skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that "red" is the Spanish word for network, and "red social" is the generic term for any social network, so the name is not necessarily political.
and you get those three apps free forever, can't skip that little tidbit :)
I've invested (aka lost) much more money with OpenPhoto that I presume most people would feel comfortable with. It's about as high risk of an investment as you can make :).
Not sure how these stack up, but I was immediately reminded of the Government's Apps for Entrepreneurs challenge:

http://entrepreneurs.challenge.gov/

disclaimer: I'm not directly involved with the challenge but make the software that powers it.
I'm struggling with it.

Commas instead of spaces for tags breaks my muscle memory. It often saves my bookmarks with no tags at all because of it.

I am continually tempted to rewrite it (or, more likely, its predecessor, which did more for fewer users.)
But this app only lets users chat--not send out messages. You can copy+paste a generic message to 3 dozen women, but about the only thing you can use generically in conversation is "hello"--plus you have to be actively involved in a conversation. Also, the app insulates against spam because you can only chat with people who have mutually liked each other.
Yes, outsource it. I've worked in payroll before and it is unforgiving.

Tell them to talk to the bank that they are going to use for the business. The banks usually have a connection to someone local that does small business payroll. No sense paying for ADP until you need all they offer.
Front-end Style Guides
This blog post is so unreadable it's a wonder that they bothered suing her.
I'll put in a good word for a return to the days of actually running an online service yourself, instead of just using remote services. If you are the one running the software, you have control.
The reason is OAuth1 is painful, the double encoded and signature requirements are strict and so easy to get wrong that everyone has jumped on OAuth2. Unfortunately they've all jumped on different versions of the spec which keeps changing , because it's still a draft.
Yes. We've got adapters for local file system and mysql.

Photos are stored on the file system with pointers, tags and other information in the database.

With a little bit of code you can write any file system or database adapter. We've got them for SimpleDb, S3, Dropbox, MySql, Local file system.
good feedback... an agent license is simply an account that can provide support (logged into the admin console or to ichat/any chat client)... so for a small app, you'd be the agent & you'd provide support when you're available (much like Olark)
That's 18 months worth of expected expenses or 18 months worth of reasonably expected losses? I am confused.

If a company has any dependable revenue, I would expect that to count against the money you have to have in the bank. What do others say?

I am a big fan of cutting expenses to a min, and funding from operations to the extent one can but have noticed that VC types don't like this (relatively low-risk) strategy. Not entirely sure why.
Agreed - maybe 3mos just to get a face-to-face.
One more point -- just a little one -- is "don't pitch a journalist and then refer him/her to a story recently published by a competitor publication for the details."
"I can just ignore them."

Only if you block them. Advertising is not informative, it's coaxing you, and just because you don't consciously decide you're going to read an ad now doesn't mean you get to ignore it.
I too made a canvas clock (though with a heavier dose of existentialism) a little while ago if you're interested.

link: http://morrow.github.com/Life-Clock/

code: https://github.com/morrow/Life-Clock/
Interesting links. I'd never heard of Mr. Ringer, or his theory before this.

My simplistic understanding of his 3 types theory is this: "In summation, I realized that no matter how a guy came on, he would, in the final analysis, attempt to grab all of my chips (again with the one exception that I pointed out)." (The exception being the classic "win-win", where the other party benefits from my success, thus aligning incentives.)

My reaction to reading that was to think about myself. If the theory is correct, then regardless of my own intentions, I'm going to try to "grab all [his] chips". That actually makes his "Type Number One" guy the most honest and ethical.

I don't think I can quite reconcile my own ethics with that analysis, but I'm willing to consider it. It paints a somewhat bleak picture of business ethics.

How do you read his theory, if you put yourself in the shoes of the other party in the transaction, rather than his first person?
OAuth2 isn't just about bearer tokens and while the OAuth2 spec doesn't mandate using TLS the bearer token sub-spec does.
Staying Motivated in Open Source
Yeah. I'm not one thing or another on it yet either. It's just kind of like a spaceship lands from planet OpenDNS and a CDROM rolled out containing the source for a new OpenBSD daemon (without the horns).

And you may be right about (DJB circa 2011) developing a new secure hash function more reliably than a new protocol if you take away the requirement that it also perform significantly better than SHA-2.
DNS is only the beginning. The easy to understand, free crypto "framework" that underlies DNSCurve (~DNSCrypt) can be applied to any service: HTTP, SMTP, etc. That framework is not an OpenDNS creation. It was written by university professors and it's in the public domain.

DNS is simply the first service to try it out on. Maybe because DNS is rather important, since so many other services depend on it.

Users need to decide what is important to them.

A. Having cryptographically signed DNS information as a means to authenticate it.

B. Having protection against people sniffing or tampering with your traffic, e.g. your DNS requests, on the wire.

C. Or both.

A. The best way to avoid cache poisoning is to refrain from using someone else's cache. Using your own cache, accessible to you only, alleviates the need for DNSSEC as a means to combat cache poisoning.

B. But how many alternatives to the fast, strong crypto that underlies DNSCurve are there? Are they as fast for use in this way?

C. "Securing DNS" is an _ambiguous_ description. As such, it can mean at least two different things. Two of those things are addressed by DNSCurve and DNSSEC, respectively. From a functional perspective (i.e. in terms of what they do), they are not in competition with each other. They each address different things. But because we use the amibiguous idea of "securing DNS", the user has to decide what "securing DNS" means: A, B or both?

The IETF, DNSSEC hype and OpenDNS's deceptive business model are all red herrings.

Users simply need to decide what is important to them.

A. Are they concerned they're not getting the right IP addresses for the domain names they inquire about, because the source for DNS info they're using is not dependable? (e.g. it's a shared cache like OpenDNS and can be poisoned)

B. Or are they more concerned someone is sniffing and possibly tampering with their DNS traffic, in transit?

C. Or both?
Ah, got it. That makes perfect sense. Awesome, I look forward to integrating this into my apps! :)
Ubuntu 11.10 without Unity shell shock
I agree that there's a big difference between "domestication" (that we've done with dogs) and breeding for intelligence. I'm not aware that we're doing that with any species (except for maybe Harvard Grads).

Also, one of the conceits of the "Uplift saga" is that genetic engineering tweaks cause most of the "uplift." It's also interesting to note that one of the first species "uplifted" are dolphins, a species that doesn't have much chance to annoy/outcompete humans.

I guess it boils down to how important "intelligence" is to evolutionary adaptation. It apparently conferred significant reproductive benefit to humans (the most populous primate species).

OTOH, to quote J.S.B. Haldane: "the Creator, if he exists, has a inordinate fondness for beetles."
> there's no way I believe they have just as much power. I'll believe that when top execs at labor unions pull in as much money as public company CEOs.

It seems silly to equate organization "power" with "how much does the top guy make".

For example, Obama makes less than the president of GM. (Heck - Obama makes less than the president of the UAW.)
that explains why VC's don't like my strategy of cutting costs and funding from operations.....
The notability requirements for academics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academics...

The notability requirements for pornstars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(pornograp...
Loved the article. It was exactly to the point, precise. No more reading first paragraph and ok.. gah...

Also the Disclaimer is a pure win

"DISCLAIMER: I run a paid bookmarking site. Every morning I wake up and dive into my vault of golden coins."
>The core problem is that women get tons of spam messages and men get very few responses. This means the matching algorithm is broken.

This matching algorithm has carried us, humans, through millions years. Various opinions and statements can be made about this algorithm, yet it is definitely not "broken" :)
5 Google Plus Features Facebook Should Have
I'm seeing zero information on what this software does, even when quickly scanning the homepage -- therefore, I'm hardly ready to commit 15 minutes to watching a video. What is Fire.js?
So, where do I go to pay for Twitter?
Hey, I know it's a laugh, but "C for Dummies" was my very first introduction to C when I was 13 (I didn't know about K&R yet) and is responsible for teaching this hacker about pointers and math thereupon.

While I still don't usually write C, having that base knowledge before jumping into high-level stuff like Perl and PHP in my middle teens was invaluable.
Why not bring back messages but put a crowd sourced spam filter in?

Instead of matching profiles, match messages, people looking for long term populate one set of bayesian filters, and people looking for short term populate another set of bayesian filters. The spam cut and paste message go away pretty quickly.

The mechanism could be as simple as after a message is read they are prompted as to whether they liked the message or didn't like it, combine with a feature sorting messages by their bayes score?
Related: I was poking around oDesk for niche languages a couple of days ago and found three jobs for Excel scripting and one for a salesperson that all listed "Clojure" in their requirements. I don't know if they think it's French for "getting things done" or what, but it gave me a good laugh.
The problem with OAuth1 was that the complicated crypto dancing around was exactly that, complicated. Making sure you're using HTTPS is hardly a big ask for developers on either the client or the server and frankly is probably a much better idea given most of these services are more likely than not sending some form of private data.
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I've no doubt the engineers at Facebook and SAP find plenty of interesting problems to fill their day. The macroscopic problems that both companies are solving in their respective niches are... What?

It's not a startup versus enterprise thing. It's (partially) a question of whether the interesting propellerhead problems are in aid of an interesting larger goal.
The only spam they can do is "Like" someone. Sending chat messages can only happen when someone likes you back.
Reveal: NYtimes Labs Mirror for the future
Ask HN: favorite science, other books for tweens, teens for holidays?
Maybe other HNers are asking this question this time of year.

I'd like to get my friends and family's numerous clever tween and teenage offspring some inspiring books for Christmas.

What books inspired you as kids, especially to do science, hacking, other learning experiences?
I've had success with http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/ before. I just have been using emacs for almost everything so have not tried this with Lion.
What's your basis for stating that education is a basic/guaranteed right?
1. I used the Delicious plug-in for Firefox. It no longer worked with the "social" part of social bookmarking: I got no suggestions when I clicked on a link.

2. The tagging was completely broken in the plug-in; the plug-in, unlike the new interface, still accepted spaces to separate tags. The new site considered EVERY set of tags to be one big unique tag, so several MONTHS of tagging had to be fixed by hand. There are TONS of complaints about this change, and Avos has ignored them all.

3. The secure RSS feeds were limited to 10 items. I use these as feeds for common links (news, comics, what have you) and several of my link folders were truncated by the arbitrary limit. They kept trying to fix this, but seemed to be incapable. When I realized I'd missed nearly a month of one of my favorite comics, I was quite annoyed.

4. Links were just lost several times; I would bookmark something, and two days later look for the bookmark and it would be gone.

I rarely went to the site, so the design changes were irrelevant to me. It looked like they were trying to make it into a Reddit or Digg or equivalent, though, and having the site move further in that direction and away from how I wanted to use it just seemed like a terrible idea.

But the core problem was that they broke their own API and the core functionality that caused me to want to be there to begin with.

Now in Pinboard I don't get to use the Delicious plug-in any more, but everything else Just Works. The site is clean and easy to use. Pinboard also offers an "archive everything" option that's awesome; so many old links eventually go bad, and having an archive of everything you care enough about to link is just cool.
If they pay for additional training it may be worth it. Typically university is just a diploma to get looked at these days. It's like the high school diploma of 40 years ago. Anyway, if you need work immediately after graduating to stay in the country, then go train with them and work a while as you try to find another job. It is in San Jose so you'll be in a great environment to jump ship to another job. Best of luck
Except the client id has to be generated so that you know which client was authorised with it - in the case of something like Facebook or twitter, so you can revoke their access.

That means you have to agree on a way of exchanging that client ID.

Which at it's simplest is what OAuth 2 does with bearer tokens. If you have no use for the other parts of the spec then just ignore them, it's all optional and you only need to implement it if you need it.
I used to work for a college and understand how what colleges call "enrollment management" works. I told my kids to sell their grades and SAT scores and go to the school that would give them the most money. All got decent educations with minimal debt and all went on to graduate school no matter what college they graduated from. I don't know if it is the egos of parents that want their kids to go to schools that wouldn't have taken the parents on a bet 25 years ago or something else. If it isn't a Ivy school is just isn't worth going into a lot of debt.
Game-breaking bug in Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword--here's how to avoid it
> Personally, I find el-get recipes so easy to install and create that I never use package.el at all, but that isn't the goal of el-get developers.

That's my main objection. If you write an el-get recipe, it benefits el-get users. If you use package.el, all users (of Emacs 24+) benefit.
Part II (Creating High Quality Code), V (Code Improvements) , VI (System Considerations) and VII (Software Craftmanship) from Code Complete is one of the best SE reading I have had the pleasure to read. I don't consider that stuff basic (as compared to variable naming which you might be alluding to). The first three chapters are too basic IMO and are not even worth reading for any experienced professional.
Please note this question was asked in 2008, when StackOverflow was considerably more tolerant of subjective questions, and it was locked to prevent any more votes. The notice on the question says "This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site".
Try to write some relevant content on a regular basis. I know a Swedish website that is nothing more than a couple that write about raising children from books and magazines and nothing more. They have no original content, but they do it in Swedish so they pull ~ 20K/year (they used to - it has now been sold)
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Why women have to work harder to do startups
I have to confess, I emailed the recruiter back and let her know that this gave a bad impression, though in this case, it seems that it may be the company that's clueless.

Either that, or they have a bunch of H/L1-Bs that have exactly these jobs already and they are just doing the mandated advertising for 'an American worker'. Bwahaha.

If it is the company, then I feel bad for the recruiter. They're hardly to know what a dogs breakfast of requirements this is.
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In general, unencrypted traffic of any kind can have advantages over badly encrypted traffic: at least you know the unencrypted traffic has no security, and you can treat it accordingly. Badly encrypted traffic gives a false sense of security.
My friend wrote greasemonkey scripts for POF and OKCupid, all it does is repeatedly search for his "type", builds a list of users and then messages them just after they come online. Same thing if someone views his profile. There's a 15 minute delay for that one so he doesn't come off as creepy.

Yeah it's spammy, but surprisingly effective, I'm encouraging him to write an A/B testing module for it so he can test the effectiveness of different messages.

Contrary to what one might think he's just using this for LTRs.
This sounds oh so very much like Loopt Mix. While it may seem to be working at first, as the app gains popularity the quality of the average match will fall, the attractive/desirable people will leave, and you'll end up with a sketchy hookup app where people pay for sex with iTunes gift cards[1].

I wish them luck, and would love to be wrong, but I'm skeptical.

[1] Yes, this actually happens in the real world. Nothing surprises me anymore.
A stylized "H" isn't exactly a unique logo idea, and the cars themselves don't look similar other than the commonality shared by broad categories such as "basic four door compact car"
Edit: I am aware that's a common economic definition of the term, it's still crap.

The definition breaks down for some of the earliest forms of public goods like irrigation systems. Roads and bridges are either 'rivalrous and excludible' or at best a major grey area. So, unless you want to really twist the definition it's simply a poor metric.

PS: Digital copy's of music is another area where excludible is debatable. Library books are another example where they are considered a public good even though they are both 'rivalrous and excludible'.
I would recommend examining OGRE.
Have you considered that professional media organizations currently pay north of 15-20k dollars a year for cloud photo storage apps that merely read and organize the metadata?

In fact I have someone at NPR right now looking for this exact service, but made whitelable/private for internal use.

Not saying thats a direction, but just an FYI
Log in to PayPal; scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Contact Us"; click "Call Us"; dial the phone number; when prompted, enter the number on the website; when asked why you want to call them, say you wish to speak with an operator; when they ask you why you want to speak to an operator, tell them you just want to speak to an operator; wait a few (maybe at most ten) minutes: congratulations, you are now speaking with an actual person; note: if this person cannot help you, they can usually find someone who can. Calling PayPal is trivial, and they do not in any way make it even remotely hard to "actually contact a real human".
I only watched the first few minutes of the video, then skipped around. What is the benefit of fire, as a framework? Can you work without the Fire IDE, and would that be worth it?

I just can't see giving up my text editor to click around a web interface to write code. It just seems orders of magnitude slower to me.

It looks cool and I appreciate the effort, I just have a hard time figuring out the benefit of fire to me as a developer.
That shouldn't work, and breaking it represents a useful feature. Use a sensible local DNS root, not a well-known one like .net. (Does some standard reserved namespace exist for the local network, instead of the various non-standard ones like .home or .lan? RFC2606 only reserves .invalid, .test, .example, and .localhost, none of which work for this purpose.)
personally to me it is inseparable part of basic human rights. Legally-wise, the US goes even further - the basic education is compulsory.
I particularly like have every single paragraph starts with, and most contain (in bold) the exact phrase "Kevin Padrick of Obsidian Finance Group".

I can only assume the blogger is going for that phrase in Google.

www.obsidianfinancesucks.com/ is #4 for that phrase.
I've personally thought about it, yes. Focused on consumers at the moment but am aware the enterprise needs decent photo management software desperately.

If you know of someone I'd love to talk to them about using OpenPhoto (it's free and open source, afterall). jaisen@openphoto.me
It's worth noting that the guy that wrote the corresponding law for the State of Washington explicitly blames obsolete laws for the nonapplicability of the shield law: "Oregon's law was probably written before blogging was accounted for." [1] He goes on to say that she probably would still have been judged against, since withholding the source means she can't prove her claims are factual, but that she still should have gotten that protection.

[1] http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/12/unlike_or...
More than that, there is social proof, with dating sites you have to establish social proof by yourself, where as in person you're usually introduced, or know others at the event.
Great! You need to get on the first page of HN to get an "Issue Resolution". Everybody else, die in hell.
We'll keep you posted!
> I just think that the thought process of religious people does allow them to make a distinction between satire and devil worship.

You'd be surprised. Things many American evangelicals (of the TV-vangelist loving variety) believe:

1. Disney's Aladdin tells teenagers to take off their clothes: http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/aladdin.asp

2. The letter K or the letter U on a grocery product means the maker paid off the Jews: http://www.snopes.com/racial/business/kosher.asp

3. Proctor & Gamble's "man in the moon" logo proves they are Satanists supporting the Church of Satan: http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp

If you believe those, yet aren't clinically insane, then concern about a devil icon on an in-room pay-per-view machine (purveyor of filth!) seems positively normal.
You made me laugh :)

You're right, of course, but only because the Emacs community chose an inferior solution to begin with. Let the better package manager win. Don't tell people not to use el-get because it is so convenient that they wont use package.el anymore.
We still haven't really exposed our schooling system to market competition; any competitor in the market has to compete with the existing monopoly, which gets its payment even from people using one of the competitors. Fix that and we'd have competition.
Actually i'd rather know my DNS traffic is insecure rather than believe its secure while it might not be.

Then again, DNSCurve does not seems to be bad at all. In fact, it seems rather good.
Video from MIPS Technologies showing this tablet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq79h-HA5lU