skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happened to (G)Mail Checker Plus?
I loved this Gmail extension for Chrome. Did Google remove it from the Webstore? The one made by Google is horrible. It's extremely limited and it's also very slow to update its status when I read the e-mails.

Any suggestions for another extension that checks Gmail?
Marco Ament (Instapaper) started working on a Dropbox blogging engine, where you can just maintain a drafts directory and copy it into a pending directory.

It was discussed on his podcast (Build and Analyze), don't think he's published it though.
Are stock options a sham?
There is a small but non-zero chance that engaging in any deception about this will rebound upon you if you are seeking a US visa or green card at some time in the future.
Uncanny Valley: Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science (1970)
Well that sounds really harsh. Can't you just try to do most of it yourself instead of paying someone $500/hr? I mean you are innocent until proven guilty.
Well of course, but who said suicide in these instances is ever a rational act? Mental illness is funny like that.
Doesn't this just make it easier for spammers to game the spam filter?
btw some more info can be found here:
http://pooteeweet.org/blog/2046
A problem with this approach though is you end up having to manage a directory full of files called MyAwesomeBlogPost.html etc. Or perhaps using a date or sequence based prefix to keep them in some order. A little tricky to manage once you have dozens of posts...so you'd want some front-end...but these days, it could be a TiddlyWiki or some other pure JavaScript app based on CORS (like swanson mentions in the present thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3235457)
In case anybody is interested, this looks like the bill [pdf]
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/112%20HR%203261.pdf

EDIT: Here's the TOC:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Sec. 2. Savings and severability clauses.

TITLE I—COMBATING ONLINE PIRACY

Sec. 101. Definitions.

Sec. 102. Action by Attorney General to protect U.S.
customers and prevent U.S. support of foreign infringing sites.

Sec. 103. Market-based system to protect U.S. customers and prevent U.S. funding of sites dedicated to theft of U.S. property.

Sec. 104. Immunity for taking voluntary action against sites dedicated to theft of U.S. property.

Sec. 105. Immunity for taking voluntary action against sites that endanger public health.

Sec. 106. Guidelines and study.

Sec. 107. Denying U.S. capital to notorious foreign infringers.

TITLE II—ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS TO COMBAT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT

Sec. 201. Streaming of copyrighted works in violation of criminal law.

Sec. 202. Trafficking in inherently dangerous goods or services.

Sec. 203. Protecting U.S. businesses from foreign and economic espionage.

Sec. 204. Amendments to sentencing guidelines.

Sec. 205. Defending intellectual property rights abroad.
Melso: Customized version of Apple's Menlo font
This is really sad news. It's ironic that in Silicon Valley, a place that embraces failure, someone has misconstrued something and taken it too personally. I hope Ilya has found peace.
5) Countries that want cover for their own internet censorship regimes will be able to say "The US does it".

This is what I am most worried about. (America says "Jump", Australia asks "How high?")
If you have a lot of writes, this is a KILLER.
You need to be very careful here.

Note, even with Read-Slaves, you are STILL blocked, since each write replicates to each Read-Slave, and counts as a blocking-write on that slave while it replicates in.

We dramatically increased application performance when we refactored to remove a lot of little writes for things like caching, and moved them to memcache.
Duplicating Siri involves much more than just speech-to-text -- the language understanding is the hard part. Heck, Google has its own speech-to-text servers.
Yes, but keep in mind that while the write lock is in place, reads are blocked, not just writes.
Though I have no experience with Blackboard, at my college we use Sakai and I must admit it is pretty awesome. My favorite feature thus far is the ability for teachers to use a drop box for students to turn in HW. I haven't printed out a paper all year...when your transition, definitely encourage teachers to fully utilize that, and over he features. They'll make Sakai feel even more awesome.
"Because Google X is a breeding ground for big bets that could turn into colossal failures or Google’s next big business — and it could take years to figure out which — just the idea of these experiments terrifies some shareholders and analysts.

“These moon-shot projects are a very Google-y thing for them to do,” said Colin W. Gillis, an analyst at BGC Partners. “People don’t love it but they tolerate it because their core search business is firing away.” "

Is it just me or does this represent the worst of Wall Street short-term thinking? I mean, the first sentence could really be read as an indictment of venture capital as a whole.
(which in turn will appease the Australia Christian Lobby).

At the risk of dragging this off-topic: I think it's becoming increasingly obvious that politicians are just using the ACL as an excuse to do whatever they want.
HBS-founded CloudFlare is Sky High
The answer could be CloudFlare, founded by HBS MBA ‘09 grads and Section D classmates Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn.
This is why HN - as awesome as it otherwise is - is awful for legal advice.

A reasonable argument would be that the first time I went to Facebook, I wanted to search for a friend, so I put in HIS first name and last name, created an account, and now I am stuck with it.

But unless you are a complete moron you would have known you were registering a new account and not doing a search. So now you've just lied under oath in Federal Court.

A good prosecutor would reason for the jury that given that you "work in computers" you would have known the difference between registration and site search - and so now you're also being charged with 18 USC §1621 [Federal Perjury] for making a false declaration and you're looking at up to an extra 5 years in prison tacked on to whatever the judge is going to hand you at the end of this. To make matters worse the prosecutor is appealing for all of the evidence you gave for your defense to be ignored given that you've demonstrated you are a bad witness.

Well done.
[fosscomm] BOSS to shut out Windows
Celadon Candy - Undercutter
Thanks for all the work you've been doing to bring this to us.
I agree. These days it's just as much about what content channels are available on the platform as well. Hulu, Netflix, <app du jour>, Flash support etc.

I think back to satellite radio: Sirus vs. XM and it was about who had which sports, and Howard Stern. Nobody was talking (or caring) about bit-rates or spectrum support.
How Mainstream Media Outlets Use Twitter
Probably. Take note of the fact that OS X editions don't use a serial number. You can very easily share them with friends and family and online. Same goes for iWork, however some of the more expensive software does use SN.

If you already bought an iphone/mac/ipad (in the future) that has Siri, then I don't think apple will care much if you use siri on other devices. However what is really useful with siri is where it talks to the os layer and other applications. That kind of integration isn't all that easy to do.

So if someone writes an app with the integration to the os and apps (calendar, sms, phone, phonebook...) and decide to use Siri (illegally), then I think they deserve a medal or soemthing for their hard work for porting the siri front end to another platform.
Ice Cream Sandwich Source is now being pushed to Git
Crowdfunding Exemption | Crowdfunding Exemption Proposals
Is depression more common in the startup/tech community?
Picture of the Day: Cloud Covered Island of Litla Dimun
I reckon people here are the most likely to know, so sorry for the slight derailment, but..

I am Irish, with a .com site hosted on servers in the UK. How does this affect me? I'm sure the US still claims a lot of influence over .com so it probably does some way.
The sad part is that if a journalist friend of mine sent this to me to proofread for technical content and asked about the HTML5 description, I'd have read it, sighed, thought, sighed, and replied "yeah sure that's fine".

Not because I'd want him or her to look silly but because what is already there (while not entirely accurate) is about as useful as anything else one could say about what "HTML5" is in a reasonable amount of words/pages.
3am: are you sure that your old comments are being downvoted? For a normal user, the "down arrow" option disappears after a day, and it doesn't look like you have any recent comments other than this one. So if they are indeed being downvoted, it's being done by someone with more access than a standard user. This seems unlikely, although not impossible.
It depends on timespan, if he thinks that doing this for a short time will be a big plus for both companies then it could be an okay trade off.
they still screwed people over during prohibition...
The analogies to land rush and gold rush is misguided.

The "bubble" refers to asset valuations. Right now, we have social networking companies being valued above companies with large infrastructures (like oil rigs, auto manufacturing operations).

I suspect after the default by Greece and Italy, we will rediscover the value of tangible assets.
Curious what you mean with "avoid specs", how do you know what to build?
I think a lot of entrepreneurs would consider it a failure to have to work for facebook or google for a living. It has very little to do with money.
[dead] comment by cdibona:
"Please don't sync yet, it's currently in a mixed state. The 'repo for-all git push' is still running and will take some time to complete, so if you sync now you'll get some parts with Gingerbread and some parts with ICS."

(If you accidentally post something twice, be careful about deleting one. The other one may be automatically killed, but you don't see it when your posts are killed.)
Can you point me in a direction where I can buy one now for $250? It's something I'd love to experiment with in my off-grid cabin
Would you consider getting hired by a B- team? If not, Lets talk in a couple years. Good luck to you.
Only the Honeycomb GPL modules are available. The entire platform source is not available. see here: http://source.android.com/source/build-numbers.html
Where are all the San Diego Forclosures
Example: Justin Bieber hate. Those people make Internet look like a massive hate machine.

At least Bieber acknowledges that there's people who don't like him.
Why is Chris DiBona's comment in this thread dead? What he said is "from the horse's mouth", i.e. Google Open Source.

Comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3235947

Profile: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cdibona

Personal site (includes mention of his job): http://www.dibona.com/

P.S. Chris, you have http://dibona.com in your HN profile, but it just redirects.
The question that springs to my mind is not 'how can I play with this?' but 'Are Apple bringing Siri to the desktop?', seeing as it appears there's nothing specific to the 4S hardware in how this works.

I'd quite like to be able to add calendar entries or tweet without moving to another application.
Napkin drawings. Lots and lots of napkin drawings.
Did Gödel come up with that joke?
I was scraping with jQuery for a while but it felt like an awful lot of overhead. In the case of simpler scraping tasks that happen a lot I've actually gone back to nuts and bolts with HTML5[1]'s tokenizer and a custom state machine that only accumulates the data I want. At no time is any DOM node actually created in memory, let alone the entire DOM tree. It means I feel safer running many of these in parallel on a VPS. It also means I can write a nice streaming API where you start emitting data the moment you get enough input. Buffering input just feels wrong in node.js.

But jQuery is a great scraper if your transformation is complex and non-streamable.
[1] https://github.com/aredridel/html5
The law (in general) is not interpreted by ASD judges with no common sense who are trying to find loopholes for you. Though is seems rich people get that kind of treatment when they do their taxes.

(Note, IANAL).
Are you thinking of some kind of hybrid system, in which there's a Disqus-like web app to serve recent comments and enable the commenting infrastructure, but the comments eventually (on a timescale of hours) get rendered into static HTML in my git repository for long-term archiving, SEO, searchability, faster page loads, etc?

That sounds interesting.

My next question is: Does Disqus's API let me do this via... Disqus? Surfing through the API docs suggests that the answer may be "yes".
It makes the amount of sky you have to protect from inbound RVs much smaller. A smaller cone for your anti-missile interceptors.
Why Google Built Incognito Mode
This. Maybe it's just because I am a web designer and lover of the English language, but when a company's blog URL looks like this: http://volodesigns-sterlingproject.blogspot.com/

a) free site
b) a dash?
c) mispelled stirling?

I get just a tad anxious.
I disagree, suicide is selected into the genome to get useless parts to self destruct. Like how skin cells have to shift around to service the whole. He was reaching out to everywhere he could looking for validation and found none. Mixed with a stiff upper lip and a lack of desire to show weakness is a recipe for a feedback loop of perceived irrelevance. When all around you use actions to indicate that you are a burden, not an asset. Freeing up resources is good for the hive. he loved the collective, too much.

Your no's were part of the feedback loop, you couldnt have known the magnitude of what was happening, but your actions are part of his decision. Healing from this will take honesty, you can delude others but not yourself.

You are a part of it, but it wasn't your responsibility.
Direct CPI buying is the route I would go.
Comms to the Bay Area may involve flying backpacks of DVDs back and forth, though.

Supplemented, perhaps, with low-baud HF links.
Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor
Just sent an email to info-en-o@wikimedia.org:

Dear Wikipedia,

I admire your stance last month against the Italian wiretapping
law when you shut down the Italian Wikipedia.

I encourage you to please consider a similar protest against the
SOPA legislation which threatens many websites, including
Wikipedia. I believe raising awareness will do a lot of good,
and Wikipedia has tremendous reach.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally-gets-chance-break-Internet

Thanks for your time!
Greg

I have low expectations, but if anyone else is interested you're welcome to copy/paste my email.

EDIT: formatting
Symantec Dumps Its Stake in China Joint Venture
When it comes to rent, I think it's actually quite affordable compared to other major cities (definitely less than Toronto for example).

I live in a studio in the downtown core and I'm paying $700 plus about $20/month for utilities. If you go farther from downtown, it'll probably be less.

In terms of internet, mine is included in my rent but another major provider here is Videotron (http://www.videotron.com/service/internet-services).
Did hackers really control siri on the iphone 4s using their mind--probably not
Is Facebook EdgeRank defeating your Fanpage Efforts?
6 Frugal Holiday Gift Ideas
If you thought bogus, automated, DMCA takedowns on youtube were bad, you haven't seen anything yet if this passes.
I was thinking of Google watching the advertising of food products and tracking how much of that results in purchases that end up in your fridge.

Advertisers would give their left arm to be able to close the loop from ad to store to home. I know the "club cards" can kind of do that now, but the stores have no idea what ads you saw before walking in (other than the coupons in your hand).
I like! You shipped! :)

One suggestion... I would come back to it if you would take my phrase that pays and email me when someone enters a phrase that does match so I can talk to them.
Make Real Money Online
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a principle from criminal law. In the US, I believe that principle does not apply directly to civil law. A lawyer will have to explain if there is any mapping at all.

But, regarding the do-it-yourself-part, no, not really. First, the amount of work you have to do is a full-time job. Most people already have a full-time job, so it's not an option to deal with a civil case full-time. Second, there are many rules and regulations that a lay-person will just not know. It's not feasible for them to deal with a civil suit on their own. And, unlike criminal cases, in the US, you have no right to a lawyer for civil cases.
Android Honeycomb and ICS Source Released
When you're depressed, fame, money, opportunities can be all the more depressing because they don't help you feel better.

Unless you've been well-off, famous, respected, you can't understand just how big a gulf there can be between what people see when they look at you, and what you feel inside.

The bigger the gulf, the worse it feels.
Vote for an official MongoDB driver for NodeJS
World's richest man to eurozone: create employment rather than welfare states
Please take mortenjorck's advice to heart. There's very likely nothing you could have done that could have stopped this.

Remember that people's emotions are not trivial problems that you can solve if you just spend enough time working on them. The tech culture is particularly toxic, in my opinion, for people suffering from depression. Depression is not something you can sit down and hammer out a solution to over a weekend. It grabs hold of people and doesn't let go. It takes years of professional help (from people who actually understand human emotions and psychology) and the will to get better.

Please don't think about this too hard, because you can get caught up in all of the "If only I'd have called him" thoughts.

If you feel guilty, then talk to someone who understands how to deal with these kinds of events. Even a single visit to a psychologist can do a lot to break this feedback loop of guilt. Talking to someone who knows how to listen about real feelings of guilt or depression is the best thing you can do in your position.
Go into the Adblock Plus options screen and update all your filter subscriptions, this should fix it.
Very interesting, I'll definitely look into that. Thanks!
Ask HN: How do you scale?
Hi,
I'm a college student who is very interested in making scalable web applications. I have the opportunity to do a directed study with my professor. My task is to find ressources from which I could learn. To start with, I'm looking for a guide or list of approaches or technologies that are both established and emerging these days.

I know about or played around with NoSQL, NodeJS, database sharding etc. but unfortunately, I have not found a comprehensive guide yet.

I'd appreciate any help
I think the 4S-specific hardware is the improved proximity detector. This allows you to raise the phone to your ear and speak to Siri instantly. I suspect the older phones' proximity sensor isn't fast enough to support that feature, so Apple figured they'd go 4S only. (It can't hurt that they sell more phones that way.)
PagerDuty [YC S10] is looking for a great frontend engineer
Making silica aerogel at home « adafruit industries blog
This article doesn't make sense at all. Cookies aren't even saved when you're in in cognito mode.
Hi William, I'm the founder of Jasondb, a cloud NoSQL database based in Melbourne, although we have just registered in Delaware as Jasondb LLC. We have spent the past 2 years in dev mode and are planning to launch early next year. Went to SF as part of AnzaTech last year and to TechCrunch in SF this year, and I have to say the focus seems to be on startups that can whip something up in a week and launch in a month. After spending over 2 years in dev mode on a database written in C/C++, I have gotta say it seems that we are the exception rather than the rule in the startup space. Love to hear from anyone who has experienced similar. Our back story is at blog.jasondb.com
Why are humans scared of robots?
Glad to hear my programmes are well received. If you haven't seen it, you should also check out "Secret Life of Chaos" - on YouTube.

Jim Al-Khalili (Twitter: @jimalkhalili)
I was thinking something similar. A darknet (or something like that) will become necessary, and it will become commonplace for people to use. It is currently like this in China, were many non-tech savvy individuals commonly use anonymizers or proxies.

However, what is really scary is the prospect of the government having this ability, but only exercising their power to silence dissent in secret, low-profile cases. Then, people who use TOR or similar will continue to be viewed as paranoid/criminals/conspiracy-theorists.
Check out http://www.highscalability.com/, it's a terrific blog full of lots of resources from many different perspectives including people on the ground scaling massive systems.
In the past, I've spent a fair bit of time criticizing Google for calling Android "open source", but not releasing the source. Now that it appears that they are actually doing it, let me be the first to say that this is great.

Well done, Google.
>It bothers me when people apply a new buzzword to an old concept. Calling things like HN and forums "Social Media" is no more descriptive than calling a garbage truck driver a "sanitation engineer."

But it's a social... version of media...

What exactly is wrong with using a properly descriptive term that is in popular usage? Almost entirely unlike your garbage truck driver.
The main claim here is that MS is using patents that are unrelated to the technology in question. If that is done willfully, then that is potentially anticompetitive. That is different than simply asking for a high price.
Pinoy Jokes: Confession (with English Subtitles)
Prologue: Abu sarap decided to make a dark confession. What would it be?
CSS3 Transitions & Transforms With jQuery
Ugh, do not listen to opinions like this.

You show a fundamental ignorance of human psychology and the effects of depression on an otherwise healthy mind.
FundMine - London based AngelList?
Is it possible that specific page of documentation has just not been updated yet? The linked thread has Jean-Baptiste Queru stating:

> This release includes the full history of the Android source code tree, which naturally includes all the source code for the Honeycomb releases.
I'm planning on going "out of the building" very soon and go talk to some potential users, so the part about refining the opening phrase is very useful.

It won't be cold-calling but going to talk to people on the street so I'll be interrupting them somehow, so I'll have to pay attention to what works and what doesn't…

On the "this does not scale" part, this is a recurring theme: Alexis Ohanian commented with multiple accounts at the beginning of reddit, IIRC Facebook was getting the class schedules more or less manually, Airbnb's CEO slept at many people's homes to understand their needs, I believe the guys at Quora were answering questions themselves, etc. This doesn't scale but it gets things moving and you learn what really works.
Is there a reason that node.js needs its own driver separate from the extant Javascript driver for Mongo? Are those language bindings somehow incompatible with the node programming model?
It looks like it happened because he posted the same thing twice in different threads, not because he deleted it.
I don't see any obfuscation here, just a compressed binary encoding.