skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. I paid $450 for an early bird badge. $100 flight each way from NYC with American/Continental. Couchsurfing for accommodation. Eating free food at parties.

It's not that expensive if you plan well.
Thanks for making that explicit. My point was that the context (story) she used makes it so we want to believe her. In the same way I could setup a context that makes you want to believe and ignore irregularities.

I would expect that the journalist as a filter makes this even more likely. The journalist would then ignore irregularities or dull them in the story presenting the most consistent pieces in the story, not the least.

I would say one advantage that I had, is I could test responses, over and over again. But that is always what allowed me to basically have a formula that would result in 95%+ conversion on the phishing attacks. The other 5% often times where do gooders trying to tell me not to be in chat rooms or to warn me about pedos.
All of my free beers where either Open Bar selection or Draft Shiner. I guess my experience falls outside of 'most'.
Underestimating Exponential Growth
Reminds me of my time at Imperial College London when I discovered that they had a FUSION REACTOR in the basement of the physics department- a Z-Pinch. I can't remember the details exactly but basically three gigantic lasers which zapped a tiny copper(?) target. Pulled like a gazillion watts, something like entire UK energy output for a fraction of a second. Resulting pressure would cause the copper target to fuse, creating a tiny, short-lived "sun" in the process. Very bright, very hot. Pretty damn cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-pinch
I think it was when I hit 500 I got the ability to down vote comments...
Another critical reverse-engineering case was Sega v. Accolade, 1992: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
IVC - Israeli High-Tech M&As and IPOs 2010
thanks for the tips! we are in the middle of updating our "getting started" flow which isn't as optimized as it should be.

this and a full featured native experience is coming in the next few weeks!
I don't have the logs, so it would be based more on memory than anything else. It'd be less than scientific, and I went into Yahoo Chat rooms 6 months ago to see if they had changed and it is much less fruitful now with the population being mostly made up of bots.
It's surprising that this event has been so badly misreported by the general media. I've read so much BS, e.g. "boric acid is a fire retardant", that I've been quite put off following the event in the press.

Wikipedia has been cited by New Scientist and some members on HN as one of the few factually correct resources on the unfolding story.

Here are some numbers with sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident#Radi...
To me those are features, not bugs.

For my bank that means waiting to get an email and I would classify that as a pain in the butt if I had to do it every time I checked my account.
Thanks for sharing! The apps look great and work like I would expect them to.

You've also reinforced the notion that "ideas are worthless, execution is everything". I have had a near mirror of your CashFlow screen on my home office whiteboard since November. I kept saying, "I'll work on that after this semester.." or "I'll focus on that after this major project wraps up at work.." now I find myself saying, "Guess I'll use CashFlow by chime!"
As the site grows, the Goal posts move. I think the current limit is about 500. I was at around 480 when it moved to 500 so I know it is at least that high, but I haven't lost the privilege since then so I don't know if it has moved.
I don't think prescient means what you think it means.

Still, it was a fun article.
The Need for Elegance in Product Design
Maybe plant operators and owners should be required to live within 30 km of plants with their families to promote more transparency and honesty...
I would start with Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1933820241?tag=bagcheckcom00-20), reason being that from an incremental perspective, a developer should be in control of how the user interacts with the application, not with the design elements (which most designers believe are the interaction). CRUD is the basis of the user experience, everything else is just fluff.
> Or you could configure a whitelist of sites that are allowed to keep your cookies for a longer time.

This, I do. All cookies are session cookies except for my bank, to save their "I use this computer a lot" cookie so I don't have to be challenged in addition to the anti-phishing and password stage. And, I trust my own website so that I can put 'newblog' into the awesomebar and start writing quickly.

The only problem I've had is determining which site cookies are important. The bank uses a 3rd-party provider for the Internet Banking Area, so their cookies have no relation to the bank name. Once Firefox has forced a cookie to session lifetime, it doesn't go back to being saved when you whitelist that specific cookie's domain, which was confusing when next I visited the bank and it had forgotten me. But after that visit, it was fine.
Four and Five Fingers Multitouch Enabling in iPad
Everything that's wrong with Arduino
Oh damn, I didn't even think of that, it's a short walk away. That would have been a good place! It's a live-house though so maybe not the best venue for a meet-up.
standard ticket price is close to $750 (early bird is like 6 months early, and like $450, then goes up monthly). interactive + film badges are over $1k. hotel lodging is expensive and hard to come by (compared to other cities)
The code of the rice paddies (elpais.com via Google translate)
I just got it at 500, but I have read that the limit changes. What I'm not sure is whether you can lose the privilege as a result of a limit increase.
Beautiful rainbow color background
It's among the easiest to remember, especially since they had a very popular Super Bowl ad. Pets.com was among the first to go in the bubble, and their very, very poor business plan clearly shows why.
I am very interested in finding out where things went wrong. Maybe it's the word "blame" that I have issues with. I see the word blame used like the ultimate goal of an investigation is to find a person to punish. It might be emotionally satisfying but I don't think it's useful.
Maybe I got lucky, but with my name on enough VIP lists I paid for maybe 3 drinks at SXSWi last year in total, and I was fairly plastered most evenings. I quickly found that 'limiting' myself to one drink per bar didn't help when bouncing between 12 bars a night. Ouch. I didn't touch alcohol for 45 days after SXSW.
I agree, but it's good to step back and think why that's true.

The real value in OO programming is being able to reduce complexity by reusing code in a new ways. Either by creating several instances of the same object that all manage a complex internal state, or by inheriting from another object and extending functionality. I need to add a window, I already have lot's of windows, but this one is different because X works in OO. I need to build my first window starting from scratch and suddenly OO does not give you any leverage.

Which is why OO seems pointless for most being programmers, they can't deal with sufficiently complex problems to gain anything from OO programming. However, you don't need to understand object's to use them. It takes a while to understand why you can keep adding <<'s after cout, but most beginners quickly prefer it over sprintf.
Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine
Discussed pretty heavily here, with a rebuttal to the top post from pg and Buchheit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1502765
Given how floating point works, I'm not sure that the floating point representation closest to 1 would ever round to 1 (which is neatly representable). That proof works because you're working with real numbers, which have no encoding restrictions.
Seems to crop up whenever process is substituted for accountability. I'm not sure more training is the answer so much as accountability.
3D in the Browser: It’s go time.
I don't think this case is getting enough attention outside of places like HN and Ars. The way this man's rights are being stripped bare is a very impressive display of fascism that needs to be seen in a public light.
Looks up for me now. I have it monitored by monit and didn't get any messages. Not sure why it wasn't working for you, but it is up as of now.
While the close of the story is the most fun - I find myself drawn to the beginning.

I haven't been to SXSW but have paid attention to the writings coming out of it over the last few years and increasingly the opinions are that "it's getting mainstream" or that "the new people are ruining it".

It reminds me of when I was in High School and everyone started listening to Nirvana. The "early adopters" were pissed when that happened...
I find it odd that Sony is allowed to infringe on the privacy rights of thousands of innocent people all to help them prove something that it is their duty to do in the first place. None of these individuals are even being notified that this is even happening, so even if they would spend the effort and money to fight it they have no chance to.

Frankly, this issue really shows how bizarre our adversarial system is. Sony must establish jurisdiction to the court, but they cannot. The court then orders unrelated service providers to disclose information about further unrelated persons to Sony. Sony then takes that information and uses it to try and prove what they are required to to the court (and also get the added value of learning the identities of a lot of consumers they presumably hate).

If Sony is allowed to make the court do its work for them, why do they even get to have the information disclosed to them? The court is the one that is going to decide on the evidence anyways, so why don't they (or a third-party appointed by the court) just look at it and decide?

I'm also reminded of cases where people have tried to request the source code of devices (voting machines and radar guns) to audit them. They could not even get it supplied to an independent third-party because of corporate privacy.
Shamrock and Four Leaf Clover - News Network Area
Ditch your smart phone, regain sanity
(I'm not a lawyer, but I'm married to one, and I like law more than she does.)

Under US law, if you want to sue someone, you must sue them in the state where they live. However, there are certain instances where the laws of another state might be more favorable to you. In order to sue in state other than the defendant's home state, you must prove that the matter you are suing about had relevance to that state. If Sony can prove that geohot's efforts were funded by someone in CA, they can sue him in CA.

I'm not sure WHY they want to sue him in CA, other than to make his life difficult. This sounds like a bit of a fishing expedition to me...
I agree with him on 3 of his 4 points. I want third-party cookies disabled by default, I want forms never to remember anything and I don't want passwords cached. But I DO want my history remembered. In fact I want every page I ever visit automatically indexed (somewhere) that I can easily search against when I'm trying to find some page I've previously visited. Of course, the ability to easily remove pages from history/index though is a must ;)
Tcl is a strangely beautiful language. For those who haven't tried it, it's a little bit like Lisp (minimal homoiconic syntax, code is data) but without closures. Which of course sounds awful until you realize you can implement lexical scoping with the [uplevel] command: https://gist.github.com/874370

It's also very easy to embed a Tcl interpreter into a C program, or into a Tcl interpreter itself via the [interp] command. And asynchronous I/O is baked into the standard library.

If you're interested, the Tclers Wiki (http://wiki.tcl.tk/) is a great place to learn more about the language.
Ok, can I gripe about the text that says this about Saturn: "Despite its size (9.4 Earths)..."? While the diameter is 9.4 times that of Earth, the size of Saturn is way larger than 9 individual Earths. Volume-wise you could fit 764 Earths inside Saturn, and that would be a more appropriate metric. The weird hexagon storm on Saturn alone is the size of 4 Earths.
This appeared on HN 250 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1502765

As pg and paul (Buchheit - Google employee #23) point out, the top answer is inaccurate and misleading about what factors were really important.

As paul said: Unfortunately it's written in an authoratative style, so people assume it's true and upvote, demonstrating one of the major flaws in vote based systems.
Understanding Comics By Scott McCloud.

It won't teach developers anything about Photoshop or CSS, but it's an incredible book in terms of Visual Iconography and its effects on readers/users.

His follow up 'Reinventing Comics' is also a must read.
To quote Will Wright (The Sims, Spore)

"Anyone involved in interactive entertainment (games, web, etc.) should read this book. Scott McCloud has once again transcended the world of comics and tapped into much deeper issues of creativity, entertainment and economics."
Oh good, here's "beer guy" talking about swill.
Oh great. Because we really need more (brown) people here (Britain).

...will be the reaction of the vast majority, however much richer it makes the country. The majority are worried about space, not race. The majority, luckily for big business, don't have a say. FPTP.

I say brown, because Europeans can already come. So I expect a lot of these startups will run by Indians.

Nativism is really growing. It's not just in Arizona. I personally don't care if Britain isn't majority white in 2100. But it does undermine support for a welfare state, as it becomes obvious to more and more white funders of it, that the recipients are brown and multi (differently, liberalism and rationalism hostile) -cultured.

Social democracy and harmony XOR diversity with increasing minarchism. Choose one.
I've had Firefox configured to behave like that for ages.

The problem is that in the meantime I have started to never close my browser (notebook always just goes goes to sleep, no restart). So those settings aren't as useful as they used to be anymore.
I feel like I would like the logo more without the gradients.
Maybe it'd still be seen as a dupe, but you could try http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html?dupe=1
Access or dexterity issues?
Carling?
Using the Aptitude Package Manager to Solve a Sudoku Puzzle
Well I guess you won't get spikes on any version of IE since that can't even display it.
Obligatory link to Stallman's "Why you should not use Tcl".

http://www.vanderburg.org/OldPages/Tcl/war/0000.html

This set off a war a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.

Edit: This has been downvoted twice now. Could be accident, but could be that people think I'm saying you shouldn't use Tcl. I've never used Tcl and hold no strong opinions about it. I'm simply linking to a piece of usenet history.
Seconded. My first (and only to date) serious encounter with Tcl was when writing some `expect' scripts. The language is flexible and powerful. It's quite easy to pick up the basics and become productive.

Tcl is pretty good with GUI -- for example, Git's gui (`gitk' and `git gui') are implemented in Tcl with Tk library. By default it looks very plain, but is of course skinnable.

NB., `expect' is a great way of automating CLI interaction with remote devices during development and testing. In a way `expect' reminds me of Awk -- `expect' is data driven as well, actions are attached to specificators of input conditions.
Felix Salmon: Are Internet startups disrupting the banking system?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1508131
Genevieve Thiers: "I was actually laughed out of the room by VCs"
TEPCO has a long history of cover-ups and falsifications, including the Fukushima plant (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321793 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316951 from 2002-2003).

What's disturbing is that these facts were known to both Japanese and American officials and yet they were completely outside the realm of public discourse [1]:

An unnamed official from the International Atomic Energy Agency is quoted in a 2008 cable from the American embassy in Tokyo as saying that a strong earthquake would pose a "serious problem" for Japan's nuclear power stations. The official added that the country's nuclear safety guidelines were dangerously out of date, as they had only been "revised three times in the last 35 years."

Another cable sent from Tokyo to Washington in October 2008 alleged that the government had hidden past nuclear accidents. In 2008, Taro Kono -- a senior member of Japan's lower house of parliament -- told U.S. diplomats that the ministry of economy, trade and industry was "covering up nuclear accidents, and obscuring the true costs and problems associated with the nuclear industry."

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2333580
your "first of all" case doesn't make an argument for
"please, please, please don't use the word 'bubble'. ever."

for your "second" case, you're saying resources can never be misallocated if they are allocated along college-admissions style meritocratic lines?
Android vs. iPhone - Android wins 52% faster website load time
One of the (I thought) most useless courses I took in B-School was called Organizational Design - it seemed mostly to be about whether to put functional hierarchy or geographical hierarchy at the top level of the company. At some point during my startup experience I realized that OD is actually important, but the key insight is that it isn't a static thing - a single chart that you make and that's it. Instead it's dynamic, changing as the company grows, and as the people within the company grow.

How you manage the hierarchy of a growing company is crucial to managing people. It's nice to think that at a startup everyone is egoless, and will do what needs to get done, but its not true in the long run. People have careers and goals, and they will need to see their contributions reflected by the company contributing back to their career and goals.
Save the Internet From Al Franken
It's official: Android's browser is way faster than the iPhone's.
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Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers
At least IE6 was good in its day. IE8 has always sucked so it's probably going to be as much of a burden even if the time that XP lingers on is less than the time that IE6 stagnated after they disbanded the development team.

It doesn't help that browser innovation elsewhere is accelerating. IE8 will still be around and competing with Firefox 10 and Chrome 27.
The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice

http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-...
Transferwise, the “Skype of currency exchange” targets US market
Groupon could IPO for as much as $25 Billion
D'oh, I didn't think of the utterly obvious fact that to interpret the sign language, you're of course looking at the translator, and thus not seeing the gestures as they're made by the artist. Thanks!
Ask HN: Whats your opinion about Ankit Fadia?
Ankit Fadia enjoys prodigy status in India and makes several tall claims. Given the controversies that surround him I wonder if he is genuine or fake.

Comments will be appreciated.

Here is his website: http://www.ankitfadia.in/
Also summary section now contains bogus items which are not mentioned in the answers at all. Way to go Quora.
Driver Writing With Python
Should I use MongoDB?
NASA satellite snaps rare cloud-free emerald Ireland
Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP)
You can't do that
RIM: turn off JavaScript on your BlackBerry
/sad - I submitted this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332488
That doesn't seem to be the case here; they're suing him in a federal district court in CA, and you can't sue people multiple times for the same thing in different federal district courts, since the federal court system is considered one unified system (just with administrative divisions). It's more with state law that you can try to pursue multiple suits in different states, since the state court systems are independent from each other. But most (all?) states don't have state-level law against circumvention; if the suit is relying on the DMCA, it has to be in federal court.
Here's a different perspective for you guys that is more or less in agreement with Chomsky's:

The universe does not recognize our artificial restrictions on information.

This is inherently why people generally think it's ok to violate the copyrights of others. Because we know, and the universe knows that nothing was taken away from them. The restrictions are entirely artifical and designed to do nothing except create an enormous inequality between the the "owner" of the information, and everyone else. That's the sole purpose. These Imaginary Stuff owners then use this disparity (a legal fiction entirely) to generate massive wealth based on entirely contrived circumstances.

Since the dawn of speech nothing like this has existed because it never made sense. Anything one person said could be repeated by anyone who could remembered it. So when did information suddenly become ownable? It's a nonsensical legal fiction of epic proportions.

I contend that if the information is publicly available, you no longer own it. This is how the universe operates. Fans of Imaginary Stuff rights will not be able to get their way for long. Or rather, they shouldn't be allowed to use the legal system to enforce their artificial disparity. If you want to own information, keep it a secret. Otherwise, it's everyone's.

Another way of looking at it is, if you want to get paid for good information/content/art production, you're going to have to do what every other human does, continue working even after producing great works. You should be valued for your talent, and ability to produce from it over and over - just like everyone else. A bricklayer doesn't lay one brick really well and then charge everyone to use it daily. The value should be placed on the ability, not the product, since there's no physical product at all really. The slight exception being physical works of art etc, but then they're not just information, so the rules I'm talking about do not entirely apply. Photographic reproductions are information, but an original work in physical form is still valuable for being the first and physical.

What do you other smart folks think about this? I know a lot of us work in information production in some form. I myself am a software engineer, so I'm not just trying to take from everyone else and pretend the rule doesn't apply to me because I'm not an information/content producer. I actually am. So this hits me hardest too.