skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the TL;DR of this "Boo hoo my super cheap shared hosting stopped working and they didn't give me platinum level support"?

iWeb has the same sort of super-cheap hosting, but they fix your stuff on a "best case" basis. I don't blame them. Spend a few hours on a customer problem and you're losing a ton of cash when it's a $3/mo. plan.
I'm not sure if my being born in the late 1980s would make me more or less likely to choose 1973 over 2011. On the one hand it would take some getting used to a world without computers and the like, having never experienced that before. On the other, it would be more like travelling to a new place than going back in time, which at least sounds more exciting.

My question is - how far back would you go?
Just to emphasize how fake some of the "identities" they uncovered are: The list implicates Guy Fawkes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes).
Yes! I noticed this in Chrome, too, while trying to debug our web application. Turns out it's a Webkit bug. Tore my hair out trying to figure out why middle-click wasn't working, until I opened the same page in Firefox and voila, worked perfectly.
The examples I use to illustrate situations like these are urinal cake companies, or toilet paper manufacturers. These people are rich. Rich beyond your wildest dot com dreams.

Are these people (who own the above mentioned firms) any less "smart" than the "genius" engineer who sits in a cubicle and makes 100k and is at the mercy of his mortgage banker?
If anyone actually knew their 9 digit zip in the US you'd get the same
Ha! "The Art of Sexting". Brilliant.

What type of return levels are you seeing sending gifts to the girlfriends?

What's the name of your friend's shop with the standardized grid?
Is it really stolen if people just tell the FBI the information, and it just so happens to be the same information that the security group was going to give?
No, I'd rather have it like Trunk Club where it's just "stylists" or whatever.

I think we all have some friend that dresses terribly because their girlfriend/wife buys everything for them.
Relative wealth is what gets you the most mating opportunities and gives your genes a competitive advantage, to put it in a pseudo-academic language. Geoffrey Miller's The Mating Mind is way more interesting and deeper than this article if you are interested in the subject. Spent is even more about relative wealth as a fitness signal, but a bit fluffier.
Where Can It .Be - Tracking Done Easy
As a first step in the works of a complete solution for package tracking, Where Can It .Be gives you an integrated interface for practically every tracking company around.
Well done! I just deleted the "third down" thing on my "to code" list.

Have you tried scanning with parallel threads? I suspect having 4 or so threads would allow the disk to internally schedule the seeks better for a speedup. (For bonus points, track your lookup rate and dynamically tune the thread count.)
Oh, and check out this pastie: http://pastie.org/1535735

Social engineering. People are always the weakest link...
I wasn't trying to reduce his criticisms to adolescent jabs - I have great respect for his analysis. But he occasionally gets a little carried away and takes an unnecessary pot shot. They're symptomatic of his sort of unique brand of narcissism and, were he any less of an intellectual force, probably would have been edited out of the final versions.
Given a much smaller world-population during most of history, and much less information transfer (other than f2f), I think your estimate is off by at least a factor 100 (rough guess) more than Schmidt's.

Sorry to be nitpicking... :)
It's not a unit, it's a magnitude or count. Used in similar situations as "a lot". It's neither 'sarcastic' nor 'serious', but rather 'casual'.
Beyond Gaming applied to Launch 2.0 and will be ready to show the world our PIVOT! Im very hopeful to demo the mobile app, V2.0 of the website, later this week to gain a spot on stage and plan on being in San Francisco regardless. @Launch is something I will not miss and its vitally important. The conference is already inspiring;I want to feel the energy in the room, meet The Valley and be a part of this!
Unlike benmathes, I'm going with "incompetence". The /b/ crowd hasn't shown much sophistication (yet) - then again, if this kind of straightforward social engineering works, why bother? (Seriously, a security firm that falls for "please drop the firewall and e-mail me the root password"?)
For those who don't want to bother with clicking that link: real growth is 50X, Schmidt's claims was 260,000X.
care to elaborate? new york city is fascinating.
I disagree. Computer science is supposed to be a "pure" field, like mathematics. It is not meant to teach any specific technology, language, library, development model, etc. You can (and should) pick that up on your own. These things change so often anyway--you shouldn't pay a school to learn such simple things.

Maybe industry and market forces want a more software engineering-type degree; the people who want that kind of job should pursue such. In any case, there is still an unquestionable need for pure CS in academia and research.
It may be the case that there are indie SAP implementors who charge $50/hr.

LOL.
Or this one where the Google employee gave Microsoft a whole five days:
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/does-google-have-double-st...

And who does full disclosure on New Year's Day? That's like waiting for a natural disaster and then saying, "BTW, been sittin on this too... full disclosure".
Very interesting library. I see some interesting use cases for photos and media browsing. It would be interesting to hear some other suggested use cases where this plugin can be applied over existing solutions.
What kind of food do you think you'd get in 1900 that you couldn't get today?
Please consider Addroid.com. I'm a huge fan and I've listed to every show.
I got the same runaround with their VPS service. I started seeing really high disk latency - on the order of tens of seconds to create a file. I emailed them, along with the results of a script that measured how long it took to create a new file over time.

First they told me that they checked and everything was OK, maybe I should contact someone who knows about systems administration. Then they said the performance I was seeing was within their acceptable standards.

I asked them for their standards, they said they didn't have any published standards.

Thank goodness I found Linode.
Offensive or not, Groupon won the Super Bowl ad game on Twitter
The main issue for me would be trusting the female approving the shirt. I suppose you could have a collection of people, each with a portfolio, but it's a bit of a catch 22: I have to pick a woman whose taste I like, but I am only using the service because I have poor taste in fashion.

One way around that would be to simply have a "style" that people want to fit. I might know if I live in NYC that I want the "Wall St" style; SF might be "Hip Startup". Being an engineer, it's much easier to classify objective goals than subjective tastes. If I have to look at a bunch of profiles saying "I go for a casual, slightly-preppy look with the right amount of professionalism"-- I am not going to know what that means.
I think its a combination of the obvious usefulness of this code, combined with the impeccable execution and presentation, combined with its effective employment of bleeding edge technologies. It's basically a "perfect storm" of frontend library awesomeness.
of several experiences with godaddy, there are none i can classify as "pleasant"
Enjoy all the smoke. And don't forget to not get cancer.
I live in New York and I've never seen anything as gruesome as this photos.
FWIW, this recent recession is currently considered an anomaly because crime rates did not go up. When the economy slowed down everyone braced for a spike in the various crime rates that seems to inevitably follow such an event, and they waited...and waited...
Nope, that's not the company website. Company website is at http://www.hbgaryfederal.com/ and is currently down.
Thanks!

Many RFID cards are basically tiny computers with each with a proprietary command protocol, so you can't read everything generically. MIFARE DESFire cards (ORCA, Clipper, newer Oyster) for example have a command protocol and basic filesystem. FareBot asks the card for a list of all its files and dumps them out one by one.

I do believe there's a standard way to read NDEF data (used to store URIs, etc.) from different types of cards but haven't looked into this much yet. I think this is what the "Tag" app that comes with the Nexus S does.
Did they rename Google Wave?
You don't specifically override the middle click. It happens when you override the click behavior -- middle click is included in that because it's still a click event, but with a slight difference in the event object being created. :-)
My thought was that if you need this type of behavior on your site $37 dollars is much less expensive than the amount of time it would take for you to pull all the elements of this together yourself.
I currently make my living in mobile and tablet software development, so I try to keep pretty well abreast of the market. My comment was not based upon my evaluation of competing products, but rather on market acceptance and sales of competing products. By some estimates, the best-selling Android Tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab) has only had a sell-through to customers of 250k units, compared to 7.33 million iPads that were sold the last quarter. That's not really competitive at all.
not really that wouldn't have worked if they didn't hack the email first
IOS Push Notifications: Security Implications, Abuse Scenarios, Countermeasures
I'm not really commenting on the price chosen, but the choice to charge for it. I've also created a jQuery plugin or two. I released it for free and now spend a reasonable amount of time answering questions about support, implementation, etc.

For some reason in my mind I had always assumed that open source type things have to be done for free: the building, the support, etc. Seeing someone doing something others helps put that in perspective.

Or, in short: I wish I was smarter about it and more business-savvy.
You kind of ignored my point about verifying the person's identity while you have them on the phone.

LAST EDIT: Fine. shibboleths, passwords, pins, safeword cards, emails, texts, callerid, voice, and face to face conversations are all great tools to use when trying to secure some asset. All I'm saying is Go out of band when you want to verify a person's identity. If you are emailing, call. If you are on the phone, and you don't trust them, call them back at their home. Or text them a code and ask them for the code. Or meet in a trusted place and take a DNA sample. Whatever is appropriate for the thing you are securing.

Sure, any of these methods can be compromised through social engineering, blackmail, theft, or violence. That's not the point.

If you care about a password, don't send it through the same channel that you use to verify the person that you are sending the password to. Shibboleths and ROT13ing won't solve the problem of knowing who you are talking to.
They are great knives. I still use the Super Shears and the knives from my starter set to this day, 13 years later. I was very young then, and didn't have a car, but I pulled in orders for 3 homemaker sets in one of my first weeks.

Cutco makes a good product. But there's no doubt their marketing strategy is a bit deceptive. Telling college students to go through their list of personal contacts and make appointments explaining that you just need to do a presentation for school credit, or that you just get paid to do presentations. I was meeting people who really didn't give a damn about having decent cutlery. I convinced a few that they should spring for the Cutco, and there's nothing wrong with that. I did actually believe the product was great, but if I was honest with myself, I had to admit that unless they really loved cooking, often their money probably better spent on other things.

Cutco was important early experience for me in sales, and I really can't knock the company, its product, or its sales reps. But I was glad to stop making appointments to sell knives.
Say you and I know this really cute girl. Let's call her Susie. I just won the lottery and I bought a new Mercedes (or whatever the devil it is these kids are driving nowadays...) that I want to give to Susie for Valentine's day.

But on Feb 13, I leave the keys in the ignition when the car's in my driveway and you take it and give it to Susie as a present from you to her. You get the love, I get screwed.

Is it really stolen if you just give the car to her and it just so happens to be the same car that I was going to give?
HP Beats Apple To Touchscreen Punch
Ask HN: Places to get data visualization feedback?
I'm wondering whether there exists any site/forum that allows people to submit their data visualizations and get feedback from others with expertise in the field.

If there aren't, I might try to create one myself. But I wouldn't want to try to reinvent the wheel, if the wheel is already rolling.
What your startup can learn from Disney
Maybe it's just the fact that I'm a hacker and a child of the digital age, but I'd take the ability to have a 1ghz computer in my pocket connected to the entire world for a couple of hundred bucks, against paying thousands of dollars for a machine that probably can't even do truetype rendering.
My solution? Make attendance voluntary by abolishing truancy laws. Disruptive students don't want to be there, and forcing them to go doesn't teach them anything.

Human beings can't be forced to think. This runs absolutely counter to all kinds of notions and traditions, but it's how nature is. Wishing, legislating and expecting that facts be otherwise won't work any better here than it would in the physical sciences (imagine how you might react to such a stance against thermodynamics or the inverse square law).

Edit: if you disagree, say why instead of just voting me down.
I don't see it that way at all. Disclaimer: I say this as someone from Australia who has only lived in NYC for a matter of months.

I see the fate of NYC--at least Manhattan--as being very much like that of Paris. Paris is now basically an enclave for the wealthy (in the 20 arrondisements). The people who keep the city that way live somewhere else. Singles come to the city and live in expensive cramped apartments for the Paris life.

You see the same thing happen increasingly in Manhattan.

Up until the 1960s there was (and still is) a view for NYC being for all the people, not just the rich. For this reason you have programs like rent control/stabilization so "key workers" (as they'd be called in London, which faces similar issues) can afford to live there. Up until the 1960s, NYC had a very socialist mentality. Education for NYC residents was free at NYU.

In the 1970s the golden goose that paid for all this died. Crime rose. The middle class moved to the suburbs. The tax base dropped and industry (NYC had a heavy port industry up to this point) went elsewhere, creating unemployment.

In the 70s, NYC almost went bankrupt until it was bailed out by union pension funds and ultimately the Federal government.

Starting in the late 70s with Koch and then with Guiliani the city, from my understanding, radically changed. This was due to a combination of economic change as well as a change in policing and other policies.

I think it would be fair to say that NYC--particularly Manhattan--is now largely gentrified. Where there were race riots in Alphabet City in the 80s and you'd only go to Avenue D at your own peril, now they have a Whole Foods.

Even in the 90s Times Square was the butt of many jokes from the likes of David Letterman and I can remember his standup bits often talking about the hookers in Times Square. It was up until the 80s and 90s a red light district. Now? It's basically Disneyified.

Some complain about this change, either saying the NYC has lost its grit and charm (probably true) and that NYC is no longer for all people (also possibly true), but NYC has an important constraint: the available land is limited. As the city grows, this will inevitably go up. Of course it can go down if the city is abandoned, much like parts of Baltimore have been and NYC was in the 70s and 80s.

So I see NYC as becoming America's Paris--possibly Monte Carlo. This shift if anything is hugely responsible for drops in crime. The sad fact is that crime doesn't travel far. Move the poor people elsewhere and the crime goes with them. It's why the Bronx, which has had much crime and poverty, can still have rich enclaves like Riverdale just a few miles from a ghetto.

There are huge advantages to urbanization. I don't see this trend diminishing. As people tend to move to cities, New York will grow. While it grows (or at least doesn't shrink), it will become increasingly gentrified.

This says nothing about the state of poverty in the US. You cannot take the state of NY as a barometer for that, good or bad.
Apparently, you can click that little icon in the chrome, and it reverts to a traditional blog layout. It's not the best, but at least you can read the site still.
It would be like going to Mexico and drinking the local water. You'd have no immunity to whatever bugs were commonly in food at that (pre-refrigeration) time.
GNOME+MonoHackfest2010
It was simply spoofed, from what I understand.
So here's the bottom line, guys. GoDaddy has some of the worst support in the business. [...]

So here's the bottom line, guy. You get what you pay for.
I'm seriously bummed about this.
I don't know about New York, but in DC gentrification is pushing many of the urban poor to the older suburbs like Prince George's County in Maryland.

As the process continues it might be that some of the first suburban areas built in the 50s and 60s become the new "inner cities." Transportation costs serve as a pressure to drive people back into re-developed spots in the city and next lowest cost of living are many of these first suburbs that haven't seen development and investment keep up with the times.
I agree, I think I read Lila first then went back to ZAMM and was not that impressed by it. I then went and read Lila another 3 three times.
no, the rich and poor are getting richer. it's just that the rich are getting rich faster.
The Wiki is a great place to start
Wow, thanks Moe! You're right, my typography could definitely be improved - I can't tell you enough how grateful I am for the mockup. I'll get playing with the CSS :)

By the way, I stole the colour palette from Adobe Kuler. For hackers that struggle with design, it's amazing (ColourLovers.com, too)
Why? I'd personally opt for middle class in 2011. No contest.
If I pay for it, it should at least function. If you can't keep it functional at a certain price point, don't offer that price point.
While hardly on-topic, I was surprised to find that, according to http://blog.jgc.org/2009/05/can-you-trust-37signals-with-you..., they really do store passwords in plain text.
Ask HN: How should I announce a new service with broad appeal?
Hello, all. I'm preparing to announce a web-based home safety service that I believe will have very broad general appeal (perhaps more-so among the more tech savvy folk, but we'll see), and I'm looking for advice on how best to approach the announcement, itself.

Edit: As mitali and nyellin pointed out, I was pretty vague about my audience and goals, so here's a bit more. The service is a simple app requiring (for most people) no additional equipment above a standard internet capable computer that supports Flash and should appeal to anyone from home owners to loft apartment dwellers. The price-point I'm looking at is up to $9.99 for 30 days of access to the service, so I don't believe it's going to exclude many people based on cost (this is not to say that people will find my service WORTH $9.99, but rather to point out that it's not an exorbitant price to pay). My goal for the announcement is fairly strictly aligned to gathering customers -- it's a bootstrapped product with manageable costs, so no need for investment at this time.

If I had to pick a specific community that I think this would appeal to, I'd say Lifehacker would be a good bet. Having said that....

Getting "TechCrunched" is certainly a desirable goal, but there's also a slimmer chance, I should think, that they'll see my submission among the hundreds they get. I wonder, then, if picking a smaller target that will then be observed by the bigger publications wouldn't be a better way to go. The disadvantage there, of course, is that the bigger pub loses the advantage of an exclusive release.

So what are your thoughts? Should I just "Show HN" and hope for the best (I plan to do so anyway), or should I submit to TC? Direct to Lifehacker? Blast 'em all?

I appreciate your feedback, folks!

- John

P.S. -- I realize this is unrelated, but I am looking for a few (10-20 at most) savvy folks to try my service out. If you're interested and wouldn't mind keeping quiet about it for a few days, shoot me an email at john -at- whiteraventechnology.com
Every time you host a website on GoDaddy or NetworkSolutions, God kills a kitten.
I expect that no matter what I'm doing in the OS, the clock, battery indicator, and my connection status ought to be visible.

I like the auto-hide nature of the status bar. It contributes to the clean look of the UI.
It's free, yep - I'm planning on open sourcing it once I've improved the code a bit, too.
Your second paragraph is true, but the first paragraph only applies to physical property and, trivially, to legally protected intellectual property. ("Trivially" because in the case of intellectual property, the only value is in the legal protection itself, whereas for physical property it's possible to illegally transfer stolen goods even though the new possessor will not have a legal claim to them.) However, private-eye type intelligence has no legal protection as property as far as I know. It is only "sold" in the sense that the person who has it reveals the info in exchange for compensation.
Its funny how that works. Since I would consider myself a pretty regular reader and haven't seen this yet.
Great - that's the type of "style" categories we're thinking of. Our goal is to try to minimize effort and our hunch is your suggestion is the right way to go.
You wouldn't download a car.
Code in Motion
Yes, that was an inartfully constructed sentence. No, consultancies are not like "rent-a-centers". The fallacy here is that the fundamental unit of commerce here is "talent/hour". Here's a sampling of all the things that have value in these transactions:

* An hour of talent

* A committed hour of talent a week from now

* A committed hour of talent a year from now

* Any number of commited hours of talent from the same person

* An hour of talent on 1 month's notice

* An hour of talent on 1 day's notice

* An hour of talent from a problem domain specialist

* An hour of talent from someone intimately familiar with your company's business processes

* Hours of talent rotated through a small group of people to keep them fresh, at less than 3x the cost of a single person

* Total scheduling flexibility over talent/hours

* A candidate for internal career development (management, architecture, etc)

* An A-player who poses no political threat to the company's org chart

Some of these are benefits of full-time employees and some of them are benefits of contractors. Some are benefits of staff-aug contracts and some are benefits of project-based consulting and some are benefits of transactional one-shot consulting/advisory gigs. It's naive to suggest that only a raw hour of exercised talent is worth money.
No, every week one of his algorithm descriptions gets to the front page, and now he's finished posting those and this is the summary. I don't see anything wrong with that; do you?
Ask HN: What's the most effective way you have found to get Facebook fans?
It depends on whether this is a time-travel question, or a 'when would you rather be born' question. You wouldn't miss things that you don't know exist.