skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/11b.html

Dropbox + Keepass portable works well for me. I use the password plus a key file which is never in dropbox also, just in case dropbox gets compromised.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_you...

> Microsoft's Jesper Johansson urged people to write down their passwords.

> This is good advice, and I've been saying it for years.

Keepass has an android version also. I have my passwords everywhere I go.
Do not trust this study. The company in question has been acquiring big bucks of investments recently (some from ex-Nokia execs) and that kind of money (and power) can easily tip a researchers findings one way or another in a small funds-deprived university in Finland.
unless you want the latest version...
http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_ch38.html

^This is another great tutorial for real-time fluid simulation. If anyone's interested, I adapted this method to simulate fire as well. (demo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIi62cwjqMA)
how long would that take?
I have two forms of procrastination:

1. Virtual procrastination. This happens when I want to achieve more than I can physically do. The end of the work week is here, yet I don't have the sense to just let go and pick it up again next week. I feel burdened by my inability to complete the surplus tasks.

2. Vanilla procrastination. I hired an assistant. She helps me stay on track. I am a fan of this.
That's a great question. I would expect MS to maintain the BlackBerry brand, which I think still has some clout in the enterprise. That and MS/RIM have a somewhat long-standing relationship too. As I understand it, BlackBerry is the only way to get end-to-end encryption from an Exchange server to a smartphone, although I'd be surprised if that's not added to WP7.

But basically, I think RIM is screwing up so much that they'll be an acquisition target soon, and MS seems like the most likely buyer to me.
Adobe Releases Muse, Building Website without Coding knowledge
Derek Sivers on a different way to be an entrepreneur
Well, assumed you were talking about sums < $1B. I can think of useful (starting businesses, research/engineering projects) things to do with up to $1B or so.

Now, suppose we wanted to cap individuals at say $2B. How would this actually work? That's not cash that's lying around. Almost all of Buffett's wealth is in equity of Berkshire Hathaway. He can't sell that without also losing ownership of BRK. Is BRK worth as much without Buffett and/or the people he's explicitly groomed?

Billionaires are billionaires not because of their income, but because of the assets that they control.
I would appeal to simple reasoning: everybody has known that the U.S. is on an unsustainable spending curve due to entitlements for the last decade or more. The only thing that changes is how politicians choose to spin it from year to year. If you create a system where politicians get elected promising to spend money that doesn't exist, then such a system will outgrow any amount of revenue you can throw at it. If you somehow changed the rates right now and squeezed enough out of the economy to make it all balance? Ten years from now some new bunch of guys will be running on a platform to provide SUVs in every driveway or something equivalently intellectually sexy and emotionally attractive. It's simply too enticing not to.

But you asked for something solid, so here's the result of some random Googling. Note that it's a little unfair for this author to use the current year's deficit in this calculation, but then again with growth rates where they are it's only a decade or so until such spending will be commonplace even in a frugal environment.

http://billwhittle.net/?p=562

There are about 400 billionaires with a total net worth of around $1.3 Trillion.

Seriously, this entire discussion all boils down to how honest you can be about how the system is broken, not which party is to blame, how much the rich should pay, whether or not we need more or less government, or any of that. All of that nonsense is just bullshit to keep you coming out to vote.

I'd also point you to a graph of total debt as a percentage of GDP. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_debt_chart.html Even if you argue that the last year or two is somehow "special" (A common theme when its your guys spending the money) It's plainly clear that the trajectory leads to default in a very short amount of time.
KVM on Illumos (OpenSolaris fork)
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Operation vs Expression
Yes. Also note that the super rich, as Buffett points out, make money by investing, not by regular income. The purpose and art of investing is to place money in the best spot. So if you took all the money they had, you'd be a trillion or two ahead, a huge amount of investing would stop, and there would be no more money from them in the pipeline. If, instead of sacking wealth you stuck with income only (perhaps with progressive rates), somebody would simply do the math and put the funds in tax-free bonds or something.

Money, especially money of this scale, works for people. It will find the best spot to stay untouched and continue to work. You don't pay an accounting firm and tax lawyers in the six or seven figures for nothing. In fact, many argue that the way you get rich is to be a better steward of money than the other guy. If you took 100 people, gave them each a million bucks, in a year only one of them would probably have kept it and increased it. Odds are that was the guy who was already rich to start with -- who already had good habits and wise spending strategies.

I mean honestly, there's a wee bit of irrationality in Buffett's position. You don't get wealthy by putting your money in places where it disappears, so why would somebody who was super frugal and managed to plan where each and every penny went leave his money in a spot were it would decrease drastically if he didn't have to? Buffett's going to haggle and fight tooth and nail over some small sub-percentage points on a huge acquisition and then not manage his own money so that it works optimally? Huh?
Every time I try to load a shared link I keep getting a "Cannot Join Shared Drawing" popup error
There’s Always a Plan B
"My son is going to have to bid to get the contract to build the new city building, just like anybody else. He will be on equal footing."

I won't believe it until I see a regular pattern of Moto not getting picked. That goes against too much human nature.
Google: We're Spending $12.5 Billion on Motorola to 'Protect' Android
Google doesn't have to as long as they don't distribute binaries. The liable ones are probably the phone manufacturers. But only the copyright holders can sue anyway, and I don't see that happening.
On your website, explicitly declare a N days refund guarantee. It's a selling point, shows good service and people generally don't abuse it. Worst case, you'll remove it.

See number 7 in http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html
It is truly bizarre that this purchase appears to be entirely about protecting themselves against patents. How can anyone not see that the system is broken?
Indian Government Vs Anna Hazare & Indians.Non-Violence Movement
Nit:

[Engine Yard is] really easy if you have a public github repo, but anything other than that starts to get "more complicated" quickly.

You can also hook it up to a private Unfuddle repo, and I would assume private github repos too.
FYI, I am on 11.04 / Chrome and do not see any flicker
1) Buy a hardware company.

2) ?

3) Sell more advertising on search results.
I think "a clever use of something for a purpose it wasn't originally made for" can be rightfully called a hack. Doesn't seem misleading at all to me.
This is a Finnish company and there has been some discussion about this in Finland. Basically it's bullshit, the next Power Balance.

There's no credible research to back their claims. Only one study that didn't include a control group.

I couldn't find any english sources but here is a Finnish one from a science magazine, run it through google translate: http://www.tiede.fi/blog/2010/11/09/korvavalo-aprillipila-va...
I don't see how the "Googlerola" hardware can hurt Android adoption. If you are a smartphone maker with at least some ambition for market share you either use Android or get ready to fall short on sales.

Aside from Apple and MS-Nokia, until something disruptive happens in the phone OS scene Android is the way to go for phone makers.
>Android is platform neutral in a way no other can aspire to: it's open-source.

In practice, is the platform that much different from Windows? Anyone can slap it on any hardware and sell it as Windows and pre-install their own software. In fact, with Windows they don't have to follow the rules OEMs need to follow to bundle things like Maps and Android Marketplace with the phone.
It's already there...

A direct quote:
"You can try Radio Silence risk-free for 30 days. If you're not absolutely happy, you'll get your money back, no questions asked."
Fully agree, but the author is not using AdWords to generate names, but to have a number of names (4 in this case) compete with each other (running the exact same ad, just changine the name). The reported outcome in that case was 80% of the clicks went to "Autovate", although we don't know that all variations got equally exposed.

[edit] The four names in question were Motiveatr, Autovate, Autovator, My Auto Motive.

[edit] (Removed rant on the name Motiveatr)
I've seen this argument several times over, but it doesn't make it any more sound. If iOS was offered on, say, three types of smartphones simultaneously (instead of just the one new one at a time now), that wouldn't make its sales triple (not even close).

Having more options doesn't necessarily increase sales. In some cases it drives down sales, because of a confused consumer. If Apple all of a sudden offered three different flavors of the iPhone 5, yes sales would probably increase a bit because of options being present that previously didn't exist. But for the most part you'd see the existing singular iPhone's sales merely split to all three options. We saw this with the unveiling of the Verizon iPhone. Yes, sales spiked for a short period of time, but at the end of the day it didn't cause iPhone's average trend of sales to increase more than it was with it only on AT&T. The people that wanted a phone with iOS, got a phone with iOS, only now they didn't have to switch to AT&T to get it.

And I'm sure you would like to see OS total share across every type of electronics device under the sun, because iOS is in an entire sector of the market that Android is not: MP3 players. The results would obviously favor Apple.
Market research sucks
I think "ahead" is usually quantified by numbers out in the wild. We, as consumers, don't care about their profits, but we do watch things that are trendy and dominant (which Android is now).
Actually firefox is just doing what chrome is doing. Chrome has a major release every 6 weeks and changes it's major version number every 6 weeks. It's great when chrome does it, but when firefox changes their versioning schedule it's "stupid"?
No wonder all the quotes look so alike and are no doubt fed by Google PR. They are not telling how they _really_ feel about this.

This is like Microsoft buying Dell in the early nineties.
You think HP, Acer, Compaq, Gateway etc. would have been amused by that?
That's a lovely story. I think you should go to Reddit to find more stories.
haha agreed. My Auto Motive I thought would do well though ;)
There must be a treasure-trove of prior-art, no?
I think they have to say something. Otherwise, they may get quoted as "declined to comment".

Also, I think they almost must say something without content, as anything they say that might have content could affect shareholder value, and hence, could make them liable.

It may seem weird, but the ability to come up with a quote without content on short notice can be valuable.
Using iptables to balance Node.js
Some Thoughts on Employer Employee Relationships
Chrome has no version number, firefox has a tiny version number on the button. You're really going to say that chrome is better because of that?

So HN has gotten past the language holy wars, but now they're arguing about something ridiculous like which browser is somehow better. Fantastic.
Sorry about that! Either the drawing is shared no more (eg the one linked in these comments - if that's the case, you'll always get the error trying to go to that drawing), or you've found a bug. In the latter case case, could you please tell me your browser/os combo? here, in a tweet to @awwapp or in the mail (listed in my HN profile page). Thanks!
the Nexus device gets a lot of press as its the first out of the gate with the new build, but realistically, even if that remains as they say it doesn't seem like it would matter much if Google does the rest of it right -- meaning stock Android, and Google updating the SW quickly and over decent time interval.

It seems most likely to me that the Nexus program will remain in place, but Motorola will have multiple "Nexus" type phones in the way that matters to consumers. Not first always, but with all the other properties of the Nexus. At least I hope that is where Google take this. It seems unlikely they would skin Android, and I'd hope they act as best of class in the SW update part of things.

Lots of interesting things here. This would make Google the #1 set top box provider in the country. I'm sure the mfg doesn't have too many degrees of freedom there, but still interesting.
Save the Cat - To Formula or Not to Formula?
Tapbot founder on Google buying Motorola
Google PR should've done a better job of giving each OEM a different and longer quote. Cmon, is it that hard? The quotes when put next to each other, look like a joke.
Firebug works great for me in firefox 7.
This article is even more disingenuous than Warren Buffet's article. Entire departments exists in companies to minimize their taxable income.
How can one learn something that is defined by what it is not.
What law school? Were you allowed to choose?
This sounds like they all received a command saying "You should welcome Google's commitment to defending Android and its partners." and they all obeyed.
Update: I downloaded Spotify, and silenced it. It says it is unable to connect to the servers, and lists only local songs.

So, yes, Radio Silence works with Spotify.
No, the copy doesn't give that impression, which I though was weird, because I thought that automatisation and 'silence as needed' would be the best design for this kind of application.
Uses node.js, socket.io and express.js as server. Strokes are stored in mongodb, and cached gzipped for replays. The current state is also preserved on the server, using node-canvas.

An example of the replay feature: http://draw.2x.io/replay#/history/Mulm/1441464748552271684/d...

This is arguably just a fun project, not aimed at anything commercial at all, so don't expect it to look like such.

Worth noting: socket.io currently doesn't support hybi10, the websocket protocol as implemented in Chrome 14 and later. The people behind socket.io are working on that.
I wouldn't consider a one-time dialog box (growl, of course) to be that much of an issue. It might violate your design principle, but in the grand scheme of things, I don't think it would annoy the user.
"I’d say where by “anti-competitive” he means “competitive”."

No, he meant what he said. They were being threatened with lawsuits left and right over patents. Patents that were trivial and should never have been granted. Their only defense was to grow some teeth of their own, or somehow remove their competitors' teeth.

So they did.
I hope you're right. But Google has certainly sold it to its Android partners as "we're going to use their patents to defend your crapware-ridden half-assed locked down handsets and then smother the hardware people with this wet pillow":

http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/
Show HN: SpotCapitan is the Airbnb for parking (want to join beta?)
SpotCapitan ("Cap-ee-tahn", not "Captain") is creating the world's largest marketplace for parking online.

Hundreds of millions of parking spaces are unused for most hours of the day, or when they are needed most. When you're away from home, why not monetize an asset that people are clamoring to pay for? Scheduling, distribution, real-time analytics, and exceptional customer support make SpotCapitan a pleasure to use.

When is the last time you had to drive in circles looking for parking, and finally settled on a parking lot and paid an exorbitant price? Why not arrange the parking ahead of time, for a lower price, directly from somebody like you?

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book processing?

But honestly, your comment on IDEs being superior to emacs (vim user here) casts doubt on your other opinion. It's like saying congratulations for using bash, then someone showed you Windows. (That said, being Charles Stross casts confidence on your other opinion.)
People talk about High IQ like it's a large bank account. I can afford not to study and still get good grades etc. What they forget is the compound interest that sustained effort provides. You can coast though school gain as little from it as the average person or you can dig in and actually gain something, but there are reasonably smart people who dig in so eventually coasting along is not enough. It’s like investing 1million @1%APR vs 100k @ 20%. For the first few years it might seem like you are ahead of the game, but after 16 years of schooling you can end up behind the curve.

PS: IQ tests are only really meaningful for the young. At 40 I can look at what you have accomplished at 10 that's far less meaningful.
Survey about Mobile Developers at UCL
I think your Netflix number must be wrong, because I work at an ISP and there are a lot of subscribers going over 250 GB/mo on Netflix. Anyway, one movie a day (or 3 TV episodes) on 4 computers is 120 movies/month.
Looks good. Wishing you success!
Ok, I think that must have been the issue. The drawing must be open on the browser window of the person who shares the drawing.
A default list of applications to silence on the first run wouldn't ruin your strapline. Which apps should be silenced on default, that's harder to figure out.
Motorola DEFY+: Life proof smartphone from Motorola Mobility [Pictures]
Most password managers allow you to export a CSV file of all your info.

I export my passwords every once in a while, encrypt them, and put them in my backups. My pw manager can disappear and i wouldn't even care.

If you can't handle backing up an encrypted CSV file, then perhaps the problem lies with you and not with password managers.
hilarious sea turning motion -- what web technologies did you use?
Years after the fact that it sucked became apparent.
Show HN: My weekend project to scrape and display affiliate network earnings.
>We saw this with the unveiling of the Verizon iPhone.

This isn't really a fair comparison since so many of the VZ iPhone target market may be locked into contracts. (even still, the iPhone is VZ best selling phone)

>If Apple all of a sudden offered three different flavors of the iPhone 5, yes sales would probably increase a bit because of options being present that previously didn't exist.

What happened to iPod marketshare when Apple released the iPod mini? (again not a perfect analogy, but related).
Yep, private github repos work fine
So, let's get this right. Google just got all in a huff about people spending $4.5B on patents and then goes out and spends $12.5B on a company with one of their primary stated motives being the acquisition of patents?
I agree that the for-profit corporate model is better than the charity model, but only because the charity model has been so awful.

I think a non-profit revenue-based organization would probably be the best for what this guy is trying to do. You get the benefit of being sustainable without requiring donations, but you don't come off as someone profiting off the backs of the poor.
Did China Get a Peek at the Stealth Hawk?
Who wouldn't want a submersible jet ski?
Fraudster used Facebook to hack bank accounts
I agree, much of the early stuff will have expired, but Motorola being in the mobile biz so long probably means their waters still run pretty deep as far as core mobile functionality.
Yeah, my point was just that the statements clearly came from a common source (Google) not surprise that CEOs were not speaking with their own voices. The effect is that the statements do not appear at all sincere. They sound like they made these statements with Google twisting their arm, which has the opposite of the intended effect.
If you use GitHub, EngineYard is pretty easy and smooth to use as well. Just git push, then redeploy. The only pain is creating custom recipes for stuff they don't support. But I do like the ability to SSH. I can go in, run scripts, delete files, etc. Heroku seems too much of a walled garden.
Are you only considering those who live in the Ottawa area? Would there be a possibility of a remote position now or at some point in the future?