skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently remedied a problem that I was having, which was importing my Chrome bookmarks into Keepass. I figure that this could also help some of the folks on HN, so here is the info:

writeup: http://alanp.ca/blog/2011/01/01/export-google-chrome-passwor...
Github: https://github.com/alanpca/chrome2keepass
People can get angry over something that another person would think nothing of. Even something as simple as throwing away a half-eaten candy bar. Just because a man is brought up to do something wrong, it does not absolve him of the fact it is wrong.

That 'innocuous' comment has enough social subtext for people of certain viewpoints to find it repulsive. Like, say, a guy running an anti-bribery campaign.

Personally, I don't begrudge people paying more to get better service/food, but extravagant tipping for better service in a situation where people are expecting to be served fairly sends a strong signal: "I am too good for your rules."

Not everyone has the same outlook on life as you do.
Super Mario 64 completed in 5 minutes
Ziff Davis acquires Geek.com
> Aren't a huge percentage of software bugs potential security vulnerabilities by this standard?

Yes, which is why you should carefully reduce the number of bugs in your code - many bugs can be security issues, if the attacker is clever enough.
Slightly misleading title don't you think?

Pic: http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/kenya-hack.p...

Source code for those interested:

<html>

<head>

<title>I'm CEO, BITCh!</title>

<head>

<body>

<font size=14>Got in and all i could think about was zuckerberg!!!

This' for you Mark!

</font>

</body>

</htm>
Yeah I was deeply inspired by Yieldbuilder and I'm now working on building a in house management platform for my ventures using these methods more algorithmically.
I made a smartass remark, but seriously: That sentence does not need a question mark.

Your point stands, however.
They may be forced to disclose financials, but they can't be forced to do an IPO. Those are two different (but often interchangeable) things. I'm not sure if the restrictions on executives of public companies apply to all that must disclose their financials, or only companies being traded on the exchanges.
The Western Design Centre actually describes the 65xx as an addressible register architecture http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/Presentation_Artwork/... [zipped PPT], and by that I assume they're describing the zero-page addresses as registers.
You're argument is orthogonal to my point. I'm aware of the wealth differences. I see similar differences quite often in the inner city of Chicago. One overarching trend among the less well off that Guelo demonstrates is a venomance that gets in the way of cooperation and progress. As an example, I have seen young children refuse to be taught by quite capable teachers because the teacher is white and wears jeans that cost more than $20. There's an unfounded resentment here and it needs to be named. It's as if an apology is expected for being born into the middle class. The hate here is unhealthy because ultimately the person doing the hating is the one that loses.
"The two just raised $650 million and what they have to say is worth your attention."

Then, there's that kind of jerk.
Yeah I'm spending $25 a day on targeted traffic from various sources (8 sources) to make $300.

So $50 daily for $600 and $100 daily for $1,200! That's without counting on viral confetti's/increase in organic traffic.
1) Incompetent/lazy/understaffed/broke IT departments that cannot or will not adopt a new browser policy

2) Draconian IT policies preventing workers from using non-approved software

3) Idiotic decision making from last decade to use ActiveX/some other IE6 only feature for some critical applications.
>He doesn't get any preferential treatment from me [...] [knowing about his past] is valuable to me so I can put our relationship in right context.

I don't understand how knowing about his past should matter if you're not going to behave differently towards him?

That's like asking someone’s sex on an application form - if you're not going to discriminate why do you need to know.
This is not the state today. the basics (housing, healthcare , education ) are pretty expensive. add to that the stigma of not working , and being unemployed is quite bad.

I think disruptive innovation for the needs of the unemployed in those fields , could be a huge and important field in the next decade.but this would probably need suport from government , because there are heavy regulations around those fields.
Not misleading at all.
I agree that it's not fair to say that Android isn't made for "real people" (hey, Windows is made for "real people", and I'd much rather use Android than Windows), but iPhone is most certainly designed for "real people", too.
Startup Quote: Billy Chasen, co-founder, Stickybits
I'm Joining the WP7 Design Team
2010: The Year I'll Never Forget
In fairness, Google deserves credit for providing SSL search in the first place, but exactly how does one go about contacting the Google Complaints Department?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&hs=S...
We have an easily explainable product, but people only get it by example.

- Billy Chasen (@billychasen)

http://startupquote.com/post/2595788622
Isara + CodeIgniter = ?
I own a Vizio HDTV, and I have to say, they're doing a great job at making high end products into commodities. A few years ago we would say the same thing about Hyundai, KIA, and other car manufacturers but today? There's more of them out on the road than ever before, and they stay on the road longer than before. I think we're in a cycle wherein we all want the features, quality, and technology of formerly luxury items for our every day, layman usage. Companies that drive this cycle will likely do better than those that attempt to hold the price line. Apple is perhaps the only exception to the rule (though, their prices have come down a little as well on the premium side), and that's due to the excellent used market.
Kenya Police website hacked by Mark Zuckerberg

That title suggests that Zuckerberg hacked the site himself so yes it is misleading.
That's because most companies are not technology companies. They purchase all of their IT infrastructure instead of building anything in-house. So if the vendors they buy from only support IE6, their customers will be stuck with IE6 until the vendor decides to upgrade or their customers go with someone else.
Me too. It's also weird that Apple suggested that it only affected Jan 1 and Jan 2 but that it seemed to affect some (but only some) people on Jan 3, too.
Announcing Dresssed.com: Premium Rails Themes
Exactly why NY tech is fail; They have websites to tell people how awesome they think they are.
Even with my ‘real’ (out-in-the-country 5.5mbit) broadband I’m still not yet convinced by streaming films. Nothing like a stutter to jerk you out of your immersion.
Should have been "for" Mark Zuckenberg, maybe.
Come on, it's at least programming 301. Thanks for the knowledge, though.
Can the Government Force Us to Buy Health Insurance?
Every 6-9 months I do this same exact experiment: install the latest version of Ubuntu or the current super hyped distro and give it a go for a few days. The longest I've lasted is 10 days.

Why? I feel the current distros are always in my way of getting things done on my laptop. There are too many UI inconsistencies, too many hardware drivers that randomly fail, regularly switching between single and dual screens is error prone, and finally no clear central UI to customise the OS (dropping into the command line to edit a config file written in draconian script just to get a mouse setting to work is just not good).

I last did this in November when I tried Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop (64 and 32 bit) and the netbook remix. They lasted a total of 6 days.

All this assuming that the OS actually installs: Fedora just hangs on my laptop. Once I gave it a chance to work through whatever it was hung on by leaving it on overnight. No luck.

On the other hand, you'd have to pry my Ubuntu servers from my cold dead hands. I refuse to host on anything else.
Govt fears big companies.
>Paying for a streaming version of a movie doesn't seem very desirable

Right, that's why Netflix Instant is such a failure.
Huh? It's right there: second column, fourth box down. You could quibble that it isn't "one of the techniques", but the effect of that is to invalidate your original complaint that all the chart tells you to do is to apply known techniques.
Ordering off the iPad menu
Yes, just updated that.
I expect it'd be covered by the same agreements that let AMD and Via clone, say, the latest SSE instructions.
Despite anti-Oracle hysteria, firm is an Open Source powerhouse
This is (1) probably not useful to anyone with even rudimentary problem-solving skills and (2) more "How to do anything" than "How to prove theorems". But it's for people with scarcely any problem-solving skills. It's kinda sad that a university mathematics course is full of people with scarcely any problem-solving skills, but that's hardly btilly's fault.

I wouldn't expect there to be a lot of HN participants who need it, though.
i'd readily point out the fact that online dating is a two way street. its not a meat market where guys go out and select, while girls sit around waiting to be selected.

if this girl wasn't at least into this guy, and wasn't getting any prospects messaging her, she could've gone looking actively herself and found the exact same guys in the area.
Google Doesn't Want to Lead You Down Any Dead Ends
>You can accomplish that by telling the truth too ("Yes you are fat", "Santa does not exist").

Why are your examples cruel?

Someone learns that they need to address their weight problems before it affects their health badly or if they want to woo you or whatever.

Someone else learns that they receive presents not because they've been good but because people regard them; I was going to say love instead of regard but that's not always true.

Sure you can say things in cruel ways ...
Have you guys tried MIUI on Froyo ? It gives me 60FPS for scrolling, panning and almost everything on a Nexus One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-9T44Bt7M
It has got NO GPU acceleration.
That PWNs it
Idiocracy wasn't a great movie, but it might be prophetic.
The monetisation fetish
Home Based Business Idea: Medical Billing and Coding Business
AMD officially announces Fusion APUs
We can play this game all the way down to the most impoverished society on the planet. A poor Indian could find it reprehensible that a middle class American will throw away a candy bar. A starving African could find it reprehensible that a poor Indian will use comparatively expensive spices in his food. After all, why not eat the most tasteless food possible and then donate the extra money? The point is, unless you are from the most impoverished society on the planet, you are doing something that someone somewhere could find reprehensible because of social subtext.

The question needs to be asked, where does this game get us? Nowhere. All good people are ultimately batting for the same team. Sure, truly evil people should be named and shamed, but that's not what happened in this thread. Guelo picked a fight because he thought he had the right to, and he doesn't. At least, not with Leelin. Hateful dialogue has absolutely zero positive benefit and often hurts the person doing the hating: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067014.
JavaScript Super Mario Kart
He did submit it to PHP. However, it seems the fastest way to get bugs patched on projects like PHP is to publicly announce the bug and let the public push the devs to fix it. Otherwise the report just languishes in the bug tracker and never gets fixed.
The News Revolution: An Attack on Pop Media
> Lying is a tool, it can be used for good or bad.

That's precisely the point. Here lying was done for personal gains.
From what I hear - yes... My friends who worked for whitehat security companies would first try to hack staff before hacking servers.

Best was to call up the ceo on his personal homephone every night at 3am, until they knew what he sounded like raving mad.
Then they called up the admins doing a very good impression of the irate ceo demanding his passwords were reset there and then. Worked a stupid amount of times apparently...

So yes, lying can be hacking and hacking can be lying.
Technically, what is this specific DRM? Is this something other than HDCP?
BitTorrent Has More Users Than Netflix and Hulu Combined--and Doubled
Can you share your traffic sources? Are they just good for social websites/apps?
I saw a great film that came out this year called Kapitalism: Our Improved Formula that paints an really dire picture of the current state of Romanian corruption, and if any country has had a public uprising against the state of their government, Romania qualifies.
Careful not to sacrifice longevity with commoditization. The margins become so little, that short product lifetime becomes the comapny lifeline, the last way to increase sales. Eventually the service becomes too lousy and customers shy away. In some respect, this is happening with car industry. HP is also a good posterchild with it's printer cartridge scheme. Goldstar?
Using WordPress with Cassandra or other NoSQL databases?
I ran Ubuntu for four months while doing some full-time Ruby work and other than the fact that things are different from what I was used to and I had to experiment to find the applications that suited my work I never had any problems with it. It ran well and was generally solid.

I always suspect that the majority of issues when switching OSes really fall into the "not what I'm used to category".

At least that's the case with me and Apple products. I think that if I had a real need to use OS-X I would eventually get over it.
I was using JSON as an example because it's taking something in JSON specified as a string, using quotation marks, and automatically converting it to a double.

I wasn't referring to this being the cause, just in other languages if you pass a string through JSON it would never end up being decoded to a double, just because syntactically it is a double.
From the article:

>A reminder: If Facebook is forced to register, it will not HAVE to offer stock to the public. But since it will be forced to disclose its financials anyway, we expect the company will go ahead and offer up some second class (non-voting) shares.
Nothing much to see at the moment. any invites available?
Nope, you were just plain wrong.

The odds would have been in your favor if you have said "odds are a search engine chosen at random does this too".

But, instead, you said: "odds are DDG does this too", thus binding the odds to DDG.

Since the general stance of DDG is pro privacy, you should have reasoned that the odds were in favor of DDG NOT doing this.

(Not to mention that posting that you "were close" didn't provide anything to the discussion --apart from some ill-conceived face saving from your part).
Innocuous? Don't make me laugh. I don't see this as spitting venom or that the poster has a huge chip on their shoulder - that's rather an extreme characterization.

My first thought on seeing the title for the site was that it was a project to try to reduce corruption and bribery. Because I was curious I clicked through to discover more. Nicely designed site, tackling a real social ill which obviously affects the poor more than it does the rich. Must have taken some time to get up and running, and as it's not a profit-driven thing, you'd need to be fairly passionate about what you're in it for.

And then along comes this guy making asinine comments about greasing palms to get the jump on people in queues and other trivial frippery - that he even presumed it was a site that would give those with fat-wallets a few hints at how to snare a few perks is telling.

Given your interpretation of this conversation I doubt you would have donated at all.
I'd like to see Google providing aggregated browser stats from the data it collects via Analytics.
There is plenty of market for streamed movies.

My TV provider offers films on demand at £2-4 per viewing. The convenience of being able to watch immediately, and cheaply outweighs the choice of buying the DVD/BR and being able to watch multiple times.

Quick cost comparison:

1) Stream it for £4. Film was rubbish. Total cost = £4.

2) Stream it for £4. Film was great. Wait a few months until price falls. Purchase DVD at discount for £5-£10. Total cost = £9-£14

3) After release purchase for £15. Total cost = £15.

Of course this depends on the economics of your specific location and the cost differences, but personally I think I spend less in total on films because I very rarely buy physical media until the prices fall.

Streaming to a PC fits a very similar market profile, the only difference being it caters to those who build their entertainment system around a PC rather than a regular TV, and I think the lines between those as two separate systems are going to increasing blur in the coming years.
Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
I'm a bit confused. I only see a Google text ad. Plus there are 339 likes, not 1200?

How come you haven't got a tweet this button?

Nice simple concept though!
Music For Productivity: The 10 Most Inspiring Albums of 2010
There are some people who need constant audio companionship to keep us sane/motivated. Music is the soundtrack to our creativity. It makes work possible, helps define who we are and adds just enough fuel to our day to get us over most major hurdles. Each week, thanks to our friends at Inspired Mag, we aim to bring you a new musical suggestion, complete with a recommendation for it’s “intended use”.
From the related book I mentioned in the other comment:

"The advanced reader who skips parts that appear too elementary may miss more than the reader who skips parts that appear too complex" – G. Polya
Self-driving cars will be important in 10-20 years that is obvious. You can look into that certain future by watching how far R&D has come in recent years.

But I strongly doubt that cars as we know them today will still be around. Todays car design - fast & heavy - is absurd and only serves to satisfy the image we have of a car. 'Sensible cars' are often not perceived as cars at all <http://www.google.at/images?q=smart>.

Making cars slower triggers a positive cycle of being more efficient (half speed = 1/4 energy), safer and allowing for lighter designs.

The problem of efficiency is not somehow magically solved by making cars 'electric' but only by making cars slower and lighter.
"This site gave me mental stress"

Take it easy, man! I mean, whatever...
BT Content Connect service faces 'two-tier net' claims
"PROBLEM ROOT-CAUSED" is not as sexy
I completely agree with you about the actual state of the world, but I don't think its a theoretical impossibility to communicate in way that will raise awareness. As an example, consider the amount of mindshare the ideals of the organic foods movement have attained in the mainstream. Producers of organic food have done a good job marketing themselves and trying to put out information they believe supports their values. The concepts of user control and freedom that motivate FOSS have an emotional appeal to many. Many people who aren't professional mechanics and engineers still enjoy taking things apart and fixing them, and can understand access to software source code in a similar way.
Hans Rosling would be smiling..because you've just proved how important data is for your startup!
I wonder why is everyone advocating option B? Is joining a marketing agency that bad an idea?
A choice between beauty, brawn, and brains
And so it begins. There is no way we are going to be allowed to keep the internet and our liberty with computers.

They just HAVE to take it away from us peasants.
No mention of surface area or number of folds. It is believed that the vast majority of our intellectual ability resides in our cerebral cortex. I know that anthropologists estimate brain size based on the size of the skull and the brain cavity, but I don't know if they can tell us much about the actual make-up of cro-magnon brains? The question mark is there because I don't know. Can anyone offer any insight there?

It would stand to reason that since the cerebral cortex is the home of our higher-thinking abilities, an overall reduction in brain size might not equate to a reduction in intelligence, were there an increase in the number and depth of the "folds" on the surface of the brain.
Scvngr Raises $15 Million At $100MM Valuation
Mono for Android
BontQ launches Affiliate Program
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I was stumped by the "really different faces of the same thing" claim as well in relation to HTML and RSS.

While RSS is not dead, and probably wont be for a long long time, I also think it needs to be viewed in perspective. "normal" people (not you and me) don't know what RSS is and for the most-part don't use it (or don't know that they are using it sometimes).

Dave has some good insights from time to time, but I get the impression that he is stretching his credits and claims far beyond reality.

You can only wave the "I co-invented RSS way back" flag for so long.
I am a web dev that has been using Ubuntu as my desktop host OS since version 6.06, and I'll be the first to admit that, while 10.10 is a significant improvement, there are still some problems that probably keep it from being mainstream.

One example: I currently use an ASUS laptop. Every time I get a kernel upgrade from Ubuntu, it breaks my Nvidia driver so X server will no longer start up properly. So I have to go into the shell, stop GDM, start the Nvidia driver install (I keep a local copy just for this), and then restart GDM.

It's just a minor inconvenience for me, but the average user is going to lose his mind when the computer appears to fail at bootup.

I still use it because I find it to be the most productive environment for my work - it gets in my way far less than any other OS I've tried. But, yes, there are a lot of hardware-related problems that still haven't been dealt with. I suspect there will always be.
Ideas and conclusions are very old and unoriginal. The addition of more evidence is nice. I also think it misses a lot that has been fleshed out by others. Bradford needs to do more research before he hits submit IMO.
A VC: RSS: Not Dead Yet
Thats because Netflix Instant isn't tied to a chip. It works on many devices.
Great tips -- but I wish it had more depth.

My Dumb question #1: , how do you measure "session length" for a user. I am assuming the session referred to here is not the same as HTTP Session on the web server.

My Dumb question #2: Is there a programmers' guide to measuring these metrics ?
Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy
who'd have thought that Mono is going to be such a valuable asset for Novell.

We'll see how fast this is going to be on Android (running a VM on a VM?), but personally, I prefer C# to Java any time.
Do not fight corruption in India unless you carry a licensed pistol.
Possible reason behind the decision - http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2053908
<pedant>Your goals and the company's are not orthogonal, they are in opposition. Orthogonal means unrelated, but in this case they are related, just not in the right way.</pedant>
You're forgetting that the people that are being "greased" are those same "others." I've worked as a server, a host, and a valet, and I would have been very grateful to make an extra $10-20 here and there. In a way, the rich are subsidizing the income of the service employees and making the dining (or whatever) experience more affordable for everyone else.
This is my blog post. Not much to see atm. I'm only validating if there's enough interest at the moment. Didn't expects it to get posted to HN.

That being said, any feedback on the idea are greatly welcome :)
It must have been a very compelling dog and pony show that Microsoft put on to get ActiveX mandated by law in South Korea.