skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make sure you're on the latest version of Chrome (12). The new hardware acceleration is necessary for the large photos to scroll smoothly.
I'd love to hear your story, it's always great to read about another developers experience even if it's not always a runaway success. Would you mind sharing the link? Or else you could email me thebigbyte [at] gmail [dot-com]
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When I first used Traceroute, I knew exactly what I was looking at and what it meant.

This... I don't have any idea what the data actually means.
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ICANN to ramp domain name variations dramatically: Business headaches likely
4.0.1 on OSX
Hi,

This is my first post on HN. I've been a regular reader for quit a while.
Is it possible to have any feedback?

This site was submitted with the hn contest (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672793)

Thanks
I'm going to miss the Chrome (IE9 too) combined search/address bar. No more will I be able to type in "haircut" or "bank" and have my browser know to kick off a search as there's no clear distinction from TLDs anymore.
But it removes many pains from screen, an easy configuration tool makes it way easier to use.
I truly love how the most constructive comment here (by zrgiu) got downvoted into oblivion just because it was critical.

While Hacker News was once a relevant, useful place to find good tech news, it's quickly degenerating into a steaming pile of shit driven by a bunch of thin-skinned Android sycophants. It's unfortunate (not to mention how unfortunate it is that such a useless post as this is even on the front page here to begin with).
Well the thing that differentiates myself from the competitors is local edge. My job board will be for my local IT industry. All there is now for IT businesses in my area is Monster, Indeed, and Craigslist. All of which, I don't think are great solutions. Craigslist is very generic and full of spammers and scammers. Monster and Indeed are just large money making machines. I'm really just looking to make something a little more simple, and a lot more cheaper.
I respect you but you sound very naive (not to say dumb) to me. Do you never read books, watch movies and speak to people about other places in the world at all?
I'm just gonna plug my submission real quick: check out Shomi. I just added the charting whatnot to it, which so far seems marginally useful but kinda cool. You can search for stuff like "recent comments by [username]", "top comments by [username]", "top submissions", etc. The UI is fairly OK; I'll make the search functionality more interesting after I get a couple hours' sleep.

Leave some suggestions and I'll see what I can tackle in a bit.
It's more than that. Yes, doubt has increased, but with it has come increased scrutiny of the Bitcoin ecosystem. And with that we are now starting to really dig into the weaknesses of the system.

As it says in the article, anonymity has it's benefits sure, but comes with certain drawbacks that we're now starting to look into. In particular, who do you trust and why?. The future of Bitcoin will be an interesting case study for whatever system inevitably follows.
Great, thanks for the link and the suggestion!
It will work on Android as soon as I get some Android devices to test with. It should currently "work" on Android, but probably not well.
sigh at no point are either of you refuting the danger of myristicin and elemicin in nutmeg household quantities of nutmeg. It's just a bunch of pedantic arguing over grams and volumes, and "oh yeah! I'll show you, here are more foods with these dangerous psychoactives in them!"

Probably some of the most bizarre arguments I've ever seen. If it wasn't for the downvotes I'd think you both were agreeing with me.

Specifically to your points, thought you haven't refuted the specific dangers of the two psychoactive components of nutmeg.

"(5 to 15 grams, by the way, not 0.05 to 0.15 grams)"

The smaller figure is the amount of myristicin required to induce death in a grown adult, using your own math.

Most pie recipes I've seen use about 1/4 to 1/2 of a teaspoon of nutmeg powder (I linked to some recipes since you didn't notice).

"There are many household substances that you can take undue amounts of. This does not make them more dangerous than most hard drugs. "

Sure, I could drink a gallon of bleach, or drink water until my blood thins out and I die (it happens) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865/ns/us_news-life/t/woman...

Is that your hangup? That a tablespoon is more than most people would consume? Really? Wow...pedantic.

Did I not even link to a study of ER visits where the only cause was nutmeg consumption? Are you even clicking the links I provided?

Just because most people don't do a thing doesn't make it dangerous. Most people don't consume gasoline either.
And to do that you force everyone to use english?

English is a great lingua france but there are parts of the web that are only targeted at speakers of one language. Why should they have to type strange stuff into the address bar to get there?

Ausserdem habe ich so meine Zweifel ob du mich ploetzlich verstehst nur weil ich ISO 8859-1 verwende. Man kann die fehlenden Zeichen auch umschreiben.
Well, BitTorrent as a system still needs to infringe on the patent claims. Nobody says it does yet. In principle, I could make a patent for producing yellow rubber ducks efficiently, and then claim that the BitTorrent code infringes.

While the patent is probably less far off than my yellow-rubber-duck one, the hint of truth is in there: it is highly likely that the protocol is not infringing at all on the patent.
I was in music school for a while; a guy asked if it was better to be lucky, or talented. He answered, "the more talented you are, the luckier you get. The more you practice, the more talented you get."
On the dangers of crowdsourced surveillance
BackboneJS is not the best option for MVC in the browser
Backbone's a solid choice, and probably the most complete framework out there excepting SproutCore, but it's easy to combine several smaller frameworks into what I feel is a better overall solution
No matter what you think about these folks, it is a very dangerous game they are playing. It takes some balls to organize this and to act on it.

This can only result in more crazy laws unfortunately.
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The goal here is not to be "truly innovative", but to emulate scrolling behavior which should ideally be performed by mobile WebKit, but isn't. But I must have done a good job since you only notice the background image being pinned, and not the fact that (at least on an iPad) the entire page is being scrolled with JavaScript. Also, try scrolling horizontally.
I can relate to Anthony. He seems like a nice guy who fell in love with an idea and let blind ambition get the best of him. When I was new to online entrepreneurship, I did things just as stupid, but they (thankfully) got far less attention.

Hopefully he learns from this and pushes forward with new and better projects.
It took me about 15 seconds, a window resize, a horizontal split, a vertical one and a couple rotate windows to crash it.
ICANN approves expansion of top-level domains
How many years do you get for slandar, mother fuckers.

Who benefits from download paranoia? Microsoft and other established companies.

It's just like yelling "fire" in a theater to spread fear of viruses. It ruins my operating system business.
I welcome every effort to supplement the crummy OSX window manager, but the iTerm tiling system is sadly a false start.

They have the tab/split metaphor backwards. Real tiling WMs (such as ion3) put tabs on the individual split panes instead of having one global tab bar at the top - and for good reasons.

As it stands you can not, for example, drag an iTerm tile to its own window or group multiple sessions in one tile. This may seem minor to the casual user but is a showstopper for those of us who would benefit from the tiling the most.
How about HTTP traffic? BitTorrent is just a highly effective content distribution system like HTTP. But unlike HTTP, it scales even if the upstream bandwidth of the initial data server is limited. BitTorrent simply gets all the flak for this property.

Facebook uses BitTorrent internally to distribute new versions of their PHP-code to their server park of tens of thousands machines. Because the single server would be upstream-congested if it wanted to push out a change fast.
this is nice, how about letting the user drag the pin around in case the result isn't quite accurate enough (in my case it got my city, but what if i wanted to link to my house?)
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This seems a little too black&white for my taste.

You can re-design for many different reason.

If you wanted to redesign for better visual structure that would be one thing where you aren't necessarily cutting features but layouting them better.
If profit is their motive, why didn't they do this 20 years ago? That's 20 years of lost profit.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function encrypt() in /home/kaa2102/public_html/data.php on line 109
sigh at no point are either of you refuting the danger of myristicin and elemicin in nutmeg household quantities of nutmeg. It's just a bunch of pedantic arguing over grams and volumes, and "oh yeah! I'll show you, here are more foods with these dangerous psychoactives in them!"

Probably some of the most bizarre arguments I've ever seen. If it wasn't for the downvotes I'd think you both were agreeing with me.
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what product are you guys building? Had no luck finding it on your blog or your HN profile.
I wipe my phone across my shirt or pants after unlocking it so the fingerprints don't stick around. The cleaning has become just as much a part of muscle memory as entering the PIN, so it's not something I'm likely to forget.
Updated the NoSQL comparison: Neo4j and MemBase added, Riak and MongoDB updated
Fujitsu K now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
Social media advice: Get real or go home
Maybe you're joking, maybe not. It's impossible for anyone to know on the Internet.

Be that as it may, if you're really contemplating suicide, please talk to someone about your feelings -- or lack thereof -- before you do anything else. Even if it's just a stranger at a hotline.
Most of these arguments (and most other conspiracy theories) can be shot down as just another instance of the Conjunction fallacy/Occam's Razor. The probability of a single event is always greater or equal to the probability of both events: P(A) >= P(A&B) where event A is 'Rebellious hacker teens' and event A&B is 'Rebellious hacker teens recruited by terrorists'.
I like it. (my unsolicited advice) depending on how you are storing the data, you should let the user pass a query string or something to the url that returns the raw lat long in json format as opposed to the actual map, that way you have this mini api for more advanced users.
Sega's online Pass hacked, 1.3 million user passwords stolen
Agreed that zrgiu's comment was constructive and had some good advice. No idea why it was downvoted so quickly.
Interesting that they explicitly link the Hacker's Manifesto from '86 in there this time.
Facebook Readies Its Next Huge Data Center
DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
Indeed, that's on my todo list.
Pocket ranger App Debut
YouTube Demo of New State Parks App
Since buildings and items can also be copyrighted, would it be a stretch to add recognition software to the photo app, so that you can't take a snapshot in front of a copyrighted building or teapot anymore?

Personally I'd say, let's blow up all the copyrighted buildings and things (and erase copyrighted videos, books and music). Since I am not allowed to process their existence in any meaningful way, I'd rather they don't exist at all.
I think news will become somewhat decentralized. Instead of having one company that does the news publishing, distribution, gathering information, and even "uncovering of truths", we will have different entities that do each of them.

On the "publishing" side, I think we'll have the blogs. One of the great thing about the blogs is that you get to see what the readers think about that story. If the author is biased, some readers will call him out on that.

The "distribution" might happen either from the blogs themselves, or from other services such as news aggregators, Twitter, Facebook, Flipboard, etc.

The "news gathering" part might come in the form of crowdsourcing. Instead of reporters going on site to report on the news from there or gather information, we'll see people taking pictures with their own phones, and reporting themselves what is going on.

As for the "uncovering the truth", Wikileaks seems like a very good indication of what we'll have in the future. But it's not just Wikileaks. Think of the gadget leaks that we have today (although I know some are "controlled leaks").

Some of the leaks might even come through hacking, but I think if the information is useful for the public at large, and it turns out that the Government was withholding that information without a very good reason, such hacks will be
praised by most people, even if the Government or the company getting hacked (say the banks?) will try to condemn them.
>Why do you equate this to being behind?

Because the future is perceived as more advanced than the past, having built on the notions/achievements/etc., of the past. Arrow of time points in one direction. (At least for humans)
That's already there ;)
You can get any location in JSON, given the generated key:
eg. http://geo.gy/LmZW/json
I guess if his mother entered his room without asking and hung up pictures of his dead father, most people would think that the mother was a bit inconsiderate. Of course, some people would claim that his room was not a personal space, and the house was owned and controlled by the mother anyway.
you could reduce the number of letters required without losing accuracy by being less precise at the poles (a simple lat/lon is over-precise there because the lines of longitude get closer together). it would require a slightly more complex transformation, but not by much (for example, you could make it uniform in lambert equal area - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_cylindrical_equal-area_...). in other words, by taking the sine of the latitude and then converting that to letters you can truncate more digits (because you the resolution you need at the equator and at the poles is the same).

also, i suspect geohash could be improved by using a fractal approach like http://xkcd.com/195/ (http://blog.xkcd.com/2006/12/11/the-map-of-the-internet/) which should reduce the need for worrying about boundaries (ie make things more efficient).

in fact, you could combine the two.... [edit: although the fractal approach with equal area would mean that the distances of "nearby" points changed with latitude; it would be better to use an equal-distance projection.]
I don't get around all that much, but the biggest one I've seen was Daring Fireball's web shortener at ✪df.ws . It was later pulled due to widespread software problems with Unicode glyph handling, with a big offender being AT&T's name servers: http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/starstruck .
At a glance it was easy for me, without even seeing the labels, to understand X was hops, Y was RTT and Z was the attempt number.
With a tld? These get individual approval, with pretty strict scrutiny. No ones going to let me register a new tld '.cоm' where the 'о' is cyrillic.
It's ironic that you can like "Social Pog - The greatest social network of all time" on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Pog-The-greatest-social...
What background checks and due diligence? What background are you supposed to have to own a TLD, anyway?
Accessed from my mobile, didn't register for obvious reasons - I hoped it might use location services!
Ask HN/PG: Stats on voting since hiding comment score?
As an aside in the ongoing discussion about the hidden comment scores, I thought it would be interesting to know how it has affected participation on the site in the form of voting. I personally have a hunch that voting activity must have gone down a lot, based only on my own usage pattern and theories about how/why people vote.

Since it is an easily quantifiable measure (compared to 'comment quality'), could anyone with easy access to the data dig up this information? I.e. total number of votes cast in a period before hiding comment score vs. votes cast in the same amount of time after the change.
Anatomy of a Computer Virus
Thanks for posting it franze.

Feedback is welcome – concept, landingpage……

Still have to keep it a tad stealthy and obscure. Sorry.
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You've said "that's not the use case" 4 times already, which is almost half the number of comments. Perhaps this is a clue that your proposal needs a bit of work.

That's the great thing about hacker news -- you can throw an idea at them, get some feedback, and iterate while it's still cheap to change.
There are cases where navigation codes won't be more practical than postal codes: Old cities with narrow streets and heavy buildings where GPS has no reception. Try navigating Venice, Italy with a phone GPS to get the idea.
Is it just me or does that look EXACTLY like Basecamp? Are they seriously reselling it for that huge markup?
Maybe its because your work is too solitary? It is very difficult to remain motivated when working alone as you don't get the feedback of having seen people benefit from your work and have a smile. Unfortunately this seems to be how a lot of IT/computing work is by its nature.
Angry Birds is also free on iOS, that is the lite version with ads. Then users like me get addicted to the gameplay and a few times of getting nag-screened is enough for me to purchase.

As a consumer, I like this approach with games because many times there are games that are fun, but just not fun enough for a purchase or the replay-ability factor is just low. So if I find myself going back to a game more than a few times, the purchase is such low cost (less than coffee) that it is worth it to get rid of nag-screens.

Also, regarding Android and free... most people that buy Android phones are expecting free stuff. The cost of those phones is roughly the same as an iPhone, it's just the mindset is different.
Zetaclear review
LexisNexis open-sources its Hadoop killer
Show HN: HN Fair Vote extension for Chrome
nice video, about the stuxnet virus. very well done motion graphics, a good job all round.
We don't need a twelfth system for encoding lat/lon tuples. Pick an existing one and start using it.

Currently, we have:

- decimal lat/lon

- d/m/s lat/lon

- UTM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_c... )

- MGRS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grid_reference_system )

- Geohash ( http://geohash.org/ )

- "Natural Area Code" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Area_Code )

Please, suggesting something like this and encouraging people to implement it is like coming out with a device that only charges over micro-USB. Just... don't.
Jeff Bezos: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’
Allow others users to rate reviews as helpful/not helpful like Amazon does. After a couple of unhelpful votes hide those from view by default. Not wonderful, but might cut it down some.
I think he hit the nail on the head referring to c# programmers in general not being as "performance conscious" which leads the misconception that c# is a much slower language to use.
I've worked in many places and have come across the same thing. As a c++ programmer I have also worked with c# coders and am often shocked at their slap-dash approach to software engineering.
I'm not saying they're all like that but it seems to be a common trend in my opinion!
This is an interesting product. It seems to only be officially supported on the Nexus One and Nexus S (and Android 2.3) at the moment, but it sounds like more devices are in the works.

Their WhisperCore product has two alternative screenlocks that basically use additional (thumb) smudges to remove evidence.

Sounds like WhisperCore also uses AES-256 for device encryption. Which is killer. I can't wait to see how this product develops over the next couple months.
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... if a man held a gun to my head and forced me
to implement a logarithmic time algorithm I could
implement skip lists in an hour or so ...

Does this happen to you often?
The architects of information
Firstly that's specific to how a particular region encodes its postal coding, which isn't worldwide.

Secondly, it's less true than you'd think within the UK. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_postcodes.png, compare the locations of W2 and W3 or W12 and W13.
A founder's take on Angel Bootcamp
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in attitudes and roles in the film here is a bad teacher itself emits amazing attitude Shock value is not offensive humor bslu there and as material for teaching better than this
Videola - Open Source Video Delivery Platform (IPtv)
Open RoR Positions + Telecommute + Bacon = BLISS
I have 4 open RoR positions. Here’s a quick description:
• Open to telecommuting
• Very stable, 40+ hour positions
• Challenging application in a complete open source environment
• International app that has hundreds of thousands of users
• Flexible work schedule

And if you've read this far, you should also know that these positions come with all the free BACON you can eat! :)
I noticed a while ago that a collegue and I got different results when we googled for our company name, but I didn't know that it's now happening in such an extent.

I've added DuckDuck to my FireFox search engines.
Video games being used to save the world
A like question is to ask kids how they feel about the ~14.7 pounds per square inch they are experiencing? My kids where very perplexed.
This isn't really suprising. Even the large banks would do this if they could get away with it. Look at the Goldman Sachs high frequency trading stuff - even if it wasn't illegal they were sailing as close to the wind as they possibly could.

Trust is going to become a massive issue in the future - just as "privacy" and "digital rights" are at the moment if we have any desire to move away from the large institutions and governmental regulation that we currently use to "solve" these problems. Quotes because it's not a great solution - see Enron for example.

It's great that things like Bitcoin are being tried - but we should also be clear that this is the wild west. Dealing with banking and trading in a totally unregulated environment. I would hope that the lessons that the finance industries learned the hard way and that led to audits and regulation and other instruments can be leveraged. Otherwise we are doomed to reinvent the whole industry all over again....
This assumes that 'filter bubble' is something more than a nonsense term.

There is little difference between personalization and the relevance of search results.

How would you go about ranking then? alphabetically?! it's a matter of tuning the relevance 'dials' and it's all in early stages so a solution to this imaginary problems is more research and not to create bullshit terminology in order to sell some books.
Not necessarily: the Gömböc-shape could be a envelope of similar shapes. Any object within that envelope is a Gömböc, and ones just outside it are "almost Gömböcs"
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