skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that the internet is a far bigger mind-suck than the TV. At any given moment there's probably nothing I want to watch on TV, but there's always something marginally interesting to do on the internet.

And besides, sitting in front of the TV at least feels like wasting time, and yet here I am on the internet while sitting at my work desk in front of my work computer looking like I'm working!
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Everyone loves the Apple UI, therefore everything the Apple UI does is an axiomatic truth of UI design.

Except... maybe not. The trash can icon on OS X is photo realistic. The HDD icon is photo realistic. Transmits icon is a pretty detailed truck from where I am sitting. I waaay prefer Chrome's shiny & detailed icon to the flat simpler one... et cetera, et cetera.

UI design articles have a tendency to be a little lazy on the science IMO, but I think that's a reflection on the fact that UI design sits between art and engineering and it's hard to be a master of both.
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It's not quite the same, but http://jsconsole.com/ is useful for providing a console for mobile devices.
I wonder if this is a sandboxing issue with NaCL, which is I noticed was added (default disabled) in Chrome 11.

Considering how non specific VUPEN are, I wouldn't be surprised if they're hiding this.
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Bitcoin just misses the point. The problem with e-cash viz. keeping it free of gov't interference isn't actually with the transmission from one party to another of the e-currency. I can open a server in Greenland that tracks currency transactions in Uruguay for dope, and vice-versa, in my own encrypted and secure currency. The problem is how does anyone change in my funny money for a currency that they can actually spend somewhere. And Bitcoin doesn't solve that problem; it just complicates it. Btc leaves it up to the coin holder to figure out how to actually extract value from the bits, and assumes a market will develop. But how will a market develop when the inputs and outputs are all regulated by the same gov'ts that BC wants to do an end-run around?
Gohmert must read XKCD
For reference: http://xkcd.com/651/
What specifically in the Android Market will overtake the iOS App Store?

- The fake-licensed 'Spiderman' and Wolverine clone games with the same graphics and massively slow Quake engine port? The fake Rolex watch widgets? The fake Citizen watch widgets? Various other 'same code, different graphics' spamware apps?

- John's maze test? Other games that lack actual scoring or gameplay, but are more tech demos?

- The great games that have ads plastered all over their Android versions, like Angry Birds, as the developers think users are cheap and don't bother providing a paid version.

Massive ghetto is massive. That's not an achievement.
Hmm, the book is incomplete (the chapter about texturing is empty as are all subsequent chapters). Is there a blog following the development of the book? A twitter account? Anything?
was that your actual password you had used or a random password they created and sent you?!
It sounds like TV functions a lot like radio for you.
I am still waiting for that obvious evidence. That includes more details and also tests on the latest dev version of Chrome (Chromium). I am not defending Google in any way, but some claim with no real evidence shouldn't convince anybody.
The trick to get there is to capture new users without previous computing experience. My wife's sister got her first laptop with Ubuntu installed and after 3 years she can't stand windows/osx and I can't blame her: Gnome 2.3 is years ahead of both of them but it's only apparent to someone who's familiar with it. If you listen to hear arguments, you'll be amazed of how much of your perception of "good UX" is just a series of habits.

The roadblock to user adoption isn't the quality of software/ux, it's making people to make an effort and learn something new. Another issue is hardware quality. Trying out Linux on cheap and flimsy netbooks isn't the best way to experience new software.

In other words there nothing to be done with Ubuntu itself to reach his goals. The technology is fine.
What percentage of people are alive today?
I don't really have a problem being downvoted, and I've certainly seen what you describe happen many times in the past. I was asking not so much to prevent downvoting, but because I couldn't see what I'd said that could lead people to want to downvote, and hoped to have a chance either to win them over or have them win me over.
You do, as whoever put it there clearly intentionally abandoned possession of it.
"Why not? This is highly specialized research that not even well-paid Google employees were able to do."

Correction: not even well-paid Google employees did. They may yet be able, and an existence proof may be all the help they need to find and fix it. Don't give up hope yet.
Out of speculation, would this tie in at all to an article I saw on HN a while back about the Government hiring 3rd parties to hack Google for some reason?
Apple's toggle button can be pretty confusing, even with the "on" and "off" labels. Are you suppose to turn it on, or is it already on? This is one instance where I think they should have stayed with the checkbox.
The dumb pipe argument has been around for a couple years now. These companies (cable, satellite, telecom) absolutely do not want to become utilities. It limits their control over their product, and cuts off several high-yield revenue streams.

If they were regulated like a utility (water or electricity, for instance), you would see any and all arbitrary surcharges disappear, and these happen to be the biggest cash cows for these companies.
Why is poking holes automatically negative?
Ubuntu Aims for 200 Million Users by 2015
As the investment levels required to keep up with fab technology get higher and higher, the more it starts looking like a natural monopoly. I suspect we'll be relying on better programming techniques for increasingly parallel machines to save us from the fate of excessive dependence on Intel.
I doubt Google will hire them. They seem to be a very unprofessional company, even with their skilled people.
They may pay to know about this security breach, though.
Maybe subconsciously it's more stressful for me to have a shower, but I have far more showers than baths, and certainly I don't need to really think about any aspects of it, consciously.

It's just that in a shower I never decide to relax and enjoy it, it's always a method of cleaning, or of waking up, or of heating up, not an activity for the sake of enjoyment.
OTOH, if they weren't paid then maybe the bugs would never be found and people wouldn't get owned.
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Features LISP, John McCarthy and expert systems.
Hacker News is the place people go to find out what has been created by those who don't waste their time reading HN.
What subjects/context? University-type courses (MIT's opencourseware)? Or high-school and beyond (Khan academy)? Or software/programming (Lynda for design, some programming; good luck otherwise).
I'd personally be interested in video-based programming tuts that go beyond "well, here's the install and the equivalent of the first 3 chapters of any book on the topic."
There is a mysql storage engine that works as a persistent high throughput message queue. http://q4m.github.com/. It can deliver to 15k items/sec on a 4GB RAM, Intel X3220 @ 2.40GHz, with 7200 rpm disk. The performance of the queue is proportional to the disk, cpu and ram just as mysql.
Most of these things (if not all) can be done in Firefox. I'd assume the point of this is to show off the cool things you can do with "HTML5"-- and making it work in just one browser seems to go against the goal.
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I don't think that binge-watching is a good way to use TV.

TV is a fine way to soak up a leisure hour when you don't particularly feel like doing anything else. If you're alert, do something creative. If you're energetic, go do some exercise. But if you're dog tired for two hours before bedtime, then by all means go watch some damn TV.
The shower is utterly routine for me, but I also never get ideas there. It's sad - I feel like I'm missing out on something.

My best idea generator is the walk away from my desk & to my car at the end of the day. I have solved so many bugs immediately after exiting the office building...
Oh my lonely Linux desktop, no 0-day for you as usual :P
He specifically condones the use of photorealism in app icons.
So your theory is that they, unlike organized criminals with 6-7 figure budgets, are atomic supermen?
Super fascinating. Definitely would never have guessed it was anywhere even close to 12%. Wow.
I'm confused. Why would the government want to break Chrome? Also, if they are not going to release the exploit soon (especially to Google), why are you saying 'safer software for all'?
Ask HN: Resources for a PHP to Rails transition
I'm taking a break from launching endless waves of apparently useless apps/services (no complaints), and I figure in my downtime I might as well begin picking up a new platform/language to tack onto the ole resume' if nothing else. Rails seems to be sticking around for the moment, so I think I'll look that way.

I've got both broad and deep experience in PHP/MySQL development built over the course of 8 years of client, professional, and personal projects. I've also dabbled for the last year in ColdFusion (bleh) and .Net development for my day job. I'm also familiar, or at least was once, with the basic tenets of MVC development and the Rails platform (most of my PHP work is built on a custom skeleton I've cobbled together over the years).

What I'm after, then, is not so much a "this is Ruby on Rails, this is scaffolding, this is xxxxx..." tutorial, but rather any resources that folks in a similar position have used to pick up the platform with professional development.

I've done the basic "let's see how easy it is to build a blog" type tutorial (and will again), but what's a good "next step" towards professional, polished Rails development?

Thanks for the advice!

- John
You would go to Mars on a larger spacecraft (or a space station placed on an Aldrin cycler orbit) and use your Dragon to catch up with the transfer vehicle and then, again, to land on your destination. With this, you only need to pack your supplies for the trip on the Dragon plus any spares the cycler-station has to carry.

Please note the Dragon, once landed on Mars, will stay there. You could mount it on top of a return stack if you had a crane. I wonder what's heavier - a Dragon or a crane that could lift one. The return stack could be deployed before the astronauts arrive and manufacture fuel required for the ascent and rendezvous with the return (or cycler) vehicle while they are on their way to Mars.

I find a Moon landing more interesting. On Mars you can use the atmosphere to brake, but on the Moon you have to fight a lower gravity to land.
check q4m, it has been out in production use for 3 years.
Google employs several of the best well-known security researchers in the world, and no doubt many more that we haven't heard much about.

That doesn't mean they're going to find everything, though.

At the end of the day, private companies are perfectly within their rights to do offensive research against Google products, to be selective about how they disclose their results, and to tell the public whatever they want about those results. As long as they aren't lying, there's nothing unethical about it.
What 200,00 BC mean, 200,000 BC?
Is it wrong for our government to do any security research? I mean can good things not come out of it? Be thankful it was reported.
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Thanks. This was what I was searching for when I saw the title.
5 metrics every software CEO should obsess over
Do you do a lot of in-the-field security work? How do you work around a vulnerability without being able to see whether and how it works?
Is Google a Service or an OS Company? We Find Out This Week.
I've always wondered this! I thought it was probably relatively high, but 12% is pretty insane.
Ask HN: What's the best advice you've ever read on killing Procrastination?
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Legitimacy comes from:

Democracy, e.g., election as described by customs or laws

Tradition, e.g., a monarch's son becoming the next monarch

Charisma, e.g., a charismatic leader such as a tribe leader, dictators like Hitler, etc.

The military junta currently running Burma/Myanmar has a lot of guns, but it is not legitimate.
Scroll marker support (a la Opera[1], although Opera seems to have dropped support for it) would be excellent! This would be a visual indicator on the screen marking the previous bottom of the screen when the user hits space or page down.

[1] Screen shot of scroll marker in action: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/albums/showpic.dml?album=210985...
No disrespect intended, but, it doesn't negatively predispose anyone who conducts or utilizes vulnerability research professionally, so I doubt your concern matters much to them.
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Ability to choose, within reason, where I work. Want to work from home today? No problem. Want to take Friday off but work part of Saturday and Sunday? Sure thing.

Essentially that translates into trust.
I saw a similar mentality on the Skype for Mac thread, as if there is a huge incentive to just make up vulnerabilities. More or less, when HN threads don't want something to be true ("terrible Chrome vulnerability with no public info and no pending patch!"), they make up controversies to keep them from having to accept that it's true. It's a bad habit.
That's a poor example. Policeman get paid to protect everyone; police protection is not (usually) a subscription service.
Apple bumps Google as most valuable brand
One difference is that it appears that these VUPEN folks are not entirely incompetent.
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Funny, that they have a cloud in their logo.
On an exploit like this, I expect a patch. I'm sure people at Google and abroad (if the exploit exists in Chromium) are scrambling to find it, both for the e-cred and just to make other people safer.
Operating under the assumption that this is for some reason made up is an extraordinarily bad idea.

Regardless, how they write is still offtopic.
The author made that error 3 times (cut&pasted wrong chart).
Only hiring offensive security vendors who won't use the term 'pwned' is roughly equivalent to trying to purchase a hand job from someone who won't use the term 'whore'. Neither is likely to get you very far.
i feel this is all essentially what message oriented middleware is.
I think thumbnail images might improve the browsing experience, even if they're mildly antithetical to a site that highlights the power of html5/css3/js.

Anyway, very useful compilation and well done - definitely bookmarked!
How to have personality: Lessons from Trader Joe’s 1.4 million price tags
Harmony Rest Parameters - Implementation
function ___args() {
var caller = ___args.caller;
return Array.prototype.slice.call(caller.arguments, caller.length);
};

function show(a,b) {
return ___args();
}

alert(show(1,2,3,4,5).join(',')) // alert("3,4,5")
This article is pretty decent, but have you seen the homepage for UXMag? http://uxmag.com

It has some serious problems. My eyes glared over the entire thing and I didn't really catch much. The boxes don't work and I didn't consume anything. They need some usability testing bad.
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Each ZenithSolar Z20 unit generates 5 KWh Electricity plus an additional 11 KWh hot water (up to 100 degrees C). 18 units at Kibbutz Yavne are now providing all the hot water needs for 400 people, the electricity is all be sold into the electric grid. ZenithSolar is now installing new fields in Australia and China...paul.linden@zenithsolar.com
Don't troll.
MS as a company is not the topic here. I never liked Micro$oft myself either, but Microsoft Research has some really brilliant people, and I find myself spending a lot of time lately watching Channel9 FP talks.

Most of the talks spin around Haskell, which is an open standard with many open source implementations. People involved in development of GHC for instance, (Namely S.P.Jones and E.Meijer) work at Microsoft research.
http://brendaneich.com/2011/01/harmony-of-my-dreams/
Proof that hipsters are taking over the world.
I've been working on this project for the past year and a half. I'd like to get some feedback on it from HN. We use it mainly to to view surface images extracted from MRI volumes and data applied as color textures but it's generic enough to visualize other types of data. Some of the examples take a long time to load (Particularly the DTI example in surface viewer).

MACACC is a dataset that we created which shows correlations maps of cortical thickness across a 150 subjects.
(Non scientist explanation follows, I'll do my best to explain but I'm a developer not a researcher) When you click on a point on the surface (hold down the shift key) it will load that map and display the correlation between that point and the 80000 other points where the measurment or thickness was taken.

What is interesting is that these maps are similar to those obtain by other methods and show region that are potentially connected.
So, what you're saying is that EU countries would block access to the proxies in other countries because of these reasons that you mention? Possibly. They might try to do that, but I'm not sure that they would succeed. There are too many proxies, and new ones pop up practically ever day. Unless they block access to any non-EU server, in which case EU becomes North Korea.
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To obvious to be interesting? Its been a while since I read something like that on HN!

Why should it not be interesting just because it seems to be obvious?
Has anyone utilized any of these tools to create clickable HTML prototypes that can be hosted?

Pidoco has this functionality. Wondering if any of the other tools do as well.
The ability to pick and choose the components that make up my workstation - laptop, monitor, etc. I hate being given a laptop that I dont like upon joining. Or worse, being given a laptop used by the guy before me.
Good point! So there we have them: The Internets.
I find the whole concept extremely discriminating.
Thanks! The incredible thing is that to satisfy the contract the previous owner just gave me his username & password so I am the only one on the account and STILL cannot get it resolved. Can't wait to be finished with them.

I only wish that I had been recording my phone conversations with them. It would be great to have audio of my saying that there is nothing that they can do to keep me as a customer as I have zero faith in their ability to provide any level of professional service :)
It was actually (according to the EFF) 1) just last year, 2) the Copyright Office, 3) jailbreaking specifically for the purpose of interoperability with lawfully obtained software or for connecting to different providers with the authorization of said providers, 4) specifically w.r.t. the DMCA rulemaking process. https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26
>The philosophy of "why build something, because company x, with infinite money, will just build it better" I think is a flawed one.

Fascinating quote, but do you think you can articulate why it is flawed? Was it something your investors asked you?

I think the hardest question to answer for a lot of startups is "what happens if [company X with infinite money] decides to copy you"?

My first instinct might be to say I'm one of the top ten or twenty people in the world who are capable of writing the code for my product (however arrogant that might sound), but even if that's true, that still leaves nine or so others that Infinite Money Company could recruit to compete.

Is truly the only good answer being the very absolute best in the field, or are there other good answers?
Will be interesting to see what security ramifications this has.
I've written todo lists backwards on the sliding glass doors, on the steamed up glass doors, so I could write them down when I get out of the shower. That particular day, I had like 5 ideas I really didn't want to forget, and this was the only way I could think of... it worked, mostly. The lower I got on the door, the harder it was to read.
Every few weeks I become so distracted by thinking about a problem in the shower that I'll rinse, lather, and repeat three, four, or far more times without realizing. Only seems to happen in the morning, which makes me think it has something to do with the problem-solving activity of my subconscious during sleep. When it occurs, though, what a fantastic window of creativity and focus!
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I've used Bugzilla, Mantis and Jira.

Jira, while not free, is the best of those three for sure. They have a nice $10 for 10 user license that is quite affordable and besides the 10 user limit, has no functional limitations.

I've read good things about FogBugz but have not used it myself.
Edit: Oh, you said 'intangible' benefit and you mentioned this in the context of negotiation... gee, I can't think of an intangible benefit that can be negotiated. Can you negotiate that the company should have a strong, recognizable brand and hires top-notch people? Those are intangibles that make a difference, because I care strongly about the brand that I stamp on my resume. Titles could be negotiated, I suppose... but there are so many small companies with VPs of XYZ (title inflation), that titles are only meaningful if the company has a strong reputation already.
Chaos and fractals lead to some (superficial) interest in mathematics for some time. And they are totally abstract.
Not that I know of. Also, they have a patent, but that didn't stop Acunu from reimplementing and improving the algorithm.
* now airlines seem to be nickel and diming you like a used car sales person or a street urchin, *

It least those people are a bit polite and might even look you in the eye.

TSA says you can't carry on a decent amount of hair product or nail clippers, so passengers are forced to check bags just to travel with common items. Airlines decide, hey, guess what? Checked bags are gonna cost you.

If there's a real need to change pricing to account for increased costs then OK, but in that case the airlines should be upfront about what they're doing and why. Don't quietly shrink leg room to squeeze more people onto plans, or inch up the cost for this or that, or drop amenities in dribs and drabs.

It's the weaselling that leaves such a bad taste, not that circumstances make things more expensive.

At least with the movies you pretty much know what to expect and what it will cost. And at least with things like 3D the industry might be trying to improve the experience, something I don't see the airlines doing.
They never say how they estimate births_t.
Would be great to collect a broader list of companies w/ personality. Woot, Zappos, and Groupon came to mind when I wrote this, but I'm sure they are some obvious ones I'm missing. Suggestions?
I had heard it was over 50% which i found very hard to believe so the 12% number seems a lot more reasonable.
Unfortunately I don't know a ton about a) the python market or b) freelancing in general, but as a fundamental rule you can't be chasing the same clients as the 1 Indian guy. I don't know where the big fish are, but minnows wont feed you anyway.

Maybe try finding some other, larger firms and work on a project by project basis? Contact some agencies, other dev firms etc. Short of that it's all sales: find the big guys, get an audience, convince them. Not so complicated just very difficult :)

Good luck.
My theory is that it's the white noise sound from the water that helps concentration.
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