skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude: you died twice, were in a coma, learned to walk and code again-- you should be giving us advice.

I'm not the OP but my experience with trying to give advice after having spent a year at death's door and recovered has not been at all positive. I really wouldn't recommend the experience.
It's the niche.

Flavors.Me != Profile.io in the same way StackOverflow != Quora.
This is an interesting turning point for Twitter and for API's of free services in general. Building apps based on an ecosystem that you have no control over has always seemed like a substantial risk to me, and this assumption is starting to take shape. Twitter's recent move is an example of what happens when a company is ready to monetize their content and wants to cut out the "middle man" so to speak. It's pretty clear that they don't want third parties encroaching on their ad revenue, and while sad, it was inevitable.

I see this as a very disappointing move by Twitter for the fact that they are alienating the very developers that helped build their brand. This is a glaring warning sign for all applications that are based on an external platform. If nothing else, this should serve as a lesson to all developers that free API's should be utilized with discretion.
Usernames aren't sanitized yet. (As is visible with the '<asdf' in the 'foobar' link above.)

EG: http://profile.io/xss2
I appreciate Reg's insight on the appropriateness of his answer. I (usually) hate it when I ask a technical question and get 20 Questions from someone who would rather question my intents or knowledge than just answer the question.

But Reg makes clear why people might do this; most often they are probably trying to be helpful at a level above mere practicality. They care about the person asking the question, not just the question itself. They are involved because there's a community.

Healthy communities offer reciprocal benefits, which draws people in. If you remove that, what is left to motivate participation?

Some people get off on public displays of cleverness, but if people are given to feel they and their free contributions are simply fodder for someone else's business they are not likely to stick around.

Sites like Quora have to decide if losing the participation of someone of Reg's caliber is worth it to maintain some strict protocol.
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So the plan is:

1) Keep on using twitter as much as ever.

2) Shift the support burden from twitter to companies that twitter would prefer to see go out of business.

?
Rejection Therapy is a game that consists of cards. Each card has a suggestion on what you can do to get rejected by another person.

Like it says, the game is designed to help people get over the fear of rejection (and other irrational social anxieties). By playing a card, you get out of your comfort zone in a very concise, actionable way. It's also hella fun if you're playing with someone ;-)

It's based on a behavioral technique called "flooding": http://www.psychologistworld.com/behavior/flooding.php

EDIT: The cards are optional, and not required to play the game.
Great program! The least we can do!!!
Looks great, it also has an HN feel to it. I'm also in the process of building on a chat app as a fun project.
> ... seen studies about less sleep improving lifespan...

Sleeping less than your own individual sleep need probably does not improve life span. The participants in the studies you're referring to who slept vastly more than others were those with sleeping disorders, some with extremely bad sleep apnea. They felt the need to sleep more because the quality of their sleep was so poor. But of course, having a lot of poor-quality sleep is not equivalent to having fewer hours of good-quality sleep.

The contribution I would like to make to this discussion is that each person's sleep need is individual.
Thanks! I'll have to check it out.
HBGary planned to "blow the balls off Nmap"
Depends on the type of plant. Some use more exotic things like molten lead or sodium.
In that case, it might have been better to ask for advice without including the personal info you aren't really comfortable with. (I am pretty open about the crap I have been through. I'm not successful, financially/business-wise, so perhaps it is wiser to keep the two separate, I really don't know. I just think you have created an awkward situation for yourself that could make it difficult to keep the two things separate in the future.)

Said with the absolute best of intentions and in no way intended to be snarky. I realize "good intentions" are well known to pave the way to hell. I apologize in advance if that is the case here.
I [obviously] disagree.. while HTML DOM may be a mess, I think SVG + Javascript is a really nice way to do UI.

The pain is almost all in the area of browser compatibility.

I kind of agree with your point, in that I think there is a layer missing [ eg. to make resizable UI work well ]. But I think that layer is best implemented in Javascript upon SVG/DOM.

As a comparison : I've used XCode's Interface Builder, and then thrown it away and written iOS UI Layouts by hand, and apparently Im not alone in this. Then I compare that to how much less code I'd need to write in Javascript for the same UI. [ I have implemented HTML5+js UI for iPad that looks like native Cocoa]

Dont get me wrong, I think Cocoa is a good traditional API. But compared to SVG+js APIs such as Cocoa/QT/GTK feel incredibly verbose, slow to iterate and brittle, IMO.
Upvoted because that's a valid point, but I did consider it before just doing that.

I knew the developers of the site were looking here. I knew there was nothing critical running on this site. They were asking for feedback. Given that, it is much easier to demonstrate the places where it should be fixed than to give instructions on how to recreate each attack.
Dojo rolls like a boss (charting from datastore demo)
There is no way they both are and I believe sleep is needed. The problem with learning late at night is that it takes longer; you may be sacrificing any sort of social life getting the right amount of sleep and rigorously studying. I guess there is always that sacrifice.
Its a fun genre of app to build. What software are you using?
The assumption you seem to be making is that moderation is perfect i.e. that a single moderator marking an answer as unhelpful means that it reflects some absolute, unified judgement of Quora and all other moderators.

We all know that it's not how it works: there's a difference of opinions between moderators. Not all parents deny candy to their children and those that do have different quotas.

So extrapolating from a single data point, like you did, is not really valid.
Uh, what?

Zynga is making $50M per month: http://www.engagedigital.com/2010/05/14/zynga-revenue-estima... (they've raised $500M).

Foursquare is a bit farther from monetizing... Not sure if I'd bet on them but they would be nowhere without the FB/Twitter platforms under their feet. But they've raised ~$20M on a rumored $100M valuation.

That isn't debt. In both cases, the companies sold a small minority stake of ownership for a huge pile of cash into the company coffers.
> When companies started releasing awesome APIs for free, we kinda wondered "what's the catch?". Years later, we're finding out.

H.264, anyone?
+1. This post was much more valuable than the article.
It's hostile because it's purposefully ambiguous. They would catch a lot of bad PR for coming out and stating that they are terminating all unofficial Twitter clients, so they are trying to dance around the bush. There is now a lot of grey area with respect to what is kosher and what is not.
Very weird. Thank you for the info, we will look at this.

Do you potentially have a plugin that blocks tweets from being loaded?
Run for Democracy
is this for the the employee that make the referral?
That post is nearly a year old. I'd be curious to see if anything has changed.

Not debt, but it's still money owed.
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very useful service when it takes off. it's got a lot of potential in the event space where to this day signups are often tracked with pen and paper
There are proposals to increase immigration in Japan to offset the projected population decrease due to low birth rate. It's expected to drop by over 50 million people before stabilizing without increased immigration.
Democracy is inefficient.
I don't see the niche argument applying to a service that basically isn't a community; there is no in-service exchange between the users.

flavors.me has a better design and presumably offers more service hooks than profile.io.

Saying that profile.io is a niche product in the light of flavors.me just seems like PR-ish for "less appeal". :)
If it's vertical, it can't be the same as a service with a wide appeal.

From what profile.io looks like to me now, it's just flavors.me with poorer design and less traction. You can try to beat flavors.me in design (good luck with that), or you can try defining your own project and set it apart from the competition.

Information on profile.io is very scant, so I know very little about the project. I'm outlining a gap I'd like to see someone figure out and fill. I hope the project wasn't inspired by AOL's acquisition of about.me, because people in the Valley still can't wrap their brain about that. :)
Great to hear, thanks lhorie
China Wins WTO Case Against U.S.
Updated, but no new information - just a compliance statement.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031213-e....

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031212-e....

http://www.nsc.go.jp/NSCenglish/documents/laws/8.pdf
Yeah, this thread shows that even frameworks that have things called models, views, and controllers use them in different ways, so it's really not a big deal. It is, however, difficult to word things when explaining to a Django developer the differences between it and Rails.
I am deeply sceptical of any technology where the builders think up the name first and then try to find a reason it should be called that. It just seems too much like stuff I did when I was 12.
Click hijack
Is there a web app to edit CSS on any website, and share the result?
E.g. If I wanted to show someone an idea I had for tweaking the NYTimes.com layout, I would go to this web app, put in the the URL http://www.nytimes.com, have a textarea where I could override the CSS, and then send a preview link to someone that loads the NY Times home page with my CSS modifications?
Japan was a highly industrialized and highly educated country that happened to be down in the dumps 50 years ago due to WWII. For instance, the city I live in (Shizuoka) was pretty much obliterated by napalm. Then they rebuilt. China's not rebuilding anything---they're building up a modern economy pretty much for the first time.
Anybody else getting anything besides "Email is not valid or empty." when they put emails in? I tried a few test ones, and nothing's getting through.
Hey OP here,

Just wanted to point out that it was my original intention to express a more nuanced view regarding the role of math in computer science both in industry and academia but decide to save that for another day after I realized the professors' arguments were very interesting on their own and that they deserve to stand on their own.

Part of the reason I went through such great lengths to analyze the multitude of arguments from the entire thread was to point out that they were missing the bigger picture, which I'm hoping to discuss in a later post.

Also wanted to point out that top U.S. universities do not offer associate degrees in software engineering, in most cases it's a course or two lumped under cs; if you want to go in to software engineering you must go through the cs curriculum that is related/implied by my last point where the professors were concerned that just the image of computer science as a mathy subject scare students away from participating in the computing industry.
For which reactors? Are they still operational? Is your name available somewhere that we could verify?

You're asking us to accept your authoritative statements based on credentials, but you haven't really left open the option of verifying either with research.
Of course its older than he is. I was referring to his apparent affinity for inserting "dick" in front of everything.

Pedantically nitpick much? ;)
or people who register a domain name first

and then do nothing with it
Class action: Clearwire 'akin to a bandwidth Ponzi scheme'
Boiling water reactor safety systems
I wonder whether orange would perform better than red. Orange is a striking color, and doesn't have the same connotation of "stop".
Yeah, I'd agree. I've seen far more UI design crime done in the name of "doing it a new way for the sake of it" than is caused by being similar to other implementations.
> you seems to take a mental image created in your head by marketing for a contract fine print.

Representations given to a user ("marketing") can constitute an implied contract, or at least a cause of action if they aren't fulfilled. It'd be one thing if Google said up front that their service should be considered unreliable, and may be discontinued at any time, or user accounts even arbitrarily given to third parties. But if they claim otherwise up front, that can be at least somewhat legally binding. Not sure how a court case would turn out, but they aren't automatically in the clear.
Maybe it should be called the "hot coffee" edition.
How do you feel about GNU?
I was reading this and thinking 'I am pretty sure nmap already does this', and as the first reply confirms, it does:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q1/768

all these leaked emails just remind me why I left the netsec industry so long ago

Just reading this email and knowing these types of people I already know how this came about:

1. random surfing on the web and finds out about LFSR

2. thinks 'this would be awesome for a port scanner'

3. sends email with 'lets do something like nmap but better and faster using this thing i just read about on reddit'

4. 'i done my bit, GO TEAM!'

5. add 'software architect' to email signature
>60%??? I haven't worked on a site in a while that had more than 45% IE users... most of mine are now below 1/3.
> I would like to call it "B.E.S.T. Scanner" so people kind of get stuck calling it "the best scanner". We can figure out what BEST means later.

Epic.
Sorry I should clarify - I am not asking for submissions, I'm asking if such a site exists where buyers can state their budget and designers respond.
This highlights an interesting loophole in the libertarian "magic markets" theory: a truly free market includes the right to create closed, authoritarian ecosystems, such as the App Store, or the downloadable game markets on all three major consoles.

Sometimes the model turns out to be inefficient and unsustainable, and such companies are crushed by more open competitors, but not always.
Sorry. forgot 'not' when checking is_email_valid.

It is now fixed. Try again.
In addition to everything you said about the rise of mobile and casual gaming, there's also the rise of Mac OS based machines and also the increasing cost of developing high-end games.

IMO all of these factors points seem to point towards developers making choices in the future based less on high-end API features and more on cross-platform support...
Unanswered questions in my mind:

i) There does not appear to be any reason to believe that venting the steam would solve the cooling issues, and therefore avert damage to the reactor core. Can you more firmly link coolant solutions to a successful cooling of the reactor?

ii) Can you more firmly address your assertion that a meltdown requires uncontrolled fission? Doesn't a meltdown simply require enough heat to damage the core and/or fissile material? Meanwhile, the term itself is informal and has no set, specific consensus. Perhaps you can begin by defining what you, specifically, mean by "meltdown"?

Thank you.
More than that, it's an unknown/unproven $800 device and OS competing with a well-established, well-known $500 one.

"Hey, we know you've never heard of this product, but it's just like the iPad and costs a lot more!"
The downvotes are undoubtedly because there is far too much FUD around nuclear reactors, and detractors invariably point to Chernobyl and suggest that it's the inevitable consequence of using nuclear power. In fact, the nuclear reactors in use nowadays are very different from that one in ways that effectively prevent another disaster of that type.

Basically, it's a huge shame that such a useful technology is demonized due to the Soviets' shoddy workmanship, so supporters of nuclear power respond very harshly to things perceived as fearmogering.
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Yeah so these are ideas that date back to the '90s, so it is genuinely weird to see Hoglund talking about them in 2009. But for whatever it's worth: if ever a tool needed its balls blown off, it's nmap. I have nothing but respect for Fyodor, but that space badly needs real competition.

There is, for what it's worth, very little reason why the best scanner need be written in C. Scanners aren't even I/O bound in their most common use case; they're timer-bound.
"There's this thing called an LFSR; it's math-y, but very cool" in a 2009 message from someone pretty well plugged-in to the vulnerability research scene tells you a lot about where we stand with crypto vuln research.
Too bad only nerds will care and nerds will be online over the weekend.
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He was probably looking at a data structure white papers/research. LFSR is good to use as a primary key for DB's./Linked lists(sequential numbers, no so great) I was working on an API along while ago using C.

I think this could be a mission for Redis and Node!
Anyone want to hack together a little API/framework for LFSR Generation?
I can't imagine that Twitter's service adds enough value to any 3rd party developer that scraping would make any sense. I think Twitter's doing irreversible damage to their developer community.

Wether or not that backfires on them is yet to be seen.
You are comparing a 3-day version of Profile.io to a 2+ year-old site. We have plans that would differentiate ourselves from the other services out there but we can't build all of them in a matter of days.

It is not entirely inspired by About.me but we got some inspiration from it mainly with the design.

If you look at my previous HN submissions, Profile.io is a byproduct of my previous project - Launchset. It's just a much simpler version.

Seriously though, why the negativity? As somebody who loves to build apps, I never judge other people's app in its initial version. All ideas/apps evolve.
Wait, the Twitter engineering team should build something separate from Twitter? I don't understand.

On a similar note, though, I am surprised that this hasn't sparked more discussion about the distributed open source social networking movements. I know Dave Winer's been talking about quitting Twitter working on some sort of alternative. There seem to be some interesting answers to Facebook that could orthogonally solve similar problems to the ones Twitter does. Anyone know of any other interesting work along these lines?
Certainly blew my balls off.
Reeder has a fantastic UI that really allows you to speed through tons of articles, favorite articles, etc... it's a fantastic app on both iPad and iPhone and while I love Google Reader on my desktop, I much prefer Reeder on the iPhone.
With GTK+3 and GNOME3, there is a push towards a development model like you've described. GNOME Shell's UI is written in Javascript, the core is written in C. Themes are done in a CSS-alike language. DBUS (a cross-desktop standard that works in both KDE and GNOME) provides data messaging and your "UI & system events coming from a port." This allows daemons (your "server-like plugins") to communicate across programs, share data, UI elements, and whatever else you feel like communicating between processes.

One of the most important changes is the gobject-introspection work, which allows library authors to annotate their library's API in a way that allows bindings to be automatically created for any language. This is how GNOME Shell is able to use Javascript to call into GTK+3. Developers wanting to develop for GTK+ in their favorite language, be it Ruby, Python, Lisp, C#, D, or anything else, don't have to write bindings themselves or wait for someone else to write them.

Many new GNOME applications and libraries are being written in Vala, a language with an object model based on GObject but a syntax like C#. It offers a modern language with garbage collection, and everything compiles down to C in the end. The same compiler can also compile a language called Genie, which is designed to have a syntax similar to Python (although, in my opinion, it hasn't done a great job at that yet, and I've seen no use of the language in the wild). It also compiles down to C.

Tensions are high in the FOSS desktop world right now but that's nothing new. Flare ups like this come and go. Sometimes the problems are fixed and we find new ones to argue about a few years down the line. Sometimes the wounds fester, become gangrenous, and people leave for good.

Most of us just want to write code we can use and have fun writing.
Time's piece on corporations using Data Mining on their customers
I'll also add the IAEA alert:

http://www.iaea.org/press/?p=1133

Let's not get carried away here.

Edit: here's the current status of each reactor:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031207-e....
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031212-e....
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031213-e....
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031214-e....

I.e., all shut down. Need cooling, pressure being vented in the Daiichi reactor (hence 10km radius evac).
I'm not so sure they are not soliciting alternate UI:

"We need to ensure that tweets, and tweet actions, are rendered in a consistent way so that people have the same experience with tweets no matter where they are."

Then I read further down and they talk about different areas of the ecosystem. Inconsistent message. Do they want outside development or not? Are they intending to release a mandatory graphics toolkit?
Please, please, please STOP referring to networks as class a, b, c, etc. The 1980s called, they want their networking jargon back.
Are You Ready for the New Peer-to-Peer Economy?
My impression is that this part of the email sounds like some business/sales guy that has a great idea where the technical parts are 'easy' and can be 'implemented by monkeys.'

"I have a great idea, let's make a product that can make us a lot of money. We'll work out the details later, that's the easy part."
Crossing the chasm in the Mac App Store
Hacktivism: Startup Mentality for the Non-Profit Sector
> It should be FAST AS SHIT

Last I checked, fecal motility was pretty low. Maybe he should get that checked out...

[update]

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q1/771 :

> I've already had my brain cranking on what
> elite networking code I could now write in
> the kernel and I've always wanted to write
> a badass portscanner too.

And now he can program those both over wifi with his laptop while in his tree fort with the "no parents allowed" sign hung off the side. Afterwards he can rescue his girlfriend from ninjas with is excellent karate skills...

Both of those emails seriously boggle my mind...