skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone commented on the original post:

"Or provide a single use single action token that performs one function, like confirm friend. Security doesn’t need to be all or nothing."

For extra security this token can be one time useable only.
Hey Greg - didn't you submit this just 5 hours ago?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652020
"..leapfrogged between the accounts ... by inserting various account numbers into a string of text located in the browser’s address bar ... wondered how the hackers could have known to breach security by focusing on the vulnerability in the browser."

...so they put forgeable account numbers/cookies in the URL, and then acted surprised when someone changed them for profit?
Does anybody have any link to the source with some official statement that Google really made an offer to buy Groupon? Everybody are talking about this like it was a real fact but all articles I saw were rumors only.
They will likely want to hear something specific (that helps their case), so be ready to walk when you're pushed into saying or implying something that you don't believe.
We're talking about privacy here. ChromeOS is a ridiculous suggestion.
Is anyone really that surprised?
Sounds like you had poor teachers. Mathematics should always be about problem formulation and understanding which methods are appropriate and how they fit together. Memorizing formulas is not mathematics at any level.

Here is a very good, albeit rather long, piece on the subject.

ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/milgram-msri.pdf
As part of YC winter 2011 I've already had office hours with both Sam and Garry. The nice part of having so many advisors is that each advisor tends to specialize in different areas (Garry is great with design and UX and Sam has good advice on social products and fundraising).

A wider variety of expertise is super helpful for the increasingly diverse group of YC companies.

Welcome Sam, Garry, Emmett, and Justin!
They buy air travel to nicer places (less polluted) to make holidays, because where they live is not pretty anymore.

And I think it is because these things are often disconnected. If you buy an iPad, the waste ends up in China, not on your front lawn. Maybe if you would have to pay by converting parts of your garden into a toxic waste dump, you would act differently.

Besides, I am not convinced that it is a decision between "enjoying the fruits of technology and destroying our world or living like in the stone age, but sustainable". Waste from producing iPads can be processed properly, rather than dumping it into the nearest river. It is a matter of figuring out the proper ways of conduct and proper prices.
Yes. Iphone 4 supports 3G on 4 frequencies, including 900Mhz and 2100Mhz that are commonly used in Europe.
poorly written

I had no trouble understanding the paragraph that you complain about and found the article to be very well written.

Where do you see excessive jargon or convolution?
Except it hasn't. It has saved us in some occasions, but not in others. There where still millions of "unnatural" deaths in the twentieth century. And, similar to what the other comment pointed out, some species are extinct or nearly extinct - technology doesn't seem to have helped them.

What about the recent financial crisis? Not sure how hard it really hit, but nevertheless, technology has not prevented it. Just an example to point out that we do NOT have everything under control.
Looks sweet.
I do agree, I was just trying to show world population might not continue growing like we are used to in the upcoming decades/centuries.

(Still it does say something about it, my country's population (small European country) is decreasing, around 10% less people in the last ten years even with all the immigration.)
I ran into this problem a few weeks ago with some generated enums representing translatable messages driven from the database. (We are trying to make a Java API of an extant API at works with C++ and C#.)

Our database has garbage in it, but that limit's just insane.
The link you posted above to the blog post describing Rails 3.1 seems to be broken.
Not sure I understand point #1. iPhones are built in China. Also, the profit margin is about the same as if they were selling non-unlocked iPhones as they get subsidized profits from the carriers to make up for the discount the carriers give in exchange for the two year contracts. The average profit for iPhone I think was reported to be $625 on average.
If it was actually obvious, most people wouldn't pay the fees to file. Just the rip-off artists hoping for a big score.
"Analysts said Nokia could be estimated to get between 1 and 2 percent of iPhone revenues, which are seen at around $43 billion this year according to a Reuters poll."
New medical coding system taxes hospital IT resources
Having to manage callback control flow by hand.

There's a lot of research surrounding CPS-transformed code (look at Orbit (http://people.csail.mit.edu/riastradh/t/adams86orbit.pdf), for example), but nobody ever needed to manage it by hand.

For a more meaningful comparison between Node and Erlang, look at how they handle errors.
Ugh, I hate it when people ignore their comedic ineptitude just because they happen to be discussing involving comedy. I much rather this article over an unintentional cringe-fest because they author decided to venture into comedy.
Chaotic systems and randomness
GoDaddy.com Clobbered by Failed Site Update
They're also easy to overfit, similarly, finding representative training data is often non-trivial.
I really don't agree with this, design/dev have always been different specializations, serious javascript has only appeared in the last few years and I've only seen people actually describing themselves exclusively as a 'frontend dev' in the last 6 months.

And 'frontend dev' at the moment seems to be as malleable as a SEO was, sometimes it means a designer who can add jQuery and a couple of modules to a page, sometimes it means a talented javascript programmer with an in depth knowledge of HTML/CSS.

And young programmers can't know way more than older programmers, if you keep learning.
Is bitcoin backed?
While trying to answer the broad question "Is bitcoin going to become a stable, functional currency?" I have repeatedly seen the assertion [1,2] that bitcoin is backed in some way by the energy or computational power needed to create the bitcoin.

I have done very little economics, but to me being 'backed' suggests the bitcoin should be redeemable for the powered used to generate it, which is not the case. For a potential bitcoin purchaser, the only value is the future ability to spend it, like a fiat currency.

So my question is: Are the claims that bitcoin is backed meaningful? Specifically does the work required in creating the coins change the economics of the coin in any way other than controlling the rate of currency 'printing'?

[1] http://bitminer.info/
[2] http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=57.0
I just wanted to add my two cents because I'm actually just learning Rails right now. I had never messed with Ruby or Rails at all until two months ago and I've actually enjoyed how easy it is to build basic applications with Rails quite quickly.

I came from PHP and did a lot of work with CakePHP and some with Zend Framework. I found CakePHP fun to work with but often limiting. I found ZF unpleasant to work with and often just as limiting because the effort involved in doing certain simple tasks was often too much.

With Rails I was able to crank out some basic functionality quite quickly and the only hang up I've come across is learning how to create plugins. Then again, the plugins I need are often out there in the world and I could probably get away with never having to write one.

I still think Rails is incredibly easy to learn the basics of but it also is well developed and thought out leaving plenty of room for more advanced behavior without running into the same walls I feel I ran into with PHP development.

Since I started with Rails 3, I don't have any perspective on how difficult it is to keep up with the changes but I must say I'm excited about 3.1 and I don't mind having to dig into whatever information I can scrounge up to familiarize myself with it.
Just create a .NET library that generates HTML and JS, you know like GWT and leave it be. If not Microsoft, someone will probably create one, there is no reason for all this rage.
New Law Would End 500 Shareholder Rule, Let Facebook Stay Private
Yes, but I challenge you to come up with a proper definition, if you think the "free market" will save us. Those wishy washy discussions are what get us into trouble.

And fossil fuels would be sustainable if their rate of production was greater than or equal to our rate of consumption.
The data could also be used to infer that Stack Overflow users are much "better" programmers than non-SO users. Non-SO Users have 0 reputation and are therefore, terrible programmers. While SO users have > 0 reputation, and are therefore, awesome programmers.
You could make it so that even the receiver of the donation doesn't know where the money comes from.
Warwick university actually increased their requirements between 08 and 09. (I'm not sure if there's been any changes since.) To get a place in 08, you needed A's in maths and further maths at A-level, and either two other A grades (NB. most people only take three A-levels) or a B together with a grade 2 in a STEP paper (a more difficult math paper used by Warwick and Cambridge for entrance requirements). The 08 year was unexpectedly crowded, so in 09 the AAAA option was dropped.

They're also making the course itself harder in at least some respects. There's a second year business module which is popular with third year mathematicians because it's easy marks; as of next year, it won't be an option to them.

On the other hand, I've had a lecturer say that when he taught a module to biologists, several of them didn't understand how to work with the relation "V = IR", and he got negative feedback for making the module too math-heavy.
You're right, but if people want to do a thing, you don't have to pass a law to make them. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/weee/index_en.htm
I know someone who never syncs, and the real missing feature that isn't even in iOS 5 is a way to organize your photo roll on the camera. No way to create folders or add captions. iOS 5 adds basic enhancement stuff, but none of the other features you need to really replace iPhoto.
Jason Calacanis: "Blogging Is Dead" & Why "Stupid People Shouldn't Write"
Yes, it's true that many users will choose the paid app, but as Thom explained there are also a lot of them who will choose the free alternative at all costs.
So, the idea behind this post is to find a way to get them to and try to earn some money from them (by conversions into full versions, in-app purchase or ads - this will be the next post tomorrow), instead of ignoring them. This is especially important for individual developers and small teams that do not have means to push the apps in other ways such as advertising.
Secondly, the store is already full of limited, crippled or badly designed apps (and some of them are paid for) so some of the users like to test before buying. Therefore, to earn money an app has to be good, and having a free alternative is just a support mechanism for those not blown away by your screenshots and description. The same goes for recommendations – if it’s good you’ll share it with your friends and when they see your recommendation on fb or tweeter, more people are likely to install it if it’s both free and good (since you recommend it) than if it’s only good (at least that’s how I see it:)
@thom I’ve talked with some of developers who brought the “marketing expense” issue up. Some of them were just starting their companies and without references they could not start working for clients. For them, money for that project was not the main aim – but it’s far better to say to a client that you have a free app which was downloaded many times, than just having a paid apps which is having average sales.
I'm surprised by all the negative comments.

Lomborg makes the simple suggestion to rely on the most proven processes we have to solve problems: science, technology and trade.

How can this in a community of hackers and entrepreneurs be so provocative?
"The official release date for Eclipse Indigo is 22 June, 2011. If you are reading this before then, the downloads will still be the preview versions. While they will be largely functional, you'll have to wait to get your hands on the real thing."
On my computer, that character is just a little dot basically... I thought it was a bug at first.
Probably meant 3.1.2, which is what I'm still running on my 3G, because the jump up to 4.0 was so painfully slow.
Sigh, I have only myself to blame if I let myself be trolled by an account with karma 50.
Anyone know what the penalty for breaking contract under AT&T is? Sounds like it's less than $400.
How CNN Used Social Media Through The Recent Debate
"The method is seemingly simple, but the fact that the thieves knew to focus on this particular vulnerability marks the Citigroup attack as especially ingenious, security experts said."

Experts? Really? They weren't hacking experts, I guess, because this is a really easy thing to think of. Any good coder specifically prevents it, in fact.
ActiveState Acquires Perl Cloud Company, Phenona, to Accelerate Cloud Strategy
Speculation on curved glass for new iPhone
There are rumors about the new iPhone 5 having a curved glass and an edge to edge screen. I don't believe that the physical size of the screen would change.

What could happen though is that the back of the phone could be curved. Like an iPod touch 4 with a glass curved back and a structural bezel like iPhone 4.

What do you think?
That would certainly have been the case with the first couple of iPhones, but the iPhone 4 has rather good calling quality.
Given a perfectly rigid container, you would be correct.

Planes can't even get close to being perfectly rigid, because they'd be too heavy to get off the ground.
> Phenona’s 15-year-old founder, Daniil Kulchenko, will join the ActiveState team part-time since he is still a student in high school.

Damn labor laws! Congrats to Daniil.
I don't think "50% of people who visit genius bars" is the same as "50% of iPhone users", by a long shot.
"Unlocked iPhones: Why Apple Won't Do It"

By Lance Ulanoff

Editor in Chief of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for the Ziff Davis, Inc.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386860,00.asp

June 13, 2011
It's certainly preferable to get by without laws, especially as most laws probably get it wrong.

It's not trivial to find another way, though.

I could imagine that modern technology could enable more transparency, allowing consumers to make better choices.
Fenwick & West: Q1 2011 Deal Terms Survey
Technological growth compounds over time, too.

Just look at the progress of just about any large scale research project such as sequencing the human genome or making an AI capable of beating a chess grandmaster. The progress starts out unbearably slow, and then most of the gains happen in the last 20% of the time spent researching.

One reason for this is that as our technology increases, so does the power of the tools we use for creating more technology. Not only are computers getting better performance/price at an exponential rate, but those gains are fueling research into materials sciences, bioinformatics, and other emerging fields.
The functionality implemented is mutually exclusive

Sorry, but what is that supposed to mean?

The functionality on either end of a client/server application is usually not "mutually exclusive". They're two sides of the same coin and could indeed benefit tremendously from code sharing. Just because the potential has barely been realized so far doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
What makes you think Apple makes a $400 profit per device? That sounds improbably high.
So according to this guy 'the next Pearl Harbor we confront will be a cyberattack that cripples America’s electrical grid and its security and financial systems', but he's not sure yet what the investment angle is? Douche.
Apple and Nokia kiss and make up
I'm stuck and a bit unmotivated to create new things. I just busy myself brushing up on my maths ATM, because I'm interested in machine learning, but can't understand the concepts needed to formulate even the most basic of the applications. I'm also in between jobs, and honestly I don't want to be an employee anymore and just work on my own niche website/app, but I lack the ideas that I think will make good enough money to support family.
Can you find a better expression than audio story?
Just something odd about it.

Google trends seems to agree.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=audio+story&ctab=0&ge...
It doesn't seem to be a word used a lot in the West.

It's so very trivial I know, just forget it if there's no better expression than that.
Traits of Extinct Species May Be Discoverable, DNA Sequencing Data Suggest
Unfortunately for LulzSec, they lost any respect I could have had for them when they went after 2600

(As far as I can gather, someone they were [potentially rightfully] in a dispute with used the 2600 irc servers. Go figure...)
Nothing in production. I've build a couple of clojure and common lisp toy apps, and a few 2D games in common lisp with lispbuilder-sdl(and like any other python programmer, I've build a blog in Django :D). This is my first serious attempt at a commercial system, since I'm still in school and have limited time.

p.s. try http://www.hnsearch.com/
I think you've confused Access Control Lists (ACL) with Authorization.
If you believe businesses will unfailingly innovate in response to incipient environmental collapse, why not test that belief by challenging them to innovate in response to sub-optimal cash flows first?
I think the original comment about political statements costing trillions are when say the government subsidizes corn ethanol.

There is good consensus that corn ethanol is energy negative, and that it doesn't result in cleaner air or less greenhouse gases due to production costs.

This mis-allocation of capital hinders development of truly better alternatives, and sets back innovation. These setbacks, beyond the cost of the subsidy and the lack of improvement in the areas targeted, do cost trillions.
Soccer players follow game theory rules when taking penalty kicks.
It's getting upvotes because the title says "don't do this". People are voting for the fact that the article is offers bad advice. The author however doesn't seem to have quite grasped this - thanking us for his position on the HN front page!
The next time I sync my phone it'll be for iOS5/iCloud. The sad thing is the current syncing experience is improved quite a bit from what it used to be.
Ask HN: Getting traffic to an MVP
I would like some suggestions for getting traffic to my MVP. I know about "creating great content" but that seems beyond MVP and more the VP stage. I have used google adwords, with some success, but I would like some other options too.

I tried searching the archives, but I didn't find anything like this.

Thanks
Yes, I do know what you mean. We have actually ummed and ahhed about this quite a lot. We don't like the word podcasts as they can mean video or audio and also it seems to scare some people away. Audio programme is perhaps a bit dry... just audio is too vague. Broadcast? Radio?

Audio story is the only expression that defined the kind of content we will feature - it always has a story and it's audio!...

However, I am open to a good alternative... I haven't managed to come up with one as yet.
> In fact, would-be catastrophes have regularly been pushed aside throughout human history, and so often because of innovation and technological development. We never just continue to do the same old thing. We innovate and avoid the anticipated problems.

The thing about the Anthropic Principle is that it only protects you in the past, not in the future. We're here now because our civilization overcame its past problems; but any speculator can tell you that past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Looking forward to the next version :)
Do you need a vacation if you love what you do?
Plurk actually gave up on node after failing to optimize their service and went back to Netty (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19577). A better answer is this: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Projects,-Applications,-...
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The word "backed" means almost nothing to me in any context, so I try to avoid it. The word "redeemable" has a clear contractual meaning. Bitcoin is certainly not redeemable for anything.

I would like to see a digital asset which is contractually redeemable for electric power, issued by a reputable power producer. There is a general-purpose accounting device called "Loom" at https://loom.cc which allows people to create arbitrary digital assets and move them around at will, but as far as I know nobody has issued electric power on it yet. However, there is an asset redeemable for gold (in kilo bars), at http://www.gsfsystem.ch/ .
ta :)
Putting it in words for those too lazy to click: node.js is built into webOS.
I think the lesson here is sometimes when a publisher shuts down a studio instead of letting the game get finished they actually know what they're doing.
No User Serviceable Parts Inside
How To Attract Money - Health and Financial Freedom
Your IPv6 connectivity hurts your anonymity on 'anonymous' VPN services
People seem to have been predicting a "digital pearl harbour" for over a decade now. I think such a thing might only be possible if most computing moves into "the cloud" and cloud systems become highly homogenized, such that a single exploit could affect many systems in a single catastrophic event.

In terms of privacy I think the biggest threat is likely to come from governments, because if people's entire private lives exist online then there will always be the temptation to want access to more and more of that in order to optimise public services, carry out automatic policing and issuing of fines, censor individuals, monitor protest groups and so on. It seems unlikely that in a world of ubiquitous information governments will remain content with the occasional census data which they obtain.
You have very funny definition of "solve". In my day we would have called that a workaround.
ResizeMyBrowser
Actually as you can see from the answer below. Omega can actually be eliminated from every equation and there are thus 4 variables, 4 equations -> solvable
Books, Papers and Links about Game Programming and Computer Graphics
Everytime i see people asking in the foruns for book and website tips about game programming and computer graphics, there is no centralized point where everyone can look for. Most (iam exaggerating =P) of the links that google found are old or not working.
So i made a post in my blog including lots of links that i regularly use and recommend for people. http://ploobs.com.br/?p=766
I want the help of you guys =P If you know good books about these matters (or any other category that i did not put in the post) or link that you like and use, pls tell me by commenting here or there.
i WILL update the post.
The idea is to keep it alive forever =P
Linking to the original source is ideal: http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/6518390176/jason-calacanis-blo...

Also, the formatting there is much easier to read.
And if they're building a game full of misogyny and shit-throwing "because they enjoy it", that's somehow better?
Scala AVL Tree
Yeah, I'm just picking up new programming languages, learning hardware, and doing various other things at the moment for the sake of learning and mostly just to kill time. I don't have the financial woes anymore but I can understand where you're coming from. There are actually plenty of ideas to make money but that isn't a motivational factor for me. I just want to work on something I personally find exciting.