skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's TLS 1.1 SNI extension which adds vhosts.

Works — of course — everywhere except IE6/7XP.
Github links to the demo here: http://getholla.com
The mortality rate went down in absolute terms, but up in per cyclist terms so your theory is the wrong way round. To explain more cyclist injuries you'd have to give a reason why the more committed cyclists that continued to cycle regularly were more likely to hurt themselves.

You could blame the helmets themselves for causing injury and that may be partly true but a more likely reason is 30% less cyclists meaning that car drivers were less used to sharing the road with cyclists. A common bike accident term is "SMIDSY", meaning "Sorry mate, I didn't see you" since they simply didn't expect a cyclist to be there.
Thanks, all comments were helpful.
Hey me too! It happen on more than one occasion so I know it can't be coincidental. Very often, I will get stuck in debugging a programming problem and after spending hours on it, I give up and take a nap. When I wake up either the next day or hours later, the solution presents itself after working on it for a couple of minutes. It is like a nap reboots our brains (there are lots of articles about sleep and synapses).
Well, that makes the anti-helmet case even stronger. If the most dangerous riders from the pool were in the 30% that stopped biking and if the helmets were actually helpful, wouldn't it make sense for the reduction in mortality rate to be bigger than 30% as opposed to the actual 17%?
This is exactly the type of discussion i expect to get if I go to reddit.

Can you please explain its value for hackers community? I personally dont see any.
Flagged.
Jason Calacanis recently interviewed one of the Diaspora guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEtantlSsI

The interview starts around 25 minutes in.
I've spent hours looking at simple statics problems that I know I should be able to solve in fifteen minutes, but just can't for whatever reason. It's like I've gotten on the wrong mental track early on and can only move further along that track or backwards. I'll give up for the moment to go eat or see some friends or just make contact with the outside world for an hour or so and during that time, the answer presents itself without much effort. I can then come back and redo the problem within 20 minutes.

I wonder, though, if these epiphanies could have happened without the hour long struggle preceding it. Leaving a problem, it feels as if my mind is untangling itself and organizing this mess of thoughts.

What I would really like to see some research on is the mental barrier between myself and starting the work in the first place. I'm looking at it right now... :|
It think these are two different things.

Our brains can go on working on the problem even if we take a rest. If we rest with a the problem in our head, we are actually still focused. Probably, relaxing and letting the brain do its job without forcing it into one direction, often results in a good solution. Same with me, btw.

The study, as I have understood it, is more about giving up with a problem. You give up faster, if you think your resources are limited. It is more the contrast between either you relax in order to solve a problem, or have some beers with your friends talking about soccer and thus escape.
concur, hiding the http is annoying to me
Yes, but each time you go, the input data (like the microsecond since 1970) is different.
I missed Rich say these somehow. I'll update the post.
It's Windows only; which you did mention, but only at the very end of your comment.
We mostly use our cellphones, but we also have the cheapest POTS plan we can get.
Windows 7 has an abstraction layer for Documents ("Library"). Otherwise a good Desktop search can provide an additional layer.
Is that a good example of what the article states though? "The belief in it is what influences your behavior."
Facebook comes down hard on Faceporn
Basic is useless - sends password in the clear.

Digest authentication is safe against passive sniffing (it doesn't exchange any password/token in the clear and uses nonces), but it doesn't protect against active attacker who could modify server headers and replace "Digest" with "Basic" to reveal password.
Fair enough, although I've never actually seen an AC/AC converter without a DC link in real life (the closest thing probably being a direct torque control VSD).
Oh boy.. remember when Google App Engine launched with a demo (and free) app resembling Campfire? 37signals cried foul until Google took it offline. Let's hope 37s doesn't hear about this one..
If there is demand for taxi regulation, there is an incentive for entrepreneurs to supply it (e.g. quality labels).

The need for positive freedom does not proof the legitimacy of positive rights.
Very nice. Another nitpick - I really like what Apple have been trying to do to in creating a UI affordance that says "this is a search box" - i.e. a text entry with round ends. I hope all the devs out there can join in and not use that appearance for regular text fields.
Would be nice if users could save interesting locations.
> How many new servers are going to be needed now that https is used for everything and requests can't be cached?

Wrong. You don't need to use https for everything -- you can specify a domain and a path in the cookie. For things like images, videos and css, you still don't need SSL.
The screenshot doesn't fit in my normal browser window and I don't get a horizontal scrollbar to pan to the right. Could just be Firefox 4 being buggy though.
I made some success by showing off git-svn in the environments/places where they were still using svn. I would show off by using many local branches, by doing things like fixing bugs in another branch right away, test other developers' commits in other branches to see if they really work, or basically things that are hard to do with svn. They still get to use their svn repos as the "origin" but they meet the flexibility of git.
To their defense, that demo did look very much like a clone of Campfire.
Consider it a favor from Google to point out how insecure wifis are if you don't use any encryption.
Tabe Doof Ball Free Online Game
I was knocked off my bike by a car about 4 months ago whilst not wearing a helmet, I had forgotten it that day and had just had an earful from my girlfriend about it.

Both me and the car were doing about 20mph, fortunately it wasn't head on and they just swiped across into me. I went flying and landed square on my chin, at that speed there is nothing you can do to "fall in a better way". I ended up in hospital with a suspected broken jaw although it could have been far worse, if I had landed on the top of my head rather than my face I could have ended up with brain damage - or worse...

With the way I fell a helmet would have stopped me from having a huge graze from my chin up to my forehead.

Helmets do work, it is true that they aren't going to save you in a head on collision with a speeding car but they will help prevent sever head injury in the type of accident that happens commuting to work.

Frankly I think its stupid not to wear a helmet, I was stupid, and it should be law in the UK to wear one. Your head is the most important part of your body and you should do what ever it takes to prevent damage to it!
If life is hard, than you're too busy to think about life.
Everything you're doing is meaningful, because it keeps you
alive.

In our society we pretend to do important work. But a lot of
stuff is just too keep us busy. If you're able to look
through this, than it can be quite depressing.
I realize it's a bit "me too", but having used Twitter and other social media during the Turing apology campaign I too agree with Gladwell. Twitter's great for getting a message out, but I don't think it's going to change the world.

However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't use it. It's a very valuable addition to the arsenal. Pity Gladwell doesn't use his Twitter account.
Bees' tiny brains beat computers, study finds
Thanks for the kind words about FC... those were fun days...at least for me :-)

Regarding TinyLetter, I suppose it automates that process were you might collect addresses with Google and sending with Outlook.

Do this to see what they look like: Go through the short sign up process. Then subscribe to your own newsletter. Rhen click "Write a newsletter." Then write something, and click "preview"

Wow that sounds complicated -- trust me it's not. But you make a good point...there should be a way for people to get an example newsletter in the mail so that they know what they look like.

Thanks!

Philip
The value of a personal bug log
Because a) they know at the time the plane is designed the exact power draw of all those bits of kit and b) said bits of kit can be designed from the ground up to play nicely with aircraft power supplies.
An interesting thought: should we blame Google or should we blame the unencrypted wifi hot spots?

The fact that it's so easy to sniff unencrypted wifis should be more worrying. I mean Google turned over the raw data, I may do the same and intentionally sniff even more data, steal everybody's password and not admit it.

Like the author said, you can punish Google, but that won't make those hotspots more secure. And you never know when will a real evil guy come to the neighborhood.
I find that after throwing myself at a problem too long, I have a hard time approaching it differently from how I've been approaching it.

Sleep seems to reset my mind. If I approach the same problem after waking up, I come up with a fresh perspective.

On the other hand, if I'm "in the zone" before I go to sleep, I wake up and it's gone.

I think that also explains my tendency to stay up till 7AM... need to take advantage of the productivity boost while it lasts.
Directories, not folders. Only Windows got folders.
These are poor counter-examples.
If you're referring to my examples, I'd love to hear some arguments :)
Hey, it's a cool idea, and one that needs to be addressed because google still haven't mastered the art of the playlist on youtube.

I think you should change the logo, it looks a bit cheap.

From what I can see, anyone can contribute to a mix, this isn't desirable, if you can figure out a way of upvoting the best mixes, you might be onto a winner ...

good luck
Thanks -- I've been looking for one of these ever since APC stopped making theirs about four years ago.
This goal isn't really that far off. Modern OSes already have a composite, relational metadata index built by the system Search indexer; if an Explorer/Finder-alike simply hid all the hierarchical detail, and presented the already-relational information relationally, as a set of libraries (with rendering plugins so, for example, iTunes could display your song library prettily within the file manager itself) you'd already be 90% of the way there.
I would go even further and call for the death of "files". Of course, files/filesystems will always exist under the hood but I think it is conceivable that in the future, filesystem operations become increasingly unneeded. There will be an iTunes/web app. for documents, books, software, etc.
It has permalinks, but I see what you mean.
I repeatedly posted about this being terrible on reddit, I was repeatedly told to stop bitching.

It's a pain, surely this is something that you don't do, the user highlights "foo.com" and is instead given "http://foo.com. It's as bad as the sites that use Javascript to inject "read more @ http://bar.com...

It wouldn't be so bad if it was optional, but don't expect that of Chrome, oh no.

It also leads to an inconsistent experience, I'll quote myself: "If the URL you're using is http://website.com and you copy website.com, you get http://website.com, but if the URL you're using is https://website.com and you copy website.com, you get website.com. It not only messes with copying by changing what you copied into what it thinks you want, it's inconsistent with that guessing."
Durkheim published more than a century ago a book that "invented" sociology about suicide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(book)

One of the common findings in that field is that you don't do stuff based on absolute measurement, but always relative. One of the good examples studied are revolutions: you don't do revolutions because what you have is intolerable, but because you can see, either near you or in a theoretical model a better solution.

To come back to suicide, one of the reason he provided as a lesser suicide rate among the catholics and jews is the social pressure: you just don't do that. With a weaker social link (that isn't incompatible with more happy society), committing suicide is even more accepted.

Ie. I'm surrounded by happy people that don't care about me,
that's quite an incentive to look for a final solution.

Beside, might be that these countries as a all are more happy because the less happy persons are no more because they committed suicide ?

Read durkheim, still a enlightening author.
Some things I've found are best to keep fairly stable for longer periods of time. Branching policy with git is one of these. I'm not sure of your experiences with managing development teams using git but from mine I've found setting a branching policy(this one actually) and making sure people stick to it is the best way to minimize confusion and keep people on track.

Side note: I think the reason your previous comments were down voted wasn't your concern about the age of the article so much as your lack of a better alternative. If you could say "This was from Jan and this has been shown to be better" people would probably be posting stories about your new technique. To just say it is 10 months old though adds nothing to the conversation.
really cool ... i'd like to help with this also

feel free to email me: nellboy(AT)gmail(DOT)com
I found the UI unappealing and the heavy use of rotation effects amateurish.

Is this the best they can do? Draw rectangles...

Vertical list of applications??? Microsoft what have you been smoking?

And sorry but I just can't shake the feeling that the UI looks like some half-baked demo.

Microsoft should have just copied the iPhone and Android, they would have had a lot more success.
Too early to write them off too.
Let's hope my issue helps. I wrote it as to-the-point as I could, with no bitching and hopefully well reasoned arguments.

They're obviously tired of people claiming suckage without explaining why they think it sucks, and probably tired of even hearing about the issue in general. They've merged LOTS of dupes into http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467
If they had done that, I am sure you would have commented here saying it looks like a cheap imitation. Have you actually used the phone?
Give the crawler a few minutes (no more than ten) to catch up - currently new feeds aren't crawled immediately. I'll add that to the list of things to change.

You should put a note about this.

I like the minimalistic design.
I've had two serious motorcycle incidents where a helmet protected me.

One: I fell off at slow speeds going round a corner, there was oil on the road, no ones fault, banged my head quite hard but was otherwise fine.

Two: On a motorway at ~65MPH a fucking prick threw a coke can out of his car which quickly decelerated and hit my visor. The visor cracked but maintained it's integrity and saved at least my nose and at most my life.

Please wear a full helmet, there are a lot of pricks in the world.

PS: I'm swearing in this post so you get the idea that 15 years later I still get really angry at this idiot.
Good idea, thanks; glad you like it!
This is one of many reasons Loopt has used SSL for all[1] traffic from the very beginning. At least WiFi has fairly limited range. Cell networks[2] (and satellite internet[3]) can be sniffed miles away.

In addition to making session hijacking harder, using SSL keeps crappy proxies from caching private data. Remember when some AT&T users were getting logged in as other users on Facebook's mobile site? The cause was a mis-configured caching proxy.

Raising awareness of issues like this gets them fixed. Until a service's users demand SSL, it won't be offered. Unless the service is Loopt :) It's not a noticeable computational burden, but it does increase latency and cost money (for certs).

1. Not images
2. Older GSM crypto can be hacked in real time with rainbow tables now
3. Usually not encrypted at all
HN Loop
Nice, but demo would be great :)
For OSX I use 'DigitalColor Meter', comes with all OS X's and isn't browser based. Can do Hex + RGB, install Afloat and you can keep it above all windows on your mac.
Shipping To South & Central America
Are you looking for some international shipping companies? Not satisfied with the earlier shipping service provider? Frustrated with the damaged goods? Then stop worrying about anything as now Shipping International is offering the best shipping solutions
Ok, i Found it :) it's on: http://getholla.com
It's as bad as the sites that use Javascript to inject read more @ bar.com...

No it isn't don't be ridiculous
This may give RIM some competition in the mobile enterprise space.
Even though the articles claims that its a worst case scenario, most people on an airplane wouldn't use their 19", 8kg über-gaming laptop. Most people would probably use more portable versions, ending up in a avarage effect that is way, way below 220W.
The driver's knowledge is not superseded by technology. Transit times in London are heavily affected by factors not taken into account by SatNav devices. Roadworks, time of day, congestion patterns due to current events, and accidents, all can change optimal route selection by factors of 5 or even 10, and all are taken into account by the London cabbie. I would trust a London Black Cab driver's route selection over SatNav every time, without fail.
For me the best way to tune my life has been to hack it completely.

My wife and I saved money while learning to create projects on our own + start working remotely too (gradually).

We then moved to the country-side so that we can take better advantage of what we had earned. We can currently sustain between 5 and 8 years of doing whatever we like (after buying a house, which we consider), so we own the most part of our time.

This basically translates into a lot more time for hacking/projects/marketing, but also time with kid, cooking, yoga, music etc.
I had a bad burnout this summer. I literally couldn't stand looking at any code. Although 4 weeks trip with no access to computers - only new cities, mountains and heavy metal gigs - fixed me.

I've two big problems. First is I work from home. So sometimes I work 12-16 hours a day. By "work" I mean I sit in front of my laptop, but it doesn't mean I'm productive. Second problem is that being INTJ, I don't have much friends, so I usually end up staying at home for days (and coding most of the time) until I run out of groceries.

After I got back from my "sanity trip", I started doing several things to avoid burnout.

- Cycling. Used to do 30+ kilos almnost every day. Now it's getting cold here, so I do few short rides a week.

- Walking. If I'm not cycling, I try to get out of the house every day. Just to wander in downtown or get rolls from a bakery 15 minutes away.

- Eating out. I occasionally go for lunch with friends working nearby.

- Limiting my hours at keyboard. I moved most of my reading to Kindle, either in bed or outside. Previously, even after work-hours I was slipping from reading back to work easily. Kindle helps to avoid this.

- Meeting with friends at least once a week. Even if you think you don't have friends, try calling people you know and ask them out. There's a big chance that they have nothing to do as well :)

- Heavy metal. This helps me stay sane A LOT. Listening to records is good. Live shows are even better. After a nice (well, nice in metal way) gig I've energy for whole week. If you don't like heavy metal, listen to rock, classic, jazz or whatever you like. Listen not while working, but truly listen to music. And go to live shows. That's where music becomes Music.

So far, so good. I'm putting in less hours, but delivering more.
great product! I love it. We currently use Jaconda.im at my office. Holla seems as good !

Only one little bug in the demo, when I click on "XMPP/Jabber" I'm redirect to http://getholla.com/$%7BgetXMPP%28%29%7D with an error (The page you were looking for doesn't exist)
Oh, I forgot to say - if you 'read more' off the login page, I've written a bit of a blurb about the benefits as I see them - direct link: http://dambr.com/About.html.

I think I'll add that and the contact link to the site menu bar.
I can sympathise.

15 years ago while cruising along a country road at 65 mph, I very clearly remember seeing, for a flash of a second, the point of a beak of a small bird as it hit my visor right in front of my left eye.

Without a visor (or helmet), I would have been blinded for sure.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/954327/hidden-features-of...
That's my problem with Microsoft software ... they get hyped months or years in advance with nobody actually using the damn product.

And when a product is hyped, you've got to expect a backslash when it doesn't support basic functionality people got accustomed to.

I also think that if third-party integration like Twitter will be less than what Facebook got ... WinMo 7 is basically screwed.
Just a note: it is not normal to lose a lot of time talking to your landlord. I rent, and I haven't spoken to my landlord in a year. Also, you can get a cleaner for a rented apartment, too?

Still, maybe if you have bought a house, at least you don't have to worry about it anymore. On the other hand, sometimes I have the impression that people who own actually worry MORE. That's also what Greenspun said, or so I seem to remember (can't find the blog entry right now).
Icon search engine
When you started Hacker News you wanted a site which you could moderate and where users could only upvote (even though users of a certain karma level can downvote), according to Huffman's interview on mixergy. What features did you think were essential a priori that you left out?
Seeking First to Understand
Indeed, Loopt appears to be one of the few high-profile sites to have done this right. SSL for everything, and cookies that are relevant to login sessions are marked secure. This is what we need everywhere!
"There is no such thing as luck, serendipity or synchronicity. Those are illusions. Luck is the outcome of good planning; the other two exist only in your brain and only affect how you choose to look at things. Hard work is the only thing that can make you both successful and happy. People who have to struggle harder to get somewhere enjoy it more when they arrive."

Also:

"There is no such thing as a selfless action."

"Question authority."

"Don't believe anything you hear unless you can empirically prove it."

I think that's the responsible approach. Not telling people to accept chance and fate, which if you think about it is tantamount to telling them to just be happy with their lot. Nice, coming from a billionaire.
Taking Photos Gigantic Fails
It seems that holding the camera backwards is a new hit noways!
Ah yes, I'm planning on adding xmpp support soon - it shouldn't have been exposed on getholla (it's stripped out of the Github version)
There are lots of dirt-cheap Atom-based Mini-ITX systems out there. A basic motherboard with CPU will cost you about €60, a bit more for a dual-core. You can probably scavenge some DDR2 ram from an upgraded laptop and install the OS on a USB stick. Mini-ITX cases/PSUs tend to be cheap too. If this going to sit in your office or home, you might want to watch out for noise/heat with both motherboard and PSU and pay a bit more for a fanless motherboard & PSU and get a case with a large, slow-rotating fan. All in all you can probably come in under €200 plus a multiple of that for your time for research, assembly and installation. Or just rent a VPS.
Ask HN: how does one monetize a facebook app?
Theoretically speaking, say you have a free facebook app with 1 million users. How would you monetize it?