skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When you are less than ten people, it is hard to invest in stuff like this."

True, but if you have the right 10 people, you won't have to 'invest' in it, it'll just happen. If an environment that small is created by the 'company' and forced on the 10 employees, they probably won't like it anyhow. If they design it themselves, and put their backs into it, they'll almost always love it.
How many international customers/subscribers do you have? MagCloud interested me at first, but with $13.45 to ship a magazine - with no option to group them, as I think I recall - it didn't work at all for me as a non-American.

And what are your thoughts on the general international market for your magazine?
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't get how "a single user can have way too much power over sales", unless the total number of ratings is very low. And, if the total number ratings is that low, then it sounds likes the sales problem predates the bad review.
This is 'drewcrawford. Reading ~10 pages of the last 60 days of his comments, I'm not seeing the unproductive arguments he's referring to. It's too bad; he's an interesting guy: lives in OKC, went to WWDC, has opinions about crypto. Maybe a bit too willing to invest himself in discussions that HN doesn't do well (politics, social justice).
Mandy Brown from A Working Library had a great blog post on this to emphasize your point: http://aworkinglibrary.com/library/archives/on_audience/.
It's a matter of SNR though, isn't it? Sure you can skip things and sure you can edit yourself, but it's also easier (healthier?) to just stay somewhere that, to your own personal comfort, delivers signal and promotes meaningful response.

The less I have to bear the burden and sink the energy cost of filtration the more I can put into comprehension, enjoyment, and growth.
Turbocharged Germany
If I remember correctly, it was quite easy to get access to booking.com and here's the documentation for their webservice http://xml.booking.com/
I emailed them, they said they needed to see a completed site. Thanks though
Emailed both a week back! Got out of office notices. Good spot though, cheers!
If the labels are guaranteed to be wrong, then you simply pluck a ball from the bin labeled "mixed". You know it's not mixed, since the label is wrong. Say you draw a white ball. You now know that bin is all white balls. You now have two bins left, labeled "black" and "white". The bin labeled "black" cannot be black, so we know that it is mixed; this leaves the bin labeled "white" as mixed.
To be fair, politics/social justice discussions seem to turn poisonous everywhere on the web and they probably produce a steady stream of people saying "I'm not posting there again".
If you're using PHP, a while back I found a library that returned a scored array of languages the texxt might be. It needed quite a bit of text to work well, but I was working with only a few sentences. I can probably dig it out for you if you want.
24 Bugs We’d Like to See Fixed for Firefox 4
Share your photos to let friends and other members see who you are
Open isn't always free
Sometimes I write a comment, but writing makes you think more clearly about the subject, and so I realize it is not very insightful.

Then I discard it and feel very proud for saving everyone's time.
This comment is nonsensical; it says that one bug damns all of Microsoft as a "huge pile of crap", even though that one bug is basically shared by everyone who has implemented AES.

Security researchers don't understand crypto. This is a hard fact that we all need to come to grips with. There are 100 people who can write clean-room ROP shellcode for every 1 who can explain CBC from memory.

It's hard to blame Microsoft for that problem. The people who are good at crypto generally suck at software. The people who are good at software generally suck at crypto.

(ROP shellcode, by the way? 2009-2010's new hotness. ASLR? From the early 2000's. Operating systems that reliably defeat ROP-style attacks? Zero.)

Also, note the comment thread you're replying to. Instead of offering insight as to whether this flaw exposes configuration files, you've chosen to use it as a total non sequitor opportunity to pick a fight about Microsoft.
From what I understood at the presentation, yes.
Actually it's not me the author. I run in the link at reddit (the conversation there wasn't that interesting about the topic) so i thought to submit it here.

Take care,
_e_

Ps: I sent an email to the author of the blog post inviting him to join the conversation here. If interested.
Well, the design is very nice, but I'm not sure what I'd use it for - it's a difficult middle-ground between document sharing and full project collaboration. I do, however, really enjoy the "comment on everything" feature.

Maybe you could elaborate more on your use case of writing a blog post: Does your app output formatted html that you paste into your blog editor? Do the entries become published pages?

Do you use a UI framework, or are the screenshots just mockups? Either way, they're quite nice!
Imagine for a moment... An autonomous robot that robs banks until it has enough money to order another copy of itself... while avoiding detection and putting some of the money into hiring coders to improve it's code.... kind of a cross between these 3 things:
http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/
http://news.discovery.com/tech/fooled-you-robots-learn-how-t...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
Which is precisely why they are largely discouraged here.
Backroom in my house, separate from yippin little doggies, connected to hacker friends via IM
Play Tastes Good online from y3 Games 
This cute little boy can eat absolutely anything in this funny cluster symbols in order to dissolve them logic game.
I will call it "Shamu"
Well, as said, my criticism comes from half a privacy angle, but mostly from the technical/execution angle.

Their prototype leaves so many basic (and hard!) questions unanswered that, to me, their architecture smells less like a conscious decision and more like a strong case of: "If all you have is a hammer then everything starts to look like a thumb."

In all honesty it looks like a non-starter to me.

Sure, "just start hacking" is what everyone tells young startups to do, and that's what they apparently did.

But that approach doesn't work very well for building a distributed system where all the components absolutely must snap into one another if you don't want the whole thing to fall apart under stress. Much less if your stated goals include terms like "privacy" and "security".

The old proverb "Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning" does not apply here, at all.
Yes to what exactly?
I wish people stopped complaining on HN that linked websites don't work on their iPads, and instead sent bug reports to Apple or authors of the websites.
Ooh, natural language processing, my first love.

You can take a corpora of text in any language, collect letter frequencies, and create a vector for each language. Then, when you have sample text, create a vector of letter counts. Take dot products of sample vector and pattern vectors, rank by magnitude in descending order as guesses.

You can also do this with bigrams or trigrams.

There is a lot of academic work on this question. I can't recall citations since it has been 7 years since I worked with it.
7 of the Best Free Linux Disk Usage Analyzers
FYI, WebKit-based browsers aren't passing your browser sniffer (drag-drop works in them, too).
I consider it extremely important–perhaps vital, even–to spend time engaging others intelligently who have diverging views from one’s own. I think that this is, on the whole, one of the most valuable uses of one’s time that exists.

Very interesting insight. If you're not doing things that are transformative -- that change your habits and the way you have of looking at the world, you're wasting your time. And I don't mean that in a philosophical or political sense. It applies to everything -- coding, marketing, time management. If you spend 3 hours on HN today and leave with basically the same opinions, habits, and immediately useful pieces of knowledge that you started with? Not good for you.

HN has always discouraged deeply nested discussions, seeing them as just so much noise. I've always thought that was whacked. Yes, many times you are in a flame war and nothing is accomplished, but the entire point of interacting with other people is to learn. So you'd think that a long conversation about, I dunno, pointer arithmetic, would have a transformative effect on both the participants and the community. I think the issue here is whether you view users as intelligent folks who are trying to understand each other, or cranks and trolls who solely exist to get some emotional thrill from flaming (yes, Gresham's Law comes into play here, but everything is a trade-off)

As it is, what's happened is this kind of lightweight, superficial herd mentality, with folks striking out fairly deep responses and then nothing ever gets settled. Lots of generalizations and high-level talk, nothing past an initial exchange or three. I've even questioned some longtime members about various topics and was told "I'm not posting to discuss, I'm posting to cut you off" more or less.

Once I realized that HN was idle geek chitchat and not the watercooler for entrepreneurs I wanted it to be, it changed my opinion of the place. I still like it, no place like it, but it also has this terrible time-wasting underbelly that we rarely talk about enough.
I don't read very many articles on Hacker News and I think I get a lot more out of it by being my own add on filter.

I avoid articles from techcrunch, nytimes, and basically any majorish news source (they usually can't keep my attention for some reason, even if it is interesting). What I do like are the new startup posts (sometimes they are interesting just to see what people are doing), the underlying tech posts or how someone solved an interesting problem (be it programming or something else) and anything else that sticks out I'll click on. After I click on them I skim them and see if it keeps my interest and then I read whatever is left, some days I don't read any articles and some days I read quite a few.

Also comments help the filter and if I'm grabbed by a title I might check the comments to see whether or not I am going to read an article.
It is still in mockup phase, but I will probably start building it today or tomorrow. I will use jQuery in combination with JavascriptMVC.

Well you could use it for anything where you need references and annotations near your content. For instance, you could be writing speech, and you could keep your references in comments, or you could use it for simple manager of your contacts, with each comment being a summary of your conversation. It's pretty flexible, and I want something more powerful than Notepad, but still simple to use.

One other use is writing down of martial arts techniques. You can write the technique down, add videos and pictures of technique that you found on the internet, keep log of your progress in comments etc.

Edit: I plan to create as many export formats as possible. Also you will probably be able to create public version of page.
Adobe misses low hanging fruit in Reader
That's almost certainly the right strategy for you. The people who founded cuil had a solution in look of a problem, in that they came from the search infrastructure teams at Google and wanted to use those skills. It turns out that running a search engine on very few machines isn't much of a competitive advantage, or even having a very large index.

They also got a lot of marking out of their "ex-Googlers take on Google" narrative which probably wouldn't have worked out as well if they were using something like your strategy.
"My group is predicting that within 2 years we will see an end to "free" credit cards that come with rates less than 9%."

I still see this as a good thing. More people cutting up their credit cards is one of the best things that can happen for long term financial stability, in my opinion.
> This comment is nonsensical; it says that one bug damns all of
> Microsoft as a "huge pile of crap", even though that one bug is
> basically shared by everyone who has implemented AES.

I'm not talking about bad use of crypto, I'm talking about: "the web.config thing" as an example of poor architecture legacy. Without all the issues in ASP.NET internal design, the Padding Oracle attack wouldn't be as serious as it is (IMHO.)

> total non sequitor opportunity to pick a fight about Microsoft

Again... I think Microsoft is doing an amazing job at security. But they still have a huge pile of legacy crap they need to address and sometimes, like ASP.NET "config thing", redesign.

Your comments on this bug are very insightful and I do not want to pick a pointless fight over MS with you. I clearly failed to try to make you see my point of view (and perhaps not agree with but at least see it isn't just a bashing rant.)
Android has always been sold as an open system + proprietary google apps. If you want access to the proprietary system (and presumably the Android trademark), you fall in line. Any company is free to make a phone without the proprietary google apps, but not selectively.

Yet for all this, Google still allows vendors to do things like lock the phone's search to Bing.
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Your points are definitely interesting. But I still think I'd teach a lot of what you wrote above before I'd even think to teach them programming. Plus, empirically, people have a harder time learning to program than e.g. learning to drive.
How is this notable?
That deserves karma!
Blogging your way around the globe without a laptop
Commodore to relaunch 21st century version of C64
Rethinking privacy; is it the modern day Madonna-Whore complex?
Ask HN: browser-based click-to-call service with API?
Is there any browser-based click-to-call voice calling service with an API?
I think they need a new target. This would make more sense five or so years ago as these organizations have bended to the market. I can now for free use YouTube or vevo listen to any song I want either on my pc or thru their iPhone apps. Similarly use hulu , Justin TV or YouTube to watch for free mpaa content.
Ask HN: Review my web app Followmy.tv
Followmy.tv is a social web app built to make it easier to track your tv shows. It tells you when the next episode is airing and allows you to discover new tv shows and share them with your friends.

The web app is built on a LAMP stack and uses the CakePHP 1.3 framework.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

http://followmy.tv
Ask HN: How do Swipely and Blippy get their data?
I couldn't find this online, but was wondering how they were going about pulling people's purchases?

I doubt all or any banks have apis. Are they then simply scraping data by using the customers log-in info?
Clickable link:

http://followmy.tv
+1 I voite for thesi card + chip on the card. I really love it.
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"Every community deteriorates over time" - I hate these kind of statements made by every community as it grows and the "older" generations feel that they come from an elitist or a superior, time of purity.

Just related: http://xkcd.com/603/
Really? What is your favorite non-config-file-using web framework?
Obviously it's one side of the story from Skyhook, as they're trying to spread their point of view. Would love to hear Google's viewpoint.
Speaking of stopping the madness, this guy's website uses a fixed viewport that prevents iPad Safari from zooming in and out. Stop the madness, indeed.
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Google Android is just begging to get forked, and splintered. Manufacturers like Motorola and Samsung might have to bend to Google's will, but I doubt carriers will sit tightly while Google's fangs sink deeper into their industry.
They have a point, but... <menu> != what they did. It's an add-on for an external menu on IE in Windows; extensions make sense there.
I've had a pair of Bose noise canceling headphones since 2004 and while they help, they're no substitute for the real thing. Hmmm, I haven't used them in a year or two and while checking them (looking for the model) I noticed the rubberized surface material enclosing your ears is now disintegrating :-(.

Most people listen to music, but I've read that studies show that increases programmer's error rates. I certainly know that for myself there's certain sorts of simpler work that go well with music I know well whereas harder work requires no distractions.

How difficult is the work your people are doing?
They weren't forced, it's open source. They could have shipped it without the Android trademark and Google applications. Apple also forced out Skyhook. Location based services are central to mobile computing, it's in Google's best interest to keep that built in to the Android platform and consistent.
I've actually thought that the biggest flaw in HN's interface is that the user's karma is displayed on the home page. I've no doubt it seemed like a good way to encourage and reinforce contribution, but I fear it's enabling to a subtle sort of addiction.

Precisely what that addiction is to is perhaps what's hardest to answer. Is it attention? Validation? Some more abstract notion of amassment and score? I've noticed myself looking up into the corner upon return to the site, and have even consciously avoided that gaze pattern at times.

It may even come down to such fundamental questions as the existence of altruism. Just as one can ask "are you doing this for someone else, or just because doing things for others makes you feel good?" one can ask at "are you contributing thoughtfully because you want to participate in the community, or because you want to see your karma go up?" If you want to see your karma increase, is it because you want to participate, or the converse? Can the two be functionally separated?
Chemistry Ph.D. thesis explained via dance routine
Revisionism is boring.
You'd be better off contacting them first, before clicking on the join button. These affiliate programmes expect to see an established service - allowing them to decide if the service is appropriate for their brand and product - after all, it's marketing people who handle this sort of stuff.

Not sure if you are aware of this, but the hotel and hostel business is dominated by a small number of B2B providers who you have probably never heard of. Ironically, I can't remember their names off-hand, but if you are serious, then consider approaching them in the long term.
Well, on hand you have people complaining that Android is too open and allows carriers to load crapware and disable tethering. On the other hand, we have people complaining that Android is too closed because Motorola couldn't switch location providers. Which one is it?
Looks cool, anybody knows how the handle the energy issue?
I feel a little obligated-by-honor to post this, as I frequently rag on news media for not being very good, but I think this is pretty good journalism. They put a bit of elbow grease and actual resources into this, it's a great way to get a bit of concrete perspective in what is one of the most abstract (yet real) crises we've ever seen, it's pretty much everything journalism is supposed to be. So my compliments, from a frequent critic.
Any opinions on pros/cons of using Varnish vs a CDN (Akamai/Limelight)
Good point. I hadn't noticed that -- it makes the argument even weaker.

Nearly everyone in this thread is taking for granted that foreign workers are more entrepreneurial, and using this piece as some sort of external validation of that view. But the article is just regurgitating a sound-bite. Without context, there's no reason to believe that the cited statistic implies a meaningful conclusion.
Brian does not claim to have been doing it before Juliano or Thai. He wrote the blog post to explain in layman's terms what the attack was and released his own version of the original POET tool written in Perl.
He's "merely" forgetting that von Neumann, von Karman, and Andy Grove all came from Hungary.
Well, for that matter HN has a fixed minimum width defined which makes it unable to display properly on an iPad (ie. without scrolling back and forth to read comments).
That's an excellent point. What I want to know if Microsoft have made an offer to bu Mono themselves - if they're serious about selling platforms other than Windows (like .net) it would be a massive boon to MS.
drag+drop not working on firefox 4. It does work with gmail.
Playing video games makes you faster, smarter
People pay for porn? If there's one thing you can get terrabytes of for free on the internet with only the most rudimentary search skills, it's porn...of all flavors.

Right-click and save-as is the easiest way to get it. FLV extractors get the rest, and if anything is even slightly harder it's not like there aren't hundreds of thousands of other sites.
I think it's the other other hand where people just like to complain. This reminds me of faux political controversy that gets created by cable news (replace Fox News with Daring Fireball).
The prisoner dilemma makes for good television, it’s as simple as that. See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Uos2fzIJ0&NR=1&feat... — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9VpKrwz9wU#t=2m37s

(Those all aren’t ‘perfect’ prisoners dilemmas, i.e. exactly like the gedankenexperiment because things like reputation can come into play or because the players can communicate.)
I don't see why people make such a big deal about karma...it doesn't affect anything...and noone can see it without checking your profile. And that's coming from someone who was #3 karma wise on this site.
hmm, our early tries with a php lib proved no good since we have very limited text to analyse each time (not enough, I mean, for the library to help us identify the language efficiently) :(
Just use sample data to make the site look complete for now. You'll gain 2 benefits:

1. It will reduce the chance of rejection for "incomplete site"

and more importantly:

2. It will allow you to start customer development and usability testing, which might be a better use of time right now anyway (before hours are invested coding and integrating).

I doubt your toughest challenge will be integrating an API. Your toughest challenge will likely be getting users to love the results.

Best of luck! It's great to see some of the recent innovation in the travel tech space.
Ucentric can deliver the what Diaspora promised
Diaspora is a big disappointment considering their funding pitch, but is a little-known Open Concept Project called uCentric actually about to deliver what Diaspora promised and steal their thunder in October?
Can someone explain the benefits to me? Thinner wallet, I guess? I don't know if consumers have much to gain from the security, so is this targeted at banks trying to reduce fraud?

It's funny I remember the square guys telling me you can get in a lot of trouble for re-programming credit cards, surprised this technology isn't violating some obscure laws.
I'd guess it's something like, "Our testing has shown Skyhook performs worse than our internal service in real world use and we want Android customers to have the best."
Probably the similar to how Mint and inDinero works; they use a third party service (such as Yodlee) which provide aggregation of financial data.

There was a thread about this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537825
Thank you sir! I'll post a "Review My Startup" in a day or two!
I'd love to know the names of these guys. Would you mind digging them up? Would really appreciate that. Thanks
I think PlayStation ads had the logo and a sound at the end of commercials for licensed games since the original PlayStation (although there was a voice that said "play station"). Even Wii ads have that though with the bowing i's in Wii and a sound effect. It seems to be a requirement for video game ads for branding. It's a good branding method, but it isn't distinctly Microsoft and they didn't originate it.