skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Trust Guard's emphasis/value appears to be sales conversions, not security per se."

The first startup I worked for was a PCI-compliance company. So I can tell you that the only way to sell "PCI-compliance" is that the credit card companies require it, and the only way to differentiate your service is by hyping the conversions it will help with. The reason is that these companies are fundamentally selling a check in the checklist that their customers otherwise do not care about. (Alas, even requiring people to care about security doesn't actually make them care about security.) For their front page, this isn't necessarily a surprise, it really doesn't tell you anything about the company either way.

Now, XSS on their front page... conclude away.
Fair enough, but I've read research papers on pattern recognition that predate even 1996 (the field was pretty hot in the 80s before computing power caught up with theory)
It's really depressing that business today is less about innovation and competition and more about dirty legal practices to destroy other members of an industry.

This is some incredibly short-sighted zero sum game consideration. I hope we wake up and fix this before the state of innovation has been set back too many years.
Public discussion of GNU/Hurd and Linux kernels on Google+
This is awesome, as a parent I can say this is something I would have loved up to just a few months ago. Come to think of it, I could use an adult version for myself :)

Having said that, here is some constructive criticism:

1 - If you subscribe, what kind of commitment are you making? Can you cancel the service @ any time?

2 - Make the available sizes known before you actually get to the point of subscribing. Our son is right on the line between 3-T and 4-T, but I didn't know the max size is 3-T until I got to the "subscribe" page.
you know Indians are hard workers :) [It's 12:50 am here right now]
Ask HN: Can I visit your startup?
Hello, I am a long time HN reader, Finnish Computer Science (and Psychology, Maths and Econ) student, hacker and software engineering junkie.

I am traveling to San Francisco in a week (I'll be landing in SFO on the evening of the 26th) and I wonder if there's any startup that would welcome a short "tourist" visit? I would gladly help out in anyway I can while I'm there (I'm fairly experienced with sw architecture, development methodologies and have a good ear).

If you'd welcome a visit please reply in comments or send me a mail at hi@karlherler.com with your address and between when a visit would be best for you guys.

Thanks.
See also, thredup.com
The Facebook guys who wrote Cassandra have heavily drawn its design and terminology from Google's Bigtable. By the way, Column Family (CF) in BT makes a lot more sense because the compression of data,as well as disk storage locality, is made on a per-CF basis. They have even filled a patent about this (http://bit.ly/ooop2s).

Oddly enough, BigTable's terminology seems fits more naturally in the classic concepts than Cassandra's. Maybe it's the result of Dynamo's design choices (DHT, etc) that got into the mix or new concepts like SuperColumn.
"Joe the Plumber" syndrome is often a strong indicator of that person taking Ayn Rand way too seriously.
Easy solution - anyone who wants to run a twitter account like that is told that they can only send those notifications to people who follow them.
We're getting there ... maybe this summer.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63940

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618650
Bring happiness to your customers - lower the decision anxiety
We wrote Mety, a simple non-relational database to make web development simpler
The idea is to let it be used inline the web page template almost just as objects with properties, but persisted. You get and put values to objects fields, and they are stored in the database and available to be queried later the same way as they were put.

Right now it's a Java library, and the main way to work with Mety is to access the stored objects from JSP page with it's EL expression language, like this: ${user[z.name].val} or even ${user.name}. (Please see http://vsetec.com)

There are no conventions how to name symbols, it's not an object-relational mapping, but there are some rules how to access fields or iterate objects. The dots and brackets expression is not only readable, but you can put the value (of any type, including sets and other objects) into it.

No additional schema definition is needed: as you put the value, the same way you access it later.

As a non-relational database it doesn't use SQL to query it, but it differs from NoSQL trend as it's not yet focused on heavy workloads and Big Data, though we plan to implement 'sharding'.

What do you think about this idea? Shall we improve it further, make a Javascript library so it could be used the same way from browsers and Node.js? Would it be interesting?
Seriously guys. Why is there no open source robotic arm? And/or how do I learn how to design one?
I often get the feeling that LinkedIn would become a lot more useful if everyone did as I do: mark invites from recruiters that I've never met as spam.
Thanks so much for the great comments and feedback! I'm the founder, had this idea 12 weeks ago in the Launchpad class at Stanford's d.school. The site is extremely beta, I built in in a weekend to test the idea. We've taken on a technical co-founder who's rebuilding for us as we speak.
A key advantage of fibers of course is that they preserve exception semantics, whereas tame can't in all cases. I'm not too interested in reviving the stalemated thread v. event religious war. I prefer explicitly-managed events, but if others prefer a more thread-like API, by all means....
Chromebooks Still On Amazon's Top Ten
These look good to me (apart from the previously mentioned issue of not actually using <a> tags or similar), but where's the license on these? Neither the site nor the download includes any license information.
Salary survey here on Hacker News 4 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2763932

(When I looked at it last, there were actually a lot fewer responses in the <$60K and $60-100K range...maybe all the students and junior devs responded over the weekend.) This is for base salary, so it's comparable with the $100K number. There are roughly 700 respondents that make over $100K base in the poll, and close to 200 that make $150K+ base, which I would consider a fairly decent-sized chunk.

The citation in the poll says that StackExchange's top end is about $200K.
Did you learn Photoshop before playing with Gimp?
Sorry, but WAY overpriced.
it will, it will :)
Ask HN: Udemy Learning Ruby Programming Reviews?
Has anyone tried the Udemy Learning Ruby Programming course by Huw Collingbourne? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it...
Show HN: Taskyo: Access Google Tasks on your mobile device
Could be I'm having a bad day but I found the tone of the article to be extremely condescending.
Direct Link to mobile site:

http://www.taskyo.com/
How about updating your junker pc? I've been wait for Mozilla to do this for a long while, I have 8 threads available for use and I hate to see Firefox max out one thread and become unresponsive.

With the MHZ wall still being a problem for CPU advancement all signs point to multi-threading being the future.
Thank you all for most kind and warm responses. Lots of work to do to make nginx an even better foss product.
My original source was pirated music at 128kbits. Since then, I bought it and have the 320kbit version which immediately sounded incredibly better. Occasionally I'll hear it on 128kibts or 192kbits on Pandora and such, and the difference is very noticeable to me.

My data is purely anecdotal but I feel strongly about it and would be willing to put money where my mouth is if someone wants to call me on it.
I noticed the same thing (and posted as much) before finding this chart saying that the total quantity of jobs really is way below peak.

http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=w...

It was really sloppy of the article to use those number like that, but his point isn't invalidated.
In exchange, it is lying to you about what the program is actually doing, as opposed to the callback syntax which obscures nothing.

I'm really fascinated with this thought that adding sugar/coroutines is "lying". Everything is based on abstractions; this is just another one. This is not a different "lie" than any other abstraction (assembly, C, OS, JavaScript).
"The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: both civil and substantial."

"Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling."

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
I have seen grammar and spelling comments given in the spirit of helpfulness, but this was not one of them, and adds nothing.

My comment adds very little more than that, but I'd like to remind people that many very smart engineers and business workers have a terrible grasp of formal English, yet they get the job done and more. WalterBright's comment was short, but pointed to more information, and was a potentially useful comment. The discussion should be about the content of his comment.

The fact that he used the wrong word is virtually irrelevant, we all knew what he meant. Yes, if you have a strong grasp of formal English you do make yourself seem more credible, especially in a formal context. But it's not the thing to focus on. Not here.

S/N on HN is amazingly high, but it is still a casual forum, and we should all cut each other generous slack.

Written with helpful intention. :)
Maybe I'm biased because I did research in Particle Astrophysics and now work as a developer for Particle physics experiments, but the problem with most small businesses is not that they don't need any random PhD, it's that they lack the foresight to understand what a person trained in particle astrophysics can actually bring to the table. In modern day terms, a degree in astrophysics is a degree for the polymath.

The valley and wall street are a bit different... people are willing to give you a shot at almost anything in any seemingly unrelated field because they think you'll probably be able to handle it, because you've solved hard problems that are often similar in scope. Predicting the market is pretty similar to reconstructing a collision, folding proteins, or predicting molecular orbitals. Cloud computing isn't that different than grid computing. Statistics are statistics and models are models, and companies are finding out new ways they can benefit from information processing by utilizing the people who pioneered it.

I do agree though... the Main Street small businesses, the ones that I think the GOP often fantasizes about, aren't going to usually need someone with a PhD in whatever.
Fractal Tree (+ Root) Generator
How teenagers handle the web's instant fame
I don't think seed money is the problem. You start a company in the cloud using basic plans that total to $0/month.
thanks! microjs was what i was thinking of
EXACTLY the same problem in the UK. Under the last government's social engineering caper, millions of teenagers who would otherwise have learned a trade (electrician, plumber, carpenter, etc) from their fathers instead were swindled into going to hastily built "new universities" to get worthless, made-up degrees in "Media Studies" (and a mountain of debt). Now they're not only unemployed but unemployable - and all our skilled and semi-skilled labour we import from Poland (a country where they do still respect honest work).

Now my fondness for all things Eastern European is very well known - but even I think it's insane that while we have millions of English jobless, someone flew 600 miles to serve me coffee at the train station in the mornings.
Ah, that's a good catch. Missed that. Calling those in parallel is legitimately a hassle to roll yourself, something like:

...
isPicAVampire thumb, (is_vamp)->
unless is_vamp
mate = userid: u, thumb: thumb
finish =->
return unless mate.personality? and mate.last_talked?
soulmates.push mate
if soulmates.length >= 10
cb(mates)
else soulmates(buffy, cb, mates)

getPersonality u, (p)->finish mate.personality = p
getLastTalked u, match, (lt)->finish mate.last_talked = lt

Anyway, I'll grant you that code is pretty harsh. It's much nicer with syntax highlighting and wide tabs, but still, fair cop. The flip side is that that code compiles into JavaScript that does exactly what it says.
This is great. I seem to remember something in a slightly different niche back in the mid-late nineties that ran into issues shipping worn clothing.. have you looked into any potential regulations with this?
Saw the presentation on nodecamp.eu last month, it's really cool stuff.
Great you finally made it available to the public.
An indication that you edited this would have been helpful. My other reply to you makes less sense now.

Yours in helpfulness, -- sixtofour
Another problem is that there is no "Category Killer" company which can incubate tech focused entrepreneurs like there is in SV. In SV there are companies liek Paypal, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. who attract top engineering talent. Had there been a category killer company produced in Socal I think there'd be a much different tech landscape.
The Latest Endangered Species: Unlimited Cell Phone Data Plans
As someone who uses both, I'll gladly be a supporting data point for this hypothesis.
I'm guessing the parent is referring to a cloth diaper service.
They've released figures in the past that Android is profitable on its own; meaning irregardless to the effect on search profits. They make money on selling Google Apps, Maps service, etc to manufacturers and carriers.
not yet deprecated?
Apple to launch cheaper version of iPhone for $350
No straw men please.

I don't care about political parties, why is this suddenly a political discussion about what the government should do? I said the government should stop stifling innovation, not stifle it in a different manner.

If people don't want a job that's their problem, not mine. I don't see why I should be worrying about people not interested in their own prosperity.

And wow, way to make blanket statements that are backed by the same hokus pokus logic that lead to the housing bubble. Maybe instead of listening to the loonies that said our economy was doing great, you should listen to the people that actually were trying to stop the housing bubbled before it happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw
If the patents can't be worked around reasonably then it could just as easily mean that the patents are so broad and superficial that nearly any approach, whether common sense or not, would violate them. I haven't read the full patents, so I don't have a real opinion yet, but from what I know about software patents in general my explanation would surprise me less than yours.
I agree with you, but I think it's more dire than what you are painting. I'd rephrase something more like this:

People fresh out of college (most of whom are already carrying a 5-figure debt) don't have $60k to live off of for the 18-months before they (might) turn a profit.

I've been around VERY few businesses that were profitable at 6 months. Either you are digging out from the high initial capital costs (like a restaurant) or you're actually having to build the thing you want to sell. Going from inception to profitability in 6 months would be, at least by my estimation, remarkable.

Building products and launching services takes time. If we want to encourage entrepreneurs, we should be focused on getting them over those initial hurdles.
On that note, I remember going to Black Angus Steakhouse when the first restaurant in Korea opened at Gangnam-yeok, Seoul. The greeters at the door wore cowboy-style outfits with handkerchiefs around their necks and enormous hats that almost swallowed them up. As customers entered, they would sing out an awkwardly pronounced "Howdy, partner!" in unison. Then, rather incongruously, they would bow in the customary Korean fashion.

Now, I haven't ever been to a Black Angus in the US, but I'm guessing they don't ham it up there nearly as much. :)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win."

Unless you, of course, agree to license their patents. Then they win by proxy.
Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That "Kills Math" Using Data Viz
Thanks for revising your comment. Unfortunately I had already downvoted it.
It's not about "can't afford it", it's solely about "doesn't fit their business model".

This is in great, big letters on Mozilla's home page:

"
We Are Building a Better Internet

And we’re dedicated to keeping it free, open and accessible to all.
"
Google Buys G.Co To Create An Official URL Shortcut For Google Products
How do you pay your own wage?
Ask HN: Modern Resume Style/Formatting
What do modern resumes look like? Everything I've seen or been shown lately by "regular people" (older people mostly) seems so 90s to me. I've heard of using GitHub, but I'm not really a programmer or looking for a programming job. Any examples of your guy's resume's (that hopefully got you jobs?) would be helpful! Thanks.
The Greatest Artist You Never Heard Of
Right now ND is importing welders and other skilled tradesmen from Canada. They just cannot get enough people. This whole "push people to get a real education" is a crock. People need to get the education (be it vocational or academic) that allows them to have a career that satisfies them, and not some weird perception of the world.
First Lytro coding challenge
Actually the author isn't using those examples, he claims those are Apple's own examples:

"Deep down in the ITC archives I've dug up the so-called infringement claim charts Apple presented to the ITC in its dispute with HTC. Infringement claim charts, or often just called "claim charts", typically show the language of a patent claim on the left side and a description of the infringing activity on the right side. Any given patent claim is only infringed if all of the characterizations on the left side are matched by (accurate) information on the right side."

If that's truly Apple's own claim-matching chart, it looks pretty deserving of geek scorn. No?

If Apple invented that stuff it might have invented the computer, the internet, and the 21st century too.
As someone who (sometime in the far future) aspires to be a professor, this is an important thing to hear. As a student I guess I was ignorant about how available services like this are, and as a professor I'll definitely be wary about it (and possibly design assignments around making this sort of thing difficult or less rewarding grade-wise)
I am trying to be helpful: I'm trying to help someone learn English. How is that negative?
Looks pretty neat !
It probably should not be called sgrep though since its not regex anymore ... sfind maybe ?
I don't think so. While many people have put forth proposals and claimed that they would cut half or more of the deficit, the largest cut in any of these proposals is less than $400 billion. We would need four times that to balance the budget.
Why would they? Is Mono a serious threat? No.

Would it be if it succeeded grabbing market share from Windows? Definitely.

I fail to see your reasoning equaling "something didn't happen" with "something can't ever happen and you are a lunatic for believing it can".

And I know I get downvoted every time I point this out. Reminding people Microsoft never plays nice only makes me unpopular, but it doesn't make me wrong.
So attempting to help someone learn English isn't helpful? That seems odd.
A very large number of those 2 million unfillable jobs mentioned above are for basically "Someone who knows linear algebra and statistics really well."

Scientists fit the bill -- any physics phd who can't find a job can join the finance or ad tech industries by sending out a single resume.
Could A Monkey Photographer Lead To A Copyright Revolution?
> I was getting voted down because I was correcting misinformation about a court decision against Google. :)

Can't speak for others, but I've voted you down exactly because you were making strong claims -- opposite to sources available to me -- without support (till you linked to that document). One of my mistakes, eh.

To the wit: I don't particularly like Google. But I strongly believe each case should be decided on its own merit, not on popularity (or otherwise) of defendant.

> If you started a newspaper that did nothing but copied the headlines and lead paragraphs from, say, the New York Times, how long do you think it would be before you got a cease-and-desist letter in the mail?

If I started a website that did way more than just copying titles and lead paragraphs from wide range of media sources, how long do you think I'd have to explain to various folks it actually is legal? It's the videocassette recorder lawsuit history all over again [1]. Significant non-infringing uses.

> There's a rule stating that content-owners are supposed to let another company take their work and make money off of it? What rules are you referring to specifically?

You have twisted it strangely @_@ Nobody asks the owners to let others use their content, only to indicate their preferrence.

There is a rule that what is served with HTTP 200 OK (and has such and such META tags and permissive /robots.txt) to a robot is allowed for that robot. Most websites need their content to be included in search results, news or not. Thus the reasonable default.

There is expectation of due dilligence. If you by mistake leave your home open once and somebody robs it, it's a robbery, plain and simple.

But! If you invite somebody to live with you for a good stretch of time, with mutual benefit, you can't then claim they profited against your will. It's your conscious decision, plain and simple again.

The newspapers did the later.

Web crawlers are fact of life, pre-dating the newspapers' webservers. There's an agreed-upon protocol for dealing with them. You either show due dilligence (which, nb., is easy and cheap -- the document you linked states clearly the newspapers put proper META tags in place at some later point) or you admit mistake and clean up your mess yourself.

Want a car analogy? Nobody asks drivers to turn only left. But they must indicate turns unambiguously with signals. The newspapers lit the wrong signal and now want their scratched car reimbursed.

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At any rate, thanks for bringing the actual ruling to attention :-)

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocassette_recorder#Legal_ch...
This seems to have fallen a looong way from front page then immediately? How?

It's useful stuff to me. If taken as accurate, it tells me that I am not ready for a girlfriend, if it means I can't ogle other girls. Useful to know that.
In a reply elsewhere here, I said "people do need to suck it up and learn new skills."

How many people know how to learn new skills, or are able to recognize quickly that they need to do so?

Is that a missing element in our education? You spend 12 years drinking what they're selling, and then suddenly you're expected to know how to re-tool yourself.

Shouldn't education be structured in part to teach and reinforce self re-tooling, and even grade on that ability?
NIST: Combinatorial Testing [pdf]
I was hoping he'd talk about how women work (in general, of course), why, and how to apply this information. Instead this article reads like this: a guy didn't pay attention to his girl, and is now regretting the fact, so he's advocating misplaced submissiveness--pretending she's right, thinking he "should have been dumped" for one non-huge mistake, never looking at other women--in lieu of the misplaced confidence he had earlier. Well, misplaced confidence can drive away a woman, but misplaced submissiveness is the least attractive thing in the universe.

I'm willing to bet the reason his ex "won't see him or talk to him" is because, in his attempts to talk to her, he comes off as desperate and pathetic--and probably a little creepy.