skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was cleverly done by the The Yes Men: http://theyesmen.org/. For proof, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dow_apologizes.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
Que Negocios Son Rentables?
the fundemental thing that's needed is static typing and unboxed primatives.
Try to see this from a developer's perspective. If Facebook becomes the de facto standard for internet authentication and the de facto standard platform for every service, developers' freedom will be much diminished. And there are many developers (and entrepreneurs) here.
I take it you already have the "install software" and "use tool" steps out of the way, would you be interested in a web-based file-system, with tagging organization, as opposed to folder organization?
hopefully they'll become resistant by not being attracted to the bait, and as a side effect, no longer attracted to humans?
"These concerns aren't real, not because Facebook isn't collecting information but because everyone is collecting information"

So Facebook isn't acting counter to your interests because everyone is acting counter to your interests?
Best Cities in the World
Reach the 1st Page of Google - FAST
Kickbacks for Facebook
9 Facebook Marketing Strategies
SEO And Accessibility With PushState: Progressive Enhancement With Backbone.js
The cute expression of little girl who is eating noodle
This is mostly a concern for me because I choose not to use Facebook, so I won't be using any business relying on Facebook Connect. Most of my reasons for not using Facebook (aggressive data collection and being pretty open about milking it for their own ends) are even more worrying when applied to an auth system.
Related, anyone know of anyone providing hosted mailing lists, e.g. ezmlm or mailman? I've been looking for someone providing this and not finding much of anything.
Candes on Compressive Sensing (Stanford EE380 video)
These concerns aren't real...any privacy you have left is an illusion of privacy, not actual privacy.

This is Wrong. Our privacy is only actually gone when we consciously decide to give it away, or throw our hands up and say "oh well, there's nothing we can do".

Facebook Connect isn't bad in and of itself, and neither is central authentication. But a lot of people understandably don't trust Facebook to manage their identity for them and would prefer to manage it themselves.

It's still perfectly possible to maintain reasonable privacy on the web, and any site or product that doesn't at least give me the option of doing so isn't a site or product I'm interested in using.
Asking "How much does a website cost?" is a bit like asking "How much does a car cost?", and of course the answer is "it varies, how much are you looking to spend? What do you want of the car/website?". Surveying various designers under the pretense of addressing this question is price fixing.

The fact that the designers were asked their prices on the criteria that "All prices are for design only, i.e. they don’t include any sort of coding (no HTML, no CSS, no Javascript, no PHP, etc.)." is rather telling with regards to experience.

Design doesn't stop at the mockup stage — anyone who has designed & built the front-end of a website knows that the design continues to evolve outside of Photoshop. The nature of the web dictates a website must be flexible so it can accommodate different browsers and resolutions. It's very difficult (read: expensive) to design for a dynamic medium in a static work space, and it's disingenuous to call a static, non-interactive image a website.

This post would be better titled "How much can one charge for a website mockup?"
At first I also assumed the same. However, if it's a hoax it's a pretty elaborate one. He appears to have an online presence as a trader going back at least to 2009.

My guess is that he's just making outrageous statements so that he can get on other news and chat shows.
Content-free redirect. The submitted URL should have been:

http://licn.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/10/dangerous-cfls.htm...
Thanks, I actually already suspected that and will look to set something up with a therapist soon. I'm pretty sure that I still want a fresh start of sorts but it can't hurt to get an objective perspective on my life from a professional.
When I was in YC (same batch as Dropbox) this was a constant question. "What happens to Dropbox if Gdrive launches?" I don't actually remember what Drew and Arash thought, but a lot of people speculated on it.

It was probably a real threat to them 4.5 years ago. I can't imagine it is now. Dropbox has a large, happy fanbase that's going to keep using it and keep spreading. They're going to keep growing. They've got a small bit of lock-in if you use them a lot too, the annoyance of having to upload a large amount of files to another service. They've got a product that's a joy to use, which is not something Google is known for building outside of their core competency of search.

If I were Dropbox I'd simply view this as market validation (not that they need it at this point) more than anything else.
Windows Phone 7.5 'Mango' is here
JavaScript is such an important ingredient in web development that with out it, our web elements may seem sleepy. Programming languages has its own ups and downs all the time because of the exponential growth rate of user need and technological advancement. Obviously Google is trying to imprint their 'G' all over the web. You can see their replacement option for Ajax and Microsoft .net as the new introduction of GWT. It has been packed in such a way that the web may look and feel like obvious desktop apps. Google has been using JavaScript itself as the weaving language for GWT. May be they want it to be completely 'Googlized'. In this perspective, Google might be in high need of replacing Javascript.
How Liftweb changed my view of Web-Applications
No. I just want a folder that syncs.
"Zynga has reported year on year profits that were down by approximately 95%"

"Zynga's total revenues for the quarter were up by 15%, though this was slower growth than the previous quarter, which jumped up by 24%"

Perhaps it's just a little too early to handle basic concepts, but if revenues are up, but profits are down, doesn't that just mean costs are significantly greater? Isn't THAT the big headline here?
This is an extremely valid point. If you look at the stories that are posted daily on Yahoo! Finance, nearly all of them are market predictions by people with a vested interest in their predictions (beyond simply trying to be correct).

I think this is still lost on most consumers; most people think stock analysts are the same as economists, and that's completely wrong. A good economist will tell you that they can't predict the stock market, but they can tell you what the economy will do. That's enough to let you know that the direction of the economy and the stock market are not directly linked.
"Learn how to make money in a downward market."

OK. As an individual who is not rich, where to start that learning?
I agree with this 100%. The talks were wonderful and incredibly inspiring. But oh wow, was the networking overwhelming. It was such a challenge to figure out who to talk to and many people that I did talk to agreed.

Obviously this wasn't something that could be anticipated. But there definitely needs to be a solid system (I like the idea of designated areas) for next time so everyone can use their time as efficiently as possible and talk to the people they need to talk to.
I'll just leave this here. Just replace the name Google with Facebook.

http://www.securitytube.net/video/1084
Do you have some examples of how companies have differentiated on authentication that led to their success? For each of those how many have failed due to lost time trying to build an authentication system or due to a breach caused by building one with a flaw in it?
Microsoft Makes the Case for More jQuery, Fewer Dependencies
1001 Serial Articles for Entrepreneurs & Startups
Can't you just find your own section of a co-working space and kind of make it the office?

This advice doesn't help most startups, who haven't raised big funding.
right.

dropped = set(friendlist1) - set(friendlist2)
As you can see from the example, we use Ruby's standard find, find_all, sort, and map array methods. Chaining together Ruby blocks in this manner can be a really convenient and syntactically expressive way to dig into the contents of Scripting Bridge data structures

I think that doing it that way sends many more apple events (and is thus much slower) than needed. Here's two examples in Python. The first is similar to the example ruby code in the article:

from ScriptingBridge import SBApplication, NSPredicate

iTunes = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier_("com.apple.iTunes")

library = [s for s in iTunes.sources() if s.name() == "Library"][0]
playlist = [p for p in library.playlists() if p.name() == "Top 25 Most Played"][0]
tracks = [t for t in playlist.tracks() if t.rating() > 3]

favsongs = ["<li>%s - %s (%s)<li>" % (t.artist(), t.name(), t.playedCount())
for t in sorted(tracks, key=lambda t:t.playedCount())]

print '\n'.join(favsongs)

The problem with this code is that we first ask iTunes for all its sources, then filter those in Python. Next we ask the library source for all its playlists, and again filter in Python. Etc.

Instead, we can rely on so-called lazy evaluation and send a single apple event like so:

library = iTunes.sources().objectWithName_("Library")
playlist = library.playlists().objectWithName_("Top 25 Most Played")
tracks = playlist.tracks().filteredArrayUsingPredicate_(
NSPredicate.predicateWithFormat_("rating > 3"))

See the Apple Scripting Bridge documentation for more info.
Use this bookmarklet in Chrome for pretty printing json:

javascript:(function(){document.body.firstChild.innerHTML=JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(document.body.firstChild.innerHTML),null,'\t');})()
Not particularly. My users don't understand it. Google Apps has been fighting this for some time in both Gmail and Google Docs. Users are used to folders, but Google uses tags and collections. They used to call collections (Google Docs) folders, but the fact that a document could exist in two 'folders' confused the hell out of my users.

As it turns out, the benefits of a tagging based approach don't pay out nearly as much as the user training and maintenance costs.
This is nice

Six Apart – company co-founders Ben and Mena Trott were born six days apart
> He stressed that the study does not prove that coffee lowers depression risk - only that it might be protective against depression in some way.

Sounds like the journalist got confused. The study probably shows that there is a correlation, but the causal chain has not been established. It's possible that some other factor increases coffee use and decreases tendency to depression.
Some of us actually want to make something useful.
Wait wait, you're both right!

They had an excellent Q1.

They had a very pedestrian Q2.

The rumor is they're having an atrocious Q3.
Sounds like he failed to think different.
Why Internet “troublemakers” are the next big consumer segment
The research itself could be interesting, but the article is terribly written and ridiculously dumbed down; I imagine the interesting parts have to do with the identification and partitioning of areas and routes. Shame about the article.
Is there jsonp support?
Those who talk don't know, and those who know don't talk.
Huge benefits for G Drive! For example they will even scan the contents and let you know /IRS about any tax discrepancies for example.
Why do you have a problem with that when they said, "Keep in mind this is not a good implementation of URL detection. We're just trying to get the concept of categories across:..."
Really frustrating scenario. It's seems like Mozilla corporation lacks good software testers. Being in such a competitive market, even the pure old Mozilla fans do tend to switch to other browsers.
Be wary of confirmation bias. It can be argued that SV alums can build billion-dollar tech companies because they receive the financial backing of those tech companies. That's not an intractable problem for a city with lots of money like NYC.
Now, would the old candidate be pushed down the stack, or would there be some TCO (tailing candidate optimization) going on where only the most recent one exists?
Well, given that the Euro is not falling against the dollar, the one thing he says that I can easily check (that everybody's scared about the Euro and is moving their money into dollars) is plain false. My assumption is everything else is, too. As Construct says (and as I commented on elsewhere) he's emotionally invested in seeing doom on all sides.
Pygame on raspberrypi, the $35 arm PC for education
And my profile pic seems to have defaulted to a drawing of a badger? How is that a useful default?
As a rule of thumb, I try to rely on Google as little as possible for important services. I don't dislike Google, but their lack of customer service makes it risky to rely too heavily on their services. I use Dropbox for syncing and backup, and since I backup files that are important to me, that rules out Google Drive.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilylambert/2011/09/27/trader-o...

Is some actual reporting. He's an individual day trader, not an institutional trader of any kind. So I'd say you're pretty right.
The bait has nothing to do with the need for blood. It's a food source they need.
Yes, Bing is a direct competitor of Google.
IANABiologist, so I wonder, what's the chance that this nectar will also kill 'friendly' bugs, like bees?
Does anybody have any technical details on what backend changes were made? Seems like a huge effort to migrate all that data.

Really curious what changed and how it changed on the backend side.
Jonathan van Smit -
"I dream of another recession" guy not quite a hoax
The price of Google App Engine looked dirt cheap too.
Yes, and that's an awful lot of work. More likely they'll launch something less functional than Dropbox, but good enough to slow Dropbox down a little while Google focuses on competing with Facebook.
Sprawl reduces traffic only along the leaves of the commuting graph: few people live there, and no one commutes through the leaves to reach inner hubs. When a node stops being a leaf, more and more vehicles travel through it, which means increased congestion. It also means that people living on leaf nodes but who work in the hubs have to travel farther and farther, along more invreasingly congested nodes, than they do in their own remote neighborhoods.

This is certainly the case in areas like New York (whose suburbs grew largely because Robert Moses liked cars more than trains, although he himself did not even drive) and San Francisco (which has a unique bi-directional commute traffic jam problem, where both the city and far-flung suburban sprawl nodes are job hubs). I don't have a link handy, but I believe the growth of Atlanta followed this exact pattern and became a classic case study of awful urban planning.
Search for the solutions on the internet

This is the problem with kids these days.
Great Job , Nik Cubrilov . And it was nice to see a sweet reply from a Facebook Engineer.

"Unlike other major Internet companies, we have no interest in tracking people. We don’t have an ad network and we don’t sell people’s information." #Google
Google fans like me really congratulate them for their successful 13 years. Googles' approach to web was visionary and accurate. Here's my prediction. Google is aiming for an entirely new operating system which is completely blended into world wide web and with their cloud processing capabilities, users never need to download and personalize applications, and real time and distributed concepts of operating system might be at every one's fingertips.
EDIT: It's mostly about BIS; BES servers can actually implement end-to-end, if they're IT department enables the S/MIME module and create, distribute and teach users how to use PKI certificates.
But if you're not doing that, you're not really protected.

This[1] document from the Communications Security Establishment of Canada explains it well. Citing:

PIN-to-PIN transmission security: PIN-to-PIN is not suitable for exchanging
sensitive messages. Although PIN-to-PIN messages are encrypted using
Triple-DES, the key used is a global cryptographic “key” that is common to
every BlackBerry device all over the world. This means any BlackBerry device
can potentially decrypt all PIN-to-PIN messages sent by any other BlackBerry
device, if the messages can be intercepted and the destination PIN spoofed.
Further, unfriendly third parties who know the key could potentially use it to
decrypt messages captured over the air. Note that the “BlackBerry Solution
Security Technical Overview” document published by RIM specifically
advises users to “consider PIN messages as scrambled, not encrypted”.

[1]: http://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/its-sti/publications/itsb-bsti/itsb...
No particular angst, but I do recognize a personal dichotomy. Like many others I react to Facebook changes with initial distrust and sometimes anger but---then I remember that there is nothing there that I did not put there or that my small circle of friends put there. So I back up and re-think my reaction and mostly conclude that it is mostly not 'what', but 'how' that bothers me. No one would ever accuse Facebook (or its leader) of being tactful but then so what? That in of itself is nothing to get wrapped around the axle about. It still bothers me just not the way that it seems to bother others...
That's a fair point. It does look like they have an in-browser UI though, and it will drive more traffic to Google in general. The Chrome browser is another desktop app that doesn't directly benefit their ad campaign, but they have put a lot of time into.
personally I expect the GDrive to be a bit of a failure, and Google will do what it always does...use it's massive cash reserves to buy Dropbox.
What about some examples where requiring authentication led to measurable market success at all?
http://del.icio.us still exists too, it's my preferred one.
great idea! What I'm missing is that the app registers a share intent, so I can create a new podcast directly from the browser.
I met Patrick at a conference recently where he did another presentation - I have only skimmed this one but ever time I skipped forward there was another excellent section. I pay attention not just for the technical but also the understanding that he has about customer interactions, pricing and the value of services.
I don't think "nonsensical" is the word you want to use here. The majority of the world's susceptible Flash users are not running Chrome. You can reasonably assert that it's not Google's problem that their patch discloses the flaw without providing those people with a usable recourse from it, but it's harder to assert that it's not a problem at all.
What do you consider reasonable privacy? This doesn't just apply to the web.

Do you use a credit card to pay for things or do you always use cash? Your purchasing behavior is being collected and tracked. Do you have a loan for anything? Your income, address, and your ability to pay on time is tracked. If you always pay cash and avoid having loans or anything you need to manage your credit history for, you are part of a small paranoid minority.

On the web.. do you log on from an Internet access account that is yours or are you always using public wi-fi? If you log on from your own account your ISP is tracking where you visit. Do you use Google or Bing for search or DDG? Your behavior is being tracked there already. If you never search with Google or Bing you're part of a small paranoid minority.

Even if you choose to not participate in information sharing with any of the products you use it is being gathered anyways by the semi-static data you share just by being online. This includes if you browse with cookies turned off -- if they're on forget about it, any privacy you have is a complete illusion.

Do you carry a cellphone? Do you run around with GPS turned on? Your carrier is already collecting this information. If you avoid this behavior you're part of a small paranoid minority.

Privacy is an illusion. This isn't a bad thing. It is good as it allows services to tailor their interactions with you to improve your experience. Time to welcome the benefits of sharing .. what do you have to hide?
Look up Put options and shorting stock. Thats a good start. BTW, not exactly something you'd expect to do without some training. Like an average person setting up and running an EC2 cluster.
It's interesting how many companies were named after founders. I get the feeling that today it's no longer the case for technology companies.
I think services/sites can be divided into two when considering how/if people switch between them: (i) aggregate sites whose value is a (generally nonlinear) function of all users who use the site and (ii) personal sites whose impact is just for the person who uses it. The fact that I'm using Dropbox, too, doesn't provide any value to you (except of course economies of scale)

YouTube, Flickr, YouTube, etc. are Type I sites, it's hard to switch from them to competitors because it's hard to do it individually, a large majority of the users must switch, too, creating a chicken and egg problem.

Google Search, Dropbox, etc. are of Type II. You use these sites just because they are better than the competition. As soon as this is not the case, you, individually, can easily switch. You may call these commodity sites. That's why Bing is such a big threat to Google, and Dropbox is doomed if Google comes up with cheaper plans and sync clients as good as theirs.

That being said, one shouldn't assume that Google will dominate any market they enter, they have the capability of doing do, but in practice this may not happen: putting too few people on the project, wrong design decisions, crappy clients, etc.
Tag Heuer Monaco
Chrono Trigger definitely does not require a 130+ IQ to enjoy. Maybe 100.

This isn't about IQ. There are very high IQ people playing Farmville right now. It's need-for-cognition (NFC); does a person desire intellectual stimulation or not? It's correlated with IQ but not absolute. There are people with high IQs who are happy to shoot beer cans and throw bugs in the bugzapper on summer nights, and likewise to play Mafia Wars.

High-NFC games tend to be engaging based on the quality of the game. Does it offer novel challenges and an interesting storyline? Slot machines and Farmville are the epitome of low-NFC games. The problem is that low-NFC games tend to rely on emotional manipulations (fear of "missing out" and social rejection, images of withering crops and dying animals) to get people "hooked" in the game. They're not having fun; they're now psychologically dependent. In extreme cases, people can develop agoraphobia and anxiety disorders.

These "addiction" problems can happen just as easily with high-NFC games (Warcraft, Magic: the Gathering) but there are two differences. First, people tend to graduate from high-NFC games into something else. They put away the Magic cards and start coding. They get tired of merely playing Minecraft and start building levels. Second, with high-NFC games the "addiction" problem is a very rare side effect. In low-NFC games, it's part of the design.
Congratulations; you've just hit upon the problem.
This story is literally the archetype of a bad HN submission. I'm surprised and disappointed it lasted 13 hours. Of course I flagged it.
Should I Host my Web Directories on Different IP addresses?