skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it seems to lack the XML declaration (the <?xml... part) and its served as "text/html", but besides that it seems fine, and the W3C validator says it's fine.

Have you tried loading other RSS 2.0 feeds into Pipes? They may be simply have some issue.
I still don't understand why the xPhone doesn't exist. This has always seemed like the obvious direction for Microsoft from a brand perspective. Use the phone as an extension of the 360 and do some really cool things with it - messaging hub, video chatting, go all in on games. It's just crazy to me this doesn't exist.
Technically, paypal is a bank:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Bank_status

It depends on where you are, in the EU it definitely is a bank.
Ask HN: Where can I find a better Google Reader + Twitter + RSS of the Future?
I only want the 5% of TechCrunch-like heavy blogs that my Twitter/G+/Facebook friends, and the world find actually interesting.

I want the fast browsability of Google Reader.

I want 100% of the awesome, but infrequently updated blogs without having to manually go to them every time.

I want the interesting stuff that I didn't know I like but most of my Twitter/G+/Facebook friends apparently find cool.

I want to know the people & blogs my respected friends care about.

I want an experience that works well both while waiting for the train, and when I'm in the mood to putter around the internets.

So please, either point me to news consumption awesomeness, or help me build it this weekend if you too think these are things you want too.
The Nokia partnership will never succeed until they can make the phones much cheaper. If they could get them under $100 without a contract they would sell millions. There is a massive untapped market for cheaper phones with apps.
People seriously need to stop using pastebin & its clones to disseminate these lists. https://github.com/timClicks/hosts is distributed and will be far more useful if DNS is suddenly broken.
I think the point is that paypal (and the buyer) are claiming it's not an antique or museum piece, but rather a counterfeit.
Your comment about not trusting the client confuses me. You don't have to "trust" the client to do cryptography for you. You simply define the cryptography it has to do, and if it doesn't do it, then it doesn't produce what you need to log in.

This is not an unusual practice, either. For example, any time you log into a remote computer using an ssh key, your ssh client is performing cryptography to authenticate you with the server. There is no problem in doing this, because the only way to perform the cryptography such that the authentication is successful is to have the right secret key. You could certainly write a custom ssh client that does some different cryptography, but that would be pointless, as the result would be an inability to connect.

There are, I think, two goals at play here. One is what you linked: preventing replay attacks. That is fairly easily solved by doing a double hash with a randomly generated salt. There is no problem in "trusting" the client to do this, because if they don't do it the way you specify, they don't produce the correct result. The only (feasible) way to generate a result that lets you log in is by combining the random salt with the correct password. This is important because otherwise an attacker could sniff your traffic and then impersonate you.

The second goal is in not having your password exposed if the site's database is compromised. Related, it would also be nice to not have your password exposed if the site is compromised and the attacker is watching incoming connections.

SSL solves the first goal, of preventing replay attacks. Not having your password exposed if the database is compromised is solved by hashing passwords. However, if you send the password in plaintext (or encrypted in such a way that the other end can retrieve plaintext, as with SSL) then the last, related goal fails: an attacker with total control can grab your password if you log in during the time he has control.

By doing hashing on the client, you can prevent that, and when implemented properly it can still avoid the rest.
It reminds me of the Friendfeed phenomenon. People related to the open science continue to be active there.

Intuitively this effect seems similar.
What is preventing somebody from copying your profile and creating zcohn, the malicious hacker from Seattle who likes parkour, technology, and doing bad things? Your identity is comparably open as mine is as far as details.

At some point people are going to do bad things to this profile. No doubt. With that in mind though, I can post here because I want to say something and contribute, not because of Karma. If I had a few thousand points and a reputation, I would have something to protect. But now I can just say what I think is useful, not what I think will be upvoted.
You can discuss them anywhere. However, given the simple nature of the question I am wondering if there is some missing subtext here.

One common concern I have heard when folks ask this particular question is that someone will 'steal' their idea and run with it, ruining the chances of fame and fortune.

The truth is, ideas are like offspring, they are always more attractive to the progenitor than they are to the unrelated viewer. Many times when an idea is shared in a collective, a number of people will assert that it is a 'stupid' idea, and for folks who did not originally have that idea they will read or hear those comments and believe them more strongly than your assertion that it is a good idea.

Further, an idea expression is rarely communicated as clearly as an example of an idea does. So just talking about ideas rarely gets them stolen (except perhaps in the case of movie scripts)

Ideas are by their nature unproven, which is to say their merits are a matter of opinion rather than rigor, so few people feel compelled to rip them off or otherwise attempt to develop them.

I had the pleasure of working with Bill Joy at Sun Microsystems for several years, and one of the things that struck me about him was his ability to stretch the idea box way out of shape. He proposed some truly horrible ideas, but in the discussion enabled folks to step outside their own limitations and come up with some great things. Certainly not all of Bill's ideas were horrible, but wide ranging discussions were empowering on several levels which one would not have predicted.

So if you've got some ideas that you're wondering about, talking about them with others, any others, will help you develop them. Its one of the great things enthusiast clubs are good for, robust discussions about ideas related to club activities.
I charge between 40-50 in Bangalore.

I have been thinking about an interesting idea. Would anyone be willing to relocate to Bangalore for a 1 year freelancing gig? There will be lifestyle compromises to make, but you can save about 4k/month or more. It is insanely hard to find talented developers here, and I am thinking there is a limited opportunity for outsiders to come and work here.

Sort of like outsourcing backwards. I can help set it up if a group of people are interested in this.

(About to get into a plane, so will be replying only after 3 hours)
For those of you who use FB Connect, check to make sure your apps work.

There was a suggestion to define the addMonths method for the Date Object as a temporary work around.

//before loading the api.
Date.prototype.addMonths = function(n) {this.setMonth(this.getMonth()+n);return this;}.
Node's a lot of fun, I've been having a blast with it the last couple weeks.
Their list consists of publicly traded companies. The AFLCIO is not a publicly traded company.

Also, I have no idea why you are bringing up anything about politics.
Since it was not a counterfeit, what legal recourse might the seller have?
Who the HELL are the MODs you speak of? Accumulate 500 karma and you too can downvote.
Well, they've penalized the Google Chrome page according to this update: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3421468
Your New Wallet
Spam bots are a legitimate concern to me. I'll probably start rotating passwords if I sense that something like that is happening. I don't want to hurt hacker news.

And somebody could already pose as me, or you, or anybody else on here who isn't way famous (nobody could pose as pg). Anybody can be anybody else on the internet.
I think a "make email visible" checkbox would clear up any confusion here.
Direct Github link: https://github.com/bnoguchi/everyauth
Too bad the schedule for awesome chances like this to almost never seem to fit with the spare time I have. I'm way past the only-kiddy projects phase, yet haven't found anything big (as in a project shared with others) to hack on.
I can confirm that the python subprocess api is a pain to use and also documented poorly. I recently had to use (no choice) python 2.5.x to write a script that extensively called external programs and ran into several problems. It strange that a language such as python which I find so easy to use in many cases does not already have a good as in simple, safe and well documented subprocess api.
Does anyone know why the purchasing power is so high in Indianapolis, IN?

Seems odd.
I do not believe that Veganism is healthy at all. Vegetarianism with a correct diet (and only then) can be, but the human body isn't fit for a vegan diet in the long run. I respect your choice if you do it, but at large it's just not reasonable.

Oh, and something slightly offtopic: if you have children, do not raise them with a vegetarian or even vegan diet. That should be classified and punishable as child abuse.
Except Canada...
I don't see at all that they reasonably believed it was counterfeit. Unreasonably speculated, perhaps. Reasonably believed? Nope.
The interface is horrible, both the table and the map. It's so easy to add info bubbles on Google Maps, not sure why that was left out.
Awesome! I figured the major problems would be the difficulties with infrastructure, but also renegotiating broadcast contracts, as announcers are employees of broadcasters, not venues.

It reminds me of the older guys at the ballpark that wore those radio headsets for play by play. Glad to see progress is being made, however slowly.
I also was a long time lurker. I participated in a few comments - and then saw my karma drop for no reason I could discern. Perhaps a much more clear rules and a response when something is down voted.
Hi, Mark. Yes, I definitely remember you!

I'm still (yes, still...) working on my PhD, but I'm consulting full time nowadays, and have been for a while.

I do tend to work far too many hours, but it's mostly because I'm enjoying what I'm doing, and am learning as much as I'm doing for clients. That said, I feel very fortunate that I spent a lot of time with my children, and that I have the flexibility to help my wife out and work on other things (e.g., the PhD) along with paying the mortgage and such. We've taken a 10-day family vacation to Europe for the last two summers, as well; travel can indeed be addictive!

I don't think that there's a tension between maximizing profit and family/friends. On the contrary, one of the reasons why I'm interested in the discussion here is that I'd like to make more during the hours that I do consult, so that I can work fewer hours and have more time to work on personal projects, sleep (!), and family, not necessarily in that order.
It seems to be, that most of PayPal's PR blunders result from heavily regulation of stupid employees. I know we don't tolerate personal insults here on HN, but those of you who have spoken to as many PayPal reps as I have, will probably agree that there are few other ways to describe them. I guess their logic is: "If we can hire dumb people for less money, and regulate them so they can't make mistakes, we can save money! Genius!"

Honestly, this just goes to show how important hiring really can be. Someone with enough common sense to say "hey, that doesn't seem right" would eliminate so many of these problems.
The whole point here is that it's not really an antique piece. If I sell you a 'drawing by Picasso' for $10k, but when you examine it you see that's it's on a kind of paper that was manufactured after Picasso's death, then naturally you will want your money back. Now, the broker (eBay/Paypal) could simply require you to send it back to me and that I refund the money, but that likely means I will just sell it again and again until I find some sufficiently gullible buyer - putting all the risk onto the broker and damaging its reputation.

Now, we could argue about whether a drawing by some modern artist that looks very like the work of Picasso is really any less valuable in aesthetic terms, and this question has cropped up a few times in the art world - see Orson Welles' little-known masterpiece F for Fake for a documentary treatment of the subject. But the fact is that the buyer is not satisfied, and whether the buyer has poor taste or is acquiring a famous signature rather than excellent art is beside the point. The buyer could have chosen to love the piece on its own merits or sell it on to some more credulous or indifferent person, but has instead exercised a contractual right to a refund (from the broker). And the broker is, in turn, exercising its contractual right to make the seller carry the cost of the misrepresentation. The seller could have brought the piece to an expert and sold it for cash, as-is and no refunds, but experts are used to such risks and would offer a much lower price. By offloading much of the transactional risk to the broker (compared to, say, advertising it on Craigslist), the seller accepted the broker's conditions.

It's all very well to complain about Paypal being terribly mean, but somehow I doubt the original offer of sale was 'possibly-fake violin, buyer beware.' Lots of people sell damaged or otherwise flawed goods on eBay with no problem, but they clearly identify the potential deficiencies so that buyers cannot claim to be surprised after the fact. If authentication disputes are a common issue with used violins, then the seller should have used an authentication service or sold on consignment through a specialty dealer, and accepted the costs involved as a marketing expense.
As a Canadian, surprised they didn't include Vancouver. Which I suspect would be at or near the top of the list for this country.
I feel like this would make a great MasterCard commercial.
Ask HN: What kind of precautions (if any) are you taking if SOPA passes?
So, with the pending SOPA Bill in Congress, what kind of precautions are you taking if it passes?

Are you thinking of moving your sites offshore, out of U.S. jurisdiction? Changing to a new non-US top level domain? Anything else?

Even if SOPA doesn't pass, the mere fact that it's being considered means there would be many more attempts to do the same down the road.
> I really hope whoever has done this gets what they deserve

I think they did. They got $2,500.

For some reason I believe the buyer and not the seller. I think the seller fraudulently listed the violin as not what it really was, and got called on it.

My reasons are:

a: The buyer has only a minimal reason to lie (if they didn't like the product and tried to return it but couldn't).

b: The seller refused the return, which is unusual for this type of purchase.

c: "But my main goal in writing to you is to prevent PayPal from ordering the destruction of violins" - sorry but that type of "moral superiority" is done (in my experience) by people who know they are morally wrong, but are trying to claim the high ground.

Obviously I have no actual knowledge here, but that's my sense.
Obligatory canonical SciFi on these matters:

'Examination Day', Henry Slesar

http://www.thebostonbachelor.com/2008/examination-day-by-hen...

'Harrison Bergeron', Kurt Vonnegut

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
I don't know the exact stats but isn't xbox live mostly guys? Surely a social network needs to have good gender balance to work?
Survey Says 92% of Political Ad Buyers Choose Facebook Over Twitter
Tao of Documentation
Yes, I am against those as well.
I feel you have some very valid points. However,

re #1: there are still many markets out there with little smartphone usage.

re #2: perhaps Nokia can help them out here.

As a small case study consider India. 3G services have just been introduced in the last few months, and most people are just beginning to shift from feature phones to smartphones. Apple has a very poor retail presence here, and the iPhone is priced ridiculously high. On my visit there in December, I saw massive amounts of advertising for the Nokia Lumia (on tv and in malls) and casual conversation with friends revealed plenty of curiosity about Nokia and windows phone, how it might compare to android, and what would be better for future purchases.
+1 look for "Just Scan" as a display mode on your TV. On my LG and many Samsungs this does a 1:1 pixel mapping from your source input.
By the same logic, no self-respecting user should have bought an Apple product after the horror that was OS 9.
Python challenge is interesting too, but not a good intro to the language.

http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

upon a cursory look I couldn't find a decent version for ruby, but there are many out there that do it differently.
Before accepting money from an incubator ask the program directors for 3 to 4 references of founders that have gone through the program and 3 to 4 references of advisors to the program.

Then call the references the program directors didn't give you. Do due diligence! Find out where the money comes from which founders, VCs, and Angels support the program and the reason for their support.

As someone who's gone through a "Ghetto Incubator" I'd suggest you do as much Due Diligence as possible before accepting money from a program because you're accepting their terms too!
"You could use *.exe installers" yeah I know, but then you aren't using PIP, and how's that work with virtualenv? Again, not as simple as some would have you believe.
Look around and test the waters.

Do you want to do frontend or backend stuff? Run through the rails tutorial, and check out django if you want to do web development. See if you enjoy those.

If you want to do backend stuff, run through the node tutorial.

Just do what you enjoy!
The small map image seems out of sync with the live map.

I'm in Darwin, Australia. The small map (correctly in my view) shows us as bright red -- quite expensive -- because of the combination of isolation (high fuel, food, labour costs) and land shortages (ie high rent).

I see people in SV and NYC complain about the rent. Well I pay that much ... and I don't earn SV / NYC wages. And I don't live in one of the Earth's great commercial or cultural epicentres.

I would if I could.

So quitcherwhinin'.
So the moral is, if you are selling a big ticket item, don't accept paypal. There are many cases where it just gets reversed, and the buyer is always right.

When selling something like this, accept cashier checks, money orders, bitcoins, etc. You need need it to be non-reversible.
Global unrest: how the revolution went viral
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"They somehow deemed the violin as “counterfeit” even though there is no such thing in the violin world."

Are you kidding me? Of course there are counterfeit violins. Just like there are counterfeit art pieces.
Ned Carpenter: Before I Die
Is she a CPA? We need a tax accountant, not just a bookkeeper.
Holo Everywhere
You are right. Apps are the new golden handcuffs for users of a current platform and are a new challenge to overcome for both android and windows phone.

Still there's millions of new users who are just about to get a new smartphone coming from candy bar phones, and when shopping they just go mostly look up for the iphone.
I stood up at an ATT store some times watching how people shopped phones. The color squares of Windows Phone and huge screens of android phones attract people initially, but as soon as they start comparing they flock to the iPhone.

Amazingly, I just got back from a vacation in Mexico where smartphones are just becoming popular, and went to the local vendors out of curiosity. The push for IOS/android is impressive, there are ads on the street, movies, everywhere. You can get an iPhone with no downpayment and 600 pesos(45 usd) a month.
Why can't an honest researcher delete unproductive and hostile criticism? If their criticism really needs to be read, they can go and post it on their own blog. Comments are a way to allow participation, but nothing requires them to be a free for all.
PG likes to see your HN handle in YC applications. your HN handle is part of your online identity and reputation.
I wonder if counterfeits explain this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/1444828...
As much as you got downvoted for your earlier comment, I see the point you are making. Anyone can be anyone, and if you don't care about your account the password doesn't matter. (Although it does help spammers get around the green-username badge.)

In this case I can see why some people downvoted you. But otherwise, downvoting should be reserved for spam/malice and not for a differing opinion, not even for one that you totally disagree with.
I've noticed a simular thing in the open hardware area, especially 3D printing. I don't know if it's something unique to G+, or just that there's more early-adopter-types using it, but since I started using it a year or so ago I've been introduced to many interesting folks in the 3D printing space and had fantastically productive and focused conversations.
> They were stupidly late to market

Who cares? The smartphone market is rapidly maturing and it won't matter who was first and who wasn't. Do you know if Toyota started producing cars years or decades after Ford? Do you care?
Why even acknowledge the number of signups for a service like this?

Should I even care how many accounts are created? I'd be more interested in either % conversion for how many people signed up for classes, or % who completed the free test classes.

Is 100,000 people entering their details into a form even a laudable achievement from the perspective of the general public (or even the programming public)?
The VGA port is analog, meaning the signal from the computer gets sampled to analog by your video card, then re-sampled to digital by your TV. This seems like a lousy compromise compared to a computer monitor connected to that same computer via DVI or HDMI.
Isn't this what MongoDB GridFS already doing? Edit: saw the comparison later on, sorry.
Much as I admire NZ, I think the author misses a crucial point.

The thing that makes silicon valley special is not the quality of its computer scientists. Sorry to say this cali, but you're probably average in that regard.

The difference is that in SV there is a confluence of business and IT guys.

AND

The business guys actually respect the IT guys.

Having worked in a wide variety of locations in the English speaking world, I can say this is pretty special. Just about everywhere else one of two conditions prevails:

(a) either the business people don't respect the IT people

OR

(b) the IT people don't know how to find good business people to be co-founders.

So many times I see business guys who undervalue IT "I want to build the next eBay, (vague specs) can you make me that website for $3000 ??" (appropriate response: can you die in a fire, please). Or scam artists looking to get rich and toss the IT a mere pittance for their efforts.
Searches for "browser" still show an advertisement for Chrome in the same spot as the top search result.

Shouldn't a demotion also apply to sponsored ads?
There's a picture of a broken violin? Then it must be true! Why would anyone ever break such a beautiful instrument unless Paypal had told them to!?
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Then the onus is on you to find and cite studies supporting whatever the hell your alternate hypothesis is or refuting his. Then have a polite debate about it.

HN is not the kind of place to resort to racebaiting and it's unacceptable and you know that.