skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Specifically excluded by the directive are cookies that log what people have put in online shopping baskets."

I am speechless beyond words about this total lack of imagination. So the only ebusinesses endorsed by the government are shopping sites?

Thinking about it, this will probably just strenghten Facebook. Facebook will hide a "consent checkbox" somewhere in their intractable pricavy settings. Then all sites that use Facebook authentication are good to go.

I suppose Facebook might even be able to provide some sort of server side cookie service. Perhaps it could be a JavaScript from Facebook that reads the Facebook cookie from Facebook and sends a hash value to the server. The server can then ask Facebook for the identity. Or something like that.
I completely don't get it.
I watched the video. It's too long: I got the point quickly, I wanted to know how much it would cost after 25s, and had to wait until 1:09 to hear that. Then 1:40 to find out my minimum investment.

That info isn't "above the fold". Stuff like: "Start now with as little as $10!" "From only 75c per letter: save on postage, envelopes, stationary & time".

And I think even the most detached exec doesn't need to be told how a letter is sent. Sure they may not know what scale their post room is (franking machines/folding etc).

Basically: get to the bottom line first - hook me in, then explain it.
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I have more of an issue with the lack of control that I have between my friends, family, coworkers and their social networks.

I had a coworker arrested on some very serious and character destroying charges. It was hard enough to having to relay that privately to our executives. I couldn't imagine that spiraling out on my network and remaining there forever.

A former coworker now has a very interesting business, that isn't very PC. Should I screen her because of what that will look like to business and/or community contacts?

No, in both contexts I wish to shape how others reflect on my identity. I shouldn't be constrained to one very public identity.

And concerning Zuckerberg, how does a billionaire, twenty something have a clue about a normal user of his system? And besides does he really sounds like a press release to his friends in real life?
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Getting a visa is not a trivial matter

Remember Ireland is a member of the European Union, so any EU citizen can live & work in Ireland. If you parent or grandparent are Irish citizens/have an irish passport, then you can get Irish citizenship and live and work in Ireland forever.
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Any of the EU half a billion people can live and work in Ireland.
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And what would a gender-neutral 'peg person' look like?

Probably like pegman. For whatever reason we tend to see homo-sapien-like figures as male, unless they have some specific female markers (I believe).
Again, apologies for the long post folks.
Presumably by reassuring the customer, in bold font, on the confirmation page and in the email from him, both of which he controls, that they have only been charged once.
You have a far greater chance of obtaining a visa which lets you work and live in Ireland, than you do for the US.
Microsoft: "We are so very sorry for IE6"
Can unprivileged users install hardware drivers on Windows? Really? (Honest question; I'm not a Windows admin).

This exploit uses a kernel-level buffer overflow during the initial device handshake, completely circumventing user privileges.
Mom was into IBM mainframes. She never used vim.
I'm a CS student from Ireland, and although I would agree fully with the fact that we had an inept government, the number 1 priority for the new government is economic regrowth.

The company I work for, got a grant from Enterprise Ireland and I know they are desperate to get as many jobs as possible.
You're hearing about it in the perfect place.

EI always had had funding if you want to help create jobs, from their perspective. My downfall is that I would only want to create one job: mine.
Quick grep on linux-2.6.37.3:

strcpy -> 2864

strncpy -> 894
We configure our production servers and push new releases there with Puppet. I like Puppet: its fail-safe and reliable.

There is, however, one thing I don't fancy in it. Puppet does not support insecure client–master communication. Requiring SSL communication is OK, but one should be able to switch it off if it brings no value.

We are running our our servers on AWS, and we rely solely on AWS security groups to grant and deny accesses. Puppet's SSL traffic brings no additional security to us; it only complicates matters. For example: we would like to shut down the Puppet master EC2 instances when they are not needed. However, this is not possible, since after start-up the EC2 instances have new IPs, and this breaks the Puppet-signed SSL certificates.
FF4 isn't slated to support CSS animations AFAIK
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I'm experiencing this right now. My productivity at work is dropping to nothing. Looking at the code base is getting harder and harder. Unfortunately, I am under a mountain of debt and am responsible for 3 other humans, so trying something new is not an option. Note to young programmers: please manage your finances wisely and not fall victim to the "they have X, so why can't I" syndrome. There aren't too many fields where you can make the kind of money we do, so don't trap yourself financially--it closes too many doors.
HTML + CSS3 is Turing complete
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Jesus, deadline for applications is March 11th. Interesting though.
This seems like a weird requirement:

"The first tranche will be released when the company provides confirmation of an additional investment of €5,000 in the company"

So you have to get approval not only from them, but also some other funding organization (and one that invests such a small amount). I wonder if self-funding counts.
Very true--was thinking more for the US-based readers.
How to build an army of Brand Loyalists
I really thought that this would be a parody or joke about the ipad. I was sadly mistaken.
Might be of related interest: a recent podcast with David Smith of Enterprise Ireland. http://startupsuccesspodcast.com/2011/01/show-96-david-smith...
A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship -- The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford
i'm in dublin, but ironically I'm looking for a US visa. Swap passports anyone? <-- I'm JOKING!!!
> after startup the EC2 instances have new IPs

They have static ("Elastic") IP addresses:

http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1346?_encoding=UTF8&jiveR...

..don't these let you keep the same IP for your Puppet master instance?
Mini-ask HN: Why link to a techcruch article when you could just link to the startup's website? I'm not trying to be ornery, sincerely asking.

I'm not interested in reading a techcrunch article about a new startup. I'd rather go straight to the startup and look at it.
I have not read this article, but I would never use this.

I hate these converters that take one language and 'port' them to another one.

Especially any made by Adobe.
Is it just me, or is "CIS" and unusual geographic region?
The only thing more dangerous than strcpy is strlcpy or strncpy. I can't tell you how many times I've seen:

strncpy(dst, src, sizeof(src));

And the developer thinks that the code is safer because he's using the "safer" function.
I think Microsoft's advertising arm is there as well. They were looking for multilingual developers and offered to relocate even from Canada. I guess Ireland's corp taxes are a haven.
Guess I should have, like, just done a search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_Sta...
Study Shows Start-up Rate at 15-Year High
> Don't worry. In at most one month's time nobody will remember this and Facebook will be awesome again.

Facebook stopped being awesome a long time ago. I doubt it ever will be again. You're making it out to be a victim of some kind and it's not. If facebook didn't repeatedly abuse its users' trust and privacy, there'd be no backlash. There'd be no 'flaming' articles and no shitstorms.

> Until it's time again to fish for pageviews at which point another flaming article will be published somewhere and everyone will repost it in their own words in order to get pageviews.

Perhaps so, but the extension isn't a result of a flaming article. It has over 100,000 users and 4000+ weekly installs.
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Ok sorry, I changed €50k "bribe" to "deal".
I guess a lot of Europe's investors are sweating bricks just thinking of the length of time it will take for Ireland to pay back the money. 50k for equity now, in exchange for having up-to 10 additional tax payers is a good deal.
The same was often said of Apple during the mid-90s.

I'm not sure if this person meant it in the same way, though.
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Weird, it looks very much like a remake of Famfamfam's silk icon set.
Compare: http://fugue-icons-src.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/all-preview....
to: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/previews/index_abc.p...

There are a lot of differences but there are also a lot of similarities.
Does that 5 friends rule still stand up? If 5 friends are using a service people will be willing to try.... at least that was an adage of the past.
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ATM Biometrics - coming soon to a corner store near you.
Isn't this the same exploit (or very close to atleast) as was used to hack the PS3 initially? A buffer overrun during device initialization.
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Oh, If anyone wants to find out more about ireland or dublin... get in touch and i'll fill you in.

i can't believe i'm the first person to post this on HN. thought it might have been old news by now, but thought I'd do it anyway.
Looks like a rip-off of MobileNotifier, which incidentally is free and Open Source:
http://bit.ly/gIke2q
I'm in love with these icons... just simple and amazing. Will be using them in one of my projects.
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For 50k they take 10% equity, valuing your startup at a tiny 500k, plus you have to leave the country. You give up a lot.

Why not just pitch to Dave McClure's 500Startups? You can get started with $10k for 1% equity, valuing your startup at $1M. More funding is possible, plus space, mentors, ...

http://500startups.com/
I'm not pretending any inside knowledge but that looks like self-funding to me.

It's been fairly common for the loans and grants I've seen in the UK to require proof of a bit of self-provided capital before you can get the funds.
It's like teasing. To draw a ridiculous analogy, its like foreplay to sex. It makes it better.

Less ridiculous is this comparison. It's like that slight twitch you get watching the "starting in 3..2..1" dialog before a round of Starcraft or Halo or something... but even more frequent. Anticipation is everything. You get addicted as much to the anticipation, as the moment itself.
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Could take a look at TechHub and WhiteBearYard, I think they both do shared working space:

http://www.techhub.com/

http://whitebearyard.com/
In XP, all bets are off, as the vast majority of users run with local admin rights.

For Vista and 7, I believe that the much-hated-by-numpties User Account Control should prevent this from happening, as it opens a virtual screen or something to give access to the 'OK/Cancel' dialog.

From UAC on Wikipedia: 'User Account Control asks for credentials in a Secure Desktop mode, where the entire screen is temporarily dimmed, Windows Aero disabled, and only the authorization window at full brightness, to present only the elevation user interface (UI). This is to prevent spoofing of the UI or the mouse by the application requesting elevation.'
The best Web security against hackers and spammers: advanced math
Jython 2.5.2 released and benchmarking 20% faster
Care to share why you're looking for a US visa? Your comment would certainly add value to the conversation (ie Why do you think the US is better for entrepreneurs than Ireland?)
> No autoplay on the video with audio

We tried several approaches with video, and unfortunately no one ever clicked 'play'. Since the entire motivation for the service is given in that video we really wanted it to be seen. I was worried about getting your kind of feedback, so I guess we'll have to rethink this.

> I should understand exactly what the site does without having to watch the video

This feeds into what's discussed above.

Thanks!
What's a Post-PC device?
> That info isn't "above the fold". Stuff like: "Start now with as little as $10!" "From only 75c per letter...

Thanks, excellent point!
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Bet HN: Cloud9 will be acquired by Google this year
I propose these new "Bet HN" where the community can bet on future events.

Cloud9 is very aligned with Google intentions, can be a complement to App Engine development.
Not anyone from EU. Bulgaria and Romania are excluded:

On 17 December 2008, the Government announced its decision that, from 1 January 2009, it would continue to restrict access to the Irish labour market for nationals of Bulgaria and Romania. [1]

[1] http://www.deti.ie/labour/workpermits/whoneedsapermit.htm
Agreed.

I read that to mean "when you produce a bank statement with €5,000 in the account, we will pay you the first half".
I work for web dev agencies and it surprises me just how often they launch on a Friday afternoon despite how every single developer pleads with them that its an absolutely awful idea.

Golden rule, Never launch on a Friday.

Personally i've found it easy to persuade clients to do this once you say it'll cost an extra ten grand just for the privilege of a friday launch.
Just about anything by Gatto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto) is worth reading. I'd recommend starting with _A Different Kind of Teacher_ (http://www.amazon.com/Different-Kind-Teacher-American-School...) or _Dumbing Us Down_ (http://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Sch...)
Happy International Women's Day: FB COO on why there are too few women leaders 
TEDWomen talk from FB COO Sheryl Sandberg
Bad start-up idea: a website that lets people control multiple Facebook accounts as if they're one account with different "friend contexts". Or, something that makes lists on Facebook useful.
Ask HN: Which language should I use to build a Desktop app these days?
I've been toying with the idea of writing a desktop app for a web service I have created, but am not sure which language to go for.

Obviously I would want the app to run on Windows, Mac OS and Linux...

I am 'traditionally' a Java developer - and although Java would seem like the perfect language for a desktop app, nobody seems to use it for this, so really:

1. What do people use (and why)

2. Why dont people use Java for desktop apps?

(It seems to me that Java has failed in the exact the areas that is should have succeeded, and succeeded in areas that just doesn't make sense (ie the web).

Thanks HN!
I mentioned this above in relation to a different article about the same numbers, but that's not smartphone share, it's phone share. Since the phone market is mostly cheap, commodity items it shouldn't be a surprise that smartphone vendors have bigger profits than their phone share would indicate. Mostly people are impressed by it, because they think it's smartphone share. Perhaps they're mislead because some of Apple's competitors compete in both markets?
I hope you meant strlen in place of sizeof
Can I use scripting languages like Ruby or Python? Is this a good idea?
For Vista and 7, I believe that the much-hated-by-numpties User Account Control should prevent this from happening

I think the idea was that the USB device would include a keyboard and that this would press the keys required to confirm UAC.
This wouldn't work if the machine was locked, and if the user could see the screen then they'd at least notice it.
why not write a web app that works offline? it can be wrapped in air / xul whatever and packaged as a desktop application if needed.
Is that the obvious implication? I've seen pure css used in the context of no images, and I've seen it used in the context of no javascript. Both seem reasonable.
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Work has started on the next generation of Apache web server
TIL it is correct in American to use the verb "rent" for both parties.
I've never thought of it that - and I've done a lot of thinking about education. Thank you!

Perhaps another valuable question would be what trait of children allow their exploitation in times past? Naivety? Lack of physical power? Was our opposition to child labor the demanding physical requirements, or the sacrifice of schooling?
Yes, a lot of people love the rags to riches story and it makes for good entertainment value. But really the key is your mind and determination to succeed .. and perhaps a greater purpose other than yourself.
Why should you ever trust your hardware?
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Ask HN: could I sell a service based on Kinect?
Let's say I want to sell a service which would involve making a 3d model of a person using a Kinect, for example to offer them to try on different clothes.

Are there any licensing restriction I should take care of? am I allowed to use a Kinect for commercial purpose?

Also, could I integrate a Kinect as part of a more complex device? could I then lend this device?
That's correct. The problem is that the EC2 internal IPs change even though the instance would have an Elastic IP. EC2 instances use internal IPs when communicating with other EC2 instances (this is a feature of AWS DNS). As a consequence, Puppet clients cannot access the master by using the master's Elastic IP.
Related post from a few months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1810644
That sounds like a great idea - I use the desktop Yammer app, which is an AIR application, but it doesn't seem very stable or have a rich UI - would this approach have other limitations like being 'sandboxed' (not being able to read/write files etc)?
You get much better deals in other countries.

For instance, in Luxembourg, the state is going to double your investment (up to a million €) while not taking any parts in the company. But you must pass a comittee which decides on whether you get the funding or not. (http://www.eco.public.lu/salle_de_presse/com_presse_et_art_a...)

There is still much more: E.g. reimbursement of fair costs, 40% salary takeover by the state if you hire university graduates which haven't yet found a job, etc...
> Compilation isn't an ideal solution however as you end up with code that's not human readable or editable

Sounds pretty ideal for Adobe.
C# is available as a free download along with an express version of Visual Studio. This is admittedly only a small step away from Java but it would still extend your language skills and the .NET framework is great for building desktop apps - particularly ones that interact with Web Services - could have been made for the job - actually I think it was.

Of course if you are not thinking of Windows then C# again but this time with Mono.
Guess from the other replies I was wrong to over-generalise about Europe, but it certainly doesn't cost me to receive calls when abroad (I'm on Vodafone UK), and I know the same is true at least for O2 and Orange.
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I would suggest to read Microsoft Kinect agreement to determine in which way it can be used.Last year they were not happy about the open drivers, but since they will release the official SDK maybe next month, the terms will change
IOS 4.3 to be released at 10AM today?
I don't understand how this is a cognitive breakdown of Angry Birds. Trying to relate short-term memory to the success of the game really misses the point. There is so much more that went on the contribute to the success of the game. I guess the question I would want to have answered is how can I attribute qualities that make a game fun and playable to my own games. If there was a direct and single answer to this question I believe no game company would fear losing money on any of their triple A titles.
Yes

And why is it possible?

Because the whole thing regarding to the state, laws and your rights, etc. goes waay deeper that most people know.

That's why power can be abused.

Summarized:

Freedom - The NAME Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAeqwGPe-y0

More elaborate:

Choosing Freedom:

(intro)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9gRNPWf6s&playnext=1...

(actual)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szOXoSmq3ZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxq2WPMh3Q4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eSxizdBNG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QlixCmNrJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ4dDem5xTI

(England) Magistrate fails to prove Juristiction - Freeman Dismisses case.pt.1 & 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj7yaqBFCh0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkn6itUI4yA
Or, if your parents or grandparents are Irish diaspora, like mine, you can claim Irish citizenship fairly easily. They already consider you a citizen, technically, so there's no immigration proceedings; you just need to "register a foreign birth" and provide documentation.

Actually, if that's true of any EU country with similar rules you could claim citizenship in that country and be allowed to live and work in Ireland. We're talking about a lot of people here.

Of course, becoming a citizen of another country shouldn't be taken lightly, and it does take time.
Thank You, Google
However I laugh at point #2 -- it is simply inconceivable that Flash, with over a decade of a head start in heavy animation, actually does look better in many cases (which it does) -- it has to be FUD.

I don't think the FUD was that things will look better in the original Flash. That really only would make sense. The FUD was that "Oh, this thing that converted my Flash into HTML5 looked like crap afterward; therefore HTML5 must be crap", when it could really be an issue of the conversion process rather than HTML5 itself.
I came. I saw. I installed.
Another way to go could be to use other kind of depth-cameras: http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/06/20/low-cost-depth-camera-...
I actually believe that PCs are so == Computers for most of humanity that its perfectly fine to discuss post-PC devices

I personally think that a Post-PC device is simply a device that for some (and later many) people replaces a PC in their day-to-day computer-related tasks. So if whatever they used to do on a PC they now mostly do on say an iPad then an iPad would be a post-PC device.
Thanks! Yeah, Mono looks like a great solution - it's wining so far!
Must be a device that does not function without a daily sync with your pc...
or sizeof(dst), and not forgetting dst[sizeof(dst)-1]='\0';
In a past thread about hardware exploits, someone suggested simply having a device that poses as a keyboard and then types out the source of a rootkit and compiles it. Or even just type the binary straight onto the disk somehow.

That my friends, is genius. Credit goes to whoever suggested it originally.
Direct: http://fractal.io/