skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can also be used by good (or at least inquisitive) people.

The back door isn't going to be built into super encrypted military stuff, but a lot of government traffic travels over commercial links, using commercial hardware and software.

Since this government backdoor is going to be leaked or hacked about 3.2 femtoseconds after it's introduced then every internal government memo, every cell phone/sms between a politician and their mistress or lobbyist and every conversation between lawyer and client is going to be on wikileaks.

We could finally have real democracy!
This has other implications.

* a save in bandwidth is huge on mobile speed, google believes that speed effects web use, web use effects revenue

* a save in bandwidth is cheaper for google

* att, verizon, sprint, and tmobile are limiting mobile data plans, smaller images means more web page loads

* net neutrality might fail, you might have to pay for data

* google runs a lot of content via app-engine, gmail + chrome, google should be able to make the switch for the stacks they own to develop an advantage.

* others will follow in adoption like facebook if it saves them on one of their largest costs cdns.

* openness an open format can go on more devices.

* open devices might appear faster on the web.
Actually, yes: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0....
This ought to help with Android's worldwide adoption...
Goo.gl URL shortener open to everyone
Why bother wasting time analyzing Huffman tables when you own a video codec? JPEG is mostly an MPEG-1 keyframe. WebP is exactly a VP8 keyframe. VP8 is better than MPEG1, so there's no need to change anything when you can just use that decoder.

Although there are many inefficiencies left in VP8, and to a lesser extent H.264, when dealing with very large images. One is that the same texture can be repeated in different areas of the same image, but prediction only happens from neighboring pixels, so it can't reuse the same texture in compression.
Some solutions are in the JVTVC/H.265 proposals and are usually called "extended texture prediction".
I don't know about need, but I often use them for emails. I prefer a plain text email program (so no HTML mail to hide the link), and it's been my experience that many receiving email clients break overly long URLs. So I use Metamark[1], which I have a reasonable trust won't disappear in a week or a month.

I understand that you might not like short URLs in the wild (so to speak), but do you really not follow short links when sent to you from friends or relatives? (And, no, I don't mean short URLs from your aunt that sends you all the "funny You Tube" videos.)

[1] http://metamark.net/ (or http://xrl.us for the short link)
Thanks -- good feedback. I guess we need to do a better job identifying the target customer. This is for online retailers (not their customers) to manage their inventory. It's particularly tough if they are selling in multiple places and have limited inventory. This adds functionality that their ordinary e-commerce apps don't have. We'll make sure that the site clearly identifies that this is for the retailers, not the customers.
Strange... :
I clicked in the above url.

Then I copied the resulting url (http://www.magicbeef.com/)

After pasting it in google service, it produced a different short url: http://goo.gl/YH1c

I first assumed that every destination would render an unique short url, but thats not the case.
This way google knows the full stats of http://www.magicbeef.com/. But you can only know the real stats if you know ALL the short urls pointing to it. :)

EDIT: I my short url stats page theres a notice:
"119 total clicks on all goo.gl short URLs pointing to this long URL"

EDIT: Notice the browser stats of the link (http://goo.gl/info/Jvhu) Almost NO IE. Also less than a half windows.
What about that question about the privacy of people's Google Maps links? Is that an important concern?
Many people still prefer plain text email. I certainly do.
Not to be overly skeptical, but if you have to pay $5.00 to get someone to give you an opinion, you may not have the critical thinking skills that I see most successful entrepreneurs display. Unless this was some kind of viral marketing seed that went wrong. Then again, it did hit HN so who knows ...
The smooth blurring is because wavelet compression (which JPEG2K uses) naturally resizes the image as it gets smaller. Resize your JPEGs smaller, compress them, then upscale them again, and they might look better than JPEG2K does.
Hopefully they do like safe.mn: warn user, but let them go to the site if they know what they are doing. http://safe.mn/NVr
Fedora has a few *-tests packages, e.g. ipython-tests which has the following description:

This package contains the tests of ipython.
You can check this way, you can test, if ipython works on
your platform.
im in the same boat. i figure there will be a short term positive but in the long term i hope i dont get too much competition in my little android niche.

good luck

very good news for android users though.
For me personally I wouldn't share things with my friends that are an unknown quality unless they themselves traffic in things that are of an unknown quality. Most of the people on my friend's list are not interested in beta testing.
ARIN already charges fees for IP addresses; I suppose they take 'em back if you don't pay. https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html

Note that legacy holders don't pay fees on their massive /8s.
JPEGs do bad things to your color space, though. I certainly welcome a replacement.

For example, see:
http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/250-Sho...

and

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/355-How...

It would be nice to see a more modern replacement, assuming the technology is better. That said, I haven't read enough about WebP yet to know if it actually fixes any of those problems with the JPEG format.
Agreed. Especially when something like WebAppAnswers.com remains unregistered. Selecting good domains is a dying art.
It's interesting.

The look and feel of this site is almost too sleek and clean (I say this as a designer)

I like it and all, but it also feels a little hmm soulless?
Now can we get a bookmarket?

anyone?
Given that most JPEG images are generated by digital cameras, I don't think WebP will get any traction until Canon, Nikon et al support WebP natively.

And hopefully attaching metadata to WebP images will be saner than it is for JPEGs.
What happened to Google innovating? At least they included a QR Code...
Personally I think that the physical reality can't be described in a finite Theory of Everything (ToE) for the same reason as that there is no ToE for mathematics? See http://plus.maths.org/issue37/features/omega/index.html
A UNIX wizard
Goo.gl’s Awesome Easter Egg To Instantly Turn Any Link Into A QR Code
If payday loans are really as secure as you make them sound, the interest rates wouldn't be so high on the loans. It's pure economics.
WebP a new image format for the web
Updated. Good idea
Dozens Charged In Global Computer Virus Scam
Is it just me, or was I able to "shorten" an already goo.gl shortened url?

http://goo.gl/fBUb
--> http://goo.gl/Bkmv
--> http://news.ycombinator.com

They don't want to allow this, do they?
Before relational databases and SQL, there was a successful industry of hierarchical databases (key-value stores), which was so utterly annihilated that not one vendor remained to give testament.

RDB has since become standard. One aspect of a "standard" is uniform interfaces or one-size-fits-all, an essential aspect of which is that it doesn't suit all needs perfectly. It's a modular approach, that involves adapting non-quite circular circles and non-quite triangular triangles to perfectly square slots. You see it in mathematics and (eg) OO polymorphism all the time. It's an unpleasant but often worthwhile tradeoff.

But at the edges, that tradeoff becomes questionable. And the web's REST is a new giant, whose clothing needs a different shape altogether. Applying RDB to it is so ill-fitting and irritating and obviously wrong that hierarchical databases have found a new home and a new life and a new name, NoSQL.

But when NoSQL attempts to spread to others, it is surprised and hurt to find them already tailored for.

---

The above fable is light on detail. There are many complex issues in the NoSQL/RDB comparison, since both have adapted to the detailed problems of their respective domains. However, I think the key aspect is that RDB is meticulously thought out in terms of information, and only then adapted to specific engineering needs. Specifically, it has normal forms and schema (needed for normal forms.)
I love the unattributed quote.
I'm having horrible flashbacks to Rentacoder and all of the competitions calling for clones of popular sites. I can't believe someone managed to bring them all together. This is madness!

The only thing it's missing is a Rentacoder clone full of requests to clone this site.
56,800,235,584 URLs ought to be enough for anyone... :)
Learning Javascript with Object Graphs
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That's a rounding loss, not a change to "your color space". In any case, JPEG supports storing RGB instead of YUV 4:2:0 (or even YUV 4:4:4).

WebP _doesn't_ support this, but it really doesn't matter. The point of image files is for you to look at the image, not at the pixel values.
Unusual Photo and Device Metadata Leakage
And here to see what everyone submitted: http://goo.gl/info/faBw
this reminds me of the internet's reaction to the name "iPad" - although I haven't heard anything along those lines since the first week it was announced.
Looks like they didn't bother to seize the opportunity to add an alpha channel. Being stuck with PNG for transparent/translucent images sucks.
Build a CD Tesla Turbine, hopefully - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8v_dnIn-s0
Here's a hint, dear webmaster. If you find yourself saying things like, "I am shocked that no other website has thought of doing this", you're probably missing something.
He's just cobbling together existing software. The auction is a default skin of PHPProBid.

I don't recognize the other sections, but none of them have the same look and feel (other than the logo...which is still a stretch). I think it's safe to say each section is just white-labeled software someone else created.
I disagree. In the physical world, a "one-stop shop" like Walmart adds value because it costs time to travel between many different stores. What our author fails to realize is that there are already "one-stop shops" on the web: namely Google and Bing.
> Google needed a url shortener for its own products where we knew the shortener wouldn’t go away

Isn't that what this post is about?
High-res photos on Facebook (finally)
Then you need this AOL Help page: http://help.aol.com/help/microsites/microsite.do?cmd=display...
That's why they're so profitable, but that's not why customers like them, at least not directly. Those things all contribute to low prices, which is one of the things he lists. All of the things you listed are benefits of extremely large scale, but Walmart wasn't born being huge. How did they get there?
>"Wal-Mart also has one of the worst customer experiences ever"

Really? Every time I go I leave with a big smile. It might not be Zappos, but it's good enough considering the insanely low prices (even on commodity products!).
The Price of Crossing Steve Jobs
Dropping out of college is often seen as a marker of huge success and drive. In reality, it's just one path you can pick when answering the question, "given this dream, how can I maximize my chances of realizing it?"

This is a little more subtle than it sounds. I left school after my sophomore year and went on to raise a $1 million Series A from a blue-chip VC. A year and a half later, I ended up back at University not in defeat, but in realization that for my specific ambition there was more I could get out of the university. I wouldn't call myself a student -- I'll always be a student in that I'll be learning my whole life -- but I have as specific a reason for being at the institution as I did for dropping out. Traditional "students" are those who are in school without a better reason for why they're there.

There are a lot of potential businesses where it makes sense to be affiliated with a university right now. There are also a lot where the right move is to stop out and move immediately to SV. You could drop out and still start a biotech company -- but you'll most likely end up net-negative, spending 6 years quietly hacking away on very limited resources on the fringes before breaking through. You could start a spaceflight company without a degree, but you're taking the hardest possible route to get there. If you're smart enough to do that, you're smart enough to figure out how to do the minimum possible work to get by in your classes, and spend the rest of your time talking the university into giving you access to resources (and credibility) you'd never have otherwise. It's not about the degree: it's about what you can get out of the university while disguised as a student.

It's definitely easier now than ever before for great hackers to do well without a degree. And you can certainly get rich down a lot of those paths. But the really cool companies -- space travel, clean energy, biotech, and so on -- can use the university for a lot for a few years in order to advance the same goals before breaking off on your own. The two more years I have access to subjects with chips implanted in their brains and tens of millions of dollars of cutting-edge equipment is a springboard for any subsequent activities, however inane classes might be. The opportunities are there if you go and take them.
Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.
Did Facebook quietly acquire the FB.com domain name?
A user has asked exactly that in Matt Cutts's blog.

I am too interested for the reply to those concerns.
I thought the same thing at first...but then realize they're not asking you to tell your friends before you get an invite. They're asking after you've already signed up.

Seems like a good way to "price" access to the beta at an amount people are willing to "spend."
I wonder if Google has an API to get all stats or an API to get all short links pointing to a URL.

PS: That means there is still atleast one HNer using internet explorer.
OpenID is a delegated identity service. It's like a credit card, drivers license or social security card. And on that front everyone knows how to use one. It's been companies like Facebook, Microsoft that have been fucking this up and trying to own it, and to create some bullshit "one web identity" service.

I have been trying to seek out jobs to improve the UX of OpenID, and at MySpace I did the 1st popup login flow.

After MySpace imploded, I even tried for a short time to start an identity company called redrover, but then i had an offer to build an identity service for unity ( which was never internally supported ).

I am very passionate about making web identity work, and allowing people to have multiple web persona.

I have more idea's but i don't have a platform to innovate on.

Maybe now that I am working part time at UCSF on 'Profiles' with Harvard I have a shot again to fix OpenID, OpenSocial, and OAuth.

here is some work that Aza did to improve social bookmarking,
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/

if you think about it a bit, you could use css inflection to determine or refine a list of potential OpenIDs that the user might use to log in.

maybe we finally make browsers smarter, or even better yet maybe with any login form on a web page

<form type="login"
openidprovider="http://myspace.com/{userid}"
action="https://login.myspace.com/login">
<!-- or something that supports webfinger -->
<input name="username">
<input name="password" type="password">
<input name="openid" type="url">
</form>

then supporting sites could.... tell the browser to cache that those openid urls like you do for username password pairs.

it also might be possible to link your openid to user profile in a browser, so that when you see the openid login form the browser can know what your profile is and delegate that identity transaction for you, like it handles cookies.
Experimenting creation of fake Trend #faketrend
As somebody who knows Mike Stonebraker and works for one of his RDBMS companies, I can honestly say he says this stuff because he really believes that NoSQL is history repeating itself.

Whether it's hierarchical databases, XML databases, objective databases, proprietary query languages, etc..., people keep trying new things and then coming back to the relational model and SQL. When people say "This time it's different", he gets annoyed. Maybe this time he's wrong, but with an understanding of the history of databases, it's easy for me to see his point of view.

Honestly, I'm not sure if antagonizing the NoSQL community helps his companies or not. The NoSQL crowd is pretty passionate.
We had a low level C programmer at one of the start-ups I worked at, He had the most explosive temper I have ever seen. He would throw monitors across the room. The next day they would have a new monitor for the guy.

They finally gave him an office figuring that would at least contain his outburst to a room, but alas even an office could not contain him. He started kicking the door open and chucking crap onto the wall outside his door.

Smashing crap up in his office and having a good go at it. Anyway, it was a certainty, anyone that was put on his team had about a 3 week window before they where out of the place. Better C programmers than he was came and went because they would not let this guy go. I have pretty thick skin, so I just found it amusing when he would go on his tirades and he and I got along pretty well, but man if I had ran that company I would have fired him after the first monitor flew. There is just no place in business for that kind of crap.
Check out the two videos they have http://www.globalcommunity.me/videos/video/index.html.
"the auction site is better than just about anything out there". Even the speaker can't seem to believe it.
Study finds first evidence that ADHD is genetic
Unfortunately, the word 'ironic' means whatever people want it to mean when they use it. That's how words are; we can't use the dictionary as a sort of rulebook and demand that people follow every definition carefully. Language changes, it shifts, and those shifts are dictated by usage, not by some immanent set of required forms.

I confess that I've had to admit this to myself with some reluctance. Those of us who are technically inclined, and who value precision and accuracy, can never really get used to the fact that language is a muddy and changing thing, and that there are no real 'rules' of usage; people can use words however they'd like. Like a lot of geeks, I've always had a bad habit of constantly stopping people when they use phrases like 'it begs the question...' or 'it's ironic...' in nonstandard ways. However, linguistic prescriptivism isn't really coherent as an approach to the world, I think, and life is smoother when I just let go and accept that I'll generally understand what people mean even when they say that it's 'ironic' that they've missed the train three days in a row.
Models Versus Slogans
This hasn't stopped nearly every codec popular today.
> it's been my experience that many receiving email clients break overly long URLs

I always use the "embed in angle brackets" trick for that--although I don't know how all mail readers render it:

<http://news.ycombinator.com/>
The customer experience is great for their customer. Lots of stuff, cheap. Don't expect to find a valet at the front of your local Wal-Mart, the people who require a valet are not Wal-Mart's customer.
> why add a whole new type?

Because using the right tool for the right job makes sense. SQL is great for lots of things. NoSQL hits the sweet spot for other applications.
faramarz, bookmarklets like http://www.labnol.org/internet/googl-bookmarklet/11871/ should work just fine. To get history/analytics, just login to goo.gl and you're good to go.

Instead of a bookmarklet, I prefer to use this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/iblijlcdoidgdpfk...
Earlier they did not offer custom URL shortening. goo.gl was used by Google services like Reader, YouTube but it was not open to public.
Kevin Rose Speaks Frankly About The New Digg Rollout (TCTV)
My guess is that Greenland can handle the load just fine. :)
There is no sane reason for the dock connector to not be micro-USB. Discuss.
I agree with most of what you said, I modded you up, but I take issue with one section:

"In the valley, PR people are the second scummiest people--tech recruiters are the worst. Fun fact, when you go to most tech parties in the valley the only hot girls inevitably are PR or TR."

Unless by "hot" you really mean "well dressed" I disagree, and am somewhat offended. I've met plenty of attractive, competent technical women here in the valley.

On the other hand, if you restructured that to say something like:

"In the valley, PR people are the second scummiest people--tech recruiters are the worst. Fun fact, when you go to most tech parties in the valley the best dressed people inevitably are PR or TR."

I'd agree. Technical people tend to dress down, and when they do dress up, they tend to not be that good at it. Dressing up is an integral part of the PR/sales job role, so obviously, they are going to be better at it than we are.
Most of the layouts with water almost look like Peano/Hilbert type curves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
You mean something like this http://libswift.org/ ? I think I understand your point now. What we need is a standard mechanism for addressing devices. I'm not sure that building another layer on top of IPv4 would be any cheaper in the long run than converting to IPv6, given the amount of overhead caused by NAT traversal. This overhead also constrains the design of the overlay - you end up having static connections which are kept open as long as possible to avoid the connection overhead. If we could send UDP packets directly between every pair of peers without paying for the overhead of NAT traversal it would open up a lot of possibilities.
No, we couldn't. Unfortunately, Greenland doesn't sell X.gl or XX.gl domains. So goo.gl was the shortest we could get.
Hm but with that Chrome extension, it worked. So I guess there was an open API already.
First it Was Makeup, Now Gaming Gurus Booming on YouTube
Of course I'm kind of daydreaming, but it would be possible to see some stats before clicking a short link.

With the proper plugin or javascript, you could see the real link and the public stats hovering over the link (in a tooltip or whatever).