skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really anything to do with seo but make your front page static and move the rest (all the wedding pictures) to another page with a limit (maybe 5 or 10 a page).

I thought your site was broken but it was just loading so much.

That page load absolutely killed my connection and google could be punishing it. (Though I don't know if they punish download size)

The option should be available in your wordpress install.
Off-topic: Something interesting about the aesthetics of text to point out here. I had to double-take which you said was left and which was right. I was sure that you were saying the left was iTerm2, because to me the one on the right has clearly superior text rendering (especially the bold)!
Glad that OSX Lion will do away with the need for this annoying "feature" completely.

I've got my parents using Spotlight and they just dump files into the Documents folder. They are much happier with find>file than doing the browse>navigate.>.>.>file.

If they never had to select to save files to begin with, it would be even easier.
I can say personally that the only reason I use GitHub and would never consider SourceForge is because of the D in DVCS. SourceForge always wanted to be your world: You have to give your repo over to them and let them manage it on their servers. By doing that you are now locked in to their world.

With git I don't care if GitHub goes down for a month or accidentally loses all my code or kicks me out and starts to charge for hosting. It's because they are hosting a copy of my repo and are not the sole keeper. I always have my repo with my precious source code history and it's impossible for them to take it away.

I suspect a lot of hackers are like myself and don't like giving up control where they don't have to.

That and GitHub just doesn't feel as hostile as SourceForge.
Blame Hollywood. Non-tech folks have been conditioned to panic whenever anything out of the ordinary appears on screen, because that's how Hollywood visualizes computer viruses and alien space invaders.
SceneTap: New app to use cameras to show girl/guy ratio at bars
It's like, you're overdrawn, your account has been frozen, but you're still paying your bills from it. They'll just keep "paying out" money, even if it was never received by borrowing or taxation?!

I'll accept, in fact I'll state that "Republicans are irresponsible" and that I don't agree with slashing the state. But they are being democratic. They are doing what the people who overwhelmingly switched to them want. They want lower taxes. The fact that most of the same people want sustained spending at the same time does not detract from that. People would't be so infuriated with all the spending in the first place if they hadn't passed the damn TARP and everything else. Not forgetting that redistribution would be far more popular if the average taxpayer and average welfare recipient were, you know, the same colour.
Just curious. Is there a easy way to prevent Chrome from upgrading?
These courts have already been very effectively used... as a threat by copyright holders in an attempt to shake people down for out-of-court settlements.
Not offended at all. It's a very nice, good cleavage.
Oh. I know how this one ends. Nothing left but a broken and forgotten fragment with "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" carved on it.
You could install a VM. That would be the easiest solution.

AWS EC2 lets you make a instance running Windows Server.
The computers were setup in mind with visitors being able to access them, he accessed them. The software he wrote would not require elevated privileges. He even asked a security guard whether he had permission to photograph in the store.

I fail to see how it's unauthorized, also the recordings were made in a public space where there is no expectation of privacy. Even if privacy could be argued in a public space, I'm sure the Apple stores / malls have the requisite notices that people are being recorded, should they think they are not. There's a decent chance of a good defense.

It's going to be difficult for Apple to argue that the computers were not meant to be used this way, infact Apple provides software (Photobooth) to take pictures and upload them to the internet on its computers.

Are the feds seriously trying to assert that Apple had no idea how to configure their computers to enforce their access policy? Even if they couldn't figure this out a simple piece of tape over the camera would suffice.

If Apple doesn't want people doing this to their computers they should post notices that one should not access their computers until they have read and signed the acceptable use policy.
So there was I, thinking "God, this has got to be the world's lamest point'n'click," and then they threw a multiple choice test in my direction.

(My hands down favourite part is when they tell you that you're a privacy jedi, so please head this way to install an application that will keep track of your points, so you can maybe get rewards.)
Would you give up the Internet for 1 million dollars?
Many will decry the connection between wealth and (largely) free markets, but hey, that's why I am -9.
Really? I have never heard of shareholders asking for it.
No. but he is getting better.
E'shee means Personal
And the employee gets a nice trophy to display.
> The fact Google does not use it is not because they "do no evil" but that they don't have any patents to ask money for.

At this point though, with thousands of phd level engineers and probably tens of thousands of the smartest people on the planet working for them, you have to conclude that the reason they have no patents is not that they are unable to produce patents, but rather a conscious choice that they don't want to.

The Nortel auction was fascinating. After leading the bidding Google just left the table and let its competitors buy up all the patents - patents that may very well injure Google in the future. I find it really weird that they opted out of at least buying some "protection" - in the end I can only put it down to a matter of principle - which is something I do respect them for.
"God, this has got to be the world's lamest point'n'click"

Yeah.. but compare it to most privacy policies!
I think I found what I wanted - VMware Workstation
The page won't load finish loading for me.
Let's build an MP3-decoder
Not really, don't you think that there is cost factor involved here? Imagine you need to run lets say 5000 machines for you uber big app, instead of 12000, you save money, you save environment, and its usually easier to manage everything when you have less machines to care about. Costs are important. And i'm not saying that one cant make mistakes, but you don't grow facebook size in one day, but when you do grow, it's a good idea to refactor your architecture into something scalable AND FAST, before you reach the point of no return ;-) or you will end up writing your own flavour of php....
@moozeek - none of those sites you linked seem to be anywhere near as accurate.
This, and the story about modified versions of VLC being used to distribute malware, seem to be timely illustrations of why Open Source projects should file for and protect their names as trademarks.
will try. Thanks
Facebook Apologizes For Disabling Apps, Launches New Feedback Metrics
The Future of Mobile Carriers
> not available to students

Wow. I wonder if they understand the impact of that business decision?

Were you unpaid? Or something, that changed your legal status in a relevant way?
> "Free" software isn't free, if it includes a Microsoft tax, anyway.

You have to wonder how galling it is for Microsoft that even after they impose this "tax" manufacturers still prefer to make Android devices and still sell vastly more of them than WP7. Effectively it values WP7 at less than free which must be rather insulting.

Edit: I think the fact MS is even trying this speaks volumes about how Microsoft misunderstands the market. Stuck in a 1990s mindset their assumption is that their problem competing with Android is that it is free while their OS costs money. They simply do not understand the difference between free and open source and assume the only difference between the two is a financial one. They fail to see the strategic value of Android being "open" to these manufacturers and don't get that it is far greater than anything they can ever impose on them via patent trolling.
Per http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740430, it looks like maybe a payment processor is somehow accepting transactions that Visa/MasterCard don't want them to allow.
Fair enough: at least they're trying to add some usability to their privacy policy [1], but for Zynga that was a game designing underachievement. I actually felt a bit lectured there! :-)

[1] If you haven't yet, check out http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/privacy-icons/ (Privacy Icons).
The actual privacy policy is here: http://www.zynga.com/privacy/privacy-policy.php

For a legal document it's quite well formatted and readable.
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium
You can get a year on Amazon for free.
Where on earth are you getting these bizarre legal opinions from? Every reply you make in this thread is more and more clueless.
Pardon the language, but what a jackass. Walking into the apple store doesn't mean that I want to have my photo on your website. I think the "but you were in a public space!" people need to cool it a little bit; maybe them and the "if you have nothing to hide!" people should get together and take a vacation.

This is just incredibly discourteous. Being public to the people in my immediate vicinity, and being public to the billions of people on the internet are not the same thing.

Having his laptop taken is obviously not really an appropriate response.
Google Maps for Android Update to 5.7 becomes almost offline
Google Maps for Android is updated to version 5.7 and almost fully satisfies the demand of thousands of users for offline browsing.
I think my point stands until it is bundled in all browsers or it doesn't require an additional plugin.

Have you ever had to be sure a colleague's computer had WebEx installed before a conference call? Or planned to Skype someone but had to wait while you updated to the latest version?

Until it's bundled with your browser, these issues will constantly deter users. It's different for social. My mom will be patient if I'm 5 minutes late for our Sunday morning video chat, but it's hardly a hoop-jumping-free process.

We'll get there, but we're not there yet.
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I'd seriously suggest not going out in public in any major city if you don't want your photo appearing on the internet. I always myself wonder how many people's vacation photos I'm in.
No idea, but here's my own favorite (John M. Ford, "The Hemstitch Notebooks"):

The furry one came into the cantina. He did not walk as a coyote should, he flowed like brown fuzzy water along the floor to the bar and held up a finger, and though he did not speak the owner poured him a drink and he drank it. It poured over his teeth and around his tongue and down his gullet and past his duodenum and into his flat coyote belly, and then he filled out and stood up straight like a man coyote does, and his eyes had the light of those who have had the very big rock fall on them, or been blown up by the Acme dynamite, or have fallen off the high cliff and hit the telegraph wires and bounced up again. When a man coyote knows these things they do not go away from him. The coyote walked out of the cantina straight with the tire marks down his back like sergeant's stripes.
Investment Values Twitter at $8 Billion
The shadiest thing about this is that MS is not revealing the list of patents that it claims infringe and is forcing its licensees to also not reveal that. This says to me pretty clearly that were it known, a lot of these patents would probably be challenged and thrown out pretty quickly and MS would get a lot of negative publicity for exploiting them this way. I also strongly suspect that a lot of these initial licensees are getting promised some kind of kickback so that it works out cost-neutral for them to sign - MS has just been building precedents so far. What they do next will be interesting.
Soon pypy will be compatible with numpy and scipy. Also it is interesting what other stuff you can now do with pypy, for example pyglet runs on it - think opengl 3d and 2d games - should be fast enough for many games, you can run pyramid web framework on it with great success including database drivers, so webdev is already possible - i've made some benchmarks of index page for my application and got 4x speed increase request/per second wise - without caching. So while its not ready for everyone yet, it may be ready for you, so don't think about it like some exotic thing no one will use it.
Thank you for this link! I read it years ago but could never remember what the kids called the mouse pointer (“ sui, Hindi for needle”). I always wanted to say kudzu for some reason.
What I'm wondering is why developers use Urban Airship's push service over Google's C2DM.
Entrepreneur of the Year finalist: “Do it only if you enjoy it”
Really? Back this up, please.

I'm sure my photo is taken many, many times per day. I doubt the majority of these photos are taken 18 inches in front of my face, then uploaded to a publicly accessible website.

Being in the background of some kid's facebook photo, or being 1 of several hundred thousand pictures taken by a security camera, and this, are not the same.
> are betting the entire company on it

At least the bonus structure for employees is tied to meeting the company goals on social: http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/08/larry-page-google-reorg/

So yes, Page has spun the ship's wheel... expect the boat to turn sharply.
Well that felt more than a little patronizing.
Akka and the Java Memory Model
Ask HN: Sample for web development contracting agreement?
I am about to hire a web development shop to make the 1.0 version of my new project.

I won't use Odesk, Elance or any such service.

What are the key components the contract should cover?

So far I have:
- Description of deliverables
- Timeline of project
- Payment schedule if timeline is met
- Financial punishment for failing timeline
- IP goes to client
- Assigning arbitrator in case of unresolvable dispute
- Service level agreement
I up voted because you have a point, but companies could have a big name, an hr department but very little or no revenue or repeatable business model. Unless it's bootstrapped and tiny, owing investors a return on their investment either through additional financing rounds or net revenue sounds like it's still starting/growing to me. I generally agree that once you are doing it, you are doing it.
I commented on the linked articles in more depth regarding performance game dev w/ Java. I see someone mentioned libgdx in a comment here which is awesome. Also awesome to see mention of Slick. I'll just mention that I have been working for many years developing a mature component oriented platform for real time app & game dev in Java that spans J2SE & Android utilizing all the language features of Java without sacrificing performance. I am barreling towards initial release. It's called TyphonRT and a little more info is available here: http://www.typhonrt.org/ I'm aiming for an end of summer release and I hope you might want to consider Java (w/ Scala) & TyphonRT for you next project.. :)
One invite a day would be more sustainable and get people to actually invite others.

If I had only two total, I could give it to folks who might ignore the invite, thus crippling my network (I would more likely end up hacking it by making numerous fake accounts and harvesting the combined invites... not that organic or desirable for google).
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Ask HN: Openly posting secure information?
There is a post on business insider which talks about the CIA investing in the creation of data capture software:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cia-just-put-a-ton-of-cash-into-a-software-firm-that-monitors-your-online-activity-2011-7

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I had the following idea:

What if one was to post information to sites which was already strongly encrypted - such that each post is the secure encrypted hash of what they mean to post.

A network of users would share READ keys between them and would be able to visit a site and see the posts of the other users for whom they had the read keys, see their posts and a browser plugin with the keys would translate them.

This would allow fairly open interaction between the group on various sites - but the details of their posts would be obfuscated from those who do not have the keys.

They would not be sharing information directly - but just passive messages via 3rd party infrastructure.

How viable would this model be?

Assume we move the clocks forward 10+ years. The cyber security pushes from .gov will be harder and harder.

I predict an "open" social network for cyber-marginals who want to interact with one another - but dont want to do a rediculous amount of security other than selective viewership of their posts.

They share keys and converse via commonly available infrastructure through pre-encrypted posts.

BONUS: their posting client allows for multiple replies/posts encapsulated into one hash:

When posting/replying - you type in multiple entries - which are encrypted.

Depending on which key you have, you see the appropriate decoded content.

This would allow for one to type utterly innocuous first level responses, more targeted and trusted upper level responses.
I agree that you seldom want more than two different settings for the power level. But for the timing, knobs are good. They combine data presentation with input.

For power perhaps a two-state switch would work nice.
The problem with assuming that scientists should be able to write good software
You don't need a "technical co-founder". Just hire a technical team.

I don't get all these "looking for a co-founder" posts.
But then you also need a display for how much time you selected, and how much is left. And perhaps some system to decrease the selected time.

A simple knob gives you all that, and no button required at all.
This is great, I often fill my list up with tags. This will allow me to not get distracted by emails.
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No I was paid, it just was explicitly not offered to students or contract workers. I assume it might have to do with intellectual property assignment.
He's wrong.

It was designed to protect privacy, and the Asymmetric Follower Model is the opposite of that.

However, if you make your posts public, JUST LIKE TWITTER, everyone can see your posts. Just like Twitter.
Shack isn't a usual term for store, so it's less generic.

Allowing generic words to be trademarked too easily causes problems. International Business Machines seems like a fine name right up until there are many multi-nationals making business machines. At that point IBM starts to sounds more like a descriptive (It's an IBM, it's got English and German on the keys...)

Selectric on the other hand, seems like a name the public benefits by protecting.
It would be cool if Anybots would host some sort of way to fedex our own telepresence bots to attend this event (or maybe others) and have a tech or two to help with the little details that come up. I'd definitely send one of mine.

Come to think of it, it would be awesome to have a robot only conference where everybody could rock their own bots and check out everyone elses. It'd need hella-good wifi though. Ahh the future is going to be awesome.
How to use A/B testing for better product design
Myth: Google Uses Server Farms So You Should Too -
The HTML5 video plays fine for me. Xperia Arc, Android 2.3.3
Facebook Launches Ad Hoc Group Chat, New Chat Design, And Video Chat With Skype
Thanks for the input, we have thought about going down that path with more of a static landing page something like a 'portfolio| blog | contact' format that would also address the load issues... We'd love to find a designer to help with the layout etc.. most people we talk with are all about templates that don't exactly fit our needs.

Great intput.. we'll look into it more.
split pane seems to require configuration since default is "cmd+d" which is set to be shown desktop on some mac.
Peripherally related: one thing I've learned is to never partner on a web site with someone who doesn't have a lot (and I mean dozens, if not hundreds) of people connected to him via sites such as LinkedIn or Facebook. If someone's claiming to have been working on Internet projects for years, and can't immediately point to a hundred or more people who are least willing to connect with them on Linkedin or something, there's something deeply fishy.

A great question someone once told me for talking to a potential business partner: "Who were your past business partners, and can I chat with them? Also, how well did they do relative to you on those deals?" If someone tells you that all his past business associates were crooks or liars, walk away.
Bitbucket charges by "private users". You can host as many open source projects as you want--many forks of the Linux kernel, for example--for free. However, if you want a private repository, you can only give read/write access to 5 people with the free account. https://bitbucket.org/plans

That's why I use it for all my projects--I have a Plan 9 kernel fork, an Inferno OS fork, and a bunch of smaller projects for a total of 13 repos, on the free plan.
Ask HN: Do you like watching commencement speeches and inspiring talks online?
I love watching commencement speeches, and inspiring talks in general.

The problem is that there isn't anywhere online I can go to find them. A lot of them aren't on YouTube. Ted Talks is ok, but hardly comprehensive.

Do any of you love watching commencement-type speeches as well?

If so, do you share my frustration? Or, what's the best way to find them?
To work in a call center, you need to be able to speak, read and write English. You do not need a university degree, you do not need to possess a particular technical skill set. Most call centers will offer just enough training to get an employee going.

India has a huge number of young people who may not be able to join the IT companies, manufacturing industries, or the booming private financial sector because they may not have the education, inclination or aptitude to do so.

Call centers, much reviled as they are, provide an avenue
for hundreds of thousands of people to hold down a well paying, stable job. I think the author's experience there is fairly typical, but there is a crucial difference in perception.

What the author finds depressing (or pointless) is actually a gateway to a "middle class" life for many thousands of people. I am sure if the author went back in time to Michigan in the 20s, he would have similar things to say about workers on the automobile assembly lines. But while the great American manufacturing boom of the early 20th century is celebrated as a gateway to prosperity, a fairly similar thing happening in India is looked upon with a somewhat negative bias.
Once you have a department that dictates you get 4 days bereavement leave when a parent, spouse, or child dies, 3 days off for a sibling, 2 days off for the death of a step- relation and 1 day off for a cousin you are no longer a startup.

I turned down a job at a company that wanted me to agree to those terms.

edit, Bonus Requirement From the Handbook:

Employees of [Redacted Inc.] are not to correspond with anybody who is not a current customer or current employee of this company, without express written permission from the CEO or the President.
you should patent that.
Just run them through Google Groups, it's extremely convenient. I host my project on bitbucket and run the dev list on Google Groups.
Agreed. If you have money, place a job ad on monster.