skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen people using it here, when referencing a sibling post in a thread. I think some people have generalized it to mean "I'm talking about someone who I know will read this."
The "ethics" of "full disclosure" are a long-running subject, but many people agree that the technique is fine. Don't shoot the messenger.
I'd call myself a casual gamer, but I think this 'tablets killing consoles' stuff is limited mostly to casual and possibly portable games.

My nieces and nephews have Wii's. They play together on an immersive big screen. You aren't going to do that with a tablet. You aren't going to have kinect with a tablet.
Are serious gamers going to use WoW on a tablet? Will a tablet be able to provide the immersive experience that a big screen can??

Now, that doesn't mean that consoles aren't dying. There is more than one way to get a game on a big screen, but my gut instinct says that the death of the console won't be at the hand of the tablet.
More IE6 humor: the IE6 effect! http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/ie6/
You're doing the same thing. The only difference is that you are gambling with people who currently exist while I'm gambling with people who might exist in the future.
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
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Shamless rip of about.me, also.
SEO is killing the internet. Seriously, guys, even though you can fuck with search engines, you should not.

Google is shutting you guys down already, and will be doing more soon to eliminate this spam.
why use

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]

instead of

document.body

?

(it's a legit, not snarky, question )

EDIT: formating.
3 week startup raises $1 million
up-voted on your behalf!
If you want to work at Google then by all means learn Go. If you don't, then Go makes as much sense as opening yet another McDonalds clone.
Did robofaqs have the same vulnerability? If so, that's a way bigger story than this brouhaha.
Tell HN: SDHN mid-month (March 16th, 6PM  Lestat's)
The mid-month meetup is upon us! It's being hosted at Lestat's on Adams at 6PM - I will have a sheet of paper that says "Meetup group" on it. I'm working on making an actual board or sign for next time.

If you haven't already, please join the meetup.com group to RSVP!! It also keeps you apprised of the other SDHN meetups that we do (end of month and dev house): http://www.meetup.com/sandiegohn/

My name is Parnell, btw.
I was really hoping for full-text search support, but I understand the team is busy :/
A Close Look at Animation Master from Hash Inc.
"I can perform task like making your html pass validation tests, writing js widgets, adding ascii art to your nginx conf, writing specs for your code or hopefully implementing new features at your beloved startup."

I see what you did there. Testing to see if people are reading it all, are we? :D
What Tools Do Startups Use? List Yours, Find Others' on This Wiki
Or you could just not pay the bills.
> In software terms, this is like saying that all the hard work is done because someone banged out a prototype over the weekend. It's full of bugs and doesn't have the features people want yet.

That's the early Google, Facebook etc. for you. Of course most of such ventures fail, but sometimes they get it done and gain traction.

I guess his argument is based on the premise it takes organization on scale of a state (country) to be able to organize broad-sweeping long-term research in areas that don't look promising at first. Without the sight of immediately sellable product or service. Businesses seem to be more oriented towards research that improves incrementally something that's already somewhat known.

I was going to write Bell Labs were one of notable exceptions, but then I realized they got much state funding for research related to military.
Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?
They don't depend on the IP model; that's what matters
[video] Noam Chomsky on the World Trade Organization
Ignore anyone who says they don't need cash. It's nonsense. Just turn your TV on for two minutes. We should be opening our wallets as much for Japan right now as we've done for any country facing this sort of crisis in the past.
because its the distribution that is innovative, its nice being able to draw text and images and move them around and stuff but that doesnt quite fall under my definition of innovative, for html and flash

the features of html/css/javascript are not impressive, the fact that you can build increasingly complex application that will work on a common runtime installed on every pc and most people tablets and phones without (barely)any packaging or installation procedures is a modern day miracle
The text implementation is quite nice. I wish I had seen it before I did this, https://github.com/boyter/BATF

One issue I had with it though is I am unable to cut/copy paste multiple rows inside it using standard keyboard shortcuts, but other then that very impressed.

EDIT - For the cashflow, I dont suppose you can add the option to not use pie charts? I find them so deceptive when looking at figures.
If you read what I wrote, I made no criticism of him for doing his job. I said it would be a poorer world were the only people who could afford to write those with independent sources of income.

> artists earn money by performing

What you're saying, in economic terms, is that musicians have rivalrous, excludable goods they can produce: the concert experience.

That's not bad, although it would have the IMO negative effect of leaving the Brian Wilson (much more oriented towards studio work than touring) types between a rock and a hard place.

Authors don't really have that: they could sign books, but that would reduce their income drastically, as most copies would be freely had.

> Open source developers earn money by utilizing their knowledge and skill in paid-for projects.

As for the open source developers, but WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM in those paid-for projects? Scarcity is where it comes from, and often, they're getting paid to work on open source by someone who deals in the artificial scarcity of intellectual property.
In fairness just because something is SOLD on the web doesn't mean it is NOT in the public domain.
Experiences of losing weight
It doesn't just look like they don't use photoshop.

They "design in code".

http://www.quora.com/Joel-Lewenstein/Life-Without-Photoshop
Lot's of fun. I will try to be there.
Are there any positives for security questions?? Well, I suppose secret questions are good for preventing brute force account recovery. You can't expect to beat security questions in a timely way with an automated attack. You would usually have to rely on manual search or social engineering, as pointed out by the article. But the real question is, why even allow account recovery via a publicly accessible web form in the first place?

So, I definitely agree with the article, there has to be a change. You sure can beat security questions (at least in their current state), but it's probably much harder to get around something like email or SMS verification.

Chase.com and cardmemberservices.com are good examples of SMS/email account verification done right, which I've used with great success, but both of these sites already had my personal phone number, so SMS verification just makes sense for them.

I suppose SMS verification is probably the closest thing we've got to real user verification at the moment, am I silly to consider this the ideal venue for account recovery?

The big issue, then, is it's definitely harder to get a user's phone number than to get their mother's maiden name, but skipping all that extra input and having a simple account recovery email should do the trick, shouldn't it? Most of the times you're already collecting user emails.

Well, the biggest issue with email is that an email account can also be compromised. Perhaps getting big email companies like Gmail to remove security questions from their apps in lieu of SMS verification is the next step, while everyone else just relies on email-based account recovery (unless SMS is an option). If email security was more rock-solid, then email verification is all we need, right?
Function call overhead in Python & Ruby (or rather a lack of it)
For multiple rows, press Control+Shift+C, V, X. Since I allowed for autosizing textareas which can store multi-line data, I didn't want to override the normal Control+C/V. shortcuts.
Except that most peoples' passwords are incredibly easy to guess.
Each night she wipes every one of her web accounts and deletes every email in her inbox. She has no physical hard drive and boots her computer from a microSD card. “I could hide this card anywhere or chew into a million pieces in a few seconds,” she says by e-mail. She keeps her operating system on a USB stick and uses a virtual machine (VM) to carry out her online shenanigans.

And people call me paranoid. :)
Apparently both Earth and Mercury are the densest planets in the solar system...
Just spent a couple minutes in CashFlow and I'm looking forward using it more. I set up an account with Mint a while ago hoping I could do something similar but this is just so much better for what I wanted to do.
That and I feel like the actual QUALITY of the content is pretty low, a la Yahoo answers with (mostly) correct grammar. Some of the answers are "insightful", or maybe I'm not looking at the right topics, but for the most part, I don't see much value in it.
This seems to be old chats from Jack Dorsey, one of the guys who co-founded Twitter.
Isn't it Golang that becomes stable? Go is quite stable since, I don't know, over a hundred years... Here and there they tinker a little with the rules. Yes, sometimes they change the komi or find an awesome new joseki, but basically it's quite stable since a long time.
> (...) WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM in those paid-for projects? Scarcity is where it comes from (...)

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Google, IBM and the likes earn by selling services and goods rather than artificially limiting intellectual property.

((cue Android download link and AdWords control panel link))
I'm not sure whether to celebrate the fact wired finally has a woman on the cover who belongs there(no. Sarah Silverman didn't belong. She's a great comedian, but she has no place being on the cover of a tech magazine) or complain that it took this long for it to happen.
So natural gas is the safest?

It is same order of causalities as nuclear, albeit with dramatically less safety effort. One can only imagine how safe would it be if as much was spent for safety measures as with nuclear per TW.
Query Planner Enhancements in PostgreSQL 9.1
No dice, since I have Clip-X installed and bound to that shortcut. Glad to hear you have that functonality in there though. It would have been a dealbreaker for me otherwise.

I will have a go at using it as a replacement for my BATF for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for releasing this!
Do hackers meditate? And if they do, what it is having to do to the condition of "hacker"? Maybe ask "do taxi drivers, meditate?" or "do traffic police meditate?"
.. and my trotskyist would argue that the Soviets failed because they never achieved "true" communism. He's just as right as you.

Gotta go, but on that whole federal reserve thing, go take a look at the boom/bust cycle in the US prior to and after establishing the federal reserve.

Again, it's not about what you find ideologically satisfying, it's about what actually works in the real world.

EDIT: btw, the fed and fannie/freddy had almost zero to do with the housing crisis. The problem was the multiplied leverage much more than the housing debt itself, and fannie/freddy's rules about loans to minorities only affected a miniscule % of total defaults.
Temporary lapses in judgement are exactly what "fireable offenses" are designed to prevent. Bright lines for tolerable acts, especially in regards to outside resources, help everybody know how to stay on the good side of management.

By way of example, some years ago a story went around about HP support being prohibited from suggesting a user adjust their BIOS. This was back in the day when checking BIOS to see if hard drives, ports and RAM were being detected properly (say, Win98 era), but for HP it was a fireable offense. It may not have resulted in the death of any user's computer in any given instance, but the risk of problems was great enough that they couldn't allow support people to deviate from the troubleshooting matrix in this way.

In this case it seems more a problem of ethics than policy, and no doubt Quora is not very large of a company and does not yet have stringent policies like HP's, but to argue "no harm no foul" is to set a bad precedent at the peak of a slippery slope.
This pic of rms always makes me smile
Does not surprise me at all. I remember being in Japan in the service for only two weeks. Two things I remember:

1) I left a noodle restaurant and left a little too much for the bill. The owner ran me down on the street and handed me the change. She would not accept it as a tip even after I begged her to keep it for her honesty.

2) A policeman on foot simply has to waive an orange baton at you if you were speeding. Offenders just pulled over.

There is much to admire about Japanese culture. Really what it comes down to is, the USA is a ME-first culture. Japan is an US-first culture. I always say the way to get back at Japan and most of Asia is to westernize them.
13 API Design Principles
Thanks! I haven't used Scheme in a while because I got tired of focusing so much on something without a big community. I want to get back into it though, specifically with game development. Checkout http://jlongster.com/ over the next couple months and I'll start posting again.

Scheme is great but you should also involve yourself in a popular language with a big/fun community so you don't burn out. Seeing different perspectives is good anyway.

Looks like iScheme came out after they backed off of their only Objective-C/C rule. So it should be fine, simply because it doesn't download any scripts. I think that's the only restriction now.
Who are you arguing with? Ignore the haters and use whatever language you like and are most productive with.
> but we will hear about people sufferring from thyroid cancer 20 years after Chernobyl until the end of time.

You can afford to be snarky when you didn't see a 8-year old died of leukemia because of Chernobyl. I don't care if HN bans me or anything, but as someone how has known and befriended such a kid, I tell you this: fuck you. Children dying of leukemia because of radiation is worst than hell on earth (not that I'm a spiritual person anyway).

And just FYI, my brother lives close to a hydroelectric plant that were it to collapse then he would be dead in maximum 10-15 minutes (this is the plant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidraru_Dam). My father's uncle (after whom I'm named), who was a technician at that dam, actually died while working there (a control room got flooded before he could escape from it). But it doesn't matter, I would still choose hydro over nuclear, because it just feels right.
Ok. I know it's against the rules, but why is this getting voted down?

This comment comes from my experience (see above) rather than mere negative opinion.
I'm glad these guys didn't base their business idea on not primarily concentrating on customers who won't even have a chance to pay their loans from the beginning.

Here in Estonia, some entrepreneurs thought it was nice to mix up text-ing from cells and lending as far back as 2006 already (I think). Basically, you'll only need to provide your personal info with their site (name, Estonian version of SSN, bank account, telephone number), and then you'll be able to get a loan for as much as €1000 by just sending a sms. Most people lose their judgement after few shots of vodka, now imagine if you ran out of money after those two shots and the only thing needed to fix that was to send a SMS. Something that the provider won't be telling you, however, is that those loans come with high interests, sometimes as high as 1000% / year. As a result of that, quite a bunch of uneducated people have lost their homes due to this scheme that still is going on today in our unregulated economy. Seems as if they've now began tapping Swedish market, I wonder when is this going to happen in the U.S.

All in all, I was a text-book liberal before seeing some of the people dealing with results caused by this scheme, now I'm beginning to change my mind.

Also, there's a Wiki page about it: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
Since Linux distributions mainly distribute open source software, they can just unilaterally disable self-updating features in any applications that have them. But imagine the uproar if Microsoft or Apple tried to do that.
I sometimes enjoy a "big production movie", along the lines of Avatar (although I wasn't wild about that one), and think the world would be worse off without them.

Movies cost millions of dollars to produce. With no IP, we would be left with either movies produced by some rich patron or only by very low-budget amateurs, because otherwise, how do you recoup the money?

I am not sure why you are discussing wine; it is not a good analogy, as it is not an information good, and while you may feel that the "laws are all outdated", any reasoning about the purchase and distribution of wine is likely to not apply much to information goods.
Microsoft: IE9 Downloaded 27 Times Per Second
I think Secret Questions are even worse that described in the post. It creates a situation where one hacked web site can reveal critical personal information, such as mom's maiden name, that can be used across a range of sites and offline id theft vectors.

I also deeply resent random ecommerce sites asking for personal information like the name of my dog or high school. My answer is always a random variation of "none of your damn business." This has caused me some problems when I do need to reset my password, but contacting support resolves it.
Great write-up. Small edits:

So, the point is, sometimes it’s going to suck and sometimes it’s going to be awesome

edited: So, the point is, this second it’s going to suck and the next second it’s going to be awesome

They want to know who else is in and will often drag entrepreneurs along for weeks waiting to make a decision, simply because they are waiting for everybody else.

edited: They want to know who else is in and will often drag entrepreneurs along for months waiting to make a decision, simply because they are waiting for everybody else.
I am a heavy Mint user myself. I track my past expenses using their tools. I use CashFlow to predict my future balances. Just remember to manually update you current balances (bank, credit card) on CashFlow any time you want to do any form of analysis. It takes a minute or two for me to update my balances (login to Mint, refresh, copy-paste balances).
5% for a currency pair is huge, especially between currencies of two developed countries. daily moves are usually tiny.
I'd say that you should take your time with interop, and practice isolationism for as long as possible. I don't mind waiting for Go to evolve naturally.
Node.js on Windows
Again, it's not about what you find ideologically satisfying, it's about what actually works in the real world.

Actually, it's got to be both. Being smart is being able to correctly predict things, and that requires both theory and empirical observations. While everyone has some sort of philosophy, some philosophies are better in the real world than others.
Because maybe there's more than one body? :P

[Seriously though, I have no idea]
Good call. Let me confirm and update accordingly.
I'm not a big fan of pie-charts myself but I think I got just lazy and made those. I'll add an option for regular bar charts.
New Artwork: Pixelhead
I would love to know how you supported 2 kids on a YC budget? Thats the biggest reason I don't apply. I have one kid on the way and must without a doubt provide for that kid.
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The 5 core web apps we use to run WPMU DEV
UK gets startup visa - easier immigration for founders with small investments. 
The UK home office announced today that it will be much easier to immigrate to the UK as an entrepreneurs Early stage funding qualifies at a rate of 200K (as before), but funding from accelerators and 'reputable' investment funds lowers that amount to 50.000.<p>The biggest news is probably that "exceptional talent" can be sponsored to come before they received funding, and they can build their business for more than 3 years (with a possible 2 year extension) to qualify for settlement.
That is $3M for each $100M valuation. 100M was last year valuation.

See
http://www.quora.com/What-was-Pandoras-valuation-in-the-last...

There is also a rumor Google will buy it and here is the speculation Pandora may reach 500M value;

http://vator.tv/news/2010-07-07-why-pandora-may-end-up-acqui...

That $15M for the founder. Sure, very little I think Google (if they buy) will structure a special deal for the founder. Sequoia is known as ruthless for founders, and Google knows the original founders are important
> > Scarcity is where it comes from (...)

> Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

No. It always comes from scarcity of some kind.

In the case of consulting, the scarcity might be expertise in putting together some kind of enterprisey system, but there is always going to be scarcity, otherwise no money will be exchanged.

And you can rest assured that IBM has made plenty of money from IP itself over the years - they're no strangers to software or any other kind of patents, nor selling software like DB2. Also: do you think that IBM's services division would make as much money if they posted all their code to the internet? I bet many of their clients believe (right or wrong) that the custom solutions they're getting are a competitive advantage and do not want to freely share them with the competition who is not shelling out big bucks to IBM.

With regards to Google's IP, you can be very sure that they would invoke all kinds of IP laws were someone to walk out of their HQ and post important bits and pieces of their search engine tech to the internet. These days, they're in a pretty good position to survive in any case, but think about trying to start a company and have no way of doing anything if people walked out and posted your "crown jewels" to the internet.
This Is What A Seed Term Sheet Looks Like...On Wordle
Those of us who were around in the bad old days of midi files played from web pages might consider difficulty in playing sounds to be a Good Thing.
Gamefaqs has a self-describing name that pertains to their main business (Game. FAQs.) Qato doesn't have the same thing going for it.
DIY Business Cards
You're right, he was an exceptional individual.
I have a 'Secure Note' in my OS X Keychain which contains answers to every Secret Question. The answers are 12 digit random passwords (generated by Keychain) containing letters, numbers, and symbols.
Thanks.:-) Was in a rush before a meeting. Will update later.
>Each night she wipes every one of her web accounts and deletes every email in her inbox ...

If that is true, online account operators, email providers could link this type of behavior to one of their members quite quickly.
Just a quick note - these "assurances" that the Quora-like skin was just a prototype doesn't do anything to allay my suspicions that the xss vulnerability is probably a core issue with the "general purpose Q&A engine" underneath it. If you're relying on the "skin" to enforce xss security, you don't really understand the importance of the various bits of MVC.
Moving the left and right arrows with the cursor is a great idea, especially since they don't move until you get close. It might be nicer if they would animate to the position when you first move the cursor over, though. It's kind of jumpy as is.

That pattern just might catch on.