skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I encountered this issue with LinkedIn.
With LinkedIn, they restricted the password length to something like 20 characters, but accept an input of arbitrary size.

There's a disconnect afterward based on the string they store vs the string that's generated when you re-enter the too-long password. Maybe they do a server-side encryption on initial creation, but subsequent logins use a client-side encryption? I'm not sure.

EDIT: I'm trying to sign up with a 20-character password consisting of uppercase and lowercase letters, and numbers, but I keep getting this error (which has a typo):

"Username can contains only letters, numbers and underscores."
Apple's Price Discrepancy Fail
Specifying That a Server Supports TLS
Hiring Hackers and Mobile App Developers
My company "Jana" is hiring experienced hackers who can break into internal systems as well as mobile app developed who have previously launched an app for the iphone/itouch and the Blackberry. If you are interested please shoot me an email at klownkeeper@gmail.com
Goldman docs: Facebook income $355m, revenue $1.2bn (first 9 months of 2010)
Excuse me for being presumptuous, but it's sort of customary to self-identify in a post like this if you happen to be affiliated with the company.
I think the evidence speaks for itself: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Adult. This is what is mostly visited and the vast majority of that is incredibly tame by the standards of the article.
Agreed. I'm predicting more along the lines of really good on-screen keyboards, or ThinkGeek's laser keyboard (http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/8193/), or something entirely new but still in that vein. In other words, keeping what works but evolving past the big physical slab of plastic.

> Call me old-fashioned, but I don't see it being supplanted by voice-transcription or gestures or whatever for a very long time.

Well, we can type way faster than we can talk, so even if voice transcription were perfected, it would still be impractical.
LinkedIn Steals Spotlight From Facebook
Pretty vague: thesis is you only need to add value, and skim some of that value for yourself. Gosh, wish I'd thought of that.

How about: develop the skills to let you do either of those? Any guidance there? No, just some handwaving about college either being useful or maybe not.
Why exactly is this on Hacker News?
I'm certain you know best what you like. I'm also certain that you're in a distinct minority.
Excerpt:

"Facebook earned $355 million in net income in the first nine months of 2010 on revenue of $1.2 billion, according to documents that Goldman Sachs is providing to clients.

...

The Goldman customer said he received a separate six-page financial statement containing information on the social networking firm.

...

The financial statements were not audited and offered little detail about how Facebook generates it revenue, said the source, who did not want to be identified because he had signed a non-disclosure agreement."
No, not as far as I'm aware (I just launched a 20% project).

Note that 20% time should be used on something that could benefit the company in some way. Open sourcing a library = good use of 20% time. Building a model trainset = not good use of 20% time.

Here's a recent blog post from the official Google blog that mentions a cool use of 20% time:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/robot-hackathon-c...
On OS X it's pretty easy to fix, just run

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

in the terminal.
Do you seriously think there are no effects at all? How can you be so naive as to think this hasn't and won't change anything when such a giant portion of the population is experiencing sights/sounds/shows that no other generation ever has?

Whether you see that change as good or bad, this will change personal relationships, and societies are nothing more than the sum total of all personal relationships.
This Facebook-Goldman Deal Reeks — Here’s Why
Here in the United States it is rather routine to call people who are active in support of a cause "activists." Some people seem to consider that term derogatory, but many people just think that distinguishes interested persons from more deeply involved persons.
As part of the societal trend towards equality of the genders, there's a tendency to take the standard or model for men, say that women are now allowed that standard or model, and declare equality to have been achieved. Saying these standards "exist to reinforce male hegemony" is an exaggeration, for the most part men aren't actively trying to oppress women, they're just not succeeding in achieving true equality. From a women's perspective, it's the same result, although sensationalizing doesn't really help their cause.

As a somewhat abstract example, when women are compared to men in the workplace, they're usually seen as cautious or passive. Now, this is true, that the average female is more cautious or passive than the average male (leaving aside nature vs nurture for a second). But that bolded part is critical--most people, when making the observation that women are more passive, don't realize that they're using a male standard as a basis for judgment.

It's important to note, that the differences attributed to women are not necessarily bad ones. One could just as easily say, men are rash and compulsive. And, this would also be true, in exactly the same fashion: the average male is rash and compulsive compared to the average female. But, because of historical male hegemony, the average male is taken as the ideal or the standard. Difference from this standard, even when neutral or situationally advantageous, tends to be perceived first as a deficiency.

Here's a slightly more concrete example, which I don't know if it's true but it could be: until recently, men drove cars and women were mostly passengers (this is still true in other countries). Cars were physically designed around the average male body. When women started driving, that meant that they were allowed in the driver's seats, but those seats were still designed for men. The pedal and mirror placements were sub-optimal for their generally smaller bodies. Even though women have achieved nominal equality in the area of driving, until car makers update their design constraints, women operate cars at a disadvantage because they must conform to a standard that was designed without them and that does not fit them. On the one hand it's unfortunate, but on the other hand it's inevitable, because it's not a good business decision to design a car for people who don't drive (until they do).
By 2014, Facebook will BE the distributed protocol.

If Facebook pushes a truly distributed protocol, then I have no issue with that. I'll build a set of hooks for Appleseed to support that protocol, and I'm sure the other projects will do the same.

Look how many sites already use Facebook as their primary (or only) source of login.

That's not a distributed protocol, when you're dealing with a centralized login.

just because other things have gone open doesn't mean that social networking will, and definitely not in the next 3-4 years

Would you like to cast a wager on that? In all seriousness. I'll bet you $1 that by 2015, Facebook is either facing, or has faced, a major challenge from open standards in the social networking space.
Bootstrapping a startup with Craigslist arbitrage
If you are your own boss then it would be autoerotic asphyxiation, which would likely increase your enjoyment of porn.
Cheap. Clean. Simple. Awesome.

Only way it could be improved is to add olark to it :)
I can't believe this isn't the most popular comment. Kinda makes HN look a bit like a knowledge vacuum with all these recent discussions of how to ban results when a google service that's existed for nearly 5 years can do the job. The format of the results isn't quite a nice as the normal google search though.
Imagination is needed to turn this economy... and if you think stuff like this is silly, it may be the key for some people to start up small businesses themselves, or at least provide marketing to help other small businesses get recognized.
I think the point is to discover new information, but by restricting the set to prevent only seeing the lowest common denominator. This is something I've wished for many times. There are lots of items and people on HN I find interesting, however there is also a lot of startup group think, Silicon Valley groupies and blogosphere wars (Hi TechCrunch!), which, frankly I couldn't care less about and tends to clutter up the front page. The ability to somewhat restrict new information to people I consider valuable seems useful to me.
Got it.

If you do get the time, check out the code and see if you can tweak things to your liking.

I'll be doing a cleanup/refactoring later this week to make things better.

However, the core of Nemos' parsing is handled by pyparsing, so if you can read and write eBNF, then you can tweak Nemos' syntax to your liking pretty easily.
Nice post. I really like http://www.orangeslyce.com/ - I just wish there was one for programming too, now that would be good for some extra cash. There's a site similar (but for anything) in New Zealand, which is run by the Government, but you can only access it if you're a student, which I am not anymore... and it's shit website.

About your article, "preferably even giving a call" - I've struck this one, and it cost me my job. Backstory: I'm hearing impaired, applied for a job at a small business as a PHP-dev and I spent about 40 hours working on planning the architecture for the system etc, then a few days later my friend who got the job with me, gets a phone call to tell me "not to come back to the office" because "I can't call him" ;( I can do everything else absolutely fine, e.g. email, listening, talking, conversing... and I never got paid either!

Maybe I dodged a bullet there, because my friend would get calls all the time, about random shit so he'd end up talking for hours (without pay).

TL;DR Small business owners can be evil
Telescope calibration may help explain mystery of universe's expansion
It seems more like the author wants to be debased as much as men want to debase her--note how she describes aggressive, debasing, apparently non-committed sex as "the best sex [a woman's] had in her life", and describes her own reaction to that particular encounter as complying "without hesitation".
How to get sued by Facebook for dollars a day
Ask HN: what influence your purchase?
I had a discussion with my co-workers on influence of purchase. IMO, even we think we are rational, we are not. some of us, even very rational hackers, do lots of research before we make a purchase, but large part of it are influenced by other people. That's why branding is so important, apple is doing so well. It is because we care what other people think.

I know I am stating the obvious, but do you think we have underestimated the peer pressures? I don't have a question, but I want to hear what other hackers thinks how much you are influenced by peers and others.
This is why A/B testing exists. Try a few things and pick the one that converts. Period.
good call on olark
D'oh, I read wan't as don't want because of the superfluous '.
Uncle Sam has $30M to bypass Chinese, Iranian ’Net filters
My experience at Google was that 20% time worked on the honor system. I'm not aware of anybody trying to measure it, nor do I know how you would. That said, I think most people, most of the time did not take 20% time, so the real amount of time spent was probably much less than 20% averaged across the company anyway.
"I don't work for Google but it is so important to know it"

is similar to

"Which one of the top actresses would I want to go to bed more".

The crude but seemingly valid answer to both is: if it was really relevant to you, you would know anyway :)
for writing Harry Potter fanfiction

Well, in fairness, it is extremely high-quality fanfiction.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...
what part of "non-disclosure agreement" he didn't understand :-)
I agree with the sentiment in general, but I don't think the analogy is as solid as the author portrays. Facebook and Twitter, unlike AOL, have not only embraced, but in many ways encouraged other apps and social communities to be built around them, leverage their APIs, and have tried to be a unifying hub of activity, rather than the SOLE destination for their users.
One of the more poorly thought out and articulated articles I've read in a long time on Hacker News. Sad, really.
> Today some people believe MS invented the desktop, and they will try to convince people they started the ARM transition when all they have is prototypes when there are companies already selling ARM computers(Linux and mac)today.

Today some people believe Apple invented the desktop too, indeed many elements of the Xerox Alto had been demonstrated in Doug Engelbart's mother of all demos for the NLS system in 1963, the NLS system itself being based on and inspired by the memex machine documented by Vannevar Bush in 1945. It's not always as clear as one thinks as to where credit is due. When it comes to the desktop it's as clear as mud, with PARC, GEM, Workbench, Windows and Mac OS all able to lay claim to firsts in their respective areas, which were to some extent imitated or copied in others.
If it looks like it was from the future, I must have it.
Maybe http://inklingmarkets.com/
If this becomes successful after planning a number of different Hack Clubs, please do something like TEDx where others who wish to accumulate the powers of geekistry (cough like me) can work off your experience via online resources. That way we can successfully organize our own Hack Clubs (getting geeks together, especially undergrads, is a difficult challenge as I am learning right now).

The secret location thing is also a fun idea. We have two events around here that do something like that. There's this hippy fest that emails its newest desert location for subscribers to go to and get high at the next day. We also have an underground alternative rock organizer that picks random locations across the county. Yesterday, they hosted a few bands at a Post Office.

Oops, sorry for the tangent. Anyways, I can imagine a wave of Hack Clubs, popping up across the world and each Hack Club will be like chess boxing, where, instead of chess, you have tinkering and instead of boxing, you have slapping and alcohol intoxication.
The article isn't about you dear.
For one project I'm a solo technician so far, but have two peers for sales & marketing. Seems quite fun!

For a few smaller things I'm a "pure solo". Looks like it's harder this way.
Your lines of code measurement would be more compelling if you used sloccount instead of wc -l. Also, are you counting the lines of code in directories with tests in the name for Mozilla? I don't grok that find(3) incantation fully.
"But if you look at what men write, and what men want, when they are free to produce their own written erotica, then you find that the rise of the Internet has created, from scratch, the genre which I think is now known as the "erotic romance novel" and means, roughly, "well-written sex stories with plots and emotions in them". Publishers of erotica are only now just beginning to think about trying to sell books like that, after the Internet showed them there was a huge pent-up demand."

But men didn't invent the erotic romance novel. Women did. The vast majority of erotica writers AND readers are female. (http://www.ehow.com/way_5192600_tips-writing-sensual-books.h...)

You are an unusual example of your gender. You must know that.

Maybe the fact that most men prefer the plotless hardcore scenes found on the various you- and -tube sites, and its the women that are writing and reading erotica, is a coincidence.

But I tend to think it does indicate something about a difference in male and female sexuality, innate or otherwise. The fact that you are an exception to the rule doesn't make it true that men, in general, are consuming written erotica.

P.S. Obviously men do write and read some erotica, but even here there are differences. My favorite erotica writer, Morgan Hawke, wrote a blog post about the differences: http://www.darkerotica.net/WhatGuysWant.html

P.P.S. Would you be willing to read the second draft of my first novel, a sci-fi erotica with plot lines around programming? :D
What about IRC and XMPP? I know that there are several proprietary IM networks strongholds but these two seem very popular to me.
Southwest Overhauls the Rapid Rewards Program
Sounds like he understood it fine, since he requested to be anonymous.
I have a couple premium domains that I would like to develop but like I said im interested in markets like dating, classifieds, domains or mobile apps (sms, etc)
The Stack Overflow article seems to address the subject of content being scrapped and republished which is certainly a big issue. What about the equally concerning issue of the overwhelming amount of "fluff" content published with the sole purpose of passing anchor text weight back to a domain? Is anyone else noticing an exponential growth of these types of sites recently or is it just me?
Nice ranting. A superb complement to http://www.psdisasters.com/
Show HN: Want to see how Google sucks?
ClusterChef - Big Data Clusters using Hadoop and Cassandra
That's not true. Google is already having a Spam button in Gmail. The same idea can be applied here.
Why don't any of the major dating sites have contracts with a pro photographer in each city to do head shots for cheap or free? It seems like such a slam dunk idea given the economics, and yet none of the major dating sites want to do it. (Having emailed the staff of some of these sites with this idea a couple years ago on behalf of a photographer friend and receiving no response.)
Add new entities, add new relations between them. The "social" in the network starts to fade and it simply becomes the network we use to get what we want.

Facebook has a nice beachhead, but that does not mean the game is over.
That's not what you said at all. Here's what you said:

Most doctors get their information about medical issues by reading the marketing pamphlets from drug companies. If you actually read the relevant journal articles then you'd be significantly more knowledgeable about any given topic than the average doctor.
On Intrade, would you bet for or against Facebook IPO'ing by April 2012?

People don't seem to be putting their money where their mouths are. Lack of confidence?
A lot of bad sequels make orders of magnitude more money than critically acclaimed films, but the films that make the most money are rarely bad. The highest grossing films of the last three years have been Avatar, The Dark Knight, and Toy Story 3, which were all critical darlings to various degrees. People really want great movies but are willing to settle for mediocre ones that have some of the things they're looking for (e.g., exceptional visuals, or characters in which they're already invested).
A video showing different parts of the world in the early hours of the day
I would go further; I question the value of making your employees drink the kool-aid; I mean, part of what you hired them for is so you have someone to trust when it comes to decision making time, right?
Have a smartphone? Help beta test my web-based YouTube remote
I can confirm this isn't an IOCCC entry. It looks like obscurantism, but it isn't. It's C code written as terse as possible, not as confusingly as possible. It takes a while to get used to. It's worth it.

There is significant overhead involved in learning to write C like this. There are also significant gains. It's similar to learning to use vim.

Last I counted the source was something like 250K bytes and still very manageable. If it had been written in a traditional style it would be many times that size and much harder to work with.
Dwight Garner: if you can hear me, I just want you to know that this review was all kinds of awesome.
It's a good thing you've got massive nerd cred; the cynical part of me keeps imagining a suit from LEGO dressed down and hanging under the guise of a "referee," then getting the contact info from the top placing competitors in order to give them the final part of their prize...

Although, if a job offer from LEGO engineering is the most nefarious thing going on, I wouldn't exactly call that a dastasrdly plan.
FYI - VBuzzer.com lets you send faxes to free within North America (via their IM software app) - I've been using that for years with great success. You don't even have to have a credit card.

It's Windows Only though :( If gives you a Fax as a virtual print driver, pretty straight forward.
This is closer to the mark. I remember rebuilding an NT 4.0 server on x86 after Microsoft dropped Service Pack support for Mips after SP1. We'd been sold a right lemon by the vendor who obviously must've known that about 3 months after NT4 ships Microsoft announced they were dropping MIPS. In the end, instead of buying more expensive IRIX kit or facing the political fallout from going back to Novell my then employer decided to grit teeth and go x86/NT4.
Thanks for the recommendation.

I've been in the mood for just that type of can't put down read. But after googling for 'book reviews', 'top books' and 'books you can't put down', etc and other similar queries I just got a bunch bestseller lists and spammy adsense sites. Weird
It's particularly silly given that the author also talks about "aging moms in shabby corsets" to make porn seem unappealing.

Which is it? Are those evil sex crazy men chasing lolitas or milfs?
Thank you for posting this list! I don't think I would have ever heard about http://cluecc.sourceforge.net/ otherwise. It seems like a really big deal, I'm very surprised I haven't heard about it before. Def. checking it out.
Wow, that's sad. After all the money that was spent on the F-22.
I don't mean "distributed protocol" in the same sense that you do.

A post ago, you said they would use an open distributed protocol by 2013/2014, but now they'll just have to be facing a "major challenge" from one by 2015?

You should post a challenge on longbets.org.
Nobody said you had to trust everyone in your social graph. I definitely wouldn't, but that doesn't mean there aren't a few select people that I would trust.
Hey everyone. I'm still in the process of ironing out the bugs in this app and I don't own a smartphone myself, so any feedback is much appreciated!
"Thimerosal, a mercury derivative, is not used in the manufacturing process for the single dose presentations; therefore these products contain no preservative. The multi-dose presentation contains thimerosal, added as a preservative; each 0.5 mL dose contains 24.5 mcg of mercury. " From: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines....
Ask HN: Anyone Using SimpleDB?
Is anyone using SimpleDB on a heavy trafficked production site? I'm considering switching a MySQL installation to SimpleDB to simplify scaling. I'm pretty much just using MySQL as a key value store with sorting as it is.

Is SimpleDB fast? Have you run into the 10gig max domain size limit?
Agree that peers being something is powerful -- not so much for peer pressure (although that's important for some), but more for the sense that if 10 of your friends bought something, it must not be a total disaster. Peer protection.

That is the really far out view of a world where you have redlaser/blippy/amazon all tied together with a social network. "10 of your friends bought Red 5 Lime Flavored gum" etc on the low end, or "10 of your friends get their car serviced here" on the higher risk end.
I work on the Facebook platform team.

Facebook Platform supports OAuth as a standard authentication protocol for 3rd party apps. It also provides APIs that developers can use to export data users have entered into facebook (with the user's permission, of course). What do you think is missing in Facebook's support for data portability?