skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This proposes to encode an encryption key into the NS delegation for a zone, and backing it up with an encryption scheme touted to be fast enough to handle high loads.

The idea of encoding a key into the NS name sounds like something djb would dream up, seeing the names as useless anyway (you'd get that impression after using his software and reading his notes on dns). The part that pushes the solution over the top is providing a fast enough encryption algorithm to work for dns servers.

What can I say, I'm impressed.
this is the case in XP, but is one of the things i noticed was changed in Vista
I love ruby, but reading why's guides didn't help me at all when I learned ruby. I liked them though, but it didn't help me understand anything, more like watching an episode of Professor Baltazar - fun and incomprehensible.
People don't go to the internet for local stuff like what's posted on that bulletin board because there is no good site for it. Because there is no good site for it, people don't look for that type of info on the net and the problem perpetuates itself.

Newspapers, for example, had online classifieds before Craigslist, but craigslist made it easy and cheap (or free). I don't understand why local newspapers don't have free online classifieds. It would drive up page views, give your community a sense that your paper is relevant, and allow visitors to the site exposure to your content further enhancing the experience and so on.

Something needs to be done by newspapers to add value to their customers lives. This could be it. Lets hope someone tries.
Believe it or not, sensibleerection.com has some of the best intelligent and witty discussion I've found on the web. Sure there's the occasional pornography post, but most all of the people there offer intelligent debate.
http://within3.com is a local startup in Cleveland that some members hang out on YC
This is programming for the type of person who cannot retain information from blobs of code and small text snippets(ie. All programming books)

You find these sort of things in the little schemer and such.I loved hist first guide and it taught me alot.
uh, yea
Were you majoring in Sahara dessert history or what?
Last time this came up I posted this:

Lets do it with stuff we can get and see what happens:

Main Board: (truly open, schematics and all) : http://beagleboard.org/ ($149)

Screen : Lilliput 8" 1024x768 touch screen (http://www.case-mod.com/lilliput-809gl80npct-lcd-touch-scree....) ($259)

Network : 802.11g wifi (http://www.usbgear.com/USB-Wi-Fi.html) ($30)

Battery: 7.4v LiIon 5200mAh (4 hours run) http://www.all-battery.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&.... ($50)

Case: Injection Mold plastic (http://www.emachineshop.com/molding_machines/injection_moldi....) ($10)

Cost to build a single one, ignoring volume discounts and cost to assemble: $498.

I still think the price is going to end up being around this. You could actually go and make this today. It would be cool if someone were to just throw up an instructable and a compact flash image of the OS for the beagle, then we could all go make our own. Someone could design a nice plastic case and have a bunch made (or just have emachineshop hang on to the molds) so they'd be cheap for all.
I have always extended this with the acronym "VAN". (I remind myself that programming is like driving a van.)

Verb Adjective Noun

"Enter New Customers" better than "Custs"

"Pay All Bills" better than "Accts Payable"

"Download Changed SKUs" better than "SKU Update"

You get the idea.

Not just for buttons, but for everything, even the stuff the user never sees.

So simple, yet so elusive.
Browsing the comments on TC, and I found this quite telling/interesting.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/update-on-the-techcrunc...

In case it goes:
"A couple of weeks ago I was asked to make a simple cad model for the prototype hardware.
http://tctablet.altronix.se/#2.11

I would like to finish the work but since last week I have not been able to to get in touch with them on either irc or skype… :/"
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I learned Ruby from the Poignant Guide. I thought it was quite a fun way to learn. I think part of the secret is that the text was so puzzling and jokey that I found myself using the code to help figure out what was going on. If you don't read the code, you can't get the jokes. By the time I was finished, I was trained: now I subconsciously expect Ruby code to be more comprehensible than English itself!

I also printed it out and read it from paper, which helps because it makes it easier to hold your head in your hands and stare at one example for minutes at a time. I think I must have spent an hour contemplating the enormous implications of Dwemthy's Array.
I love people who take risks and follow their passions, but if your resume lists a series of short stints at failed startups, I think it’s natural to question a person’s career management skills.

I'd rather keep working at failing start ups than apply to a company with that attitude.

Jer
I don't think most newspapers would ever do this, because almost all newspaper revenue comes from paid print advertisements. They're afraid of undercutting themselves. Whether that's a rational fear, I'm not sure.
"Our biggest mistake in our startup was scrapping a prototype that was built in a certain framework for first PHP and then eventually Python/Django. ... This applies not just to the programming language or framework, but to hardware and software applications — keep costs low, use what you already know, and move on"

This is one that requires a large grain of salt. Switching technology may very well be compatible with "use what you already know" and "keep costs low". You can't switch key players in the middle and expect consistency in either quality or cost, which a lot of people think is possible. "You can’t afford to have a religion" works both ways: you can't have a religion based on what you perceive to the value of what you've already done either. I've come into a few projects after a not insignificant money was spent on "cheap" freelancers and contractors to "get the prototype up". Now all I'm supposed to do is add a few more features and polish it to take it to the next level or deploy it. This is often an impossible task, or one that will take longer or cost more than a rewrite because it merely does the prototypical features and wasn't built for expansion or even deployment. But people fear the "rewrite" because it sounds like you're starting over. Get the right people in early, use #8 when necessary, and #6, #7 will come easier (at least in terms of the technology).
I'll agree with everything but promotion.
For those of you wondering if you should be impressed, the answer is yes.
"biceps, back muscles" how?
I totally disagree; the OSX box is even more confusing. The problem is that you are performing two actions at the same time. First is closing the file and second is saving he file. For the box to be clear both issues have to be clear.

TextEdit:
Save - Clearly this saves the document
Cancel - I think this cancels the save, but does it close the file too? Not sure.
Don't Save - Ok "Don't Save", but then what? Does this close the document or is it the same as Cancel? Wait, I'm not 100% sure what cancel does.

The WordPad message is a little clunky because you have to read what the box in order to know you are saving. However, once you read the box Yes/No is very clear, cancel still leaves a bit to be desired.

If you really want to be clear the buttons should say:
Save,
Abandon changes,
Go Back
There are a lot of things in a UI that are Verbs. But there are also lots of things that are Tools. Tools seem to be devices that are used for certain verbs, or a single verbs. If there are plural verbs, these should go together in a way that makes sense. (Example: a file selection dialog that lets you navigate folders and create new folders.)

Are Tools valid? Are they over used? Are they used enough?
I've done some tech recruiting and I agree, definitely a plus.
Defining custom operators in Perl 6
Only if it appears under "Objectives".
I developed http://zerodaydeals.com (there is a good amount of back-end to it) as a one-person show and am developing http://overtrainer.com in the same way
Personally, this idea could be quite viral too. Imagine - you get 10 karma points when you invite someone to use the website because you just introduce someone into this Kind World.
What's tough about it is that he was 14 and it was the 80's... way before it was popular to take pot shots at PHP.
no, you probably learned more by failing at your startup for 3 years, than your peers who spent it working as low level corporate drones doing useless things.
Coovents - A Simple Way to Share Events via the Web or Phone
All the sites I was visiting were top-down structures. They would tell me what was going on. I couldn't add to the discussion or easily create an event. Wouldn't it be great to create a service that allows people to easily add and share events? This strategy is bottom-up, and is fundamentally what makes Coovents unique. Collectively, the people on the streets have a better idea of what is going on than any single source. I created a service that can potentiality harness their information and make it shareable.

For more Coovents info, check out: http://www.SoUrban.net/Coovents-A-Simple-Way-to-Share-Events
sportshit.com was available

And you let that one go? Haha.
"Standford?"
Utagoe Live 100 Is FriendFeed for Video Streams
Create something awesome that people want and need, whether it's a product, content, or a service. I'm not saying that "if you build it, they will come", but the vast majority of the blogs, companies, and personal brands out there vying for attention are copycats, peddling the same tired content, commentary, and poorly-executed ideas.
"Cancel - I think this cancels the save, but does it close the file too? Not sure."

Obviously, it "cancels" - eg puts things back into the state before you clicked 'quit'.

'don't save' quits, but does not save. You did click on 'quit' after all.

Personally I think that's pretty clear.
Another sweet site in this same vein is http://mobaganda.com
And yet, this is exactly what I've been looking for for the past year or so. Not every computer needs to be a content creation device; I want a computer for my kitchen that's used for retrieving recipes. I can make the software to store and present the recipies, but I can't find a keyboard-free tablet (basically a 10" nokia 770) that would be useful for displaying the recipies in my kitchen, mounted on the wall.

One man's useless junk is another man's dream...
This 'Usability Tip' is well-known and nevertheless absolutely true. See this document for further reading:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conc...
yea, mobaganda is cool, super easy to use, but coovents and mobaganda are very different. coovents is a way to advertise your event, mobaganda helps you manage your event.
This guy's analysis is basically this: they won't be able to do it.

Also, his assertation that a touchscreen doesn't add much value to a web browser is nonsense. I love browsing on my iPhone, because it's intuitive and easy to navigate. But browsing on my blackberry was annoying as hell. Scrolling through all the links on the page to get to the one you want is a horrible user experience.

I'd say that $250 - $300 is a more realistic price range for this thing that they're building, but let's see what they can pull off.
Your link for the lcd touchscreen is truncated with elipses. That is, the actual href="" part is truncated. Is this a feature of the hn software, or did the link get pasted in wrong?
Good points. I do a lot of swimming and soccer playing for general overall fitness - would like to do some upper body work, but just cannot motive myself to do a full range of exercises (takes to long and I find them too boring!) ... so pushups may get me started!
A keyboard for this kind of device would be stupid. If that's what you're after, just get an Eee. And browsing the web without a touchscreen or some kind of pointing device would be a horrible experience.

They've got the concept nailed for the most part...now the challenging is building it for that price.
My business partner and I have both quit our day jobs and are now in the middle of starting a company to solve this exact problem; we launch in two weeks. I'd love to give more details, but we're trying to maintain a very low profile for the next 6-12 months...
More languages should have a facility for keeping track of units and doing conversions, regardless of whether it's done in the type system or at runtime.

Making this a part of the type system seems a little strange to me. Obviously it's nice to get warnings at compile-time or in the IDE. But I keep trying to imagine how you might make a feature like this useful as a parameter to strings, or a user-defined type, and with functions other than the arithmetic operators.
Although you can get stuff into space with a supergun, getting stuff into space without smashing it to bits from the acceleration is a good deal harder.

As for solar power satellites, if you're talking about powering earthbound stuff with them, the cost of getting the satellites up doesn't seem to me like it'd be the major issue. I'm not an expert, but from what I do know, the bigger problem would be getting the power back down to earth efficiently and cheaply.
This happened to me recently.

Girlfriend: Hey, why are you calling $(other girl I didn't date about 5 years ago)? I found her number in your recent calls.

Me: Um, we are having lunch today, remember?

Her: Aha!

1-2 days before this:

Me: Hey, do you remember where that brunch place with potato chip nachos is? I'm going out with $(other girl) this weekend, and that place was good.

Her: OMFG, a new facebook activity!
KDD talk on the Future of Image Search
As Oku repeated a maneuver several times, the trajectory of the helicopter inevitably varied slightly with each flight. But the learning algorithms created by Ng's team were able to discern the ideal trajectory the pilot was seeking. Thus the autonomous helicopter learned to fly the routine better—and more consistently—than Oku himself.

This is incredibly cool work -- it's clear how this is a more general approach than hard-coding a bunch of rules about how to fly a particular helicopter, under particular assumptions about the environment and the desired maneuvers.

In the future, I wonder if it would be possible to improve the learning algorithms to the point that no human expert is even needed: you could toss the helicopter up in the air, and have it essentially figure out how to fly the machine before it hit the ground.

This work is also a nice counterpoint to those who question the value of the work being done in academic computer science. I think there is more innovation and long-term value in these sorts of projects than in a dozen typical Web 2.0 social networking startups.
Writing this I actually had the Nobel prize for Literature in mind, which I feel, along with the Pulitzer, has been largely coopted for political reasons. Were I to suggest to a person of average talent the surest way to a Nobel prize (in other words, how to hack it) I would recommend they take up writing, and especially that sort of writing which is unabashedly anti-establishment.

If you were to read through the works of the recipients in the last ten years, you would find the following trend: low quality, combined with the sort of multicultural leanings popular in US academics. This is to simply point out that the prize is no longer rewarding quality work and is instead promoting a political agenda, something that devalues the prize and tarnishes the legacy of past deserving winners. People like Kenzaburo Oe, Dario Fo, and Imre Kertész, while they are respectable writers, fall far short of what I would consider "outstanding work." The only conclusion you can draw then is that their awards were based on their political ideology, or the ideology they represent. Kertész's award, for instance, caused a stir, and rightfully so, since his body of work is small and not particularly good, even in the better translations. It is not even particularly notable among its genre, other than for the fact that it has now received a Nobel prize.

I was one of the early comments in the thread, and thought the thread might evolve into a discussion on ways to Hack the Nobel, a topic I thought of more lasting interest than a clever way of concealing gold. In terms of work done for effect achieved, it seems much easier to take up writing, or to become a politician and branch over into some tumultuous area, than to devote your life to the quiet pursuit of science, which I feel is much more difficult, less rewarding, and largely responsible for the reputation the lesser Nobels feed off of.

I never spent much time thinking about Al Gore's award since to me it indicated an open-and-shut case of bias, typical of the Nobel committee these days, and unworthy of further reflection. I didn't intend to refer to it specifically when I made my initial comment (provoking a reaction from supporters of his ideology), since I could think of many instances to which the comment applied, the recent Peace Prize being just one instance among many.
Yes, it was designed to be general purpose, but is it? I mean, do people use it that way?
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In an informal survey I did, doctors seemed very technophobic. I went to a teaching hospitals website and brought up a list of new residents. 0/10 were members of facebook or linkedIn. Compared to my mechanical engineering lab (I am a graduate student) where it is 5/5.

In my opinion (based on doctors I know), smart people who are technophobic go into medicine.

But I do agree that this area should have tons of opportunity.
Investment banks are not really like other large companies, tho'; they're more like a a federation of independent entities. You don't work for the bank, you work for the head of whatever desk or P&L. If a head of desk makes money, no-one cares what he does, he can run his own little fiefdom, a business within a business. This is one reason that banks infrastructure is such a mess, if the head of Dollar-Yen wants something he won't wait for central IT to get round to it, he'll give his geeks a budget and say make it happen.
OK and Cancel are verbs.
How do you propose that one types an email? Enters a web address? Go it iPhone style?!

And why would you need a touchscreen to browse the web? The only things you would do on a website are enter the address, scroll, type into forms, and click a link. A touchscreen only addresses the very last of these, while a keyboard deals with all of them. A button on the side of the screen - or a vertical touchpad even - would easily solve the button problem.
It's a reasonable question to ask; I ask it every time I interview a contractor who suddenly wants a permie job after years of contracting. They all say something about wanting to settle down and build a career. In the majority of cases, they just can't find a contract right now, and when they do, they scarper.

A failed startup I'd count as valuable experience (supervising people is a pain for me, I want people who can think and act on their own initiative) but at the same time, I'd want a decent explanation for the abrupt career shift. "Because I need to make some money" is perfectly valid, and gets top marks from me for honesty.
I built the prototype. I was going to afford you a response to your first comment, but you have just been ranting. You can't even recognize the difference between a 13" Macbook Air screen and the 12" WXGA screen we used.

the guy above who talked about not disclosing components as a negotiating strategy with ODM's knows what he is talking about. He is also right in that there are a few people here in the valley who really know how to bend an ODM.
So how about when you have a startup on your resume that didn't fail and got acquired?
Who Put the Google Earth in my Game?
How does showing you can shoot down other peoples satellites protect your own, when the people who might do it to you dont have many anyway. "If you shoot down our 444, we'll shoot down your 43".

Just seems to me like another obscene waste of money to show you can do something that you would never want to do anyway. Destroying the enemies satellites would more than likely damage your own in the process.
>(since war changes things) it can be hard to find again

Fair point, but not really applicable in Denmark. The Nazi's occupied Denmark more or less without resistance, so they were more subject to ideological hardship than the usual horrors of war.
Ever hear of a project called the Apple II that a "barefoot nerd" named Steve Wozniak cooked up in his apartment on down time from his HP day job? The customers and shareholders of Apple Computer are all grateful that he didn't share your belief that "no matter how good the EE, you can't do that stuff at a messy kitchen table - you need serious resources."
By starting to develop the project, it'll probably be easier to find a partner because you'll have something to show them, and it demonstrates that you are the kind of person who actually does something about his ideas other than just talk about them.
Well, they definitely underestimated how powerful and cheap computers would be. No one from that era saw the biotech revolution coming. I guess that's long-term enough?
The Net Neutrality Debate All On One Page
There are three languages that I really don’t like
I enjoy http://ask.metafilter.com more than the main Metafilter site.
"Facebook Helped Me Win," Claims Politician
Stack Overflow: the Blind Leading the Blind
Even Gnome has been doing this for several years now. I think Microsoft has good UI people, but none of them work on Windows. Strange, and sad.
Developing social applications with Drupal
Actually, there was an active Danish resistance to the German occupation, particularly toward the end of the war.
Dangerous Gems
Learning from Alan Kay, 11 years later
This story is pretty ridiculous. The risks involved with installing packages from a community repository are universal.
I'd rather have a Bayesian filter than a downmod. Heck, it might even pick up on self-referential forum language.
e-mail me when you launch. always interested in local stuff. windycitizen @ gmail.com
I'm wondering if making the dialog text even more contextual would be better?

"Do you want save the changes you made to the document "Test Doc" before quitting?

Quit without Saving / Don't Quit / Save and Quit"
2008 Git User's Survey
Short sentences and they're there for emphasis. I think it's in Strunk & White that they say "what do you do when you've shrunk your language so small that there's nothing left" - repetition! Say everything 3 times!
Web Services That Cater To Both The Publisher And The Reader
Rephrase it this way:

"How does demonstrating that we can shoot down 100% of China's spy satellite resources in response to them shooting down 5% of ours deter them from initiating hostilities ?"

> Destroying the enemies satellites would more than likely damage your own in the process.

You're making assumptions about what percent of our orbital resources are not yet in orbit and are instead bunkered in hardened silos waiting to be deployed.

You're assuming that the answer is 0%.
I built my proof-of-concept on my own.

Lessons learned:

- Working on your own rocks because - you can do what you want, when you want to.

- Working on your own sucks because - you do what you want, when you want to.

It isn't a route for the unmotivated. You also lack a feedback loop, so you can't be sure you are producing high quality stuff as there is no local sanity check.
Indeed. When I (briefly) worked on hardware, even the prototypes had to be contracted out because you can't make PCBs and solder BGA on your kitchen table. We were aiming substantially higher than a tablet, though, so maybe you can do a lot with an eval board and some sheet metal.