skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FF4 on OSX here and I can't view the slideshow without installing Silverlight. Didn't know I would offend people with my stance on Microsoft's Silverlight. I am peeved at Microsoft's stance on Flash or other open solutions. And don't get me started on their "web standards" implementations.
Wait... People don't love location based apps?
a teaser of whats to come from @urbantag
You'll probably also need to support a new constitutional amendment:

Amendment 28 - Congress may now pass a law abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, and the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances. But they should only do this to prevent rich people that I don't agree with from expressing their opinions on elections.
This does not look like a new development in rootkits. If I understand the article's summary: there's a rootkit that sets a hardware breakpoint on the memory it overwrote in the kernel, and checks to see if access are normal or abnormal; for abnormal access, it subs in fake value for the contents of that range of memory.

If you want to see where the state of the art in rootkits was in 2007(!), read:

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/z/200701/bh-dc-07-Rutkowska-ppt...

...noting that this is Joanna Rutkowska explaining how to reprogram MMUs (here with MMIO remapping) to defeat hardware DMA memory forensics.
Investors Cough Up $1.6 Million To Dine With Grubwithus
I wasn't refering to those resources, only what the example showed, cleanup of objects in memory.

Of course closing open connections is a must. That's day 1 stuff.
The problem I have with freenet is that I don't want to blindly store or transfer other people's encrypted data.

I think, if we take some of the powers away from the government, it is all the more important that we are able to make a judgement on the kind of content and communications that we want to support.

No single entity should be able to control all access to information, not even a democratic government. But turning the tables completely and make everyone help anyone spread any kind of information can't be the solution.

I'm totally aware of the dilemma we're in. Knowing what other people transfer over our machines puts us in a position of "must make judgement and be liable". Not knowing puts us in the position of "cannot make a judgement even if we want to".

It's just a difficult problem.
I definitely agree that entrepreneurs are going to take the plunge or not. I'm focused on the support network / employee angle, and harkening back to daveschappell's point that the circles don't really connect. There are communities, yes, but no sense of overall community that you can get a starting point in. It seemed like tribes all the way down: ex-[Amazon | MS | Google], UW clubs, etc. And if you didn't know where to begin, there wasn't an easy way to find someone to ask.

Case in point: if I'd known there were more startups looking for talent, I probably wouldn't have moved out to the eastern part of the state in 2007. At the time, my options after burnout+dismissal seemed to be 'work for another large company'(which I'm still wary of), 'pursue your own idea on your lonesome'(which I didn't have any of at the time) or 'don't work at all'.

(My best classes at WSU were with Hagemeister, Wang(CS460 FTW), and Biker Bob. Contributing to my slight-insecurity as a dev, I was also part of the Benson class that petitioned to have him removed: for tossing us a description of car/cdr and expecting us to build a complete Lisp in SML)
er, can you point to the actual datamining part? I'm not seeing it. I see

"The Recipient will only have a duty to protect Confidential Information disclosed to it by the Discloser: (1) if it is clearly and conspicuously marked as “confidential” or with a similar designation; (2) if it is identified by the Discloser as confidential and/or proprietary before, during, or promptly after presentation or communication; or (3) if it is disclosed in a manner in which the Discloser reasonably communicated, or the Recipient should reasonably have understood under the circumstances that the disclosure should be treated as confidential, whether or not the specific designation “confidential” or any similar designation is used."

and

"Recipient may disclose Confidential Information solely as needed to comply with a court order, subpoena, or other government demand (provided that Recipient first used all commercially reasonable efforts to notify Discloser and to give Discloser the opportunity to challenge such court order, subpoena, or government demand except in situations where Recipient is prevented, per lawful government request, from disclosing the existence of the court order, subpoena, or other government demand)."

and

"Each party acknowledges that damages for improper disclosure of Confidential Information may be irreparable; therefore, the injured party is entitled to seek equitable relief, including temporary restraining order(s) or preliminary or permanent injunction, in addition to all other remedies, for any violation or threatened violation of this Section 8. A Recipient shall have a duty to protect Confidential Information during the term of this Agreement and for a period of five (5) years thereafter."
"Doh! Your browser doesn't seem to support Silverlight or HTML5 video or we don't have an HTML5 video for this one."

that's what I get when I clicked play. I'm using FF4 on Mac OSX.
So is the issue here that they have not packaged it up for people and put it on opensource.apple.com? Is the source not available in the official repository at webkit.org?
This is indeed the direction the industry seems to be heading: extremely lightweight sidecar security hypervisors.
Oh, bullshit. I saw plenty of poon on your site, guy, and I was no member. I understand it may be embarrassing ten years later that you used nudity as a cheap come-on, but don't deny it or refer to it as web design. Please.

Thanks for answering.
I agree with you in general, but not in the case of CSS.

The CSS layout model were indeed based on exactly the layout properties of "presentational HTML" which people were using for style and layout at that time. It was just made more fine grained, and separated from the markup.

For example, the much hated "float/clear" layout model were based on the align="left|right" and clear="left|right" attributes which Netscape (I believe) introduce on img- and table-elements, and which people did use a lot. The layout model of tables were also widely used, and that was codified with the display:table-* properties, which again provides exactly the same layout model in CSS as tables provided via markup.

The problem was basically that IE development were frozen for many years. IE implemented the float-related CSS before the freeze, but not the table-model. I believe IE 8 were the first version of IE to support the table model, more than a decade after CSS2 became a recommendation.

This resulted in period of many years where the float model were supported via CSS in most browsers, but the table-model were not. This in turn resulted in an amazing amount of confusion, and people believing that floats are somehow the CSS's substitute for tables.
Does it apply to amazon.ca?

edit: just read the FAQ. Hope to see support soon.
Root your phone...

* Find a cool theme you like for your phone

Jorte Calendar - the best and most flexible calendar app.

Vlingo (not necessary, but I think it works pretty well for voice commands)

Beautiful widgets - best clock/weather/toggle widgets

Mototorch - Flashlight, morse code, ect

Google analytics widget - pageviews/daily visitors on my screen

Pandora

Skype

Kik Messenger - why pay for text messages...

Opera mini - dont use the stock browser

Juice defender

Scientific calculator

Camera 360

Google Nav

Barcode scanner

Stopwatch

Dial 0 - app to give you direct numbers to companies, so you are not waiting at a machine.

Launcher pro - resizeable widgets, better home screen, ect

Adfree - removes all ads so you dont see them on your phone and in apps

Airsync - broadcast music from my computer to stuff through doubletwist

APKinstaller - to install apks...

Audiomanager - good widget to control different volume levels

Better terminal - if you want to do cool stuff with your phone like theme it, ect

busybox

Bump

Cardstar - to keep my loyalty cards

Dropbox

Facebook

Twitter

K-9 mail

Logmein

Mint

Paypal

Quickoffice

Root explorer

Setcpu

Soundhound - need to recognize songs on the go..

Springpad

Titanium pro

Wheres my droid - text a secret word to have your phone scream at you when you lose it.

Youtube

Wireless Tether

Zedge - ringtones and wallpaper

A good game

A keyboard you like to use - smart keyboard, uber, ect.

Jefit Pro - if you work out
Thanks, I changed it to block ".." in any form.
Can't get it to run. I'm in Chrome. Trying FF now.
You could just use usps general delivery as a throwaway address, if necessary.
That was my first thought after reading the article.
Doesn't work for Chromium 10 on Linux unfortunately
AV referendum: Yes campaign handed thumping defeat
This is really interesting.

A friend and I were discussing the other day. Apple just needs to buy all the 4 big music record labels. Perhaps other technology companies should just buy them up (Google/MS). The reasoning behind this is well, these companies have their own agenda and they simply don't get it. Record labels seem to be on this self distractive path built upon ego and short term thinking. They clearly are afraid to embrace the internet culture (see Amazon cloud player/licensing) and other innovative distribution channels.

Why do I think a tech company should buy these labels?
I don't think the labels have a product mind set. What is the last innovative product apart from the CD that has come from labels. Even talking about the CD, there has been no incremental improvements in that technology over the last 10 year when it comes to music. They are simply not in the business of creating a product for the consumer.

Music is all about experience and great products can improve that experience and potentially open up more revenue streams.

Maybe this guy is on to something.

(ps - Passionate about this space. Working on a music startup @mugasha)
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Robert Shiflet attends Komen Greater Fort Worth Race for the Cure
I disagree--I think trends have shifted away from NYC. Advertising was once largely based in NYC (Madison Ave), now Google and Facebook are disrupting that and bring it more to Silicon Valley. Mobile advertising will only further this. Finance is also no longer as loyal to NYC, look at everything Sand Hill Road has and Wall Street begins to seem less dominant. Regardless, NYC is still top-dog is many respects and will remain so for the foreseeable future, but I think this is not a fight they are going to win.
Internet tough programmer?
Doesn't this also read right off the end of the string?
Nah, I think we'll have that as soon as someone wires up a camera to Mechanical Turk.

"Looks like cancer." "Definitely Athlete's Foot." "It's not a tumor!" "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."

Repeat 1000x, pull out the winners, and diagnose!
This is my project =)

Leafsnap is a project I've been working on for about 2 years and we finally launched this week! It's a free app for the iPhone (with an iPad version coming next week and an Android version later in the summer) that contains very high-quality images and descriptions of the tree species of the Northeast US. It also has an automatic-recognition feature that uses computer vision to help users identify trees by taking a photo of a leaf.

This project is a joint collaboration between the computer science departments at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, and botanists at the Smithsonian Institution.

Please let me know what you think! Also, I'd be happy to answer any questions about the app or the recognition technology behind it.
A more complex the user interface may make it harder it is to attract new editors

There may be friction against gaining new editors from the user interface of the MediaWiki software, but I think the greatest barrier to participation by new editors is the hostile, drama-filled environment on many controversial topics on Wikipedia. My evidence for that is the decline in "unsustainable fashion"

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Wikimedia_Editor...

in the number of Wikipedian administrators, who presumably for the most part are people who know how to use Wikimedia software. Too many of best contributors (people who look up facts in reliable sources and edit articles for better readability) on Wikipedia feel attacked and that their time is wasted. I know a lot of dedicated hobbyists who quietly work on their hobby-related subjects putting together great articles, but on any subject that is controversial, and for which looking up reliable sources takes some effort, Wikipedia is becoming a war zone and is not improving in quality.

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_P...

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_P...
According to their facts page[1], USPS process 6761 pieces of mail per second. They had a 2009 revenue of $68 billion. They pay $2.1 billion in salaries every two weeks.

Dead tree mail isn't dead just yet; they definitely have enough time to figure out a plan.

[1] http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/postalfacts.htm
We're thinking Madrid or Barcelona..... Madrid has more work I think. My wife speaks pretty good Spanish and I'm trying to learn in my free time. Thank you for the link.
If you rooted your phone, I recommend DroidWall, Advanced Task Killer and Autostarts so you can keep your system in good shape.
Any variables created in the method are cleaned up when the thread leaves the method. I've never heard of clean up being done after execution leaves a try-catch block. Does anyone know the answer to this?
The most sensible suggestion I've heard recently was from a co-worker who said it would make sense to not sound out postal workers to every house, but instead to keep all the mail at the Post Office. If you want your mail delivered to your door, then you can pay extra. Otherwise pick it up yourself. This would greatly cut down on the USPS expenses.

I also would love a premium service where I get one address (just like Google Voice) that I give out and then the mail is actually forwarded to my new location if/when I move. UPS provides something like this, I believe, but why not USPS?
I have to agree. .com domains are the Bentleys of domains
Just looks like another way of patronising professionals (and another plugin to wrestle with administering in JIRA).
If you want to alienate people from your point of view, caricature their own views. The person you're responding to doesn't seem to support taxation for taxation's sake, and doesn't seem to believe companies that make money are "evil".
While this might seem slow, I am using WiMax so this is at the high end of what I usually see. Also my upload is capped at 1MBit/s. http://www.speedtest.net/result/1284650149.png
I suspect that the Guardian's editorial staff may have acted like a spy in the camp throughout the election period. The rest of the media, I could understand: but the Guardian seemed to like AV as much as the Telegraph or the Mail, and that I could not understand.

When even the BBC and internet news sources started to speak up against AV, I had a feeling that we would soon see the baby flying out along with the bathwater: and so, indeed it came to pass.

A sad day, that the British public would reject innovation in favour of an old, failing system. I'd rather have had the new system; the politicians' unfamiliarity with it meant that they could not game the system with the same expertise as they all now have with First Past The Post.
It is true: Apple will not appreciate it at all if you pirate iWork. But will they sue you?

Does anyone have a news story about Apple suing the (many, many) Apple software pirates? So far as I've heard, they don't even send very many nasty letters. Presumably not because they don't believe in paying for software, but because it's strategically unwise.

Anyway, if Apple fails to respond in timely fashion to a series of inquiries they can, indeed, eventually be sued, and maybe that will even be the best move. Perhaps a suit against Google will proceed at the same time:

http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/25/google.not.sha...

Though in that case, as well, I doubt it will come to that.

(One of the many virtues of starting your own business is that you soon learn all about the practical limitations of contract law. People violate the letter of your contracts all the time. What are you going to do about it? The law is a relatively blunt instrument; it is expensive and difficult to bring it into play, often more difficult than your unpaid invoice is worth.)
Ask HN: How to find ideas for SaaS products / B2B web apps?
Hey HN.

I know the 'idea' topic comes up a lot here, but I'm asking this from a totally B2B perspective.

I'm going with a market-driven approach on my next project, but I'm having trouble finding SaaS products that are needed.

The only few ideas I have now are very general, like 37signals' products (group chat, project management) - but that's not really something I want to go up against for this project (although if I don't find anything else...).

I'm not looking for new or unique ideas, I'll happily improve on existing offerings.

Any advice on where to find pain-points or businesses in need of SaaS products?
No, because if i[1] is 0 (the null terminator), i[1] == '.' will fail.
An Argument for Paid Apps
San Francisco has been a hot location for startups --- maybe the hot location, but at least prominent in the shortlist --- for over a decade. Where's the urgency coming from?
E Ink shows off flexible displays printed on cloth, Tyvek
Get kids/students to participate in snapping a pic of a leaf any opportunity they get to feed the data into the system. Reward them somehow.

Ask one simple question with each pic take "How many trees of this type would you estimate are in your vacinity, that you can see"

Map those trees all over and compare with climate/weather.

The estimates just increase the size of the circle on the map that shows where those trees live.

Eventually you'll get a very clear idea of what trees thrive/live where.
No, it will hit the NULL terminator and short circuit.
Can you just tell us what the recognition tech behind it is?
Have you ever tried entering an audio captcha?
"Having made his fortune in property and the former Russian nationalised industries, Blavatnik has faith that content companies are where future growth will be..."

Having much experience in the profitable Russian rackets, he believes that the American racket known as "intellectual property" has far to go! I guess he'll buy some patent trolls next.
This is really cool! I like it because I think it will actually encourage kids especially, and generally everyone, to take an interest in nature and the plants around them. Also, I'm sure it could be useful in identifying dangerous and safe plants. Keep up the good work!
Ask HN: Am I insane for competing in this space?
I think the existing mobile messaging apps/services are both too general and too hard to use for the average non-geek. Therefore I built a service with a narrow focus: group texting with the people in your family.

Is this a waste of my time or a good way to reach real users with real needs? The site is up at textmyfamily.com.
Hacker group Anonymous denies Sony attack
Google humans.txt
THX sound system inventor, Tomlinson Holman, set to join Apple
I was going to use this feature earlier today but I was put off by the fact that it displays the full name of the person, which made my small, casual comment seem weirdly formal.

I also don't like the box around the name. It adds a slimy Facebook/Twitter feel to comments, drawing too much attention to the frenzied "tag me!" social graph hype. I like the idea of being notified when someone mentions you in a comment; I just wish it was more subtle, and less distracting to the conversation.
How Successful Is TechStars Really?
Can anyone give me feedback? - ProposalRocket
High-performant, world-class C++ is fairly well understood (afaik) to only use a very limited subset of C++'s features (e.g., see the JSF Coding Standard or Google Style Guide or go work for a hedge fund where low latency and high reliability is important).

The same for Java. I honor all the exceptions in the standard/platform libraries. But I see past the hype for my own interfaces. Imho, 9/10 exception classes clutter the interface. 9/10 (again for high reliability, high quality code that you want to work reliably but also be flexible enough to extend), what you want to return is a boolean (and log) for stateful methods. Meanwhile prefer stateless methods wherever possible. And generally speaking treating the JVM and Java as basically a really really high performant scripting engine (i.e., closer to JS than C; though the syntax is somewhere in between). Imho, if you can't do RAII, and you're not deterministic, you are basically a scripting language (or are in the GC family of languages, if you don't like the term 'scripting' -- I think it's cool...).

Anyway, that's how I approach it. But I don't buy into the hype of exceptions most of the time (though of course I honor whatever contract other libraries use).
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out.
The glass is half-full ;-) but here's the thing, location is just a feature that enabled more interesting apps. Building your app/business around location alone is not enough to keep people using your app.
The likelihood that this tax would drive startups out of the entire SFBA seems very low. Meanwhile, the tiny city of San Francisco proper is likely to remain well stocked with upwardly mobile tech company employees whether their employers are in SOMA or San Mateo.
Show HN: TripLingo- language learning for travelers.
There is nothing complicated, even using floats. Usig display: table-* it's damn easy.
You also got CSS columns, and flex box.
Due to the lovely fact, if I recall corectly, that there's two TLB[1], one for instructions and one for data. So you can subvert one or another in order to execute a hidden payload.

If you read the data you think you'll execute, you will be fooled. [2] This is a pretty nice trick.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_lookaside_buffer#Ov...

[2]: http://uninformed.org/index.cgi?v=6&a=1&p=21
Most people don't have ongoing location discovery needs that would cause them to consistently engage with location based apps and services. People find the things that are compelling to them and then they tend to move on. People who live in cities, often the prime target for LBS, are often well aware of lots of great things to do around them.

Prime candidates for ongoing engagement with LBS are: people who travel a lot, people who are hungry for new and interesting stuff but don't know where it is , and people who are new to city (even here engagement will be limited).
Was a user of DirecPay for 1 year about a year back. They think base64 encoding is "encryption".
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=192....
And this helps how exactly? I know what GPL and LGPL is, I was asking, why few there "believe" and "think" instead of quoting.
I'm in Canada and with Teksavvy.com -- 300G cap, as long as the CRTC doesn't take it away...
Just curious, is source code for Webkit used in Honeycomb available?
> Given the complexity of Wikipedia's deployment compared to a typical MediaWiki installation, it really wouldn't be much effort to hook into a parser in say, Java rather than PHP...

No doubt the incremental complexity for Wikipedia would be small in relative terms. I assume that argument would support a variety of proposals.

A solid scanner and parser in C/C++ would benefit a broader audience though. All the major scripting languages can be extended in C/C++. In fact, the ragel-based parser I mentioned earlier [1] was built to be used from within Ruby code.

[1] http://git.wincent.com/wikitext.git