skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A short YouTube video also by KC Budd was posted on Hacker News 521 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110981 (107 points) and 778 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=629383 (30 points) and made it to the reddit frontpage today.

However, this link is to a follow-up demonstration at the 1999 Defcon 17 and also features ASCII art porn and a decoding of the band Information Society's track "300bps N,8,1" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_and_Love,_Inc.

Presenter's website is http://phreakmonkey.com/
How is this any different than current single signon systems, like Microsoft Live, Yahoo, Google, Facebook Connect.. I mean sure maybe this is open and anyone can run their own but lets not forget users dont care at all about that..
Well two of them did work in pediatrics where they'd both presumably seen it before, it might be rare but obviously wasn't in the "once in a lifetime" category.
I've found that those that switch from iOS complain about it the most, as they are used to the one button approach. Just like swapping between any OS I guess, you have the things you are used to and initially, the new idioms don't sit well with you.
I don't know about Drupal - I would tend to agree it's a little too cumbersome to the point where I would rather write something with a good framework like Django.

But WordPress is really nice, aside from PHP, and my once-off design-a-simple-website projects that use it would be a lot simpler if there were something similar that had a better language. PHP does add a significant amount of gymnastics that make plugin development more difficult.

I don't mind living with a heavy and immobile scaffolding for small projects - but using bubblegum, shoestring, and when necessary sauter to put what little additions I need on is a lot more annoying than just having a clean, standard set of screws and brackets. WordPress especially has a decent set of screws and brackets, but at the end of the day it is PHP and I see a lot of stuff that looks suspiciously like bubblegum.

As for Drupal, I'm not saying I have an incredible amount of experience in it, but taking it for granted that it's a useful framework, I imagine it would be more useful if written in Python or Ruby. Also, I don't buy the argument that PHP is easier to find - I think you would actually have to go out of your way these days to find a place that had PHP but not Python or Ruby available. Certainly all the cut-rate behemoths like HostGator support it.
Having recently built a mini site to host info about an iPhone app I can appreciate where the idea is going... unfortunately their pricing seems fairly out of place with what's being offered.

I built a small supporting site and tossed it up on Google Apps (really just plain HTML) for free hosting... yes, I needed to set the template and Google Analytics code myself but is that really worth the $2.50 - $4.00 a month?

Might I humbly suggest a small change... bump the free level to 5 apps so that I get hooked on the ease of use and simplicity of your model then group together upgrades in wide bands... maybe 5-10 for the second tier and 10-50 for the third tier.

Oh, and get Windows Phone support in there... there likely isn't much demand but it is my preferred platform and I'd like it to succeed. :)
The sizes of primitives in C are implementation defined, but the sizes of primitives in some other languages (e.g. Java) are defined by the specification.
Thanks for enlightening me =)
It's not necessarily a technical aspect, but it might be worthwhile including a few bits on software scheduling so it makes more sense why, for instance, your estimates will change often until you get a better body of relevant evidence to base your future estimates from.
I'm wondering, how many of you are interested more in the company building that then the technology building?

Well, I wouldn't say that those things are mutually exclusive. I'm pretty interested in both, myself. I mean, I'm working on a B2B, enterprise software startup, which is "boring" by a lot of people's standards, as far as I can tell. But I think the technology we're working with is pretty damn exciting personally; especially some of the stuff that will probably be on the roadmap for some "post MVP" releases.
Actually, the top 3 at Google insisted on calling each other by their first names in the IPO papers, to the chagrin of the SEC.
I don't know if he still uses it, but Daring Fireball use[s|d] Moveable Type as of at least 2002.
It is popular on sites like reddit. It basically means "I agree".
(Sorry if this comes across as pedantic, but the dissonance here is striking.)

"Revenue" and "earnings" have fairly specific meanings, particularly with regard to each other.

"Google earned $2.85B on revenues of $9.03B in Q2" would have been a better title, as would "Google revenues top $9B in Q2".
My home button is failing. I hadn't heard about finger gestures to simulate it, but it'd be really nice to be able to exit an app without 30 seconds of repeated pressing.
BrowserID implements https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Identity/VerifiedEmailProtocol

From that document:
"destination.com retrieves Alice's public key from mailhost.com by using a webfinger lookup over SSL."

So it looks to me that the system's security depends on the attacker not having compromised DNS such that the relying party's query of mailhost.com is intercepted. Depending on the implementation doing this "over SSL" provides some additional security over unchecked reliance on DNS, but given how frequently keys roll, it may not be that much in practice.
To the author of the IAmA (if you read HN), Thanks for using /r/IAmA and not that horrible AnyAsq service.
And between certain parties.
I found one thats a bit above my range of $400 but we can work things out:

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/sys/2491536286.html

how does this look?
twitter is inherently a spammer's heaven. It's really easy to make 140 characters seem legitimate. An hour of writing spun content and a really easy to build signup bot and you can have full conversations, retweets, everything.

There's a reason twitter gets spammed so much, and it's because most of the time, normal people's 140 character messages look just as spammy as the actual spam.
Thanks, I snagged one earlier. I've been listening to Spotify all day, this is great!
Nice. and nice domain too.
What major issues are you having?
I understand what you're trying to say, but in your specific example, it's more like 15/1000 would be sent on for confirmatory testing (western blot), of which only about 1 in 10,000 would be false positives. In your scenario, this screening of those who request the test but otherwise do not need it would result in statistically very few false positives, on the order of 1 in 175,000 of those who make the request.

Perhaps a more likely error would be among those who request testing for Lyme disease (currently a popular self diagnosis) and thus get put on an unnecessary regimen of doxycycline. I'm racking my brain trying to think of an example that would be much, much worse. Perhaps testing for antinuclear antibodies and getting diagnosed with lupus?
I thought revenue was separate from expenses.
I mean, friends looking through a page of your random thoughts, and then typing in their thoughts about that thought. It's not something people really did before Facebook; sure, you could call people "just to chat", but this is on a much greater scale.

This article is a look at the good that can come from this.

(I say "bored friends" because people don't read Facebook updates when they are engaged in highly-stimulating mental activities. It's a downtime thing.)
Ideally, if your HIV test comes back positive, you'd also be given information such as how likely false positives are and what the economic / health consequences of starting the HIV regimine (versus getting a second test) are.

I understand that the way things are currently structured, it might be detrimental to the system as a whole to dive into the more obscure stuff. However, it's safe to say in this case, this boy suffered as a result. Ideally, there wouldn't be this tradeoff between the efficiency of the system and any one individual's health.

I definitely don't think this ideal will be easy to achieve, or know what needs to happen to make it possible, but I think we should strive for it. I realize it's pretty lame to critique the system without offering a solution - but I felt compelled to post because the article struck me as an example of how the medical system can fail people, as much as it's an example of the power of FB, etc. (yet it didn't seem to strike people as such).
Seems a bit weird to me that they're effectively selling URLs of the form app.net/appname rather than selling subdomains like appname.app.net.
Turn Google's +1 button into Mario's 1up mushroom
See the teaser at https://browserid.org/primaries , and the documentation at http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works .
Yeah, I definitely get a bit of that "family feel" from Google+.

Back when Facebook was brand new, I remember not being able to join because my school was not good enough. Then we were added to the good list, and it felt like you had to join because you had earned the right to. Then they opened it up to everyone and it just felt cheap.
They are. Facebook is absolutely telling the truth about this metric. 750 million active users in the last 30 days, 50% of that daily and 80% of 750mil weekly.
This is AWESOME :) Thank u.
It's true google hired many of those involved in the DARPA Urban challenge, and they are leading the effort. In particular, Sebastian Thrun, who appears to be in charge of Google's program, was the head of the winning Stanford team.

However, Google's cars are already far more sophisticated than those that won the Challenge, which involved navigating a relatively simplistic simulated urban environment. According to their blog post on the subject [0] Google has been running their autonomous cars on real roads and highways in real traffic, a dramatically harder problem.

[0] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at....
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If I have the maximal 4 open windows in my browser, and then click some link, it cannot open in a new window, so it opens it in an existing window. Then, back manipulates that window, rather than returning from the web browser itself.
Read the "Verified e-mail protocol" thingy instead. The blurb the link on HN points to is indeed completely useless.

They don't verify e-mail ownership through crypto means - they use the fact that e-mail is identity.

Basically, your mailhost (or a proxy, like browserID) holds your public key, while your browser holds your private key. Now, when you authenticate against any BrowserID auth site, you simply sign with your private key and provide the e-mail address. Since the browser stores both, that's a trivial interaction.

The site then verifies your signature with the mail host. (That's where the asymmetric crypto comes in)

At least that's how I understand it - their explanation is indeed a bit cryptic. Hope they clean it up.
I personally feel the problem is just the terminology doesn't really match between tools. Coming from SVN, I think of something I want to do and I think of the SVN command for it, but it turns out the Git command is a totally different name, so I spend 10-20 minutes being confused- especially when there is a command of the same name that does something different.
It'd be a sort of interesting legal issue if they got sued. Using the name 'tcfast' might be problematic. But what if it was a more general web-based RSS reader that reformatted any RSS feed into pages like this? If that's illegal, where's the line between that and Google Reader?
uhmm.. so you mean to say Walmart.com have people who can handle problem this but Amazon cannot!?

To me, the implicit 10% discount to customer seems like major incentive for Amazon to not to do this rather than the technical difficulty of the issue.

I understand a startup having difficulty spending resources doing this, but not many startups have affiliates, Also, we should be worried that Amazon will cause states to make laws which will ultimately harm startups.
That's in a way what BrowserID is. Except all sites share one public key, and your browser holds the private key. (Thus replacing ssh-agent)
I think that's a key factor. Any project after it gets off the ground and starts to grow significantly will bring its own complexities to deal with that can be quite exciting.
That's true, I was purely thinking in C there.
I think it's an experience thing. Everyone uses Google; they identify with the company because they see their product every day. Google controls their Internet experience, not to mention their Emacs, Docs, and Calendar. As to why they comment on Larry Page's report to the investors... it's probably because they can. Larry Page is a celebrity, and people like celebrities. When you can send a message to him for all to see, you feel some innate desire to do so. (I don't do this, because I know that Larry Page should not give a fuck about what I think. Other people are more self-confident, I guess :)

Other companies incite the emotional response in the opposite direction: nobody likes Bank of America, Comcast, or Best Buy, even though most people have no negative experiences with those companies.
I once attended a job fair/event at my University, and the guy from HP said (to a crowd) they have PROFITS of $80 billion a year. I didn't inform him that was REVENUE, I just walked out on him.
The last numbers I saw put Gmail at under 10% of email account marketshare. Hotmail and Yahoo both had much bigger shares.

It's difficult to imagine an authentication system that doesn't have some kind of centralized mechanism for making sure identities aren't duplicated. In this case, delegating that to a combination of two existing technologies (DNS for the domain, then email for the username) that are open, well understood and easy to implement seems appropriate.

What's the alternative? Using some kind of pseudo-GUID and then maybe a derivative of the Paxos distributed consensus algorithm to decide if it is to be trusted? I'd imagine there would be a good number of PhDs in that approach before a system like that would be close to being ready for actual implementation.

This system seems just about as decentralized as is practical. If you disagree I'd be very happy to hear alternatives.
What's interesting is that this isn't on the blog page. It's only accessible through this url unless there is some really bad caching going on?
Ding, ding, ding.....we have a winner
Seems a bit weird to me that they link to fake examples to real apps in their "Featured apps". Unless they got permission?

EDIT: They are legitimate testimonials.
K for clams, perhaps? :)
I would think Harvard has more value than TechStars. Now if you said YC vs Havard, then its a big difference.
C89 has this language in §3.1.2.5 Types:

A computation involving unsigned operands can
never overflow, because a result that cannot be
represented by the resulting unsigned integer type
is reduced modulo the number that is one greater
than the largest value that can be represented by
the resulting unsigned integer type.
Don't forget comments!

Comments make up the bulk of my activity.
You'd be hard-pressed to find an entity less representative of the 'old media being outflanked by the young hotshots' stereotype than TPM.
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> People always say this, but it's not true in practice.

It is true in practice, try talking to programmers who don't know about design patterns and you'll find communication about architecture difficult. Maybe you haven't met enough of these programmers, but there's a shit ton of them in the corporate world.

> If there isn't a term for something, you just make one and say what you mean by it. That's what we've always done and it's what programmers not under the influence of "design patterns" always still do.

Yes, and it doesn't work well when you don't have a common vocabulary; you spend all your time trying to grok their little custom names for everything.

Everything else you said is what happens when people mis-apply patterns and think they're code templates, they're not and were never intended to be.
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That's a common opinion, yes. Some users prefer to actually take advantage of their screen width to read more content at a time. It also proves particularly convenient when trying to skim for particular information without reading everything.

Part of the justification for using narrow columns relates to the difficulty of finding the starting point of the next line when your eyes jump a large distance to the left. That advice applies quite well to books, and much less well to more structured content. For instance, on Hacker News, most comments don't have a wall of text with no paragraph breaks, and comments have strong delineation, so a narrow text width doesn't actually help.

That said, if you have the type of content for which a narrow text width does help (which TechCrunch sometimes does), please don't limit it to a specific pixel width; please use em instead, so that the width gets larger with the font size. That way, when users hit Ctrl-+ to override a site's smaller-than-the-browser's-default font size, the site will show about the same amount of text on each line, rather than producing narrower lines as the font grows.
Hey this is Dalton. I absolutely got permission from every single app developer on the featured apps page.
An interesting poll might be how much you feel that you under (or over!) paid. Voting for percentage difference would remove concerns about absolute salaries reflecting cost of location.
It would be hard to do this for a coal company because few coal companies deal too directly with the consumer, and even people who buy charcoal to grill with at home often do not get too attached to one brand since charcoal is close to being a commodity (yes, there are some people with strong opinions on this, but most people do not have them).

But I suspect you will find this in every field where a consumer will be highly invested in the product, and especially in fields where their use of the product can be publicly seen, and even more so when it is publicly seen and thought (rightly or wrongly) to say something about the user. Many people are very proud of the type of car they drive. Most people who ride motorcycles have very strong opinions about the different brands and styles available. Many people (certainly not all, but many) who drive a Prius do so as much because they think it says something about them as for any other reason.

As others have said, people will find different forms of tribalism in just about any public activity.
I imagine that electricity is one of Google's largest expenses. In that case, who better to research very efficient solar panels?
550,000 x $15 a handset = $8.25m a day for Microsoft in royalties?

$8.25m x 365days = $3,011,250,000 a year in royalties?

Is MS making $3B a year off of Android?
In the literal sense that you are not your e-mail, yes email != identity.

In a practical "on the internet sense," your email really is your identity (maybe SSN or name would be a better description; you can change it, but to do so is catastrophically disruptive). After all if you can't be contacted you really can't be identified, and the universal way of contacting someone online is through email.

Now, you should definitely try and provide some redundancy (store multiple email addresses, long living sessions, whatever) and make your anonymous/unauthenticated/drive-by user experience stellar. But when push comes to shove if you can't send them a "forgot your username/password/open-id/samoflange" email, you've lost that user.

(anecdote: I've had the same primary email for >7 years)
It's notable that (per the link you provided) Haskell doesn't allow for the Unicode alternatives without specifying an option (-XUnicodeSyntax). It's an interesting approach, and seems like a reasonable middle ground that probably limits the use of Unicode syntax to those few teams/libraries/domains where its tradeoffs are understood and accepted.
Those were beta testers that I showed the service to before we launched, and explicitly gave us permission to feature them.
a) As far as I can tell from the article, her doctor was at most a couple hours behind her "social network".

b) Her social network also produced "various diagnoses" which were presumably wrong.

c) I wonder how often this sort of thing happens, vs. people's networks encouraging them to not vaccinate their kids, or go on a "cleanse" or what-have-you.
FWIW: I did post a link to HN on a homeschooling list where a parent (most likely a mom, since such lists tend to be dominated by women) was asking for resources related to programming. I also posted a link to a particular discussion here on another list (a really tiny list). I have long told my two sons that they aren't likely to be employable (especially my older son) so they need to plan on making their own company. I will likely do more to promote the "start your own business" concept to homeschoolers. I think there are some significant parallels between the two mindsets/lifestyles and I think homeschooling is good preparation for starting a business, much better preparation for that than for becoming a drone at a large company.
"Our new system will simply wrap the MT database in a cached layer and incorporate its content. Our new gallery app — currently active on the site — creates slideshows, writing its changes to central datastore as well."

Also known as "now they've got two problems", or in this case, four. Or I don't understand it - it sounds as if they have introduced another layer between frontend and backend, which probably increases complexity.

The road to hell is plastered with abstractions...
I'd love to see someone make use of the TLD .app

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/20/icann_dot_everything...

It has been registered by someone, however.
"the technology is now advancing so quickly that it is in danger of outstripping existing law, some of which dates back to the era of horse-drawn carriages."[3]

HA, yeah heaven forbid that tech make driving safer and more efficient without the regulators and legislators along for the ride. because, you know, they make everything better.
this is really cool! after mentoring with the BUILD.org organizatin, I can only say good things about programs like these. I'd love to help but will be out of town that week! Keep up the great work.
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(I post this every time)

This doesn't prove that they actually store it in plain text. They could be storing using a reversible encryption algorithm.

Yes, I realize that this is almost as bad as storing it in plain text. However, not knowing the high level difference between symmetric, asymmetric, hashing and cryptographic hashing is just as bad. (And I'm not saying the OP doesn't know the difference, but I am saying most ppl (maybe not on HN) don't).
BrowserID references the verified email protocol as an inspiration, but they specifically removed the webfinger bits.
i was thinking about a site like this awhile back because it seems doctors typically only have a few data points on most matters. the site would almost be analogous to code review except you're posting symptoms and pictures instead of code, the result is that you get more sets of eyes on the problem. the only drawback is that the wrong diagnosis could be fatal whereas a bad checkin problem just breaks the build or causes the controls of an airplane to malfunction and crash flaming into the ground. probably a legal nightmare.
Hi this is Dalton, CEO of App.net

hn people might remember me from this:
http://startupschool.org/schedule.html

Feel free to ask me any questions you have. You can email me at dalton -at- app dot net