skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I don't doubt that they should somehow get compensated for their time, but making it sound like an extortion attempt strikes me as a poor choice.
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I think url2png is really cool, but I was a bit pissed when from one day to the next they went to a subscription model and added sign-up links to all screenshots. Their fair right, of course, but no fun if you just started using it.
It is quite amazing that in spite of the moon's rotation about its own axis and our (the Earth's) revolution around the sun where the moon comes along for the ride, we still only ever see just a bit over 50% of the surface of the moon. That takes some amount of dexterity on the part of the moon.
Personally, I don't want to have to ask my doctor what kind of clinical trials a drug he's prescribing has been through.

I always do that! Why don't you do it today? Do you believe doctors and the FDA a flawless? Do you care if a drug has been on the market for decades versus one that's just been approved? Do you think that matters?

I suppose this does indicate a deeper difference between the intuitive assumptions of libertarians versus more pro-centralized control people.

I've often found that people who are more pro-regulation also have a very strong faith in the goodness and wisdom of officials.
I think HTML5/Javascript does stand a chance, and the article makes a good point about how most business apps don't need the fancy functionalities of a smartphone (camera, GPS, etc). But having used Sencha Touch, and JQuery Mobile (w/ PhoneGap), they don't even get the basics right consistently. Simple things such as the toolbar in the bottom disappearing when you scroll down.

If these Javascript frameworks can get the basics down pat, then more developers would sacrifice performance for speed of development and better maintainability. Until that happens, native development will rule
Yes, it is possible to cross Dublin without passing a pub
Oops, I had muddled some of the three variants of the public-performance right; edited.
Of course then there is the saying "No good deed goes unpunished."
Old and poorly written but interesting all the same. I never saw this the first time around and it's a great story that makes me like Walmart even more so I'm grateful for the repost.
perhaps a Google Instant Preview style extension where you hover over the default view link and a screenshot is displayed on the side? That would be a great browser extension!
How did Austria get into that list?
OS X Snow Leopard - The hottest OS ever?
Hell you can't do any of those things in the first 15 languages I learned. In fact none of the concepts even existed in those languages---so? Bother? Irratated? Annoyed? I can understand all of those; but hate? I'm hoping that is hyperbole brought on by momentary programmers frustration. Otherwise it is a waste of time. Go changes fast enough that perhaps by this time next week some of these things might have gone away. Some on the other hand might still be there, but what might change is your understanding of the reasons why they exist and what you should do to code around them (or through or whatever...)
Yes, but in the last years the shipping of many Nokia smartphones has been delayed by months. So it's questionable whether Windows Phones will be available by the end of this year.
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'Confirmed' by Eldar: http://twitter.com/#!/eldarmurtazin/status/80949300753989632
Study: Less Than Half of Top Websites Optimized for Mobile Web [Infographic]
Wait, it's 2011 and people are still surprised by the threat that Netflix poses? Jesus, when is anyone in any media industry going to get, anything?
For all the short blogs, there are very few, if any short options written or listed at bitoption.org. I made a little bit of money on mild shorts there this week, essentially betting against major price increases, but I just don't see any like $2 puts being listed for end of the year.
Good as in "coded according to established coding standards". This probably reduces the likelyhood of programmer errors (such as the quoted mistakes with sizeof()..), but doesn't mean that there are few actual bugs left.
Somebody let the cat out of the bag a bit early. Watch the repo and you'll be notified when we commit v1.
You mean like ... lawyers?

I think this is silly. Lawyers do not make money by suing people. People sue people and lawyers represent them. You can be your own lawyer, although it will probably not work out in your favour almost all cases.
Thanks for writing it. Point by point:

- Bitcoin software: It's open-source. How would anybody compromise it with so many eyes watching?

- Bitcoin trail: Solved using Tor and adding noirc='1' to bitcoin.conf file. Also you need to earn your bitcoins anonymously. Anyway, Bitcoin isn't supposed to be anonymous. It can be anonymous if you do it right, like you can browse the web anonymously if you do it right.

- Bitcoin public data: Same as with bitcoin trail.

- Bitcoin exchange: Right, but you can buy bitcoins from someone without revealing him/her your name.

It seems your article analyzes if Bitcoin is good for money laundering. It can be used for that, but I don't care. It isn't what makes Bitcoin interesting. Bitcoin is an alternative to payment methods like paypal, to currencies like the dollar or the euro, to payment transfers like ACH or Western Union, and to bank accounts. That is what makes it an awesome currency. That is what makes it disruptive.

It can be used for money laundering just like cash and offshore bank accounts can be used for money laundering. Way more people are using cash than bitcoins for money laundering. And that isn't what makes Bitcoin disruptive, because money laundering already exists.
Austria debt levels must get to safer ground - IMF

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/14/austria-economy-id...
Very, very, very, very, very different. The lasers we are talking about are beams, which means they are not subject to significant intensity falloff over distance. Thus, the energy they put out at the source can be efficiently transmitted over great distances directly to your eyeball. This causes further problems when the laser can deliver enough energy to damage your eye, or even permanently destroy it, in less than the ~150 milliseconds it takes you to reflexively blink it. Run this thing over a bunch of broken glass and you will have legitimate problems with localized areas of dangerously high light intensity.

Also, lasers are not toys. Do not let children play with them. Do not let anyone "play" with the green ones or any stronger lasers. You are taking insane risks when you do; yes, you can probably keep it out of your eyes but it only takes a moment's inattention and you can be talking serious lifelong consequences. It's a poor tradeoff for entertainment purposes.

Not only is this design far, far too dangerous to let out into the public in a big way, even the testing was far more dangerous and hostile to the people in the area than the engineer realized.
Isn't your first point also true of mouse movements under certain circumstances? I am specifically thinking of the Apple style of fixing the menu at the top of the screen given the display resolutions at the time, and of "pie menus" on today's hardware:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu

A friend works on high-end image editing software (Maya). Their research is that pie menus are faster than keyboard commands and both Apple and Windows style menus because the user is learning write flicking gestures and their hand is already on the mouse for drawing activities.
Celebridades: insólitos momentos de descuido
I too worry about this. The last two viable jobs in the US seem to be engineering related or medical related. The barrier to entrance to one is less protected than the other. With the economy and almost ever other sector in shambles I fear a mass migration to tech jobs.

It was not too long ago we where flooded with bodies from the dot com boom and bust. Back then the quality of personnel was horrible. When you get people in it for the money in engineering type disciplines the quality suffers. If there is no passion for technology in the person the fruits of there labor are more often than not pretty sour.

While others cannot find work, the tech sector has jobs. It is just a matter of time before those out of work decide that it is better to work in tech than to starve. We the tech sector just came out of a large downturn, we led the nation by a few years I fear that in influx of bodies would kill out modest recovery we have made back to a healthy market.
This is very common among natural satellites. Here's the phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking (Look at the list of tidally locked bodies)
I don't see how you can compare this to the housing bubble/crisis. The real estate market contains trillions of dollars (everyone's money participates in it one way or another), and some of the worst stuff, like bad mortgages, was amplified and leveraged by firms using it as collateral.

Here, we're talking about a $9 billion valuation for LinkedIn, and that's just a valuation, they sold off something like 20% of the shares, so actually only $1 billion or $2 billion changed hands. In other words, the leverage here works to reduce the economic impact. Who cares about this, other than the people holding these shares? The percentage of the world's capital being invested at these insane valuations is very, very small. Meanwhile, there are tons of undervalued companies in everything from shipping to construction and energy. I think we're not looking at a depression just yet, at least not based on a few dumb valuations for no-substance "social" companies.
What people who argue argue bitcoin don't seem to get is that you don't need the participation of banks at all.

If an individual offers any good or service in exchange for bitcoins they can get bitcoins so long as the people with bitcoins wants that good or service. There was a perfect example here on HN the other day. Someone would purchase electronics products from Newegg for HNers in other countries in exchange for bitcoin. The cost in bitcoins was equal to the cost of the product in USD converted to bitcoins plus an operating margin.

The flatter the World gets the more likely that bitcoin is likely to have utility.

All the naysayers keep harping on about how bitcoin will never gain mainstream acceptance in the US. They're partially right. The mainstream US is not the target market. Bitcoin will probably enjoy some mainstream acceptance in the US, but it will probably be a long time from now and occur well after it enjoys mainstream success in some foreign market.

The key global feature that makes bitcoin viable is a functioning and reliable postal service. Beyond that all that is necessary is a robust reputation management system.

With those two features, you can transact easily and simply with anyone in the World without ever dealing with US banks. That's the key piece to get here. In the long-term, regulation of US banks prohibiting bitcoin will hurt banks more than bitcoin, because it just means that they won't be able to participate.

The key to a functioning bitcoin economy is not the middlemen such as banks. The key are enough endpoints so that there are enough goods and services you want to buy in bitcoin that uses charge in bitcoin and then maintain the currency until they spend it on a good or service they want.

Everyone focuses on the banks and intermediaries, but it's the quantity and diversity endpoints (buyers/sellers) that truly matter.
> The rock solid feature that lets me eat on a semi-regular basis is also an attack vector against almost every other HNer with a Citi account, most of whom will never send money overseas. So, what should Citi do? Optimize for security and shut down that feature from their website, or optimize for being able to just wire some money in a rock solid fashion?

Perhaps require a setup process to enable the feature on an account-by-account basis. When you set up your Citi account you could have had another piece of paper work that you signed stating you know the risks of international wire transfers and that you authorize Citi to allow them to be processed through the website. Most customers wouldn't set it up and will have exactly the same experience as they do now, some wouldn't get scammed and customers like you also get to sit pretty.
A little competition for http://hn.embed.ly? Heh. We think rich data makes much better previews then screenshots. What does HN think about this site vs. hn.embed.ly?
Apple SVP Retail Ron Johnson leaves, becomes JC. Penny CEO
Cerf, Berners- Lee Discuss the Future of the Internet
How is this useful? I agree with bgraves, it is more of a proof-of-concept of url2png.
That's a terrible idea. The US and China both have UN veto votes.
I have a smart Sony BD player that lets me watch Crackle, Hulu Plus, Netflix and half a dozen other things. It upgrades automatically and adds new services every few months. (I believe most of these are available on the PS3 as well). I was on this crazy cable plan that had all the bells and whistles but I actually only watched 5 channels. When cable lets me subscribe on a channel by channel basis I might switch back. The only thing I missed is live sports but networks are broadcasting live web streams as well, so 'cut the cord' = 'more money in my pocket'.

Also, something to note was that I dint have TiVo or DVR and so could almost never watch shows on TV. Hulu for me is free DVR (unless they dont have my show which is rare).
From where do you get the idea that the "OpenBSD hyenas" would ridicule you for finding a security vulnerability in OpenBSD?

Seriously? One doesn't have to hang around those lists long to see how they treat those they disagree with.

You can get advice about truncating SHA512 from Furguson and Schneier; that book is 5 years old.

Sure, but that wasn't written in the late 1990s when bcrypt was presented and we certainly can't expect the blogger to have read up on the modern advice. Bcrypt doesn't even use SHA-512, it uses the block cipher Blowfish in a suboptimal custom mode to construct its own 192-bit narrow-pipe hash function. When Microsoft rolled their own password hash functions with DES just a few years earlier (LanMan, NTLM) it was thoroughly pwned by Schneier, Mudge, Wagner, L0pht, etc. But you know this!
> 2. He allows two-handed using editing Ctrl+X/C/V as a special case but there are other similar situations.

Like "all of them." The only command shortcuts I actually use one hand for are Ctrl-(Z|X|C|V), Alt-Tab, and Ctrl-Tab - everything else, I hold Ctrl with one hand and press the key with the other hand. It feels more natural that way.
No, its a re-branding of their Premium Remote Tech Support services.
I think PCI is more of a reactive legal tool than it is an effective, proactive way to prevent security breaches. In theory it should catch security vulnerabilities, but I don't know how thorough the compliance checks really are...

Yeah, Citi's greater punishment will likely be in the form of a weakened reputation then it will be in actual damages paid.
Over time we ran a few promotions through other daily deal sites. In our latest promotion we sold 1350 Groupons. Some of the other guys we tried, their promotions struggled to sell 150.

Also, Groupon tried really hard to get exclusivity from it's merchants. They have more of a moat than people give them credit for...
_lots_ of potential for race conditions.
Adobe kills AIR for Linux
1)I've always been of the assumption that imaging is rather difficult
2)Currently the pipettes are stationary and the plate moves .. and the flow speed absolutely already built in :D
3) multiple liquids = id love to see a modular bolt on pump ( HMMMM )
The Latest Trend in IT is the Democratization of IT
Like the Death Star...
Ask HN: Is BitCoin D.O.A.?
I'm working on a consumer-oriented BitCoin product (like PayPal for BitCoin.) I believe the idea has promise if BitCoin continues growing as it has recently, but I'm debating whether or not I should continue after seeing an unsettling number of problematic issues with BitCoin recently, including the $500,000 theft, the big drop in price on the exchanges last Friday, rumors of impending government intervention, etc.

What are your thoughts on this?
LexisNexis open sources its Hadoop killer
I've always said that it's not the lawyers that bug me. It's their clients.
Mike Dailly, one of the developers at DMA Design, commented, "The problem with Pixar was that they seemed to think that any computer generated unicycle was owned by them."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniracers
I got turned off Samsung a few years ago because of one of their low-end phones: felt cheap, was slow, and the UI sucked. The GS2 has me rethinking that in ways I didn't think it could.
I was actually disappointed by the NYT article. They interview security experts who call the attack "ingenious", "hard to prepare for" and performed by exploiting a vulnerability in a browser. This understates how incompetent the bank's website design is.
ASK HN: How do I determine if I should make my iPhone/Android App free vs. $1.99
Hey all,

So I'm in the process of scoping / hiring for an iPhone/Android app. The app in my opinion and based on the audience I see for similar apps is what I'd consider to be pretty Niche (under 250K users).

It's a media streaming app in a similar vein as Pandora / Last.fm with a bit of a twist. Now given this very vague description and a general idea of the maximum audience size I'm still not certain if I should go free and try to earn through in app advertising, or charge $1.99 (which seems to be the 'advised' price based on what I've read here on HN).

Any and all advice on how to go about determining what method to go with as well as any possible ideas on how to mix the two would be great. Thanks!
They probably didn't develop it in-house, so it's just a matter of blaming and changing providers.
Ubuntu is the wrong choice to begin with if this is the case. Privacy is a non-issue with Chromium and it's offensive that people still shout this FUD about Google Chrome. Wouldn't you know, it's exceedingly rare that I ever hear any actual complaints about the "excessive privacy problems" with Chrome.
> I will never work in medical IT due to real-life horror stories like this.

I'd wager that there are real-life horror stories like this for just about any industry - they happen whenever non-computer-savvy people meet computers.
Example of a Canvas based PDF renderer
The repo for the renderer itself is here: https://github.com/andreasgal/pdf.js
I'm also pretty happy with Vimium as a former Vimperator user. The longer I use Chrome though, I find myself using the omnibox more and more for search etc. Especially when coding.

So lately I've been experimenting with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mkinfhanlabcenjnpb... to navigate links.

Works pretty good, although lot's of room for improvment.
Or let's assume they lost $5. They just paid $5 for the opportunity to impress 4 people and gain 4 regular customers. $1.25 to bring a human into your business isn't that expensive, especially if they actually showed up. If you divided the cost of a billboard into how many people walked in the door, it may cost you much more.
all I can see is a gray box for the hackrss screenshot
> You cant really compare this with a bank like citygroup.

Yes, yes you can.

Listen, PCI compliance is something people like to talk about, but you'd be surprised at the number of companies that don't follow even the bare minimum (unencrypted cards and keeping the CVV). We are talking about large, national corporations (and not Sony).

Besides, who do you think is writing this software? Normal people. There isn't a "Programming for Banks" degree you can get. It's programming. They hire contractors for months/years at a time, and then they are done with them.
Here be Raptors: Lua 5.2 beta RC1 introduces lexically scoped gotos.
> HN is no place to discuss emotionally charged questions of nationality and history. Your reply illustrates the reason why.

Uhhmmm no, the original post to which I was replying illustrates why. You did read it, right?

> The idea that the conflict is one side of monsters and one side of tragic heroes is comedic, regardless of which 'side' one chooses.

Thanks for the moral relativism drivel. When you find the time to "go into detail about historical grievances of either party in the conflict" instead of wasting time writing gibberish, feel free to reply.

Nobody else is reading this thread anymore. It'll just be the two of us.
Everyone signs a waiver, so we collect their email address from that and add them to an email promotion list. So I guess the technology would be the mighty pen :)

We did have a few cases where we caught people... We just called them out and they paid. We are lucky because we have everyone's contact info and keep good records.
Not trying to be clever, but aren't startups all about solving problematic issues? I'm not too familiar with all the issues with BitCoin, but maybe a pivot can help solve them.
This PR person needs to read the Cluetrain Manifesto, because he doesn't quite get how the world works now.
Is it really that different than the copyright issues with the name/logos that Firefox has? My guess is that it would come down to obtaining an agreement with Google similar to the one Canonical made with Mozilla.

Besides that, yeah, the headline is more misleading than anything.
Ask and ye shall receive bigger screenshots.
More info about it here:

http://retro.nintendolife.com/news/2010/03/feature_the_makin...

“My total royalty cheques for Unirally amounted to something like seventeen quid. I think I bought pizza. The pioneers of the games industry bought Ferraris and swimming pools on the proceeds of their games. I bought ham and pineapple toppings with extra barbecue sauce on a crispy base.”
Are you running Android 2.1? You need at least 2.2 to really enjoy Android.
Pandora Jumps 40% From IPO Price
Here's a search experience for you, same idea: http://hnsearch.heroku.com/ :)
Chinese shanzhai counterfeiters practice customer development
As long as memory management is not performed by the hardware, a C-like language will be needed to write operating systems. What I think is possible is to write more of the operating system in a higher level language, with only a small part of it in C. Or, even better, have a smaller operating system with everything else written in user space. This is the original idea of the UNIX designers, of course, so nothing really new here.
I am surprised that ESPN (with all their control) haven't adopted a better online presence.

I would pay them directly $10 a month to access their sports and TV shows. Can't be doing better through the cable contracts...
This discussion came up recently in a Planet Money episode (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/20/136403092/the-tues...).

They interviewed an economist who ran a simple experiment: he created a market for the students in his class with a VERY predictable security (it paid a pre-established dividend N times, and then stopped.) And yet speculative bubbles invariably formed and crashed.
Whoops. Fixed it, thanks!
I don't think that the author was expressing his astonishment with the fact that Netflix is threatening cable. He was just reporting the findings of a new study which show hard evidence. In fact, he states that "this jibes with both common sense and other anecdotal evidence we’ve seen.", so he's clearly not surprised.
Or you could just send them a real letter (I think an institution like a bank would respond better to that than an email). I'd just tell them that I'm a concerned customer who stumbled upon the flaw.

I would never threaten them to release it publicly though - I'd tell them that I'd forward the letter to the relevant government organisation. Where I am in Australia this would be something like the BFSO (Banking and Financial Services Ombudsman) and/or ACCC (Australian Consumer and Competition Commission).
It's an FN F2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_F2000)
This whole thing reminds me of Daemon/FreeedomTM and the darknet credits.