skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given China's proclivity for stealing tech and previous history of stolen processors I'll believe this is evidence of China's R&D capability when an independent 3rd party tears the chip down.
I think that only applies to being able to decrypt packets after you've acquired the key, I'm not sure if it applies here...
Over 100,000 Faces Processed in 2 Days -- Our iPhone Apps’ Weekend Saga
It's nice and all. Er... isn't just quite similar to http://letter.ly/ ? There's a subscription option to it with letter.ly ...
No, it is the correct British English spelling and not that version of English you call American ;)
An Interview with Garry Trudeau
You might want to look at http://prgmr.com/xen/ It's run by a Hacker News member, lsc.

He has plans starting at $5/mo but you'll want to take notice of the of the monthly transfer limit. The $5/mo plan is 10GB transfer a month (which will come to 5GB in/5GB out if you're using it as a proxy) so you won't want to tunnel video or downloads through it. If you go for the $8/mo plan though you can get 40GB data transfer.

I've never had an account with him so I'm not sure if there's a way to check how much of your data allowance you've used for the month. Someone else might be able to chime in about a program you could run on the server to notify you when you've reached a transfer threshold.
No, that's a data structure.
It should be something obvious: a language is just a tool, and a good programmer should be able to adapt and learn to use a similar tool in little time.

A pity that for many in HR it´s not that obvious.
Cool in concept, but your search algorithm leaves something to be desired.

Your app reminded me I wanted to watch Khan's videos on IPOs, so I type in: IPO ... about half way down the list of ~50 results are the videos I wanted to watch (An IPO, More on IPOs).. I actually had to do a Ctrl-F to find them in the result list.
We still use a Manila folder for a directory, even though people rarely use cardboard folders anymore.

In fact, we still call them Manila folders - but everyone's forgotten that the "Manila" part of the name comes from the fact that they were made from Manila hemp, a fiber produced in the Philippines.

Language is made of these kinds of artifacts - written, spoken, and visual language.
Hmm, how is it done? I guess you could send requests with fake IPs but real MACs?
Ask HN: Dating Site API
Are there are dating websites or databases out there with a public API? This would help a new dating website startup bypass the chicken and the egg problem.
It seems this has degraded into an argument about semantics. When I learned the term in school, it was not synonymous with RDBMSes. When I was trying to learn lisp from the book Practical Common Lisp, there was a chapter containing an example where one went about building a database that resided in memory for the duration of the program's run. At my current job, the app I am writing processes a collection of csv files which my colleagues and I refer to as a database. I don't think the term "database" should be conflated with "database management system", much less a "relational database management system". I mean, nowadays there are so many different types of databases out there other than those (loosely) based on relational algebra.
What market do you think I'm going after?

If you design web apps, for example, you can (or will) benefit from jMockups because it makes it easy to design and get feedback on your app before you write a single line of code. And once you can link the mockups together (todo list), you could essentially prototype an entire app and get feedback on it with only a few hours of work. How's that for a minimum viable product?
Email Marketing: Still Continues to Grow
It looks neat, but it doesn't seem to work - I joined a room, invited a coworker, and we couldn't see each others messages. Upon reload, the old messages showed up, but e.g. picture previews didn't. Is this a load problem?
It's all really summed up in "Startup School," don't you think? You have to move somewhere (Cambridge) for 3 mos, for very low resources, and the whole thing just smacks of a system -- for people who claim they want to buck "the system." Sure, it's less controlling than regular investment but a whole lot more than a bank loan.
It was happening on a massive scale, but now a huge amount of really lazy people who didn't bother to do this before are. It had 3,000 downloads after 2 hours of release. The thing is, most universities have protection set up. It seems Cisco NAC is actually good for something. I never thought I'd say that. The extension certainly doesn't work on my campus.
I would argue the opposite -- that really simple CRUD stuff really does need a framework. Why waste your time doing mind-numbing work when you can let the framework do it for you?

On the other hand, with full-blown web applications that do something out of the ordinary (long-running requests, etc) it might be better to drop down a level of abstraction.
What is the big secret to the success of half of fortune 500?
Just tried to submit it, was already here...

I think this one really touches the heart of HN :).
Login page returns Internal Server Error when you click login without username and password.
The Life Cycle Of Software
Yes, if I select "Burgers" I get restaurants that have reviews for their Burgers.
If I select the restaurant I see these reviews, instead of having to select "Burgers" again.
Maybe the "Burgers" tab should be highlighted then, so I know where I am.
That is true. But saying that Android is closed in an absolute manner is incorrect, and also many people raise some points that are in fact arising because Android is open (e.g. carrier locking) which need explanation.
checker out: http://bigboardapp.com

Simple day planning app for small teams.
"It doesn't even really sound like they are addressing the theory itself but some particular implication."

Agreed. This is just another priming study-- NOT a willpower study. Here's another:

"But the priming effect does not just affect our behavior. It can also, incredibly, have significant effects on our actual performance. In another study cited by Gladwell, two groups of students were asked to answer forty-two questions from the game Trivial Pursuit. But first, one group was first asked to sit and think about professors, the other to think about soccer hooligans. And the difference was dramatic: an average of 55.6% of the questions were answered correctly by the first group, while only 42.6% were answered correctly by the second.
How can these results be explained? Can priming somehow temporarily infuse the brain with an expanded store of facts? Obviously not. Instead, what seems to be happening is that encouraging people to "think smart" briefly increases mental qualities like their ability to focus, their sense of recall, and their ability to quickly and correctly integrate diverse pieces of information. In other words, priming does not make us more intelligent, but it does briefly make us better at using the intelligence we already have." [1]

The scarier one is about race:

"The psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson created an even more extreme version of this test, using black college students and twenty questions taken from the Graduate Record Examination, the standardized test used for entry into graduate school. When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement - and the number of items they got right was cut in half..."

1: grabbed from http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/priming-the-mind.html
Hi, i don't have a database. But i have been stuck with a business model that could make you stand out in the online dating industry. I am not going to go ahead and pursue it, so i could share it with you if you would like... please contact me at smartprojector@gmail.com
That's a pretty interesting narrative of suicide. Can you provide links to support it?
And they're web developers? I don't think you can read the OPs message in any way other than that it applies to web developers even before his edit.
And lots of programmers I know would call them closed minded star-bellied sneeches. Just sayin.
I gotta say, I'm impressed. Couple of things that I see missing that might make me want to pay...

1. Team sharing
2. Feedback - allowing someone with a password to come in and lay comments around on the screen.

I think there is a market here, but as someone else pointed out, it might be a shorter term market to make something like this but customized for, perhaps, joomla. If this tool had knowledge of a particular system, and would allow me to create a 'joomla' layout specifically, I think you'd have a big winner here. Then expand to things like mojoportal, etc.

Go for platforms where there's not a huge community already (basically - not wordpress) and offer something useful to those communities that may not get a lot of attention from designers.

All in all, a lot of potential - great work :)
I used a FreeBSD box to setup Racoon and friends and wound up with a pretty decent setup that used certificates for logging in and was compatible with the built in OS X VPN support (L2TP + IPSec). The resulting solution is painless enough to deal with that I use it whenever I'm on wifi, even at home.

You pay the price with a pretty complicated setup (assuming you're not already an IPSec guru, which I certainly am not), though.
Whilst I would mostly agree with that, the general modern definition of database has grown out of the common form of the popular varieties.

I don't think that something has to have inner-join, select, etc. to be a database, it's just that the most common do. Similarly I don't think something has to have 4 wheels, an internal combustion engine and a sunroof to be car - it's just that most of them do.
Yes, you need the key to decrypt, but getting the key is not difficult for WEP [0], and only moderately difficult [1][2] for WPA PSK, if I understand correctly.

[0] http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-crack-wirless-wep-104.ht... "The actual computation takes about 3 seconds"

[1] http://www.renderlab.net/projects/WPA-tables/ "computed hash tables for the 1000 most common SSIDs against a million common passphrases"

[2] http://securityandthe.net/2008/10/12/russian-researchers-ach... "This means that a WPA or WPA2 key could be cracked in days or weeks instead of years."
It is trivial that you should show some of your works in your job application/CV/website/reverse-job-application (does not matter for me how you call your pitch).

I think you can further improve this by:

- Providing the source code. You created something technically quite trivial (you have to deal with much more complex beasts even at an entry level job at BigCo), so the fact that you could do this is less interesting than how you solved this. Your coding style speaks a lot about your programming abilities.

- Or creating something technically less trivial (in that case the fact that you could do it is very interesting alone, so the source code is not that important). This may require more effort though.
the article links back to the hacker news submission, billing it as a "list of bugs." I don't get it.
I design web applications using so many different third-party toolkits, like jQuery UI, little drop-in animation scripts, dynamic CSS, and often run them in existing platforms. I think most other people do as well. I simply would never achieve a "pixel perfect" representation of what I would deliver, or even close to it, using your tool.

That's why strict Photoshop templates exist, and why mockup tools are cartoony on purpose, because the customer has to know it's only a spiritual representation of the deliverable, or else the real thing. I can do neither with your tool.

[Edit] I've completely replaced design tools that were a component of lucrative applications in the pharmaceutical and electrical industries. If someone were to have a made a presentation to the right people, showing what you have, they probably could have walked away with a contract worth $300K. I'm just trying to give you some advice here. If this product doesn't take off, consider trying to re-purpose it for some staid industry.
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Ask HN: A way to export Google Waves?
I have a few Waves saved on http://wave.google.com and I would like to export my data before Google pulls the plug. Extracting my data from Google Base (remember that?) proved to be tricky, but at least it wasn't gone entirely.

According to the Google Wave blog ( http://googlewave.blogspot.com/ ):
"There will be ways to export your waves before the end of the year" and "Wave.google.com will be available at least through the end of the year"

The end of the year is fast approaching without any sign of a Google export tool, does anyone know if there is an easy way to export Waves?
Having recently (and not a little inexpertly) bashed a shed together, my thumbs and I would contend that using a hammer isn't exactly a walk in the park, either.
It doesn't? This is news to me, do you have anymore information for me? I am in intrigued as that would change the entire model of the universe I have right now.

</sarcasm>

I've seen some web development in the past that was absolutely horrid, and I hope that after that project not a single programmer has to EVER touch code like that again.
Client -> SSH_Server == Encrypted

SSH_Server -> FaceBook == Unencrypted

SSH proxies are not end to end encryption. They only protect part of the path. Not sure why this is being down voted. It's true. The tunnel is only between the client and the SSH server. The HTTP websites that you visit beyond the SSH server see your clear text packets.
Asking for a low salary doesn't really your chances, if you are obviously worth more. People will smell something fishy, justified or not.
Is that necessarily a bad thing?

Erdos used to drink almost a gallon of tea a day (or so I've heard). And boy oh boy, could his brain work.
He's outsourcing the bug submission / voting to HN.
On the contrary, it is moderately difficult for WEP and almost impossible for WPA, if the key is long, and very very hard otherwise.

For WEP, the actual cracking is the easiest part, it's gathering all the IVs that's a hassle.

For WPA, the rainbow tables only cover common SSIDs and passwords, which doesn't really give you a very high probability of cracking it. The research in the third link you posted hasn't been made practical yet, as far as I know.
The comment that started this discussion was here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829481

in which it was said:

> Yes, there are people out there who ... have never
> heard of an inner join. We call them bad programmers.

You said:

> ... the definition of a database is an organised
> collection of data. Ephemeral or transient data is
> still data.

That's not the point. Your sense of "a database" being "an organised collection of data" is actually more commonly (in my experience) referred to as "a data structure." Usually it's not "a database" until it gets some sort of query language or manipulation primitives.

Yes, people refer to a collection of data as "a database," but I return to my original objection to the original comment requiring that not being a bad programmer requires that you know about inner-joins.

As I said earlier, we have, to some extent, been talking past each other.
I was hoping people could list bugs here to allow the community to vote on the ones that should be fixed first...

Seemed an easy place to have the voting happen.

We need someone to get the ball rolling!
Notaries sign their responses, if I remember correctly.
I completely disagree with everyone else, I believe there is a large market for tools like this. Adobe make a lot of money from photoshop and I personally along with most web designers I know are dissatisfied with photoshop and its alternatives, they are are terrible tools for designing websites and applications.

I think it needs a lot of polish, your application is designed like a website itself, dont have a footer, reduce the size of the header etc, make the "canvas" more obvious etc. I dont have time to do a proper critique right now, but the next time I need to design something I will make sure to write it all down and send it along

(I think you should rethink the name as well, jAnything just makes me things its some jquery plugin)

Awesome work so far, dont be disheartened if all the feedback isnt sunshine and roses right now.
A tweet or retweet of a social cause may help spread the news, but it takes just as much effort as retweeting a LOLcat.

Twitter is inhomogeneous. I pay attention to retweets from people I follow, because the people I follow don't retweet LOLcats. (And the day one of them does is the day I unfollow them.)

Not all retweets are created equal.
Same button that closes the window. Seems to work for Mac OS X.
<?php
$job = "I have php skills";

function test_his_abilities($job) {
switch($job) {
case "I have php skills":
return true;
break;
case "I am an keen developer, utilising all aspects of my available knowledge, and if they become taxed, am a competant researcher, able to research and learn to improve my current abilities.":
return false;
break;
}
}

print $this_guy_sucks_at_php ? 'pretty certain he does suck' : test_his_abilities($job) ? 'pretty simplistic skillset' : 'maybe this guy\'s legit.';
?>
Node went down unfortunately, give it another go.
naw, no sorries, just thought I'd try to give you something more concrete than "Iz not work."
Sony retires the cassette Walkman after 30 years
Yeah, just need one sap to suffer through a bad night and write that bad review. Hope it isn't you.
Never going to wear that heavy collar while cycling. Bike helmets are vented, cool. That collar has to be stifling.

And all in the interest of fashion? Ok, then I am Definitely not the target demographic. However, that model wearing that thing that looks like a cervical collar doesn't look very fashionable in my ignorant opinion.
Unfortunately Opera doesn't support SOCKS proxies. http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/194/
Thanks.

Team sharing and overlayed comments are great ideas and definitely something I want to implement in the coming weeks.

Exporting the mockup to HTML or to a template is possible but very difficult to get right. I'm going to wait and a few months and see how the core mockup product works before venturing into that arena. We'll see where the feedback drives it.
Interesting concept. I don't think that anyone's really cracked the code on a truly useful recipe/cooking service yet.
My long answer is here: http://www.h-i-r.net/2008/08/defcon-paranoia.html

The short answer: I back up my data. I encrypt all sensitive data on my laptop and don't access it in uncontrolled environments. I tunnel everything (usually with OpenSSH Dynamic Proxy) and then I run a firewall ruleset on my laptop that: 1) Permits tunneling to my server, 2) Permits anything on localhost, 3) Blocks all other incoming or outgoing traffic. Meaning if some program (Pidgin for example) isn't going through the tunnel, it can't even connect out.

It's worth mentioning that I usually operate this way all the time, whether I'm in a risky environment like DefCon or HOPE conferences, or my favorite small coffee shop. Tools like ProxySwitcher, small shell scripts, network locations and stuff that others have mentioned can be used by moderately-savvy folks to make the tunnel setup as painless as possible.
I love that a four year old programming rant is still poignant.
I must be an old curmudgeon because whenever I see Campfire I think "it's like IRC but with a better client" and wonder what the big deal is.

Sure, it's in a browser but is it really that big a deal? I just can't seem to get properly excited about Campfire and it's ilk.
Thanks - I'd missed that comment you mentioned. Any thoughts on the pros and cons of using this vs a dedicated VPN ?
Short answer (from the article):

Get some exercise

Take a break

Hang out with friends
Ask HN: Facebook emails as facebookmail.com. Should I?
If I'm startup.com, is it advisable to have my corporate email come from me@startup.com, and user notifications come from notify@startupmail.com?

I assume facebook has both employee@facebook.com and notify@facebookmail.com so that their employees don't get their own outgoing emails blocked as spam the same way that "Bob sent you a message on Facebook!" messages might.

However, I am guessing that my notifications might be likely to be tagged as spam if notifications come from startupmail.com and those notifications contain links to startup.com (or a reply-to: to something@startup.com).

Any experienced insights much appreciated!

EDIT: Any thoughts on the variant of having notify@notify.startup.com and me@startup.com, and the effect of a spam rating of the subdomain on the main domain?
It seems to me there was a dating-site boom back in the early 2000's. At that time there were a few sites that offered nice white-label packages. Spring Street Networks seemed like the best to me (powering the often lauded Nerve.com site). I worked with a company called Vintacom who had an API. They ran their own site called DreamMates, I think.

But I haven't seen anything similar in recent years. It seems like the market for premium dating sites has somewhat dried up. Sites like OkCupid and PlentyOfFish (free) seem to be doing alright though.

My recommendation would be to look into the Facebook API. While you can't poll the whole userbase, many new dating sites start by listing all the friends of anyone who authorizes their app. I think this is a small dance around ToS, but maybe if you don't use PII it's allowed? Regardless it can be used to give the impression of having an egg before you've got a chicken.
Speaking of icons, I'm pretty much only interested in vector icons, because I can resize them any way I want and I'm doing the quality control when converting to PNG etc.

Bitmap icon quality, even the ones based on original vector artwork, are sometimes simply not up to my standards. My favorite free icon collection is the "Tango" collection, but it is also lacking in a few ways.

So I'm looking for another decent free or commercial vector collection that I can use for my projects. Most of the icon collections I see are selling bitmap versions only. Any ideas?
My Startups Legal Trouble: 4 lessons learned from a Cease and Desist
You proxy through the NSA? How brave!
Thanks. I'd love to hear your feedback. You can email me at either matt@jmockups or matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com. That's the kind of feedback I want and need.

... And if this was an easy task, someone else would have already done it :)
Actually you move to the Silicon Valley, not Cambridge anymore. Technically, having living expenses to cover 3 mo in SV would make most out-of-state startups happy. :) $17k for 2 founders to last 3 months doesn't seem that bad to me personally, but to each their own.
Please note I'm not talking about a database. I'm talking about an api to an existing sites database or a service where multiple sites use and update the same database.
Demo would be nice.