skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not perfect yet, but it appears that the left navigation panel maintains https (where previously it did not), while the top navigation panel (Home, logo) still drops you out of https.

And only after like 6 months of Firesheep attacks, Facebook almost has secure access.
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* Senior Database Engineer

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Well, nothing really compares to Awesome's tagging system (and I say that after only managing to survive a few days in Awesome, I need a bit more structure by default).

I'm not really sure why, but Spaces just feels inferior to basically every multiple desktop implementation I've used on Linux. There's just not enough of a UI for it, and it's clunky to use. On Linux using multiple desktops is smooth and natural. On OS X, it just feels weird.
Its pretty tragic if they removed him from Adsense for that reason. He writes an article that concludes that there is no evidence that Acai leads to weight loss and then Google chooses to serve the snake oil ads and dings him for it.
Pure act of desperation.
All HN needs is a note above the password field saying "don't use an important password". Nobody should care.
This same argument applies to two cans and a piece of string.
A (Complete) Guide to Running Django using Virtualenv, pip, git, and NginX
Reverse Internet billing decision, Canada's Liberal Party say
Anything about my app -- shouldn't matter to you, but I need a nice way to graph # of events per day / hour / minute and drill down into the details of each one. Perhaps like Splunk or Loggly but much cheaper / less enterprisey. Simple way to know if certain metrics (code errors, # of new users, downgrades, 404s, etc. are going up or down over time)
I've often thought that the best response to "What is your greatest weakness" is simply a big grin. Making everyone feel uncomfortable.
The internet is full of scammers and on any reasonably popular forum you'll find them. Let's not turn HN into witch hunting central.
Well sometimes you have to transfer your online business to real world. This is good example of how to do it.
Yes, let's support brutal dictatorships on the off-chance that a revolution might result in an even more brutal dictatorship.
Ah, thanks.

And goodness, didn't think my karma would be currency, and by the time it is, I don't have enough. Interesting to ponder on... :)
Most places in the US only have two major providers. The regional monopolies on telephone service and cable tv service have extended themselves to DSL and Cable Internet, respectively. On the whole, it translates to a handful of companies nation-wide which have regional monopolies on either the last-mile coax or phone lines to customers.

Companies like: Qwest, Comcast, Cox, Timer-Warner, Verizon, AT&T

In general, all of these big players are playing the same angles. So if the two big players in my area are Qwest and Comcast, and both of them are trying to play hardball with Netflix, then where does the consumer turn when Netflix cuts off access to both of them? Well, both Qwest and Comcast will gladly step up to plate with their own Netflix-like offering that isn't of the same quality, but 'good enough' for most consumers who just can't be bothered to try and seek out a better experience (they would rather just gripe about it, but put up with it). This is the same thing that happened with PVRs and TiVo. Most of the cable companies went to lengths to shut out TiVo and delay things like CableCard 2.0 as much as possible while rolling out their own solutions and pricing them into existing service packages.
It looks like he's responding to each individual comment thread, as if to try to get people to notice via their threads link
You could set this up today with something like keyboard maestro. http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/ - just remap the keys. You could create 9 spaces, only use top/left/down/right, and map the arrow stroke to the command to jump to a specific space
New York Times Rolls Out Recommendations Service
Cyclone Yasi Information 24/7 Uptime
That doesn't protect from cookie/password steal (for instance if you use a public Wifi hotspot).

I do care about identity usurpation.
When I ran into this problem i simply developed a phone and txt based system for people to get meal recommendations etc... Not only did this allow me to help users that did not have computers but it seems that the majority of users prefer the txt , phone interface because its easier. If you need more info on how I implemented this in a user friendly way just email me; I would be glad to help.
Just Stack Overflow or does Server Fault work too?
@paulirish and @tjholowaychuk: Thanks a lot!
Ask HN: Any entrepreneurs on HN who launched themselves from a F1 or H1B VISA?
I have mostly been a lurker around here for a long time learning from the valuable experience of a number of people here. I have read numerous startup stories but after a short discussion with my friends during lunch, I thought of one thing: Why don't I read stories from student-turned or employee-turned (H1B sponsored) entrepreneurs?

I am curious to know whether an international student (generally on an F-1 VISA) or someone on a H1B VISA (employed by some company after graduation) can do a startup.

Any information on the following would be awesome:

Question 1: Can someone on a F-1 or a H1B VISA start a startup and still own it? If not, what can be done?

Myth 1: I heard that unless you are a citizen, you cannot own a company.

Question 2: Can someone on an F-1 or a H1B VISA raise seed capital from VCs?

Myth 2: I heard that VC's don't really bother with people on these VISAs.

Question 3: Can we apply for a patent on an idea that we came up with while still being a student or employed by a company.

Myth 3: I heard that the company or the university will take ownership of the patent if you apply for one while still working for them even though you did not use any of their resources.

If you are an international (student)/(employee on a H1B visa) and you recently had a startup experience could you kindly write down your story and some thoughts on the above questions? This would help not just me but a number of other people who are facing a similar situation.

I did my homework and came across the following link. While it is an awesome post, the author's experience is a little dated. Not really sure if anything has changed since then

http://www.k9ventures.com/2009/09/my-story-and-support-for-the-founders-visa/
In fairness, http://www.nyc.gov/nycsimplicity works too, and www.nyc.gov is pretty damn simple itself.
In the case of google and stackoverflow, instead of using this:

http://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id

or http://www.google.com/profile/kilimanjaro

which I never remember, how about just providing

username@gmail.com and let gmail.com/openid/username do the magic?

Never put the burden on the user...
Spaces is vital to my current use of the 11" MacBook air: I wouldn't have purchased one if multiple desktops and application locking weren't available
You shouldn't. There are more important things to care about.
I can scale PostgresSQL pretty well, thanks. PostgreSQL is used on some of the biggest databases in the world, but no one's going to tell you which. :)

Your benchmark is pretty much irrelevant because Clustrix sells hardware appliances, not the software standalone.

Edit: That's not to say MongoDB didn't fail your benchmark. But the issues you highlight (single mutex) are known. Test against a real database and your results don't look that impressive for a 10 node setup.

All that said, Clustrix looks great. Just make it available sans-hardware.
Hmm, I recall there was some sort of controversy around this

cough http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Matt_Cutts cough
Step By Step, Google Docs Becoming the Mythical "GDrive"
One note, you can use Better Touch Tool to invoke Spaces (and Expose) with gestures. I have 4-fingers-right for Spaces and 4-fingers down for Expose, is quite nice.

I would be most unhappy if Spaces went away, but I wouldn't be too surprised either.
A future government might or might not be worse, we can't tell. Supporting the current revolution and encouraging its future development into something far worse are separate issues until the revolution actually accomplishes something.
We don't know what is going on in Egypt other than sound bites from CNN. It's our flavor of the month. We don't have anything invested in the country, and don't have to deal with the consequences of any of our actions there. Considering all that, is it ethical for us to get involved?

Ultimately, this system is an interesting use of technology and makes for good infotainment. I have doubts to the extent which social networking impacts peoples lives in or moves events in Egypt. I see it as a cheap and easy way for news agencies to relate international news back to our lives in the west, possibly to make news stories more commercially viable.

I just don't like the precedents of companies taking activist roles in foreign countries.
That turned out to be hot air - the stock market's closed for the duration anyway.
Alfred makes QuickSilver run for its hype. It may not be as customizable as QuickSilver but it does the job very well and a lot nicer than QuickSilver.
Intel Recalls Sandy Bridge Chipset
Ok... Can you connect the dots for me? I still don't see what I should be taking away from that. I'm sure that there is a whole spectrum of political opinion in Egypt, as there is in the USA, of which Mardini represents a single point.
Like what, in the HN context?
If the financial companies actually went bankrupt, instead of getting bailed out, when their schemes unraveled, they might be a bit more careful about what they do. And the same goes for their investors.
Most developed nations have population growth less than the replacement rate. They will have fewer workers supporting more retirees, who happen to be living longer and wanting more expensive medical care.

After a few generations of "one child per family" (by law or by choice), most kids won't have siblings or aunts or uncles!
The Smartphone Wars: AT&T CEO reveals all
Interesting, it's creative and artistic engineering.
Backlash grows over usage-based Internet billing
Using Twitter For Learning
IANAL, but I would guess that "optional maturity conversion" means the investor can choose to convert at those terms if the two-year window expires without a prior conversion being triggered. So if the startup doesn't raise a $1 million financing round in the first two years, the investors can grab 3% of the company at their option.

It would be strange if the company would get to choose when the investors' debt converts.
The internet can only continue to function "indefinitely" as you so put it unless there are no further end points created or demand comes to a grinding halt by users, servers, anything with a public facing IP address. However, that's not the case and many new devices are requiring public facing addresses, and RIR's typically do not give out new blocks until ~3/4 or more (ARIN requires 80%) of the last block they were given is fully utilised. Now for ISP's issuing dynamic assignment to customers that may only happen during peak periods - but if they don't have addresses to give, they along with everyone else that requires public facing IP addresses have two options: more NAT, or IPv6. Quite frankly the idea of being inside an ISP size NAT like many mobile broadband users are on my home DSL connection is quite an unappealing idea.

There are many problems of deploying v6, nobody is saying it'll be a walk in the park, but end devices (like my €100 Nokia dumb phone and my desktop) support it + can also support transitional methods like 6to4, Teredo etc. Tier 1 providers like NTT have been offering it for years - the problem is now the bit in between the end user and tier 1. I think DSL providers with ancient, non-software upgradable DSLAMs (I'm looking at you Ericsson), and the hundreds of millions of home routers out there doing nothing but IPv4 NAT are the bigger challenge than a few bits of code parsing a longer address.
Try to keep it going; all you can do is hold your half of the conversation. If you don't know what something is, try to relate it to something you do know -- if the other person is holding up their end, they'll work with you and you'll have a decent conversation.

Edit: It's really the same as holding a conversation with, say, someone who's in a technical profession you don't know about, or a family member you haven't met for a long time. We liberal arts majors aren't aliens!
The only issue with the web-of-trust is that all it takes is trusting someone that turns out to be untrustworthy to bring it all down. Do you really think that the same people that click-through whatever dialogs popup without reading them (just because "it's in front of what I want to see" or "I just let it do whatever it wants to do so that I can get about my work") are going to properly evaluate their trust in someone before just signing away? People today are even less vigilant about the internet because loads of them have grown up with it, and won't learn the 'internet is dangerous' lesson until it bites them (the same with: "don't trust all your data to a single provider" and "always backup all of your data to multiple places, as well as off-site").
While it is a big deal, it's really something that needs to happen. I'm hoping that once IPv4 addresses become more and more expensive, that people will start making their content available over IPv6.

There is indeed a very large amount of software that is going to break with the change. Right now, there's little motivation to make your software IPv6 compatible, as everything is either dual stack or IPv4 only. Hopefully news like this makes developers take notice.
As a developer in New Zealand, I've got to say this is absolutely true. You'd think the distance wouldn't matter, but it really does.

History is full of times and places that were the source of massive cultural and technological progress. The Renaissance in Italy, the Elizabethan Age in Britain, and the tech boom in Silicon Valley. The internet goes some of the way toward making those of us outside California feel like we're a part of the game, but it's a poor substitute for actually being in amongst it.
Spaces is essential.
For more discussion about the consequences of a shrinking populations, I recommend the following Long Now talk about "The Depopulation Problem".

http://longnow.org/seminars/02004/aug/13/the-depopulation-pr...

It is full of rethink-the-news sentences like: “Notice that Japan’s lengthening recession began just as continuously falling fertility rates at last caused its working-age population to begin shrinking in relative size.”

“People a century from now will have so few blood relatives I think it could be very lonely.” The audience, convinced by then, was utterly still.
Given, however, that many founders and tech journalists use the site, a compromised account could be used to severely damage a startup's credibility. All it would take would be a few posts on HN before a funding round that called into question the founder's ethics, skill, or common sense, and someone from TechCrunch to pick up on it. It could cause sufficient uncertainty, if properly timed, to make potential investors stay away. That, in turn, could spell big trouble for a company.

Granted, that scenario may seem far-fetched, but it's not unreasonable to suppose that some unscrupulous person might have motive to do something of the sort. Rather than deal with the fallout if it does occur, why not simply allow people the option of having a secure login? If they choose not to use it, that's their prerogative.
This answers the early sale question. In the event of a sale before the note is converted through other means, the investors can convert at $5 million valuation. That could be a lot of upside for them, though I expect this will not be a common case.
Spending too little is worse than spending too much
The internet will not function indefinitely. You're forgetting that some of those software packages that are expecting IPv4 addresses also may not function behind a NAT box/router very well or at all.
Luxury.

We used to have to gopher our info out of Gopherspace at six o'clock in the morning! And our modems worked if we were lucky! There were no youtubes or graphics, our search engines were named after Archie characters, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

But you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you.
Hmmm. Interesting, thanks. All news to me, unfortunately.

We need a more connected nationally distributed network of startup founders, methinks. We're spread out in Canada and even the larger urban centres aren't _rich_ with tech activity (More so than here, but still doesn't seem anywhere near the US communities from my PoV - SV, NYC, etc.).
Declining quality of comments? Creeping influence of politics?

SSL is a giant waste of time for Hacker News, modulo the fact that people might be crazy enough to use a shared password here.
I understand that. Just from reading your comment I didn't know whether you were referring to the dead language, a nonexistent one, or the dialect...I'll go sit with the rest of the pedants ;)
Without Customer Development Process (Steve Blank) you may not be building what the market needs. A solo startup might not be as productive as a 3-5 (or more) person team.
It it already like that but with the corners
I have bipolar disorder, so my mood is all over the place. I built www.ThoughtPlot.org to help keep an empirical record of my mood changes. I've found it incredibly useful.
Spaces is, first and foremost, off by default meaning that it’s pretty likely that most people don’t know about it and have never used it. If Apple would consider it essential, it would be on by default.

Some people might think that Spaces is essential but Apple seems to disagree with them. (I’m not saying that Apple is right.)
Chinese air force drill looks awfully similar to ‘Top Gun’
They also advertise this fact publicly on the subway cars!

I hope this is the start of a larger trend for municipal databases. Cities could benefit tremendously by allowing private developers to work with their data and create apps that people actually want to use.
Congratulations on your release.
However, my life could do with a little less XSD & WSDL in it.
So don't participate in the financial markets. At the moment there is a lot of money chasing very few good bets. Figure out a way to be a good bet, and rake it in.
Ask HN: How long to wait after initial pitch to TechCrunch?
After your initial pitch to TechCrunch and no response from them for couple of days what would be the best course of a followup action? Do they normally acknowledge the receipt of these pitch emails? How do we make sure if they have read the email or for some reason it directly went to their spam folders? Do you think pitching to them again would be a good idea?
I think that getting home users to upgrade their home routers is easier than getting all of the various software packages out there upgraded to work with IPv6. Getting ISPs to upgrade expensive hardware is another issue...
That reminds me of the seemingly interminable Wikipedia 1.0 project. With that, the value comes from the incredible collection of knowledge being put down in physical form, not from its utility. I wonder what the value is in seeing snapshots of an ongoing and developing thing like a website, and how well it stacks up against the "real" thing.
What typically keeps a person with average wealth from investing in venture capital?
Do you have any more details about Google's non-ad revenue?

If I read Google's 2010 financial summary correctly, it seems 97% of their revenue is from ads:

* 66% Google Web Sites' Advertising Revenues
* 31% Google Network Web Sites' Advertising Revenues
* 3% Other Revenues

http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
Btw, I should add an anecdotal example of what's possible.

Near the start of the uprising, parts of the protest pamphlet were leaked online (http://j.mp/hZf7uY) before the protest was set to take place. The pamphlet explicitly requested secrecy so that the details of the protest would not get into the hands of the government.

I was lying in bed in San Francisco, watching as news of this broke out on my iPhone twitter stream. Many people, myself included, were able to convince the author of the piece to delete his tweet with the link to the post, and while the post itself wasn't taken down, I wasn't able to find it from the publication's front page, and the post itself was edited to include a link to a video submitted by a twitter user of a man being shot and killed by the Egyptian police.

And that's just a small incident I happened to stumble across. I think that illustrates how profoundly the world has changed, where individuals, anywhere on the planet, can influence people and events in ways that can have significant consequences. All that, through a few tweets.
Not directly related to your point but.... I think it comes down to what percent of users have more than 4 spaces or wouldn't mind only using 4.

The concept of making the typical use case better at the expense of completeness seems to be very much in line with Apple's UI decisions.

I can't remember where I read this (I think it was in "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum" - a great UI design book). But he makes the point that as programmers we are trained to think about edge cases so we often bring this over to UI design where it's better to think of the typical case.

Basically, when given two options in UI design:

1. satisfy 80% of users with a simple design

2. accomodate all users, but add a little complexity

Choose 1
I've been watching Lanyrd for a while now, and I think it has great potential. Anything that can bring some sort of order to the world of conferences would be a great thing - just ask any academic that needs to be on dozens of mailing lists to keep up with upcoming calls-for-papers. Also the social aspect could be great for networking.

It will, however, only be as useful as its coverage of conferences, so let's hope it gets adopted by conference organisers and attendees. Anyway, I wish them every success.
how could they have not taken political positions? they could either bow to us federal pressure or not. by bowing to pressure, they acted politically, but if they had resisted, it would have been equally political.