skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting snippet from the Python backend:

# We're not supposed to show downloads for these countries (607127#c10):
# Cuba, Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Myanmar, Sudan. Go figure.
REDACTED = ('CU', 'IR', 'SY', 'KP', 'MM', 'SD')

From https://github.com/jbalogh/glow/blob/master/glow.py
Spreadsheet file's open to anyone who gets access to your computer, including forgetting to lock it at lunchtime and while it's sitting at the PC repairshop after the fan's gone.

Also you can carry around an encrypted password manager file on a usb stick without having to really worry about losing the stick.
And I simply store the encrypted password database in my Dropbox, which automatically syncs it across all machines I'm using (including my Android phone).
I wish those 'coffee' shops that are doing their own original reporting and embedding journalists in war zones and covering the costs associated it with that the very best of luck in making money and staying in business as the print market shrinks.
I do something similar, but my "formula" also takes a few other inputs, like the security level of the website and the number of times I've had to change the password for regular password changes. The hope is that I have a hard-to-brute-force password, and if one password is revealed, it won't be a key for all my other accounts, but I only have one thing to remember for dozens of accounts.

I can't even tell you the number of times I've gone to a website, said to myself, "I know I have an account here...was it before or after I started using the password formula?" and applying the formula gets me into my account.
MobileMe, Geni
"Volume" is relative. I'm totally underwhelmed about the number of employers from my neck of the woods using SO Careers (Vancouver, Canada). It's not like there aren't a lot of high-tech companies and a solid IT scene located here. What's the deal?
Right. This is like someone parking an unlocked car with a blank title and a full tank of gas on your front lawn and leaving it there for a week.
I respectfully call this a ridiculous proposition. How is $10/mo expensive for this, or for anything in life?

It seems to me Flow pricing is learning a valuable lesson from MobileMe: if it's useful, people will pay.
It looks like he's got running product. That's something.
Came across this solution last week http://16s.us/sha1_pass/index.php. You come up with a sentence you can remember and you take the base64 version of the SHA1 hash of this sentence as your password.
Hey Thanks for checking it. It wasn't a playback issue, the site just wouldn't load at all at the time I tried.
Just in case I have checked whether this thread is in the first page of google search for "motherfucker" already. It's not.
Well, then you should really have said:

"No thank you. Please keep your calendar"

and I would wish you well on your way.
Memory access ordering - an introduction
A mod should probably add a (.pdf) after the thread title.

(It's a direct .pdf link.)
It does. It's also way more money. If you don't need the collaborative stuff, I don't see how it's worth it.
I am sure wast majority of the designers never heard neither Buxton nor those names I mentioned.
> Not that I would kill anybody

Made me think of this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865...
I actually think I could fill either the hacker or hustler role in most teams, but would prefer to work with one or more other people so I can focus on one or the other role.

"Sales engineers", consultants, and hackers who enjoy building/promoting their own products are probably all some combination of these roles.
Thanks for setting this up! I am looking to get into the education space and am trying to generate some ideas on how I can build a business around education that is sustainable. If any of you have ideas, I would be happy to hear it.
I prefer "a miracle happens"
World's 1st Twitter Art Editor
It's the motherfucking editor for #TwitterArt and #140art

Come and get it.

Works BEST w/ FF4 on Mac but will get along with FF3.6 on older Mac OS. It also works on Win on FF4. Linux requires fix to alpha channel mixing in browsers. The editor app will be ported to Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE9, when time allows.

Peace

@idibdiartists
But in this case, they are actively trying to "lock" their door. Speaking abstractly, this misalignment of interests has nothing to do with the mechanisms of action.

That's like saying the cops can use heat-sensors to look at houses, because thats just electromagnetic signal and you can render it however you want. No invasion of privacy there right?
True, but you're consenting to the terms of use of the provider in requesting that content. It's not just "text", it's content you've licensed from them for your use in keeping with a number of legal obligations (part of which, I'm guessing, is to not disable components intended to limit your consumption as a non-subscriber.) So it's not that clear cut.

Similarly, you could argue that when someone sends a movie to your home to watch over cable, you could do anything you want with a dvr recording of it. But we know that's not an argument that actually holds any water, legally or ethically.
If you can remember sentences and maybe a few numbers and characters added in that would work just as well for a password as the base64 version of an sha1 hash.

Example:

My c@ sleeps 7 hours every day!

(Sorry I can't think of anything smarter)
[Further Analysis] What's your favorite text editor/IDE?
Advice for wannabe startup employees
A switch to opt-in would make a huge difference in Google having access to works like yours. People who would be willing to have their work available may not care enough to go to the web site. Even worse, what about the authors who are not contactable for some reason. They cannot possibly opt-in.
That was a great day.
I pay $9 a month for DropBox. Alot of my friends spend $9 a month on Spotify.
Potty mouth!
This is a response to a bunch of the TL;DRs I've seen.

He doesn't resent the people he mentions in the article because they're happy or having fun. He points at specific behaviors and elements of the culture that he doesn't like and gives examples. The fact that so many have a knee-jerk reaction to this article, rather than a thoughtful one, serves his argument. At some points in the article he does come off petulant and young. He probably is young. But in other places he has good observations about some distasteful peculiarities of the culture. For example, he brings up the delusions-of-grandeur-like advertising for an event called, "SuperHappyDevHouse." The state of the culture is not a frivolous issue. A lot of smart people can be pushed away from CS if the culture isn't right.
I don't dispute that user experience is a factor, but I did not include it in the above based on the following reasoning; If Apple's UX was sufficient to keep an equivalent product running Android with equal or better technical performance off the market, then Android phones would not currently outnumber Apple phones.

Manufacturing a technically competitive tablet form factor device is not something that can be taken on by a small start up. Creating a better UX is well within the reach of a wide variety of shops from small to large.

The G1->N1->N2 evolution is a nice empirical example of the presence of competitive hardware allowing for a rapidly developed competitive UX.

Android based phones aren't playing 'catch up' any more, once we have a reasonable execution of Android in a tablet form factor I reason that they will catch and surpass iPad volume and sales. If a technically superior platform was released ahead of an iPad refresh then I reason that platform would take substantial share from current and future iPad sales.
I read 48 pages to conclude the judge would like Google to switch to opt-in for all works, rather than opt-out. This would probably need to be worded in such a way that just acknowledges authors could do such an opt-in if they chose, not putting together the final opt-in agreement in the settlement agreement.

I believe he would approve such an agreement after reading through his thoughts.

End story, Google probably will get to pay hundreds of millions to save the world's books from rotting; they probably won't get to own the digital advertising rights to all those books de-facto.
Are you a Flow or MobileMe customer? I'm genuinely curious and want to know why you'd pay for these.
Did Microsoft use the "Firefox' keyword on Twitter to promote IE9?
What framework/language was this coded in? Cappuccino?
Backbone.js TODO app with a C#/MONO Redis backend
You're correct; my Harvest use is only personal in the sense that I have a single-user account.

However, I do pay for Netflix ($9/month) and TurboTax ($75/year) for non-business use. I used to pay for .Mac, as well.
I wasn't really taking any derogatory connotation from either, but both terms still evoke a very [stoic] [serious] [chilling] reaction from me.

Note: [] cant quite figure out how to articulate the feeling I get looking at film of these men performing these duties and knowing that they fully are aware that they are doing this and it is going to kill them - but that it MUST be done.

That is just serious humanity there.
"Hi John"
For anyone upgrading firefox on ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
self-documenting code only says what it does but does not say anything about what it's supposed to do or explain why
He was definitely talking about other people at his job, or at least in his profession. He was explaining why he didn't leave the profession. I would quote the article but it's down.
The US embassy in Tokyo gives the advice to leave the area of 80km around Fukushima or at least stay indoors.

One has to understand that Chernobyl is different. Only one of four running reactors had problems: a core meltdown, an explosion and the burning graphite moderator.

Fukushima is different, but possibly worse: four running reactors are involved. Two non-running reactors have cooling problems, too. Full electricity blackout over several days for ALL reactors. Spent fuel stored in seven pools and one dry storage: 1760 tons of spent fuel. The pools without adequate cooling were running dry. The spent fuel is damaged. Smoke escaping. Buildings exploding. Cooling water just sprayed over the buildings... More than one partial meltdown highly likely. Much higher population density. MOX fuel with Plutonium involved.

The Ukraine was actually running some of the Chernobyl reactors years after the accident there. I won't expect that any of the Fukushima reactors will run again. Several of them will need some kind of primitive containment to prevent that radiation or radioactive material will escape. Working on that site will be very dangerous for several years... Chernobyl needed several hundred thousand 'liquidators' to work on the single damaged reactor and to clean the surrounding cities and streets. In the hot zone of Chernobyl the liquidators went in with a lead protection and got the radiation dose of a life in a few minutes. In the Fukushima plant there will be several areas with extremely high radiation. From the spent fuel pools to the reactor core areas.

This is one huge fucking catastrophe.
NY Times Asks Twitter to Shut Down Paywall Dodgers
This is the start-up field I currently have the biggest interest in. Right now, I am using Codelesson, and while the course I am taking has yet to start, it shows some interesting promise - the biggest of which is the names of the people teaching the courses and the badges awarded to your public profile for completing them.

The toughest nut to crack, to me, is convincing potential employers of the importance of the courses, and what they - and the gamification badges - tell about the user.

I am trying to think of ways to leverage services like these for (extra) resumé-building, at least for people with little hands-on experience in start-ups and companies. Just look at [Facebook's puzzles](https://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php).

It's difficult to gauge skill and qualification, which applies both to finding some metric for the usefulness of all these courses and to the people who complete them (and in the way they do it).
He sees it as "delusions of grandeur", while the rest of us see it for what it really is: comic hyperbole.
i dont see japan on this list http://www.palm.com/intl/

but then again i do see australia but i have never seen a modern palm device here.
Thanks, I didn't know about those. I do know some people who pay for family tree research software.

MobileMe is also a desktop app though.

Regargless, my point is that there are very few web apps that people pay for to use outside of work.
They tried pinging but there was no response.
The problem is that there no hustlers in Bay Area/Nor Cali. The culture's home is New York, and more along East Coast (Miami).

A lot of my friends (in Brooklyn, NY) are hustlers.

Nor Cali and New York basically two opposing cultures.

Hipsters will never be hustlers.

Make no mistake, hustlers may not know how to setup an EC2 instance but they know how to make bank.

(I'm using my definition of hustler, which is someone along the lines of "Naughty" per pg's essays, especially someone who operates in "grey" areas (not illegal).)
Querying IRS Migration Data on the Web
@shennyg, thanks for letting us know. We don't support accounts with two-factor authentication yet.
Knuth agrees:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Development
I only mentioned it because I thought you guys were using Zeus's Global Loadbalancers to distribute the load around the world. (Oh, and because I designed and built the original web-frontend for Zeus with little-lights-blinking-on-the-james-bond-baddy styled map).
I am a Flow user/lover. But if you are looking for a free alternative check out Wunderlist. No group features but similar. http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/
What is XP?
Great idea! I am starting up an education related non-profit and running a free online school for programmers (http://university.rubymendicant.com), and am definitely interested in reading posts about education in general, as well as forming a HN-like community around it.

Thanks for setting this up.
I've struggled with how to respond to your comment. You seem to be taking the view that any project that requires more than 5-10 great programmers is inherently flawed. I think this is false.

I've worked on very large software systems before, places that had around 1,000 developers spread throughout the organization. While there were a lot of mediocre, and truly some flat out bad developers, I guarantee you that 5-10, or 10-20 great programmers could have developed an equal system.

Throwing bodies at a deadline doesn't usually work. Throwing bodies at a problem can help, though.
By "in some sense", do you mean it can be parallelized to O(1) time as long as you don't have to actually build up the data structures that result from partitioning (e.g. arrays)? Then it's not clear to me why this assumption is applicable to quicksorting an array. Doesn't it call for some non-obvious representation of intermediate results?
Access to that particular bug ID is blocked:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607127
https://www.pwdhash.com/ allows me to use the same, simple password with a lot of websites, with no fear of it being compromised by poor website design.

Also, I keep my comprehensive list of passwords in a gpg-encrypted file. You need the file, my password, and the gpg key to decrypt it. When on a long trip, away from my computer, I printed out this password list after permuting the passwords in a memorable way (e.g. move the last character to the beginning, then tack on an extra character). The gpg-encrypted file lives in my Dropbox folder, so it's up-to-date across my machines.

For security questions, which are always B.S. anyway, I use the PC Tools Secure Password Generator to make a three or four character string, then add it to the aforementioned encrypted file.

http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
They are both a MindWallet competitors. They probably don't know it yet though.

http://www.mindwallet.com

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpAH7AGhIk
I'm guessing 161 uSv/h is a local maximum, and that over the course of the upcoming year, that number is expected to dramatically fall. I suggest multiplying 161 uSv/h by 24h to see the daily effect: 3.86 mSv/day. That's not too bad, as long as it starts dropping.
RTM doesn't offer any of the collaborative features that Flow does, nor do they have a native OS X app. I use RTM, but mostly as a simple TODO-list that is geo-enabled.
So let me get this right, it's basically twice as expensive as the entire Google Apps suite per seat?

Are they completely mad?
If you're okay with using Gecko instead of Webkit, the headless branch does compile into a standalone executable you can fork out to, it's what we do.

The issue with Gecko was less about rendering offscreen and more about rendering widgets (dropdowns, input boxes, etc.) which are normally handled by the windowing system.
Anyone else used Mahout? What are your experiences with it?
I think part of the reason the web beat native desktop apps was the notion of the app being "available everywhere". This certainly made web based mail clients the initial killer web apps.

Native mobile apps don't suffer from this as much given people carry the app with them wherever they go. As well as the prevalence of cloud based apps we're seeing native apps for each platform interconnecting.

Certainly the ROI for building a single web app rather than two or three mobiles apps is better, but I believe at the moment the UX is better for multiple native apps.
I'm not a Flow customer, but if it solves a problem for me I may signup (I gave up on Things, just started using Wunderlist, but delegating/collaborating are very useful features I've wished for...)

I pay for MobileMe b/c it gives me true over-the-air contact/calendar sync on my iPhone. If another solution came around, I might consider it, but could it be free? And if not free, less than $10/mo?

I also pay for Flickr for purely personal use, b/c I want to be able to share my photos and let my friends/family download full-res files.
That must be a Manhattan thing. Do people really do that? I thought it was a joke!

/Arizona
The fee also helps cover for the costs of food and the space. The fee was small considering the value I got from just the first week.
Motherfucker needs to publish a book on self promotion.
3. Use it over and over again until it enters muscle memory.

(Just in case, I also have a list of important passwords in a truecrypt folder.)
There are rights and then there are rights. It's pretty easy to see the characterization of "free speech" as rooted in reason / "natural law", or given by God. It's harder to see the "right" to drink alcohol on such universal bases.

Something like legal representation isn't so much deeply fundamental as it is a pragmatic and institutional response to the problem of checking arbitrary prosecution. We would drop it if we could find some better way of checking those prosecutors.
By setting some constraints on which scores were significant, it was possible to build the resulting similarity matrix in less than an hour on a 40-machine cluster

40 machines!?! Wow. We compute our recommendations at Grooveshark in a couple hours on a crappy 2-node Hadoop cluster. hah. We have about as many songs as they have venues, so I have no idea why they need so many nodes. Or maybe we're just extraordinarily harsh in our constraints. I loved this writeup though. Its great to see how other companies tackle these difficult problems.

We also have that problem of a "cold-start" and another one which we call the "coldplay" problem. For them it would be something like McDonalds I guess.
what's the accepted norm these days?
Printable Insects and the Rise of the Architectural Superprinter
Conservatives now have their own facts to accompany their opinions
Back in the everything2 days, this was a meme caled "Earn your Bullshit", which they then subsequently expunged from the record because once too many people "earned their bullshit" they realized the proliferation of bullshit was destroying the site.

The bottom line is that humour is easy to upvote, and in-jokes are easy to accumulate in any online community, and so we must be ever vigilant. There's nothing wrong with humour now and again, but it requires ongoing, active rejection, and yes, a bit of hypocrisy to avoid becoming Reddit, where every single story has a contentless pun-filled thread 20 levels deep with a reputation of 1000 at the top falling off logarithmically.
Ah, i meant that as a good-humored poke at Zed's "slightly" over-the-top site... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op40ndRaaOY#t=05m31s :)
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I have a pretty simple way to generate a unique password for each site I use. I start with a strong password:

aw3#rTT

That will not change from site to site.

Then I insert site specific data into that password. You can also append, prepend or insert. The point is to have a site-specific password that uses a formula that is hard to guess. There are a number of ways to do this. You could use the company name, login name, domain name, url of the login page or any other site specific rubrik.

Let's say my formula is to use the first and last character, the last character always being capitalized. Let's use the domain name:

gmail.com -> gL -> gaw3#rTTL

Or, you could take the first and last characters and insert them after a specific character in your password. Say, the pound symbol:

facebook.com -> fK -> gaw3#fKTTL

Or take last two characters of the domain (or last two, etc) and prepend them to the password:

twitter.com -> Er -> Eraw#rTT
Pen and notebook; Emacs; org-mode; Gmail; Git (and GitHub); Dropbox.
If people are complaining about #2, it doesn't make any sense to give credit to people who produce good work but don't manage to get their work widely read.
FF4 is really fast and responsive, as advertised! Awesome work guys!

Pardon me if this is a silly question, but I really love the tab UI feeling that I get in Chromium (the looks, the curves, etc.) Given that other projects like Kod.app already copy that feature, is it possible for Firefox to incorporate it as well?
You're confusing Typing, Motherfucker with Programming, Motherfucker! It's ok. My project managers have made the same mistake.
How specific of an area? Can you provide a use case for someone asking for feedback and another for the person providing it?
Next to Vim, I've never had any product, or startup, affect how I do real world work as much as dotcloud does. If you like EC2, pip, virtualenv, and don't like deployments, or system administration, or tuning memory settings, then dotcloud is the platform for you.

For as much as people love Heroku, DotCloud offers everything I liked about Heroku, and extends those conveniences to almost every platform I've ever worked with.

If I were in the venture capital business, I genuinely couldn't think of a better place to put 10 million.
A tech journalist wrote about it like this: "That’s what we want to do for others- we want to enable them to come together for a common purpose to help humanity. We see different parts of technology as different elements that come together to create a key that will unlock a door that will change the world."

The tech journalist was surely not writing a humor piece.
What Should You Test On Your Landing Pages For Maximum Conversions?
But where do you keep your truecrypt password :)
what kind of simulation are you talking about? CLV with marketing and retention rate assumptions? Harvard has a generator you can use
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/multimedia/flashtools/cltv/index.htm...
What is the latest trend in engineering? I have been reading a lot about Ruby Rails lately.
I'm happy to be corrected about what you intended us to understand by your comment.

(However, although you provided a different URL you did not point out that you thought the parent had linked to the wrong comparison.)