skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely correct. Origin or X-Requested-With (or any other custom header) are a good source of protection for cases like this.
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"Greeks: The crucible of civilization" by PBS I think. For history buffs.
"Empires: The Medici"
Great story. We've been trying hard to get our daughter's Girl Scout troop to do anything like this without success. That's exactly what Girl Scouts should be doing.

We might try again with the kids from our First Lego League team after the season.

Or what we should really do is start an incubator (or a "virtual" incubator online) aimed at teens.
Looks like we've got quite a few positions open: http://www.woti.com/jobs.cfm

Feel free to ping me if you want to know if you're likely to be a good fit.
> When a module is required, we fetch it's javascript as a string using a synchronous XHR.
I can't help but notice reading the same headline every month. Very tired of this debate now.
You wrote that down as if iPhone was not heavily subsidized phone. There are not many people, who paid full price for it.
Since I did a similar mod, I would recommend you put the HD in the HDD's place, not the optical drive bay. The HDD bay is designed for a disks that vibrate and get hot etc., while the optical bay is not. If your HDD is there, your keyboard will get uncomfortably warm if the HDD is used, and the whole case will vibrate. Put the SSD in the optical bay instead.
Two points, not necessarily in response to the article, but to the comments to this item and the general attitude of HN towards the MBA.

1) There are a lot of industries outside of technology and even within technology, the facets vary greatly. Trying to say what a startup needs vs. what Apple needs vs. what Facebook needs is a largely useless exercise. Saying "MBAs are a dying breed because Facebook didn't need them" is pretty irrational, as is judging someone based on whether or not they have an MBA. If Mark Zuckerberg dropped everything and knocked out an MBA in a year or two, would he somehow no longer be the person he was before he did the program?

I guess what I generally don't get is the idea that the MBA brands you as an undesirable idiot in this community. It's as ridiculous as thinking that just having an MBA qualifies you for huge responsibilities

2) MBA programs are capable of evolving and they are. Many MBA programs are now focusing much more time on leadership and teams and give students the ability to exercise these areas much more than they used to.
If you're going down the rails path, start with this free and great intro tutorial/book: http://railstutorial.org/chapters/
MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark
Someone needs to hack together a cereal-box-b-gone, similar to tv-b-gone[1].

[1] http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php
Igalia is hiring as well, at the moment looking people with a strong knoweldge of webkit and related:

"We are extremely flexible in both location (ask me about my last 9 months travelling around the world) and how you distribute your working hours, so we should be able to accommodate pretty much anyone that is both human and living on planet Earth."

http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2010/12/30/igalias-webkit-team-is...

There are other remote positions open as well, if you are smart enough, perhaps you can find them. :-)
You make some very valid claims about different pricing models. I live in Germany. My iPhone 4 cost me 200$ up front and 35$ per month for two years. Phone calls are something like 10 ct/minute and SMS are single-digit ct, too.

Hence, lifetime cost of an iPhone 4 in Germany is probably equivalent to some cheap-o feature phone in the US. Talking about any kind of similarities between US phone markets and foreign markets only shows that one has no idea about non-US markets.
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Drupal Terminology – Nodes, Blocks and Views oh my….
In this post I’ll explain some of the drupal terminology that I feel is the main reason for a slightly steep learning curve.
The “Common Sense” Mistake That Makes Your Writing Lifeless
Building everything from an educational badging system (http://bjk5.com/post/2426884194/khan-academy-now-has-badges) to an improved practice UI based on student behavior (http://bjk5.com/post/2071068737/khan-academy-in-the-classroo...) to better individual student analytics (http://bjk5.com/post/2783333652/students-need-better-self-as...) to basic UX improvements all over the place.

(Sorry for self-promotional-looking links...they're legit sources of information for this question.)
"Android is now the most common operating system for heavily subsidized/free phones"

What distinction are you trying to make? Isn't the iPhone heavily subsidized/free? According to Apple's website the iPhone 'costs' $200. That sounds like heavily subsidized to me. Also I don't know if there are better deals than that in the US, but certainly here in Sweden I can get an iPhone 4 for 'free' from all the major mobile operators.
I hope you (and everybody else in the community) have peace, prosperity, and happiness, whether on HN or wherever your journey leads you.
Yeah, I expect it to be very weak consolation to (for instance) Dell that, although Apple is kicking their asses, at least Windows is installed on more computers than OS X is. If Dell is "winning" they'd rather be "losing".
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yes, its possible. there are lots of sites that do make use of it well/correctly.

the reason why its difficult is because it turns the app into a ajax state machine. navigation is much more programmatic, which makes the possibility of something screwing up much higher. especially in a larger, more complex system.
I guess I wasn't exactly sure just how widespread PHP 5.3 was and wanted to play it safe. Also, even if new servers nowadays come with 5.3, a lot of existing code is still running on 5.2.
I consciously try not to notice the 24fps rate, but as I play some 3D computer games I am unfortunately somewhat sensitized to the subject. It's easy enough to see; go to a conventional-film film (I don't think you'll get this effect with digital which is always on), and while something bright is on the screen just wave your arm rapidly in front of you. You'll see visible jerking in the image of your arm, it'll jump all over the place. It shouldn't be that visible to you, you should see the same continuous (and possibly blurry) motion you would see in a darkish room lit by conventional lighting. The film looks the same way and if the film isn't generous with its motion blur it is sometimes quite visible during action scenes or even just moderately fast pans. 24fps needs to die.
I've seen that in Australia and the UK too. Good idea to attract the younger market.
"So one way to disrupt banks would be to put these resources in the hands of an individual."

Well, not quite, IMO.

Because technically those resources are not the Banks own resources. They are the Deposits. That's why Banking is an inherently leveraged business (and unstable by definition). You take deposits to fund credit, making money circulate (and earning your fee's for the "job", aka, arbitrage).

And, by putting the resources the Bank has in the hands of an individual creates another bank, i.e., a single institution whose porpuse is to evaluate and arbitrage information assimetries and balance fund demand with fund supply.

"Social Networking might be a good research direction to solving the P2P information problem solving, by revealing our preferences."

Yes, it could, but it implies they go over the engineering culture they have. It's not an engineering problem, it's an economics one. It's like Google trying to solve a Customer Support problem. They're really not good at "human interaction" ;) Point is, you don't solve it with some hard coding. You solve it with proper incentives structures and market design.
"Android is now the most common operating system for heavily subsidized/free phones"

The iPhone is also heavily subsidized. Almost nobody pays the $600+ full price for an iPhone in any market globally.

I get your point, but this wording makes it seem like you're trying a bit too hard to paint Android as "cheap junk that doesn't sell on its own merits".
Ok. In that case, they are both tables; but they have different properties.
Right. What need does this project meet?

Sounds like a great way to create a lousy user experience.
I don't understand. Require.js already works in the browser. http://requirejs.org/
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You're right in principle, but by this comment strike me as someone who hasn't fielded a lot of cold calls from recruiters. Cold calling is fine. Boiler room hard sales tactics on the other hand aren't. Recruiting as I see it practiced in the real world is pure inside sales, rewarding mostly the kind of people who specialize in being hard to get off the phone.

They're the only people I've had to literally hang the phone up on in the last 12 months, and we get debt collection calls for the former owner of our house every other day.
> Film has one huge disadvantage: scratches.

This is exactly true. When I go to a digital projection theater, the main picture quality difference is that the "copy" is always pristine.

Similarly with digital TV vs analog - the digital artifacts are different from the analog quality issues, but you completely avoid the static and "snow" that was common with analog broadcasts (especially over-the-air broadcasts).

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Canonical is continuing to grow. Most of the technical positions are remote. It's a great place to work. Tell them Benji sent you. http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/
These guys have a _fantastic_ office space in Boston -- it's right next to the Flour Bakery in Fort Point Channel (near the Children's museum). I mean, I've never been inside their offices, but every time I go to Flour I have to walk by them.
That's debate in the US - everyone just says 'what is good for me'. The point of the article is that in Norway, the evaluation of 'what is good for us' works for them suprisingly well and doesn't stop people from starting businesses.
I'm actually really happy to hear this. While we'll all miss you terribly, every minute you're on HN you're not putting your brilliant mind to much more important things.
Reducing the Pain: Synchronous Asynchronous Programming
All you needed was "Android Is Now the Most Common Smartphone Platform" - the iPhone is just (if not more) subsidized.

I can say this from experience, as an iOS developer I've had to pay full-price for iPhones twice because new hardware was released "out of sync" with my AT&T contract :(
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I had the exact same idea the other day. Good summary. Obviously not the best solution for all sites, but I think smaller sites might benefit from this. I'd love to see a basic plugin/library built around this.
Anything in the Boulder or Austin area?
To many people, the choice between Android is dead simple: If they own apps from the Apple App Store, they will buy Apple products, if only to continue using their investments. If they own apps from the Android Market, they will stick with Android for the same reason.

While this sounds great, an even stronger effect is simply customers being accustomed to one operating system or another. Only the most neophile or disgruntled amongst us have the stomach to switch operating systems. As long as neither Android nor iOS have severe shortcomings, the most important fight is the fight for new users, not switchers.

So let's not talk about one market 'taking over' another market. That is simply not happening.
"an SQL injection attack, in 2011, on an actively developed site, using modern day technology, is pathetic"

You left out -- stores passwords in plain text.
Thanks! This looks great, really comprehensive.
The Butterfly Effect of Entrepreneurship
Apple knows that most people buy computers in the budget segment. Apple doesn't sell computers in that segment.

They know what they'd have to do to gain significant marketshare: enter the budget segment, the "race to the bottom", and they won't even try. OS market share simply isn't as important to them as shipping quality products and making money is.
I'm not convinced the average consumer cares enough about quality to throw enough dollars at it. Look at how mp3 has vaporized CD sales.
11 Ways Dating Is Like Starting A Company
So first thing this morning I scanned HN.

Then I scanned the rest of my 30 startup tabs in my browser.

Coming back to HN, and wanting to get some work done, I finally forced myself to close the tab.

Two hours later I succumb to my inner demons and open HN back up, and there's JacquesM saying he's bailing.

Yay Jacques! Boo Jacques! I respect the hell out of you and I'm going to miss you. I even at one point thought about coming by and visiting, and then it occurred to me: what would we do? Sit in a coffee shop and post comments back and forth on HN? Something wrong with this picture.

So I think you are doing the right thing. My current strategy is to use stopwatches and such to limit my participation -- so far with very mixed results. I am able to use HN as sort of a reverse productivity indicator: the longer I stay on HN any one day the less likely I am to feel like the day was well spent. That's not HN's fault by any means: I think there's just something naturally addictive about interacting with lots of other people who have the same skills and interests as you do. HN is my watercooler. And that's a good thing and a bad thing.

Remember that if you come back we will all forget the fact that you left. Kind of like your friends at the bar forgetting that you went to rehab. :)
It's a very healthy thing to do. Most folks eat an unhealthy breakfast when they do eat one. Eating a good breakfast is helpful in kickstarting the metabolism for the day.
It seems as though many people on here buy into the myth that entrepreneurship is something that has to be this life-draining all-consuming beast to wrestle. I agree with his list of qualities, but we need to question the assumption that it has to be that way and if it does, why are we not being lazier and more efficient? Maybe I'm being naive, but if we can pinpoint those actions that are driving us forward and have the wisdom to leave the rest alone or to someone better we can work happily and in good measure. Isn't the point of entrepreneurialism to create the kind of life, product and company where we can have the best of all worlds?
I think it is some sort of pseudo-attempt at a spelling reform movement, very silimiar to this http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2357504854 but even that doesn't have the s/ſ and ¿? changes.
This Valley Bubble is Not of Valuation, but Optimism
Content Marketing and Plagiarism
> As a rule, Apple usually doesn't

means it's a rule inferred from Apple's previous behavior…

> And are there any laptops with a resolution higher than 1920x1200?

I've yet to see one, but I don't think there's anything preventing it technically: there were WUXGA 15" laptops 5+ years ago, so why not a WQXGA 17" now (a WXQGA 17" would yield ~177DPI versus 151 on a WUXGA 15", nothing to sneeze at but still very much feasible, IBM's T220 was above 200DPI in 2001)
Twitter tries to turn 140 characters into money
http://bugs.jquery.com/roadmap
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Yes...everyone thought I was MAD for researching autonomous solar-powered UAV data relay stations but now who's mad eh?

...seriously it's like the poor-mans communication satellite...
Jacques, succes met je volgende avontuur ;)
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Thanks for the thoughtful response. And I tend to agree. In the case of Wikileaks, the guy did something substantive at least (whether you agree or disagree with it) so I can understand the fascination with the man behind the story as his motivations, methods, etc are potentially interesting.

In this case, this whole thing appears void of any real "substance" which I guess is what led to the question.
No "Android is the fastest selling operating system..."

Installed base would be a better analogue of "popularity" in the context (in fact "popularity" has nothing to do with sales. Which is more "popular" -- chevrolet or ferrari?)
Stack Overflow tag suggestion with the Google Prediction API
Well, there's already "Business-Wise" and "Cookie-Biz". You might do better trying to help girls attain one of those badges using startup thinking than to try and get the entire troupe doing a startup.

(There might be some overlap possibilities in the "Global Action" and "Get with the Land" programs too)

Make it so much fun that the first group tells all their friends to try.
Of course the iPhone is subsidized, but you can't get an iOS phone for free or a "2 for 1" deal which you can many places with Android. Android has some awesome things going for it, but the reason it is growing so fast is that it's given away for free and carrier friendly, not because it's intrinsically popular with customers.
The main difference between this and other solutions like RequireJS is the fact that you don't have to wrap your CommonJS modules in callbacks and thus could in theory use them "unmodified".
I would encourage you to read further on nutrition, particularly in books like Grossman and Kurzweil's books (Fantastic Voyage and Transcend), as well as Tim Ferriss's 4Hr body (which discusses a case of someone losing weight by changing the timing of their food consumption).

Not all calories are equal.

Starting off the day with a good breakfast can jumpstart the metabolism.
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require.js does asynchronous file loading and is supposed to be deployed as-is in production. Browser-require makes it easy to develop your code using synchronous require statements and straight-forward dependency management. For production it has a compiler that combines all the required files into a single file (which is the only way you should serve your javascript in production)
Intel Identifies Chipset Design Flaw
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Facebook, Intel, IBM Join White House in Startup Investment Campaign
When I was in secondary school, I participated in Fidonet via floppy disk. My friend who had a modem would transfer messages from fidonet to floppy disk and back, and bring it to me each day.
Jacques, I can understand and respect your decision. Thank you for your years of engagement and contributions. Hopefully, we'll stay in touch.
Nobody in VA, DC? Feds pay too much to start a company?
Obviously, that's meant for development only and that's why it also ships with it's own compiler for production (where I seriously hope they don't use a synchronous XHR to fetch the compiled code).
I wonder where the discussion of "murderer" or "Russian mafia" first came up, seems totally unrelated to the incidence and random for anybody to bring it up first. Could be some kind of pronunciation miscommunication like "member" -> "murderer"
The synchronous XHR requests are only used in your development environment. For production, use `node browser-require/compile.js`, which will compile all your required javascript modules into a single file. It really doesn't make sense to asynchronously request all of your javascript files on production pages.
For non-startups, things just take time
Ask HN: how to become a consultant?
I've been building my savings for a while, and today I finally reached my target.

Now that I can afford to live for several months without any income, i'm interested in working on building a business. Currently i'm interested in building enterprise software. My plan is to find a target market (I've been looking at either healthcare or telecom since these are the industries i have the most contacts in already) then begin consulting in an attempt to search for opportunities. When I find the right opportunity i'll build the solution, and go from there.

My question, for those of you who have done this before, how did you enter the world of consulting? Who do I contact, what do I say? I have a lot of experience in a variety of industries, but I wouldn't say i'm an expert in any.
That's one of the big differences - I'd say the other big difference is that it comes with a compiler that bundles all your required modules into a single javascript file for production