skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a pleasure Jacques.

Well gentlemen, this how you make a graceful exit. Round of applause.

(HN Roast anyone?)
On that note, customer satisfaction is inherently easier to keep high when you completely control the closed ecosystem. When you only have a select few devices your software can run on, it's much easier to test any changes or a new version you have against them. When you have to deal with thousand, possibly millions of hardware configurations that you need to support, that becomes nearly impossible. Things are destined to fall through the cracks, which reduces average customer satisfaction.

That said, I still think OSX is a better overall OS. But you have to take all the variables into consideration when you discuss things like customer happiness.
Android Is Now the Most Popular Smartphone Platform
Interesting ChatRoulette spin off
Android overtakes Nokia to become the world's leading smartphone platform
As does NAB.
It seems to me the suggestion to require the 'X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest' header to be set is the best way to handle this, much better than some JS tweaking. It doesn't make any assumptions about javascript syntax or implementations. And the only way I can think to get around it is some http request splitting exploit via a proxy.

If you only return data to XHRs then you're protected by same origin policy and all <script> tags will get no data.

-EDIT-

When I first read "a better option is to require custom XMLHttpRequest headers" I thought this is what they were talking about. After a second look they probly mean setting a custom header yourself using the XHR object. This would work too but now I'm wondering if there's some way around my solution. Because why would they advocate a custom header if checking the X-Request-With header alone is enough?

- EDIT -

Was just in the shower and remembered why they probly don't advise to just check the X-Requested-With header. There are ways for an attacker to get around the XHR same origin policy with dns pinning/rebinding attacks. If you required a custom header with a session cookie which the attacker didn't have access to this would mitigate that kind of attack. EDIT: Nevermind, as long as you're checking the Host header a dns rebinding attack wouldn't matter.
More so than the whitespace, the multi-window approach is a pain in the ass. It gets worse when you are calling someone. Goodluck managing even the most trivial things such as finding where your video window went(oh there it was, hiding behind the text window, the contact list and the a dozen others).Seriously, it's gotten to a point where this thing is plain usable.
This thing with the camera is just latest in a string of mis-steps by Skype. If it is indeed by design, the attempt to sabotage rival platforms and tools is reflective of a very dangerous mentality. Sad !
My Dad has a house in the Bay of Islands and I've been considering moving there to do remote development .. is the DSL very easy to get/expensive?
Am I reading this right? Are both sides of this story intimating that the security guys found a vulnerability in the site, published it, and then pitched them a consulting gig? Go live with something or not, pitch a gig or not, but I'm not sure you can have it both ways without looking skeezy.
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I am thinking of adding a YAML configuration option to accept your predefined preferences to address this.
One tic less annoying that the gumball machines that holler at you in the grocery store.

We will need a logarithmic scale of ad intrusiveness?
Jacquesm, I never written to you before...I have always procrastinated emailing you. Just wanted to say thank you!.

You have been among the articulate members in here. There are so many 'high' posts from you that not even a * top jacquesm 100 posts * would do justice to your contribution.
Thank you for sharing your experiences.

Would it be private to disclose what you would be doing in your "HN time"? Any thing new on your mind? I was wondering how you would hold it back without letting us know :)
Please do write about your 30 day de-addiction experience

Good luck to you (and hope you (don't) have a relapse!) :)
I misunderstood. They have from a few days ago for 60/90 days. And they don't really have many options, unless they go for a massive unbundling effort.
I also work at Distilled (I'm also the guy behind 7bks.com in my spare time) and can vouch that we are the good kind of SEO :)

I'd love to work with more HN people! Come apply if you're in London or Seattle.
The "victim" framing here isn't helping anyone. This is a silly thing to argue about.
Definitely isn't. His English looks exactly like an Argentinian writing English.
Whoa! No way India has 226 million "native" speakers of English. It still would be under a quarter million. But upvoted for checking. Tongue was very much in my cheek in my previous comment, so all can rest easy :)

but I've heard this repeated a few too many times recently

I havent heard it before and that is indeed strange given that I am Indian.
Leeds, UK (no remote) - Pitch Hero Limited

Sports website with 1MM+ UVs/month, looking for frontend designer / developer. £30k+ and possible stock options.

http://www.pitchero.com/jobs/
a nuclear power plant costs 6-8 billion up front, before you get a dime back and takes 2-8 years to build. Nobody in the US except the government will loan utilities the money to build or upgrade a nuclear power plant. I'm all for nuclear power, but it ain't cheap.
The problem with that system is that it incentivizes overpopulation. If your retirement plan is your children, you have a lot of children.
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Critiquing current practices is one thing some parts of academia should do, but it'd be sad if that were 100% of what it were doing.

Precisely. And Dijkstra seems to take great offense at the critiques traveling in the opposing direction. To wit:

Did the writer not know that the use of the term "the real world" is usually interpreted as a symptom of rabid anti-intellectualism, or did he not mind?

As a PhD candidate in political science, a good 90% of my colleagues could use a daily injunction to think more about the problems of "the real world," rather than the abstractions of Deleuze and Guattari.
Yep, thats a good one
There but for the grace of contracting security professionals go I.
Do you think these boxes will have a cereal port?
the biggest news in Skype 5 for Mac is that it is single-window, and that's the main reason many hate it (not me).
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If you get your property by exploiting the contract, then get to leave the contract instead of paying your side of it, it's not worth much as a contract.
Microsoft warning over browser [IE] security flaw
My gift to HN, a tool to check who else had your idea
Between HNers there are many creative persons, guys who come up with a billion different ideas every week. Definitely i'm this kind of person and even if not every idea is good, every idea deserves at least some research.
Since i got tired of googling general descriptions of the disruptive startup idea which just occurred to my mind i coded together this small but for me very useful tool which does this job for you.
You just briefly describe your idea and it gives you as a result the startups which correspond (or are most similar) to your very idea. It's made of google custom search api plus some processing in order to weigh the results.
You can find it at http://gtardini.com/wwwhoelse , don't mind the design which really sucks. I find it quite useful, hope it will be the same for you. Feedback is appreciated!
The logs may (should) be on a separate loghost, which is otherwise isolated from the machines it's servicing. Assuming this is the case, and those logs show no evidence of further penetration, that's evidence in favor of the conclusion that the damage was contained. However you're right, once an attacker has root it's very hard to take anything at face value after the fact.
A lot of people here seem to think the "Mark Zuckerberg" way of starting a business is the only way to be an entrepreneur.

Perhaps if you want to start something that has no barrier to entry and few qualities that cannot be imitated then yes, execution becomes everything and the only way is to run faster and work harder than everyone else. A lot of startup that get attention here fit that mold.

There are plenty of other opportunities out there though. You don't have to invent a new technology to get an advantage. You can lease patents, you can target niche's, you can become the local representative of a foreign startup, etcetera.
Sorry to see you go! I hope you're not leaving the IRC channel though :-)

For what it's worth, for those who feel HN is a bit too engaging but still want to read the best, most useful startup articles every day (according to who? according to me!) do follow http://swombat.com as a low-engagement substitute. Swombat.com will never take over your life - you can't even comment there! :-)

(Email subscriptions are coming soon, for those who don't even want to open up the browser)
Boston, MA; not remote.

Ember has a couple of openings for firmware/embedded and manufacturing engineers: http://www.ember.com/company_careers.html

We make low power wireless chips and the software that makes them useful.

Ember is a fantastic place to work, email me directly at emberFeb2011@saidsvec.com if you're interested.
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+1 thank you for the clarification
Pendulum lyrics. Good stuff. :)
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"en@olde+obnoxious"
"I've found that stopping reading the conversations has been the easiest part, but that HN's filter of interesting stories is hard to beat."

(imo) the conversations/comments make HN more than the stories. When I read the comments before the stories, I get a different perspective(than reading stories before comments).
Google's increase from Q4 2009 to Q4 2010: 615.1%.

Say what you will about the Android vs iOS debate, but that's damn impressive.
Sounds exciting. What kind of work would the dev be doing?
It's a bit early for April Fools, Jacques. Nice try. I give it about a week.

If you are in fact serious and able to break the engagement I'm sure I won't be alone in wishing for the speedy return of your contributions.
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I'm pretty sure I'd prefer to be remembered for most insightful contributions, rather than just as "Best Nick". Still, I'll take what I can.

No doubt we'll still be in touch. I have some follow-ups that I've promised, and are still on the way.

Best.
This question was my favourite:

"Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
POF is hardly a great example of superior software engineering. The whole point of POF is really affiliate lead generation for other off-network dating sites.
Wow, 50K karma in just 785 days? That's almost 64/day, quite a feat.

For me, the discussions in the threads are the best part of HN. The submissions are great; but what brings it all together is the discussion.
In the UK you can get Virgin 50MB with no caps for about £30~/month.
Gaithersburg, MD - A payment processing software company I used to work for is hiring an internal applications developer. You'd be working with Python, SQL Server, IIS and other technologies to automate internal processes.

They'd prefer someone local but working remotely might be ok.

They're open to hiring anywhere from entry level to senior. It's the type of job where either role would work.

Email me (in profile)

* As long as you can demonstrate some programming skill, and resourcefulness, they're happy to train you in Python, and SQL Server.
I'd love to hear what the pain points of using Bloomberg are.
We're hiring! If you're interested in web developement and semantic anaylsis (and you live in the UK!) then take a quick look at:
http://idioplatform.com/2011/01/rockstar-developers-wanted/

P.S. we have AR.Drones :)
I don't follow your logic.

Bell cannot enter the TV market (one it's already in, albeit Satellite TV), because Netflix can't enter the ISP market?

I'll think you'll find that Netflix can enter that market if they so desire.

Bell are abusing a monopoly position? No, they are exploiting efficiencies of scale. Surely Rogers and Shaw, who provide cable TV and Internet are stiff competition in this area?!?
Given how most cell phone contracts are structured I wonder how many users have really used both. I'm not talking about phone geeks and the typical person on HN, but the average user. If a person hasn't used both extensively then whatever one they are using now probably satisfies them (most people are only on their first maybe second 'smart phone').

I have an iPhone and while it has some quirks, overall it works great for me. I've only played with some different droid phones in stores and my impression was that the touch didn't work as well as on the iPhone. Is my impression reality or am I just used to how the iPhone responds so another type of phone doesn't seem right?
it is bad. australians and new zealanders get ripped on their telecommunications.
The OptiBay installation took me all of 5 minutes. It comes in a bundle with the correct screwdriver(s), if you don't have a Torx T6. Mine also came with an external enclosure for the superdrive. The actual installation is very simple, mostly removing screws; only one ribbon cable is a little delicate, but not a problem either. If you have any experience tinkering with electronics, it's a breeze, but if you don't, just be a little careful, not much can go wrong. Or, of course, have someone do it for it.

I didn't plan on reselling this computer ever, but if I were, I assume that the buyer would be just as happy with more HDD space and a super-fast system disk, plus an external SuperDrive. Worst case I could always build this back to stock configuration within half an hour.
Los Angeles, CA - Quant Trading Firm - Not remote, must be authorized to work in the US.

One of my clients is looking for a network programmer. The developer will be responsible for low level, low latency feed handlers (from market data providers) and in improving/developing drivers for their distributed computing infrastructure.

Position is very competitive, but no former financial knowledge or experience needed. Must know C++ and socket (TCP/UDP) programming very well. They will look at junior to senior people, and can pay very well.

Email trent.krupp@constitutionllp.com for more info.
English -700 years with a touch of spanish?
Very useful tool. It is helpful to see what is out there for the idea you are pursuing. Thanks!
Oh, I'm sure they'd love to hold 100% of every market. The point of my comment is they don't need to do this to be considered a big "winner". Unlike e.g. Dell which only makes money on huge amounts of shipments due to low margins, Apple can ship comparatively few units and make large profits.

They must know that their dominance in the smartphone area was always a temporary thing - they were never going to persuade the entire world to buy one of two iPhone models available at any time. Their lack of any attempt to create an entire iPhone ecosystem to cater for the spread of users (i.e. the "free, just about adequate phone" that dominates most peoples choice) shows this. This is entirely separate to their iPod strategy, which scales from those with only a handful of dollars (the shuffle), all the way up to the "Smartphone without a radio" iPod Touch. In the phone space, they seem to have chosen the same battle as their computing space - the high end, high margin, "people willing to pay for the experience" market share which contains vast profits. If no serious competitor had appeared (as, bizarrely, happened in the MP3 space), then they might have eventually released an iPhone Nano etc. But given that other players are now in that space, they've just surrendered it, rather than fight a battle they can't win. Were they to open up iOS or release a spate of iPhones covering enough of the usage/price spectrum to compete, they'd lose a large amount of the Apple "experience", damage their premium brand, and risk losing the entire game.

Their battle is to maintain enough market share to ensure development for iOS, and to ensure that Android devices end up being (mostly) the choice for mass market, race to the bottom, cheap at any cost devices. If Android starts to seriously infringe on their premium space, then they should be worried and can be considered to be losing. Until then, as far as I can see, they're winning the battle they're fighting.
Yes, luxury goods amount to a tax on the status-conscious who can afford them--but the problem is that they send a price signal that more luxury goods are needed, when what we really need is investment in infrastructure, basic and applied research, etc.
This sounds like an even better fix -- nicely done.
You don't save simple pswds in your browser!? I haven't logged into nytimes.com in literally years.

If there was a better newspaper, NYT would get fewer of my clicks.
You've just described exactly why I switched to OSX from windows. Less useless choices to make and better likelihood that I wont have to deal with stupid hardware issues.
I will miss your contributions, which I always find thoughtful and often find enlightening. Best of luck to you!
But is that how he used it in this case?
Banks business model...they solve what we economists call "Adverse Selection" problem: how to sort good from bad credit. They are basically information arbitragers. They pool your credit info, compute a score, and sort loan suppliers with loan demand. The cost of doing so is expensive for an individual investor.

So one way to disrupt banks would be to put these resources in the hands of an individual.

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

I heard or read somewhere that much of the lending for small businesses and startups happened through one's personal network. Here may be an excellent opportunity for Facebook. This is also an area where the information asymmetry is often reversed. (For example: Your crazy uncle Zeb might look a good credit risk to the bank, even though you know it's all because your aunt was managing the money until she ran off to Belize with the plumber last year.)
1. I'm not sure what you mean by "the really small font size." Can you link to an example?

2. You can't.
Ready.js doesn't need a config file anymore (v1.2.0) and semver
3D3R Software Studio (www.3d3r.com) is hiring JavaScript and iOS ninjas all over the world
Boston (US) as well as London (UK) - youDevise, Ltd.

We're a 65-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. We're hiring developers and other smart folks of many kinds. See http://www.youdevise.com/careers and https://dev.youdevise.com.

While we don't have remote workers, we do help successful candidates relocate to London or Boston including arranging visas where needed. For example, last year we hired HN readers from Denmark and the US, and we moved a Polish employee to Boston.
Happy.js: Lightweight form validation for jQuery/Zepto.js, HTML5 & Underscore.js
You don't happen to need a part-time (2-3 days a week) designer/front-end developer as well do you?
Hopefully they'll bow to the pressure of all the UIs they broke. This is a fear that alot of us have, of course: a seemingly capricious change (meaning unforeseeable to us) breaks our UI for our customers. Good luck with that.
Would you care to fill in a noob on the meaning of your nick?
Ask HN: How does a programmer relocate from the east to west coast?
Norwegian online music store beat.no easy to hack
beat.no, a Norwegian online music store, has put up a "under maintenance" front page as it was discovered that their HTML5 streaming music solution allowed users to download their music by simply viewing the source of the page.

beat.no usually charges about 10 Norwegian kroner (1.7 USD) for each downloaded song, but allows paid accounts to stream their music as much as they like for free.

beat.no, unlike other music streaming services like Spotify uses a HTML5 based interface to allow users to stream the music using nothing but a browser. Unfortunately, this opens the door for downloading the music you are streaming with very little effort, and no need for external programs.

How they intend to solve this issue remains to be seen. There really is no good way of preventing this while still running the streaming service in the browser.
I assume some connection? http://failbook.failblog.org/2011/01/26/funny-facebook-fails...

Or is this some grand internet meme I'm missing out on? (I wouldn't say I've been missing it.)
Toronto, ON - Myplanet

We're hiring for practically everything - and we really need to add some great developers to our team. We're a fun place to work and we've been on a pretty ridiculous growth clip over the last two years.

Check out our blog post with the job descriptions here:

http://www.myplanetdigital.com/digital_strategy/blog/myplane...
I'm especially fond of (and halfway competent at) the Salesforce reports interfaces.

Salesforce gives you the opportunity to run and export pre-loaded reports, or define a set a parameters, name them, and run / export those reports time and time again.

I think it's a great idea, Eric, and would definitely be interested if you:

#1 Set up key reports for - keyword optimization, link-sources, geography, timing, and on-site activity tracking.

#2 Allow me to mash, 'pivot-table, and create custom reports that stream to me everyday.

If your solution can do these things, I'll not only be an advocate.. I'd be a customer.

-Adam
Blue Bell, PA (greater Philadelphia)

Full stack web engineer

Small team, technical leadership, enterprise clients, family-oriented workplace

dgetz@wingspan.com
God, this reminds me of me.

I was really smart at school and was used to being able to try hard and get As.

But with girls, I get Cs. And so I don't have relationships because I can't bear getting Cs.

And it's even worse being in tech, because when I have to compete with an office full of guys competing with me for the C, I'm only going to get an E if I'm lucky.

Sometimes the pain is so unbearable it kills all my motivation for days or weeks.

I wish I wasn't in tech. I wish I could be more normal.
There are days when I hate being the grumpy old man, and this in kinda one of them. Still, here we go.

I'm not sure why this is here at all. What is it telling us that we didn't already know? From the guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find
> interesting. That includes more than hacking and
> startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence,
> the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's
> intellectual curiosity.

I fail to see how this qualifies.

More, it has a bloody annoying auto-starting audio. Again from the guidelines:

In Submissions

...
If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn
us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.

I think this should be applied to audio as well - let me explain why.

I have two monitors. Each has 12 virtual desktops. Each virtual desktop has between 10 and 40 windows, some of which are browsers. Each browser has 10 to 50 tabs. I've just counted.

I tend to launch a bunch of stuff quickly, then methodically track through them, skimming, launching, and closing as appropriate. When video or audio auto-starts I have to track through potentially hundreds of windows/tabs/whatever, to find the one that's giving me grief.

It's annoying, and I think it's rude not to follow a site's guidelines.

You may disagree, and I'd be interested in an enlightening debate.

And yes, this is essentially a copy-n-paste from an earlier complaint about exactly this sort of thing:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2135511

(edited for typos)