skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I`d recommend attracting a co-founder. i.e. create some kind of attractive looking basic concept site and show it around. It`s not a full site, just something that allows people to visualize your concept. Include a note on the site explaining that you`re looking for people to work with you on the project. Ideas are dime a dozen so the more you can show, the greater chance you`ll have of attracting serious and capable co-founders.
Search itself isn't the magic of hashtags. The magic is that a hashtag name is actually commonly agreed unique string ID of a theme or trend. How many unrelated results would you get if you search just for Google?
Thanks. Gandi seems to be the forerunner in the other thread too.
You may just need more time or some help!?

Or should you be more specific on your needs? ( Hey! I'm assembling the worlds coolest cardboard boxes, anyone interested? :)
There are already good password hash algorithms available, like bcrypt. In particular, the problem of googleable hashes were solved long ago with salt. It is just that not all websites use them. To make things worse, it is hard to determine which password hash algorithm a site uses without having access to the source code.
After a Y-combinator for Cleantech, one for travel too?
I recently came across http://www.greenstart.com/, which is a Y-combinator-like Accelerator for clean-tech. They've put together a number of good mentors and advisors and seems like a promising idea overall.

So, what if another accelerator is created specifically for the travel vertical? Would startups like Airbnb and Hipmunk have benefited from being part of an industry-specific accelerator? What would it take to make that work - more funds? airline sponsors? something else?
What input device would be the best way to play Angry Birds, then? Having played the Mac App and Chrome App versions, I definitely think touch makes the most sense.
Damn! Confirmed this as well :(
If that's the case, then a retaliatory removal of the facebook app from the Android market would seem in order.
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there is nothing "Japanese" in such cover ups. It is a common trait in the society developed by this human species. I'm pretty well remember surprise of very strange, untypically intensive "sunburns" we as children got while playing outside in the days after Chernobyl when we didn't know about the scale and area of the fallout.
What a true but sad statement of the state of HN. Censorship and echo chambers of the webapp set.
I apologize. After re-reading, I see you are correct. Pardon my earlier post(s) on the matter.
Thanks for the feedback!

My goal with DropKick was to create a simple, lightweight select replacement that made designing awesome looking forms easier. I mostly want to keep it simple and light, but I like your idea. I'm currently hoping to add more interaction with DropKick such as changing the open/close animation or getting notified when the template renders.
My feet may be slightly wider than manufacturers want to fit. It seems like shoes don't come in widths anymore, "just the sizes you see here mate."

I also try on shirts and pants a bit before buying, but shoes seem to be my bigger problem.
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Hire your mum as a consultant.
News of the World 'hacked Milly Dowler phone'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrens_Online_Privacy_Protec...

It's a law.
There's no consensus amongst hashtags... not even to actually use them or not!
What questions would you have asked?
This is HUGE for SEO. One of the biggest talked about and tested things in 2011 was Twitter's effect on rankings.
Since you're posting this question on HN, I'm going to assume you are trying to do an internet startup.

Are you a hacker or a hustler?

Quick general definitions:

Hacker is the technologist who understands how to use technology to solve business problems.

Hustler is the sales/marketing person who understand the specific market vertical (customer problems) and has the ability to sell whatever the hacker builds in that market.

If you're a hacker, finding hustler co-founders is pretty easy. Look for a subject matter expert (SME) in the market vertical you are going after. They should be able to give you all the info you need to penetrate that market (customer pains, sales strategies, introductions, price points, etc). Al they have to do is tell you what to build, then sell it.

If you're a hustler looking for a hacker, it's much more difficult. Any hacker that's actually capable of playing an integral role in your success is already working on another project. The only place I know of where you can find decent talent is in corporate America. Find the person living the office space movie and offer them a path to freedom.

If you're a hustler looking for a hacker, you have to be one hell of a hustler to get any respect. You have to nail down every possible non-technical aspect of the opportunity. And it better be one hell of a good plan you put together. It has to be so well put together that the hacker knows immediately you are the real deal and all the hacker has to do is hack.

Being a hacker who's been approached by a lot of hustlers over the years, let's just say you have your work cut out for you (assuming you're the hustler looking for a hacker).
um.... 27 usernames, some of which are system accounts. I'm guessing the rest are the usernames of people with access to the data in whatever project that db supported, which sources suggest was a survey of some sort.

Technically, yes, Apple was hacked. But realistically... no it wasn't.
"Upsell - I fail to understand why online stores (Amazon!) don't have live help. I bet it would increase conversions."

That would be more labor, and maybe not enough upside in the upsell to make it worthwhile. Amazon has staked out the low overhead space for the sweet spot they're aiming at. They have robots pull orders in the warehouse.
Please make this not happen for the time being. The point at which brands started using Facebook Page vanity URLs in advertising, instead of their own company domains, was the point at which the internet got a little bit more publicly insane.
the original story on SEL outlined some of the smaller details and intricacies of what is happening here. Namely that Google and Bing signed their firehose deals with Twitter at the same time for the same contract length, but only Google has been shutoff now - which suggests that Twitter and Google couldn't come to an agreement for some reason (but I doubt it was financial)

I thought that was an important point in the original story[1], but Mashable didn't copy and paste that far down

[1] http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo...
Ask HN: Help a hacker and he will help you
I've recently graduated from comp. sci. and have been playing with node.js, real-time stuff(and quite good at it! I can show you something I've developed) and I'm like, average in rails. I can also program in anything you want and have a interest into functional programming languages(like erlang or clojure).

I can also program in most languages(who can't?), draw(average) and... I'm a fast learner!

I can also do some jQuery/css... well, I'm basically the jack of all trades master of none.

I'm also interested in computer vision and my final college project were a low-cost interactive blackboard(read: mouse to a projection) using computer vision(opencv + emulated windows mouse events) in c++.

Videos of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFudPjEvBmE (the full software, including a module to help a teacher in the classroom with presentations etc).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v4GuwW63dE (me drawing in paint with it).

I'm a bad manager of myself(who isn't?) and I don't have a good network where I live in order to keep me motivated in building something, so...

I want to work for free, full-time(more than 8 hours a day), for you, in any of the tecnologies listed above or anything interesting to create a portfolio and get really good into something.

You can contact me at: t at art-is-t.me or of course, post here.

Of course, if you are looking for a half-assed tech cofounder into something stupid, feel free to contact me.

Or even if you want just to talk... :) I'm upto anything cool!

Thanks.
Cool. Reminds me of python frozen binaries.
"create a set of "sizing" clothes, which you send to new customers for free. They return them to you indicating which size fits best."

That sounds brilliant on first reading. I think it would take a lot of work and research to make it work, but man what a killer if it does work.

I don't think people change sizes that often, but that's solved by "Does Item XYZ still fit well, or should we send you another set of sizers?"

Note: this has been a surprisingly interesting thread. I really don't care about clothes, as long as I don't look like a derelict. But it's been fun to read and comment.
Agreed. If I had taken time to edit my comment I would've probably taken it out.
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Usually you get fixes for a WordPress release up until the first beta of the +2 release is out. That is, for 3.1, up until 3.3 Beta 1 is out.

I don’t know if 3.1, the last release that works with PHP4, will receive special treatment.
Right, I'm not suggesting it's a good idea to try and hide all signs of leaked details as I think that would be a futile effort, just arguing that re-sharing leaked information isn't harmless.
It still depends on where you have the dinner. If you have a dinner at 8pm in UK, you could leave France after 8pm and arrive for your dinner at 8pm again. What would you expect to happen - get the alarm twice?

What if you actually wanted to call someone before their dinner and that's why you put the event in? If that person was in France in this scenario, you'd want to call them before 7pm UK time instead. Calendars can't guess the context - location of the event depends completely on what you put in.
Those who break technological restrictions (DRM) break the law via the DMCA.

Those who download a 'pirated game' do not violate any laws, as far as who has been prosecuted.

Those who UPLOAD a pirated game can be busted for breaking copyright laws, as you made a copy to someone else.

My answer: I do not pay for DRM games. Its illegal for me to 'fix' them, so I pirate. And it saves me money. Start respecting my rights as a user and Ill acknowledge your rights as a creator.
Agreed. More details on if and how automatic scaling was implemented would be good too.
The ideal purpose of a brand page is so that a company can interact/communicate directly with their customers. It may seem frivolous, but people enjoy having direct access to their favorite brands. It's great for getting news about the company, asking questions, and showing your approval of their brand (via the like button). It's not as maleable as a true website, but in our current reality (where everyone is on Facebook), it's clutch.
Good job, but you still haven't included my copyright notice in bcrypt.go. Please correct this.

I considered a native approach, but found the cgo approach was faster. Who knows if it really makes that much of a difference, but running 'time gotest' on your native version and my cgo version finds the cgo version is faster.

native: real: 0m16.017s user: 0m15.899s sys: 0m0.055s

cgo: real: 0m9.976s user: 0m9.871s sys: 0m0.055s

Should write a Benchmark test for a better comparison.
This is wonderful. I am looking forward to someone creating a Coffeekup Gem. I will use this in my next Rails project.
Thank you for this awesomeness.
I think it depends on how the frameworks are used. Our development team moved from maintaining every dependency in code, to using Spring for dependency injection (and not much else) and saw measurable improvements in productivity. It is especially useful when working in a distributed team. If the team knows how to use the framework properly (for spring: use annotations, autowiring) a lot of the issues mentioned above can be mitigated. There is a reason why any serious project written in Java will generally use Spring or Guice (Google's DI framework).

Jave EE, on the other hand, is crap.
Decent concept, but a very "more of the same" feel to it. There's no need to duplicate brand presence on Google+. My personal interpretation of G+ was that it allows you to filter out the noise and focus on sharing with specific "circles." Seems sort of pointless to try to beat Facebook at their own game considering its fairly rooted at this point. I guess we'll have to wait and see, though.
The solution to a fundamentally-flawed security architecture is not a better hash algorithm, sorry.

bcrypt is good at what it does, but that is such a limited domain that it is insignificant next to the decades of security research and experience that many popular modern web apps blindly ignore.

What does bcrypt have to do with the principle of least privilege, for example?
Don't you get exactly the same problem when you store timezones? CET always stays == UTC + 1 hour. So there's no difference whether you store 8 CET or 7 UTC, because some country may decide it's not in CET at that time anymore... Only storing the actual location would save you if you're thinking about dates in far future.

Then again, you'd have to somehow verify what's the time in that location at that point.
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I've read your reports some time ago and I had no Idea you're Polish too :) pozdro!
AFAIK using simple reversable encryption may prevent a simple SQL injection attack, but of course it won't help if the attacker can gain root on the server, which is much harder though.
The only issue now is their PHP 5.2.4 requirement which will keep from 15-20% of the users unable to update it:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/07/wordpress-3-2-and-php-support...
Be advised that, just as we must be careful using "hacker" before the wrong audience (I no longer think we can win this battle against ignorant reporters), some of us see "hustler" and reflexively think of con artists and criminals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_(disambiguation)
Did HP really have to name their product "TouchPad"? I was wondering why a laptop mouse needs 4G and 64GB disk before I clicked through the link.
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Cameron Diaz plays Elizabeth Halsey teacher who hates his job He did it first to make himself look good boyfriends family the problem is when you end up stuck with a commitment to his work From there find a replacement Scott
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Microsoft also made something similar to show off IE9's HTML5/CSS3 capabilities. I don't have a link handy, but it should be easy to find.
Someone does not know what a hash bang is.
Guess who forgot to eat his cookies?
>Coding isn’t like being seven feel tall, you can learn how to do it. You’re making a conscious choice not to.

// What else don't you do. Proof read?

Harsh I know.

I also don't generate my own electricity, make my own paper, mine my own raw materials, synthesize my own fuel additives, etc, etc, ...
Take all the fun out...

The more likely time is when stopping for a minute to look at the map or change playlists. It is obnoxious to always be taking the gloves off for it.

I don't like to talk on the phone when I'm not riding; why would I ever choose to do it during my decompression time? :)
I absolutely love NearlyFreeSpeech.net for domain registration (and also cheap hosting).

I wouldn't say they're security focused, but they allow you to be totally anonymous in your registration, and have a policy of hosting anything that isn't illegal.
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. I would be the "hacker". I'm personally, doing almost all of the development. So I would be overseeing the technical side.

I'm looking for a co-founder who would be better suited for the business side. Not that I couldn't or wouldn't be very much involved. I would absolutely be out there trying to "hustle" and sale all day everyday as well. :)
Without access to the firehose, Google cannot derive any value from tweets, but without Google's help, there's a good change that Twitter can improve their own real-time search. So I would say that Twitter is in the stronger negotiating position here, especially since with Buzz and Google+, Google is trying to create its own firehose of user-created realtime content.
Not all technical people prefer doing programming rather interacting with a "random bunch of strangers".

I'm sure that most of technical co-founders LOVE to tell about what they are building, just... leave most of business crap out of the way and it's perfect!

Non-technical? Be supportive, that's your role.
A Neo4j REST API seems strange to me. I could see, as it evolves, it being pretty useful for some use cases. Especially with these maturing graph query languages.

However, it just seems counter productive in light of the many lost benefits of the embedded approach. I quite like the software transactional domain objects wrapped around nodes and relationships.

I think it would make more sense to develop a distinct distributed graph database, rather than force Neo4j to support both embedded and server use cases.
Don't listen to them. They don't have girlfriends.
Nope, this issue is uniquely ours and has nothing to do with OpenSRS. I usually try not to speak for them, but I can say authoritatively that this simply isn't the case.
Some good points in there. I also wonder about circles, it requires you to categorize the people you know, if someone were to find out what category they were in and that was different to the category they thought they should be in, well thats sure to change a friendship.
I want this for poker...
I don't see why this deserves the drive-by downvotes. I just think it's bullshit for calling people out for not doing "enough" when they are doing far more than the vast majority.
It is experience, so yes I would work there.
:-)

Yes, that thought had crossed my mind. Still contemplating where I want to go with this.

Thanks.
Good idea, I almost didn't post my question because I don't have something up, yet.
I like the idea of an iOS theme, but I feel that with iOS, you have to either get it perfect or not do it at all. That means fixing the font sizes in the headers, the button layouts and styling, and everything else to exactly match iOS. I know that most users don't know exactly how the iOS style looks down to the pixel, but if it's significantly far from that, it looks "wrong", and that kind of feeling can hurt people's impression of your site.
If this weren't amazing enough, one of the inventors is named Picard.

Is it possible for this to get cooler?
His point, with which I still agree, is that running a business is different than starting a business.

More specifically, running a business with a known, stable business model is a very different activity than starting from scratch and discovering a new business. MBAs prepare you for the former, but generally not the latter.

A point that your history seems to match: you started and ran a business just fine without an MBA. And now that you have one, you've turned from entrepreneurship to working at large company.
"At Pfizer, a cohort of promising executives associated with Katen resigned after McKinnell took over. He himself was pushed into retirement by the board in 2006 because of the company’s disappointing performance. Shareholder outrage over his rich retirement package followed."

sounds like the real problem here is the board valuing the perception of power over actual managerial competence.

I think this problem is endemic; the thing is, business is hard. Most people give up on trying to find the best person for the job and go with the best-looking person, or the person who other people think is the best.

The thing is, "the wisdom of the crowd" works fairly well if all members of the crowd make up their own mind independently. But that's not how it works; nearly everyone decides largely based on what they think other people think, which breaks the whole system.

I think the rise of mutual funds, index funds, and other vehicles to invest without thinking about the companies you are buying are making this problem worse. People are giving their money to people who make money as long as they don't do anything wildly divergent from the herd.
I disagree. What Netflix "Watch It Now" promises for your $8/month is the ability to stream a movie to a supported device. The stream is the product and the delivery method. DRM makes it practical, yet I don't think DRM restricts you from doing anything you should be able to do with that stream.

The original question stands.
It's actually not an uncommon problem. When I had a zillion clothing books and fantasies/aspirations of becoming an image consultant, I read that one thing that at least one image consultant did was hook people up with specialty folks to address specific problems. One of these folks: A woman who made custom shoes for like $300/pair to fit your feet properly if you had foot issues. And people who bought those shoes felt they were well worth the big ticket price. (And this was some years back when $300 was a bigger sticker shock than it would be now.)

Thanks for replying.
Software engineers surely can make more or less in Financial Industries.

Please read my original comment, which was comparing Google with other software companies.
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If G+ doesn't add official company pages, people will just create fake accounts for their companies anyway. Happened on MySpace, happened on Facebook, and it will happen on Google+.
I would have agreed with you once but now I think that, to a certain extent, maintaining social connections can be a bit like physical fitness. I could say you can't run under a 4 minute mile or a single race of > 100 miles, yet people have and do while almost none of us on HN ever will.

My change of heart has come after 5 years of using Twitter. I could only follow 100 people well at first but somehow it crept up and up. I've had quite a few culls and now I'm at 1000 people I follow and whenever I go through the list I recognize almost every name. It's not quite a 4 minute mile but I've been able to get at least a feel for those 1000 folks and know they're ones I appreciate following.
Doesn't look good on Chrome.
I suspect this will break alot of blogs because wordpress got a lot of users very use to the update button starting from 2.8 with their frequent update releases. There's a lot of webhost that's barely on php5 -- plus there's alot of VPS users that don't really manage their VPS and keep their php properly update.
For people who don't have invites yet, is it possible to determine what your Google+ ID will be and reserve a nick ahead of time?
It's odd, because pre-G+, you could set your profile URL (as well as your Picasa albums URL). Now that G+ is active, that capability seems to be gone.
Surprisingly, Google+ is blocked on the South Korean Android Market.
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