skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6785

"There was a distinction made that HBGary only owns 15-percent of HBGary Federal, and that attacking both was wrong, as one had nothing to do with the other. The networks shared many common elements, that they are only moderately related was irrelevant to Anonymous."

"In addition, there were several calls for Barr to be burned by HBGary, but given that he is a partner, that is unlikely. At this stage, HBGary’s response is unknown. At the time this article was written, aside from the conversations on IRC, there has been no official comment."
I know this is another "neckbeard" comment (love that term), but anyone who ever used the Tom Knight MIT-AI lab keyboards knows in his heart that those were the best keyboards ever made by mankind. Seriously.

They were made by Microswitch (a long defunct subsidiary of Honeywell) and used Hall-effect (mechanical throw) switches with the smoothest throw you've ever felt in your life. So smooth that typing was more like swimming in thought than hitting keys. Sigh, I miss those things every day even after 30 years...

Even the second-generation (first-generation Lisp Machine) keyboard that John Kulp originally had manufactured (all custom-made & designed of course) for the Fusion Lab video terminals (had one in my office when I worked for the MIT-EECS department) were astoundingly good, if not quite as good as the TK keyboards.
Video: Building UI with jQuery and Wijmo
Really informative. Makes me want to go to Disneyland. :-(
Agreed; that's a choice bit. It was the first time I realized how sad and constrained the world-views of non-hacker types were.

...and the discussion of pistons and shims also got me interested in metalworking!
Works fine on iPad. In fact the graphics in the demos make me think this would be perfect for recreating the Star Trek 'tablets'.
It does mean, hopefully, that they continue to be exposed to new information and new people and that they may, should they choose, decide to take education seriously at any point with relatively little difficulty.

Dropping out makes it much, much more difficult to return, or even to decide to return.
Are you looking for potential business partners/programmers based on who excels in the 30 days, or you just really want to teach that badly?
Improve Focus and Recall with Home Dash 4
Bing's Google Argument Makes No Sense
Although the article only talks about TFA schools, the problem of parents treating school like daycare is not limited to poor neighborhoods. Too many parents seem to think that they're somehow absolved from all parental responsibility as soon as they drop their kids off at school. A large percentage of those parents don't have subsistence as an excuse.
Thanks! This is a great list.
What virality plan?
Thanks. I'm glad you like it. I have been feeling quite depressed of late, and a little demotivated about the site, so your positive feedback means a lot to me, and boosts me to get back to work and finish those last few features that are needed.
Show HN: A Chrome extension for goal-based browsing
Hi all,

I just made this Chrome extension I would like to hear your feedback on:

http://alexisrondeau.com/reup/

The extension will ask you to define a goal while working within Chrome. Once you've set yourself that goal it will be visible on any webpage you visit after that.

Some background: I've been noticing how much time I tend to waste online, especially Facebook, HackerNews, and tried many different ways to control the habit.

There are extensions and methods out there that should help with this kind of behavior, for example StayFocusd or LeechBlock, but I have found myself not being able to stay on track even with them. After a while I wind up just using a different browser. Please note, this is not a shortcoming of the extensions, but of my own self-control.

So, instead of blocking sites, I thought it good to stay reminded of what I set out to do in the first place (For example: "Finish todays project and deploy", "Get inspired", "Research meditation techniques"). Usually, when I know what I want, the internet is an amazing tool. If I forget about it, things just get messy and wasteful...

If you are interested, give it a spin. Any feedback or questions are highly appreciated.

In best case I would like to know how it does -- or doesn't -- affect your productivity positively over the course of several days and if there is a breakingpoint of annoyance over time.
I hope that [insert hope here]
popular conferences hosted by smart people learn to handle high traffic loads in a more efficient manner.
Duck Duck Go Karma Widget
That's one gorgeous mini-site.
Are they also working on a tl;dw?

P.S. Justin Rosenstein? Co-founder of Asana?
Meh.

While I never received physical punishment at school (I do believe it occasionally happened at my elementary school, I never got into that level of trouble there), I was occasionally spanked by my parents when I acted rotten. I don't resent my parents for it, in fact I think they're great people and love them very much. I knew at the time why I was receiving that punishment, and I'm mature enough enough now to respect them for it.

"I do not approve of running a school, or any organization, based on fear, much less the threat of physical violence." You've made a leap here that I don't think holds up. The fact that I could have received a spanking at school or that I did receive spankings at home doesn't mean either my school or my home was run "based on fear" or "the threat of physical violence." A spanking is essentially a last resort, and you know it. That's hardly "basing" anything on fear.

"We shouldn't beat children just because they're smaller than us and can't fight back." The line between basic corporal punishment of a kid who refuses to be reasonable and beating a child is a broad one. Equivocating may make your position feel superior, but it's not accurate.

That's not to say corporal punishment in the schools is a grand idea... in part because there are people out there who would enjoy hitting kids, and so screening for that kind of trait would be important. I don't get the feeling your statement was really based on any sort of reasonable accounting of those odds, though. I'd love to hear how you've arrived at your opinion regarding corporal punishment, though. It's not an unpopular one, so I don't think you're some kind of weirdo or something, I'd just be interested in knowing what kind of background you're coming from.
Its the later (if I was challenging your argument, I would have stated my reasons). I think their is a huge difference in strategies / reason between the 12 and under set and the 13+ set. The article seemed like it was talking about 12 and under, but I wasn't really sure what your use of "kid" referred too.
I was assuming there would be some sort of copyright issues with the information. I think that HBGray owns copyright on the report itself since they likely have some sort of analysis in addition to the raw information organized in an understandable fashion, though I guess there might not be any 'fruit of the poisoned tree'-type issues with the FBI using that information in their investigation.
Neat little widget. Does anyone know of a simple web-based tool that would enable me to take snapshots of the various counts (for each service) at regular intervals, and then graph them, calculate growth rates, etc?

I'd like to create a "dashboard" for myself that includes something like this, my blog stats, feeburner stats, Google Analytics stats, etc.
Kicking a kid out of class is a teacher's nuclear option. If the students know that being kicked out of class will have no repercussions, then you remove not just that option, but the threat of it.

In a classroom, the teacher's authority derives from the school. If the school does not backup the teacher's authority, then the teacher has none. (Within reason - I don't want schools to backup teachers who make poor choices as to how to wield their authority.)
My family moved away from NYC in the late 80's because they couldn't afford to send us to the Catholic school, and the middle school that I was going to be sent to had some issues with violence. Violence like kids burning up cars with molotov cocktails.
How often do you send updates to your fans?
BTW - you can see the widget in action on Gabriel Weinberg's blog (DDG founder):
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/
I am probably not their target customer -- I will just never use this sort of thing. I'm curious to know who this is targeted to.

I don't need ideas on where to travel. Recommendations on destination come from family and friends ... the game is then to fit it into budget / vacation days / schedule, etc.
this is the reference (contains same language as parent post)

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thevrabec.com...
> 47. Work on ways to make your lower-end models truly upgradable.

The increase in computing power has solved this problem. People don't like upgrades, or rather they don't like needing upgrades.

Apple has worked to make their products practically fungible. (So long as you don't engrave.) A lot of times, a "repair" is just putting your data on a new device. The hardware is throwaway in the long term. Only the data has anything approaching durable value, and it's not even close.

That said, I love the SSD in my old original Unibody Macbook.
eh, I have done this... contracting paid for prgmr.com. And really, I've had a /whole lot/ more luck renting myself out and paying people to work on my product than renting out my underlings. So yeah, I think he has many good points.

On the other hand, some of the problems of being a contracting company and being a product company cancel themselves out. You have time you can't sell to other people? work on developing new features for the product. Hiring someone new who you aren't sure about or who needs training? Pay them trainee wages while training them up as they work on the product, then as you know their capabilities, rent them out.

But overall, I agree with the "renting yourself out at exorbitant rates is easier than renting out your underlings" advice, though this is at least partially due to a lack of sales skills on my part; but yeah, there are a lot of less obvious costs to renting out an employee.
Get a half dozen iTunes codes and post them in the Reddit thread as well. In my opinion, promoted ads on Reddit usually are plagued by Ad hating downvoters. Offering something for free breaks the "I'm just here to make money" barrier, and after all the codes get redeemed, you'll get a bit better return on sales of people who want to see what the game is like but were late to the thread so they'll end up buying it. If the game is good, they'll help get the word out.
well id say you were lucky. The video was down when I got there, and I just couldnt sit through the very generic descriptions the article was rambling about.
1984 may be the most successful memetic engineering project in history.

Dressing down your prose a little, you're saying "1984 successfully manipulated a lot of [gullible] people".

And that is, in a nutshell, why I don't like it much. Orwell does not treat his reader as a peer. There's no respect there, just manipulation, because the author doesn't trust the reader with nuance.

EDIT (in response to yours): Luckily for me, I am nobody's minister of propaganda. I would (were I a much better writer than I am) tell it like it is, nuances and all, and let them do with that what they will.
I like the idea. But ouch! I'm on a Cr-48 trying to spend the first month under the free Verizon 3g 100MB plan, why does this take 3.8 MB?

Also, I was editing this comment and punched right through whatever that popup is when it finishes downloading.
You have mail :)
Considering that on the other side of the argument is a single data point, Apple, I can't see how leaving out even a single company producing Android products makes sense.

Furthermore, I don't understand why so many people appear to have a desperate need to try to paint Apple as dominant and unable to fail. Wether there are more Apple handsets or Android handsets, the fact that you can even make the comparison clearly shows that Apple is no where close to dominant in the mobile market.

Everyone also forgets that RIM still has a large market share, despite their OS lagging Android and iOS in features. The market is anyones game at this point and we should all be happy for the competition that exists. That competition will create cheaper and better products for us all.
Actually I'd be curious to see what would happen if corporal punishment was re-instated. I think your scenario derives from a hyperbolic world presented to us by a hype-machine media. I'm not sure it's really accurate. My hypothesis would be that it would in fact cut down on problems, though I won't deny that one or a few incidents like what you posit could happen. Truly "rotten apples", few in number as they may be, are in every part of the population. This is also why re-instating corporal punishment would be extra-hard -- there will be "rotten apples" doling it out, too.

Also, to address your second point, when I was in elementary school and a few kids did receive corporal punishment, it was always meted out by a principal, and not directly by the teacher.
See this is what I don't agree with. Using a vulnerability to induce action is one thing, and a very important purpose, especially when nothing is being done. Once all has been done that is going to be done however there is no further net positive gain in releasing specifics of the exploit beyond what is vulnerable.

I don't find it perfectly reasonably to assume every hacker will figure it out. Some may, but that doesn't justify dropping the information into the hands of those who wouldn't have but can still leverage it for negative uses.

It's like if I discovered the locks on all BMWs can be popped remotely with a simple code. I tell BMW, and they promptly work to fix it in all cars still under warranty. Kudo's to them. Do I then take out a front page ad in the New York Times and say "Hey, just so you know, all old Beemers can be opened easy as pie like this." and call that action justified? And to note, there is a difference between raising awareness by saying "Hey Beemer owners, your older cars have a security problem... you should consider upgrading because you're vulnerable"... and standing on a street corner handing out instructions for grand theft auto. One is raising awareness... the other is explicitly putting at risk owners who might not be able to afford a new car right now... or who might be locked into a cellular contract on old hardware.
people still calls me crazy when i say the only thing GTK miss is an X skin, with plain B&W flat buttons.
Why don't you offer 32bit OSs especially considering that all your servers are under 4gb ram
Sure thing. My email address is in my profile.
About 3/4th into the video the guy says they're planning to attack companies from the bottom-up by designing for, allowing and enabling individual employees to start using it by themselves and then share their stuff. I think even if their software fails, if they can come up with a model for this that works, that would be a big deal and enable other startups. I know I'm already thinking about this.

At least, that's what I got from fast-forwarding, it's an hour long presentation.
Definitely a yes. It's called the Business Cycle, everything goes up and down, we're on our way up pretty quickly.
We used to do this when managing unreachable firewalls. Dial out to the modem attached to the firewall console and type in that modem's password. The remote modem drops our call, then dials us back with a console login prompt. So even if you had the password, you had to at least be dialing in from our phone line.
This seems like a cross between:

Facebook (layout/feeds)
Twitter (async assign)
Intentional Software (multiple representations, same model)
Google Wave (live updates, email integration)
I have a design link sites, that I moved over to HN look/feel recently:
http://www.uberlook.com
I love the writing as much as the quotes in this article.

"It would appear that security experts are not expertly secured,"

"It's unlikely that Anonymous cares about what Hoglund thinks"

I haven't laughed out loud at something I've read like this in a while.
Only if they're exceptional at their job.
There are destinations all over the world though Adioso is still adding airlines, particularly in Canada, South America and Africa.
Mineral Oil Cooled PC Case - Part 3
If you search the Chromium bug database under "rounded corners", you'll find various issues related to poor antialiasing or worse, with screenshots attached.

Basically, rounded corners weren't rendering smoothly, and if there was a border applied then you could even get the wrong colours showing, which looked awful.
This Is the New Gizmodo
It's baffling that people are blindly upvoting before they even read the article.
That process started happening in NYC decades ago, depending on how you define suburb. Suburbs are awful places to be poor, as you need to be able to maintain a car to get by.

Parts of Nassau county and even Westchester (ie. Southside of Mount Vernon) have been rough for a long time. Ditto any of the cities in North Jersey, which have been swallowed up and discarded by the greater New York metropolis.
Dear Microsoft, I don't want your dividend
The mousetrap table disturbs me. They've got a right to make and sell it, but I won't buy or condone it. That's because it causes too much pain on the animal's part, with not enough gain on the human's. Just look at another, more detailed picture of the design: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/02/mousetrap-table.php Clearly, this thing goes beyond a sensible mousetrap, which is something that acts quickly and is not designed to celebrate death.

Before you start to think that I'm some kind of nutty animal rights/eco person, I should say this: animal research makes human life better (by making us more knowledgeable about all kinds of things, from neurophysiology to pharmaceuticals to cosmetics), and they usually get anesthesia while we're doing it. I'm all for that. Likewise, eating (large, edible) animals is awesome because they taste good, improving the human gain enough to justify killing them.

But powering furniture with mice? It's legal (and must remain so, or we lose the legal right to use animals for the aformentioned proper uses), but not ethical.
Why not have your tasks anywhere on the page?
Yes to everything you said. The book is amazing, yet their web site is awful. It sucks seeing as how I'm in that list too.

p.s. - if anybody can crack my password, I'll be impressed.
John Gruber does not approve.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/02/07/gizmodo-redesign
Curious, first time I see something non-free on GitHub
>EDIT: Let me put it this way -- what if someone tried to bill you big company hourly consulting rates for a dozen newbies repeated debugging their linked-list programming project

Yeah, sure, you and I would hate that. Anyone spending their own money would.

But consulting companies target the publicly traded. the guy making the decision, there's no upside in it for saving money. It gets done or it doesn't. If he hires a big name, he doesn't get fired if it doesn't get done. If he goes with a no-name, that's not so certain.

I think this is a natural inefficiency that happens when the decision makers spend other people's money. they spend a lot of that money on insurance.

Of course, I'm just bitter because I failed as a body shop, in spite of having very good people who were able to immediately move in to other body shops, getting paid quite a bit more than I billed out retail.
IFixit Teardown: Verizon iPhone 4
I was going to say I do full time dev and know SEO but then I realized I'm technically a 'consultant'. I've differentiated my offering a lot by doing conversion optimization. When you explain all the things you're doing for a customer it's pretty easy to justify a price that will put food on the table, especially when you compare their outlay to what it would cost to get on AdWords (search volume * 50% CTR * avg CPC) vs. a #1 rank on a SERP. I also do a lot of AdWords work.

I basically do a work up where I put together a bunch of SEO landing pages and then optimize the landing page to get the customer to a conversion page which will actually convert them.

The basic process is like this:

Install Google Analytics
Install Google Website Optimizer
Install Google Webmaster Tools
Establish baselines for metrics
Optimize SERPs and ensure targetted SERPs are bringing high quality traffic (or volume)
Create landing pages or buy keyword domains and establish landing pages.
Optimize landing page conversion rate to a conversion page
Optimize conversion pages (funnels)
Rinse wash repeat.

One of the best things about doing SEO is that you get to know a lot of great people in the industry, designers, copywriters, etc. You also meet people from all walks of life and learn a lot about the inner workings of a lot of businesses. It's a very black art combining so many disciplines that it provides huge insight into both technology and the human psyche (the one thing that does well for both esp. Google is page speed, if your page loads fast it converts better and ranks higher on SERPs). If you're a nerd who likes interacting with people I can't recommend SEO enough. It's simply amazing to see the smiles on people's faces when you've doubled their traffic in a fortnight. Or when they type common searches and see their webpage.

I think the most important thing I stumbled upon is the separation of concerns between landing pages and conversion pages. High conversion pages usually don't rank well, but high SERP pages don't convert well so you have to separate them so each can do it's job most effectively. I have this feeling and idea that clicking on more links somehow establishes trust between the customer and the vendor. The more pages a person views the more likely they are to buy, and having a lot of pages allows you to slowly sell them on the idea.

I also evaluate options like building forums, wikis or other properties that are good for lead gen.
In particular, the bill would renew the following dangerously unchecked PATRIOT powers:

The government’s power under PATRIOT Section 215 to obtain secret court orders for Internet, phone and business records of people who are not suspected of terrorism or spying;
The government’s "lone wolf wiretapping" power, allowing it to get court orders authorizing secret foreign intelligence wiretaps against individuals who have no connection to any foreign power or terrorist group; and
The government’s power to obtain blank-check "roving" wiretap orders that can be used to tap any phone number, email account or other communications facility that the government believes is being used by its target.
Indeed. For me, one of the key takeaways was that to successfully implement lasting change, you must appeal to emotion. Logic is not enough.
Definitely middle class in 40 years. I suspect 2051 will be as far ahead of us now as 2011 would be to someone in the 1940's or so.
Eh, I can't imagine it's much worse than those sticky-traps. At least with this you're not just throwing the corpse away though.
I think it's a really great piece. It gets you to think about the reliability of quotes like that, it makes you consider realistic statistics and research, and it points out that the numbers are still pretty sensational.

It's not so much nit picky IMO as light heartedly correcting the facts.

I think that counts as intellectually stimulating :)
Can you imagine the shit-storm if Apple gave away iPhones at WWDC? At least I can attend that conference knowing full well that I'll be surrounded with developers who are there to learn & network.

I'm really disappointed that I won't be making it to I/O this year. 2009 was a blast (I missed 2010 out of laziness). Thought all I had to do was register within the first hour and I'd be fine.

Honestly, I blame Oprah for this.
Thanks! Just checked, I still had the .git folders that got packaged, too. The .crx file is now updated at only around 400K.