skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. But this feature is also completely out-of-scope for the type of reader I'm making. Maybe one day, if I'm sitting on a pile of money and have more time than I know what to do with, I may enter into the aggregation aggregation business, but it doesn't sound fun. I think a very small percentage of users want aggregation aggregation, whereas most folks are looking to keep up to date with an ever increasing number of writers.
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126 lines of python. This is a great demonstration of how simple it is to exploit the vulnerability. Be aware, people.
Have you done any research into how to price the photos and who the buyers would be? $1 seems a little low. If news agencies would be the target, I would assume they'd be willing to pay more. You may also want to allow people to put up Creative Commons licensed photos. It could get you more users, which would lead to more people looking at the photos.
How Many Paid
Most of these are likely civil warrants.

And, yes, you would need a judge to sign off on these. Google (more than most companies) are particularly anal (and rightly so) about disclosures such as these.
They didn't write the "detached" console functionality- They're using Sun's flash RDP client. It's a nice piece of tech, but it's licensed under the same license as the rest of Virtual Box, the Personal-Use Evaluation License.

That means it's fine for test and home projects, but you can't base a product on it.
Concept is great, copy is ok. I'd be more concerned about finding buyers for the photos than getting the photos.

Tailor your homepage towards the buyers and run Facebook ads along the lines of 'Pizza for your cell phone pics'. Instead of buying FB ads, why not spam the craigslist gigs section?

Where are you planning on advertising for buyers?
Well I value portability over price and I also don't replace my laptop often (every 4-5 years). So I'm willing to spend a bit more this time.

And if you ever get the chance to sail around Hawaii with those models, well, you couldn't take your desktop with you. That is, if you actually planned on working...
A question:

What does it tweet? So far I'm only seeing people tweeting about Idiocy, nothing that appears to be coming from Idiocy. Different tones / content of the message could have extremely differing responses, and as it's intentionally high profile, should be extremely careful.
Office 2004 had VB, 2008 lost it, now 2011 has it again.

Though I'd obviously rather be automating my documents in Ruby, Python, JavaScript (etc.) it's still nice that Mac Office has stopped being a second class citizen this way.
My Vaio TZ has all those things working out of the box with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, along with microphone and camera, memory card readers, and Sprint EVDO card.

I agree with you that getting Linux to work on laptops can often be frustrating, but if you check compatibility prior to purchase (Ubuntu forums are great for this), then you'll get a good idea of what to expect before you buy.
These are nice tips. I employ some of them at times, such as testing yourself and mixing it up, but the other ones I haven't. I tend to study either in my room at my house or the same desk at the library. Maybe I should try to mix it up sometimes. And the spacing it out thing...ha. I procrastinate waaay to much for that. Maybe I should stop that.
Not to mention that usually the second part is left out, where he actually warns people that Google might be legally obligated to provide some information to the authorities.
Yes, I'm starting to wish that reporters would get into the habit of giving pricetags of government programs on a per-capita basis. People have a tendency to lose a sense of scale when millions and billions and trillions of dollars are involved, but they get it back as soon as comprehensible amounts of money are discussed.

Examples:

Asteroid hunting mission: $1 per capita.

The new supercarrier USS Gerald Ford: $56 per capita.

Medicare: $2,000 per capita, per year.

2010 budget deficit: $6000 per capita.

And so forth. (Actually those numbers are based on a US population estimate of 250 million people, which is on the low side, but whatever.)
You can actually import any number of feeds you like, evne with the free version. The "Choose Your 64" dialog allows you to mix and match which ones you want turned on. Once you're a premium user, all of your feeds turn on automatically. The home screen should say you're a Premium user (and the house should be in color.)

And SSL is a bit of a ways off. I'm paying for the server out of pocket. I still need 62 more premium subscribers to be able to pay for the hosting fees (app server, db server, and task/fetch server).
http://www.savagechickens.com/2008/12/iq-test.html
Actually, I'd go so far as to say that they're usually high achievers, to the point of being pathological. Their egos are so wound up in doing things that they discourage people from suggesting that they do otherwise.
On the other hand, I might actually click on a domain called "stockyoo.com" out of curiosity, whereas I would assume something called "camstockphotos.com" is probably a scam site or the poor product of a domain squatter.

Then again, I never buy stock photos.
My suggestion before doing anything else, decide whether the real problem is the other founder or the business. Once you answer that question it can make the decision making process either. Looking at everything you have said, my interpretation is that you are basically displeased with:

1. Your non technical co-founder and the way he interacts with you

2. The lack of a technical team both from a work load and social perspective

If you really believe, like you say you do, that the business is going to go somewhere then it would be really foolish to walk away before exploring all avenues for solving issues 1 and 2 above.

I'd consider a heart to heart with your co-founder and explain very clearly what is bothering you about your interactions together and see if there is a way to solve your issues. I'd also look at the business assets and see if there would be a way to hire, even if part-time, another technical person to assist you. If neither of these approaches brings you relief, consider buying out your partner if it is something you could manage to do?

It isn't always bad to walk away from a project. However with what you have said, it opens a lot of questions about you personally as well. Starting a business is always extremely difficult, my last suggestion would be to take a really good look at yourself in the mirror and ask would you be leaving for the right reasons? If the answer is yes and nothing else works then you have to leave.
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I understand. Mainly I'm just worried that people aren't thinking things through completely when they make a tool like this freely available.

Personally I expect that Firesheep will be used mostly by 4chan, script kiddies, and others who just want lulz. Idiocy is clearly an attempt to use the same concepts for good, but it is still mildly worrying from the point of view of the methods being used to accomplish the goal. Like I said, it feels like a terrorist-style attention grabber to me.
And how would you do that? Good luck telling the FBI "oh, I can't change the code on my own system".
Special tax benefits could help founders and investors
WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference
iPhone definitely has upload facilities. I share photos from my phone directly to Facebook. I know it's not supported in Mobile Safari, but it's possible. I'd implement something like swfupload so that it's easy to upload the photos on to your site.
For the problem of watching the last lines of something: a few options, you can pipe to tac, e.g.

watch 'ls -l | tac'

which reverses the lines of the output, or if it is something like a log file, you can forget about watch completely and just use tail -f, e.g.

tail -f logfile.log

which will print new lines as they are added to the file.
No worries, I'm certainly not "getting" the riddle myself. I tried md5sum'ing the response body and base64 encoding it and replacing the cookie's csrf.token value with that, which didn't work (I did notice, however, that the server is accepting whatever you put in the cookie without re/over writing it).

I tried POSTing and PUTing with data values like "csrf=valuefromcookie" and (this may seem stupid) "browser=seatgeek".

I hand crafted a request using cURL.

I also discovered their VHOST settings aren't quite right either because when you POST to https://apply.seatgeek.com it takes you straight to the homepage (instead of redirecting you to the http://apply.seatgeek.com page).

Either way, kudos to those that got it in 15 minutes - I wasted far too much time chasing my tail on this one.
If it isn't currently illegal it would be quickly made illegal.

I imagine this could be accomplished with similar techniques they use to track health epidemics[1]?

1: http://www.google.org/flutrends/about/how.html
It was in something I added quickly to fix a hole someone discovered. I made the mistake of memoizing the function that generated authentication keys for vote links.
Well, NewsBlur has auto-selected your 64 most popular feeds for you. All you have to do is hit the big green button that says "Turn Them On". This makes it obvious that the premium version is the way to go for your use case. It's very low-barrier and gives the user a conceptual model of what eventually has to happen for them to get more feeds.
Here's the guy running Facebook's secret phone project in a secret building
Really? What part of the article was more useful than the man page?

diff the-article the-man-page | wc -w
=> 75
> Yes. It is an asset that Sun paid cash money for, and Oracle paid cash money for in turn. So of course they care.

"Paid cash for" is a sunk cost. They care about what it's going to do for them now and in the future. How much revenue did it bring in for Sun?

Maybe they can hack at it to make what you describe, but at that point do you think Oracle will care much about what it's called? I think it'd have a new name, myself. Oracle something, most likely.

I just don't see Oracle caring that much about it one way or the other. They wanted the server stuff, supposedly, and Java, most certainly. I can't see OO having figured much one way or the other, really.
This is the one that blew my mind. "If we treat the numbers as polynomials, then the multiplication can be reduced to a Fourier transform!" is also one of those things that sounds like a punchline. Each step of the algorithm just sounds stupider and stupider, and slower and slower... and then you get to the last step, where all the multiplications by exponentials of complex numbers get replaced by bitshifts. Suddenly the entire algorithm collapses in on itself to reveal something efficient.
From the code:

status = 'I browsed twitter insecurely on a public network and all I got was this lousy tweet. http://jonty.co.uk/idiocy-what'
Sorry, I mean staggered vs aligned layout - not actual character layout.
Object-Oriented Listening
Don't forget the official books: http://b5books.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter

> A National Security Letter (NSL) is a form of administrative subpoena used by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and reportedly by other U.S. Government Agencies including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense. It is a demand letter issued to a particular entity or organization to turn over various record and data pertaining to individuals. They require no probable cause or judicial oversight. They also contain a gag order, preventing the recipient of the letter from disclosing that the letter was ever issued.

The gag order was later deemed unconstitutional, but that didn't stop them from issuing 200,000 of them.
Given that, if this happened, the military has every incentive to make sure we know about it, I believe we would the minute it happened.

The military can't keep track of every civilian who goes missing in Afghanistan.

Also, even if they did know, making a big deal out of "omg one of our informers is dead" would (a) require them to acknowledge that so-and-so was indeed an informer, (b) give ideas to terrorists (who are nothing if not attention seeking), and... this next one is the most important one... (c) severely discourage future informers from coming forward.
The slight fallacy in the article (and in general on this topic) is the thinking Google are especially unique in receiving these orders.

The truth is any large service provider is getting as many, it's just the modern version of forced disclosure.

A lot of the Google orders will be civil disclosure. That is mostly because in criminal cases there is more leeway for seizing the physical machines - which produces better results (from the perspective of court evidence).

But when you get to the ISP level they will be dealing with all manner of criminal/civil requests for IP log data.

Just some perspective (I won't comment my opinion on it)
Wasn't McCarthy working on a model that's more elegant than Turing machines?

As far as axioms go, you can't get simpler than the Turing machine: it doesn't even have a notion of a variable, let alone types or strings.

I don't know about the history of Lisp other from what I've read from you, but it seems what McCarthy was working on was a more elegant model, rather than an "axiomatically pure" model.

Arc on the other hand, is trying to compete with Ruby and Python.
Barely in use so far:

https://twitter.com/search?q=I+browsed+twitter+insecurely+on...
A better Foursquare client for iPhone? Fourit just might be
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Signup with your hacker news handle with (hn) so that you know when you are chatting with another HN'er.

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Google launches location-based advertising platform - Boost
While you can probably indemnify yourself against legal responsibility of a photographer not getting a model release, based on your target photographers (teens and twenty somethings taking photos with camera phones i.e. in a hurry), this is something that could quickly kill your reputation if someone uses one of your images and gets sued because the photographer never got a model release. One suggestion on this would be to have something in your mobile app that would allow the user to collect the model release at the time of capture. I'm sure there are a lot of legal issues with what would be considered an appropriate signature.

One of the reasons people feel comfortable using crowd sourced stock photo sites like ShutterStock and iStockPhoto is that they are willing to take up to a certain $ amount of the legal responsibility you get sued for using an image (as long as you use it within their guidelines). If your target buyers are news outlets (who are allowed to use images more liberally than for commercial use) this might not be a huge issue, but I'd be kind of wary about using a stock photo site that basically took the stance that I had to counter sue the photographer. Not a idea killer, but it's worth looking at what the established players do to see if it makes sense from your business perspective.
Oh, I realize that. =) Of course, I find it funny that we'll have to install plug-ins to do what not installing a plug-in accomplished before.
To play things I have stored digitally it's just a matter of using the remote to access thousands of movies/tv shows stored on my network

How long did it take you to set all that up? Do you think a less technically inclined person is going to be able to set up something like that?

Also, were all these thousands of movies and TV shows acquired legally? If not, it's hardly a solution for the average law-abiding person. If so... wow, that sounds really expensive!
I did not pay, however I am surprised at how much of an urge I had to do so. I mean, it is only 20 cents...
Seems pretty sensationalist to me. HN, please help debunk :)
Gameboards and GUIs - Can a graphical user interface be like a gameboard?
Walgreen’s now selling $99 Android tablet
I like your "terse vs concise" argument. I always felt that PG's notion of succinct is analogous to "cryptic".

Short is not always good.
I see. Don't all ad networks do this anyway? It seems like a giant waste of energy to pursue each one and opt out as you could be doing that for the rest of your life. Wouldn't it be better to block their cookies or images in your browser?
"Testing" - Feels good that also they do that mistakes :)
What if the output of the compiler uses some method you patented?
but WePay isn't PayPal. Why are they doing so? They won't solve my problem and I already know PayPal sucks.
Agreed. Somebody out may be making dozens of dollars off our irrational urges.
I've been using this for a few weeks now. It's super easy to use, but I really wonder how they plan on monetizing this app.
To DM them, you'd have to make them follow you first, which would still require using the hijacked session. Roaming around busy public WiFi doing that would be an easy way to get a bunch of Twitter followers though!
Even out of context, a couple of those aren't really creepy.
The article.

In 2009, Katzmarzyk studied the lifestyle habits of more than 17,000 men and women and found that the people who sat for almost the entire day were 54 percent more likely to end up clutching their chests than those who sat for almost none of the time.
It's true, but only in the sense that everything is killing you. What kind of non-desk job would you rather have? Perhaps a travelling salesman or delivery driver, spending hours every day on a dangerous road? A lumberjack, waiting for a horrendous chainsaw accident? Maybe a farmer or construction worker, out there in the sun all day acquiring skin cancer? A doctor in a hospital surrounded by infectious diseases?

I suppose if you were rich enough to not have to work, like Howard Hughes, you could lock yourself away from anything that might kill you, like Howard Hughes. He died at 70.
Lambda calculus is actually simpler than Turing machines. There are only two primitives: function definition and application. You can use that to express any computable function, including booleans, conditionals, integers, arithmetic, strings, etc.
> So an external voting ring was created to submit and vote up articles that were created by digg's advertisers? Sorry, but I don't buy it.

I would say that's actually the most likely explanation. Plausible deniability and all that.
Ask HN: How do you design websites?
Here's how I design websites: http://twitter.com/#!/lukeqsee/status/28807917273

After using pen and paper to design several ideas, I'll put that into basic HTML markup, and get it functioning with jQuery. Doing that allows me to see if the interface is plausible and workable. Only after having most of the working HTML do I add any sort of graphic design. (I'm a horrible graphic designer anyways.)

What methods do you use to get from brain to product design? Start with a snazzy graphic design? Start coding and figure the design will come eventually? Use pen and paper? Tear up photoshop? HTML & CSS? All of the above?

We love to learn from each other's methods. Tell us your way. I'm sure it's the best. ;)
I don't fault Google for following the law, rather for creating information about their users that can then be used against them.

I saw this quote on Hacker News a while back: "If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product."

The customer of Google is the advertiser -- not the user. As part of Google's buisness of selling advertisements they are creating information about their users and turning it over to law enforcement ... presumably to be used against the users.
I'm new here, but my reasoning was that it seemed a lot more technical than what else was being posted in that comment thread. Most of that seemed to be "is this a big deal?", not "why does this work?". I'm still learning, so is that kind of "disclaimer" something to avoid?
Sad but true: Simply demonstrating you know what Github is would put you ahead of half the people who apply for our Rails jobs.
a) Inserting themselves into a hot-button topic and getting incredible free press all over the place.

b) "We defintely see ourselves as a competitor to PayPal, says WePay co-founder Richard Aberman."

http://www.bankingreview.com.au/2010/06/we-came-wepay-we-con...
Jewish Head Coverings or Plagiarism
Brilliant. We humans are much too irrational.
I've been bouncing this back and forth with people all day!

Posting to your own account is an easily understandable visible demonstration of what's possible and why they should care - a DM from another account, or an @ just won't have the same effect on the user.

I might see if it's possible to send a DM to yourself, as that would achieve the same result without the public exposure.
Tim Ferriss on Personal Branding
There are hundreds of dollars below the ice, and they chased down the pallet-mover? Why didn't they just get some ice picks?
How do i pitch bloggers? Advice please
I built a site at www.adclays.com. Contacted about 10 bloggers but no one replied me. How do i do it right? Thanks HN members..
It looks very nice. One small UI request, you should only be able to edit one existing item at a time, so if you are currently editing one item and you double click another item, the first should be committed.
I'm sorry, but I feel the absolute need to be blunt.

This is by and far the worst idea Ive ever heard. Persuing an MBA is NOT learning about business. It's the purchase of proof pretending to know what a real entrepreneur understands through years of experience.

Arrogance is rampant in HN on both sides of the frontline between techs and nontechs. Coders think they're the real driving force behind the company and the biz guy thinks his sales are the only reason you're afloat.

If you want REAL business experience, I have single piece of advice.

Go f-bomb-ing do a shitty sales job. I learned everything I know today through sales. I've sold everything from professional tax accounting services to the tapioca (bubbles) you're probably sucking on in your bubble tea while reading this reply.

Note, read guy kawasakis take on his MBA as well as any other successful businessman with an MBA.

Sorry for the harsh commentary but I truly feel strongly about the MBA being a POS. I hope this advice finds you well.
I'm hopeful that some ambition person out there will do a phpocco in the near future.
You can, however, use the "share contact" button to evade that.
i was surprised they save my search history. :naive: is there even any legitimate use for that?

any ways to prevent that without making googling less easy?
You don't really need to do memory allocation when using Qt. All classes have implicit reference counting. Look at a random example (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/phonon-qmusicplayer.html) and count the number of times you see a "delete" operator there (). I found the code I wrote in Qt/C++ more elegant than Java code.

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It's neither true nor "reality." There is a significant difference between privacy and secrecy. Let's assume I regularly search for terms x, y, z, but don't want anyone to know about it.

There are two possible explanations. Maybe the reason why I want to keep these things private is that they're flat out illegal. Child pornography, for instance. But maybe the reason is simply that I feel ashamed or uncomfortable - e.g., herpes medication, unusual fetishes or the Perl documentation.

Are you seriously telling me that I have to be open about everything I do, and that when I don't want to, then I'm doing something illegal or morally objectionable?

Wow.
Tell that to the folks at 37signals.com. :-) Seriously though, we did consider your point prior to purchasing the domain name, but we liked how literal it is.

Thanks for your feedback!
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