skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't argue that Android tablets will never overtake the iPad, but I disagree with the reasoning you cite in paragraph 1. I don't think the comparison with smartphones holds up because the tablet and smartphone markets are so different. A few big reasons:

-phones are a "necessary" device whereas a tablet is a luxury device

-consumers don't want another carrier contract so most tablets are sold without subsidies or contracts, whereas nearly all phones here are sold with subsidies and 2-year contracts.

-with phones, the carriers have influence/control over what devices are available to their customers. would Android be where it is today in the US if Verizon hadn't pushed it so hard before they got the iPhone? Carriers don't have nearly the same influence over tablets, and most people don't and won't buy tablets from their carriers anyway.

And I'm sure others can come up with many more. Again I'm not saying that Android tablets will never catch the iPad. I'm just saying that the smartphone market is sufficiently different from the tablet market that arguing for Android tablets vs iPad by citing Android phones vs iPhone isn't very convincing.
Yes. I started using the beta a few months ago, and steadily used Chrome less and less. Now, not at all.
Fundamentally it is a deeper problem. If you have to put your hand up in order to be allowed to go to the loo, you are not in an environment that respects human dignity.

If you have to ask permission in order to do the right thing then you are in an environment that is ethically deficient. Moreover, despite everybody claiming to value success, it is likely that your definition of success is significantly different from the PMs definition of success.

Their definition of success is likely to be something like "all activities marked as completed and on time", whereas your definition of success is likely to be something like "the bloody thing actually works properly".

This is why testers have such a sucky job, because they always come under pressure from the PMs to give the final sign off on something that they know isn't working properly or 'good enough'. Testers that do their job properly and stand up to the PMs are in danger of losing their jobs. This is why testers need an 'advocate' that has at least as much political clout as the PMs (if not more so - if the PM is putting pressure on the testers to sign off on a crappy product, it isn't the testers who should get sacked...)
If you'd have read the article to the end you would have seen that Firefox now isolates browser plugins so they don't take down the browser with them.
I find that I am able to code a more rapid speed, when under the influence, but if I go pass a certain point the quality of my code drop significantly.
The other point here is that the new code is new code.

The old code may have been old, but maybe it has been running for a long time without problems. Maybe some of the ugliness of the old code has to do with handling bugs and corner cases that the programmer has forgotten about.

The boss may not have to maintain the codebase and maintain the code, but he/she may have to take the heat for things when someone goes and breaks code that was ALREADY WORKING with their rewrite.

"Why did you let this idiot break our product?" will be the question that the boss will be asked, in this question, and when they say "Well, I didn't know that he was making changes for no reason" someone is on an express path to getting fired.
I agree with parfe's comment below.

They sound incredibly laxed on security and the "we were days away from fixing it" could be complete bull. To Lucas, it probably sounds better to say they were close to fixing it instead of admitting they were unaware of these exploits.

I find the disclosure in the blog post great, but the conditions they had leading up to the hack very disappointing.

If they were aware of the exploits, they should have taken quicker action. They'll probably be focusing on security big time now... they have no other choice.
I mentioned in the post that video by itself has value. A big part of my point is that it's borderline deceptive to refer to videos as "a course" when we know that "a course" is more than that (just as a live course is more than just listening to somebody lecture).
A total disconnect from reality. In reality a new reactor here in Europe costs about 5 billion Euros a piece.

Nobody is wanting to finance a nuclear reactor. They even don't need to be insured, since no insurance company would provide insurance for a nuclear reactor.

The nuclear reactors all need huge government subsidies or need to be fully financed by the government.

In the US almost nobody wants to finance a nuclear reactor, even though the government runs around with lots of money for those.

In France for example the nuclear industry is a fully government run system. Socialism at work.
I guess my point is, a post highlighting this relevance as your comment did makes it newsworthy, whereas "look some site is down" is mostly context-less for a lot of us.
The other companies were "off the record". This is journalist lingo for stuff you can't write about. It's an agreement between YC and the press in attendance that they won't write about companies that don't want to be 'outed' as being part of YC (or haven't announced their existence at all).

Sure, someone could go and write about those companies anyway, but they wouldn't be invited back.
Welcome to telecom Canada style. It sucks.
>If you’re running Chrome 11, you can try it out here. It works very well. You speak, and the browser is able to transcribe what you say. No Flash, no plug-in. Yep. Awesome.

Is this still making requests to Google's servers to do the transcription? Personally I think I'll take the resource-hungry plugin over a web API.

Well, on a computer. On a phone, cloud voice input is fantastic.
Nessus?
See also:

http://www.superwebdeveloper.com/2009/11/25/the-incredible-r...

If I recall from my Software Engineering courses this is based on research that IBM did, back when they still did research into this sort of thing.

There is nothing magical about the "web-based software realm" that separates it from other sorts of software and development and allows it to bypass the issues that cause the cost of fixing a bug to sky-rocket like this the later in the process you leave it.
You're right. Look for it to be changed in the next round of design revisions.
My first thought after seeing GiftRocket: could I give someone a gift certificate for some random place, like the top of a mountain, so they have to climb the mountain to redeem it?

Edit: Here's another one. My brother, who lives a couple hours away, rarely visits. Can I give him a gift certificate to my house?
Prescreened Offers of Credit and Insurance
NYT Paywall Breached With 4 Lines of Code
I once wrote Pacman in one go with few shots, but i myself don't understand the code well now, it still runs though.

Yes. Often, I start from scratch and not with existing code/project.
Simulating Network Labs using GNS3 and VMware on your PC: - GeexHQ
Can you elaborate on what was so incompetent on the part of humans? From my understanding, it seems like they got the crisis under control without any major radiation exposure, unlike some previous nuclear disasters, such as Chernobyl. This seems like a huge step forward and a vindication of nuclear power. If we can manage the risks (and this incident may prove that), nuclear power is our best hope to get off of fossil fuels and enter a world of zero carbon emissions. This sounds like a win to me, what am I missing?
1. We don't treat them like adult criminals (necessarily), but we certainly treat them like criminals. Here are some examples (some harsher than others):

Bank robber, 13, could get 21 years in US jail (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.cb17379375828ffc...)

Teen bank robber to be held for two years (http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2011/02/18/news/doc4d...)

Boy, 15, Charged in Armed Bank Robbery in Lancaster (http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/09/local/me-bankrob9)

2. Why do you think banks aren't considered victims in cases of robbery? Because they could have done more to prevent the robbery from happening?
I'm thinking about doing a MacRuby course this summer. That's at least in your direction.
Hi James,

Congratulations on the public launch
Clickable:

http://vocabgenii.com

Edit: Added:

Congratulations on the launch and all the best.

Perhaps, we could think about a strategic alliance:

http://www.RapiDefs.com
I still like Opera the most. Easily the most innovative browser and much more enjoyable to use.
Why do you think these kids would get 10-20 year sentences? Have you ever heard of a computer crime getting that high of a sentence? No one on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_convicted_computer_crim... has gotten more than 5 years, and they include people who have sold access to botnets of hundreds of thousands of machines. A quick Google search reveals someone sentenced to 20 years, but for stealing millions of credit and debit card numbers, which is actually a sizable crime with significant damage to many victims. http://www.scmagazineus.com/hacker-albert-gonzalez-receives-...
Yep. The HTML and jQuery courses are in post-production now and will be released soon. From there, we're shooting for at least one course per month.
(Still on my mind) The thing about playfully insulting people in advertising is that IMHO you really need to do it well and cleverly, preferably as a subtext. For the ultimate example, see Isaiah Mustafa on a horse.
Funny, I googled for it and only got hits for "Seche - The World's Finest Top Coat", "SECHE - Sioux Empire Christian Home Educators", translations of the French word sèche, seche.net blogfolio...only after googling "seche lakes" did I get any hits---two. The first of which used the spelling "seiche" 54 times and "seche" once. I do believe that qualifies as a typo.

Anyways, wikiing "seche" won't even get you a helpful pointer in the right direction. So for those, like me, who wanted to know what one of those things was, Wikipedia's got a good page on it under "seiche".
Sounds like you found a good filter there.

I object though, on general principles, about having to explain in detail to the client that you are going to do this.

If I did have to give an explanation, I would give a simpler analogy - I would say that it is like bringing a car to a mechanic and telling him to fix it. He opens the engine bay and sees that the engine is totally encrusted in mud. As part of his job, he will clean the mud off, otherwise he cannot see the engine properly, and that makes it impossible to see what is broken.
They seem like the one company that could go big out of all of them- there's a lot of money in that market, and YCombinator companies are in a good position to sell to it.
Sure, but considering this is the author of the article we're commenting on, I think an exception is reasonable here. I'm interested in which comments the author's aligned with. It's a discussion, after all.. one that this person started. I'm not saying vote up.. but we could lay off the down arrow.
Ask HN: Any open source project intended for learning a language 
Are there any open source project on github or anywhere that have project that are like for beginners to a language and are easy to understand(well commented) and some how educational?
Thanks nithyad!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/readability/
Amazon reinstates API access for Lendle
Leaving the doors to your house wide open does not grant every passerby the right to enter.

So, yeah, PHPFog screwed up and did that. Then these kids went in, threw paint on the walls, smashed some windows, etc.

PHPFog was stupid - they admitted that.

The kids were criminal.

The first is not illegal - the second is.
http://xkcd.com/792/
BTW, this video was motivated by the first and largest bitcoin bounty which were supported entirely by user donation, in the form of bitcoin. See the thread at: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=697.0

I am an escrow agent for this animation bounty that is currently worth 8472.05 BTC(from memory) and now that's worth like six thousand USD. Originally, it was worth around two thousand dollars.
The initial jQuery course is very introductory, but the plan is to continue ramping up that path in 2-3 further courses. I'd also like to do courses in JS techs like Backbone, Mustache, etc.

Each one of these courses takes man-months of labor input between design, prepping content, refining it, shooting video, editing, building the backend interpreter, writing exercises, and implementing the exercises.

Trust me -- I wish they could be knocked out in a few days!
Founder of GiftRocket here.

AmEx gift cards are basically cash. People know that when they buy them. They come with some pretty steep fees ($4 for a $25 card + $5-10 shipping if you buy online). They probably sell ~$10B a year. Maybe more. Just AmEx.

Remember, everything in the gift card market is more restrictive than cash. We're focused on user experience and building something fun, easy, and cool that "just works".
But is that really bad? If man can induce earthquakes, then it's possible that these man made earthquakes releases the tension building up to the big ones, saving both lives and money.
When I—a development manager who still works with the codebase—tell my guys that I don't want them working on that particular piece of code it's precisely because a) I know things about the overall design and project that they don't, and b) I know what needs to be done next.

Yes, I want my employees asking whether they should be spending the extra time to make something subjectively better. Once the code works, we need to weigh the time it will take to clean the code up vs the time to do the next task.

Code cleanup should NEVER be a sole task, and it should probably not be a solo task if it is (and if it is, it had better be one of your two or three best programmers in the company doing it). I have told folks not to make changes NOW, because we are revisiting the code in two sprints for the next major milestone. Meeting the current milestone is more important than aesthetics, and it isn't an ethical deficiency at all.

(Hopefully this is sensible; composed on the iPad right before bed.)
Still, does that really hold up?

Certainly should have to treat intrusions as inevitable in designing the system, but there still is responsibility on the part of the intruder.

I lock my door because I consider it inevitable that someone will eventually try and break in. However, if someone does break into and vandalize my apartment, I sure as hell would consider them responsible and not consider in an act of God.
Has anyone found a way to either A) Activate the mic control from javascript or B) Enable continuous recording once the user has initiated recording?

I understand the security implications of A. However, B would be an acceptable alternative since the user initiates it. I'm imaging a vocal interface that requires minimal user keyboard interaction.

I found an attribute called "continue", but it doesn't seem to do anything special when added to the input element.
Fair enough. I admit I hadn't noticed it was the original author making the comment.
You're conflating armed robbery, a violent crime, with hacking a web site? That's the end of this thread.
I'm sure this is going to ruffle feathers, but whatever.

The way you become a 'top tier hacker' is by exploiting and reversing in the community (black/grey hats). Much of this is done through working with people who you respect and may have more experience than you.

Through this comes a certain level of respect, to where going public with exploits and such is a hindrance to the community and only serves your selfish agenda for fame or whatever.

Your exploiting all the people you've worked with in the past, ripping their ideas, and handing them off to assholes who then try to teach classes on 'ethical hacking' or whatever.

So yes, I'm calling them sellouts.

*Edit - Another problem I have is that these people generally tend to misrepresent 'black hacks' as a whole and try to play themselves off as bigger than life personas.
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Part of me thinks that Amazon wouldn't have reinstated the access were it not for the massive press attention that Lendle got.
That's a cool idea. In the future we'll build the capability for bigger "projects" rather than individual exercises. Then we'd be able to solve problems like this the right way.
Ask HN: Can you edit a YC application after the deadline?
I'd like to make a significant edit to a field on my YC application (business model tweak after some user interviews this week), which I originally submitted on time. Possible, two days after the deadline?
No, they are mentioned because they are the criminals who intruded and vandalized the system! Without them, none of this would have happened. There's no shifting of responsibility, since the kids who vandalized their system are responsible for their vandalism.

I can't honestly imagine what kind of moral system you have in which you don't believe that criminals are responsible for their own actions. If someone breaks into your home, is it your locksmith's fault, or the police's fault, or your alarm company's fault? No, it's the fault of the person who broke into your home. Perhaps one of the other parties mentioned was negligent, or perhaps not negligent but they could improve their security practices (install stronger locks, upgrade your alarm system, do more patrols in your neighborhood), but it's still the fault of the person who broke in and vandalized your home.
I confess, using that truck on a new site has been on my to do list!
Look for live question-answering sessions to be added soon!
There is a story along these lines, it happened recently in New Zealand.

Some parents had an argument with their teenage son, and he went off in a huff taking the family car (technically without asking permission). His parents thought to themselves "I know, we'll teach him a lesson", so they reported the car stolen. They intended to later on drop the charges (which would have royally peeved the police, making a false charge is also a crime).

Anyway, the cops caught the kid, and because Grand Theft Auto (or whatever the NZ equivalent is) is rated as amongst the most serious crimes, he got sent off (before formal charges were laid) to a maximum security facility in the back of a paddy wagon.

He didn't even make it to the maximum security facility. One of the other prisoners being transported there in the same van killed him.
I'm still debating on whether to use Firefox 4. Both Safari and Chrome seem to exhibit "lock ups" while opening a few tabs or while loading content. Maybe others have experience the same thing?
That's not how the economics of nuclear power work. The vast majority of the cost of nuclear power is the up-front cost of building the plants; the operation and maintenance costs are remarkably low. The longer you keep them running, the more profitable they are. Once you get them built, you want to keep running them for a long time, because once you've paid off the cost of building it in the first place, it's one hell of a cash cow. We're not talking about "funds tied up in 80 year projects"; we're talking about several-year expensive projects to construct the plant, followed by 80 years of cheap power.

The closest thing to a problem here is that we may develop energy production methods so amazing that they're way cheaper to build and operate than keeping a nuclear plant running. I wish we had such a wonderful problem.
Maybe convore? I am not sure, they sure got a interesting community
It's pretty simple: both parties are to blame. PHP Fog did not do due diligence in securing their servers, and the attackers committed illegal and distasteful acts.

If I leave my front door unlocked and someone walks in, there are several possibilities. If they just look around and leave, or say lock the knob behind them and walk out, that is one thing. If they smash my furniture and knock over all my plants, that was their choice, right? That action is illegal and immoral regardless of the fact that it was my negligence which made it possible. We all know these dumb kids should have reported the vulnerability responsibly. That would have benefited everyone, especially themselves. They might have been getting job offers instead of bad reputations.
While we want this to be a huge success, we wouldn't stoop to astroturfing. A little extra traffic today isn't worth soiling the great reputations of the companies and people involved.

I agree that three stories on the front page seems unusual, but two have slid down now.
Sure, I understand that I guess. My question is whether the demands on the servers hosting the OP's book ever met the level where S3 was really necessary or not. It doesn't really sound like it did, judging from the numbers.
Great idea until your code clean up creates a bug that isn't in the original 'ugly' version and suddenly you've gone from not asking permission to begging forgiveness. Depending on what you're working on that might be too great a risk.
Did you have any recommendations (e.g. Cloudfront)?

My google-fu is pretty weak, it seems. I'm not able to find any examples of how apps built on Ruby on Rails and deployed with Heroku were ensured to be robust.
Let me be clear - I think that before programmers start throwing off their shackles and asserting their 'rights' they need to build up trust with the PMs.

I do this by consistently delivering high quality code on time and reporting back to them about progress. I assure them that I'm not going to drop them in the crapper by trying to conceal a problem until it is too late, I am very up front and honest about any problems and try to give them plenty of advance warning.

In return, I expect to build trust and the coinage of the realm is autonomy. They show me the plan, and I figure out the best way to get us across the line relatively unscathed.
Yes, do you use OS X? I haven't found the issue to be as pronounced in the Windows versions.
It's amazing how domain names are a form of real estate that most people don't value the same as physical real estate.
A note from a developer: http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2011-03-22-19-24_snappy.html
I've observed a major improvement along those lines as well. Sites like news.yahoo.com don't make the browser freak out anymore, hurrah!
Tumblr is quick to work with, except for their downtime sometimes.
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I've got a business idea. I'll make this thing, you'll pay heaps for it, then pay each month to have it. Then, whenever someone wants you to do something they can press a button and get you and get you to change your plans. I bet no one likes my idea though. Additionally, I'm damned if I know how I fell into the trap of cell phones. Sent from my iPhone.
You can just turn off suggestions in the preferences. I don't think you need to go to the about: settings.
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Mediacom is Hijacking HTTP Requests to Google and 404 Responses from Other Sites
hey i tried this out quickly. pretty good. two thoughts:

1) is it me, or does it take two clicks to go from the plugin icon to actually accepting voice input?

2) android's voice search has both visual and audible cues to indicate to the user that it's actually picking up your speech, finished, and is now thinking about it. that'd be excellent.
Interesting, but until some real use case or adoption, these Bitcoins sound like Internet stocks to me.

edit: I didn't really look into it, but I'm going to now.
So, wait. You can print your own money subject to a cap? ie. creating bitcoin only involves spending CPU cycles (or electricity)?