skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is really sold out, then I hope that Google will be cracking down on the scalpers this year. I saw a bunch of tickets on eBay last year from people that had plainly bought them betting that the freebies would be worth more (usually attendance-only, freebies not included)
"First, I don't accept the premise. Trying to suggest that 160 characters is more or less enough for the average email is laughable. Hell, a lot of the time it's not even enough for an SMS message or tweet. Second, why are they even being compared? Is SMS meant to be just the same as email but on your phone? Not in my book..."

Have you considered the idea that maybe your writing is just too wordy? You could easily reduce your 327-char comment to 110. Look at what I did below - much better!

SMS is not long enough to replace emails. Often, it's not even long enough for me to write a thought or tweet.
(In)Validate my idea: Bombfell - Dress well without the knowhow
Anon uses social engineering to get root access to Federal security contractor
I built this by scraping about 10 different websites like post secret, the RSS feed, internet Archives to find all the old postcards of post secret.

I am a true addict and I just wanted to be able to spend days looking through peoples secrets. Sad, but I think I am doing people a favor by allowing those who also can't get enough.

There are still a few bugs, but what do you all think?
I'm about halfway through, and it's taken 5 months to get there. Although I got through the first section in a week or so.
Ask HN: Review my Idea, Prospero.us
I have been sitting on this idea for a while and I wanted some validation whether or not to start it.

Below is my Pitch:

Prosperous is a web application that allows anyone to automatically donate a proportion of their credit/debit card purchases to go to the charities and non-profits they care about. The objective is to allow people to give to those in need while not worrying about how much or how often.

Customer/Problem(Donations): People are lazy and don't like the hassle of finding the right charity and remembering to donate often.

Customer/Problem (Charities): Charities need a way to reach new supporters and be able to reach a mass audience cheaply.

Product: Dead simple, easy to set up, automatic donations deducted from bank account based on credit/debit purchases.

Product: One stop shop for people to view charities and non-profits of all kinds. (Jumo like network)

Distribution/Pricing: People will set a percentage to be donated and we take a fee based on every transaction. (3.5%)

Demand Creation: Having a large amount of charities, the simplicity of donating, and the ability to view every donation made and create a tax deduction Form 1040, Schedule A for every user for that fiscal year.

I appreciate the feedback and advice! Please also let me know if this is worth pursuing. :)
As a side note here's an interesting article about how technology has affected prostitution in NYC:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_sextrade/all/1
I ♥ wireframes - Great collection for UX ideas
I'm not at all impressed with how they handled this. It looks like the (very broken) registration process was handled by a third party. I couldn't get in to the site, and when I did it was sold out. Vic Gundotra's twitter feed claims it sold out in 58 minutes.

You'd think they'd increase the capacity given the interest.
"So why can't you sell this information to the FBI like you intended? Because we're going to give it to them for free."

As ill advised as messing with the FBI may be, this is a masterstroke. Hats off.
here are a few links of places paul graham and scoble suggested to see:

http://paulgraham.com/seesv.html

http://scobleizer.com/2010/10/04/silicon-valley-places-that-...
I think in Freakonomics a study is cited that claims what actually curbed the rise of crime was a change in abortion laws (rather than the "no broken windows" theory). Not sure if that was one of the things in Freakonomics that was later shown to be false, though.
Your talk was great! Thanks for presenting at MagicRuby.
Just a note: The RMS method assumes independence (or at least 0 correlation). Often one "worst case" happening might be more likely if another "worst case" happens, because mistakes are often positively correlated.
Would You Rather Be Middle Class in 2011 or Rich in 1973?
You should follow the instructions listed on YC (http://ycombinator.com/apply.html) and email info@ycombinator.com.
Dave DeSandro is a web development genius.
Musicians will start to notice anything greater than about 7-10ms between keypress and sound. Below the threshold of consciously noticing the delay, it's still possible to make an instrument or UI feel subjectively "snappier" by reducing the delay further. If the browser is to host any audio-related applications, the minimum latency needs to be much lower than 50ms.
Killers (2010)
GoDaddy isn't as pretty as you thought
Crazy on the Outside (2010)
I found the culprit: my ad-blocker (Ad Muncher)'s blacklist has picked Gravatar up somehow.

I'll contact Ad Muncher and alert them to the problem.
Then you're fired because the server doesn't actually work.
ITheme2 Free Wordpress Theme
An amazing free wordpress theme from the guys at Themify
I think this is way more interesting than high version numbers: "Process-per-tab to mitigate effects of crashes"
Thanks allenp. I hope to finish a few last features and get it released soon, but I'm at a bit of a low point right now, and finding it hard to finish a few final details with my attention diverted towards other paying jobs and issues in my life.
I choreograph Zumba dances and concoct weird foods. (:
I admire Stallman for his strong will, the guy will do anything to live at the height of his ideal.

Even if you do not share his philosophy you still can learn a lot from the man.
I've always wanted a service that would regularly send up-to-date clothes without me having to shop or know what's hip these days. Anyone else?
> They also vandalized Barr's Twitter and LinkedIn accounts with harsh messages and personal data about Barr, such as his social security number and home address.

Ok, I respect what Anonymous is trying to do, but this is a step too far. I'm all for civil disobedience, but this crosses the line in my opinion.
Google has confirmed via a tweet that the event is all sold out:

http://twitter.com/googleio/status/34681464251490304

Yes, it's true. Google #io2011 is now sold out.
Warning: If You Handle Customers Like the NFL, You're Screwed
Some people must have partially completed checkout multiple times. Those people are still in the database and taking up slots.

If any of you can find more than one URL in their history where fuseaction is something other than req.Login, those URLs might still work.

And if you have started registration more than once, could you spare me one url please?
How iTunes Genius Really Works
They look mostly green to me: http://theunexplainedmysteries.com/Images/gremlin.jpg
There's a great portrait of hacker vs non-hacker mentalities which I think is on pages 15 and 16. I just went to Google Books to see if I could pull a quote from it but those 2 pages are missing.
bup! bup! bup!

https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
Are brains shrinking to make us smarter?
I think a good University program should do both through the BS level. After that it can get more theoretical.
Some comments:

1) I don't think 3-D looking buttons are a bad thing per se. I was actually thrown for a loop by the iPhone contact screen where to make a call you have to click on a flat and non-button-like half of a wiget.

2) Some times, I think 3-D shapes can guide the eye/ help the user make sense of a GUI.

3) I actually grab syrup bottles by the little handle. Does that make me a bad person?
Considering that, if I go looking for clothing that isn't a T-shirt, > 80% of things will fit in a less than ideal way (shoulders too tight, too big in chest, sleeves not long enough, pants tight around calf or to wide at waist), I wish you luck in being able to fit everyone without having them try it on.
I find it awfully sad that they are turning Firefox into Chrome. If I wanted to use Chrome then I would have switched already.
Kind of hard to judge without more details on how it works.

Just based on the tagline though - I hope this involves posting an image of yourself. I could find a fashionable pair of pants just by opening an issue GQ. The hard part about being fashionable is knowing what looks good on you.
I don't believe the situations are all to be evaluated equally. In the case of this market most users even if they want to upgrade, even if they know of the problem, even if they know how to install updates, will never get them. These are devices that function for years with OS's that are immediately abandoned once released by the manufacturer. Android 1.6, 2.0, even 2.1 will probably never see another OTA update, especially since this doesn't seem to just be a quick patch issue. (considering it's not coming out until the next full release). Pressure or not there needs to be a modicum of realism as well. I don't care if you found a gaping hole in 1.6, no manufacturer is going to put out the resources to fix it, only force the end user to buy newer phones.

Full disclosure policies require some level of common sense implementation too and I don't believe they are always the best solution for a large market of essentially embedded OS's containing personal data. It would be VERY different if Google was ignoring this, then you could use releasing as leverage. But it seems they are jumping on it right away so the net positive effect has already been achieved. Why detriment the users who are HIGHLY unlikely to get an update.

If you understand the mobile community, and you understand that a large segment of them are not going to get a fix for this no matter how idealistic we hope the world could be, are you not then knowingly exposing them to risk?
If you're talking about this story, the Google researcher's version (which seems to be borne out by Microsoft's later responses) is that he disclosed the vulnerability only after giving Microsoft access to his findings and tools, and warning them several months in advance of the disclosure:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/01/internet-explo...
W&M + UNC for me (:
Peoples' problem with the infographic seems to be is that it isn't the perfect infographic and that she'd "just need a resume if she'd done anything of note". Hense the controversy. tptacek did a whole page comment on deconstructing it, aka, the controversy.
If you press back when you're as far back in the app as possible, you'd get a notification (vibration, LED flash, beep). Press back one more time (or twice) and you'd leave the app to whatever app you were on earlier.

:set noerrorbells novisualbell

Don't flash, blink buzz or beep at me when nothing is wrong. Grr.
I'm curious why you chose to put Twain and Vonnegut in there. My take on their writings is that they were amazing storytellers. Twain used simple language and local color to produce wonderful imagery with an expertise that few achieved before him. He whisks us away and drops us into a place in history that we otherwise never could have experienced.

Vonnegut lets us in on the insane parts of his mind. He tells interesting stories and frames them in a way that I, personally, never would. Even if I had some of his crazy ideas, I wouldn't think about them at all like he does. I've never seen another author break down the fourth wall the way Vonnegut did; after reading a few of his books, I felt like I understood a lot about the way he thought. (Another author who did this was Douglas Adams, whose output was markedly less than Vonnegut's, and Adams wasn't quite as "out there" as Vonnegut.)

In other words, I've never really heard of reading Twain and Vonnegut for their ideas or philosophies. While I would argue that their beliefs were rather anomalous for their times, I wouldn't consider their philosophies to be the main virtues of their writings.
How My School and District Failed its Students
Given that this is essentially what HBGary was going to do to them, it's actually a kind of poetic justice. Stupid, to be sure, but there's a method to the madness.
in the pdf anonymous posted of the research [1], several (if not the majority) of the names were unquestionably fake. how does this affect the integrity of the whole document?

additionally, how does this whole fiasco impact this agencies possibility of continuing work with the fbi in the future?

[1] http://hizost.com/d/zjb
Apparently the URLS with a pki# in them work. Whatever that means. If anyone has one, I'd more than appreciate it :)

Edit: The PK= part of URLs is what counts
> one user with their daughter's name as their password to make it all moot.

I see what you did there.
First, the satirical: "Anon concedes defeat" http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=377

Then, the 'actual' press release: http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=378

Some choice bits:

> The lack of quality in Aaron Barr's undertaken research is worth noting. Aaron Barr missed a great deal of information that has been available online, and in fact failed to identify some of those whose identities were never intended to be hidden.

> It is also worth noting that Aaron Barr was also providing this documentation as an example of investigation protocol. This would introduce a systematic flaw to the FBI's investigative woodwork. The risk of institutionalising a flawed procedure exponentiates a problem, and it does so at the taxpayers expense in every sense. Had the FBI indeed bought this information from HBGary Federal, it would have been paid for by taxpayers money, and many innocent people would have been marked as leaders in actions they may not even have been associated with.
yes it has been disputed.
See: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113314261192407815-HL...

and http://www.economist.com/node/5246700?story_id=5246700
The U.S has come a long way since then. I wonder what happened to all those drug addicted people - where do they live now?
How To Creat Dodge Metal logo In PhotoshopCS5
metal effect is one of the popular techniques in Photoshop and sound difficult to beginners.Today we are going to create Dodge metal logo in adobe Photoshop CS5. I choose dodge logo for this tutorial. There is no special reason using this logo iam just fan of it. Here is the Source of logo you can use any other image for it. Here is the source link of metal grill background I use in this tutorial u can use any of your choice. Now get start creating our metal logo.
I've glanced at the 0mq sources a bit, and I'm curious about the error handling. For example,
zmq::tcp_socket_t::read() handles following errnos from recv(): EAGAIN, EWOULDBLOCK, EINTR, ECONNRESET and EPIPE. If recv() fails for any other reason (e.g. ENOBUFS, ETIMEDOUT) and returns -1, the following is performed:

errno_assert (nbytes != -1);

which translates to

#define errno_assert(x) \
do {\
if (unlikely (!(x))) {\
perror (NULL);\
fprintf (stderr, "%s (%s:%d)\n", #x, __FILE__, __LINE__);\
abort ();\
}\
} while (false)

The first thing I noticed is the use of perror() and fprintf() for error reporting. Any daemon that closed its stdin/out/err and not had them redirected to /dev/null will most likely output errors to other file descriptors (sockets, other open files etc.). Is this by design or something that was missed?

Secondly, the use of abort() in an API is probably also not the best choice. Say I'm writing a (robust) database server and an error happens on one connection - the error will bring the whole server down, which kind of defeats the purpose. Is this also by design?

[Edit: formatting]
IMO post-Hemingway English has shorter sentences on average than it used to; I wouldn't mind targeting, say, Twilight with my code and getting the stats on it, but I am loath to steal Twilight just for personal amusement.
Taking it too far seems to be a hallmark of anon. Different people most likely did different things independently once the information started to flow.
Perhaps I'm more clueless than most, but I've always relied on female friends to tell me what looks good and blindly bought what they tell me to.

Thinking this would be for people who don't want to read GQ or do any research. Plan is to offer some level of personalization, a somewhat crowd-funded personal stylist for many people at once.
I agree with you in general, but you picked a funny example to make this case - generation of information doesn't seem like something which will level off after a while.
My $0.02: I don't like the idea of ordering something which I have no idea if I will like (not that I can tell if that would happen as there's not much information). And if the point is to just find clothes that females approve of I can go on some women's fashion forum and ask them directly, then go find it in the store and try it on.
Interesting Salary Stats for Information Architecture (and other tech jobs)
That sounds like a bad balance of usability to security.
Is this basically a less effective version of Trunk Club?
Perhaps, but when you try to scroll past the end of a list in Android (at least in the ROM I'm using) you get a bounce and a horizontal line indicating that you're at the end of a list and can go no further. That's more what I had in mind.
the worse part is seeing Huffington post valued at $330m, while the New York Times market cap is "only" 1.64B. The NYT company does investigations, produces photography and video, has foreign bureaus etc.

For me, this means there's more value rehashing content than producing original content
Adolescents are often courageous, but also sophomoric. I think the latter is what the poster referred to.
US tries to fire-up mighty offshore wind energy projects
Very very cool and I even have something to use it on!
Ask HN: How do you set up your web development environment?
I'm interested in finding out how others are setting up their web development environment. More specifically: How do you separate the 'development' and 'production' aspects of a website? If you have a database, do you copy it to the development portion for testing? do you do this automatically? do you do the development on the server itself or do you do it on your workstation and submit the changes using git/svn/sftp?

I haven't had any luck with Google. Any pointers would be appreciated.
I think you make a good point, but you still need a legal and court system in order to enforce the arbitration clauses; they build on the legal system but don't replace it. If you didn't have the underlying court system, there wouldn't be a way to hold parties to decisions made in binding arbitration that they didn't like.
This is definitely a big open question - we're planning to allow for users to input their measurements so that it should fit reasonably well, but we could be misjudging how picky our target demo would be regarding exactly how well it should fit.
I think "personal stylist online service" is a more useful business model than "send me a shirt that look nice". I can buy a shirt, but i'm probably doing the rest of "style" wrong and could use tips tailored to the rest of my appearance to make myself more professional or attractive looking.
As pointed out by mbesto, the UK system is pretty slick, and could be refined down to just two fields, however it would require breaking the standard flow of address input forms.

With a street number, and a zip/postal code, you can get Street Name, City, and State in one fell swoop.
Apple wants to remove boxed software from their stores
The original Salon article is much better in its analysis:
http://www.salon.com/news/us_economy/index.html?story=/news/...
I hate to be that guy, but I'm not feeling the love.

Customer/Problem(Donations): People are lazy and don't like the hassle of finding the right charity and remembering to donate often.

I'm lazy as all fuck, and yet charities seek me out with passionate regularity. I've chosen a few I like, and set up recurring payments to them (via handy forms the send me in the mail as if they were AOL cds.)

Customer/Problem (Charities): Charities need a way to reach new supporters and be able to reach a mass audience cheaply.

Cheaper than direct mail?

Product: Dead simple, easy to set up, automatic donations deducted from bank account based on credit/debit purchases.

Now, why would I want the donations tied to my credit card purchases? That seems back-assward to me. If I spend a bit too much in a given month, my donations will expand? Sorry, I'd rather give a fixed amount (monthly) and be done with it.

Product: One stop shop for people to view charities and non-profits of all kinds. (Jumo like network)

Oh man, so the charities are going to be going head-to-head against each other on the same site? That's depressing. I recommend you read up on the Paradox of Choice-- if there were more than 3 or 4 charities listed, I'd probably not end up donating to any.
Stealing and characterizing Facebook profiles
Here are a couple example searches:

1. A search for exact line of our content. We are omitted as duplicate for our own article: http://goo.gl/HlpDX, and the site the republished our article is #1.

2. Different article, we are last listing, below sites that copied content: http://goo.gl/Lhs5X

3. http://goo.gl/2zAjC, same as #1, we are superseded by site with little to no original content, for our own content.

and so on for almost all our content ...

It seems as if our site has been devalued (for lack of a better word) for some reason.
"CWuestfield and I were discussing actions taken by the government during the bailout, not a business plan the UAW and GM entered into in the 60's."

Yeah, but the reason the bondholders were unhappy (as anamax said) is that it officially sanctions this sort of malfeasance, and therefore makes the bond market more risky.
No it isn't. Different service organizations have wildly different $/headcount ratios with wildly different concentrations of clients and wildly different turnover rates.

A gigantic slice of the economy is services work. This blog post is not that slice's Rosetta Stone.
Glad to hear he's doing better. He's a nice guy and he does awesome work. His interviews are practically priceless.
I think if they required the use of a shibboleth or key phrase in the email they could have avoided this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shibboleths
My biggest complaint is "female-approved". Since when do only females know what looks good?

That's not a selling point for me at all. Would make me less likely to use this service.
Let me try to describe the difference between 24 channel implants vs typical human hearing (as seen in recordings):

You can tell what many people are saying very close to as well as normal hearing says, at least in English. The experience is comparable to a particularly static filled radio connection.

I imagine languages such as chinese would be considerably more difficult, as you miss a lot of the "tone" of the voice, as well as the movement up or down (which they rely heavily on). I imagine it's sometimes hard to tell if people are asking a question or not from inflection alone compared to typical hearing.

Music does sound completely different in an implant (remember, I don't have one, I've just heard recordings), especially classical symphonic music as used for emotive sections of TV shows/movies, or to manage viewer tension. Pop music seems to come across rhythm wise, but you often are missing some of that same tonality above, and so I'm not sure you'd get the same tension/release cycle that's key to enjoying music in the way many typical hearing people do. I say this especially as you will not hear much of the discordant resolving that's so key to the experience.

Learning what pitches your channels are set at could possibly allow you to find particular works which allow you to experience this, but you'd have to talk to a music theory geek to really go further with this line of talk.