skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His TED talk is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af00UcTO-c

There's also a link on the submitted page to the RSA animation on drive that's been submitted here so, so many times before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

For discussions on that, try these:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/drive+truth?sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1728970

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1466084

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397443

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390588

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383943

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357390 <- This one has comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253120
Its interesting that the 50% revenue split has been getting takers so far.
You can try using ranges of frequencies in the light specter and ordering by wavelength.
IP based voice services are effectively banned in India for all practical purposes. ( Although banned only for local voice, most software/hardware also have the local voice option so they are banned ).

Unfortunately, the big players in India are all too cozy with the government for anything to change here soon.
Tees Maar Khan Movie Reviews, Wallpapers, Story, Photos, Trailers, Pictures
Tees Maar Khan (2010) is a forthcoming Bollywood movie directed by Farah Khan. The film features Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif and Akshaye Khanna in lead roles. Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif being here again to create another blockbuster film Tees Mar Khan. The story of the film revolves around a criminal called Tees Maar Khan played by Akshay Kumar. He steals cons and cheats all with such alarming audacity that even shame shies away from him! He and his gang comprising of Dollar, Soda and Burger have managed to keep the police, world over, on their toes. The film is scheduled for release December 24, 2010.
Other: Associate's degree, 2 different certificates (one the equivalent of master's level work), never finished my bachelor's. (This makes me both overqualified and underqualified for any job I could possibly apply to. :-/)
The most impressive Nigerian startup I have seen. Precurio Intranet portal
Our theory is that an SSL site including non-SSL content is no better or worse, in terms of security, than a completely non-SSL site.

What is the purpose of warning more prominently in the scenario described, than in the scenario where the user goes to a non-SSL site in the first page, or is redirected from an SSL login form to a non-SSL page?
The parrot cage: an example of assessing demand before building your business
Isn't it similar to hue?
Online Auction - Australia
BidBargains.com.au is an Australian online auction site. Our auction is a highest unique auction that gives all registered bidders a greater chance than ever before of winning, as the saying goes everyone likes a bargain.
My brain, mostly.
I think the phone companies are fully aware of the things they could provide. They would rather charge you for the privilege. I take special exception with Verizon who are notorious for nickel and diming for features that would be free anywhere else. Like bluetooth file syncing.

In one instance I managed to find a backdoor for my ringtones using the V-(web,cast,mail, I honestly can't remember) website. It was supposed to be used to upload and download photos. And I was able to upload mp3 ringtones to my phone. Then one day the system would only sync jpegs. You could upload all the files you wanted but they would never be sent to the phone.

When I moved abroad I bought a cheap sony-ericcson that could do 10x more than that POS Samsung from Verizon and it was half the price.

It didn't surprise me the iPhone never made it to verizon. I'm pretty sure the breakdown was over the fact that Apple wanted to include a bunch of stuff that Verizon would rather you pay them for.
Wikipedia reports that too, but the original paper reports that nobody stopped before 300 volts and that there was no feedback from the victim until that level. I'm not sure why there's a discrepancy.
Why are browsers so stupid?
Why can't my browser handle www.example..com ? Is it pedagogical, teaching me to type correctly?
Have you considered that what you're trying to do is impossible? Without constraints on the colors being sorted, there is no single "obvious" mapping from a random collection of colours chosen from 3-space into 1-space.

If you do have constraints on the colors being chosen then you'll need to be explicit as to what they are, and then use them in a non-trivial manner.
A Generic Input/Output API in Java
Technically yes, but you are trying to sort by HSV, or just by euclidean distance between RGB values, but RGB values doesn't correlate to frequencies. You could map RGB values to frequencies and order by frequency/wavelength instead of ordering by RGB values using distance.
E-book Links, November 1-5: Borrowers and lenders
Are Too Many WP Theme Sites Hurting the Industry?
That's an interesting though. Where do you draw the line? Should websites protect users who don't have AV, firewalls or share user accounts?
It looks great but it appears to be down? Every request of the form

http://api.ihackernews.com/profile/pg

answers

{"username":null,"createdAgo":null,"karma":0,"about":null,"version":"1.0","cachedOnUTC":"\/Date(-62135575200000)\/"}

and this page

http://api.ihackernews.com/page

says this

Server Error in '/' Application.
Does this extract from the Reference Guide answer your question?

"Gosu types preserve generic type information at run time. This Gosu feature is called reified generics. This means that in complex cases you could check the exact type of an object at run time, including any parameterization. In contrast, Java discards this information completely after compilation, so it is unavailable at run time.

"Note: Even in Gosu, parameterization information is unavailable for all native Java types because Java does not preserve this information beyond compile time. For example the run time type of java.util.List<Address> in Gosu returns the unparameterized type java.util.List."

From http://gosu-lang.org/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#h...
Call of Duty Black Ops Now on PS3, Now can play online
Nothing wrong with stating publicly that you're willing and able to defend yourself and your property. In fact there should be no need to state it, it should be assumed that decent folk will...
Health.js: Retrieve CPU usage from a remote system
In this case though, nobody was using it to mean "hard". There really were PhD Physicists arguing at length that it was physically impossible to do this.

That's why it's an interesting story.
New Rails-like Framework from 37signals for HTML5 Mobile Apps
Should operating systems have a 'best before' expiry date?
Symantec under pressure to split up?
Researcher Releases Android Exploit In Webkit Browser Engine
The most common objection to my 'releasing scientific code' post
reminds me of java-script. Still, it's a shame they never understood the power of prefix notation.
The point that made it counter-intuitive, here, is the "under the wind" part.

The (false) idea is, if a 20km/h wind pushes your back, once you're close to 20km/h, you've got almost zero relative wind, so you shouldn't be able to accelerate further.

Boats, including the hydroptere (which is special because of vertical lifting, but behaves as a normal sailboat in the horizontal plane), can go faster than the wind when then wind comes from the front, not when it comes from the back.

The essential difference is, boats use water resistance sideways, i.e. they tend to behave as if they were on railtracks. The demonstrator in the article exploits rolling resistance, which boats try to minimize.
Here are a few hints in the manual:

"you can add objects to a collection, but not primitives".

Why not?

"The collection and list classes used frequently in Gosu rely on the Java language’s collection classes. However, there are important differences because of built-in enhancements to these classes that use Gosu blocks, anonymous in-line defined functions that are not directly supported in the Java language."

It also has some type-inference that converts:

var str = {"foo", "bar", "baz"}

To

ArrayList<String> str = new ArrayList<String>();
str.add("foo").add("bar").add("baz");

Or some such.

LtU wont be going wild over this any time soon.
How could we bootstrap a start-up based on these ideas? Is it possible?

We'd need a small injection of cash to build a small system that produces a small amount of fuel that can be sold to raise enough money to maintain the existing system with a little to spare. That small amount of extra money can then go into building another one, then another.

After building 10 it becomes moderately profitable, and then we move on to building a bigger version.

How do the sums pan out? How big doe this have to be? How are they converting electricity/water/CO2 into methanol?

I would so like to see this happen.
Court Hearing On TiVo’s Patent May Be Company’s Last Stand
Thanks. That's the best explanation I've seen.

It took me a long time to persuade myself that it wasn't a hoax, and when I submitted it here I was half expecting someone to point out some flaw.
At least they're honest enough to admit deficiencies. :-)
Just a note -- Gosu is already the name of a neat little C/Ruby graphics library that wraps up sound and graphics programming in a tiny little package that mostly gets out of your way.

(I believe it was intended for people making little games -- I've used it a few times on my own projects and it's very uncluttered, minimal etc; I used it and Chipmunk to make myself a screensaver of all of my photos falling, bouncing off of each other etc).
Could the Mac App Store kill software "bundles"?
Well, I would say its not 'just as dangerous' as a man in the middle attack is harder to set up.

Good point though. Maybe this could be solved by including a unique access code with the form that is a hashed value of the user'id and the url that you are submitting to (with salting to make this unguessable). Simply check this value upon submission to make sure it matches the URL seen by the controller. That would prevent anyone rewriting a form to submit to a new endpoint.
And it's good advertising for them.

I contacted Guidewire thanks to their blog posts here: http://guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com/ and AKeefer's posts here at HN.

Unfortunately for them (and me) my higher-ups at the insurance company I work for are clueless and stubborn and decided to go for a reinvent-the-wheel approach at three times the cost (our current insurance solution is based on Sun's Forte4GL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_4GL which, while good at the time, has been abandoned many years ago, and has no support or good IDE) .
This page is dog slow: http://gosu-lang.org/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm

What's the Big Advantage of this language? It looks nice enough, but what will propel it past Scala and company?
China's Online War and Why it Will Create a Safer Internet
Google Chrome OS: unlike Android, it's open source
I can't say for sure where they got the name "gosu", but I know from many hours of playing Starcraft with Koreans that "gosu" is the Korean word for "expert".
IBM Bakes Analytics Into Lotus Connections 3.0
They have the AR.Drone for comparison and entertainment, it's not considered a serious piece of equipment at all. The drone they're actually doing research on is a Ascending Technologies Hummingbird
Please, someone enlighten me: what should we discuss here?
Why are you so stupid?
Inspirational stuff, in a parallel universe Ted Nelson has became as influential as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
Ask HN: Do you use a package manager in OSX? If so, which?
Hi everyone.

I recently switched to Mac and I am loving it, however previous to switching I was using Ubuntu and the one thing I miss very much is how easy "apt-get install ___" was.

I've tried a few different things on OSX, including running Ubuntu Server 10.10 in a VM, but so far I'm not quite as happy with the setup as I was on Ubuntu. Right now I'm using MAMP but I don't feel like I have as much flexibility as I did on Ubuntu. I've come across MacPorts and Homebrew too.

So my question is, do you use a package manager in OSX? If you do, which do you use?
It's not your browser's main focus to fix spelling mistakes. Even then, they've come a long way. I remember Netscape 4 not being able to handle "news.bbc.co.uk" due to lack of "www." in there. You had to manually add "http:// in front of it.
What makes me really happy is that when me and my roommate discussed how this worked months ago, we eventually explained it exactly as he did in less-equation-y form.

Moral of the story: I don't fail completely at fluid dynamics.
Not all postings need or warrant discussion; that doesn't invalidate them as unworthy of posting. For many people (eg. those working in web, mobile) this could be useful knowledge, in which case it is just serving as a Public Service Announcement.

Just read it and them move on.
Dear CNN, people with degrees != brainy people
That's unlikely, since tomboy is still included (so Mono is included too). There is also a plan for another .net application to be added to the default (can't recall the name now).
I didn't really look for it.

If you want to I'll try finding it :) (it should be on my PC somewhere, I don't usually delete those things)

Edit: I'll put my e-mail on my profile, sorry people for the offtopic.
I found it a subtle admission of fault, because: 1) It's impossible for people who know Lisp to design a language that isn't Lisp(y). 2) You can't be a serious language designer without knowing Lisp, well.

Because of #1 and #2, the author wants to align himself with the amateur school of successful language design (the people responsible for most stuff that comes pre-installed in your Redhat box.) and distances himself from egg-heads and language purists, and their potential criticism.
Of all the massive implications this could have assassinations is probably the most unlikely and trivial of consequences.

It's weird how the human brain can't tell the difference between totally improbable (me getting assassinated) and extremely likely (my police force, local council or employer spying on me at some point for some imagined infraction).

This sort of irrational alarmism is exactly the cause of being scanned naked at airports.

People don't kill other people very often, apart from in the various shades of wars.
Are they trolling, or what? Android is open source, it's just not developed in the open, in the spirit of most open source projects.
Ask HN: Service to modify video playback rate on mobile phones?
I am currently in the process of developing a service that would provide users the possibility to increase/decrease video and audio playback rate. I know there are a few software programs that already do this (e.g. enounce), but these are only available on the client side. The service I am developing is server side in order to be able to use it on mobile phones (do you know of any?)

I have some doubts about how useful this service can be, so if you could make some suggestions and clarify a bit, it would help me a lot.

1) Do you find this service useful to have it on a mobile phone? Or maybe you use the increased/decreased playback rate only on long videos that you usually watch at home?

2) I know HTML5 is getting better and better support and that video/audio elements have a playbackRate attribute, but I was wondering if you think this can (on the short-term at least) be implemented on mobile platforms (limitations due to CPU, battery life, etc.)

Any other suggestions or thoughts are highly appreciated :)

Thank you!
Driving theory test special needs
The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) offers or provides a number of facilities for those with special needs, which includes foreign language voiceovers, extra time, British sign language interpretation, reading difficulties and translator assisted tests.
Can you put an email address in your profile?
A critical word in what I said was aggregate assets, and a critical word in yours was outlandish.

Sure, the median venture investment will be overvalued, but for it to be outlandishly overvalued would imply that it's unreasonable even within its asset class. That's a strong claim to make with next to zero data given that people with a wealth of data and a track record of making sense of that type of data obviously disagree.
Try macports. http://www.macports.org
I remember, early on, when no one was using Skype except for those that knew about it.

The main difference between Skype and Facetime is one is based on proprietary software and the other is a bundle of open standards. Just because Skype dominates doesn't mean it will always stay that way.
'Mr People' standardises all names for data analysis/visualization
Thanks, this was the clearest explanation of the vehicle so far.
What I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Company
I prefer Terry Tao's explanation (http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/sailing-into-the-wi...), carry the result over to land by replacing the "keel" with gears.
What is more impressive is that they have an Open Source component/model to it. I hope this will show that #madeinNigeria can be good at times if not all the time :).

Should huddle.net be Afraid :)?
Yes, they create their own wind downwind with a propeller (+ wheels and ground resistance) where a sailboat creates her own wind with her speed and water resistance / aerodynamics (instead of mechanics) but it's the same principle underneath: use your own speed to create your own wind (that will push you).
CFP for RSA Conference 2011 Metricon 5.5 Event
More German Men Seek Impotence Treatment
This whole white theme might come from the same team that make new imdb.com re-design.

For me it is too white, as with the imdb, the eye cannot distinguish items easily because it does not hang to visual elements.
I like to keep it simple.

Hardware:

ASUS Eee PC 1201N 12.1"
AKG K518DJ Headphones

Software:

Arch Linux
DWM Window Manager
Firefox with Vimperator
Puppet
git
hg
Vim
urxvt
Zsh
openssh
rtorrent
mplayer-nogui
Spotify

Webapps:

Google Apps Gmail and Google Reader

Hosting:

6 x 512MB Linodes
The Awesome Size Of The Internet
Can a 10G Data Center Network Actually Be Cost Effective?
In the pursuit of a better bottom line, one of the most important factors is ensuring that your company makes appropriate decisions to always stay cost-effective.
Discover whether or not a 10G Data Center Network can actually be cost effective or not on the Datatrend Blog.
Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
HTMLDOC: Creating HTML, PDFs, PostScript, and books
I used macports as well but switched to homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
>Yes, people think you're an asshole, but when you're a starving student with no money, you can cope with that.

If someone is ready to be an asshole for money don't expect me to go easy on them because "they're just doing their job". You are responsible for what you do and "just doing my job" is not a legitimate excuse. If you're just trying to take the easy way out then I want to make your life a miserable living hell so you never think of taking this shortcut ever again.

I can't express how much I loath this non-excuse. People like Hitler are able to commit such atrocities because of literal armies of people "just doing their job".
Coderaid - "Raid" for helping OSS projects
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/732024 is little bit more informative.
Given I practice with both, this is very true. And it's not just that they see it coming. But the parent to my original comment was noting it was just a pocketknife, not a sword or something. A small knife can do way more damage at close range, is nearly impossible to parry when in distance, and moves crazy fast. The saying goes that if you get into a knife fight, you will get cut, and you might die. Regardless if you win the fight.

EDIT: I now notice it was you that made that original comment, so I'll answer that: A knife that opens with little effort and then locks into place allows for one-handed arming and stabbing, without the risk that the blade will snap back and cut the user. It also enables a blade the length of the handle to be stored in space slightly more than the length of the handle itself. A blade of the length of your typical pocket is considered sufficient to easily cause fatal damage even when used by an untrained fighter. In many countries there are exceptions for knives that require two hands to open, or where the blade must be held in place during usage or where the blade is below some set total length. The UK has fairly strict restrictions on knives in general, so most of those exceptions do not apply.
It doesn't matter who they are or what their setup is. If everyone made this the most miserable job on earth then no one would want to do it. That is the goal.
Why Virtualization is a Requirement for Private Cloud Computing
Very cool.

It seems less paradoxical when you think in terms of energy instead of speed. In other words, thinking about it as (1) drawing energy from the wind and transforming this energy into forward physical motion instead of (2) the wind pushing something faster than itself.
Renoise 2.6 digital audio workstation released with Lua scripting support
1) It's impossible for people who know Lisp to design a language that isn't Lisp(y). 2) You can't be a serious language designer without knowing Lisp, well.

Judging by the number of great languages that are not at all lispy, at least one of these is false.
Using machine learning competitions to examine students
I'd love to be in this class!
So what is your non-idiotic proposed solution? Do nothing? At this point stirring the pot is exactly what's called for. Make this awful process even worse for everyone involved until it finally blows. And the sooner the better.

People like you get to sit on the high horse and point out how you're morally superior to everyone. Meanwhile it's the unreasonable who keep on changing the world.

EDIT: Further, these jobs didn't exist at all not so long ago. You can't claim the people doing them now are somehow "trapped" there. What the hell were they doing before?
Seals: Excellent Swimmers and Best Friend of the Eskimos
I keep hoping this will result in a new wave for the old demo scene, for those of you old enough to remember the era of BBS logins and tiny demo apps.

And yes, I know there's still a whole youtube/MP4 scene around demos, but I feel like there's something similar to the old spirit of "hacking pitiful 386 boxes in 100kb of space" when you're trying to do it in "a pitiful web browser element using a ridiculous programming language."
If you're interested in this question, here are some previous submissions and discussions:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/find+technical?sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682092

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385900

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1612454 <- This has some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1634895

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1686360

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1689751

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1701668

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1779750

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872960
This actually kind of looks like ActionScript.
It's an idea for startup! WhatYouUse? or WhatOneUses? User registers on a site, then a special agent collects info from his computer. Thus, you can see most used hardware and software, compare, rate, find potential friends (VIM lovers), etc...

What do you think?
In reality, the obstacle is in realizing the need of list.reverse library, rather than in making it decent.
The problem with teaching CS like that is that there is a huge disconnect when joining the workforce.

Most employers expect a CS graduate to understand version control, bug tracking systems, IDEs and the like.

Most CS departments think that such things are beneath them.

The concept of a weekend extra-curricular course to bridge the gap seems ideal to me. The only problem I see is funding it.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CcgmpBGSCI