skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep; I realize this is usually taken to be poor form, though I'm no idealist - I did it while the APIs I was using were in flux (I flipped through a few upload techniques), and focused on getting it working right in a few before expanding to the many.
Then it wouldn't really be open source anymore. But you could stop people from offering it under your trademarked name (like the way Red Hat does it).
"What i'm hinting at is that institutional speculators and investors will be able to discriminate against pools by analying income, location of workplace, years of employment (another factor), income history etc."

Isn't this a good thing? Aren't these the factors that a bank should consider when deciding to lend money? Wasn't it the lack of such analysis that led to over-valuing mortgage securities that turned out to be worthless?

I'm confused.
Anybody that filters out the content generators like ehow, ask.com, demandstudios, etc will get an immediate nod from me. Wait.. doesn't DDG Do this? (honestly, I don't know)
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First it would need to be ported to Java.
The funny part about this story is that Thai's video (of him breaking DotNetNuke) breaks a 3DES key. The great thing about CBC padding and bitflips is that it's inherent to the block cipher mode; switch to DES-EDE, MARS, Twofish, or Serpent and you still have the same vulnerability. You don't even need to know how the algorithm is implemented! The same exploit will work, regardless of the underlying exploit.

You gotta love crypto.
Makes total sense. It looks great by the way.
I had high hopes for the SE platform back when you could pay to host your own. I've lost fascination with it now. StackOverflow is great but everything else ... Meh.

Browsed the cooking one and even submitted a question. Most of the best best answers are simply links out to other popular food sites/blogs. If that's going to be the case, it's doomed IMO. At least with SO you get solid answes with code in the answer.
I wonder if they can get around that by knowing the information, but not explicitly displaying it. For example, if one does a search and Hipmunk knows that Southwest has a plane scheduled at that time then they can provide a link to the Southwest website and a suggestion that "Southwest might have a time that's good for you." with a little "[?]" box beside it explaining that Southwest prohibits Hipmunk from explicitly displaying their info.

Obviously, another way would be Hipmunk getting authorization to use Southwest's data from Southwest.
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I've not found noise cancelling headphones on their own helped all that much. For me, there's still a set of frequencies that seem to penetrate past the noise cancelling tech - outside street traffic, some walking on floors, low frequencies, certain speech. Noise cancelling headphones while using whitenoise works better (though still traffic and such get through, just not as distracting). That said, for me, whitenoise on its own with cheap headphones was much better than fancy noise cancelling ones. My wife had a pair of the high end bose noice cancellers last year - they didn't work for me for work purposes, and they were too bulky for her to sleep with.
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You'll need mirrors which don't block the light. One-way mirrors are only half-silvered, which means they'll block more light than they'll recover. What you'll have to do is figure on something on the other side of the plants than the light source.

Take a look at the link to "Photosynthetic efficiency". Only about 13% of the light ("incomplete absorption") could be reused this way. Most of the rest of the energy is turned into heat.

Now, it is possible to be more efficient through layers. Take a jungle, where most of the energy is absorbed by the top level while lower-level plants make use of what energy comes through, eg, more efficient in dim light or better use of other parts of the spectrum.

You will be able to get some more efficiency by doing this, but it's going to be expensive, and nothing like "99%".
"That's because cuil was building a search engine from scratch rather than relying on bing's/yahoo's index to do the underlying scoring."

I've heard this in other discussions of DuckDuckGo here, and I don't understand why bing/yahoo allow a potential competitor free access to data that is so important to their search businesses. What's in it for Yahoo/Microsoft? Or is DDG paying for the privilege?
What "social stuff" do you find missing out of curiosity?
It's probably the same reason google allows free app engine accounts. If someone builds something cool, it's easy to integrate upon acquisition.
Well, if the mother was exposed to either the disease or the vaccine, and she is breastfeeding the baby, then the baby will have protection (another strong argument in favor of breastfeeding babies) until they are old enough for the vaccine.
They appear to suffer from outages sometimes though, which might be a problem.
Blur is only possible in IE with filter:blur (and I use it if available) - I've been bugging people to add CSS blur to WebKit :)
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I thought that Leber's congenital amaurosis was the first disorder to be cured via gene therapy.
if i type something too fast the results sometimes get muddled and stuck on the first letter i type. for it to work sometimes i have to be typing slowly. i also sometimes get some bizarre top results while i am looking for the second-to-most result. other uses show it entirely effective though.
IMHO DDG's success stems from the fact that yegg listens to the users, is small yet big, and addresses a niche market - the one that demands quality results and settles for nothing less.

By being small DDG can address issues that others will not even think or bother thinking about i.e. enhanced privacy controls, TOR utilization etc.

I believe that Cull was a dream that went south. Unfortunately that dream had a hefty bill ($33m).

Strangely enough I visited that site once before and could not put a name to a site until I saw a screenshot of it.
For any reasonable definition, I think gays and IV drug users are a tiny slice of the population. A quick google search suggests that 1-3% of the population is gay.

If we assume that HIV rates among blacks are distributed the same way as in the general population, then we find that black gays alone account for about 40% of HIV infections in 2008, while making up 0.1-0.3% of the population. Unfortunately, the data I linked to is not granular enough to prove this.

A comparison: gay sex was about 55-170x more dangerous than straight sex in 2008 (depending on whether 3% or 1%of america is gay). Unprotected sex is only about 6-20x more dangerous than sex with a condom (depending on which set of wikipedia numbers you pick).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom#In_preventing_STDs
On the Mac, it works fine.
My girlfriend just had a problem with her car, which she noticed when it wouldn't start. The oil light had gone on a couple of hundred miles before, and it was an old car. She panicked about how her engine was screwed,and it would cost her multiple thousands of dollars to fix, and I lost it saying how you need to check the oil regularly.

It turned out to be a $25 repair. They replaced a washer.

Sometimes things that look like they require some great, superhuman effort, but end up just involving basic day to day effort.
If this looks familiar to you, it was previously at http://joshblog.net/projects/logic-gate-simulator/, announced on http://joshblog.net/2008/11/03/logicly-a-logic-gate-simulato..., as a demo for a user interface library called flexwires.
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> They would either conquer an empire or die.

funny thing was, they mostly did both!
I'm on mac chrome... uploading a hundred or so random pics i saved from reddit/digg... you are going to end up with the most bizarre collection of pics from everyone uploading their own strange test pictures. http://www.dropmocks.com/m1e4 :)
Alexa says cuil and ddg are about the same. (I know alexa sucks etc etc)
How is that different from anyone else not born in the US? They also have a 'home' and established business relationships.
Yeah, if it's not in there, it seems like a rather large oversight. Blur is ridiculously frequently used, and it's so simple to implement.

In any case, gorgeous work :)
I like the ~/x and ~/i. I also usually create a ~/tmp for temporary builds and stuff that I don't want to have automatically cleaned up, but about a year ago I changed the default download location in the browsers I use to /tmp -- this has saved me a lot of space and a lot of time cleaning stuff up or trying to remember what something is or why I downloaded it -- the system cleans it up, and if I want to keep it after looking at or evaluating it, the act of moving/copying it out of /tmp is enough of an effort to help me remember more about it.
Few comments on minor details

Your definition of what friendpod is - includes the friendpod word itself. Also I had read 4 lines to get to the line what friendpod is actually is. It could be reworded as

friendpod is a group texting service. When one of you sends a text it goes to everyone in your friendpod. Use it for
- your roommates
- people you go out with on weekends
- friends from home
- a few coworkers

Friends from home ?. It doesn't make sense to me.

Also the other thing, there is a similar named website - friendspod.com ( a service in India) offering vaguely similar service. Choice of website name could have been better.

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Courts should also consider the length of the excerpt and the potential affect on the market for that work.
What really surprises me is the other half. Americans? Who could have thought?
pretty slick :)

I created a client-side image shrinker - demo at http://kimsal.com/shrinker - github at http://github.com/mgkimsal/jsclientshrinker Perhaps integrating this functionality for images that are 'too big' (whatever file size you decide) would be a nice enhancement? :)
I was totally expecting crap like below when cloning the project:

* literal SQL without escaping (They use Mongo it turns out)

* 10,000 lines of controller action (The biggest one is Photo#create, but far from huge). PS: They use carrierwave, which is AWESOME.

* giant business logic in the views (They use haml and the code is clean).

* Not escaping user's input (OK, there are places where they forgot to put it).

Their code is far from shit. Easily improvable as they gain more developers. Aren't we too quick to judge?
Now that is a hard core obsession; with retrocomputing or JavaScript, I'm not sure which.
No kidding, and nice collection :D My first round was pretty weird too: http://www.dropmocks.com/mvIz
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Simple, works with all the pics even if the upload takes a while. How long until you run out of s3 storage or have to increase the size of your rackspace cloud server?
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About a paragraph and a half of that, I'm hoping to avoid by using Heroku.

But I can see marketing/SEO on the horizon, and I could definitely use some other hands on deck so that I can do new development in addition to improving what's already built.

A question: would tighter control on your own growth (if feasible) have made it easier? or did you need the growth to find out what to do next?
This is really wonderful. Our design studio is constantly posting PS comps for clients. We spend a significant amount of time outputting JPGs, building little galleries, loading the files to our servers, then sharing links to the designs via Basecamp.

Over the years we've come up with a few clever hacks to speed things up. For example, we keep our designs in svn and can quickly push updates live to our servers using a commit hook. But this is all sort of complicated, and I'd much rather use a web-app like this.

Dropmocks is very close to being the perfect tool for our workflow, and I suspect many other design/photo studios would feel the same way. A few features that folks like us would want/need: ability to pw protect galleries, ability to maintain revisions of designs, commenting (by both designer and client), and a way to export images to PDF.

Not sure if you'd target Dropmocks for businesses (such as ours), or if you'd like to have it open to the world and ad-supported. If the former, we're the kind of people that would sign up.
I was able to re-order mine. The UX isn't obvious that you can, but it works just the way I thought it would by drag-and-drop.
You can exclude yourself from Google Analytics directly.

http://www.google.com/search?q=exclude+yourself+from+google+...
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The vague references to security bugs are an act of charity.
I'd also pay, with one pony request: the ability to brand the experience so that I had my company's logo in the bottom right (for example) and URL mapping (perhaps just to a subdomain).
I think an auction's network effect is harder to beat. Search doesn't have the network effect so Google was able to win just by being the best, to beat google at search now you're going to have to be an order of magnitude "better" and have non copyable tech. Facebook was able to beat Myspace even though they had the network because for personal identity the tone and "coolness" is very important. But for an auction it's all very impersonal the only thing that matters is the size of the network, there's not a lot of opening for a competitor. The only way I can imagine to beat ebay would be with a massive amount of money to just pay people to come over.
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At the moment DDG is effectively a customer, not a competitor. If DDG ever became large enough to show up on Bing's radar (Bing currently has 600x as much traffic), you can bet that the terms would change.
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A thought, before this potentially spreads far and wide:

Should we be spreading this? Or might doing so tank your server / storage / bank account? Do you have any limits in place to protect you?
We offer paid themes and directory promo spots.

Treat yourself to a pretty theme:

http://www.tumblr.com/themes/premium

You'll also be supporting the theme designer in the process.
I am a "single" founder myself who is still in the early stages of my web publishing platform but this sounds already like what I am (and will be) doing. I am a developer and a designer at heart so maybe, just maybe, I might have a bit easier road than you =P

I don't have founder related questions but I do want to ask you about the MagCloud platform (http://www.magcloud.com/) your are using for publishing your magazine. I never heard about it before (and surprised HP does this but thinking about it it's not the first publishing platform they do: there is also http://www.tabbloid.com/).

1) How did you come up with the pricing? Do you break even? From the site I see that MagCloud charges 20 cents per page and for 90 pages that's $18. If you charge $19.50 your profit is $1.50. Is that enough to build a business upon?

What I do know from working for a niche magazine publisher for over two years is that there isn't revenue to be seen when you take into account printing costs, distribution and returns of issues that were not sold. (Which is why it ceased to exist.)

2) I see that some other publishers place ads within their magazine. Are you doing that or have you considered doing that?

I could see a publisher charging much less for the magazine if they can offset the printing cost (and salaries, if applicable) and even possibly turn a profit with advertisement alone. However, I can't see this kind of platform raking in as much readers (or circulation in publishing-speak) as regular off the shelf magazines which basically means less advertisement money and harder to get advertisement opportunities.

3) I see they are offering an iPad app which allows you to view complete magazines. It's more akin to a closed-garden PDF reader (which might explain the 1.5 star app rating) but that's besides the point I am getting at... At the moment they only support publishers who wish to publish their magazine for free -- which you don't seem to do since I can't find you in their iPad store. Would you make your magazine available for free provided you can support yourself with advertising only? If so, do you think you alienate any hard copy purchase? At 20$/100 page + shipping (>=$3) it isn't really a steal for most readers and even for the materialistic ones when they know they can get the content for free (provided they have an iPad of course).
Ah, okay. So more like rvm, then.
"a plant (if I recall) uses only two [frequencies]"

You mis-recall. It has two peaks in the absorption spectra but they are not narrow. In other words, a plant is green. There's no way to absorb only two frequencies and still be green.

"Wheat is say 1% efficient at solar collection"

Using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency as a guide, about 28% of sunlight energy is collected by chlorophyl. Of that, much is used to keep the plant alive (sugar production, respiration, growing roots). About 1% is left for human use.

It's the 28% that's relevant here, not the 1%.

In other words, 28% for plants beats "crappy solar cells" at 8%. Now, 47% of the energy is outside the 400-700nm range that chlorophyll can process so you might be able to double the energy use if you can find a good way to upconvert/downconvert light into that range. That would at best double what you can grow.

Which is still nowhere close to getting viable farming in an urban center.
So it isn't exactly an AES Cookie Encryption Attack, it is actually worse: http://www.ekoparty.org/juliano-rizzo-2010.php

The most significant new discovery is an universal Padding Oracle affecting every ASP.NET web application. In short, you can decrypt cookies, view states, form authentication tickets, membership password, user data, and anything else encrypted using the framework's API!
It is running on App Engine so to an extent it will be free. http://dropmocks.appspot.com/
I don't think so. Maybe it falls back to flash on some browsers, but it works just fine on Chrome with flashblock enabled.
Are you going to enter it in the lunch with USV contest? http://blog.twilio.com/2010/09/win-lunch-with-albert-fred-an...
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I'd say try to compile the document with things that are actually realistic. Many of the suggestions here are akin to having a meeting with Obama and telling him 'Shut down the military and divert the money to solve world hunger!' and similar statements that may sound good but in reality aren't going to be taken seriously.

If you send through a document to Ballmer saying he should drop .NET, throw away Windows Phone 7 and base Windows on Unix, he isn't going to be likely to take any of your suggestions seriously (even if you did throw in ones that were realistic and made sense).

I'm sure you already realise this, given you're smart enough to have been asked to produce such a document, but focus on slightly smaller things that could actually make a difference.
Check out the quote that the authors of the paper in question note:

The most significant new discovery is an universal Padding Oracle affecting every ASP.NET web application. In short, you can decrypt cookies, view states, form authentication tickets, membership password, user data, and anything else encrypted using the framework's API!
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Transitions are pretty jerky for me, but really great idea. Thanks for open sourcing the code, I'm excited to see where this goes!
I'm willing to bet that they simply didn't eat their own dog food and use their search on a day-to-day. They couldn't have. The results were so bad as to be unusable.
I made a similar thing a few weeks ago (though much more crude) to use amongst a group of friends who were living in the same apartment complex. One thing I realized after I made it is that this general system of texting with Twilio is not going to be cheap since if you have a lot of users each text could cost a good portion of a dollar, nevermind if there were a conversation. You going to foot the bill or have you found a way to make it cheaper?
Talk to your customers and find out what they like and don't like. Then figure out how to improve the product.
Hard to overcome having your company name be synonymous for abstraction from reality.
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There is an Android NDK, but it's meant to give Dalvik stuff some extra oomph.
I would love to see this technology used for article submissions on HN.

;-)
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But ... but ... if it goes down, how will it ever kill Google? =:-o
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One I use often is that 1 Mbps of IP packets ~~ 10 GB / day of data. (1 Mbps is 10.8 GB/day, but TCP/IP overhead will typically eat up at least 0.4 GB and usually close to 0.8 GB from that.)

Another, more often financial calculation: If you have X% growth, it takes 72/X time periods to double. (Accurate to within 1 time period for X% > 2%, and accurate to within 10% for X% < 29%.)
I'm worried that this is going to be one of those group think exercises where people are simply going to key off of their opinions without even looking at the code. Or, worse, reiterate their claims on other forums. I don't think, at least in Patio11's case, that this is gross self-promotion, I think its simply arrogance.
Neat!

I'd consider tweaking the selection algorithm. Especially if word gets out you may be looking at a "frist psot" situation pretty quickly. Some human selection is probably unavoidable if you're going to avoid that. (Or spamming.) But big thumbs up on the core idea.
Here's a suggestion, since I wanted to build something similar at some point. You should allow the friends you text to send back a yes or a no as to whether their in or out (interested or not interested in doing the proposed event). I'm constantly having to text all my friends to find out if there are enough people interested for things that require a certain number of people. For instance, going out with 2 other friends.. not so fun. Going out with 4 other friends, it's a party. Playing Settlers of Catan with 1 other friend... not so fun. Playing Settlers with 3 other friends, game on!

You would add a trigger that would automatically send out confirmations that the thing is going down when the threshold is met. Easy-peasey.
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According to Gabriel, he filters out spam aggressively. So the answer is probably "yes".
In this sentence (You can add up to 6 people, but less is fine.), you should use the word "fewer" instead of "less".

Fewer is for finite, less is for infinite. (fewer apples, less flour)
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