea, and takes your idea down, you no longer pay Rackspace. Instead, you'll go and pay one of their competitors to host your message. Rackspace may like policing, but they probably would enjoy spending your money more.

If all hosting companies decide that "Quran book-burning messages will not be hosted", then you have the freedom to start your own niche business that services these needs. Money: It makes the world go 'round.
I just make a mental note "never use Rackspace for anything". Problem solved.
Even those who can figure it out probably benefit from fewer necessary steps, allowing them to pay less attention to the process of searching and more attention to the content.
If he wants my input he should:

* Learn more about the theory behind hashes before designing one.

* Use a hash that distributes evenly across buckets.

* Learn what random looks like.

If it was random, all the numbers would be chosen with close to the same probability. So there would be an even number of items in each bucket. What we have here shows that bucket 1 is rarely chosen and bucket 7 is really common. The spread is so ridiculous (17.6k vs. 3.8k) that it cannot be due to chance.

In short, this is an absurd hash function. Do not use it in cryptography or elsewhere. If you need simple, low-cost, non-cryptographic hashes, look here:

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/classes/hmc.cs070.200101/homewo...
I don't know in which language he implements this, but if it's in any efficient language he should certainly use all the characters. Some interesting benchmarks (and also some very interesting links in the comments!) can be found at:

http://www.strchr.com/hash_functions
Can the iPhone handle bytecode? It seems like if it could, most developers wouldn't be complaining about the iPhone's closed language ecosystem. Ruby devs could compile using JRuby; Python devs with Jython; Lisp guys with Clojure (I know that's a stretch for some), etc., etc.

As a general question, how is someone going to get a language interpreter (or Java compiler) included on the iPhone?
His decision is also arbitrary. I would say he doesn't have the right to take action to shut them up either.
For "them" (defined as the speaker and his immediate cronies) it worked just fine.
I'm not opposed to Facebook in general, they just haven't done much to build a trusting relationship lately.
Thanks ! It's actually really smooth in Chrome, Opera and Safari even in larger windows.

It's as if Firefox was rescaling the canvas without hardware acceleration.
This is nice but I wish they would have done it two years ago when V8 first came out, it is sad that it has taken so long. I also hope they can continue to get the same performance improvements and become faster before release instead of just skimming right above everyone else.
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You're on your way, peepster.
i.e. do it like you would in a relational database.
It would have been great if he'd realized it earlier.

However, I imagine that growing up during the great depression (especially under a series of kleptocrat dictators) changes one's perspectives on the relative merits of different economic systems. I'm currently reading a book on J. Robert Oppenheimer, and I've been struck by the seeming ubiquity of very left-wing views among brilliant young theoretical physicists in the 1930s. Combine the dire economic circumstances in the US at the time with the rise of the Nazis and little accurate knowledge of life under Stalin, and some very smart people came to conclusions that seem very misguided in retrospect.
No, but what is the fast schema that you have in mind that makes it hard to move messages? Perhaps fast and easily movable messages are not exclusive.
Betaworks and the NY Times are building a Social News Service
Is it possible to create an app store for Android? Is it Legal?
Would it be possible to create an app store for Android that is run completely by a non Google company?<p>Basically, something that gets around piracy and limitations and only sells paid apps. A premium Android App Store if you like.<p>What are the ways in which Google could legally or in other ways try to prevent this?
Irish government intervenes to avoid bank run on government owned bank
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Amanda, I agree the advice wasn't gender specific but quite useful and encouraging nonetheless.

I would love to hear more from female founders like you though. It's quite encouraging.
Would you mind linking me to where it says that? I can't find it.
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What theory of law? Notice the words 'weird' and 'starting to live', I am saying that this is new territory and as such the law hasn't even been tested yet. It may even result in new legislation.

There is a huge gap between the monopolistic marketplaces that Apple and MS have setup and service providers like Twitter or 37signals who give api keys to anyone who asks.

And why fortunately? Do you like having your freedoms curtailed? Do you like being vastly overcharged for things you know would be a lot less if competition was allowed?
Actually, no, because Flash Player is backwards compatible but according to this article Silverlight is not.
Yeah, it's really Cocoa you have to learn, not ObjC.