skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PS3, iPhone hacker sets sights on Windows phones
A Qwest sales rep I used to deal with would always say "Ask me anything, my Kimono is wide open" at least once every time I talked to him.

It was creepy.
Gilette’s new 80 blade razor
I had been under the apparently mistaken impression that Microsoft had developed Kinect in house.

Since Microsoft Research has such a strong computer vision team I'm surprised that they needed to go to an outside company for this technology.
Neverware revives old computers to power a better future
It's fairly juvenile of me to feel this way, but I was pretty amused to see this in his footer:

"Did you know you can write your own about section just like this one? It's really easy. Head into the the Titan Options menu and check out the footer section. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer.

Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

We didn't take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag 'nature'. All rights are reserved to the original copyright holders where applicable."

Using an off-the-shelf wordpress theme in service of protesting an off-the-shelf life. And at the same time randomly sampling other people's actual creative work.
I didn't know you were part of a YC company. Which one was it?
Imagine walking up to your desktop and it recognises who you are and automatically unlocks? Apple has been rumoured to be working on something like this.

There are a multitude of ways this technology can be applied, and just because you can't envisage a way to use them - it doesn't make them any less useful.

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
there is more to Chrome than WebKit
I think you're missing the point. The argument isn't that bloggers as a whole perform better than professional analysts, it's that there are far more sources to get information about the market these days than just Wall Street analysts. Bloggers are one of them, and there are times that they are right.

Some blogs are about as reliable as pecking chickens, but some spend considerable time researching and developing solid insights. Generalizing and discounting every single one is a bit rash.
I think that software engineering is a perfectly valid description for some sorts of work. If you can talk to customers or users, understand their needs, design and build software systems that meet those needs, test the systems to ensure propert functionality and usability, and deliver an end-product that your users agree meets their needs... that sounds to me like the essence of engineering.

I do not believe that the end product has to be "tangible" in order for it to be "engineering". There are surely electrical engineers and mechanical engineers whose work consists mostly if not entirely in the realm of things such as computer-aided drawing programs, while someone else constructs the actual physical product.
Each point except for #3 has lots of weasel words. "Nearly every", "The back-end engineers that break the mold", etc. Makes it un-actionable.
Any know of a similar script for preloading inline images?
Hi, I'm somebody you don't know from Adam. I don't say anything interesting about this idea I have, but here's a picture of vegetables, and I just name dropped the techno-toy du jour. Please enter your email in this box [____] which I will of course only use responsibly.
> You don’t have time or you’re bad at art.

Yes I do, and no I'm not.

> But you have to drive to Target to get one.

No I don't, I can walk.

> Oh and while you’re don’t you want to buy some other things? …

Because I'm just here to buy a card, ok?

Seriously, man. You can opt out.

edit: Or you can spend money to watch movies instead of - gasp, toxicity! - making your own: http://snowedin.net/blog/2011/01/02/favorite-films-2008-2010...
Full announcement is worth reading too: http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-03.pdf Besides the CC attribution, the basics are $500m/year for 4 years, 3 month window for grant submission proposals via educational institutions, with a heavy focus on marketable skills and also built in results tracking. Also, there's already a reference platform and test suite (SCORM, a DoD project), and a lot more besides.

Interactive software can tailor instruction and tutoring to individual students, while simulations and multimedia software offer experiential learning. With the creation
of new online, open-source courses that can ultimately be shared and distributed nationwide, community colleges and other eligible institutions across the country can offer more classes without building more classrooms. New online courses can create new routes for workers and other students to gain knowledge, skills and credentials, and earn academic credit based upon achievement rather than class hours, all while providing continuous feedback to students and instructors.

This is a pretty big bet on computerized/distance learning education. I'm...impressed.
Quora and Network Effect
not so great either.

(unless you think keeping your money in the bank while the economy is reinflating is such a good idea, like some of you downvoters do)
"This is socialism"

No, this is a capitalist welfare state with a thriving and very large private sector.

We can blame the Tea Party for the latest spate of confusing the existence of social services (that one is not directly benefiting from) with "socialism" in the US, but people like F. A. Hayek were pointing out the difference between Scandinavian welfare systems and actual socialism (and how it's rather less friendly to start-ups) long before most HN readers were born.

A nice editorial on the subject I googled up: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/examiner-opinion-zone/ha...
Ask HN: How bad is this security hole?
I've just found my username and password in a URL in my web history, after editing my account details with a major UK ISP.

Give me some perspective - how bad is this, and how seriously should they be taking it?
Its like you read my mind! I only just noticed that on the iPlayer last night!
Rescue shackspace, the german hackerspace in Stuttgart
I don't think it's fair yet to say that Twitter won't do these things. The first step was fixing the regression as fast as possible.
I hope they do a post-mortem and explain where they went wrong.
Yea, I'm kind of lazy. :)
>since scrolling itself didn't change the DOM

Scrolling did indirectly change the DOM as you load more tweets when you scroll. But the point here is that the actual scrolling is not changing the DOM, the append is, and that's probably when you should update your query cache.
I think it should be mandatory for any software/service that stores user data to have a security bootcamp before deploying their solutions teaching good robust design, how to approach writing secure code and have the necessary checks and balances to avoid vulnerabilities. It'll save them the heartburn and embarrassment to a good extent. Web Security is really under-rated by most developers and with the ease of deployment these days using services like AWS, it is just exacerbated.

I really hope I didn't go off on a slant here but with cases like Diaspora's design flaws, Gawker compromise, and now the Trapster fail, the trend's on the rise.

On that note, any recommendations or pointers on where to start from the security pros on here?! Thanks.
I know that they are there - as I figured out when visiting it the first time. Just takes a bit to find it ;-)
No one is claiming that the law that corporation are required to try to maximize shareholder value is the same thing as requiring companies to do bad things. Some people, me included, are saying that there are unintended consequences with this law and that some companies do bad things in an effort to maximize profit (increase shareholder value).

Pointing out that companies doing bad things is not the same thing as legally requiring them to do bad things is a red herring. It's not germane to the discussion at hand.
To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test
I'd actually tried to do this on a Linode machine before, but could never get NX to connect. VNC worked but is a bit slow, of course. Actually, I've never seen NX actually work. I'll have to try the directions here and see how it goes.
WebKit is based on KHTML, which the KDE team made.

And Konqueror and Safari together have less market share than Chrome, despite being around for much longer.
So adanced!

Advanced.
surely the stability of your architecture is not dependent on the library you use?

unless of course your library defines your architecture- but i wouldn't consider a library of that nature a "toolkit".
And WebKit is based on KHTML. I fail to see your point, Chrome is most certainly not an Apple product or an acquisition. It's a hit product that Google made and is not Gmail.
Though I feel this piece shines a useful light on the harmful nature of certain aspects of the culture promoted in commercial media, this is different from how real people live their lives, ignoring the individually empowering influence of the internet, along with other forms of decentralized communication. While the piece helpfully defines the motivations of various commercial entities marketing their products to us, it seems to discount the value of those services as sources of inspiration (if not convenience) to us, and to understate the individual will and ability to oppose the detrimental aspects of this culture.

It would be easy to spend a week-day at home watching daytime television, and come away from it with the impression that our culture is toxic, but that would be exaggerating the accuracy of this supposed window into our culture. Reality is much more complex.
Regarding negative feelings after meditation, I am grateful that you mentioned it because I had these too and this is the first time I've heard from anyone with a similar experience.

I took up regular meditation last Spring, sitting 30-40 minutes daily in my best approximation of zazen. I found the meditation quite relaxing and on some days I felt much better afterwards or had small insights about my life. Other days were not so pleasant. I believe I experienced a sharper awareness of the stress I felt at work (which in the past I would have denied feeling at all) and I was much more likely to notice when I became distracted at work, resulting in growing frustration and anxiety. I think it also made me more aware of the shallowness of my relationships with my coworkers and my own reluctance to engage with them.

Overall I suppose it's been a positive and educational experience.
If people want to cook, they can cook. There's plenty of raw ingredients at the supermarket, and no shortage of cookery TV programs, books, magazines and websites.

Similarly, you can find a great deal of resources on all sorts of activities. Want to catch a fish? Learn a musical instrument? Write a novel? At no point in the whole of human history has it been easier to learn a new skill.

And it's not like these cookery programs are put on to an empty audience. If no-one was buying all these books and magazines and watching these TV programs, they'd stop being produced.

So it's not that people aren't doing things; it's that they are being selective about what they do, because modern life allows them to be selective. People are free to buy the things they don't want to spend time making, and instead use their time to do the things they want to do.
Also, looks like they ripped the design directly from http://newyork.usehipster.com/
Well there's not much else to do. It seems other people did most of the work for them.
Dude, somebody needs to go see a psychologist, and possibly get on some anti-psychotics to deal with their rampant inner critic.

You want free hobbies? Become a writer. Code web apps. Borrow books from the library and read them. Volunteer at a homeless shelter. Go bird watching. Learn how to sing.

nothing is stopping you from trying new things

Just cause someone, or even a lot of people are trying to sell you things, doesn't mean you have to buy it.
For that particular use case, check out http://tinysrc.net/
Not everything can be done through a command line, that's all. I use a VNC desktop when travelling for browser access, image editing and to use my preferred mail client.
Erik Pukinskis is the founder of SproutRobot, a web app that makes it dead simple to start a vegetable garden.

Want to start a vegetable garden? That starts at $20/year and goes up from there. Can we say hypocrite?
I had to "view source" to post a quote in this thread.
If you put a laser on a ship that can be visible from 2km away, then what prevents the pirates from buying long ranged munitions and using the laser as a target locator. Furthermore, isn't it a little dangerous especially considering the US is already in the development of precision (IE laser targeting) guided small arms.
I was paranoid that a photo of a zombie with a loud scream would appear suddently
They do have a tradition of making hard-to-believe announcements on April 1. Like the ridiculous announcement that they were starting a free email service that would give everybody a 1 GB storage quota.
And the second step was writing a highly-visible blog post slagging the free code they use in their many-million-dollar website before they actually understood the problem?
thanks, fixed. :)
Your culture is toxic. I hide from it online.
I counted 8 people that left disenchanted, tired or in a dispute. 6 were gone by 1983.
Yep, Brownian motion. Proof of the existence of the atom, even!
jQuery is not good for individuals who want to start out with JavaScript. I recommend people who want to work in the world of JavaScript to know JavaScript, read The Good Parts, read the Rhino Book, etc. Once you've got it down then use jQuery. In addition I recommend reading the source code of whatever library you use to see how it does things.
Depends on the context. When I am sitting in front of a computer with lots of stuff to read or do, I'm not going to stare at waves for two minutes. If I'm on the bus, though, then I can easily do it.
I'd like some sort of "guarantee". I want to sign up on websites that have some sort of seal: "We store passwords according to the XYZ spec". Some combination of bcrypt and comprehensive salting. If user data is ever compromised, users recourse to sue. Of course, no site ever do this because users just don't care and it would be a near-valueless liability.

I just don't understand how anyone can store a password in clear text. I have peers in college that couldn't edit the world's simplest VB6 application, but they know not to store passwords in cleartext.
Ask HN: Need Feedback on Location Service
We've built a location-based communication tool called Gotootie. Essentially, Gotootie allows users to communicate with each other, regardless of social connection, via messages in the same shared space, such as sporting events, concerts or conferences.

Currently gotootie.com is pretty bare bones but it can be accessed from the browser of any internet enabled computer, iPhone, iPad or Android device. We are looking for feedback on the experience as it currently exist. Good or bad, we'll take it all.

If further interested, we would be happy to show you the vision for our April release, that provides a much richer and personal user experience. Shoot us an email at feedback@gotootie.com and we'll be happy to show a live preview and give you an opportunity to provide us with feedback. Thanks folks and we appreciate your comments and criticisms in whatever form they take.
Price is a feature for me. I enjoy the models with more blades but the replacements are too expensive. When you end up paying ~$12 for 5 blades you aren't going to want to buy blades very often now are you?
That is some of the worst filtration ever. Great filters should never lose water. Unless the article is incorrect he is losing a lot of profit by having a bad filter.
Maybe Ron Wayne is available.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/25/ron-wayne-apples-lo...
What exactly is happening there if you log into your account? Is it the case that there is no https (instead of http) and the username and password are transmitted as parameters like this:

http : // some.example.com/login.php?username=someuser&password=ultrasecret

Then your username and password can be captured by any computer between your browser and the website you were trying to log in. This should not be happening anymore today, it is very insecure.
Spycatcher and Wikileaks: history repeats
Sounds like what Edsger W. Dijkstra said about higher level languages, something along these lines: higher level languages are supposed to make things easier, instead they make it more difficult. You can automate all the mundane tasks away, all that is left are the complicated parts.
That technology already exists, and can be used on any computer with a webcam, Kinect would be overkill: http://www.keylemon.com/product/
In response to the subject, I do.

But the site and domains don't really fit in with what I'm doing. Thanks for offering this up though.
Good quote from the article:

"Systems engineers often have to depend on intuition to locate the source of trouble. Excellent engineers can't explain why they are good, it's very similar to chess."
US Websites and Their Chinese Equivalents
I tried RekindleIT but could never get it to work properly, and I didn't like instapapers method of doing things, was looking for something like this - awesome.

I love my kindle, no more piles of heavy coding books that I buy and never read (because I can only read them at home due to their size). I love the ecosystem, I bought ASP.NET Pro MVC 2, and for the walkthrough bits I can read it on Kindle for PC whilst doing the tutorials in Visual studio (I have a 24" monitor rotaed 90 degrees - perfect for reading short instructions). Then when it got into chapters where it is just explaining how things work, I could continue them on my kindle with its awesome screen anywhere I wanted, or on my phone while waiting in line somewhere. Brilliant.
On the contrary, the claim in the original post is exactly that Google must do bad things because of some unnamed law that corporations must maximize shareholder value. Specifically:

"So, of course Google and Facebook have to erode the concept of online privacy [i.e. do bad things]. That is their product and that is the value that they are legally bound to maximize [i.e. the reason they must do bad things is because they are legally required to]."

That is what I was responding to when you responded to me. Since you are so mistaken about what exactly the discussion at hand is, I don't know how you can claim to know what is germane to it.
Oops, horrible typo there.
Or add:

open "http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/"

(or your OS's equivalent) to the beginning of any compilation that takes a significant amount of time.
This joke gets reinvented from time to time.

Here's one from the D-Generation Late Show, circa 1992-3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gStI9ysPrhs
Why has online shopping failed to fulfill its promise? (1993)
I will say it's a very clean build and a nice writeup.
>"'Apple is a pain in the ass,' he said, smiling."

I'm not sure how that becomes "almost," besides, what would Apple do with a game controller?
I do meditate. It's important though to realize that meditation is not a passive exercise where one sits and just thinks. For me, meditation is about actively letting go and maintaining perspective. It can be painful at times, especially when confronted with certain truths about yourself or situations that you're in.
I don't want to get into a flamewar, but potential 'religious truth' generally lacks falsifiability. Certainly there could definitely be true things that the religious say but it doesn't really promote a method of thinking that leads us to knowing things that aren't false about the world.

In the method of 'religious truths' everyone is right and everyone is wrong, there is no way to sort out the true from the false.
http://engineeredweb.com/blog/09/12/preloading-images-jquery...
Even if it is https, anyone who has access to one's browsing history, will have access to the username and password too.

Consider the number of browser addons that have access to these...
The query string is as you say, but it is an HTTPS URL. So I'm assuming that it is safe from network snoopers, but available to anyone with access to the machine until the browsing history is cleared.
Based on the Wikipedia entry, Microsoft developed the gesture, voice and facial recognition software which drives the Kinect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect#Technology
oh, i assumed the jerking was lag! that explains a lot!
"Sucks" articles suck. Stop writing them.
A simple rake task to ping Google, bing, and yahoo
I bet this means Eric is on his way out. He'll stay on for a year or so, so as not to rattle investors, and then he'll leave the company.
Being able to relegate the cost of sorting to be a one-time cost on a server and allowing clients to build the tree they need for decoding in O(n) allows the client to [something about cake].
Yeah I think you're grossly underestimating the success of Android, and confusing the genius of the two separate operating systems with bifurcation. Android was a BRILLIANTLY timed play that stopped an Apple monopoly in modern smartphones in its tracks. Just think for a second what the current mobile landscape would look like had android not come out exactly within the quarter that it did.

While we have yet to see the effects of ChromeOS, its release will no doubt be massively disruptive, and the ability to recognize the different functionality both operating systems serve and launch both consecutively despite the fact that it looks like a very odd play to the naive masses, takes balls and isn't something I would say ANY other company even a twentieth the size of Google would attempt, and I predict this will pay off in the end.

I also disagree that Wave, TV and Buzz lacked discipline and oversight. Not everything a company can do is going to be a revolutionary success. A lot of times markets just need to be probed or explored, and if there's a hit great but if not there's no huge loss of resources and returns will still be made in some form or another (eg. wave code being reused in Docs or buzz maybe showing up as part of another social product in the future). For Google TV in particular, it really hasn't been outperformed significantly by competitors, and really the world just isn't ready for that type of media. But when it is Google will be there.

I mean, I don't know Shcmidt's exact role in all these products but sometimes I think people are too quick to dismiss the Google products that don't live up to the expectations of Gmail, Maps, etc, when really they are minuscule investments by the company among many others, and even if one in ten is the next Gmail then that's a damn solid business model.
You took what I said out of context and used cases of criminal accounting fraud as counterexamples. That's totally missing my point, which was pointing to character traits that founders have that outsiders with more traditional experience lack. The discussion of experience versus vision in tech leadership is critically important and worth exploring in a deep way.

You weren't pointing to traits specific to founders when you replied. You took a very broad interpretation of what I was saying and provided a counter to that broad interpretation. There's nothing particularly insightful or relevant in doing that.
Agreed - and worse than that, the list of services seemed mostly like a list of hip ways to waste your time than what I'd expect from the title.
I'm not anti-business. I think businesses are important, I think getting paid is important, and I think creating products that help people is good. Read a little deeper.
What about Startupbootcamp in Copenhagen ?
So anyone want to bet on when this idiot guns down Lady Gaga?