skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think TrueCrypt is the only good advice there; hiding a folder does nothing for your protection (people don't look at the stolen laptop for your credit card information, regexes do), and using hardware encryption just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, like consumer-level "hardware" RAID. (RAID controller dies; your data does too.)

I'm still surprised that people don't encrypt all their personal information, especially on laptops. Truecrypt doesn't even require a reformat or reinstall -- download it, click a few buttons, and your data is safe and there's almost no speed hit.
I actually didn't know that, so thanks.

It's interesting the way English gets along just fine without an official body making pronouncements about what is and isn't correct.
It would have taken you about 20 seconds with google to discover this is false.

"Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work."

""Discouraged workers" are a subset of the marginally attached. Discouraged workers report they are not currently looking for work..."

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm
re: health insurance and pre-existing conditions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-existing_condition#Pending_...
does anyone know if they've made a public statement about how they'll deal with the whole .ly domain risk that people have been buzzing about lately?
We figured this out at the end of 2008 when we closed our digital music startup, Mixwit (yc w08).

Not soon after we shutdown the founder of a similar service, Favtape, was sued. Yes you read that correctly, Favtape the business wasn't sued, the founder (Ryan Sit) was sued personally. I'm not sure what ever came of that lawsuit, but I'm fairly convinced our name was on their too until we shutdown since we had received threatening letters from the same label a few months previous.

At the time we looked up to imeem as a beacon, thinking if we made a kickass product we could be be on crest of a new wave of successful digital music startups. Fast forward a year later, at 16m users strong Imeem was "acquired" by Myspace for $1m (compared to $50m+ invested) and turned into a redirect to MySpace Music.

Looking back I'm happy we figured this out when we did.
Stop bullshitting.

We are not slaves of the Market, we shouldn't give it any information, it should give us information. That's the utility of the market you know.

When the game becomes "who has the fastest program to rip off this stupid risk-averse 401k guy trying to make few basis points above CD" Mr. Market totally defied it's purpose. That's when we should call the butcher and rip some tentacles off.
It's just noise: http://www.observer.com/2010/media/bitly-says-libya-scare-bu...
NYTechPoker.com - Yep, just like it sounds.
I think all he meant by REST was "Have an read/write api"
I think that's "mutual interrupt shield", not field, for any confused googlers like me.
The story title is currently "CEO of PopCap games". Vechey isn't the CEO, but a founder. He actually left PopCap for a few years to pursue his interest in film (before returning to the company).

Dave Roberts is the CEO, who fits the "adult supervision" CEO stereotype reasonably well. He's an older, business-savvy guy the three young founders brought in: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_i...
Watch out for messages that ask for your username and/or password. Gmail will never ask for this information.

While it's obvious what they're trying to say, this is oddly worded: of course it asks for your username and password when you log in.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Greenpeace?
I had a long discussion with one of their street recruiter people this morning and I came away uncertain of whether Greenpeace is a worthwhile organization to support. With regard to integrity and efficacy of their tactics, what do you know about Greenpeace and are they on balance as good as they claim to be?
Actually, I think saying Lewin was "an ex-mossad Sayeret Matkal expert who "coincidently" was seated right next to the terrorists who flew Flight 11 into the WTC" followed by "The US people must demand a new 9/11 investigation" suggests exactly that.

There's a huge difference between being an officer in an elite unit during your army service and being a spy.
You really want the order of arguments to be 'fn,list' when you're working with a language that has partial function application (currying with no special syntax, basically). In a language like Javascript where you have to resort to a curry function, there's no practical difference. A curry function implementation can actually be made to work with either argument order pretty easily.

And in javascript, having the function last is relatively standard and much nicer to look at.
This is pretty much what it's come to. But it's confusing in the midst of this slow bait-and-switch.

When I signed up for facebook, a big reason was the confirmation of "real-life" friends. Facebook was different than blogs or myspace because the network was "real". We were sharing with our real friends. This is becoming less and less the case. Which means privacy is slowly eroding in a non-obvious way. Sure I can just start assuming everything is completely public but 1) my friends/contacts don't always realize it and 2) without the real privacy, why not just move to blogs, etc. where it's clear?
While getting a blowjob, IIRC.

I mean, come on... that's only happened to me a handful of times.
About $50K. It was still ramping up at the time though and I am aware of people doing the same thing who, I believe, are easily making $1M+.
your confusion is exactly what the article was about

html5 is not a milestone, its a progression, it will never be finished and it started a long long time ago.
Having got the three guys off your back, how do you feel then?
Yes, that could happen...after they're granted a lien on the property because of the amount owed. Getting evicted is one possible outcome among many, whereas a lien is pretty typical and often sufficient to recover what's owed.
> neither had involvement from the so called “super angels” (except Hipmunk, which took an investment from SV Angel).

Neither followed by except! How about "only Alphonso didn't take funding from Super Angels"?
Something like "the one that just failed".
Trash Talking Your Frends
www.badmouth.me allows you to pick an voice character and send a personal Audio Clip to your friends. Sound interesting. What do you think?
Is anyone, on balance, as good as Greenpeace claims to be?
Yeah, I work there... and sometimes the level of trust you're given is mindblowing. It's incredibly motivating, though sometimes a little scary :)
A friend the other day called it "The Godfather of our generation". I don't really get how they got that out of it.

I came out of the theater kind of depressed. And worrying a lot about lawyers. I've always wondered what it feels like to be someone who works in a hospital and then comes home to watch a hospital drama on TV. Now I know. Its kind of weird.
Toy Story 3 did that too.
CA high speed rail cartoon debate (humor)
I think it sounds stupid!

I also think you created this account seven minutes ago just to submit this crap, and so you're probably a spammer. Flagged!
Membership Has Its Benefits
Do you mean like this?

var sum = function (a) {
return _(a).reduce(function (m, n) {
return m + n;
}, 0);
};

sum([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]); // => 45

Or am I not getting you?
The new logo is horrendous.
I've often wondered why Apple doesn't buy Adobe, kill all development for PCs, and leave Microsoft high and dry in the creative market.

Just saying...
That's good enough. I've added my info to your waiting list. Can't wait to see what you build!
Dylan's art is not guitar playing or singing. His art is songwriting. He expressed himself through songwriting extremely well despite his singing and guitar playing.
I don't disagree with the point you're trying to make. Obviously you have to have a product. But there is no such thing as 'no design.' The opposite of good design isn't 'no design,' it's bad design. The problem with trying to differentiate a product's functionality from its design, is that from a user's perspective, they're the same thing.

>You can have a functional site with no design

That's the thing. You may have all kinds of killer functionality, but if your design gets in the way of my ability to use it, you effectively don't _have_ a functional site.
"Risk averse" and "trying to make a few basis points above CD" are mutually contradictory statements.
Yehuda's point is actually that HTML5 is NOT like Web2.0. Everybody knew that Web2.0 wasn't a thing. Now there are people confusing HTML5 as a thing with the process of making the web better.
Using Saucelabs labs is like talking with someone over IRC. (In Selenium's case, it uses an RPC-ish HTTP API.) You tell us what to do (launch a browser, open a url, click a button, etc.) and we'll tell you the result. Your scripts talk to us, but you don't send us your selenium scripts. So, in this case, there's no "export" of tests, since you had them the whole time... Does that make sense?
I've been wanting to build a "scratch an itch" app using twilio. This gives me no excuse. Thanks!
WHY?!?! Why, God, oh WHY!

Adobe has long lost any luster it might have had, and has descended into outsourced maintenance-ware. An acquisition like this would be about as smart as Intel acquiring Mc(rap)fee...

EDIT: aCquisition.
I'm reading a design book right now, and one of the interesting concepts it brings up is that people work better when they enjoy the tools they are using.

BMW drivers are often happier (driving) than other drivers, and more relaxed (and by extension, a bit safer) in their cars than drivers of other brands. The effect of satisfaction, quality, and usability is not well understood but we do know it's significant.

I'm an amateur photographer, and I do know that I take better pictures on some cameras than others. On the el-cheapo digital SLRs, I find that the small size, the poorer button placement, the lack of a satisfying weight to the contraption, etc, all lends itself to annoyance. A quality camera feels right in the hand, has just the right weight to it, and feels good to use, and that does impact the things you do with it.

A lot of what people in this thread would qualify as "excessive luxury" IMHO is not as irrelevant and excessive as one would think at first glance.
The outcome of those two is the same. Likewise the outcomes of

var a = new Array(3, 4);

and

var a = [3, 4];

are the same.

However,

var a = new Array(3);

is not the same as

var a = [3];

The former creates an array with 3 empty elements, the latter an array with a single element initialised to 3. So the constructor syntax is dangerous to use with just one argument. Plus, the literal is just easier to type and spot visually.

There is a slight performance penalty for using named constructors: the runtime needs to look up the "Array" entry in the scope; nothing (except common sense) stops you from redefining it or shadowing it with a local variable. The literal syntax can be resolved at parse/compile time.

Fun JS array fact: the implicit arguments argument in each function looks like an array but its prototype is actually not Array. None of the Array methods work on it, although the special length property behaves as you'd expect.
Wow, am I the only person who prefers a shell prompt of just "$ "?

I have a bunch of abbreviations for common git commands, though, so I guess it balances out.
Working back from the fee is a very questionable assumption for the cost.

For that matter, I asked whether it was a case of people not reasonably being able to afford the cost five levels up; I'm asking about a "moral" distinction tptacek sees.
My god, with them together, what great software will they make!
> However, I stand by the fact that "mobile phones are bad for you" is an extremely irritating meme and I'd like to see it die.

Mobile phones are good for you is extremely irritating as well, probably just as much. All there is is research and evidence, you don't draw your conclusions based on things being 'irritating'.

You could discard pretty much all of science because it is at least irritating to someone, so we agree to not pick and choose but to follow where ever facts and evidence lead us, even if that requires putting to rest links that are suggested and that turn out to be false, lest we throw out a real possibility.

It is interesting that you would apologize and then you say the same thing again but in different words.
"so that even if someone gets in, they have to have basic skills to get to your data"

if they want your data, they'll just plug the HDD in to a different machine and bypass windows security that way, OS passwords only dissuade the most casual criminal
That's one way to do it, but you're falling back to explicitly defining a new function, rather than creating it by combining higher-order functions. Which kinda defeats the point.
Well, to be fair, maybe Flash for OS X would actually improve. On the other hand, Flash for Linux might meet with an unfortunate accident.
I'd say go for it. One major problem I had in the past was not taking into account the effects of growth over time.

The Wordpress marketplace is growing. Even if you've only got x amount of sales immediately, you can iterate, build stuff to sell back to your customers you've already acquired, and generally grow with compound interest.

No matter what you build, entropy will be built into your product. You can't ever sit on something and expect growth without continual effort. That's another major illusion I've struggled to deal with.

Takeaway: It takes the smallest snowball to begin rolling along and building momentum.
spy? now where did anyone suggest that? I think you're trying to guess too much into what other people think. Maybe you should concentrate more on known facts and analyze whether anything interesting can be obtained trough piecing them together.
There are a ton of these out there nowadays. A lot of them are OK, but I use: http://github.com/olivierverdier/zsh-git-prompt
I feel like there's a joke in there somewhere... Something about how an adobe (proper noun) is naturally small and soft. Seems somehow fitting for the two companies to become one, no?
I like knowing what branch I'm in without having to do a "git br".
I must admit, I'm confused. I will never be finished? Isn't it just a specification? Isn't there some time when they say the spec is done and signed off on by the appropriate standards bodies?
I think what's really missing is the answer to:
Who is this "Gap" of which you speak?
Oh I agree. We inspect elements of beautiful sites in Firebug to answer the question "How was that specific thing made?" Obviously Firebug does not find inspiration for you, it won't teach you the principles of design and it isn't going to design sites for you.
"Microsoft Flash".

shudder
Sid Meier and game students take part in 48-hour game coding contest
50-100% processor usage isn't already an unfortunate accident?
Commercial Dump Trucks- How do I start my own Business
If you are in the process of setting up a commercial dump trucks business, you have undoubtedly had some problems understanding all the intricacies of insurance for those vehicles. This article will give you valuable insight into specifically what...
Partitions happen, often due to human error. Asymmetric communication scenarios are not exotic at all. It's very common to see them when some link is saturated in one direction. This requires no complex routing, and I've seen it from something as simple as a badly configured backup script.

Also, beware of confusing your local failure detector for a global one. The emergent behavior is a pain when you don't take this into account.
Clickable: http://blog.iso50.com/2010/10/06/gap-redesign-contest/
Apple really needs to buy Adobe. Apple's response will determine how much life they see in their "truck" (OS X) line. This, coupled with Intel's comments on Apple, really make me wonder.
I don't know how Apple would feel about having to deal with all those enterprise customers who run Adobe software on PCs only. Also, a number of Adobe products don't have Mac versions, like ColdFusion and JRun. Yes, there are still places that rely on this software.
I have mixed feelings on them (although I will admit I haven't critically researched all of their actions).

On one hand, they bring awareness to people of pretty good issues. On the other, they have been known to use unethical or dishonest tactics in order to increase their exposure.

On the whole, I think they do good things, although their philosophical basis seems to be "the end justifies the means." At least in my experience, they really think they're correct on these issues and want to try and control what you do (good and bad) in order to reach their goals.
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It's probably worth noting that you can just use the original Underscore.js in your CoffeeScripts, which solves the problem with being out of date.

Underscore.coffee is a good demo of CoffeeScript though.
Looks more like they're trying to visually compete with American Apparel's use of Helvetica.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2010/10/gaplogo...

http://www.eternitemedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01...

EDIT—it looks like someone at iso50 had the same idea: http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/gapdesign2s...

It's a shame. Their condensed old style serif font subtly reminds me of Nirvana's condensed serif font.

http://www.survivingthestores.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06...

http://www.midnightincoventry.co.uk/site/images/stories/nirv...
If you don't backup your entire drive, it's still useful to know which files were on it. I have launchagent (OS X cron equiv) dumping a full file listing on schedule.
Seems like a topic people are bound to have a variety of strong opinions on, and pretty far removed from the normal topics of discussion here.
Or they know when they have a B+ game and want to cut their losses and get whatever sales they can for it.
I wonder if Microsoft is thinking the same thing. Either as a defensive move to make sure Photoshop will always work on Windows or as an offensive move and making Photoshop and friends windows only in an attempt to strangle the OS X platform.
link http://HelloFax.com
Puppet Labs acquires open source tool from author
I have the hardest time figuring out if you're serious or sarcastic.
Ask HN: How does growing # of URLs convert to growing business? I have a small app that does the opposite of bit.ly (converts shortened URL to the original ones, adding some info like page title etc). It's also "growing like crazy" - no big deal considering that millions of new URLs are created every day - but it just means more hosting costs for me. Any ideas on how to convert this to revenue instead?

(The site is on http://therealurl.appspot.com/ )
Unless they kill off the mac version of the creative suite, that would be a huge hit for Apple.
"sharing without the user's explicit permission" is what happens when you click "I like it too!".

A popup detracts from the user experience.
Actually, after the first version of the spec is finalized... html will be versionless. Hence `<!doctype html>`.
Note also that there's a more feature complete version that accomplishes the same tasks in the contrib directory of git (http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=contrib/comple...).

It's implemented in bash but I use it with almost no modification with the Korn shell.
> We are not slaves of the Market, we shouldn't give it any information, it should give us information.

When we're buying or selling, we have to give the market information as to our buy or sell price. We have to give information to the market in order to participate in it. The information coming out of the market, after all, is merely the aggregation of the information we put into it.

If the information you give to the market is "sell at any price" when what you actually meant was "sell at $40 or more", you messed up. Don't blame the market when you give it the wrong information and it takes advantage of your mistake; if you offer a ridiculous bargain, the job of the market is to allow others a chance to jump at that bargain, which is exactly what they did.
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I found the C# link in the article to be tenuous at best. JavaScript doesn't have namespaces or classes, so yes, obviously you'll need to do without them. Global variables are discouraged in C# - in contrast, uh, avoid global variables in JavaScript? Likewise, I wouldn't call creating objects using a constructor a "best practice" if that's the only way to do it in the language. Besides, there is a time and place for using new, even in JavaScript, mainly for creating functionality-heavy objects with a prototype. (as opposed to data containers)
The Next Social Networking Juggernaut
It doesn't. English does not get along just fine.

Say 'cucumber'. The sound of the first syllable is very different from the second, even though both are written the same.

Say 'stake' and 'steak'. Different graphs for the same phonemes.

Say 'E as in elephant'. Two different sounds for 'e'.

etc.

Present day English is so bad that written language is divorced from spoken language, but it is not bad enough to unite all speakers behind a spelling reform.
All the Toy Story films have 100% Top Critics ratings, in fact.
http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/this-week-in-start...
I thought it was the post-it note, and this was all satire. Guess I better read this again.
Strstr in libc was broken for some inputs (2010)
What you're saying is that so long as there are no partitions, the system can be Consistent and Available, but if there's a partition, it can't.

"Consistent sometimes" is not the same thing as "Consistent" and "Available sometimes" is not the same thing as "Available" - and so "Consistent and Available sometimes" is not the same as "Consistent and Available".

I believe you might be guilty of confusing "Eventual Consistency" with "Consistency".

Funnily enough, no-one has found much use for "Eventual Availability" so far.
He deals in non-obscure books with known pricing and demand. Your hard to find, obscure book won't be on his shelf. And on the off-chance it is, he's pricing based on other vendor prices, so it won't be cheaper.

So... consider him a saint all you'd like, but he is not helping you in the way you imagine he is.

All he's doing is going to thrift shops, and ensuring that poor people don't get any of the popular books at below market prices. Nothing saintly about that, IMO.
... or at least show the logo when you do display: none; the post-it ...
Killing off the Mac version of CS would do a pretty good job halting Apple's inroads into enterprise
That very much depends. If the equity is a part of the payment and you're a co-founder it is not rare to make out very well in the longer term. If a company is already established then equity (usually in the form of options) can be a substantial component of your compensation.
What comments by intel?
The article gives a couple of clues about how bit.ly makes money:

Its first source of revenues comes from Bit.ly Pro accounts, which are used by 3,000 companies and another individual 1,000 power users.

and

The bigger opportunity for bit.ly is in all the data it is harvesting about which links people are sharing in realtime... If you think about it, bit.ly knows what news is breaking because everybody is sharing it.

Interesting to think about moneytising the links in this way :-)
"The project to obliterate flash and replace it with something open needs a name..."

How about 'Throwing a perfectly good technology out with the bath water in the name of open source zealotry so that we can replace it with a mish-mash of SVG and Canvas graphics, multiple non DRM video codecs, and an ever moving WebSocket spec'? :)

Let the down votes begin!