skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pictures are nice, but the text of the "article" made me laugh out loud. A choice snippet:

Called Alter Ego, this software basically takes advantage of blend shapes to copy facial idiosyncrasies and produce emotive life-like 3D character animations.

Wow, that's so insightful! Could you copy-n-paste more of the press release, please?
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Agreed. The cost of implementing such an open system is negligible compared to the cost of securing it. You can harden a system as much as you want, but the business case for doing so is nil until it becomes a problem. At 0.000000003 of rides are being stolen it doesn't make sense.

While the security tzars are focused on the electronic hackers just having fun the majority of losses are probably coming from kids who jump the turn styles or go through 2 at a time.
But most definitely look at Webmin and Virtualmin; they might be installed already for you on slicehost.
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Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense
Bad logic: author correctly notices that passwords are not the biggest problem in computer security right now, and yet somehow they should be eliminated. The weakest link is the the software running on the computer. Spyware, trojans, XSS, XSRF, all make your super secure authentication system irrelevant.
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Not sure if it's been brought up, but Jobs went on a trip to India around his college years and had an 'ashram'.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=408258
Even if people bring the equilibrium back up, the extra capacity made their lives better for those whose trips become worthwhile. The idea is not to minimize traffic, but to maximize welfare.
There needs to be good standards program for security audits. There is a serious problem, because security is not well understood. It's very easy to sell the government and private organizations a shoddy set of goods.

What about institutionalizing white hat hacking, somehow? I could imagine a system where two competing tiger teams ensure good results. Basically, pay bonuses for actually breaking the security measures. If only one team succeeds in breaking in, then they get both team's bonus.
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Doesn't this apply more to the vendor and less to the customer? The vendor can sell a system and skimp on the added cost of security. If they are good at managing the account and spinning the situation, when security issues do come up, they have a chance to sell the customer an entirely new system.

The customer is probably better off with a spec for proper security in the first place, so they can avoid the cost of refitting or replacing the entire system.
Very, very good idea. I have been looking for away to get more into asian cultures. I have traveled a lot to other places but only have so much time and it is hard to get insight into the lives and minds of other cultures from far away, esp the younger people.

So this is a good place to start.

Obviously it is very reddit-inspired, both idea and design.
Reddit wasn't the first aggregator though and they are here to stay in one form or the other so that's fine and I really like the design but it is a little bit to reddit-ish perhaps, looks like a clone.

Overall grade: Nice work man!
Ah, OnSale! I emailed Jerry Kaplan (of OnSale, previous CEO of Go) after reading his book Startup and he replied saying he's doing fine, something most authors don't do.
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If it could be shown that Whole Foods waived fees X percent more for people of race Y than of race Z, Whole Foods would be sued out of business. Much better to just do away with charging for ice altogether.
has anyone used Kohana php here?
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I actually live in Morningside Heights, and not the part that had always been good. IMHO, a lot of the progress in New York can be directly attributed to Rudy and his team. They really cleaned up this place. Nevertheless, Columbia should get a fare share of credit by pouring tons of money into the area.

When I moved here in 2000 the area was already on the up and up but really hit its stride when Columbia went on a building spree. They built three buildings within one block of my apartment which really raised the bar for this immediate area.

But wait, there's more! Soon Columbia will begin construction on an entire new campus on the far west edge of Harlem called Manhattanville. This will really push the entire area much higher and bring a lot of opportunity to those that live here now.
ouch. that has to sting.
"... Internet Explorer doesn't have native support for canvas ..."

Yes it does ~ http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/
Ka-ching. The opening-day box office receipts for the Batman film “The Dark Knight” had just set a record. And for myriad reasons — including the late Heath Ledger’s delicious turn as the Joker — the blockbuster is still filling theaters on a pace that may land it just behind “Titanic” on the list of all-time, top-grossing films.

Psh. If it were legal to shoot file-sharers on sight, it would be the highest grossing movie ever! Won't someone please think of the movie executives?
"... Thanks, I should have Googled it first... ..."

It's not that obvious just searching. I just find it funny (and good in a way) that the copyright laws & Internet collide sometimes in our favour.
agreed, the whole thing is incoherent at best. not worth reading.
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Zuckerberg does not deserve to be next to Gates/Larry...
I haven't used their site, and I don't have a startup to use with it (so if this is exactly what they do then I apologize), but a tool that states "20% of startups in your industry with similar circumstances succeeded. Here are some ways you can increase your percentage." and then shows different ways that a startup could increase its chances based on the statistical data would be interesting to me as a startup founder, and I think it would be helpful to VCs and others as a pre-screening tool for their investments.
To be honest I can't take it seriously when a company that makes billions from crawling other people's sites makes a rule that you're not allowed to crawl theirs.

Why not? Google obeys robots.txt -- if you don't want them to crawl your site, it is trivial to arrange. I think violating Google's terms of use is pretty hard to justify as ethical.
What's the point of bragging about irrelevant lines of code number?
But if you believe market is efficient and ruthless and if you agree that users vote with their browsers in Web 2.0 world...

Markets are nice and all, and entry costs are lower than they used to be, but there are still such things as brand and users still have habits.

Case in point? eBay.
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Surfing Google may be harmful to your security
Those faces are deep, DEEP in the uncanny valley, but they're not falling in, they're climbing out.
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>He claimed that he didn't regret selling the stock as he had made "the best decision available at that time."

If I was in his position, I'd feel the same way. He made the best decision he could, and that's all one can do.
Whole Foods jumped the shark when it started closing its raw juice bars.

Since then it's been one ham-handed move after the next.
Consider Mittal, a very large steel company.

Isn't the value what a steel company produces already laying inside of the ground? Making money off of natural resources seems to require connections in government more so than it does skill or innovation.
I see, my bad, didn't read properly.
Thanks for posting my article here. I had no idea it would generate interest =]

Yes, Excel can do all sorts of data validation, etc. What wasn't clear in the article (I didn't know I was writing for public consumption) is that the projects in question are ongoing surveys reaching (potentially) literally tens of thousands of people.

But GavinB, I agree with you; and would like a one-second fade for data validations on the web page, also.
True, but that's not because people can't get the annoying ideas out of their head, it's because of the legitimate innovation that Rails brought into the mainstream.
I see what you mean, but really, in Spanish, and in this particular case, fotolog is really easy to convey:

"Fotolog. Fotolog.com, se escribe como suena." [You spell it the way it sounds; it's phonetic.]

I agree with you that most names are hard to spell, but in Spanish having a phonetic name is important because the language itself is phonetic.
They are aiming too low. Internet auctions are all or nothing game. There are network effects, free alternatives, established players, all playing against them, what are they thinking?
I try to minimize the number of sites I set up accounts on, and there is no logical reason why github shouldn't have simple tickets, other than deference to lighthouse.
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I like Slicehost. I have tried Joyent and it's good but you have to learn a bunch of Solaris skills and many gems don't work quite right on Solaris, and I've tried Engineyard but nobody will return my emails to set up an account.

Slicehost has never done anything but offer consistent, professional service. I could not recommend them more highly.
This is a good point. You might want to use passenger if you lack sysadmin skills. The big pain of Rails is keeping your thin/mongrel/etc processes running, etc. I imagine a slicehost $20/month slice would run passenger mod_rails just fine and would be fine for your hobby project or something small.
So... he wrote the partnership agreement and then bailed two weeks later because he didn't like the provisions in the agreement. That really does suck.

EDIT: Scratch that. It's the partnership laws of the state, not the agreement that he apparently had issues with. Still depressing, but at least not as idiotic as I thought.
Ooh, Harvard has just invented Knol for medicine.
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Seconded about the support, but you must pay a year in advance. Their 30 day back guarantee is very nice, though.
wow, I'm curious how long those took to render.

what do you think, another two decades till actors are obsolete? ;-)
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I should really sign up for an nytimes.com account considering the number of times/day i bypass their login prompt
"Its flexibility allows for the software to be used in real-time game cinematics, pre-rendered projects, and even game trailers."

They might be able to run in real time, though the videos are probably pre-rendered.
Not going to happen with the iPhone, or anytime soon, sadly. We've had the ability for at least 5-6 years with PDAs, smartphones, etc, and still nothing. Bluetooth replacing IR as a control standard still has happened yet fer crying out loud -- it's still just the PS3 for everyday consumer electronic devices that supports it.
Oh, you're right, I really shouldn't skim. That does seem useless, it says right in the article the attackers were connected directly to the nameserver
my initial reaction to this was 'what does the carrier pigeons paragraph have to do with anything'?
This doesn't tell me anything about what the site does, and you almost lost me there.
Then I decided to go back and take a deeper look because I thought it had something to do with mapping (even after reading the full title - short term memory).

So if I were you (and I assume you posted it here for feedback), I'd tell people what the site does right at the top, and though PingMyMap is a pretty good domain name, i think it is not great branding because it is a distant metaphor for what you are doing.
'searchenginerefresher.com', or 'ichangedmysite.com' (both available, i just checked) or something along those lines would probably be better.
When i hear 'map', the last thing I think of is sitemap, and you don't want it pinged, you want it indexed.

I'm not a fan of the design either, as it has a dirty and old look to it, and I would suspect you would want users to think you were on the cutting edge, rather than a relic.
"which will be edited by approved contributors selected through an internal review process"

That's not a wiki, people keep co-opting that term. Wikis by nature are editable by everyone. Sites that are editable by "approved contributors" have been around since approximately forever, that's like saying my blog is a wiki because I'm the approved contributor on it
"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

Compare this with "Hackers and Painters", where mathematicians are placed on an opposite side of the spectrum from painters (and hackers).
If mobile devices could be used to pay for transit fares and buy lunch, it could happen. Transit fares could be what gets things started. There are big problems with this, however. No one actually has the motivation to get this started. The transit authorities already have fare collection that works well enough. Security would be a big worry. No phone manufacturers would want that headache, and there's no existing demand for such features.
"He was given a 10% stake in Apple, but relinquished his stock for $800 only two weeks later"

facepalm
They are not as creepy as most other animations I've seen.
maybe they used the reddit source.
Many people wanted Cuil to succeed, and there was obviously alot of interest in it when it launched. It could have gained traction quickly. Cuil's launch wasn't problematic because Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc... are too big. They struggled because their product sucked.
They eyes still need lots of work. That's going to be the final frontier of the "uncanny valley". The eyes move, change focus and refract light differently hundreds of times per minute. It will make rendering realistic water look like an Amiga rendering a bouncing ball in 1989.
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Project Euler has a nice problem based on this work: http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=84
I still wouldn't use a modified MTA card - cameras are pointed at every turnstile, and swipes could be logged with card id/money left on card. From a master log, it would be pretty trivial to find any inconsistencies and id you from the tapes...
Yep. In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell mentioned a couple of researchers who have identified a huge number of individual sets of facial muscles that are used in various combinations for the entire human emotional range.

I think this software -- which is incredibly amazing -- is missing just enough of those muscles that subconsciously we're getting incomplete signals from the faces.
Thanks for the feedback. The client is now talking hard cash for the first phase and a convertible note for the second phase.
the benefit of engineyard is that you don't have to administer the server. Engineyard is not cheap though.
the problem with linux is that you spend a good amount of time tweaking it to get 80% of the usability of a mac.

When I used ubuntu full time for 2 years I twice had to spend close to a full day getting my sound to work again after I did an apt-get upgrade. Copy and paste didn't always work between apps. There is no photoshop. Flash was buggy on linux back then (i have no idea if it is now) and I had to reinstall flash a few times after updating firefox.

There isn't any major thing one can point to with linux and say "that is the problem". Instead it's a long list of issues that suck time and ultimately productivity.
I started working as a developer working on the web in 1995, and somehow managed to avoid the bags full of cash and sports cars that were falling from the sky.

I did my first internet startup in 1997, a "secure remote data storage solution" which bombed due to partnering issues unfortunately.

I did get to spend lots of time consulting on companies doing things that were varying degrees of ridiculous, which was a great learning experience.

To this day I get a kick out of the people who told me the internet was a toy that wouldn't ever amount to anything. (This was in 93-95 when I was still learning and convinced that I wanted to do web work).
oh, and cygwin is a superficial and leaky abstraction .
A VPS provider(i recommend SuperBytes.net) is probably the cheapest route. You would just have to install RoR yourself.
I like the flexibility in the animations, but the mannerisms of each expression doesn't seem to fit well with the person. I wonder if this software will take advantage of characteristic expressions and not use the same animation points to produce expressions and actions.
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faceilbook.com

I just got an email from one of my friends, It took me to faceilbook.com which is a FB phising site, Firefox did not come up with any alert, (it did the second time).

I cannot get this bastards IP.

here are hes other details:

changfeng zhang
03783306601 fax: 03783306601
kaifenghuanghedadao246hao61
kaifeng henan 475100
cn

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I don't know much of the background of this, or any of Wayne's background.

But from reading this it appears this may be one of the best examples of why not to play around with lawyer stuff if you are not a lawyer.

Don't write a partnership agreement. Form a corporation and then you are not liable for the debts of others. That is law 101.

Am I missing something to this story?
You might actually get downmodded here for not explaining why you think the Zune is crap. Lots of people here agree, but just saying "Its crap" might cause some with long memories to recall the "Scottish Store" skit on SNL but won't add anything to the discussion.

I personally found that although the Zune had some compelling features that might have caused me to overlook its clunky form factor, each of those features had some artificial restriction placed on them that made them not useful in real life.

For the record, I do not own an Apple player either. My "mp3 player" is a whole box of tiny vaguely shuffle-like 1Gb mini players I got as a lot on ebay. They worked out to be $7 each and I got 20 of them. I gave some to my friends with "mix tapes" on them and filled a bunch of the others with various collections. I never worry about losing them and just grab the one with the tunes I'm in the mood for on my way out. They came in multiple colors so I didn't even bother labeling them. I did spring for a nice pair of headphones. The players actually sound much better than you might expect.
who said all this was done to actually use the hacked cards? :)
> custom color lid? who cares?

I care. I have to use the machine(s) every single day, sometimes for hours on end. If it's ugly, I don't want to look at it. Same goes for accessories. It's impossible to find a half decent non-black or pink womens laptop bag (I believe there's a special and separate level of hell just for the color pink, that's how much I hate it). I just stick with nondescript messenger bags, which don't always fit the occasion but oh well.

My black MacBook has an engraved lid (http://flickr.com/photos/chix0r/2490375769/). The biggest benefit is that it sticks out like a sore thumb so I know it's mine, since so many people don't do anything to their MacBooks after getting one. Very convenient when you're in a sea of Apple laptops..which used to happen to me at WWDC but now also happens at pretty much any tech conference nowadays.

It also makes a great conversation starter with lots of people who are very tempted to touch it..everywhere from airport security waiting lines to the apple store and all.
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This implies that its a zero sum situation. The goodwill generated might actually (probably) lead to an increase in sales overall despite the small discounts per sale.

Big business seems positively blinded to this potential emergent behavior. Sometimes I find it extremely comical how giant companies with the resources to hire a legion of economists will defy common sense in pursuit of a nickel at the cost of a dollar, all the while dragging their reputation through the mud.
I haven't used them yet, but they look like exactly what I'm looking for in a host.

The only downside is that they only accept credit card payments, but considering what they are offering it's not that big of a deal.
Quick, someone cook up a ruby script to generate a million or so bogus logins to swamp any real logins they might have gotten so far. Pass it around.
Yes, being risk averse can hurt you one day.
Looking at my inbox this rings true: The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness.
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only problem I see here is content and how frequently you would get correct hacker kinda news(that too India specific) there. You can't follow multiple sites for same news.

From the current content I don't find any technical article there. India specific news can be followed by

1. http://india.alltop.com

2. follow indianews on twitter

good initiative though.
Thats really cool. I had never read that. In doing so, its easy to see now why Orwell created short powerful books. He really was concentrating on his craft and using a systematic approach to his writing.

Thanks for sharing.
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Here is the IP of part of this bastards network,

202.111.175.39

This is also part of the scam: Logonsish.com

These are other sites hosted on the same IP

1) advertise-bz.com (view site)

2) com.rnyspacelogon.com (view site)

3) debtbreakfreeusa.com (view site)

4) demographic-data.net (view site)

5) fanebook.com (view site)

6) flawlesswatches.com (view site)

7) getremoved.net (view site)

8) join-today.net (view site)

9) mchughrecruitment.com (view site)

10) mylyearbook.com (view site)

11) myspecai.com (view site)

12) myzyearbook.com (view site)

13) rnyspacelogon.com (view site)

14) secure-myspace.com (view site)

15) sxygirls.net (view site)

16) vids-rnyspace.com (view site)

17) vids-rnyspace.com (view site)
The real problem is that a lot of people drive on the same roads at the same time. What they're doing on the roads is irrelevant (although work is probably the biggest cause of the demand for road usage. I assume you're attempting to make a case for staggering work hours so "rush hour" is spread over a longer time).

Roads are an interesting economic model. There are basically 3 primary factors: current demand, current supply, and price. Price is especially interesting because price isn't necessarily dollars (or your currency of choice).

Price = Demand/Supply

So if demand goes up (rush hour, popular events, etc.) or supply goes down (construction, accidents blocking lanes) then the price goes up. Part of the price is paid in taxes that goes to build and maintain the road, the other component of price is time. How much time will you spend driving. If it's rush hour and there was a collision blocking the left lane and you're on your way to a baseball game then the demand is pretty high, and the supply is pretty low, so the price will go up. If this isn't a toll road, then the additional price you're paying is 100% time. Of course the beauty is that you could in theory take a toll road and pay in currency instead of time, although there aren't always toll roads as options.

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I suppose the best solution is A: don't go anywhere, or B: get a transporter like in Star Trek.</sarcasm>