skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not the scariest hack that can be done with HTML/JS. There is another one that checks if you are logged in to some web site, your bank for instance. Once a malicious page finds a site you are in, a hidden iframe can click on links and even submit forms on your behalf.
It was meant to be an essay, although it admittedly came out not as poignant nor as convincing as I wanted.
The black Macbook can indeed be scratched and all, but it won't be as noticeable from personal experience (but I haven't yet seen a deep scratch...).
But do they do that for ANY feed? Or just for the ones you are subscribed to? Because I need archives to any feed, not just the ones I follow...

It's true though that google seems to be catching feeds :). Nice.

I wonder if there's a way to search for a particular feed.
Otherwise, I'd have to create an account and subscribe to all feeds in the world O_0.

Where is the non-official API, anyway?

Thanks!
The vast majority of those diseases are prevented in the developed world by non-medical means. A doctor didn't prevent me from dying of malaria, DDT eliminated malaria in the US before I was born. Doctors didn't cure my cholera, other people flushing preventing me from being exposed to it. The NY/NJ water utilities prevented me from being exposed to water-born diseases and my refrigerator/consistent food supply protected me from spoiled food.

Malaria is still one of the top killers of people world wide, which is why the Gates foundation is funding vaccine research. There are 300 million people world wide infected with malaria, and 1.5 million people die from malaria each year. How's that DDT working for them?

I'm an ER nurse by trade, and I pick up old medical textbooks in antique shops whenever I can. There are usually entire chapters on Polio, Tetanus, Tularemia etc... These are diseases that we just don't see any more. Why? Because of vaccines and antibiotics.

My uncle, (now a surgeon) almost died in the 40's from a ruptured appendix. Know what saved his life? The new miracle drug that had just come on the market: Sulfa antibiotics. I haven't seen a person die from a ruptured appendix in years. Why? Because of antibiotics and surgery.

People used to die from infectious diseases all the time, and they do in the Third World as well. Yes, prevention and basic sanitation help a lot, but that's not the only answer.

Pneumonia used to be a major killer. It's not anymore. Why? Antibiotics and oxygen.

I was born with a cleft lip. I had two surgeries on my lip before I was 1 month old. My parents took me down to Honduras where they worked in a rural village running a school. People in the village were shocked that there was something that could actually fix cleft lips. There were a number of people in that village and surrounding countryside who lived decades with a cleft lip, not knowing that a surgeon could change their lives.

To say that medicine doesn't help people is absolutely absurd.
Collatz is completely unapproachable. Sure, anybody can understand what it's saying and run the algorithm on a couple of numbers. Very few people will be able to do anything else with it. (I think that saying that you can "understand why Collatz is hard" is disingenuous. Maybe you're admiring the fact that something so simple can be so intractable, but unless you're a phenomenal mathematician you're not understanding it more fully.)

Now, YMMV, of course. It's just been my experience—and the experience of my mathematically-inclined friends—that banging your head against a problem that is way out of your league is more frustrating, less rewarding, and less useful than working on something within your abilities. If your goal is a distraction, go with what works, but if your goal is to improve your problem solving abilities, don't act like a spectator—do something you can actually do.
The Last Lion - Churchill
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You're right, unfortunately the majority of plastic bags sold/given away (in the UK but I assume everywhere) are single use cheap plastic bags. They end up being used as bin liners and sitting in land fills for hundreds of years.

The real problem is how to get the microbes to function in landfills so that the contents can degrade at a faster rate.

Then you've got the problem of stopping secondary effects in landfills such as water seepage. What happens if high concentrations of these microbes start dissolving plastic water pipes? We could replace one mistake with another.

There is a long way to go but the kids made a good start. Ultimately we just need to stop using plastic bags.
You should check out the prequels to Guitar Hero, Frequency and Amplitude for PS2. They had gameplay similar to guitar hero only you played on a controller and you switched between tracks of music with the d-pad. They also had a remix mode where you could actually make new remixes of the new music. The gameplay from that remix mode could be greatly enhanced with the Wii controllers... you only get 3 discrete notes/pitches in each track in the Frequency remix mode.

They didn't have a remix mode in Guitar Hero so they could license more music, but it was a really innovative feature that hasn't yet been replicated in gaming.

I played the drums a lot in high school; I'd love to spend a lot of time making music after making it with a startup.
Also, I got a Wii Fit, but I got it just to sell on ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=32025...). Sorry about that delayed preorder...
Unfortunately he has already posted his comment about signing an NDA, and you've responded about posting anonymously. Any anonymous post that breaks private NDA information would cast a long shadow of suspicion towards the original poster.
There's Zopa, which probably inspired Couchtycoon. Zopa does P2P loans rather than investments (like Prosper, I guess). I don't know what the state is in the US, but it's all above board in the EU. There have been a few companies looking for funding - I noticed one from www.billster.net - but the problem is that given the size of the loan and the rates you're likely to get, a tech startup is far better off looking for VC or a government grant.

I'm interested in CouchTycoon (EU-based is fine for me), but it seems like it's more of a trading platform than an investment platform. Share trading for non-listed companies. The site looks a bit dodgy too. I'll wait and see what happens when it comes out of Beta.
Very true. He has noted that he had told only one lie in his life. You can find his famous quotes here.

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/mahatma_gandhi/
Does anyone see one of the problems with this approach? What if a user visits a site multiple times, and searches the website, looking for new/different information that they have not found previously - would they have a different experience?

Would this lead to people being lost in multiple forms of the same site? Even if you tried to track a user, unless you force people to sign in w/ an account, most likely it will be impossible to tell if the same user has returned.

What about link sharing? This site, yc, is all about sharing links and information. Would this break existing link sharing sites? Wouldn't there at least be a cognitive difference between people in discussions of a site using this software?

And still yet, would an approach such as this give users the feeling of personallization and a better user experience or disenfranchisement of a constantly changing layout/experience?

Although something like this combined w/ socialhistory.js would be really nice; that way you could ensure one form over another with greater accuracy and no need for a click history on the site - the information would already be available.
I'd try taking your MacBook to an Apple Store. The cracks are a known problem, and they may take care of you even if you're out of warranty (or maybe not).
Lets see the demo then...
http://www.biographicon.com

http://www.biographicon.com/view/lypys/Democritus

http://www.biographicon.com/view/r8r22/Hypatia_of_Alexandria

http://www.biographicon.com/view/4yf4i/Ethan_Allen - a good start on the New England rebel. One of my favorite books is this entertaining work on the amazing life of Allen: http://www.amazon.com/Ethan-Allen-Charles-Albert-Jellison/dp...

http://www.biographicon.com/view/hhnvz/Johnny_Ramone
We also already have genetically engineered carbon eating plants. Most of our agricultural crops have been genetically engineered (using selective breeding or molecular biology) to be much better at getting CO2 out of the atmosphere to produce carbohydrates than their wild counterparts. Unfortunately it seems that taking CO2 out of the atmosphere is like taking pee out of a swimming-pool: it's possible, but takes a lot of energy. Most crops compensate the increased energy cost for carbon uptake by reducing their defences against pests and droughts, which means they need to be subsidised with pesticides and irrigation (today produced mainly using fossil fuels).

It would be great if we could design trees that catch more CO2 than they need but, being an evolutionist, I'm not holding my breath. I imagine that even a small energetical efficiency increase would be a big evolutionary advantage and that plants are pretty close to their theoretical efficiency limit.

Of course IANAPNAPP (I Am Not A Physicist, Nor A Plant Physiologist), if you are please enlighten me.
"Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman" [absolutely rockstar of a autobiography]

"Every Second Counts" Lance Armstrong [poignant]

"A beautiful mind" John Forbes Nash [moving, and heart wrenching]

My personal favourite:
"Icon" Steve Jobs
The way they've pretty much solved the plastic bag problem here (Austria) by charging for them. Result: ~99% of people bring (and reuse) their own shopping bags/baskets.

There are various incentives given by the UK supermarkets for using your own bags (IIRC, Tesco: "green" points, Sainsbury's: 1p/bag saved off your shopping, may have changed since I moved away from London) but they've got them the wrong way around, as there's no penalty for carrying on as before. If people start getting charged extra, a lot more will switch to using their own bags. With only positive incentive, my gf and I were the only people we ever saw who used their own bags.

The Austrian solution only applies to supermarkets, so other kinds of stores still hand out free bags, although I suppose supermarkets are (were) probably by far the biggest source of bags.
Zattoo: Europe gets IPTV including BBC
I've been using Zattoo for a while in Switzerland. The quality is bad but it is sufficient to follow a sports event or the news.

Zattoo is great because together with my HSDPA Card and my Laptop I can watch TV almost everywhere, it made TV portable :-)
May 29, 1953
>How's that DDT working for them?

It would probably work if it were permitted and available. That isn't happening, due to pressure from the various third parties (US/EU governments, donor agencies) who care more about keeping rich environmentalists happy than about saving children's lives.

The fact is, flushing, soap, clean water and food have saved vastly more lives than medicine ever has or will. That's the difference between developed and undeveloped countries; medicine is a distant second.

By the way, my claim is not that medicine doesn't help, that we hit the point of diminishing returns a long time ago and a marginal change in medicine available does not affect health levels.
I actually got how to use the text straight away - Please don't change that to force people to use the tool bar to put it into text mode - that would be very frustrating!
A collection of problems would be more valuable.
I found Peter Kropotkin's autobiography (Memoirs of a Revolutionist) to be rather interesting.
Fantastic - I have been looking for something like that for ages that just works.

I even posted in a thread on there that a 'usable whiteboard' was one of those problems that still needed solving - I reckon you are a long way there - well done.
I used it a few times in Switzerland as well. When a lot of users are watching a stream, you sometimes get kicked out or image artifacts. It will be interesting to see how Zattoo will handle the load at the soccer EM starting in 2 weeks, and even if they are providing an alternative.

For someone interested in doing a p2p video startup. A member of the research group I did my master thesis in, recently made his research project opensource.
It's a p2p opensource video player with h264 decoding support (with opengl hardware acceleration), and playback controls (you can also go back in time and forward).
Users can also play videos directly from their browser with the java applet, so you don't have to install pulsar.
It's also build to handle lots of clients.
You can get it here:
http://dev.getpulsar.com/

A few example streams are here:
http://www.getpulsar.com/examples/

This might be very helpful for some people trying to do a startup in this area.

Edit. Just saw that only parts are opensource, not everything.
Breaking Out Blogger “Pay”
How did this only get three votes? By the way, the full version (18,000 words) is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60385
Don't miss this short read by Tom Wolfe on co-founder of Intel, Robert Noyce: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190524

Better yet, read the full version: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60385 It's excellent.
Only five points? Lame.
Holy crap - I like to write specs
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/10-10-2005-78536.asp

> ... Morris enlisted the help of a friend at Harvard to stop the contagion.

Could this be?
There is a movie idea in this...
theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln. Great leaders
My rule of thumb when purchasing a computer: think about what will be most (relatively) useful 18 months from now. I always consider purchasing a new computer every 24-30 months. The 6-12 months is my "coping" period between the old computer and new computer depending upon my needs.
Why PHP Sucks (Hint:  It doesn't)
In China they simply outlawed them recently.

Edit: apparently only cheap plastic bags are outlawed, story: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display...
Sam Ruby: Continuations for Curmudgeons
I'm just finishing reading The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P. T. Barnum by Wallace, Irving. Recommended.
Help Firefox achieve a Guinness Record
Too amazing to be biographical; so classified as fiction http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=loc...
If comparing languages was all about benchmarking, wouldn't we all be just using assembler?
Does it use transactions?
I thought it was a rather nice read. It was refreshing to have a little bit of story telling along the lines of a personal experience instead of some quick snippets of facts and opinions mashed up together.
Being unsure of the specs I bought an Air at a local big box store so I could bring it back later if I was unhappy. I did. -no power-
They use those at the company I currently contract for. Decent workhorses. Not so pretty that I would consider buying them at home, but for businesses they make perfect sense.
the eepc looks like junk to me, too
I recently bought a MacBook and I'm very disappointed with the screen as it's vertical viewing angle is very narrow. Looking at the screen other than at exactly the right angle results in the screen appearing very washed out.

Compare it against the MacBook Air and your descision will be made easier.
I do not consider that a worthwhile summary of Berkeley. I do not see a lot of eccentricity in Berkeley except among the homeless.
Check out books by Athanasios Papoulis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasios_Papoulis

http://books.google.co.in/books?as_auth=Athanaszaios+Papouli...
South Florida (late 1970s): You should have as much fun as possible (and New York City sucks: I'm so glad I do not live there anymore).

Atlanta: if you can't avoid being pathetic, uneducated, dumb or from the boonies, you should at least try to hide that fact.

San Francisco's message is, like PG said, you should live better.

Marin County (just north of San Francisco): a lot like SF, a little like Silicon Valley, but what is distinctive about Marin is that many of its influential citizens give off the message that you should use spiritual practices to learn never to become angry or hateful and always feel love and compassion for everyone all the time.
The Basic Balanced Search Tree: Red-Black trees
Understanding why it is intractable is probably a good learning experience by itself.
Prototyping: Bit by bit, inch by inch
Testing against multiple versions of IE just got way simpler
thx for updates ... welcome to HN !
so slow you'll notice? :/ depends if you do lots of CPU heavy tasks.
weight, build quality, multi touch, backlit kb.
build quality on air is even better than mb which is no mean feat.
Nine Tips To Building A Local Tech Culture
Who’s Smarter: Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg?
Entering Virtual Worlds for Real-Life Pitches
Ability to change zoom level would be a plus, and then making the size of the whiteboard conform to the size of the window (the whiteboard doesn't fit in a browser window at 1024*768; not essential but annoying).
Installing And Using The Unbound Name Server On Debian Etch
hm, not working for me, I hit "Send" and nothing ....

Maybe this means the start of blog postings like "Why is Twoorl Down?!?!" and "How to Fix Twoorl's Send Problem"
Neat app! Along with triangles, pick up sine waves.
Why Blockbuster's movie kiosks won't save Blockbuster
It might be funny and intuitive to put a text button on the toolbar and when it's clicked display a large hint on-screen saying something like:

"You can add text anywhere just by clicking and start to type. So no need for this pesky button!"

And then fade the text button away or even better destroy it with an explosion animation and then keep track of it in the session/user login.
Surprisingly, I find it interesting and easy to follow. I completely agree that the quality on Digg have gone downhill, never find Techcrunch to be technologically insightful, but it is becoming garbage with the flood of recent posts about twitter and sensational microhoo merger deal.

I find readwriteweb.com to be a better source for start up news. You can see they put in sincere effort writing up those analysis.
Wow, looks like you hit a nerve here (in a good way)! I hope you have a clear vision of where you want to take this, because the users will pull you every which way, as far as user requests :~).
Who Has Comment Copyright Ownership In A Disqus Era?
Only one problem (at many places): D is no longer an acceptable grade for required classes. Where I teach (a top US university), neither is C-.

Of course, we don't want to require people to take the class again. So C is the new F.
I think the MB Air is a beautiful design, but have the same complaints/ deal killers as everybody else: not enough ports, non-swappable battery, CPU throttled down by heat (a biggie for me).

http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/05/11/putting-an-end-to-macboo...
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/macbookair/
Wittgenstein started one public lecture with a disclaimer to the effect, "This will not be one of those popular science lectures where you come out of the talk thinking you understand a topic that you understand nothing about."

With all due respect to Feynman, if at the end of his lectures lay people couldn't do the math behind the physics he described, they didn't really "understand" it. They understood a simplified picture of it that captured most of the important details in a really vivid way. But they were still missing something important.

That said, you're right. In the general case, we shouldn't allow ourselves the "out" of "oh, this is soooo complex that I can't speak clearly" without some pretty damn strong motivation. It's just that in this particular case, I didn't think the essay was especially jargon laden, so the OP's comment seemed misplaced. How much more simply can one explain that cities affect how you think?
The Next-Gen Web: Browser Storage Support
Multi-touch, the Musical, or The Next Wave for UI
I wonder if slashdot has got a form for this sort of thing yet ;)

Your twitter architecture will fail due to:

( ) Database replication issues
( ) Inability to prevent spam
(x) Immaturity of the libraries in your chosen language
...
Not to threadjack, but are there any guidelines for that? He seems to use dashes where most writers would use commas to separate out a sentence subphrase. His "Aird — who is white — has failed..." would normally be "Aird, who is white, has failed..." I'm curious if it's just a matter of choice to use the dash there.

But yes, he overdoes the dash. I'll bet he has Microsoft Excel set to export as DSV.
Designing For Evil
I assume the world of difference you're mentioning is the due diligence process that an angel investor or a VC takes the startup through, correct?
One about the Roman statesman Cicero.

He was an idealist with huge character flaws, which makes him pretty interesting to start with. But he lived in a time when Rome was descending from Republican rule into autocracy - and both resisted and accidentally advanced the change.

On top of that it is pretty interesting reading for a geek - a poor reserved law scholar with speaking problems became one of the greatest orators of history and clawed his way to the top of one of the Roman system, partly due to his command of the minute details of the law.
Notes on A History of Erlang
PubMatic Cracks the Code for the Billion Dollar Default Ad Problem
Ask YC: What do you use for outbound email sending?
I need to send out automated emails to users (e.g. invitations, share notices, etc.) and want to guarantee that recipients don't receive them in their spam folder.

I can minimize by utilizing SPF/DK/DKIM but it's not a guarantee. Services like Port25 that specialize in outbound MTA is quite expensive.

What do you guys use/suggest?
Dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=171617
try dodo
Depending on how much you're sending out and to how many people; Google Apps is a good choice.
Do you remember the “SEX” now that we have got your attention ad.
Sososher.com is a new web start launching in the next few weeks. One of the slogans we use are -Sososher – it’s a bit of a tongue twister isn’t it “try saying it three times in a row”. Now you’ve heard the name, you’re going to have to find out what it means. The aforementioned has been having quite a significant impact and has been attracting a lot of user interest.
can u add the blogs or job sites that are specifically for jobs at startups. thx
The Internet according to Akamai
Sure, but to dismiss all problems with a reference to a future miracle technology??
I realize you said it depends, but did they lesson the limit of 500 outgoing per account per day?

That's pretty low for any service, and a total hassle to create a bunch of fake user accounts and keep track of how much they've sent today while round robin-ing around "as many accounts as I hope I'll need today".
Amazon Launching Streaming Video Service
http://india.startuplogic.com/ has a section that lists startup jobs from many different blogs and job sites.
wow another use for a monkey's brain.