skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Startups Forget to Validate a Business Model
You don't need the invitation via email to get into Google+, just tell your friend to invite you (tagging or posting, whatever). Go to http://plus.google.com. Log out of your Google Account. Log in back. Voila!

More information: https://plus.google.com/107083942933833320656/posts/2fLmrDmy...

Still working, up until now...
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There are times when the slug is more descriptive than the title...
but it can be more automated than bookmarks. One idea, imagine if your searches searched pages across all your friends bookmarks and your own. Bookmarks isn't the right term, imagine if it were really easy to say "this I validate", then everyone that trusts you will be able to search that as well.
Turkey has their own (National Operating System) Linux distro - Pardus
I'd like to make this resolution as well. No more sending a resume to people who don't know me, no more technical screening because they have no idea how I code, no more "getting to know you" lunches because, well, they don't know me.

It takes quite a bit of effort, so I might not manage to pull this off. Applying for jobs and posting positions on job boards are different sides of the same lazy coin. It takes a lot of talent and effort to become a developer with such an excellent network and reputation that you can generate employment opportunities with a phone call. This is true on the other side as well - many companies just don't have the talent and/or aren't willing to put in the time to get to know who the good developers are. Both sides have to be deeply engaged in the community.

There's a practical issue here, of course - there just may be opportunities that you want to pursue, and a resume, phone screen, technical grilling, and so forth may be the best way to go. And some companies have to staff up so quickly that they just feel like the have to cast a wider net. But both cases do raise certain warning flags... if you're a developer, why aren't you generating offers that interest you from within your own network? If you're an employer, why are you expanding so rapidly that you're unable to recruit from a reliable network?

In the best case scenario, almost all of the above is unnecessary because you've already worked together, so there's no need to take estimates and make guesses about what kind of employer/employee a new prospect would be.
The time and energy used to mine is what provides the security of bitcoins and transactions. I would not call it a waste; it is what enables bitcoin to exist as a currency.

Another way to think about it is to imagine that each of these GPU rigs is like a branch office of the Fed. (yes, I'm kind of joking here)
Bing for iPad Update: Searching without a search box
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So I've installed Cydia for the first time on my 3GS, and am wanting to use the 'PDF Patcher 2' fix to stop other sites doing driveby exploits.

Seems that results for the bigboss repository aren't being returned in Cydia, and the repo backend isn't responding to requests. http://apt.thebigboss.org/onepackage.php?bundleid=pdfpatch2

Anyone else thinking the bigboss repo (only source of the pdf patcher 2, as far as I can tell) is being kept down on purpose?
Now imagine it's your first time getting a copy of JQuery because you've heard how awesome it is. You go to Google to find the JQuery site. How would you ever know it was a fraudulent site?

Google is providing a service that vouches for the authenticity of sites by their ranking in the search results. They failed.
What's a magazine? Is it like a blog except where you mail it out every month?
June Web browser stats: Rapid Release edition
That's because Facebook's lists, as implemented are A. cumbersome and B. sometimes just decide not to work anyway.

I absolutely love Circles, and it's more or less what I always wanted Facebook lists to be.
I think it knows the user agent of specific bots and serves different pages based on that, as social networks tend to do a full GET request in order to grab a screenshot.
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The relevant licensee is Microsoft, who got the ability from S3 to sublicense S3TC as DXTC. A little bit of every graphics card sold today goes back to Microsoft for that patent.
I read on HN that + was originally titled +1.
If you're interested, I started a website to help organize group studying just like you're suggesting. It's called Curious Reef, and here is an example class for the MIT OCW 6.00 class: http://curiousreef.com/class/mit-opencourseware-600-introduc...

Ping me if you have any questions (email in my profile). It's all free, open, etc.
With homebrew syrups?
If your site isn't appearing in Google search results, or it's performing more poorly than it once did (and you believe that it does not violate our Webmaster Guidelines), you can ask Google to reconsider your site.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
Samsung got screwed over by Google to the point of having to ship a phone with a defective gps. It makes a lot of sense for them not to put all eggs in one basket.
Saving people's lives is a sustainable, indispensable industry. Yet another photo sharing app flush with irrationally exuberant VC funding isn't.
Strangely, there were Christians on both sides of the issue, all claiming doctrinal support for their positions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_slavery#Chri...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_slavery#Oppo...
Why hasn't MSFT hired this entire team yet? They want the .Net platform to be pushed as far out as possible and Mono is a great way to do that. Plus it'll give MSFT +1 Open Source.
Interesting.

Blekko was a distant third for my go-to search engine confuser "ruby god" in the three-engine monte, and I was going to write it off for my purposes when it occured to me to try "god /ruby", which to your credit is much closer to being competive with google, and drastically outperforms bing.
Could you do the job of Linux architect Linus Torvalds?
Focus means Simplicy
It baffles me how, with the number of investors involved and the huge amount of money on the line, Twitter is making any strategic move other than "how do we get profitable"
This is the problem with the customization of Google - for me, these are not in the top 4 results even sorted by date, although 2 of your titles show up further down. But yes, I see your point now, someone spammed Google News as well. Scum. I think it's still less spammy than the Web search, since some kind of human attention is required to get in there.
Exactly. And look at how much of a nightmare it is every day! Fortunately on the web it is very useful. No need to invite that pain into an environment designed for replicating the printed page though.

And the thing is, the html spec doesnt include js. It specifies a way of marking it up. Thats not the same thing. The core pdf spec actually contains features so powerful, you could almost make a lisp machine out of them. See the video for details.
HA! I started reading and researching and it just made me laugh.

Guess what you get when you go to http://duckduckgo.com/?q=jquery THATS RIGHT, an official site logo, because Gabriel is f-ing awesome and I love DDG's little almost insignificant features like showing you the official jquery website vs what you THINK the official one is, since google never helps you there.

Also I have adblocking and opt-out from google's ad tracking on so I never suffer these things. But that's what makes DDG so amazing, that opt-outs don't mater Its just so clutter free. Putting things into context vs just presenting you with data. Note that in my search results I even get the nice icons indicating if the result is spam or not. That website for the fake jquery is... well its not even on first 100 search results, may be blocked.

Thanks DDG, you just justified your existence yet again.
Small, But Significant Turntable.fm Integration
I would actually argue that the web browser is not the correct place for web applications on mobile devices. "What?", I hear you say. I would go to the extra step of requiring the user to instal the app on their home screen, where the browser chrome is not visible. This way, the user is not confused with the back button problem, or the URL bar getting in the way of them using my app. An app is designed to be launched from the home screen, not the web browser which is designed for viewing web pages. The reason I almost never use mobile web apps is because they are too hard to launch compared to their native equivalents. I have to go to my web browser, type in a URL or choose a bookmark, hope I typed it right, wait for it to load from the server, etc. The competing native app or "installed web app" launches almost instantly with one tap on my home screen. Home screen web apps still have all the benefits of web applications, but they avoid some of the problems and feel more "app-like", or more like what the user is used to. This also allows us to create a more native looking and feeling interface that the user will have an easier time using because it is similar to what he knows.

I'm actually not even sure if the mobile web is ready for full-featured applications at all yet. The huge platform differences really make it a challenge to produce a good user interface across all of them. Mac, Windows, and Linux are similar enough to make it possible on the desktop, but the mobile user interfaces have not come together enough yet to make it possible on mobile. I think the current options are either to create native apps for each device or to create a web app with differing UIs according to the platform you are on in order to create the best user experience. I know a lot of people with disagree with me, and even I'm not entirely sure about this position, so convince me otherwise! :-)
Jeff doesn't have it in his HN bio, but Punchfork is his (awesome) startup
Print magazine, just like http://hackermonthly.com. Except it's unique content.

If you really need a sample, take a look at this (free digital download): http://hackermonthly.com/startup-stories.html

Again, the articles in The Startup Magazine will be 100% unique, and it will have a whole new design diff from Hacker Monthly.
Sincere request: Can somebody explain the dynamics of how Stumbleupon is so popular? I don't know anybody who uses it. I am friends with alpha-geeks, teenagers, senior citizens, native Spanish-speakers in Mexico, etc. Barely anybody I know uses it.

I had a StumbleUpon account before Twitter, before StumbleUpon was a URL shortener, etc. I used it a little, but people didn't seem thaaaat into it. There must be some pocket of main use-case there. Is it mostly the URL shortener that even non-S.U. users bounce around in when directed to a su.pr URL?

I'd love to understand this.

(Also, as somebody else pointed out, S.U. traffic is pretty low-quality. Just peep your Google Analytics, and those sessions are quite short compared to Twitter/FB/Tumblr referrers. At least on my sites.)
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I'd be interested in seeing the breakdown of Windows vs Apple vs Linux vs Mobile. But the Chrome domination is certainly interesting.
jquery.com does NOT appear to have a fully valid SSL certificate

Hypothetically supposing that jquery.com had a lovely little green lock, that wouldn't matter, because on jquery.it a) you wouldn't be looking for the lovely green lock and b) if you did look for it, look here, a lovely little green lock and c) you didn't click the lovely green lock to see who it was issued to but if you did d) it was issued to jquery.it, which matches the address in your bar.

SSL solves one problem, really really nicely: it makes it impossible to eavesdrop between the user and a trusted endpoint. It does basically nothing to make sure that the trusted endpoint is the one the user thinks they are interacting with.
Create Unix Services with Clojure
Efficient Linux sockets (DMA/zero-copy)
Could You Do Linus Torvalds'Job?
HotForestGreen - automated server discovery for the 'internet of things'
Nice free-time project.
That's not the way that patent cross-licensing works.
The URL bar will be there, it just won't be visible at all times, but it'll still appear when the page is loading or you select the tab.
Patent Troll Goes After Notebook Cooling
This is very weird. jQuery.it has the same PageRank as jQuery.com (8/10). This site dates back to 2007 [1] altough it started copying the jQuery site until 2009 [2].

It also has cloned the subdomains: http://dev.jquery.it/ and http://forum.jquery.it/

What this site appears to do is mirror the content of jQuery.com by copying everything and then appending the "Time to generate" string.
I just checked adblock, it also adds a Google Ad, which is the point to this.

Obviously Google has messed up big time, but also the whole web by linking so much a fake site that it has the same page rank as the original.

1: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20071001000000*/http://www.jq...

2: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20090601000000*/http://www.jq...
"Of the two to three thousand home computer users in the Bay Area..."

Great video.
Among my friends (university students, canada), it's pretty much used for idling wasting time when we need to give reddit or youtube a break.
an idea: Post a job offer on a local/graduate website, interview 20 applicants, trial run 8 of them. Offer them a probationary period of employment at a very low rate, with a commission (which you reserve the right to vary at the end of each month.)

Think about your selling strategy. Are you cold calling, sending mail-outs, or arranging face-to-face meetings with clients? Each requires different sales skills (persuasiveness and the ability to bounce-back from rejection, marketing sense, and charisma, respectively.)
Google didn't just misrank this fraud; they also provided the loot (AdSense revenue) that likely motivated the crime.

They should ban not just jquery.it from both natural rankings and AdSense, but every other site on the same AdSense account and with the same registered domain owner.
My site ThatHigh.com consistently gets a ton of traffic from SU, in disproportionate amounts. I'm fascinated by how massively successful that service is. The traffic has been steady for over a YEAR now. And it shows no signs of stopping.

And yet I know so little about it. I know they have something like 10M active users, which seems really high.
This is one of the problems I faced and blogged last September

http://manishmideas.blogspot.com/2010/09/social-network.html...
I doubt it. The last time there was a public jailbreakme.com exploit many of the popular Cydia repositories had major load issues for a few days.
> In fact, Facebook lists already do everything he praises Circles for in this article.

Having used both Google+'s Circles and Facebook's lists, a lot of people are missing the point. Sure, Facebook's lists may be capable of some or even all of the functionality of Google+'s Circles, but that's not addressing the important difference in functionality between the two.

Google+ has clearly been designed with Circles in mind. It's easy to tell just from using Google+ that the Circles idea is a core architectural component and not just something that was tacked on. Facebook's lists pale in comparison. They're clearly an afterthought and not many people use them.

I extensively used one of Facebook's private groups to mimic the new functionality in Google's Circles with a group of my close friends for about three - four months and, while it was adequate, it's nowhere near as polished or fluid as my experience with Circles. It's really no contest.

> But it definitely will not require a major architectural overhaul by Facebook.

To those who are saying that it would be trivial to implement Circles functionality on top of Facebook, I sincerely doubt it. It'd be like saying that it wouldn't take much to for Blackberry to adopt the same UI polish of iOS. It's comparing a system that has clearly evolved (BlackBerry, Facebook) to one that has been designed (iOS, Google+).

I think us nerds to be careful about just comparing Google+ and Facebook on what features they have, lest we need to be reminded of: "Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
I am blocking all apps and even some of my acquaintances that have nothing to do but send app invites.

However, it's a continual struggle and I couldn't find an option to block all app invites. And I also don't want to block all apps, just invites, which makes this a delicate issue.
This argument, IMHO, does not hold water.

If it's happening at all, it's bound to happen at some point. We're just the people who live at that point in time. So what you're asking is, "what are the odds we're living now". Since we're (presumably ;) alive, they're 100%.
It's actually several things, including user agent strings, HTTP accept/accept language.

The underlying script allows you to route between n different destinations based on header matching and netmasks. The shortened URL is just a hash of the rule set, with a sequence number appended in case of collisions.
Not at all. Even if the patents are totally invalid or irrelevant, it would take years of multi-million(billion?) dollar patent litigation to prove it. Everyone loses. This way Samsung gets to ship Windows Phones, Android phones, and no one has to deal with a protracted and expensive (probably more expensive than this license) legal battle.
Spotify's U.S. Landing Page
Is drag & drop extensively used?
Ask HN: College Degree - Web Dev vs. Software Dev? (Modules listed in post)
Hi HN,

Going into 2nd year of college in September and I'm considering switching from Web Dev to Software Dev, as I feel there's not enough technical subjects in the Web Dev degree's 2nd and 3rd years.

Both courses share some modules, and I've used this in the comparison below:

----- YEAR 2 -----
Mutual Modules:
Database Development 1
Web Programming 1
Web Design and Development

Web Dev Exclusive Modules:
Client-Side Scripting
Online Marketing
Portfolio Creation
Digital Imaging

Software Exclusive Modules:
Windows Programming 1
Software Engineering 1
Maths 2

----- YEAR 3 -----
Mutual Modules:
Web Programming 2
Project 3
Work Experience

Web Dev Exclusive Modules:
Digital Media Production
Web Animation
Open Source Content Management Systems

Software Dev Exclusive Modules:
Rich Application Development
Database Development 2
Software Engineering and Software Quality

For what it's worth, I intend to move to the US after college for startups (already working on one) so this degree is just my contingency plan. I also wanted the networking aspect and social experience of going to college instead of going straight to full-time startup.

I've been coding for a few years and I'd consider myself reasonably experienced in most modules above (offered full-time position with web development firm), so the main reason I'm posting this question is to find out what the HN crowd thinks looks like a more valuable degree to fall back on.

TL;DR: Which degree would look more appealing to a company hiring?

Huge thanks to anybody that wants to give some feedback. It's much appreciated.

Edit: If it helps, my current skillset is mostly: JavaScript/Python/PHP/MySQL/PostgreSQL and of course HTML/CSS.
Alternately, when things slow down again, who wins? The people who have the lowest burn rate, the most cash in the bank, and the ability to turn profitable. Saying "well what if things have gone sour when you need to go back out for your next round" disregards the fact that investors will turn the screws on you then regardless of whether you gave them a good deal this time around or not.
Instant Rails dev environments with Tmuxinator and Foreman
I flew American Airlines coast-to-coast after 9/11 holding a boarding pass with the name "Mary Cummings" on it. I was checked twice (at security and at the gate) that my driver's license matched the boarding pass. During the flight I alerted the flight attendant who found the lady who apparently had boarded as me without difficulty.
I'm intrigued how OTA OS updates will affect Apple's response time to exploits like this.
The Game Mechanics of Silicon Valley Careers
Yeah. Let's depend on people always doing the right thing. That's why even flight regulations depend on everybody being extra-careful.

Only not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_disaster#Safety_respon...
I agree with everything you are saying, but wish to clarify the question of "necessity."

The choice between publishing your true values and watering them down into meaningless pap is a false dichotomy. The third option is to realize that you are now saying nothing and say nothing.

Thus, I agree that IF you wish to publish something, you ought to consider the potential consequences, however I still reserve the right to criticize corporations for choosing to say something when no statement was required.
Software Dev for sure. The modules in the web dev stuff all look like things you can pick up along the way fairly easily.
Please God never let this happen - look at IronRuby to see what happens when MSFT hires an open source team.
Perhaps their partnership with Facebook will be discussed again at Facebook's event today.
One nitpick I have with Hacker Monthly is that I get the digital copy a lot faster than the physical copy. A day or two difference is okay, but I myself reading the digital copy before the physical copy arrives.

I don't know how much of this is caused by the just-in-time nature of MagCloud, but it would be ideal if the physical would arrive on the first of the month or if the digital issue could be delayed by a few days.

I love getting the physical copy, but the delivery leaves a bit to be desired. I think this aspect is important if you really want to become like a traditional magazine and not just blog articles printed out and bound every 30 (+/- 10) days.
This data is similar to that of gamers in the 16-22 demographic... my own data suggests. The only discrepancy is with mobile views, which are down to 6%
Blink (182): The speed of the internet
I kind realized that a while ago, but it is difficult for nerd like me to leave computer and go meet people... what's to talk about? "I just found this snippet it's kinda fun!" ? :(
The question is: nobody likes doing lists on Facebook because they don't like to categorize their relationships or because the UX of the lists on Facebook is terrible?

I tried to use the Facebook lists feature many times but its a freaking pain. I almost dont share on Facebook anymore exactly because I dont want everyone to read it. Now I am using the G+ circles and having a lot of fun with it.
1) Spend the 10 bucks on a real domain (beatpanda.com,.net, .co and .org are all available).

2) Diversify your traffic sources.
> Microsoft has leveraged its intellectual property rights in recent weeks, utilising its IP licensing program to extend rights to smartphone vendors.

What a remarkable sentence. I think my favorite part is "extend rights", but there's a lot to enjoy and it's hard to pick just a few words.
Of note is the Foursquare vs. Facebook Places usage among our early adopter audience.