skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> displaying relevant search results in a user interface with a given search query

If there wasn't plenty of prior art I'm fairly sure they would have done just that. You can't blame them either, even if you disagree with software patents, they're just another weapon in the armory of a corporation and if everybody else uses it you had better use it too.

The system is what's broken, google is just using the system to its fullest.
Well that's interesting..
instead of traveling, maybe you should try to start your own business with that capital instead. for someone with the degenerate poker player personality type, the only sustainable career paths are vagrancy and owning a business.
You are missing the point. Apps need to respect a User enough not to get banned from Twitter.

Twitter also in their TOS specify how not do do things. If you don't follow the TOS and expected behavior of the app, then you are going to get complaints, and twitter will shut down your app.

In general it's not good business to get shut down.
it's actually been a while since i tried chrome, so for all i know, the things that held me back before, are available now. i know that before i sorely missed some of my FF extensions. when i get home this evening, i'll take another look and see how it compares now. if i'm still not satisfied, i'll follow up here with a list.
You're referring, of course, to the Mahalumnati?
In my opinion this is more indicative of the lack of solid image editing apps on OS X than any real quality on Pixelmator's part. I find the free tools available on Windows (Paint.net is amazing) to be far more useful and intuitive that Pixelmator , which I use only because it is marginally better than the other options, and I don't really want to overdo things by installing photoshop. Good for Pixelmator, though.
All of the Microsoft fonts have extremely good hinting, and still look great (well, legible) when shrunk down to tiny pixel sizes. It's the main reason I chose Trebuchet last time I needed a video game font. Though there were a lot of better, more "thematic" choices I could have made, they looked like utter crap at small sizes.
If you wanted webfonts on iOS versions before 4, you had to use SVG fonts on that platform. They weren't great though, and having the choice to use TTF/OTF now is much better.
Also, Comic Sans is an easy choice because it's the third font listed on Windows.
Two strikes kept me from looking at this:

1. You posted this as a direct link and don't even have a comment with more information.

2. Registration required.
Nice, but it needs the option to move to SD card.
At $29 per copy and assuming by grossing they mean their share after apple takes its 30% cut, that's 50,000 copies sold.

Amazing success!
That's what 'private browsing' is for.

That's what 'Noscript' is for.

That's what just using Lynx is for.

Yeah, lots of people go to this amount of trouble. Hell, why feel bad for people injured in car crashes? That's what five-point restraints and helmets are for.
I agree with that. But imagine having to buy licenses for a group of people and at the same time giving up some of the advantages in using Linux. On top of that having 2-3 machines and getting Office for all of them is not the most trivial of expenses. I am a recent convert to Linux and the only thing that keeps my connections to MS is Word.
Wikileaks is not about secret information; it’s about insiders versus outsiders
because they use GWT for most of their front end stuff, and its java. http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/overview.html
Well, it's designed to be a "comics" font, it doesn't really try to hide it. It's by design, not a technical failure. The name of the font alone should tell anyone it's a no-go for any serious communication.
http://typekit.com/libraries/full?languages=english&styl...

something like that?
Users dislike it on Windows because requesting elevated privileges became so common that they rationally chose to tune out. Had Windows been designed from the start with UAC, developers would have been less cavalier in requiring administrator abilities, then maybe a UAC request might actually have meant something. Given that so many legacy games request privilege authorization, it's no wonder the users don't take it seriously.

Look at the mobile platforms for an example of implementing this idea correctly. Android users, the same who are likely to detest UAC, rave about the ability to see which parts of the system an application accesses before they install it. I'm an iPhone user, and I've always appreciated its piecemeal approach to authorizing location and notification services.

Zach's article is about making the message more meaningful, such that it's not just another automatic clickthrough. My guess is that users would much prefer this screen to what twitter is using now.
I know, I post this on EVERY Comic Sans thread. But, it's still awesome, so I'll post it again. The Best Comic Sans Story Ever: http://www.metafilter.com/86695/I-thought-I-was-the-only-one...
"There’s something at Google for everyone"

...except for the 99% of applicants they reject.
It may be a 'great' name ideologically, but the fact that there are three other comments in the thread giving three different ways it's pronounced, shows a certain degree of name fail.

EDIT: Sorry, five different pronunciation suggestions at last count.
I really like this idea, sounds like it could be a lot of fun. $5 is yours.
That's just corporate talk. Most likely some PR person made sure to include that, but I doubt anyone applying for a job at Google today would believe it.
Wow.. Very impressive!. And it was actually 19 days, not 20. I'm crying a little inside.
> a font like Georgia is also much friendlier than the angular and rickety Times New Roman while at the same time being entirely appropriate for nearly every imaginable formal setting

You're echoing my thoughts nearly exactly.

Georgia is unparalleled as a Serif web font. One interesting thought about Times New Roman is that - since it was designed for the London Times - it was originally designed to use less paper. Why should we suffer the consequences when space is no longer a consideration?
As someone who's been both a hippie and a physicist I think that's the "physics and eastern mysticism" connection is 99% bunk.

It's certainly true that some great physicists, such as Oppenheimer and Murray Gell-Mann have been interested in eastern philosophy, but for the most part physicists have been drawn kicking and screaming into the strange reality of quantum mechanics by harsh encounters with experimental reality.
Less effective than you'd hope, though. A lot of software keyloggers support taking a screenshot surrounding the cursor when the user clicks.
I used to work there, started post-IPO, left in December 2010. IMO the answer is absolutely. But that's all I feel I should say.
> In the "refactor aggressively" case, the code is continuing to run while you make the changes.

I've seen (and done) plenty of refactorings that involved rewriting large parts of code and/or leaving things in a non-running state for a while. I've also seen (and done) rewrites that involved liberal re-use of code from the previous code base.
A capability that I'm looking at for working with Facebook Connect is gradually adding more privileges as a user has more experience with the site and gains more trust.

Overall this problem is worse with things that are more app than web site or that put up an authentication wall before you can see anything interesting.
I hadn't seen that before - it's moving and funny at the same time. Thanks for that :)
I'd say Dropbox can be fun for quite unusal reason - their software. Custom-built CPython with encrypted .pyc files (some of them are free software, so there's a known-plaintext) and without any useful introspection modules left. Aren't this fun?

Disclaimer: Regrettably, Dropbox TOS forbids reverse-engineering, so I didn't dare to violate them. ;) (Even though local laws here, in Russia permit some limited reverse-engineering for some conditions.)
Unfortunately, a malicious app isn't likely to really say "we want to spam your friends"; it'll make up some other excuse. And, as tptacek keeps saying, only a vanishingly small fraction of users pay attention to this stuff anyway, at least until they get burned.

So, if there's something to be done here, it may be in helping them to recover after they get burned --- perhaps an easy and straightforward UI for revoking OAuth tokens once granted, if the user doesn't like what the app has done with them?
To me it indicates that competition is quite fierce. Not just from other attractive companies, but competition from startups and from people deciding to go indy. The opportunity available for someone doing their own thing is better right now than it ever has been before.

For example, in 2000-2005 I had all kinds of ideas for things I wanted to do, but ultimately got discouraged by the fact that, even though I had excellent software development skills and great ideas, I lacked the capital and knowledge to, for example, set up a rack of servers or a bank of fax machines in a closet somewhere. Today, in stark contrast to even 2005, those kinds of hurdles are totally gone. It's very easy to get servers set up in the cloud to do whatever you need.

Also it's far easier to succeed independently than it was a few years ago. In the computer games space, where I make my money, self-publishing is a seriously viable alternative now (I'm living proof!), where a few years ago you mostly needed to work for a game studio to actually make a living.

Google is still a god-like entity that many of us would love to work for, but there's a comparatively new form of competition that's probably hitting Google harder than ever before: the fact that it's 10x more viable to do your own thing today than it was in 2005 or 2007.
Is satire really such a mortal sin?
Since they announced it today, it is probably a little early to know how it actually performs compared other services.
Probably a coincidence, but this sounds a lot like a post written by @richardhenry in November last year, right down to the "41 of the 43 apps":

http://www.quora.com/Richard-Henry/Improving-Twitter-OAuth-W...

Richard now works at Twitter.
I blogged awhile back about porting your mobile, land line, or Google Voice number into Twilio for free and hang onto it for just $1/month. You can also make it so your landline numbers can send/receive SMS once they're ported

http://blog.twilio.com/2010/08/how-to-port-your-212-landline...
Most people in my country of adult age. PIN (bank ID code) are effectively passwords.
Why the hell does he have 43 connected apps? Is this the norm?

I have three: GoogleTV, Mobile, Iphone. (I used to have TweetDeck and a couple others, so 6 total.)
You can get a Jekyll site running in ten minutes if you know how to use:

- Ruby gems

- Git

- Liquid Templates

- Yaml

You can get a WordPress blog running in minutes knowing a lot less.
One more piece of UI advice, the "Tour, Packages & Pricing Sign up!" menu is not visible enough. I find myself constantly looking over it while on pages other than the home page.

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I don't know of any attack. However, my point is just that HMAC means using hashing for a message authentication code. Encrypting hashes makes more sense as to what's going on.
purely security by proprietary obfuscation? clueless.
Right, that was my point. It worked for a specially-selected sample during which a bunch of correlated macro factors existed. I commented a bit lower with more details.
How Apple Is Winning The Enterprise Without Even Trying
Personally, I actually don't like Helvetica. It produces a rough texture, and I don't feel that the forms are harmonious. I adore Akzidenz Grotesk (the predecessor of Helvetica), but it's much less common.

I concede, however, that Helvetica really is an excellently readable and anonymous font.
The Property Of Disorder-Loving Systems
Unix dynamic duo awarded Japan Prize
It certainly makes for a difficult situation for students who split time between school and inventing. What would be the best way to go about finding out these boundaries? One could talk to the school lawyers of course but then you'd be on the radar. Anyone have some interesting stories regarding this issue and their own projects?
The whole javascript-or-NSAPI dilemma for writing extensions in Chrome is a bit of a drag. There is a PRETTY BIG gap between those two APIs.

Mozilla opens more of its guts via XUL and XPCOM than does Chrome, which is probably why toys like Live-Headers and Firebug offer more functionality than one finds in the Developer Tools Console.

My EUR0.02.
This was going to be my comment - I often do my on-phone reading on the subway/elevator - would be great to have an app that worked when I don't have cell phone service.
I think they reject a higher percentage than 99%. It's probably closer to 99.9%, or even 99.95%. They get something like 1,000,000 applications per year. It's crazy.
Entrepreneurs, you shouldn't hate Qwiki and Mahalo. Here's why.
Lisp hacks
Protect your Facebook data from Facebook
You can pay for your coffee with an iphone??
An USB plug that goes both ways
have you tried the tutorials at: http://learn.perl.org/tutorials/
Sometimes a full rewrite is useful and necessary, often it isn't.

The typical failure scenario for rewrites is that development teams don't appreciate that they are more difficult than writing something from scratch. When you create something new you have time for it to grow to scale, you have time for bugs and design defects to be worked out of the system, you have the ability to concentrate on all of these problems without distraction, and the consequences of a late project (which should be expected) are less.

A naive rewrite will ignore the fact that the rewrite will take more time to reach the QA level of the old system (especially at scale), that it'll take more time to develop because resources are split between supporting the old system and the new, that it'll be more difficult to support backwards compatibility or data migration, and that it'll be risky to deploy (you either do so incrementally or you take a huge risk and do a big-bang deployment). Combined with the regular schedule pressure of software development what you usually end up with is your typical big-bang integration/deployment CF.

Stepping into a time machine, going back to the origin of your software system and rewriting it to be better is far, far easier than writing a new system to replace an existing, running system that's supporting a large volume of business.

An important question to ask is: when are you fully committed to the new system? The right answer should be "when it's proven itself better", but typically the answer is "when we've started coding it", the latter is hugely risky. It's best to think of rewrites as creating an internal competitor that has to prove itself at every point.

tl;dr Rewrites are a different kind of software project than normal development, failing to appreciate that typically leads to failure of the rewrite.
The basic idea is clear but I'm not sure which parts of trying out an idea you will help with. There's just so much! A name for the idea/app, domain name, homepage design, A/B testing, driving traffic, email signup form, etc. So, if you know exactly what you are offering then please put up more details, maybe on another tour or examples page.

Basically, unbounce is doing the same thing but instead of selling the product as "Figure which entrepreneurial idea to pursue", they are just selling a landing page platform. It sounds boring but it's what people are searching for.

She said, "Sell them what they want, give them what they need."
> "Had Windows been designed from the start with UAC, developers would have been less cavalier in requiring administrator abilities"

Android and the Android Marketplace appear to contradict that theory.
Stained Glass Window Clings Are Beautiful, Colorful And Shiny Stickers
Stained glass window clings are indeed very colorful and enchanting stickers. That is why sticker printing manufacturer offers you cheap custom window decals globally.
Canadian help wanted: Myplanet hiring 5 folks in the GTA
Of course, though I was hoping to see a breakdown of what one offers over the other in terms of deliverability. Actual performance is obviously asking too much, but I don't understand the ins and outs of deliverability (whitelisting, etc.) as much as others might. SendGrid may well offer certain services that Amazon doesn't that are currently discernible from their documentation.
Fun project. But what's the advantage over a browser bookmark that links to news.ycombinator.com ?

One of the great things about Hacker News is the simple web interface that is easy for most handheld browsers to deal with.
"For the most part physicists have been drawn kicking and screaming into the strange reality of quantum mechanics by harsh encounters with experimental reality."

The presenter in this video shows a graph of the citations over time for Bell's uncertainty theorem paper that contradicts this view.
I will also remind our technically savvy readership that they offer BitTorrent downloads, if you wish to save them some hosting costs (and speed up the downloads for your neighbors).

Interestingly enough, they offer torrents for the source code, too, but per archive, which is kind of a drag.

Transmission and I are seeding until 300%.
I found a better solution: set your browser to forget all its cookies when you shut it down. Use different providers for webmail, feed reading and search.

No opt-out cookie required!
Versus making the world better with a little whimsy?

Both take 30 seconds to read. Both are essentially a waste of time. I guess we might argue somebody, somewhere finds diatribe engaging. Whimsy also has its audience, witness the gentle soul who made the original post.
Measuring Growth from Outer Space
Damn, that flowchart is pretty much the posterchild of how not to make a flowchart. Unnecessarily overlapping elements everywhere. It's damn near impossible to follow and I'm supposed to trust their design knowledge?
I see a couple of responses saying users don't care about this and they'd never read a dialog box.

Honestly, if that's the case, what's the point of OAuth then? Why don't we just go back to handing over usernames & passwords and trusting some 3rd party to not do anything nasty? With everyone constantly complaining about Facebook privacy concerns and hijacked Twitter accounts, how can anyone pretend that conditioning people to allow the maximum set of permissions to a complete stranger is a good thing?
> hardly any users actually care

I’d be careful before making assumptions like this. Many users may care but still value using an app enough to put up with giving up permissions they’d prefer not to. Other users might not have any idea what the permissions settings do or say. Still other users (for example, me) just avoid facebook apps altogether because they universally ask for distasteful levels of access.
So, it's kind of like Twitter but with audio messages?
Shouldn't his login page be HTTPS? Or does the cryptography make that redundant?
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Interview w/ Mateusz Cyrankiewicz, Co-founder of Dropr
How to upload files to Google App Engine. Blobstore guide
I actually do use Aperture to import RAW's (I bounce between that and Lightroom, but I find that Lightroom seems intentionally limited to entice you to use Photoshop).

I don't really post-process my images; they're controlled studio setups (mostly nude fine art). I also am not anti-Photoshop, if it turns out that at some point I need to use it for something, I'll buy it (I'm just happy that for the few years so far I've been doing work I haven't needed it).

I've used it in the past, just not since making a go as a photographer.

It's more that I was still using film for all of photography school, and doing processing in the darkroom. Since switching over to digital a year ago, I haven't really adjusted my process.
Giant "Crap" sign advertises Andy's Place.
Add codex search to WordPress dashboard
Researchers build super strong robot hand, looks just like the Terminator's
I'm not the GP, but there's just no comparable addons to Pentadactyl and Tree Style Tab. There's addons that try to do so, but Chrome doesn't seem to offer enough flexibility in their addons to do so.

Last time I tried vimium (I think that was it...), they definitely had the "scroll around by keyboard and use hint numbers/letters" down, but Pentadactyl can control pretty much the entire browser. Similarly, The vertical tabs option has nowhere near the functionality of Tree Style Tabs, with the obvious missing functionality being hierarchy and collapsing of trees.
I've seen a few trial tests for HN "Help Wanted" pages - I believe a Google doc spreadsheet was one of the more active. Anyone have any idea what is currently the most active service for querying the HN community with projects in search of contractors, etc.?
I wonder what the best webpage idea is to get people to send me $5 for nothing or very little in return.
How about research uses? That kind of computing power is almost entirely un-buyable at the short terms many research needs have. You buy a month, or you buy nothing. EC2: you buy a minute, if that's all you need.
Just a rehash from the Joel's blogpost how they are better then Quora.
Wavs & Loops
What is the best terminal/editor font?
The design for hackers article made me wonder what the best font is for text editing (program code).

Typically I either work in a terminal emulator or in a GUI based editor and the amount of time I spend looking at either one of these is simply scary. So is there any font that makes work like that easier on the eyes?
The goal is not to help you try out an idea. Our goal is only to help you with pre-validation. In other words, Shapea does not do any of name of idea, domain name, homepage design, A/B testing and all those. We are trying to help you decide or provide tools to help you decide which of the many ideas you have you should pursue. There are assumptions like entrepreneurs normally have lot of ideas, it's better to see if people are interested in idea first before building it ...

I am just trying to create a complete stack for idea validation.
Please be warned. I've been a longtime google voice user and for the past few months text messages from AT&T senders have been dropping silently at a very high rate. This is a very bad problem as the sender thinks you have received the message.

I've written to google about 10 times about this over the past couple of months and have gotten no reply and the problem continues to occur. Searches of their help site indicate that this is a medium-spread problem. Caveat Emptor.
Do these jobs come with a free toque?
Feynman was speaking to poets. He was allaying their fear that increased understanding would lead to less "wondering", and hence less creativity.

I find it hard to believe that Feynman would apply that argument to works like Kubrick's 2001. In all of Feynman's speaking, he never took the stance that something must be explained entirely in order to be interesting. Quite the opposite; Feynman was most interested in the things that hadn't yet been explained. The things that no one else could explain.
I think it is irresponsible to put tools like this into the hands of non-technical users. The lack of statistical Significance or recommended sample size will cause a lot of people to make uninformed decisions.
Absolutely right. LinkedIn is doing this. access for one day, one week, ... when granting permissions.
Maybe give the user permission to revoke any permission from any application - so that if some application is spamming your followers, you can promptly force it to cease and desist.
counter point: Greenplum.

An anecdotal evidence that it is possible to fire all of sales, rewrite and not only survive but also have a good exit.

http://www.beyondvc.com/2010/07/emc-buys-portfolio-company-g...