skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm taking the wild guess that there are towers with DVD readers, sending the signal. The question of how these logistics all come together though is puzzling.
Translation: "I am a douchebag"

EDIT: CONFIRMED translation:

I was told you want to “clear the air” about what VeriFone’s actions last week.

No, I don’t think that’s the way I would put it.

I believe that’s a direct quote from your PR person.

Well, I can’t help what they say.
Hmpfh.
Are those technologies what is being lobbied for in today's governments?
Yes, but I'm an outlier: I'm a Linux desktop user.

(Moonlight has proven to be only moderately passable in my testing, and even then, only in those cases where DRM wasn't a requirement.)

But speaking more generally: when I'm at the keyboard of a more popular operating system, I have an aversion to websites that insist I install something to make use of them aside from the web browser I'm already using (and a very, very small selection of add-ons).

That's the bias you have to overcome to get my eyes on your web app. Whether those eyes are useful to you is your call. :)
All the things you mentioned are in the pipeline if there is enough interest in this app (and judging from this thread, it looks like there is). Feel free to keep using the app. In time, I will add these as paid features. I want the multiple what-if scenario feature myself.
Wow, that's a pretty presumptuous article. The OP somehow confuses "extroverted adventure seeker" with "awake". Maybe we're arguing semantics here, but in my experience these are some of the least awake people I know. In my conception, to be awake involves a lot of meditation, enough in fact that it affects your demeanor in ways that can make you come across as reserved, not really there, and even "asleep" to those with bubblier personalities.

Quite contrary to the OP, in my experience the true inner state of a person is one of the hardest things you can tease out, and it's very very easy to be mistaken. To claim that it's fairly easy to distinguished awakened people by way of some light questioning, well, that just seems to me rather hasty, if not even silly.
Congrats Immad and Jude! Very cool app
This is horrifying. I'd be curious to see historical data from other large earthquakes, i.e. is this typical for an earthquake of this magnitude (of which I realize are few) or is this a further geological anomaly?
Not so easy in the world of drugs or other manufactured goods. You can't torrent a factory, trained labourers, a distribution system, etc. And you can't torrent the finished product, either. If IP laws disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't be any closer to owning a Lambourghini.
"Are they going to have tons of people going around changing dvd machines[?]"

In the short term, maybe. In the longterm, this can be automated with robotics, and not even very difficult ones. Certainly feasible today, if not something a startup can quite just run out and buy.

And of course, if they buy a hundred DVDs, why not shortcut the entire process and send a "cached" stream? What's the difference between a "cached" DVD and a DVD?

This is one particular manifestation of something I've been saying for a decade now, which is that like it or not and regardless of the challenges sooner or later the law is going to have to give up the idea that the mechanical source of content has any meaning, because whatever rules you draw can be gamed. The only question you'll ultimately be able to ask is whether you have the rights to view a movie or not.

And let me just underline the one particular manifestation bit one more time. Once the kind of people who frequent this site start really thinking about how to game the system in this style you can generate a dozen ideas in an hour, each of which the law really has no current answer to. One immediately obvious example is that if this is legal for DVDs it obviously ought to be legal for CDs, right? Why not a library that takes video of a book two thousand miles away and physically turns pages? (It wouldn't take much post-processing of a video stream to make that feasible.) Why not add caching of the streams to any of those things? If caching in general is wrong, is it OK for me to go ahead and advance the book one page while letting the reader read the previous page, so they don't have to wait for the robot to turn the page laboriously? What if I mix in some P2P, can I stream my neighbor's copy of something? And so on and so on for dozens of questions resulting in hundreds of lawsuits and brutally conflicting and downright gibberish precedents for decades, until someone finally manages to sit down and really straighten this out somewhere around 2050.
Text request: Ability to cross items off, sometimes I want to mark things as done but not totally erase their history. This allows me to review my progress at the end of the week etc and its also fairly satisfying to see stuff that you've completed. Add this as an option if you're worried about feature bloat.

Email To Voice request: Support for UK phone numbers, happy to pay extra for this.
Totally. An unapologetic asshole.
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School
My co-founder and I came from Arizona State University (we also dropped out).

ASU is probably not even ranked in the top 40 for engineering or computer science however Y Combinator judged us correctly. (I hope!)

It's what you've accomplished and your personality that likely makes the difference. For example, you can come from MIT but if you're not committed to building a company and it shows in your attitude you will likely not be accepted.

I wouldn't be surprised if the statistics showed people are from more top-tier schools. People in Y Combinator are probably extremely competitive, intelligent, and/or ambitious people. Why wouldn't they strive to go to the best schools?
Bonjour is the only way (to my knowledge) to get Windows to resolve mDNS (AKA Zeroconf/Avahi) names and services. Without Bonjour, you have to implement your own device and service discovery protocol and application.
Wow, your reply is not one I was expecting. I am in fact quite introvert myself and I was certainly not implying that extroverted adventure seekers are what I call 'awake'. If anything, I'd say that introvert/extrovert has little to do with it. I've met some awake extroverts and some awake introverts, but not many. And when you travel you're bound to find (and speak to) more extrovert people than introvert people. I'm sorry I made you think of extroverts, because that's definitely not what I mean by being 'awake'.
Soviet surgeon removes his own appendix in Antarctica, 1961
Thanks. CoffeeScript looks interesting - quite Rubyish, although I'd be a bit worried that by going that route I'm going to end up having to learn both syntaxes (syntaxi ?-) to understand / debug the resulting JavaScript, or to make use of other JS code snippets.

Interesting blog article BTW, and part of the reason I picked JS to have a bash at.
The point is that it's not the thing that matters.

In the interview, if you hear that you didn't get in and the fact that you're single a founder is one of the reasons, then there is empirically another, additional reason because there are single founders in every batch.
It's CNN, it's for normal people.
How I made $3500 with the Paris Hilton Sex Tape - almost SFW
If they're going to stick strictly to playing a DVD disk in a machine as a legal end run I would imagine they would purchase large "tower" external drive cases holding 10 Bays or more and slave them to servers. Then they would write some custom software to handle managing the streams / playback, compression.

However, they may claim they are "backing up" or "caching" the drives by just mounting ISO images of them and doing the actual reading and serving of them from there relying on a 1:1 ISO to Disk ratio to hold the lawyers at bay.
Shouldn't the answers be hashed? It shouldn't be any worse than it would be for a password (i.e.: it shouldn't reveal it).
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To whoever downvoted this:

I think eyeforgotmyname was saying it was ironic considering Einstein worked in a patent office, not that he thought Einstein should have been able to patent it.

It was a joke. You were supposed to laugh.
The parent comment to yours is serious. CANDU reactors can run off fuel that is considered 'waste' from light water reactors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candu#Fuel_cycles
Thanks! Keep up the awesome work.
I wonder what kind of other shady tactics they are using, to me this seems like MySpace initiated spam. Completely unethical. Has anyone else encountered this?
San Francisco Pledges Support For Life-Saving 'Fire Department' Mobile App
Politics not welcome, caustic attitudes even less so.
I know that Google has gone after fraudulent ad scamsters before, wouldn't the Ad Networks in this case pursue action? What kind of penalties would there be for something like this?
You could of swam back to the US. LOL!!
Text: I've wanted to add check/cross off feature since I built Text. The previous incarnation of Text ( http://untodos.com ) had that as an important feature. The problem is how does one log nested completed tasks and show them to the user in a readable format. Say you have 3 nested task: Wedding > Arrange Flowers > Setup florist appointment and you check off the middle or the bottom one. What do I log/show you later when you want to review your checked lists? I thought about logging everything from a task up to the top most parent but that could get weird.

E2V: I just have to dig into Twilio API and then figure out the pricing plan. I've added this to my todo list. Thanks!
LMAO!!! Nice one @pdenya!
Don't worry, where you went to school doesn't matter at all. I asked pg the same question:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1995879

Turns out a significant majority of YC founders(80% or so) didn't go to top tier schools.
>Does the EU energy chief have some motive to exaggerate about this?

Or, rather, have the Japanese been seriously downplaying the current status???

As far as I can tell, no news is bad news with respect to situations like this -- we have not heard that they were able to rebuild the containment, lower the temp and reverse the effects of corrosive last-resort sea-water-based cooling of the (potentially) exposed fuel rods.

So, barring superman flying around Earth to make the reactor heal itself -- I am leaning toward the EU position slightly more than the move-along, nothing to see attitude.

What I DONT know and desperately wish to know is what, if any, all other nations are doing to help. Help in the lines of MATERIAL SUPPORT rather than "our thoughts are with the Japanese people in this time of great need" empty bullshit.

SO! WTF have we (the US) done so far to help? Are there many many teams of experts on the ground in Japan right now - but they dont want to tell us the level of effort deployed as it would reveal the severity of the problem, or more likely, the lack-of-expertise in such matter the world collectively shares??
Hiring someone for free is a two-way risk.
If you are working on some prototype, will you reveal the general core idea to him?
If you do, he might run away with it. If you don't, he will get bored and run away.
I'm not saying that he may be bad but just trying to highlight the two-way issue.
Still, it's not accurate ;-)

edit: I doubt it's possible to be - that would imply duplicating the bugs in IE6, something I doubt even Microsoft could pull off.
Can't imagine this is going to last.

CSS authorizes digital output of video content when one in a limited set of copy protection systems is in place on the digital output. IP streaming video is obviously a digital output and though Zediva may be using copy protection within Flash, I highly doubt that specific type of copy protection is authorized by the CSS license. Additionally, CSS may only authorize specific digital outputs, in which case IP streaming through Flash is unlikely to be one of them.

Therefore, Zediva is very likely circumventing CSS, which is a DMCA violation.
Three years to overnight success, Slam Bolt Scrappers.
Show HN: My little project, (us-only) Weather for Smartphones
Just completed all my brackets in record time. Awesome!
For what it's worth, there is a much simpler (and uglier) mobile layout at mobile.appdiem.com (or m.appdiem.com, as soon as DNS catches up) currently -- I just haven't yet implemented user-agent detection.

If I go left of the grid, I'll probably use a vertical indicator, instead of horizontal.
I picked $4999 first game, $4999 second game. As a searcher for all things paradoxical, I fail to understand, what is the paradox?
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It's my first mobile web project. I know a thousand weather apps already exist, but my girlfriend couldn't find one that showed moon phases too. So, instantwx.com was born for her and as an excuse to learn HTML5 geolocation. :)

It was created for Android. I haven't been able to test it for iPhone.

Oh, and it was made with Geolocation in mind, too. Need to figure out a better way to discover searched locations. It currently fails on "NYC". Needs to have "City, ST" in that format
Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the kids are cops.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1546789
Quite useful - "Down For Everyone or Just Me?"
cloud computing, renting servers/VM's. I'm going to be the Hertz of Servers! Or maybe the AirBnb of computing power!.
You know, I once had that rule for myself. And I would state it loudly.

My first consulting gig involved writing some moderately large royalty accounting programs in RPG-III for a System 34. One day, the engineer from the vendor stopped by and plopped cobol onto the system.

Suddenly, COBOL didn't seem all that bad, and i broke my rule.

Yes, there are some things worse than COBOL, and I hope you never have to deal with them.
DVD drives (IDE/SATA) are under $20 each retail. If they're not running things virtually using ISOs, it's cheap enough to buy a few thousand, hook them up to various systems, and keep the most popular ones in there, only having to swap out when a movie is requested that isn't already in a drive.
Yes, but do you trust them to do that?
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Ask HN: Insulated water?
Out of curiosity, are there any HNers that know much about Aerogel and the chemistry or physics of it to answer the following question:

Aeorgel is an amazing insulator from heat due to its incredible surface area of its glass-foam-like structure that it can withstand immense heat with very little mass.

If one could make little balls of hydrophobic aerogel - then mix those balls with water - could you get a greater cooling/insulative effect from the water -- for use in something like a reactor?

Obviously there are problems with this. 1) Aerogel is normally destroyed by water, 2) you may have to regularly replenish the aerogel balls in the water which, also, due to the deterioration of the aerogel balls in the water, itself, destroy the insulative effect/taint the water. 3) Aerogel may not react very well to being irradiated...

So, barring some technical details - is it conceivable that insulated water could be made?
Chrome

Has broad support and will play most stuff thrown at it. Also, no cross-platform differences.

Thank you Chrome.
How Many New Yorkers Can Fit on an Island?
This is like saying that people in New Orleans didn't need help after Katrina just because I lived nowhere near Louisiana. Don't take your frustration at 'the West' for thinking that people in Tokyo are as hard hit as the areas to the north out on others. Just because life goes on in Tokyo does not mean that there is no crisis to the north. Your entire post comes across to me as high arrogance.

If by Shinto-buddhism, you're referring to Shin Buddhism (aka Jōdo Shinshū), then yes. People go to Temple and celebrate different holidays than Christians, but to say "people here don't go to church" is quibbling over the terms "church" vs "temple," IMO. You probably see a different side in Tokyo, b/c as I understand it a lot of people move from the country to 'the city' and don't donate back to the temples that they originated from. In a lot of ways, they are probably like non-practicing Christians or Agnostics (i.e. not going to services regularly, but maybe going on holidays, or requesting last rites on their death bed). That comes across to me as less about the religion and more about urbanization.
Tracking Protection Lists: A privacy enhancing technology that complements DNT
It's just that it's not really relevant what you thought this page was
Aren't you allowed to circumvent for interoperability? If the "these are just really long video cables" argument would hold up on its own, and the CSS-circumvention issue were the only thing standing in the way, then it seems like they could argue that they were circumventing CSS for the purpose of interoperating with their fancy software video cable. And if that argument doesn't hold up, then their rental/streaming business is probably not legal anyway for licensing reasons, even without the circumventing-CSS issue.

Disclaimer: my knowledge of this area of law is somewhat spotty, so I could be wrong.
If anyone has any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them!

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Glad to hear that, thanks.
Why store them in a note, instead of as part of the form data for the page so that 1Password can handle filling them in for you?
looks pretty, but why not use ip geolocation by default, and use browser-based geolocation for a more specific answer (only if it doesn't come back as the same city name)? that way you can show something while the browser geolocation is taking place (it can take a few seconds on some browsers).
Insulation would make the fuel in a reactor hotter and, if we are referring to the design used in fukushima, could cause it to melt down. It would also fail to transfer heat efficiently through the exchanger, which makes it harder to generate electricity.
Perhaps you should use... fewer ellipses? There are several grammatical patterns females use more than males (and vice versa). I assume that's how the test works, anyway.
Yeah, I think I'm going to set that up in a bit. Thanks for the feedback.
I'm not particularly close to this issue, but the sexism I'm seeing here is pretty astounding. If this were a 16 year old guy, no one would bat an eyelid. Seriously.

Look at Mafiaboy back in 2000 -- he took down Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN. I'm not even sure that he was 16 yet (I don't have his age offhand).

Is this a crazy and possibly fake story? Of course. Does that mean that it can't be true? Not by a long shot.

I work in information security, and at 16 knew a hell of a lot about SQL injection, buffer overflows, cross site scripting and oodles of other vulnerability classes. This girl didn't work alone, but part of a hacker group -- to me, it seems totally feasible.

I'm not saying that we should take every word an anonymous "16 year old girl" says on the Internet as absolute fact, but discounting this attack because it seems like a girl couldn't pull it off seems sexist and wrong. Again, if this were some pimply-faced male high schooler, no one would bat an eye.
How Much Money Do You Really Need?
> VeriFone said the heart of the matter is that there’s no security built inside the dongle to verify that its connecting with the real Square application–and not some knock-off. - from http://emoney.allthingsd.com/20110309/square-says-verifones-... earlier

Such an effort would be doomed for the same reason that DRM schemes keep failing. Encryption really can't protect data which needs to be decrypted on hardware that's under the attacker's control. No matter what they do, somebody out there would definitely write an app which can fool Square's hardware on a jailbroken phone.
Dropbox is awesome, I use it, I love it.

I had the same thought as SwellJoe around early 2008: That's been done, it ain't gonna go anywhere big. Obviously failed prediction on my part.

So the question is, what made Dropbox successful? There are plenty of players in this area (some of them are older than dropbox): box.net, mozy.com, Windows Live mesh, backblaze.

Furthermore, techies can easily do backup to their own S3 account, but they love Dropbox.

What's the success factors? YC? Being MIT graduates? The clever "Tell your friends and get more space for free" email? The market is just HUGE?

I know that 1 of them is using Python. =)
I've had banks ask me some of these questions over the phone as a verification measure, so I end up assuming that the answers are available to phone reps in the system somewhere. Possibly not true everywhere, but at various banks I've been asked over the phone for: mother's maiden name, my city of birth, and at Citibank, something labeled an "account password" that I had previously chosen online, and didn't realize I would end up having to spell out orally over the phone to a rep! (Fortunately it's not the same as the citibank.com login password... it seems to be a password used only for this purpose of phone verification... but still, getting people in the habit of being willing to spell a password out over the phone to a rep isn't encouraging great habits.)
Although this is a kinda clever solution, part of the problem's premise is false.

Subtitles, directors commentary, alternate languages and the like aren't magical DVD only features. There's no technical reason that streaming solutions can't offer all these extra content streams except that they... don't. It's like arguing that, because you can ask HJ's to put extra onions on your burger and you can't at MickyD's, that MickyD's has flaws. They don't, they just don't offer that option YET.

I think their solution is clever, but it's a strawman problem.
Interesting example. Pete was actually my step-grandfather, and I visited Glynn quite often as a kid. One thing worth bearing in mind is that he was quite wealthy, having inherited a lot of money (from the wimpey family I believe). So while it is clearly true that some blue sky research can occur without government funding, his path may not be all that easily replicated by others
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I'm a big fan of TSF, especially after seeing the quality of TC's articles degrading in the past year or so. I'm sure it won't be long before Paul will meet his goal.
also consider making a 32x32 icon for it (the apple-touch-icon.png; android uses it too) so if users add it as a bookmark on their home screen, it shows up with something unique instead of a page overview (or the red bookmark icon on android).

also, you may want to make the <title> short so the default text for the icon is what you want.

just some tips from my experience running http://goingtorain.com/
Amazon Price Watcher android application
This is my first android application. It interfaces with the Amazon Advertising API to keep track of item prices. I originally had the idea because I thought it was a little ridiculous to pay 69.99 for a game when a few months later it would be 29.99 or less. Keeping track of prices manually was out of the question so I figured I'd use my phone to do it. Here's the link to the android market page: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.daveco.pricewatcher&feature=search_result. In the interest of full disclosure I do get points if you shop using the app and let me know if there are features you'd like to see added.
Generate watermarks for images with html5canvas and js
Ah, I forgot about the icon. Thanks a ton for the reminder. I need to get better about keeping a to-do list.
Clickable link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.daveco.pricewatche...
Missing from this interview is the only question that really matters at this point: why does Verifone think it's important to encrypt data that is emblazoned on the front of the card and then blindly trust the potential attacker to actually use that encryption?
there is also a third alternative, use less energy.