skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was attended last meet-up; and exited to meet-up again, lets plan.
There is a already mailing list delhi-hn-meetup@googlegroups.com; please keep posted.
faith in tandem with reason

That's a contradiction.

faith.. is necessary in the acquisition of all meaningful knowledge.

I strongly disagree.

Believe me, I've looked into it.
For what it's worth, AFAIK there is no reason other than development effort, for InnoDB not to have full text search. I am sure it will get it eventually.
The Crimefighters of the Consumer Electronics Show
Facebook and Death: A Love Story
I'm probably in the minority but when I see "save", I assume it's "saving my progress". In a user creation form, even just "create" is clearer than "save".
Using PAR to reformat text in VIM
Sounds like they are using firesheep.
Now up in Cydia on my repo: http://rpetri.ch/repo

Adjusted source to allow installation to /Applications is here: http://rpetri.ch/github/MobileVLC
i don't trust them at all, but their services are too ingrained in me to go somewhere else.
Very impressed. A few minor points though:

I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 on a Macbook and every page appears to be a pixel or a few pixels wider than the window meaning there is an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar. It doesn't look very good.

The login could do with SSL protection.

If you don't have cookies enabled, trying to log in complains about a CSRF error. Might be worth detecting cookies being disabled and putting up a note on the login page to enable them. I admit this would only affect a tiny number of people, but still worth it imo.
Also see here for more clarification: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2538/was-standard-r...

This is an old and a goodie, but it's not entirely accurate.
Lamebook legal fund donation page
Apparently "open source group" means "high maintenance and unprofessional goalpost-shifters who suffer the delusion that they are in charge".
Patents can help innovation but only in the rare cases where it's actually worth to license the patent in order to still make serious money _now_. But even specific patented solutions often seem to be a hindrance in overall development.

As an example, when reading the history of steam engines, I recall several occasions where development simply halted until some patent expired. Nobody got any wealthier either but when the thing fell into public domain, innovation rushed forward. And this was in the 1800's, and pretty much a prime example of what the patent system was cooked up for: a mechanical, specified engineering invention...

Yet it failed, already then.
Now You Can Have a Virtual Office and PBX System for Your Business
Thanks. Those all valid points but has mentioned in the post, your millage may vary.

Now regarding your point about the recipient (firstname, lastname): coming from a different culture myself (fr-CA), I truly understand your concern. In French, addressing someone on a firstname basis is indeed annoying (well for me at least and I am not that old:-). I would be really interested in hearing your alternatives. How to you circumvent this?

HTML email is indeed tricky and I realize I should have mention it. However, there are interesting solutions out there to test both the rendering on various client and its spam sensibility. I have personally used service from Campaign Monitor which provided useful information. Check the following:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/design-guidelines/

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/testing/

http://litmus.com/email-previews

http://www.email-standards.org/

I think your concern about up-sell technique could be legit for some B2C markets. However, my experience with B2B (and I have metrics to back my statement) shows that the negative impact of such up-sell is minimal in most situation while being straight positive in some others. I DID get up-sell conversions using such technique. But then again, I think this kind up-sell should remain as light as possible. Not really the in-your-face-billboard type.

This is all about knowing your target audience and adapt accordingly.

I am far from an expert though. I'm a hacker not a marketer :-) I just happen to be interested in such communication, unavoidable being an entrepreneur.
Also, you need a privacy policy so people know what you can/will do with their data.

And terms and conditions which deal with your rights and your users rights, and which explicitly deal with copyrighted data concerns.
There is another media player for sale based on VLC still on the App Store that you should look into: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id406779775?mt=8 (the licensing incompatibility likely applies to it as well)
Also. A Facebook app would be good so people who decide to upload their photos to your website can still make them available within Facebook to their friends. Most people aren't going to want to upload to more than one site, or upload to one site and then have to log into another site to post links to it.
Le Camping : Startup Program in Paris
I didn't realise that. I thought that they all allowed apps to be installed from outside the market. How common is this restriction?
It would be cool if the bookmarklet text was "♥".
You think I'm making that much from my one-man video software operation? Sorry to disappoint you :P
At that point, putting someone in jail is torture. Heck, at that point, overcharging is torture: I wouldn't want it done to me.
But that could be a tiny portion of the code overall.

One developer with a grudge can cause a problem, even if that developer has a tenuous connection to the project.
“What is holding back the growth of e-commerce is not technology, it’s policy. This gives us the rules, the policies that we need to really move forward.”

Epic Lol!
I'm not sure that "risk" is the right word. "Risk" should account for both the probablility of loss, and the magnitude of the consequences. You might overpay a bit, but not too much, so the risk is small.=
popping pills takes a lot less than 4 hours

there are side effects though. and the side effects mainly relate to your testicles :(

</25 year old already going bald>
Why should they pay to evaluate the license someone else chose?
Really nice idea and execution, well done! I already have a list growing in my head of friends who'll love this.

BTW a small but prominent typo: "beatiful" on the front page.
I don't have access to anyone else's data. Apple only publishes relative sales rankings, as in: "sixth highest-selling app in category XYZ". (Apple has also told us that there were a million downloads during the first day, but that's even less useful than my number...)

That's why I felt that there is some general interest in publishing these numbers, as it gives other developers an idea of what level of sales is actually taking place on the Mac App Store. At least I find it interesting to know that ~100 units / day is enough for a solid position on the Top Paid list in the Graphics & Design category.
Amazon cloud can help hack WiFi networks: Security Expert
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds
Software patents are wrong but all are not. There is one difference: When you make a real patent you give a nation the knowledge(plans, diagrams, materials and explanation) to make something and IN EXCHANGE you receive from this nation a monopoly over this particular method for some years.

Software patents are being used as a way of buying monopolies over generic ideas, not particular but broad methods so the powerful could destroy competition, without exposing the proprietary code(not giving the knowledge at all).

The companies that grew and become powerful and rich without patents like MS and Apple want to use this money to buy them eternal prosperity against new comers.

As Dr.Friedman said, the same companies that rise with free market want the free market destroyed. The same person that as a little guy opposed software patents as the boss of a big company tries to enforce it:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." Bill Gates
Trust them to do/not do what?

I use them for search. still better than anything else out there

I trust them to do their best to keep gmail working

I trust them not to fudge my analytics data

I don't trust them to have any sense of loyalty to me at all

I don't trust them to keep my data private if given a reason not to. If Google were subpoenaed, I assume they'd give up my data in a heartbeat

I think Google has almost no moral compass, but will do what it needs to to make money. for the moment that means keeping most of its users happy, so I'm happy to use them.

I'd never trust Google for income, just as I don't trust Paypal. I'm not willing to put my livelihood in the hands of a company that can destroy it on a whim, and probably not even notice

[Edited to add that "almost no moral compass" is not the same as "no moral compass". Facebook I'd consider to have no moral compass]
Google to Start Charging for Prediction API
I'm there from 10th to 13th Jan, will definitely come to meeting if one is available :)
You make open source groups sound a lot like apple.
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (Video)
A little security tip:

http://thingsand.me/media/images/image_228.html

Your uploader is blindly trusting the file extension for an image being uploaded. It's possible to upload valid images that contain HTML or other content within them.

Deletions are also done via a GET request, which makes them vulnerable to a CSRF attack. An attacker can figure out the URL for a deletion based on the content of the post: once they've done that, all they have to do is trick the user into visiting a site controlled by the attacker.
Really? Who are you to tell someone he just needs 'counseling, attention and love'? I can tell you from personal experience counseling, attention, and love can very much be not only unproductive, but can easily make things worse. It's tiring to hear people say that the aftermath of event's that mark you like this, such as being raped, witnessing murder, physical abuse and torture, killing (be it a person from an enemy army or protecting your family), are solved by:

- Going into counseling, as sometimes it's just not enough.
- Getting attention, as it's a distraction that can sometimes make falling back into the 'darkness' more painful.
- Love, as more times than not it's easy to not be able to let go of the pain and transmit it to your loved ones and hurt them because of it.

It's easy to judge other people when you're living a sheltered life and you have some delusions of grandeur about how people with X and Y attributes should behave in a certain way that has been lodged in the back of your mind because of your upbringing or religion. The fact that you can so easily say that smart and brilliant people don't take their lives is a clear indicator that you really don't have a grasp on what being smart or brilliant is, but more important than that, it clearly shows that you have not had to go through anything as traumatizing as what this man went through.

In reality when you've gone through traumatizing events such as this, there is only one thing that will define if you're suicidal or not, and it's if you are strong enough to live with yourself, your 'darkness', and knowing someone else is either alive and unpunished, or suffered an undeserved and painful death.

I've seen stuff you could get out of a Saw movie, and sadly had to live a violent episode defending my home and loved ones (despite a middle-upper class upbringing, I did end up living on the crappiest and violent part of town on a small room with 2 other persons sharing a bed). Because of what I've lived I can tell you three things: smart/brilliant people take their lives because they can't deal with the feelings, not because they're actually dumb by some morality troll's standards; things like this mark you for life, and no amount of counseling can turn you back into someone you once where, though that doesn't mean that you can't live with the events or your decisions (In my case it gave me the most untrusting and uncaring character, which is something that affects every relationship I've had, romantic or otherwise); and people that act judgmental regarding things like this are doing so because they have this grand ego which gets fed by making others feel like they're beneath them. No one who has ever had to go through something as traumatizing as this would have the the heart (or the balls) to say the bullshit you've said.

Be more respectful and stop letting your nonsense morals talk crap of other people that deserve at least the silence of the witch-hunt people holding the pitchforks.
It's this kind of authoritarian behaviour that makes me dislike Apple.
Great movie. I am looking to get into Arduino development myself.

In a way it reminds me of Rails, in that it inspires a world of DIYers to build whatever they are dreaming about.
Did they follow all the rules? Or were they assisted by wind in one direction? It's not just the act of not calling the record keepers - it is following the rules, and having people make sure that there is no funny business going on.
Video Demo of the Much Awaited Adam: Notion Ink's Tablet
On the Internet
Except when it comes to the App Store, Apple is in charge.
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Mac App Store: What's Hot - Top 12 Apps
Sometimes this type of problems and feelings just don't go away, regardless of if you make it to the top of the hill. The internal pain and suffering becomes part of you and you're forever changed into someone else. We as human beings are defined by our pasts, as they shape us into who we are today. Sometimes, it's too much to bare. Sometimes it's manageable. And ever once in a while, someone goes over the edge. To be honest, if you're in so much pain and can't really live with it, can anyone really blame you for taking the only road that can most definitely end the pain?
US orders Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks members' private details
unless exit.goal == google.buy(self)
The post mentions getting par[1] via aptitude. Good news for Mac users: it's also available via Homebrew: brew install par. (It should install easily on pretty much any modern Unix-like system.)

Some of the commenters say in effect: Vim can reformat text already. That's true, but my understanding is that par can do it far better (and more flexibly) than Vim's built-in formatter[2][3].

[1] http://www.nicemice.net/par/ (Software's own site; download source here.)

[2] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Par_text_reformatter

[3] http://jmcpherson.org/par.html
But then we're back in "is it telling me to create the user again when I already clicked the other button on creating a user on the other page?" territory. I think we should use whatever feels right and A/B test the hell out of it, but spend more time actually solving more substantial problems that the copy on a submit button.
DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers
De Tocqueville made similar remarks, obviously based on the history of War of 1812. For that matter, consider the Civil War: Grant and Sherman were out of the service at the start,
i wouldn't be surprised if Twitter wasn't the only one who got that letter. I'd bet Facebook and Google(Gmail) got it too.
Unfortunately, if a small portion of HN'ers find this story worth upvoting, it will hit the frontpage, even though it is a very political article with no relevance to hackers, technology or startups nor does it affect life of the typical HN audience. As HN becomes more mainstream, expect more mainstream articles.
David Heinemeier Hansson responds to a critic (2007)
This is just beautiful. Love idea, love design, love execution :)

Keep working on it and good luck!
Glad to hear not all the time spent coding will go to waste :) I hope that vlc will still gain traction in the Android platform, you guys really deserve it. Thanks for all your hard work over the years to make the best video playing platform ever!
This is pretty awesome! The site seems to be a bit overloaded though, direct link to youtube video with description: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz2pThxf3YU

Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the Electric Sheep comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Tell your friends about your favorite movies..
mind clarifying please? why would this be important?
Shown HN: vero of Alfred.app started a UK/EU Mac Development mailing list
been used plenty of times by others for the same purpose ;)
People could use the HTTPS-Everywhere Firefox addon. HTTPS-Everywhere rulesets can also be configured to add the secure flag to cookies. The main Facebook ruleset doesn't do that because certain pages can't be accessed via HTTPS on Facebook still, however there is a second ruleset disabled by default which you can enable which adds the secure flag and breaks a few unimportant pages.
see also facebook page http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=145334765507...
Would you be willing to be more specific about the terms that changed in the Apple TOS, and what they are now? And which license terms are in dispute about commercial use? I've read the FSF post about VLC dated october ( http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/vlc-enforcement ) is it safe to say you disagree with the FSF here?

Thanks for any insight!

EDIT: This seems to cover the technical questions: http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-Decembe...

I'd still be curious if you have any insight on current FSF thinking here.
Would it be even more successful if Groupon model adds what PayWithATweet does? When a Groupon user is happily taking a huge discount on a product, shouldn't be that hard to ask this user to take extra step to share this product information to his/her friends.
Having never touched Jave bytecode. I have to say I was pretty thrown off. Perhaps I need a "Java bytecode fundamentals" fundamentals.
fax machines are obsolete because the newer techs are more convienient, in just the same way that not having to worry about type in a loosely typed language is more convienient than having to worry about it in a strictly typed language.

that doesn't mean that we won't ever need fax again, or morse code, it still exists and has it's place, but for the majority of users it's not needed, and the same will happen with all technology, including programming. eventually almost noone will need or use something low level like C, just like most people right now don't need or use assembly, or even lower level, machine code, or even lower level... I don't even know what's lower level. Point being as things move along the lower level, while still being there, is understood and used by less and less people.
It's 25 minutes long, and a bunch of it is the Engadget interviewing trying to goad him into insulting Android vendor's reskins but when he lets him actually speak there's some interesting info about Google's strategy.

For example, referring to the Nexus S as a "concept car" intended to advertise the engine they give away, and buttons (and other things) becoming optional in future Android versions to allow vendors to make their own decisions about what is best.
I'm skeptical that (a) the personnel system is a huge driver of attrition and that (b) the proposed solution would work well.

On (a), deployments are generally pretty terrible, esp. if you have a family. Most officers I know that got out didn't say it explicitly, but they made a comparison of life in the military vs. life outside the military. In this comparison, deployments are such a huge factor that the other stuff is pretty secondary.

On (b), officers have very few objective measures of performance. Those that exist have lots of noise. Good platoon sergeants can make incompetent platoon leaders still look pretty good. You can pencil-whip maintenance records. You get good or bad draws of soldiers & assignments etc. This encourages politicking and focusing on appearance over substance. Adding more "flexibility" to such a system could have some bad second-order effects, by ramping up the incentives to appear good to your commanders, without actually being good.
It always makes me feel sad how goddamn unfair life is to some.
As a former enlisted Marine of 10 years, I would like to see if the same conclusions hold true for Marine officers. I would be very surprised if so. The U.S. Army, as a whole, is a damaged organization. (That is not to say there are not exemplary units within.)

The best officers are leaving the Army, not the military as a whole.
What does one trillion dollars look like?
The New Linux
Overcoming gravity might be a bigger problem than rolling friction.
Authors main point:

"Yet social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue."

All the other stuff in the article is an attempt to back this argument up (AOL/TW merger stuff, Goldman deal a symptom of cashing-out mentality, MySpace collapse as a precedent.)
For those interested in creating their own fractals, I've written a GUI editor in python for doing just that:

https://launchpad.net/fr0st
you make a fair point, making the distribution easier is a nice feature. I still would have preferred a slightly more open approach however. How about defining an installer protocol? like install://url.to.my.servers/my.app.installer.json.or.whatever.format and then my browser could have the app installer for my OS registered on install:// urls. that way the installer format could be cross platform, and not controlled by any 1 company, but still be an easy point-and-click on a website without the hassle of running other things etc?

Then if you want the trust that the verification of apple gives you, you should make sure you only download software from apple.com, but the whole system is still more open and accessible by being online on websites rather than specific to a piece of software running on OSX.
would have been even better if the "language decisions" would also be included - what programming language each startup has
Yes, in a stock iOS installation Apples App Store is the only way to install software. Each package must be digitally signed by Apple. That is what 'jailbreaking' is all about: exploiting a flaw in some existing software to execute an arbitrary binary which breaks that restriction. Then you can use third party software repos.
Learn JavaScript, jQuery, REST and a back end language of your choice (Python, Ruby, JavaScript / Node.js) to implement your REST services in. These are the building blocks of a modern web application.
X61, sorry. They're a few hundred bucks on eBay these days, and can give a modern 17" laptop a run for its money if you max out memory and give it a fast hard drive:

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=ThinkPad+X61
I don't want them to fly at 35000ft!

Currently they have this wing shaped in such a way as to keep it from flying off the road anyway, and this inevitably creates rolling friction. But why should they waste energy on this?
I Just Want a Smart TV, not a Dumb Analysis
The Renewable Energy Sector is Fundable in 2011
Whole Event Management was a mess. Lots of spam on event wall. some people even solved the questions and posted answers on wall. This is one such url claiming to solve one of the questions - http://www.guzloo.com/dsquareinput.php
Actually we've tried this out with the new GPU instances. Previously we had to run large instances with various degrees of kludges for different crackers, but the GPU instances really ratchet things up.