skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my time there, I would agree with that. My theory was Ticketmaster did well for theory reasons:

1) Venue relationships
2) Taking the fall on fees
3) Ability to scale

People are often surprised by #3. Having seen many startups try & fail (as well as large entities like LiveNation), ticketing is a hard problem.

In my time at Yahoo & Google, I believe they have the technology to build a ticketing company, but beyond on that, most -- startups to large entities such as LiveNation & CTS -- had big problems handling onsales for large U2-sized events. In fact, it always made me think "Good luck with that" when people would talk about the design of ticketing systems using relational DBs. :)
Passwords aren't inherently safe just because you use multibyte characters or the full ASCII set, and likewise they aren't unsafe just because you don't. It's not a bad excuse at all, but with that said it's not implied that EA took the best route on this regardless of the reasons behind their design. It could definitely be better.
Snippet from the article:

"It covers the basic user interface concept of moving touch-screen content with multitouch gestures--not just one particular way to programmatically recognize one particular gesture for this purpose, but any or all ways to do so," Mueller said. "This patent describes the solution at such a high level that it effectively lays an exclusive claim to the problem itself, and any solutions to it."
I don't really disagree with anything you said, but I have to laugh at the idea of moving to germany to escape some future police state in the Netherlands. I am part german, love germany and germans, but that idea is funny. Maybe you were making a joke.

When last in berlin, I remember reading something that said "If germans were going to storm a subway station in protest, they'd all be sure to buy tickets first."
Stats are certainly good.

Do you do any sort of detection of things like detecting that www.foo.com/bar and foo.com/bar are the same page, so they can share a code? Maybe for advanced users almost like some kind of re-write rules so that requests for/from certain pages can be linked to a static QR code?
Well, regardless of how it's framed or the metaphor I used, some of your amazing people just went to Palo Alto.

I wish you all the best, even if you do choose to be impolite.
It eliminates the positive feedback browsers normally present. No positive feedback is bad news (see sslstrip).
'/' is an illegal character in filenames. Such a file is impossible on a unix system.
Also: early stage investments are more aggressive than ever right now. The sums of money are relatively small, as are the number of market participants, so the risk of contagion isn't big in a macro sense, but it's potentially a real thing...
Show HN: My weekend hack. Malleable, CSS3 styled QR Codes Generator
Where are you seeing bitcoins for $0.02? They're about $16 on TradeHill and Mt. Gox.
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When we watch a popular movie or a blockbuster which already Let s wait from the distant days there are definitely things that can not be forgotten and remembered that feeling is often the case when the study of film scenes with as much detail as possible
Was able to find the "Dutch American Friendship Treaty". This means it is relatively straightforward for americans to set up a business in the netherlands.

But not cheap. For a three person business, it looks like it would cost $15,000 in "capital" and around $7,500 in lawyers and other services to prepare the necessary paperwork (based on Mike Lee's estimates and the fact that our business has more than one person, so would need to incorporate.)

It seems wrong to me to put about $15k in the bank to do nothing when there's far more than that already invested in the business (Which is existing already) and the value of the business is more than that.

Will wait for the appsterdamers to get more details out. Maybe the situation is different for relocating an existing business.
Are you using linux, linux seems like a secondhand citizen with regards to firefox and that is where I see all my problems.

I don't know if crashing is the right word but it does become completely unresponsive often enough that it is noticeable and annoying. (Unresponsive as in it has to be killed to regain functionality.)
I have trouble believing that simply making cycling more attractive will be enough to deal with the massive transportation problems that suburbs (and more so exurbs) create. No matter how nice the trails are, most people will not communicate by bike or walking.

The solution is to pack people more densely in mixed-use communities. Ideally most people would have their necessities within walking distance (grocery store, drug store, restaurants, movie theatre, bank, etc.) and public transportation to everything else, including work. Both of these goals can only be implemented affordably if population densities are high.
I live on the "stalk" of such a development and therefore my street is the busiest. Nonetheless, it is extremely pleasant, as only residents or service people use it. It isn't a shortcut to anywhere. The biggest shortcoming is that no consideration was made for pedestrians. Even though we live close enough that my kids could walk to school, there aren't any trails or sidewalks that offer the opportunity. By road, we're a few miles away, so my kids take the bus. It's kind of sad.
Jon Kozubik's narrative of helping at Ground Zero
What's the elevator pitch for KDE4? I tried some earlier releases and found that basic things that were stupid easy to do in KDE3 were now either impossible or or required too many hoop jumps. For example, navigating a system menu using the keyboard via leading letters and/or numbers, or setting a different background color on each virtual desktop.

I'm now a reasonably happy user of the Trinity version of KDE3.5 but don't want to assume that KDE4 will always be unusable for me. However, it seems to be a growing bundle of clever but (for me) bloated widgets and services.

(FWIW I like Konqueror more than Dolphin as a file manager. Maybe I'm just stuck in familiar habits?)
Most people call this "black hat SEO" and "white hat SEO." As with most things, it's not quite so binary a situation.

Even so, breaking it into white and black hat ignores the likely larger problem of ignorant SEOs - those who think they know what they're doing but are completely worthless. In my experience, most SEOs who take "black hat" tactics tell their clients. It's the ignorant SEOs that waste the time and money of legitimate businesses and earn a bad reputation for the industry.
One thing you should check for if your email was compromised is the pop3 forwarding and imap. Attackers will forward your emails to their own accounts using either or both. This makes it very easy for them to retake your account.
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We really need to stop calling everything a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is a very specific thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

Adding that label to everything you think is bad cheapens both the meaning and the point you're trying to get across.
Tell HN: X is dead. Long live X.
Everyone knows that X in these two sentences originally referred to "The King". However, the sentences should be interpreted as "The (old) King is dead. Long live the (new) King."

Substituting (JavaScript|Java|C#|SilverLight|Flash|etc.) for X doesn't really make sense.
I went through this two years ago. My ex was hacking into my accounts.

- He used the 'last chance form' to get into my gmail by entering the password I'd given him a year before this (I'd changed the password twice after giving him that password)

- He ran a dictionary attack on my college email which didn't have captcha's, then hacked gmail using the password that worked for my college email

- We were using shared vnc in college, he found his way to my firefox through a mutual friend, installed a plugin that sent him all POST data and got into my gmail again

I created a new gmail account after each incident. I had to abandon each gmail account once it was cracked because of the 'last chance form'. Back then, you only had to give it one or two correct past passwords, and it gave you access. On hindsight, I've been remarkably dense, but it was a good, early lesson.
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In the sense that Gmail is a big target, and a self-hosted account is a tiny one, I do understand the feeling that if for no other reason than obscurity, you are safer avoiding the "big names" in any online service.
I found it distasteful that he calls other journalists cowards, when he himself writes this drivel after lulzsec has powered down.

His argument that lulzsec is more dangerous than someone making pipe-bombs seems a little mis-aligned.

His argument that kids do stupid things then comparing it to Columbine is unbelievable. It shows a lack of any intellectual capacity. And equalizes dissent with mass murder.

Again, arguing that lulzsec has dubious moral stand points misaligns the fact that lulzsec is not a coherent group. Nor should have a complete moral system. Their actions clearly show a level of complexity. However, their targets are also dubiously moral.
Interesting article. It links Richard Feynman's Cargo Cult Science http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~slu/on_research/fayman_science.html regarding the importance of repeating experiments with John P. A. Ioannidis research, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
Gmail's IMAP is awesome. I remember the first time I connected my iPhone to it and wondering how to archive a message. "Well, it stays in 'All Mail,' so I'll just move it there." Presto! It worked.

Naturally, you have to like the Gmail conventions to like the Gmail implementations.
In a sense, America is a giant Ponzi scheme. We're in the middle of a long, slow currency bubble and drenched in the spoils of centuries of imperial expansion... at present, the average American adult works less than four hours per day and has inferior work ethic and basic education than an increasing percentage of the citizens of the third world, most of whom are ruled by corrupt despots installed by the US.
Experience tells me you're wrong. I know people who walked one block to work every day of their lives, only to be critically injured by passing cars or trucks. I know plenty of of cyclists injured by buses pulling over to pick up passengers, or even by parked cars suddenly opening doors. Population density does not protect you from motor vehicle traffic density. Even bike lanes are dangerous when the only barrier is a line of paint. There is no reason pedestrians or cyclists need to be anywhere near motor vehicle traffic. Once this becomes a principle of residential planning, communities become far more liveable.
IANAL but I know that it is possible in some instances to challenge a contract which is written to seem to give you X but really gives you nothing.

I've read some of the contract clauses and would love to know if that kind of obscurant legalese is common. I know that legal documents often use very specific language in order to express very particular claims and conditions, but this looked to be deliberately confusing, like some kind of Dada-infused Post-modernist Johnnie Cochran.
> "I can compete by coming up with creative, effective solutions that can’t be implemented by my established competitors."

It looks like it all boils down to this but I can't for the life of me figure out what it means.

Solutions like what? What makes you think that your competitors can't implement them? If you yourself aren't exceptionally good at design or engineering like you humbly mention, what edge could you possibly have? If you're referring to deleting your homepage, that's very easy to duplicate!

> "signups increased 3x, and the bounce rate was down 10%"

The other alternative is that your blog is working as a marketing tool. People read your previous blog post, thought it was interesting, and decided to give it a spin. I'd wait for the effects of that to die down a little before I jump to any conclusions.
I also use Fastmail. I'm grandfathered into a plan they no longer offer: a one-time payment which got me a modest (16M) quota (I download and purge my email from their service so that's not an issue for me) and access to their SMTP service.
Another note is to check your "Reply-to" email.

A friend of mine's Gmail account was compromised (say her email was iluvkittens@gmail.com) and they had subtly changed it (perhaps to iluvkitttens@gmail.com). Her oblivious contacts (including me) replied to her "cry for help," but the messages went straight to the hacker's address. This kept her contacts in conversation with the hacker even after she regained control of her account.
I turned off King of Kong about 30 minutes. Everybody involved were such douchebags that I didn't care how it turned out.
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So, at this point, doesn't Fastmail know more about you than they should?
I spent a month in Seattle this spring (coming back in July for a bit), and I can confirm this. Queen Anne Hill is also really walkable. Two grocery stores, loads of coffee shops, restaurants, etc within a 5 minute walk on Queen Anne, plus an easy walk to downtown, Fremont, or Capitol Hill. Such a wonderful city.

Of course, if you tell most Seattle-ites that you walked from, say, Queen Anne to Paseo in Fremont, you'll get weird looks.
The grep one is also wrong as it does an entirely different thing without xargs.
> There isn't going to be a warning system to alert you that there have been sign-ons from foreign states/countries. There isn't going to be two-auth out of the box unless you install the PAM module.

Your points are valid, but why wouldn't these things exist? Doesn't code exist to do this? And if not, is it truly difficult to write?

I'm not saying it's a trivial task, but someone who decides to host their own e-mail would probably be willing to work at it.
Yeah, I've gotten downvoted a lot for correcting people...but I think that not even approaching proper english makes you look like an idiot, so really, I'm helping.
I haven't set up two-factor auth yet because I don't always have my phone handy and my understanding of it is that on each log-in you need to use both factors. My comments below are based on this understanding so forgive me if I'm wrong.

What I would love is if instead it asked for both factors under these circumstances:

- option A - on every login like it is now.

- option B - at least once every X days, with a warning that "within the next three logins you'll need to use your second auth" so I will know when it's coming without being locked out because my phone is dead.

- in both of the above cases ALWAYS require two factor auth every time I change the account settings (like password, recovery addresses, etc.) Possibly even require it when I try to do things like purge a mailbox entirely or bulk email all my contacts.

Having this blended option would make it a no brainer for me

Edit: Thanks all for the clarifications below. I am going to give it a try.
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Sorry to focus on this (this is Hacker News after all), but did he write his own Firefox extension for this? Or is there one available?
I stayed in Madison Park? region, and wandered over to Capitol Hill a bit. I liked the liveliness of the area! I really, really, really like the jumbling of businesses and homes.
zsh and its zargs command can easily overcome many of the limitations of xargs noted in the article. They also make the use of the "find" command unnecessary.
Seems easy to use and gets the job done.
So, it seems that the XP machine was the source of intrusions - I'd like to see a follow-up.
This is a good idea overall; there's tons of potential to brand QR codes and otherwise play with them.

See here (or google 'artistic qr codes') for more: http://mashable.com/2011/04/18/qr-code-design-tips/
Ask HN: Idea on incentivizing people to vote on new articles
This may already be the case, but I was wondering, why doesn't HN incentivize people to vote on newly submitted articles? Incentives are clear for people who SUBMIT articles, but not for those who help discover the article by voting for it first, second and third.

IDEA: The person who is the first to up-vote a newly submitted article should be rewarded for "taking the leap", and get 0.5 karma points for each additional vote after him/her.

The third voter should get 0.25 karma points for each additional vote after him/her.

This would incentivize people to read newly submitted articles, and to take the leap and voting for newly submitted articles that are good - speeding up the discovery process for everyone else.

One risk is that people purely looking for karma points would just vote for every article they see, making "3" votes the new "1".

Thoughts?
It has the option (on by default actually) to remember that session for the next 30-days.

I turn it off everytime, because I want to be asked for my second factor regardless of the situation.

In the event I don't have my phone with me, I carry the printout of backup codes in my wallet.
Does it enhance the quality of life for people who don't jog, cycle, or hike? Could you actually convert a significant amount of people to these activities just by offering greenbelts?
Those are anecdotes that don't address my main point, which is that there will be no mass turn towards biking merely because it is made more pleasant.

I offer as counterpoint Santa Cruz, CA, where I grew up. It's hard to imagine a more bike friendly city: there are bike lanes on nearly every road, there are special bike trails along many busy routes, and there are bike racks everywhere. And a lot more people bike than in other places I've lived.

But it's still a tiny minority, and the vast, vast majority of people drive everywhere because the city is too small and spread out to have decent public transportation.
It asks on every login or you can opt to not require the second factor for 30 days on that machine via a checkbox when entering the other factor. You can also print out a list of 10 one-time use codes to log into your account if you don't have your phone handy.
Well Fastmail is in the business of providing an email service. Google is in the business of targeting advertising to you based on what they know about you.

Fastmail was recently acquired by Opera. I don't know if that changes anything.
As for not always having your phone with you, you can print out one-time passwords. So you print some out, put them in your wallet (and maybe more in your home), and then if you don't have your phone/your phone breaks/whatever, you can use one from that list. But then that one off of that list is dead.

Also, I'm pretty sure there's some option where it only does the 2nd factor once a month if it's on a computer it recognizes.
Looks great but no Linux support. Since I use Ubuntu on my work (and home) laptop and netbook, this is largely useless for me.

KeePassX + Dropbox is a great way to go, but it's kind of more "DIY"-ish. Still not hard to set up, keeps all my passwords in sync, and KeePassX has some great features like "auto-type" which basically is a one-click website login.

I now use the max-length passwords on all the sites I use, and they're all crazy random ones. I don't memorize any of them because it's so easy to reset a password if I lost my KeePassX access (unlikely since it's on Dropbox + 4 computers + CrashPlan backups).
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Here are some reasons why self-hosted email is a better bet than Gmail:

1. Your self-hosted system will be unique, which means it won't be attractive to phishers (by definition).

2. Because your system isn't a major email service like Gmail, your address won't have the same cachet with other mail services (i.e. auto-whitelisting). Therefore it will be even less of an attractive target to someone attempting to spam. (For the case of criminals attempting social engineering of a contact list, see point 1.)

3. Because Gmail must run mostly without human intervention, you get bad security such as the "last chance" form, in which everything you need to recover the account can be determined by hacking into the account. Self-hosted email won't have this problem, because it will have a human devoted to correcting problems (i.e. you).

There are of course obvious problems with self-hosted email that Gmail doesn't have, but it's not exactly one-sided.
Is this a solution seeking a problem? What's broken that this fixes?
I made myself a FlagFox action which submits the current URL to Google Charts and makes a QR code out of it. Easy enough.
I'm sympathetic to this viewpoint, but I'd be much more interested to read some research on this topic than a bunch of unsourced opinion.

To make a claim like this you need some hard numbers, in my opinion.
Well, they probably do exist, but not as a default install of any webmail client that I've used in the last few years.
He told me he wrote his own.
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Or just the fact that they are overwhelmed by users requesting to get their accounts back. A two-factor solution is the only solution to the problem with password reusing that we've been fighting since passwords were first thought of. People are dumb, you can tell them a gazillion time to never use the same password on different sites/programs/whatever, they still do it.

Also, by providing it via text messages compared to an application they reach out to a much broader audience. Not just tech-savvy people like you and me, who probably already had a proper password policy.
> Time now for some damage evaluation. I immediately saw that all contacts had been deleted (annoying but not too bad)

There's pretty much a one-click restore process now: http://i.imgur.com/1EYZ5.png
hah - interesting way to put it....

I thought this could be a good way to convert more people to view the "new" submissions and evaluate them. As of right now, there's no reward for going through new submissions and evaluating them for others?
To return from nerd mode, did you consider at some point relating your story to an uncle, and then explaining the concept of "rubber hose cryptanalysis, and letting him connect a few dots?
Ah, that's too bad. The editing and sound and done so well, he really knows how to make an engaging docu.

One of his latest ones, "It Felt Like a Kiss" is a new direction for him and pretty interesting from what I saw of it. It's almost mocking his own style in some ways -- it uses the techniques of typical TV news media to show a series of absurd and shocking material, with the context switching rapidly enough that there's no chance to reflect on what you've just seen. I suppose it's a meta-criticism of the TV news medium, mimicking it in an extreme way to show how ridiculous and harmful it is. It's an exciting trip to watch, though the content is nonsense and it doesn't have a whole lot to say -- it's more just a way to get you to reconsider the usual media you might consume.
Yeah, I ran across that article before starting. To me it looks like all of their examples (and most custom QR codes in general) are the result of photoshop effort and I haven't yet found a QR Code generator that offers customization or branding besides overlaying a small image on the the code. This was just a learning exercise / excuse to play with CoffeeScript, but I thought it turned out well enough to share.
For those that have Android phones with CM7... you can now assign actions to long-press Home and Menu. Long-press home is usually the task switcher (but you can change it to other task switchers with more features). I have my long-press menu set to open Google Authenticator with my Google second-auth OTOP up... so I'm two button presses away from my OTOP code.

Just thought I'd throw it out there. I know it's frustrating to have to unlock, quit app, (wait for the home screen on the slower phones), switch to the App Drawer, scroll, click.