skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing, which is kind of the point of the Chrome Store: It's just a new distribution channel for modern web applications. The upside is the discoverability, along with the assurance that your end users have a modern browser.
sounds like a good side project...
Everyone is happy for Heroku (I'm pretty sure this beats Mint for the canonical "ideal exit" case), and everyone is scared as a customer (I have no idea where I would build and alternatively easy-to-use Rails app that was as cheap).

ffffuuuuuuuu
I wish that more news sites had such a clear interface; they're usually so cluttered. Though I'm not sure why this interface is specific to chrome.
Because the government should not be partial, and treat everyone the same, (barring laws being broken)? AFAIK, it's not (yet) illegal to be disliked by the government.
People who are trying (as I am) to keep up with the Christmas/Holiday rush

The same argument could be made against a work strike, or a mass protest, or an act of civil disobedience.

There's very few examples in history of important issues being pushed forward in a way that was convenient for everyone.
Looks fuzzy.
Ask HN: VPS in Hong Kong?
Can anyone recommend me a good place to rent a server for a simple website? I need good connectivity from mainland China and good uptime.
So if the government put pressure on Paypal -- I don't know big business so I don't know what they would do, but I assume it's something Paypal don't want -- to the extent that it would affect customers other than Wikileaks what should they do then?

Paypal support millions of people and businesses, is it not their responsibility (as a business out for profit) to look out for the majority and not a single one? If standing up for Wikileaks would cause problems for everyone else is that "fair"? I guess I'm spineless then, if I was Paypal I'd do what they've done here, heh.
We got the same impression when evaluating them for our enterprise. 98% of their sales pitch made them sound very sharp, and their technology is impressive.

But that last 2% made us scratch our heads and say, "Really?"

Stuff like telling us that they cannot possibly break our apps when they push new code to the underlying platforms, that we have no need for backups because version control will suffice, etc.

These things are probably true for operational needs, but they seemed to not think deeply about DR or edge cases.
NoScript contents are not shown in Chrome
does not work in Firefox / Safari. I wonder what "Chrome" features does it use.
Ocaml wasn't even an option...
(I posted this but it's not my blog)

I don't know why there are spaces. The "source" page the blogger links to is a squatter.

Perhaps a copy/paste problem?

I like your link better but it's too late for me to edit my posting.
Yammer Now Available in Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
The release of BigTuna
Yup. Terrible rendering. I will not use that version again any time soon.
What kind of pressure are we talking about? Anything beyond a phone call that says "We'd like you to do this" would be illegal (blackmail, extortion, etc), and I'd bring the full weight of my law department if any member of government put tangible, material pressure on my company because of something like this.

But if you just get that phone call? You ask for proof, and you wait until they bring it. And you keep going on as business as usual until you get a court order or similar.
I was hoping for some new information regarding when it will actually be merged and released. This PEP is from March.
Performing Searches with grep
C++0x, which already has a few partial implementations (including VS2010's), does have lambdas.
I was pretty surprised that OpenGL performance was so bad. If that is in fact the case then that could certainly affect both productivity and user experience in certain scenarios.
(Massively edited)

No.

The point is that the use of stealth and fear to purposely sway voters is a deliberate circumvention of the act of an intelligent population making an educated choice by voting.

The actions which may induce this fear are not germane. Ruining commerce for a week, if it causes real harm to economic participants and sways voters, is good enough.

You can release too much information and also interfere, perhaps even scare and cause harm. Using the fact that "it's only the truth" is not enough. It's a red herring. So they are walking a very fine line here, but as far as I can tell they're on the correct side of it. At least as far as the terrorism definition goes.
The next generation of Mark Zuckerberg wannabes
Fictions are useful. Source is meant to tell a story to the other developers, and only incidentally to control a computer. The history of development is just as much a part of this story. There is a balance between making it clear and making it reflect what happened in a way that's not misleading, but if each release in the new history is actually reasonably tested, I have no problem rewriting private history.
Hackers Defend WikiLeaks by Attacking PayPal & PostFinance
Have you done your market research? What's the size and make-up of your intended audience, do they prefer e-books or chunks of dead tree, do they habitually browse bookstores or buy online -- or do they not tend to read books at all, but prefer a different written format (magazines, piece-works, chapbooks, or the like)?

How much of the potential audience do you think your marketing channel(s) can reach and how high a conversion rate do you expect to get? From that point, how many books do you expect to sell? Only once you have a ball-park figure for the market can you run a title P & L sheet and use it to do what-if modeling considering different printing technologies (POD, conventional offset, or whatever).

Intro to P & L calculations:

http://www.bizmark.net/publishing.htm

Hint: marketing and distribution are key. The distribution tail eats around 60-70% of a conventional publisher's lunch -- the SRP for which books are sold -- and it you don't pay very close attention to your distribution chain you'll run the risk of seeing it eat your profit margin.

(As the old joke puts it, the easiest way to make a small fortune in publishing is to start with a large one.)
Ask HN: what do you use for image management?
Hello HN,

I have hundreds of images that I downloaded from the web – pieces of inspiration (photographs, screenshots of whole websites, navigation elements or logos), hacks from thereifixedit.com, funny xkcd/dilbert/lolcats, pictures from airliners.net and whatever else.

My pain: how to organize all this. All mac apps including those that support tags are essentially folder-based, tags/keywords are used only for text search. I however need tag-based GUI, so that I can find all images of boeing 737s taking off in a couple clicks. Similarly, sometimes I want to see all navigation UIs I saved, other times – all 37signals stuff I saved. Folders fail here. It's also a problem because I could be saving much more images if I knew I could manage them well.

I will make a mac app for this purpose, that is essentially tag-based, but with a couple twists (if you're interested in seeing pre-release versions, drop me a line at nikita@chopperdefense.com)

So, question: Do you also save a lot of photos/images/screenshots from the web? How do you organize them? Do you upload them to flickr, or use some app (which one)? Does this solve your problem?

I just need to see whether anyone else has this problem. Please help me with this. Thank you.
I'm also surprised they sold. $212M is nothing to sneeze at, but maybe Heroku was looking 5 years down the road and not seeing the growth or revenue they had expected?

It's also certainly possible the investors pressured the sale to get their money back out of the deal.
Wikirace
i also made a ajax variation, before i realised other people had already done it. im glad it didnt disuade me.
htt://wikirace.christopherdebeer.com
I thought it was interesting that Heroku was specifically mentioned in the Database.com announcement yesterday. Made me think there was some sort of deeper integration. I meant to go to Heroku yesterday and see if there was a database.com plugin. When I saw the announcement today it all made sense.
Penguins are nasty. They bite!
From the very limited information and a screenshot of a small portion of what is to be Google+1 - my opinion is that it isn't meant to be a social network in the sense of Twitter or Facebook, but more a social sharing service like Digg or Reddit - if this is the case, there could be potential from both a centralization point (they already have the links and content and ranking and everything) as well as a identity control point with knowing more about what you like and dislike based on your sharing trends.

From that perspective I think it's a pretty interesting reveal..
More likely, an anti-correlation, since we all took time to at least glance over the article...
It's great -- but the navigation really belongs on the left side, right-aligned text.
Cloud In Cloud? Jolicloud Makes It To The Chrome Webstore
Sainsbury’s programmer steals over £73,000 worth of reward points
If that's to be the first question, then our 0th question should be "What is intelligence?"
> What JavaScript apps are constrained by performance and what are Crankshaft's effects on them?

Canvas and WebGL games.
At least you can take heart in Rails being pretty easy to deploy these days.

Granted, getting Heroku level reliability, ease of scaling, etc, but since you said 'cheap,' I'll assume you weren't using much of that anyway. ;)
Easier control "without developers" huh? I'll just expect to hear from the brand manager slightly later in the afternoon.
I love how de-cluttered it is. I have a sinking feeling, though, that when a homepage gets into production, feature creep has to happen because of all the different departments within the company -- everyone wants a link to their specific subsite for the traffic.
Cool article.

Please read with a repl in hand, not passively.
Really interesting bug. If you turn on GPU Accelerated Compositing in about:flags in chrome it becomes blurry. Turn it off and it looks fine.

EDIT: bug here http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46790
It's interesting that we've changed our perception of AI based on our astonishment/honeymoon phase with a particular algorithm.
On OS X Safari, the articles are in Georgia 13, but the subpixel rendering is disabled. The result is ghastly. The type appears randomly weighted and poorly kerned.

If you copy a paragraph and paste it into TextEdit you can see the same text still in Georgia 13 without broken rendering.

You can use the assistive zoom to see clearly what is going on. (Hold control and "two finger up" on the trackpad, or scroll wheel up if you are that sort.) The color fringe at the edges of the zoomed letters is the subpixel rendering.
MasterCard under DDOS, can't process SecureCode online payments
Help the Ursprach Initiative - submit your psilocybin glossolalia
The Ursprach Initiative will build a large database of psilocybin glossolalia and submit this data to linguistic and statistical analysis. It aims to build a syntax of visible language and engender sophisticated post-historical communication between human beings.
it is interesting to note that the text qouted in the updated article does not say that what wikileaks is doing is illegal, only that initial release of leaked data to wikileaks was illegal.
http://www.norc.ro/street-view/ was way ahead of them (since 2008)

Also available for Austria, The Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary.

Also, in 3D.
Why Wouldn't Google Mirror Wikileaks?
As far as enterprise applications are concerned Salesforce pretty much were the first supplier to convince CIOs that you could deliver a critical application like CRM as a service rather than an in-house hosted app.
TSA Moving to Identity-Based Security
I think emarcotte was wrong about "for-profit," but right about "not . . . publicly traded."
Thank you. "Scala is the #17 most popular language on GitHub" is what I was looking for.
Both. Chrome OS is Chrome the browser in a delectable OS form.
Criticism of Amazon "Route 53" authoritative DNS service
Typically they hold on to it for half a year and then pay it out to the merchant.
The Third Reich’s Diabolical Orbiting Superweapon
Relax! I'm actually Australian, and it was actually just a joke.
That's true. If Sun decided to do Linux x86 at a price point similar to Red Hat in say, 2003 I think they'd be alive now.
I've honestly never understood why startups want to be acquired (besides the monetary gain for individual employees). Doesn't acquisition often destroy or dilute the very successes they've worked so hard to build? (I worked for an acquisitive company that worsened nearly every product/company it acquired.) Why not just focus on making your business better?

Heroku will now be subject to all kinds of pressures and asinine ideas that may not relate to their core offering. As a Heroku user I am concerned and saddened.

Can anyone offer any perspective? I'm puzzled by the acquisition mindset.
Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
I can't imagine how anyone could function in an enterprise setting without understanding SQL. Whatever you're using for your app -- C#, Java, etc. -- the database is still a common denominator. Despite the fashionability of NoSQL, the old-fashioned relational DB with a SQL interface is still ubiquitous.
I'm now picturing James Bond ordering a Salade Niçoise in said manner.
While Apple fanboys have a rather condescending view of open source software, for those of us outside that little bubble, articles like this might actually be relevant.
> Italian Fascism and most other fascist movements promote a corporatist economy whereby, in theory, representatives of capital and labour interest groups work together within sectoral corporations to create both harmonious labour relations and maximization of production that would serve the national interest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
They used the same formula the music industry uses when seeking damages for piracy?
Launch occurred at 15:43 GMT (10:43 AM EST/7:43 AM PST).
So far so good.

For up-to-the-minute status updates and a live video feed, see http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/status.html
NodeConf 2011
Looks a lot like the Editor's Choice iPad app adapted for a browser. Very nice and clean.

That said, I'm not sure how sustainable it is, unless they're planning on turning it into a paid thing. Any significant number of users is going to put a damper on their bottom line because no ads means no ad revenue.
This is neat stuff but they have one big problem. To handle the home firewall traversal problem they developed their own protocol which requires a browser plugin. The way you navigate to their tiny servers is thru links like this:

nabto://test.nabto.net

If you browse to a Nabto device with http:// instead it displays a page to download the plugin but with most browsers now ditching the protocol prefix I think this is going to be a VERY hard sell.
Ask HN: What Design schools would you recommend?
I am taking a shot because I am not sure there is enough design community on HN but anyway, what are some of the good designs schools you have had the chance to study in or you know about through someone?

I am more interested in the surrounding culture than the degree itself.
There doesn't seem to be enough data about European design schools online so that's one thing I'd like to know specifically.
Feel free to add me to that list.
I'm sorry, but a language for which a fully-compliant compiler takes a decade to write is horribly broken.

(Computer) languages should not inspire "puzzle books". Too often I'll see colleagues scratching their heads wondering why a piece of code works a certain way, or why something doesn't work the way it's supposed to.

Languages are a tool to get things done. The more time you spend lost in the entrails of a language, the more you're wasting your time.
A breakdown of how STUXNET took down Iran's Nuclear Program
Interesting (albeit non-technical) description of the Stuxnet worm.

"Ralph Langner, the computer expert who was the first to sound the alarm about Stuxnet ... argues that no single Western intelligence agency had the skills to pull this off alone. The most likely answer, he says, is that a consortium of intelligence agencies worked together to build the cyber bomb. And he says the most likely confederates are the United States, because it has the technical skills to make the virus, Germany, because reverse-engineering Siemans product would have taken years without it, and Russia, because of its familiarity with both the Iranian nuclear plant and Siemans systems."
Doug Lenat keeps saying that inteligence is "one million rules", throw enough structure at something and it may come alive :)
> 2.9% plus 30 cents a transaction wouldn't buy a lot of loyalty from me, either.

And here I was thinking you were a man of principles ;)

> If the Internet cheering squad sent them six figures, that would just about cover what it cost to ring legal and schedule, but not actually run, a meeting to decide what to do about this.

I think the French company OVH went about this the right way, the first thing they did upon finding out that they had wikileaks as a customer they went to a judge to get a ruling.

PayPal could have done the same thing easily.
How it is connected with their CRM business?
Has anyone successfully made that particular pivot?
You're right; I mentally transposed 'not a', which gives the sentence a different spin.
As a slight counterexample:

Suppose we want to show changes in temperature---unless you use the Kelvin scale, showing percentage changes is going to be bogus. Showing change relative to recent volatility seems useful.
I would imagine that they didn't know the content of the letter before intercepting it; that it was just a communication made suspicious by the fact that it was out of India and addressed to Hitler. Then once it's been intercepted, you can't exactly go up to him and say, "Sorry, Mr. Hitler, here's that letter..."
There's probably going to be an international trial soon. However, I can assume the OS will be released in free beta for you to test on your own hardware.

Since Google's requesting fairly intensive feedback, I can assume it's easier for their team to track usage in a domestic market.
I like. I'm sure you are at least three times as good as this alternative, but I have enjoyed using a few different (similar) $5 services from fiverr: http://www.fiverr.com/
Getting on the US government's bad side when you are in a highly regulated industry is NEVER a good idea. It'd be a quixotic crusade that'd just draw Paypal into the line of fire. For example, there are probably 50 FinReg statutes alone that an aspiring Eliot Spitzer 2.0 could throw at them given sufficient prodding by the federales.
The definition in the Russell and Norvig textbook is nice: "computational rationality"
They're requiring that now. At the time, they froze the account, allowing money in but no withdrawals.
I can see your point. I just think the same could be achieved with everything together. Questions could be assigned a category. Each category could have it's own associated css style and simple URL to give it a uniqueness. Also user reputation could be calculated on a per-category basis in addition to a site wide basis. You would end up with little kingdoms and little kings, while keeping it all together.

Just an idea.

But with the community process of the different Stacks I have a feeling there are reasons other than technical for the separation.
“One of the signs that you’re a successful payments company is that hackers start to target you, this case isn’t anything different.”

What a non-answer.
Why I won't hire you - a recruiter's (re)view of developer candidates
Assuming it takes you at least 1-2 hours per design (and even with mad photoshop skillz it's unlikely it'd be much shorter than that), you're probably better off getting an office job somewhere, or even maybe a burger-flipping job. Given all the additional expenses of running your own business, this is probably not a viable business model (i.e. you will lose money on the whole).

The only way this would be justified is if you use this as a source of clients to up-sell more expensive work to.
The other thing to keep in mind is that `git gc` may prune loose objects that are created without any references.

"git gc tries very hard to be safe about the garbage it collects. In particular, it will keep not only objects referenced by your current set of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index, remote-tracking branches, refs saved by git filter-branch in refs/original/, or reflogs (which may reference commits in branches that were later amended or rewound)." -- http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-gc.html
It may be worth discussing weather or not Apple has Ubuntu or Linux on their radar.

Also, it's rude to call someone a fanboy of anything, I expect that from some sites, but I'd like to see less of that around here. That, and saying anything at all about Ubuntu does not qualify as a statement about OSS as a whole. After all, OSX is full of OSS software.
Mussolini went just a wee bit further than complaining about dissidents, no?
Or portfolio building.
So if the letter was indeed sent to wikileaks, but used as a justification for locking their account, how on earth did the letter end up at Paypal to begin with?

This is looking very, very fishy.
It is crazy. I really think you should charge more.
Salesforce to buy Heroku for $212M | San Francisco Business Times
Please don't editorialize in submission titles. A better title would have been "Mastercard hacked by wikileak supporters".

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I need a logo for my website, do you also make logos for $15?
Next Big Thing: “Contextual Discovery” — Google Results Without Search
Looks like some of the features aren't quite on the level of the Skimmer:

http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/

But it's a good start.
It's funny but just as backend platforms really started to get good all the action shifted back to the client.
Meh. Clean, yes, but:

-- Back button doesn't work. Must click tiny "close" box.

-- Rather than simply scrolling, must paginate with tiny "next" arrow.

Usability loses.
The State Department didn't say anything to Paypal. See the updated post.
I know even less about spying in the 30s than I know about spying in the modern era, but you can't help but assume that we would have been able to snoop on what it said while still letting it get through without them realising we had already read it?
whois cloud2.com -> DNS01.SALESFORCE.COM :)
huh? it's working on safari for me (5.03 on OS X 10.6)
> people should be shouting at the government(s) putting pressure on the companies,

No, the government never put any pressure on PayPal. They just read about it in a newspaper and acted on it. Same with Amazon: some dumb-ass Senator from Connecticut raises a question, and Amazon pees in their pants. So the problem _does_ lie with the companies, for being so scared of the government. Some could even say that they're not doing their fiduciary duty by refusing to do business with WikiLeaks, when WikiLeaks hasn't been convicted of any crime.
This is experimental. However, it could start a revolution in information access
Just out of curiosity: why did you buy the designfor15bucks.com domain and STILL setup a gmail account for contact?

Related: http://www.google.com/a
Ya the same here. I donated when Paypal caved and then I donated again when MasterCard caved. Between that and my vocal opposition to the new TSA policies I'm pretty sure I'm on every list the government has at this point /tinfoil hat.
Where are you located? $15 doesn't sound like a lot of money for what could take about an hour of work (simple 1 page design). Unless you live in a country where money goes farther, or you can do designs much faster than 1 hour? Will this be profitable?

EDIT: I see that you are in Brazil, and a quick Googling shows that web designers make $4-$8