skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case someone thinks Hewlett & Packard had something so oddly anachronistic pinned to their garage wall back in 1939 -

The rules were first formulated by Carly Fiorina in 1999 - during her tenure as then HP CEO - and were later used in a Hewlett-Packard ad campaign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_the_garage
I disagree completely with what you said. It trivializes the personal pain that depressed people feel.

But let's explore your reasoning further:

Can you please explain to me how sending Bill Zeller to a war-torn country would have helped him deal with the sexual abuse that he experienced?
The most surprising stat in the article is the claim that Google actually lost 1.2% of search share from Oct-Nov 2010. To who? Bing? Really?

The one thing Bing does have going for it is that its video search is significantly better than Google's. And that drives an important category [ahem] of web searches. I suppose Googlers could see whether that particular category was impacted, to the extent these numbers are real.
Live updates here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/gabrielle-giffords-...

CNN, Reuters & NPR no longer report that Giffords is dead.
Fun with Metaprogramming in Ruby
/me lives in Tucson.

This is horrifying.

There's still reports from a variety of source claiming that she's alive, but in critical condition.

Where she was shot was in the Oracle/Ina area according to reports, which is an upper middle class neighborhood, and a place I drive by multiple times a week.

In terms of politics, Tucson and the surrounding area tends to be more "blue" than the rest of Arizona as a whole, and Giffords is well liked and considered relatively moderate.

This is incredibly sad.
Having no license means that you have no guarantee that the copyright owner will not change his mind and sue you in the future for using or distributing his software, licenses are a boring part but necessary.
Thanks, you answered better than I could. I used "ridiculous" and that was not quite the right word.
Yeah, what a strategically brilliant move: fight DRM by removing one of the most popular and full-featured players of unencumbered content from the hands of users.

Because nothing sells DRM-free content like making it more difficult to play.

And it goes without saying that the sight of a single developer torpedoing a popular project over the objections of both other developers and users is an awesome commercial for open source.
Why is serialized DOM size important? There is not a single circumstance where you should ever be serializing DOM to a string or parsing it from a string (innerHTML).
That is incredibly hard to read.
Cheap fried chicken spurs South Korean street protests
Happy Birthday, Stephen Hawking
The War Against Spam: A report from the front line
> And when were the "big telco" plans announced? Did I miss that?

That was what? A few years ago? It was before the term "Net Neutrality" even existed (which is what makes it such a pain--I can't for the life of me find the original article).

I think I originally saw the plan on Slashdot, after which there was a letter signed by a ton of interest groups (more than just the CC & ACLU, way more) opposing the plan. That unity didn't last long--they were afraid and ran straight to the lobbyists.

People saw good reason to worry that they wouldn't just give up and came up with the name "Net Neutrality" for the cause, but... then we started getting split up. At first, they were questioning, "Is this really needed" and "What the heck does 'Net Neutrality' mean?" (still are, actually).

Now they've framed it in terms of whether we want to be screwed by politicians or teleco monopolies, hitting a deep political rift and preventing us from effectively working together to oppose them collecting rent from internet users they don't even provide access for.
I don't think he made a distinction nor do I see a reason for him too. He could have same "some" instead of "they" I guess.
Show HN: Share a random video or image
I love Notifo - Ive built two 'services' and one project for it. Its one of those things that everybody wants, if only you could explain to them what the heck it is.
I'm glad they are coming out with an android client. And (shamless plug) check out my Notifo project- http://1pix.me
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Faith consists of believing something without reference to reality, i.e., divorced of reason.

A scientist engaging in an experiment is attempting to gain knowledge, and he may expect the experiment to go a certain way, based on what he knows.

Someone engaging in faith says, "I believe this, just because I want to." There is no reference to knowledge, reason, or reality. It's putting an "I wish" over "It is."

To engage in faith is to surrender your mind. To surrender your mind is the most basic kind of evil there is; it's anti-human life.

If you are actually interested in thinking about this further, you'll probably find my cousin response (i.e. responding to another child of this comment's grandparent) highly relevant.
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/blink

you know... just in case ;)
My experience with the Windows Phone 7 App Store
One of the worst things you can do for your mind is watch the eleven o'clock news. Before you head off to bed. Rarely do you see anything positive - it's all about calamities, accidents, and murders. And, of course, X product does something bad.
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot By Gunman
What sparks innovation and creativity?
Albert Einstein once said,

“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the
monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”

However, is it really possible to come up with great ideas in solitude? Or do you have to see the world (and all the people involved in it) in order to be creative. Aren't your surroundings what spark curiosity, innovation, and creativity?
According to figures released by Microsoft, 58 per cent of 16 to 18-year- olds currently in education believe they have a better understanding of IT than those charged with teaching them.

What this actually describes is a lack of respect for instructors who are unable or unwilling to work with students on challenging and difficult problems.

The truth is, most students this age are very good at applying technology but very unsure about creating technology. When you successfully strip away the marketing terms and start going after the actual concepts, it's remarkable how quiet the room gets.
Please see my response to cookiecaper.

You don't "blindly believe" the scientific facts/phenomena to which you refer. First, you have ample evidence to suggest that they exist. Second, they do not contradict anything else in reality that you are aware of. Third, you have reason to trust the process of cognition that led to those conclusions, i.e, the thought process and work of scientists that reference reality in their work and seek to prove things objectively.

Faith---which in common use (properly so) is equivalent to "religious faith" unless otherwise specified---breaks all of those rules.
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I had my spyderco folding knife confiscated. I totally forgot it was in my backpack. Apparently that happens alot.
Is this what all of twitter is like? I tried reading both this and that less ambitious movie titles page and it was really hard.
From Occasionally Great to Consistently Good
Ask HN: Learning nuts and bolts of Internet
This may be addressed in previous threads but I could not find. I'm a "self-taught programmers" and jumped in by learning PHP and building stuff. I would not describe myself as computer-savvy and this was my intro to programming. I would like to improve my knowledge of the basics of the Internet and web development (e.x. HTTP overview, understanding web servers, how scripting languages are abstractions on lower-level languages, etc..)

Are there any good books that you guys have read? I know there are plenty of books on these topics individually but I was looking for something that tied these topics together and made it understandable / relevant for a novice
So for a whole long bunch of messages you have two people talking past each other about how the world uses passwords and the semantics of SSO and then "Is your SRP math constant time with respect to the passwords in use". Zed, seriously? This is making me sad.

Best to make sure your HMAC implementation is constant time with respect to the key, too!

If you think for just a little while, I think you can spot the "semantic" difference between using RSA and SRP in this scenario, and why using one instead of the other would change this system from a curiosity to a danger.

Has it occurred to you that this is the best conversation you've had about AUTHO.ME so far because it appeared authoritative but didn't challenge you at all? Is that what you want? Preening isn't going to make your system better. I'm trying hard to believe that you're better than that.
Hit more til you get to the beginning and then read up the page.
This is getting old very, very fast.

Why couldn't Chad (who posted this) just have written a little summary of the company below the link? Even better, he could have added it to the form. This would leave the potential beta testers out of confusion and wouldn't require useless comments like yours to have to be posted.

Is that so hard?

[edit: I'm getting downvoted for this. Why? Could someone please post a reason why jraines' comment was useful in anyway?]
Yeah, what on earth... it seems to be in reverse order, so to start reading I have to scroll down and click more until the entire thing is loaded, then read back up? This is... what.
Another reason to go BSD over GPL unless you really do care about the GNU project more than shipping code & solutions.
depends on if you believe in free markets I guess. the market has seemed to resolved this situation - iPhone is going multi-carrier in the US
News at the Speed of Death
A 20-30 minute workout a few times a month is much less than anyone expects to spend on exercise for dramatic gains, no matter how you slice up the time and how much ancillary stuff you include in the "time at gym" equation. All of the classes at my gym are ~60 minutes. I'm doing Occam's Protocol from the book, and I get in, do my lifts, shower, and get back out, long before those classes finish their workout. And, I go much less frequently than I thought was necessary: a couple times a week. I haven't been doing it long enough to know what the results will be, but the science is solid.
2 companies that didn't survive, 4 companies that never were.
I drew exactly the opposite conclusion. Go with BSD if you want Apple to steal your code and contribute back nothing to the community (how much have they given back to Free/NetBSD?).
Not just Giffords, but also several bystanders.

This is the end result of the rhetoric from Glenn Beck et al.
This is a core issue in antitrust. One factor is the SSNIP test. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSNIP

"The relevant market consists of a 'catalogue' of goods and/or services which are considered substitutes by the customer. Such a catalogue is considered 'worth monopolising' if should only one single supplier provided it, that supplier could profitably increase its price without its customers turning away and choosing other goods and services from other suppliers."

So the question is this: if Apple were to increase its share of revenue by 5% to 10%, would developers move to Android, BlackBerry, or WP7? Absolutely. Even at the current level, there is plenty of cross-over between Android and iOS applications. In antitrust terms, the AppStore is not a market.
Darwin?

How is it stealing if it's open source, and the end result is the best desktop OS ever created? Sheesh

And Apple's work on open source Clang/LLVM and WebKit has been quite significant has it not?
Ask HN: Should ground breaking, 1-4/year type news stories be flagged off-topic?
On really import things, like the Arizona shooting, I love to hear what the HN crowd has to say. Especially if we have some folks in the area that can give some intelligent insight. I think it's ok to have a few high profile off topics.
Exactly. I tried for a while to stop using Google services, concerned by how much of my information they control, and I found that it was extremely impractical. Google is no longer my default search engine (unless I'm using Chrome on my netbook) but I often need to use it anyways - it just gets better results than the competition for a lot of things. Gmail is simply the best e-mail solution for me - maybe it's just because I'm used to it but I was unable to get behind any of the competitors or open source options. I typically use Analytics on all my sites, although that might be changing soon. Same with AdSense.

tl;dr I don't not trust them enough to stop using their services completely, which I simply found too extremely impractical to do.
Unhosted: a protocol for decentralized web apps
Yes, this is why Twitter without intelligent clients reformatting all of this garbage (I have to read this backwards to make any sense of it) is unenjoyable for most power users.
Isn't this ironic that it's on yahoo.com?
I understand the difficulties of running a small shop, but the right PR move here is to suck it up, apologize to customers, and do what you can to make it right. If that means having to take some time out to spin new builds until you hit version 3.0 then so be it.
As "journalism" I find it lacking, but it might be fun to write a web widget that would put one stat delta per day.
Is learning to ride a unicycle hard? It is if you don't have inherently good balance. Is linguistics hard? It is if you don't have a good associative memory. Is math hard? Is carving a wooden bowl on a lathe hard? Is pro-Hockey hard? Is sculpture hard? Metal working? Philosophy? Music?

The percentages of people with specific inherent skill sets will vary widely in society, so 'hard' is best defined as 'requiring a skill a smaller percentage of the population possess'. Good programming does require specific skills, but I don't see it as being any more difficult than other specialized tasks.

I don't find programming hard at all... perhaps that is because I started very young, perhaps it is just a 'natural' ability to understand and evaluate systems. To me it's second nature. However when I watch an artist form a mental image then extract it from a block of stone, or I watch my math PhD friend throw around set theory and abstract dimensions like cake recipes... I am fascinated.... and lost.

Hard is relative.
craigslist isn't a fixed-price economy; approaching it as such is silly. Most informal market places in the world are not fixed price economies.
The AVR/GCC library of pre-written routines plus the ability to easily upload "sketches" to the board makes the Arduino environment very approachable for non-propeller types.

They're doing a nice job and deserve the positive recognition.

Here in the U.S., SparkFun and BDMicro have built nice niches in this market.

SparkFun's Pick and Place Machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0EKtLOVx4
I don't understand autho.me, how is it supposed to be better than OpenID? In my opinion, it's worse than OpenID because with OpenID you can at least throw up a webpage at http://openid.yourcustomdomain.com/ and just edit a few meta tags when you need to switch to a different provider. I would personally only consider this if it were open source, and it's not so I can't see the draw.
I've heard you can make food out of them.
OK.

Thank you very much and sincerely for your time and thought.

It looks like your opinion is going to be unanimous. ;-)
I still don't get the reason why I should use autho.me over OpenID.

With OpenID the site to which I want to login redirects me to my OpenID provider. So the advantages are:

- I login on the site of my OpenID provider and the site to which I want to login does not learn my password.

- I can check the identity of the OpenID provider before disclosing my password (e.g., by checking the SSL certificate).

- The OpenID provider does not need to use a password-based login system, but can use other things (like secure tokens or OTP-based auth) instead.

If I get this correctly (please correct me if I'm wrong) with autho.me I enter my password directly on the site to which I want to login, but some JavaScript in the background does some cryptographic magic with the password. So:

- A malicious site can just read my password. It's nearly impossible to ensure that the correct code is running in the background.

- I do not only need to trust that my ID-provider has took precautions against XSS & Co., but I also need to trust each single website to which I'd want to login. A single compromised website and my password is compromised.

- Not really any advantage in comparison to OpenID.

Did I miss any obvious points/advantages?
You know nothing about the gunman yet. So while it is nice to jump to conclusions that don't seem unreasonable, I don't think you have anywhere near enough info to actually do that yet.
http://code.google.com/p/olap4cloud/wiki/UserGuide mentions their comparison to Hive... I wonder just how tuned their Hive is to take so much longer than this layer, even without the pre-aggregation. Would row order storage make that much of a difference? Doesn't Hive now have some type of indexing?
I'd say for Amazon having so much 'completeness of vision' they are pretty low on the ability to execute on Gartner's crappy chart.

Seriously, AWS is crushing it: http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/03/amazon-web-services-genera...
There's no need to even ask the question. The community will flag or not flag. The story will either live or die. Some "a few times per year" stories will be interesting enough to generate a discussion, and some won't. It's no different than any other submission.
I'd prefer to not see them flagged, simply in the hopes that having the story at the top of /news would result in it not being submitted 100 more times.
In case you are thinking of running this, it is fantastically memory/disk space expensive. The fractals are rendered as movies and saved to your disk.
Probably some if them are, but I think most are reacting negatively to the suggestion that no one who kills themselves is smart. Note that this is different than saying that the suicide itself is a 'smart' decision. Perhaps they feel it is disrespectful to a former friend who's intelligence they respected?

The OP seems to equate 'smart' with evolutionarily successful. While there is no question that removing yourself from the gene pool before reproducing is lousy evolutionary fitness, I can certainly understand looking at the world and deciding that one just doesn't want to play that game.

For the most part I think the downvotes are because the post is offensive and lacks insight, not because people are applauding suicide.
I have no idea why the dev is choosing to take a major hit in her reputation that she clearly worked pretty hard to build through great design and code, for no reason other than "I don't want to spin up a separate build".

And for what? If you're gonna burn through your company's rep, at least get something out of it. Contrast this to what another Indie Mac dev did when confronted with the same situation:

"Free updates to the 1.x product will continue for paid customers of TapeDeck. It means a bit of extra maintenance on my part, but I will do my best to keep my existing customers happy."
There was the 1934 Business Plot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
A post that generates discussion can still be flagged.
Sparkfun is a good place to get one. They have lots of other good stuff.

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9950
If the medical examiner / coroner hasn't completed the death certificate, it would be correct to use "apparent". Otherwise, the article should say what's on the death certificate, unless the article is disputing the official findings.
I think you're being too hard on the piece. You picked one sentence out of the article and are dismissing the point completely on that basis. But he wasn't offering those 4 products as his only justification. He quoted several articles that supported his point from high profile people in the technology industry who are thinking the same thing.

The author has sensed what many have sensed lately which is that Google is struggling to conquer new markets while having difficulties with its powerhouse products (namely the Search Engine and AdSense). His thought process than went from there and his points weren't invalid ones.

I think people are putting too much into TechCrunch being owned by AOL (hence the FUD claim). This guy isn't a regular TechCrunch contributor nor is he an AOL employee (see profile here: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rezendi).
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Obviously, we disagree. Some may do that and call it faith, but people who are serious about faith do not believe without reference to reality or reason. Their faith is also predicated upon facts which they already know -- for instance, almost all people have an internal feeling that there is a God to be found out there. As such, based on their previous spiritual experiences, they will hear some information, believe that it is plausible and aligns with the things they already know, and act upon it, until their faith becomes knowledge on the topic, either affirming the original faith or negating it (learning something is true or learning something is not true).

In religious circles, one that believes things merely because they "want to" is not considered faithful, but ignorant at best. God has given reason to man and He expects man to use it. You may feel personally that a belief in any spiritual realm or being is unreasonable, but almost all people, historically, and to a somewhat lesser extent, contemporarily, disagree with you.

You're demonizing faith as an entire principle because some bad dudes have couched their badness in religion. It is common to attempt to shroud filthiness in virtue; most people find spiritual matters somewhat confusing but also consider spiritual teachers most noble, and that makes religion and false piety an excellent cover for corruption.

However, not every religious person is bad just because some "religious" teachers exploit and denigrate and abuse the trust of their perishoners ("false priests", as they are called).

Your attack on "faith" as a concept is silly; faith is often used in reference to religious circles because there seems to be some contention among modern persons whether it is worth having any faith in spiritual information at all, and they therefore assume their faith in scientists or physical teachers is not faith, but "reason", or something like that. Faith is a belief in a thing that has not been proven and a set of actions that seek to discover the reality of that belief one way or another. Anything that is eventually proven is proven because of the faith of its provers -- someone has to believe that an idea may have some merit in order to test it and discover if it is real or not.

Religious faith is necessary among all men because spiritual proofs are communicated "spirit to spirit", and as yet, man does not know how to transfer these or write a mathematical proof of spiritual truths learned personally. This, however, does not mean that faith is not necessary in non-religious fields. A small degree of faith is necessary to believe even things that have obvious and blatant proofs available.

The "anti-faith" thing is a silly and petty demonization and misappropriation, promoted by those that hate religion, and I don't really see the point in it, other than an attempt to make those that believe in religion and exercise faith in not just temporal, but also spiritual, matters appear "unreasonable" or stupid. And that's just not the case.