skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use twitter exclusively for breaking news and only access it via TwitterGadget on my iGoogle homepage. I only follow a handful of users and almost never tweet myself. I've pruned down the list of users I follow to those that consistently post interesting content related to financial markets and/or major news stories.
Not being annoyed every time you unlock the phone is often a higher priority. Especially when you have to opt in.
So says the rumor mill anyway.
This carries over a little from Twitter. Using follower count as some sort of authority/popularity index on one hand but using it power a feature (the stream) on the other hand.

Facebook solves this by filtering the stream based on relationship level you have with the user (building out relevancy vector). You get to keep the status of being "a friend"(follower) without it affecting your news stream.
do you know where he dismissed it? the article at http://www.schneier.com/essay-306.html is still up, with no disclaimer or obvious link to a correction.
Here's the thing though. Like I feel like he came to my site and was like "Hey I don't think this guy patented his stuff. I'm going to patent it now, then come back and get him".

Can people do this with the patent system?
Nope, you just had it set to auto, which makes it warn you about slow connections. I set it to off when I saw the first popup and I've never seen it since. They're pretty good about being nonintrusive and nice.
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I saw this a few days ago. I believe that if another country hacked the US and took top secret data, it could potentially cause as much damage as a conventional weapon. So, using conventional weapons in retaliation for cyber-attacks doesn't seem that far fetched.

We are definitely in an interesting time with regards to technology and policy. Both exciting and scary.
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I'm working through Erlang and OTP in Action (Manning) and while it's not as concise as K&R it's doesn't strike me as having been gratuitously bulked up at all.
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If the law allows reverse engineering (like here in Germany) your license can prohibit it as much as it wants. It's still legal and no violation of the law.
That tech specifically didn't work with anti-aliased images.
A competitor who has come up with a different approach to the interviewing challenge is http://codeeval.com/

Their approach is different/beyond watching the candidate code.

(I am not affiliated with them in any way.)
> How long will it last?

As long as qualifying as a WP7 integrator reduces the extor^H^H^H^H^Hlicensing fees for their Android phones.
A friend of mine at Novell in the late 90's once heard Schmidt say, "Novell is a fish. Microsoft is the ocean." How times have changed since then!
He could at least deliver to arbitrary locations like "Ronnie" the underground cheese griller in NYC.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/he_making_gouda...

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/09/21/am...

He was covered quite a bit last year for taking orders via text message and for being mildly subversive of the NYC health department.
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Well... The opera singing surrender monkeys were supposed to take care of that.
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So what's stopping me from creating multiple accounts and swapping bitcoins between them to prevent them from ever expiring?
>"What did he have to say about Microsoft? It “is not driving the consumer revolution in the minds of consumers,” he remarked."

Consumers are not Microsoft's primary focus - businesses are and have been since they made their first big deal with IBM (International Business Machines). Microsoft has always had a primary strategy of developing business software and then packaging the relevant pieces for the consumer market, e.g. Microsoft bundles virtualization (Windows Virtual PC) with OS's sold on commodity computers in BestBuy. Even though it can flow the other way, to the degree that our workplaces set consumers' expectations for computers, Microsoft is the clear leader.
Are you referring to the law nicked named the Clinton computer law?

Read it again, any viewing of data on a computer requires notifying accused 180 days after the data view, no exceptions.

As I understand it, the Patriot act replaces that requirement.
In Europe there are no software patents. Do they develop software and innovate there?
I like the new trend of replacing the unlock button with a fingerprint reader-

http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308370/moto-atrix-fing...

Not only is is faster and more secure, but it also creates many interesting opportunities:

-User accounts with different permissions (your kids could play games but not access the dialer or edit files).

-different actions for different fingers (ring finger sends a call to voicemail).

-True wallet replacement (square could have a field day).

-A trustworthy form of temporary bricking would nearly eliminate simple theft (10 wrong swipes and you have to visit a vendor with some id to have it unlocked)
Practical pubkey verification & authentication requires a repository of public keys. Also, shudder password recovery/reset mechanisms.

I spent a few hours thinking about it once: this isn't much different from the DNS problem.

If a good distributed DNS system can be developed (ie, highly resistant to malicious poisoning), that algorithm can likely transfer to pubkey archives.
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My company advertises on Stack Overflow and have had very interesting results. We get very low volume, something on the order of 1 to 3 responses per posting. However, the quality of these applicants is very high, which is great because we are not looking for commodity programmers.

I think SO Careers is currently a sort of high-end site for programming jobs, and Monster is a meat market.
How about donating MySQL too!
Ask HN: best windows laptop
What's the best Windows laptop? Assume price is not an issue, it's moved around a lot. For developing and browsing, mainly.
There exists an open source bitcoin exchange, but it is still in its early phases (mentioned in the Calacanis interview.) Theoretically, if the company was large enough, they could open an exchange. That's what PayPal should do: accept bitcoin and open up an exchange.

here it is:
https://gitorious.org/intersango/
by http://bitcoinconsultancy.com/
> And really? 5 downvotes for saying that the link does't work? This community has really declined.

Downvotes for an error message posted with no context[1] on the other hand, are entirely appropriate.

[1] The error appears to have been fixed, so reading the article provides no context - I didn't even realize that that was where it had appeared until reading brk's comment.
Yes, peace would be the best outcome, but there is probably some overarching reason for the war that won't be solved by two armies deciding not to fight for tactical reasons.
SMS is not global and is quite expensive to get started with. Only the major players like Google can roll out worldwide SMS authentication. Email is out of the question because it often takes several minutes to receive an email (due to POP-fetching intervals etc)
It's a bunch of poorly research conjecture and hyperbole. It doesn't even rate as a well argued opinion piece
Often times customers use your product in a way you didn't intend. A $300 house may have value, just maybe not the way the builders envision it.
It might be the opposite. Many internet businesses are winner-take-all and YC companies clearly have a "leg up" in terms of having been vetted, having an attractive culture and getting superior mentorship. Investors could very well fixate even more on YC graduates
Using MTGOX.com just convert it back to USD, you'll be charged however a 0.65% fee. From there you can transfer it to a personal or business Dwolla account for only $0.25 cents. From Dwolla you can deposit it into your bank account for free.

Too many steps in my opinion but hey, it is an entirely new currency.
then Bitcoin came along...
It might be worth mentioning how IE 6 is still there. IE 6 is the only version that ever came with Windows XP and 2003 install images, which many many corps still use. And remember that the average lifetime of a Windows installation on a corporate desktop is actually pretty short, getting wiped and re-imaged frequently as people leave or machines are moved around or some Outlook error pops up and the IT guy re-images because that's faster than digging in to fix it. So IE 6 comes out of the reinstallation casket all the time.

It's not that corps are scared of upgrading, it's just not worthwhile from a cost-benefit standpoint to download and install IE 8 on every single machine on every reinstall. Their users that want IE 8 or Firefox will go get it; the users that don't know what a browser version is never know that they're missing anything. IE 6 will only go away when Windows XP does.

FWIW, I intentionally keep IE 6 on my work machine (not a big corp, but we sell to them) for testing, and use Opera for real browsing.
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Visual Basic is an easy and fun introduction to programming and there is nothing limiting about it.
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Chinese hack on Gmail accounts raises cyberwar tensions
Thinkpad...

If portability isn't an issue, than the new W520 or T520.

If you don't like lugging around a giant monster, the new X220.

Everyone will chime in with a reason to avoid $Manufacturer (for me I avoid Dell and HP), I'm not sure if there's really a consensus.
You had man pages, which are as good if not better than what you might find on Google. If you were writing C programs on a UNIX system, everything you needed was there. No need for K&R to kill trees putting all that in their book.
I too am rather interested what $30/mo buys me beyond what I can get from running "info" -- as these plugins do -- or tallying / snapshotting command statistics into the same graphing software(s).
Is there any way to remove spam from pyramid schemes from HN??? Please?
No I disagree. We don't need patents. We just don't. The world, on average, is much better off without them.
Exactly, it would cost a company like Lodsys only a few thousand dollars to hire a couple of devs and build an iPhone application that makes use of the patent currently under consideration. That would not be a considerable additional burden when you consider that legal fees for acquiring a patent already stretch into the tens of thousands of dollars.
ie. this one http://amzn.to/jRWwyx? What do you like about the Thinkpad? I dislike the brand, reminds me of crappy company laptops being handed out to me.
Actually, you wouldn't even need to have extra quadcopters for charging purposes: you would just need extra batteries.
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Hmm . . . as long as the requests are not being handled on the same thread as the one doing the fsync, this shouldn't stop work in the process or make anything appreciably slower.
FYI, if one of the "expectations to be understood" coming in is that they likely won't be getting a job, tell them that straight up. That's what I'm talking about. The expectation of interning at Microsoft or whatever is that 70% of the interns will be getting full time jobs. If that's not the case for you, be frank about it.
This is a great discussion of these items:
1. Sustainable competitive advantage - "How easy is it for someone
else to provide the same product or service that you provide?"
2. The Presence of Network Effects - do more customers create more
value for all customers?
3. Revenue Visibility and Predictability
4. Customer Lock-in/High Switching Costs
5. Gross Margin Level: higher is better
6. Marginal Profitability / Economies of Scale
7. Many Customers: Low Customer Concentration
8. Lack of Dependency on Major Partner(s)
9. Natural Demand (vs. Heavy Marketing Spend Needed)
10. Growth
Indeed there are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunoichi
Currency exchange.

https://mtgox.com/
A week or two later on his blog:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/more_details_o...

"The rumor that China used a system Google put in place to enable lawful intercepts, which I used as a news hook for this essay, has not been confirmed. At this point, I doubt that it's true."
Why Gold: fluke, or something more fundamental?
Windows 8 interface resembles Windows phone 7
Love Jinja2 but like Slim templates syntax better? Why not have both?
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The article on one side and the serious comments on the other side have me really torn, please help me - this is satire right? Right???
Easy to read western propaganda and jump to conclusions without viewing the whole picture.

Of course the US hack the Chinese govt. Just because china don't publish accounts of attacks does not mean attacks are not occurring.

We already know Google are quite jaded towards China given their failure to succeed in the china market. Thus I take anything they comment about China with a grain of salt, given they clearly have an agenda.

An attack originating in Jinan does not necessarily mean chinese govt either. Given China's opaqueness on cyber issues, anyone wanting to hack anyone else could use china as a place to do it.

Though I agree, governments should invest in educating people on phishing scams.
Don't buy anything second-hand unless they can show the proof-of-purchase so you know you're not buying a hot item. This isn't new advice.
http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/articles/classes-as-syntactic-su...

My Ocaml code is not pure, but we can easy remove any occurrence of `ref`, and restricting oneself to pure methods, which produce a new fresh object instead of modifying `this` in place.
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Google supports HOTP-based codes that can be generated by a mobile application or even a local bookmarklet. They also support printed one-time codes.

Here's the open source project for the mobile app and PAM module:
http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/

(Disclaimer: I worked on this.)
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No, god damn it, that was not my intention, [my iq is not 75]. Nor I am a liberal or USA-conservative [I'd say I am left wing non-religious traditionalist; think a person who'd like living in DDR] - I despise both of these extremist ideologies. My intention was to crack a joke, but did not expect that people take everything as a face value and have very dorky thinking process; I apologize..
Hey people. Jinja2 http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/ is a good general purpose templating engine. But Slim http://slim-lang.com/docs.html nailed it down with its clear syntax.

I end up using Jinja2 a lot more often than slim - so I wrote a translator to support slim syntax for jinja2. Questions/feedback welcome.
We deal with a large enterprise that uses old versions of IE and whenever our support team encounters one we just upgrade them to Chrome. Sadly we can't recommend any other browser since they all require admin access for some reason.
You don't need to have data access to use Google's two-factor authentication.
No need to violate anyone's privacy; do it completely on the client side. Then bridge to public via Buzz (in the case of Google).
Building "Windows 8" - A first look at the new "Windows 8" user interface
The South had enough of an industrial base to sustain a 1:1 kill ratio for years. Their mistake was to provoke a hot war instead of a cold war, causing most of their capacity to be diverted to fighting, instead of to industrial build-up and R&D. The time was ripe to replace slavery with automation, and instead they blew it all on a swinging dick attack on Fort Sumter.
You thought they discussing whether someone could be sued post-issue for actions between the patent application and the patent issue? I assumed he had been talking about whether someone could be sued for providing a service even if they had begun providing that service before the patent was granted. Now that I reread the discussion, however, I can see that text itself is rather ambiguous and that I had just assumed the interpretation that made sense to me. It seems another poster came to the same conclusion I did, since he pointed out that its the date of invention that the online service would have to precede, not the date of filing.
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Can you talk a little bit more about the designer role? I don't see the job posted on your site.
That might change if Microsoft really buys Nokia. Currently just a rumor but it might still make sense to look for alternatives already.
You'd be surprised. The ones that raise the most money also have the hardest time getting over the preferred total. The purchaser will take care of the employees it wants, but other common shareholders often end up out of luck.
My problem with pg's numbers is that they are almost entirely theoretical. The valuations don't represent anything close to liquidity, and the chances of those companes generating anywhere near that return in real terms are slim at best. The portfolio might be "worth" 4.7 billion, but what are the chances they'll generate a real return anywhere close to that?

I'm not arguing against pg's methodology, as I realize it's fairly consistent with standard practices, but the ycombinator investors are nowhere near as wealthy in real terms as these numbers would suggest. If airbnb were to fail that would destroy a huge amount of that wealth, with no ability to extract any value before then.

None of this is meant to rain on YC's parade. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for all involved, and congratulate them heartily on the very real successes they have had and continue to have. I'd simply be heasitant to describe YC as being "worth" 5BB, given a reasonable expected cash return.
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Maybe if you incorporate a mascot, say... a sock puppet dog
I like the fact that they seem to be the only well-made laptops anymore.

On the inside, pretty much all manufacturers are using the same components (Wifi cards being the only real exception), but Thinkpads have always seemed much better constructed than the equivalent Dells or HP's.

There isn't really any PC laptop brand you can buy to escape the "reminds me of crappy company laptops", with the possible exception of Sony.

Some point to Vaio's as being the most "Apple-like" PC's. That description can be either positive or negative depending on how you feel about Apple machines.

As it is, I've never really liked Sony's manufacturing process for laptops (I've only had 2 over the years though, and it's hard to divorce yourself from personal experience when recommending a brand).

For what it's worth, I wouldn't ever buy another non-Thinkpad PC laptop. I've had an Asus, about a dozen Dell's, and a bunch of HP's. They were all giant pieces of shit (Dell's being the worst from a hardware failure perspective).

If I get a Thinkpad, I am fairly confident I won't have any issues for at least a bunch of years (my last T series put in a good 6 years of daily use without any issues).

As far as I'm concerned, they're the Honda of laptop manufacturers.
I've used the chipolte iphone app to order food. It lets me skip the line, not go through payment bs, not have the worker be grumpy when I ask for something special (especially chipolte workers, they tend to have an attitude) or have to wait for it to be prepared. I basically arrive say my name and my food is handed to me.
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If you've got a really good domain, yes.
"Modern Perl".

Well written, covers pretty much everything you should use, good, clear examples.

Available free online: http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/
yeah, i'm confused about this too
Live rollout:

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/up-next-at-d9-microsoft-windo...
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1x is still 1x -- if you don't get over it, the common shareholders don't get paid. In a pool as big as YC's there will be plenty of examples.
PDC is now "Build Windows"
Exactly. This is implemented fairly well in a few browser extensions, but it ought to be included in core functionality, as even 'sharing' links to your own email becomes a more prevalent paradigm than bookmarks/favorites.
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Transactions would simply occur in smaller units like picoBTC instead of BTC
A Honda.. not bad :)
If you can put together a $30 F# book at 100 pages, I would consider buying it.

There are a number of self-publishing options out there, I believe. Let Over Lambda is a Lulu print, I believe.

I am sure that you could find someone to serve as editor for the book as well.

(there's a consulting idea: book editor! )
It struck me the other day that I would love a "Scala: The Good Parts". Wouldn't it be great if there was a small, powerful kernel in there, somewhere, and someone explained it...
Ruby has been in ridiculous demand in Chicago for at least a year. I blame Groupon. :) They've hired big chunks of three or four consulting shops and are building their own internal teams.

One of the Obtiva owners (consulting shop) wrote: http://nuts.redsquirrel.com/post/2680658687/chicagos-ruby-de...
I'd say it's somewhere in between; it starts with a single-chapter overview that shows enough Perl that you can start writing programs, and there's definitely a progression through the chapters, but it's also got a pretty thorough coverage of the whole language (at the time of writing).
One application / referral per minute
A few hours ago, we launched the following page:

jobs.useHipster.com

Essentially, we're offering a years worth of PBR, $10,000, and a whole bunch of Hipster swag if we end up hiring someone you refer.

The results are blowing us away. We're getting one new referral every minute, and approx. 10% of those referrals / applications are from people we would have had to hire a recruiter to find. We've done postings on Craigslist and Crunchboard to date, but nothing has come close to this campaign in terms of leads.

If you're interested in doing a similar campaign for your startup, I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have about pulling it off!
I have a samsung qx410 and it is actually of pretty nice quality, and has a good keyboard my only complaint would be the touchpad but most of the time I have a mouse connected or am not using the mouse.

HP is absolutely the worst laptop brand I have ever owned, I've known plenty of people with HPs and almost every single laptop has overheated to the point of shutting down the computer and breaking within a year and a half.

Thinkpads have the added feature of being pretty compatible with linux, though I think some of the nvidia cards that come with the T series are not compatible yet.
Nothing. I didn't say I've thought it out completely :)
Bitcoin does not really understand people or property. It just understands public and private keys. The 8999 remaining bitcoins are presently signed by a public key that has no corresponding private key -- this means they cannot be used in any transaction. Yes, they are effectively lost forever.
Would be awesome to see some of these games implemented with Node.js and HTML5... Angry Birds and others have demonstrated that HTML5 is good enough for graphics, and Node.js is a good fit for server-side logic.
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