skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As underwater said, the "responsible" approach is to notify companies and give them sufficient time to fix the problem. Sometimes this is challenging, due to difficulties in establishing contact with the right people or difficulties in convincing them that the issue is serious; in such cases it might be useful to work with someone who has experience in the field -- I'm happy to help if you want.

Generally speaking, as long as you didn't do any more than was necessary to confirm that the issue existed, you're not likely to be accused of wrongdoing; working with/via someone who is recognized in the field would diminish this possibility even further, since "hey, you guys are evil" tends to be defeated very quickly by "this guy has handled lots of issues like this and nobody has ever accused him of wanting anything more than to get the issues fixed".

Just be very careful to make sure that you don't ask for money in any way (including asking them to hire you as a consultant). The best of motives can be very quickly misconstrued when the word "blackmail" comes up.
ah. right. they weren't blue, so I didn't identify them as links. Thanks!
I have a distant relative who is a developer in southern china and told me that he has been so busy he has no time for himself; He bids on land sold by the government, hire people to build an apartment on the land and the apartment gets sold out before it even finishes building! So, he then has to keep moving on to building new apartments.

Those ghost towns will keep springing up if there is nowhere for investors to put their money. Where else can they put it? There is basically negative interest rate with inflation being so high. If you were given a million yuan you wouldn't know what to do with it except to a. spend it or b. buy a house or stocks with it.
Channel 264 in topchan.tv is for the TED videos. You can watch all of them one after another.

http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/264
Facebook Connect is winning for more reasons than a great consumer experience. It is also a great publisher experience.

1) Facebook Connect provide access to real identity (as opposed to an anonymous token) and they actively try and weed out bad actors
2) Facebook social plugins are easier to use than OpenID
3) Facebook Connect provides distribution of content to people that trust the user (on average 150)
4) The users Facebook profile provides usable insights to the publisher for targeting and follow on marketing

In order for something like OpenID, Google Login, Yahoo Login, Twitter @anywhere, to beat Facebook they need to provide a competitive set of functionality to the publisher and equal ease of use to the end user.
Because every release of Firefox could potentially break APIs.
I highly recommend taking a look at Facebook's Yishan Wong giving his views on "What's wrong with OpenID". http://www.quora.com/OpenID/What-s-wrong-with-OpenID

Some quotes:

OpenID is the worst possible "solution" I have ever seen in my entire life to a problem that most people don't really have.

A nerd will wrinkle up his nose at these [non-OpenID] solutions and grumble about the "security vulnerabilities" (and they'll be right, technically) but the truth is that these solutions get people into the site and doing what they want and no one really cares about security anyways.

Let's think about that one for a second. I find this rather typical of Facebook's attitude in general—a monomaniacal focus on increasing engagement or whatever metrics, a complete disregard for externalities and an arrogant rejection of any sort of social responsibility. This is what makes them so successful as well as so dangerous to the rest of the ecosystem.
I was actually a participant in a follow up study that I read about on Hacker News about a year and a half ago. Thanks to whoever posted it I haven't been able to find the HN post since then.

Just to confirm what Alex3917 said, they did ask us to follow a meditation program before the first of either 2 or 3 sessions(I ended up with 3).

I don't know all of their selection criteria, but for the study I was in they were looking for people with existing "spiritual practices" and little or no previous psychedelic experiences.
Based in NYC, a friend and I founded Grripz™ in April of this year (http://grripz.com). The idea is simple, eliminate sore hands caused by carrying grocery and shopping bags. It was provoked from my personal experience and the idea moved into development when my friend who runs a hackerspace called Alpha One Labs (Brooklyn) became enthusiastic about partnering to develop the product.

The product has improved our lives and we have sold them in-person where we had many encounters with people who immediately loved the idea ranging from kids, the elderly, a psychologist working on a PHD on post traumatic stress disorder, and many other New Yorkers. We have seen people a second time who bought a Grrip who told us "thank you!" Selling them in-person was very encouraging and reinforced to us how important such a simple addition to one's life can be...every little bit counts when it comes to reducing un-needed stress.

Grripz™ Comfort Handle™ is the quick, cheap and easy way to make your life easier when carrying bags or other materials.
If you are not a programmer, I would try to find a technical co-founder who can make deeply-informed decisions about things like this based on your current direction and goals. This is not the sort of question you can get the best answer for online, IMO. Also consider, there will be about a thousand other technical questions that arise as you go - going to ask about those here too? But to answer your question, use RoR :-)
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1) It provides access to real identity as much as a fake e-mail account. 2) There are plenty of easy to use pluggable OpenID widgets. 3) Not true. The content is just drowned out by all the other noise generated by all the other publishers clamoring for attention. 4) 5 items from my Amazon shopping list provide more insight than my entire facebook profile.

Facebook Connect is no better than the open alternatives to identity management but as usual the open alternatives have a PR problem because the user experience is just as seamless but somehow publishers are convinced that flooding the user's facebook stream is going to bring them traffic.
The only recommendations you're going to get from programmers are for their favorite language.

Mostly because there's no objective advantage between the three; a competent programmer (or programmers) in any of those can build anything that a competent programmer from any of the others can build.
The instruction set looks pretty nice — a small but practical set of opcodes and a 6502-like zero page to simplify instruction encoding and address calculation.

The article is pretty bad. For me, http://web.mac.com/teisenmann/iWeb/adeptpage/menu.html is much better, although it doesn't contextualize the project as well as it might.
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Sir Elton Hercules John 
Sir Elton Hercules John was educated in the Royal Academy, thanks to a scholarship that obtained in this institution at the age of 11 years that left six years later to dedicate itself to pop music. As of 1964 it began to collaborate with local groups like Bluesology, where John Baldry knew the singer. As tribute to him and the saxofonista Elton Dean adopted the stage name of Elton John
It's almost 9 releases per year (every 6 weeks). So by year 2015 we will be looking at Firefox 30. Makes the Firefox 4 look kind of obsolete...
I wrote up some other tips based on my experience at Madrona Startup Weekend in Seattle at http://www.readwritehack.com/how-to-succeed-at-startup-weeke...
I think the meaning of cool in this context would be closest to definition 6a from that link:

6. Slang
a. Excellent; first-rate: has a cool sports car; had a cool time at the party.
I found the article quite realistic. What is close to being bullshit? The previous thread had some interesting comments about this subject http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603104
The "Chinese Democracy" of video games [edit: argh someone beat me to it]
Penny Arcade has PAX (http://prime.paxsite.com/) and merch (http://store.penny-arcade.com/) to help them out. Also, giant heapings of goodwill. People love them.
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I think the argument is much more nuanced. The danger isn't inherently in the filters themselves, it is in the way they shape people's beliefs unknowingly. Understanding that these filters exist give you the ability to start to think about how your beliefs may be being modified. The next step is empowering users to change these filters, modify them, so that if they /want/ to, they can use these filters, or they could switch them, to experience the opposite side of the story.

Again though, the first step is to acknowledge and raise awareness.
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Now anyone, not just cops with a warrant, can peek inside your Dropbox
I'm a Jr. developer located in Central Florida and I wouldn't accept anything under 50k for this area. Granted I'm talking Jr. developer, not someone just out of school with no experience.
I've got 34 fake Facebook accounts now, and counting. They all have "lives", they all have friends, and so far Facebook hasn't removed a single one of them. None of them are real, none of them have phone numbers. Some of them are used simply to prove a point to various friends that they don't check who they friend too closely, and I use them for websites that require Facebook logins to comment.
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Can we really say it's a "monopoly"? I would agree if users had been brainwashed to the point where they would refuse using anything else than Facebook Connect, but, as the authors mentions, there are a lot of possible alternatives for them to use (or they can roll their own).

There is no real Facebook monopoly imposed on website publishers -- there is just a monopoly imposed on the users of those websites where Facebook connect is the only option or the only visible option. I agree that it's a concern, though.
Why is that amusing? It's consistent with his beliefs.

It's hard to imagine what would happen if things hadn't happened the way they have. I expect we'd have cheaper deployment and it would be wireless somehow.

If the infrastructure is outsourced to taxpayers, there is no incentive to develop a better one.

My 2c.
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I just used one of the Saleae instruments for the first time the other week (I'd had my eye on them for quite a while before that) and it's great. Personally I sometimes want to look at analog signals, or signals that are a bit faster than what the Saleae can handle, so for me it is more of a complement to a scope (which I do already own) but for people with slightly different needs I can easily see how it could handle most everything they might otherwise use a scope for.
But you could just map the current-to-brightness curve of your own LED and reconstruct the necessary PWM signal using that. Actually that'd be a good way to go anyway, since that curve may differ from the one on Apple's LED.
At least in the quickly-expanding Android world, cell phone networks seem to be getting less locked down, and this trend shows no sign of slowing.
Though I have sympathy for the writer's position, he makes a terrible argument.

So what does all of this mean for the client? Let's say for instance that you hired Eyesometry to shoot your wedding. Part of what we offer clients are digital files that can be downloaded from a website.

This is a ridiculous example. Wedding photographers are usually paid in advance or make delivery conditional on payment. Some of them assert copyright ownership, but usually those contracts are full of holes, and a court is likely to find that the photographs constitute a work-for-hire made at the request of the wedding couple. In any case, few people outside of the couple getting married and their friends and relatives are interested in copying and reproducing the wedding photographs, so the writer of this piece is not forgoing any significant amount of income by making the pictures available under a CC license.

Now consider the situation where a picture has significant artistic, news, or entertainment value, and multiple commercial publishers would like to use the image for product packaging/advertising/art prints/newspaper features/magazine covers. That's where the real money is in commercial photography, and that's where copyright law is meant to protect the interests of the creator. I don't see any reason why the photographer/artist shouldn't enjoy a temporary monopoly because they have actually created something brand new but have considerable difficulty in controlling post-sale distribution. What good is his creative commons license going to provide if every commercial publisher can just reuse the photograph without paying anything to Eyesometry? One reason that wedding photography costs an eye-watering average of $1000 for half a day is that it's actually very hard to make a living doing stock or news or fashion photography.
Linkbait. Dropbox has already said they'll "cooperate with United States law enforcement when it receives valid legal process..." That's nothing new.

Dropbox Reader doesn't allow you to read other people's accounts. You can only view an account's details (read: not the file contents) if you already have access to the computer. If LE snatches your computer and the hard drive is encrypted with a good password and algo, LE can't do anything.
The mechanical-Turing-machine link http://hackaday.com/2011/03/25/mechanical-turing-machine-can... posted by chris11 is some kind of evidence here. I've also been thinking about this problem myself.

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2010-June/00... are some thoughts about possible low-tech digital logic techniques. https://github.com/kragen/calculusvaporis has some thoughts about how to build a reasonably practical non-bit-serial CPU out of only about 1000 NAND gates (or the equivalent.) I think that with the height-field approach described in the kragen-tol post, you could probably make it out of 1000 moving parts — although most of them would have to be machined to fairly tight tolerances. I think the level of mechanical difficulty is similar to a 1960s V6 engine (fewer parts, but much higher force and demands on precision), or a little higher than that of a Curta calculator (600 parts for Type I).

The Clock of the Long Now uses steel gears on stone and ceramic bearings. It contains some mechanical binary calculation (and the prototypes are the most beautiful machines I've ever seen) but it's not a programmable computer.
If you're not cheating, you're losing!
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But could you automate creation of Facebook accounts with fake real-looking data?

As it stands, email registrations can be automated to the point that its only use on popular site is to confirm the being able to receive emails.
Seven months ago, analysts were predicting 2011 would be the Year of America.

That would be news to me. Which analysts were predicting that?
indeed, we already filter our information by choosing newspapers/tv aligned with our ideologies.
Ask HN: Help with my 'chicken or the egg' problem
I'm starting a for profit job board dedicated to the IT world in my area. There is a decent IT industry around me and it seems they are always hiring. I plan on offering fair rates, and eventually I would like to be able to offer a guarantee to the employers.

But for now I'm facing an oh so familiar issue. The old chicken/egg problem. Employers aren't going to want to pay for a service (even at the price I'll be offering) if there are hardly any users there looking for jobs. I've considered offering a large number of companies X amount of free listings to try and get potential job seekers to the website but I'm just not too sure how many companies will agree, and then actually spend the time to use the site.

I was also thinking of building a scraper to go and grab IT jobs from companies in the specific area that I am serving, but I'm not sure if this is really ethical. Could I get in trouble for scraping sites like craigslist, or monster.com?

I'm in the mindset now that I need to work on getting employers with little job seekers, rather than job seekers with little employers.

What do you guys think?
Thank you!

One of my favorites: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1153
Nothing you said contradicts the article.

I can understand the "it's not that bad at all" sentiment from a personal perspective but it doesn't mean that things aren't bad on a rational, comparative basis.

I grew up in Poland, a country at the time under communist regime. It would take a book to describe all the ways the economy and life was fucked up compared to west countries.

It really was a terrible country to live in. But at the same time 40 million people did and on some level our lives weren't all that different from people in richer, cleaner countries where people could buy toilet paper every day. People have amazing ability to adapt to very adverse environments.

From reading the article I get the impression that Argentina is truly, factually fucked up country, compared to other countries, just like Poland was under communism.

While your reassurance that "it's not bad at all" is a testament to adaptive power of humans, unless you challenge the facts described in the article you're not very convincing.

As to your claim challenging the notion that Argentina was a rich nation, well, the rich people you speak of were very successful at rewriting the history. According to Wikipedia:

"Argentina increased in prosperity and prominence between 1880 and 1929 and emerged as one of the ten richest countries in the world, benefiting from an agricultural export-led economy as well as British and French investment. Driven by immigration and decreasing mortality the Argentine population grew fivefold and the economy 15-fold."
i think facebook has tacitly allowed these types of accounts for testing/anonymity etc. you probably wont be shut down unless you do something egregious.
I don't think you'll find a definitive answer to this question. Mostly the answers you'll receive will just be conjecture.

With that being said I think it's best if you found a technical lead to help you out. Whether that be a co-founder or just someone you can bring in as a CTO. It's important to really have an idea about the technology as you receive suggestions. You should be able to actively participate in the choosing of the language/framework for your company. Just because the programmer you may hire likes Java best, or PHP best, doesn't mean it's going to be the best for your startup.

I think you should hire a programmer with a proven track record of getting things done and go from there. You don't want to choose a language, then hire a few developers that use that language and then figure out you need to redesign your whole stack to another language.

A lot of startups (it seems) go with Ruby on Rails, probably partly because of it's ability to allow you to create your MVP rather quickly.
"But if I use some amount of concentration I can type without looking at the keyboard."

A competent touch typist should be able to type with his eyes closed, and without needing to concentrate at all. Typing becomes a reflex action, and you can concentrate on finding the right words, or on your code/problem itself.
The ones whowill be sitting pretty will be then ones who don't need market money.
A platitude on software failure
Jeri Ellsworth has succeeded in making individual transistors on her own, but she didn't have to purify the materials herself. But it didn't take her a lifetime either.

In "Designing Analog Chips", Hans Camenzind tells the story of designing the 555 timer chip; he did the whole design, without a computer, up to cutting the masks out of Rubylith. It took him several months of nonstop work.

Based on these, I extrapolate that one person could do all the physical steps involved in bootstrapping to a computer from stone-age technology. (I won't say "one man", because that person might have to be Jeri.) And I think they could probably do it in substantially less than a lifetime.

But I don't think it would be possible for one person to do all the intellectual work, or it would have happened long before the advent of agriculture.

And I think it would be a lot more fun to do it with some friends.
OpenID had its chance.
More than linkbait...deliberately harmful.

I'm not much of a security guru, but this seems like it lacks data and instead uses scare tactics to attack Dropbox. From the looks of it, DB isn't letting anyone do anything - it's only if you give up local access.
I get the idea about biases creeping in that you don't even know about. But it's pretty easy to do a search for the opposite of something. For example:

google Palestinian view

google Israeli view

I would be surprised if personalized search results got so extreme as to make that not work.

The problem of filtering out low quality or irrelevance is much harder. I believe I'm substantially better than the average person at finding things on the web yet I waste many hours per week trying to sift out high quality information on various subjects I'm researching. So I, for one, would welcome filtering that is far better and far more personalized than what exists today. And I don't want to have to spend hours per week fiddling with Yahoo Pipes or something along those lines in order to get there.

Whether any of the new attempts at automated personalized filtering will greatly improve quality/relevance is a separate question. The answer to that probably won't be known for years.

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The word that comes to mind is "obv."
Linkbait and false. The new tool lets anyone look at the contents of the dropbox metainformation ON THE LOCAL COMPUTER. In other words, they can programmatically access information about files already on the computer.

As for cooperating with law enforcement, that's more or less part of how warrants work. It would be illegal to say "no" to a warrant.

Disclosure: I work for Dropbox.
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Look, startups aren't built with programming languages. Languages are a part, but you need to think more about people. In the early stages you need developers who are leaders, and who have a proven track record of shipping code. Work with them to build your product and build your team.
Their handling of that whole thing was, for me, the breaking point when I could no longer give them benefit of the doubt or any longer take them seriously.
My problem with Kickstarter is the approval process, which doesn't cater very well to idea people. I'm also not a fan of giving all of my SEO away to another website, especially if I'm in charge of driving traffic to my campaign.

That being said, it's hard to argue with the success of their model. My problem was that I wanted a way to self-host my own campaigns, as often as I wanted. We're building http://ignitiondeck.com to fulfill our own needs. Who knows, maybe it'll help someone else too. Still a long way to go though.

Profounder looked nice at first glance, but then I realized I had to hit up my friends and family. Last thing I want to do is MLM the people I hang out with on a daily basis.
The dev channel is already up to 14.
Well, if you actually encrypted data in a form that only the user could decrypt before uploading it to the server, you could simply hand that over to law enforcement in good faith and they wouldn't be able to do anything. I am a Dropbox user but I never put sensitive data on it without encrypting it.

edit: Really? Downvoted for stating an obvious fact? I mean sure, Dropbox is great, but throwing your hands up and saying "that's ... how warrants work" is disingenuous when there are perfectly legal and workable ways around that. Sure, the UX might not be quite as good, but UX compromises are often made for security's sake. (See Firefox Sync's setup for example.)