skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It raises an approval screen on the phone. It says

By proceeding, you give another computer access to the following accounts:
* blah@gmail.com

STOP! Only proceed if you arrived at this page by scanning a login barcode at google.co. Otherwise, do not proceed!

(start with GMail) (start with iGoogle)
Thanks Martin! I will focus on getting more traffic for now, I think. More than 100 so maybe its not too soon for a/b split testing. Thanks for your input.
Heh. I clicked the first item. Then I saw a page with a big download button and some code. I thought "hmm, it would be nice to see a live example...". And then I realized that the big download button was the example :)

Overall, I really like this idea.
Thank you SOOOO much for creating this. This is so valuable for me as a developer+designer.

Consider charging for it. I'd gladly pay $5/mo, if you had 10-20 new posts every month
There's a bright highlighted warning that says "STOP! Only proceed if you arrived this page by scanning a login barcode at google.com. Otherwise, do not proceed!"

Will users read the warning? I would—and did—it really grabs your attention given the fact its background is yellow and takes up so much of the iPhone screen.

I suppose there are probably other safeguards as well, given that this is Google—maybe timed expiration?
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Makes sense. I guess I'll focus on more traffic for now to see if that 5% is something I can hold. Thanks for your input!
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If you step back and think about this for a minute, you're getting free access to educational material from a world class university, and the the only prerequisite is that you install iTunes. That's a pretty good trade off.
It is either pure mad defamation or something is beyond rotten in the state of Wall Street. It will be interesting to observe the reactions of the involved individuals.

I'm french and I cannot imagine such a post beeing possible here, either because such scandals never occur here or because they are never disclosed, I don't know.

This leaves me puzzled, should I think of this post as a sign of hope in the american democracy or a sign of its total decline?
Ask HN: Guides on Venture Capital and Seed Funding
Hello, I'm developing my first serious start-up and am going to apply to incubators soon. As I believe it'll give my nnfinished start-up a much needed boost.

I was wondering if there are any guides any of you on the ins and outs of Venture Capital and Seed funding?

As I'm quite the novice at this sort of thing these guides would have to cover the basics. For example terminology like "Vesting" eludes me and concepts like the ramifications of trading capital for equity aren't fully understood.

Thanks.
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Saved your answer - Thanks for your input! I thought 5% was decent myself. I like your ROI suggestion. Any recommendation on where to start? PPC to drive traffic looks like a scary way to burn capital right now. You think its my best option?
Ah, I see. Thanks for adding that info
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I find comments that start off like that extremely disingenuous. Whenever someone says "I <some adjective>, but..." I see that as "I don't want to offend anyone reading this because I don't want to get into an argument and/or don't want downvotes, but I'm going to say this anyway because this is how I really feel." Things like "I'm sorry, but...", "I hate to tell you this, but..." or "This is a great idea, but..." sometimes (emphasis on sometimes) have good intentions (like pointing out flaws in a website or bringing up an interesting point in the topic) but to me they end up sounding quite pompous and, in this case, offensive.
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Now I'm also curious. At first I thought 1,000,000 is a huge number of views, but at 3,100 photos that's just 322/photo. I can't access Flickr from work but I think I have about 45 photos and 18,500 views, averaging 411/photo, and that's just from a couple of up votes on reddit/itookapicture (seldom more than 5-10). Obviously the actual distribution of views will vary quite a bit, but it's a useful starting point.

That being said, this guy seems to have quite an ability to take interesting photos of ordinary situations whereas I tend to save the camera for special moments so I doubt I'll ever hit 3,100 photos. Unfortunately it looks like the Flickr Stats API is per-user, and private, with no global statistics available (nor in a Flickr blog post), so we can't know what's "normal" and what's not.
Very nice and handy, but IDE refactoring support on this kind of code is probably very low.

From the example:

.call("toString") // Call toString()

If I refactor the toString method to another name, here it will remain toString.
I'm guessing posting anything about our password hashing will be frowned upon due to the context of this question.

What are the best practices you want to see a website use when storing your password?
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ofcourse there is, stay tuned and I will submit in a day or two :)
Thanks! I'd be interested to read anything you have.

I just started playing violin about a month ago, so it piqued my interest.
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Right, and perhaps it's a poor example. That was, in fact, the first counterargument that I thought of when I wrote that comment. I was trying to think of something that would be intuitive for the audience here, and perhaps in pursuing that goal I made a poor analogy.

The point is, ASL must be a language first, and an aid for the disabled second. On that point, it fails. The goal of a language is to enable communication; if less than 1% of people you are likely to interact with are capable of communicating in that language then it is of limited utility. People who have normal hearing are generally not going to learn ASL, as the value proposition just isn't strong enough. Because of that, even people who have hearing problems might not be incentivized to learn it, for the same reason: it just might not be that useful.

Now, as with any group, a shared language leads to shared culture and a sense of belonging. That, in and of itself, will make ASL attractive to many people. That's fine. It fails at its intended use as a primary means of communication however, as it just doesn't let you communicate with that many people. This, I think, is why many deaf people also learn to lipread: it allows for communication outside of the (relatively) small deaf community.
With a session cookie you don't need them.
Perhaps one that takes into account the categories you do post in and have a high karma for?
This is great news for .NET devs. Any good tutorials on setting up an ASP.NET MVC application to run on a free micro-instance?
I'd say the attempts to diminish her coding abilities were driven more by the affiliation with MS than with her ethnicity or religion. But that may just be speculation on my part.
Wow! This is sweet, but I wish Google had an even shorter URL for it.
Do you know of any papers or articles you could point me to? The only thing I could find was this article: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/powerhousetwins.html

It sounds like an interesting experiment, but probably needs more time to really provide solid data. At the time the article was written (2005) the two violins were only three years old and the results were inconclusive. It would be interesting to hear if they've done any follow-ups.
This is a side effect of it being a reflection API, and true of the current APIs as well:
clazz.getMethod( "toString" ).invoke();
Space probes sometimes have tiny nuclear reactors, so that a tiny amount of mass can generate electricity for decades.

Any chance this one did? (Or just some nasty rocket fuel?)
I wonder if MSFT is subsidizing the cost? Either way it seems that market economics has now dictated that server operating systems are free as in beer.
I would say that there are 2 kinds of "work" involved in wedding photography:

1. The physical stuff like scouting out the locations way before the day of the actual wedding, attending wedding rehearsals to understand how the actual ceremony would go like on the day itself, the actual shooting for the wedding ceremony as well as the reception, and the days after spent sorting through the shots and editing them.
This is definitely a lot more physically taxing compared what a recreational photographer (which I'm assuming the author is) is normally used to. I still remember how my legs just gave up after I came home from spending the whole day running around trying to get all the shots while lugging around a couple of kgs of gears.

2. The mental stuff like how stressful it is to know that you only have one chance to get things right on your client's special day, and if let's say you screw up the bride-walking-down-the-aisle shot, you can't just get the couple to rewind the whole ceremony just so you can get the shot right. On top of that, sometimes if you're unlucky enough you may even face lawsuits from dissatisfied couple asking for a refund AND for you to compensate for their wedding costs and pay for a new ceremony so that they can have those "memories" be immortalised in photos. Don't forget that like in all creative professions, you have to deal with clients who insist that you charge too much cause their 16 year old nephew with a DSLR can do the job for free.

So yeah, wedding photography may be for some people but personally I wouldn't want to make a living out of it, probably because I don't think it suits my more laid back personality.
Is this the hack used to exploit Xbox Live accounts?
I find that if you add a 'but' to any sentence you just invalidated whatever came before it. A good rule to keep in mind.
>HN regularly churns out some of the most biased, vitriolic and short-sighted commentary when it comes to women that I've ever seen in any online community.

I really don't see that at all. There might be some implied sexism, and perhaps occasionally overt sexism, but it's nothing like what you see on other parts of the Internet. I've seldom read a top-rated comment on HN and thought, "wow, that's really sexist." Sure, they exist at the bottom of the page, but there isn't much we can do about that.

Do you have a discussion in mind that makes you feel that way? I'd like to see an example of what you consider "biased, vitriolic, and short-sighted commentary when it comes to women."
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umm, i did'nt have any plans to charge, but now maybe i'll think about it.
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So, how does one of the "safe" string-copying functions work safely given "any random input"?
Hakyll is an excellent and active project. I used it for the Solarized site and learned a lot about Haskell, though like many Haskell projects (xmonad) you can still get a lot out of it without being a real Haskell pro.

One neat trick I used was to scrub my pages using sed first (there's probably a better way to do this with just Haskell) so that I can use the exact same markdown and links on both github and my own server, and the images and download work on both:

https://github.com/altercation/ethanschoonover.com/blob/mast...
AirDrop uses mDNS and link-local ipv6

ifconfig shows that a new network interface called p2p[1-N] is created when AirDrop is opened. For instance:

p2p1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 12:9a:dd:a9:9f:1e
inet6 fe80::109a:ddff:fea9:9f1e%p2p1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
media: autoselect
status: active

Sniffing traffic on this interface shows mDNSv6 packets being sent to ff02::fd port 5353. Containing the strings "_airdrop", your machine name and so on.

sudo tcpdump -ni p2p1
Password:
tcpdump: WARNING: p2p1: no IPv4 address assigned
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on p2p1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
01:56:41.647582 IP6 fe80::109a:ddff:fea9:9f1e.5353 > ff02::fb.5353: 0- [0q] 6/0/3 (Cache flush) SRV MacBook-Air.local.:57829 0 0, (Cache flush) TXT "cname=MacBook Air" "phash=MvwrscY0f8Bc5+f5vR+ncIthkl8=", PTR _airdrop._tcp.local., PTR ea4be4d626af._airdrop._tcp.local., (Cache flush) PTR MacBook-Air.local., (Cache flush) AAAA fe80::109a:ddff:fea9:9f1e (365)
01:56:41.647657 IP6 fe80::109a:ddff:fea9:9f1e > ff02::fb: frag (0|1232) 5353 > 5353: 0- [0q] 1/0/0 (Cache flush) NULL[|domain]
01:56:41.647675 IP6 fe80::109a:ddff:fea9:9f1e > ff02::fb: frag (1232|1232)
01:56:41.647686 IP6 fe80::109a:ddff:fea9:9f1e > ff02::fb: frag (2464|1232)
01:56:41.647698 IP6 fe80::109a:ddff:fea9:9f1e > ff02::fb: frag (3696|1232)
01:56:41.647704 IP6 fe80::109a:ddff:fea9:9f1e > ff02::fb: frag (4928|1232)
01:56:41.647710 IP6 fe80::109a:ddff:fea9:9f1e > ff02::fb: frag (6160|1050)

The MAC address of my Airport card in this machine is: 10:9a:dd:a9:9f:1e

Wikipedia says this about fe80::/10

fe80::/10 — Addresses in the link-local prefix are only valid and unique on a single link. Within this prefix only one subnet is allocated (54 zero bits), yielding an effective format of fe80::/64. The least significant 64 bits are usually chosen as the interface hardware address constructed in modified EUI-64 format. A link-local address is required on every IPv6-enabled interface—in other words, applications may rely on the existence of a link-local address even when there is no IPv6 routing. These addresses are comparable to the auto-configuration addresses 169.254.0.0/16 of IPv4.

[edit] and for all of those who claim that AirDrop uses some proprietary mode on the Airport card, read this:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011091321364956...

And ask yourself how that supposition could possibly be true when AirDrop can be made to work on Ethernet cards.
Would you consider adding that general advice to the official guidelines? The problem with "Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." is that there are plenty of people in life (maybe just in hacker circles, but my sample is thoroughly biased) who would say outrageous things that they would start with a disclaimer in a face to face conversation.
Would you have a problem with a game where you can pay to make the ads go away, or to get more levels?

Because it seems to me that those are two very good uses of in-app purchases.
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>Are you saying, categorically, that it's impossible to get people to care about things?

For most people, yes. You're never going to get to them your way because they're not interested in your message. As soon as they detect that you're talking about something that has nothing to do with their goals they'll drop you and move on.

That's why the "pissing people off" method works; because they can't move on. As for examples, I can think of maybe one or two examples where some kind of touchy-feely campaign has made more than an obscure amount of people care, but my success in business often relies on the latter method and I can tell you that it not only works, in a business setting it is the only thing that will.
I'm afraid I didn't see this response until just now, so it's a bit late, but if you're still following this, I'd love to see some more specific references - I googled "recruiting men in nursing" and I see a ton of stuff about how to try to make nursing seem more appealing to guys, but nothing about accusations that the nursing establishment is hostile to men, certainly nothing similar to what is accused against the tech status-quo on a regular basis.

In particular, most of the links related to nursing seem to be making arguments analogous to the much derided "women aren't interested in tech because the work doesn't appeal to women" theory, arguing that men don't like nursing because the work is not perceived by them as male enough in various ways, not that they have any perceptions of anti-male bias in the nursing community. Quite frankly, I'd reject any such notions, since there is no such general feeling, at least none that I've ever heard, so that's not what's keeping people from walking through the nursing school door in the first place (otherwise, I figure I would have been at least cognizant of such a general perception).

Similarly, I'm skeptical whether tech really has any significant misogynist reputation once we look beyond feminist-in-tech bloggers and male me-too hangers-on - none of the women I know seem to have that impression (though granted, they're from pretty varied and non tech-centric backgrounds), and I certainly have not seen where I've worked.

When I have asked my female friends about their impressions of the computer world, they tend to think that yeah, it's a circle-jerk of forever-alone dorks, but they generally assume that they'd be more welcoming to women and more accepting of them than guys in most fields, not less. When asked why they don't do programming-ish stuff themselves, most have said stuff like "that's for the math geeks", and "I study people, not code" (crank the superiority knob to the max on both of those, btw - when I asked this, I got the definite sense that they thought the subject matter was distinctly below them). Not once have I heard "because I've heard that guys in tech treat women like shit" as an answer, which makes me very suspicious when people point to that as the definitive root cause...
There is only one possible way to solve this problem that has a shot at working and I'm developing/testing it as quickly as I can.

It requires a combination of crowdsourcing and machine learning (NLP is cool, but optional).

It is part rating, voting, tagging, reputation, recommendation and more.

It sounds complicated, it isnt for users (~2 clicks from ~10% of readers) but is for me to build (3rd week with rails, so relative).

It is mostly still theory at this point but the math checks out and user tests have exceeded expectations but are very early stage.

If you've read this and think I'm crazy, you're right (best to accept it).

If you think I'm naive, it's a possibility that's kept me up many nights over the past year.

If you are interested in learning more on the off chance I'm right, you can reach me at (Mat . Tyndall at gmail).

I am in San Francisco working on this full time after dropping out from grad school.

I will tell you in excruciating detail in person or via Skype how it works and why.

I have not slept very much in the past week so I have no idea if posting this is a good idea but I doubt I'll get even 5 votes or any takers but thanks for reading.
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Well, you can host PHP on a cedar stack, and I have successfully deployed wordpress to heroku, so that is very cool.

It was actually really easy with this: https://github.com/mhoofman/wordpress-heroku

But unfortuently, to the best of my knowledge, you can't host both PHP at the same time as Rails.

If anyone know otherwise I would love to hear!
Ask HN: Am I being self deluded about my startup?
Hi hacker news, this is my story, I'll keep this short.

For the past year or so, since graduating from a CS degree, I've decided that I would give a go at exploring some ideas I've had with some friends (3).
Some with a sound business model, others not so much, but still great ideas.

My friends are all employed, and have been for years. They all have above average technical and executional capacities occupying well regarded positions within both their day job and the local hackers scene.

Our main problem is the capacity to finish a project given the time my colleagues have at their disposal. None of them is willing to give up their day jobs without some form of guaranty.

We have had potential clients and have made several prototypes for these clients in the hopes of landing a major contract, we have only succeeded once by selling ourselves short. (It is coming soon, but at this point we are being ransomed by our client)

We do have a plan but for the most part we are failing to succeed. I can detect several problems, from our lack of business knowledge to our non-existent self promotion, as well as failure to abide to responsibilities in a consistent manner, in between others. I do demand more for my colleagues, but they are only able/willing to give so much.

Only my name is connected to this company, as my colleagues contracts prevent them from being associated with any outside project. I'm at the breaking point of my mental and financial capacities. I still don't want to give up as I've never lost a fight in my life, so I'm asking the hacker community for your advice. Is there any hope for this team? What alternatives should I explore?

PS: I understand this is far too little information and a very dumbed down version of the reality. I would go about writing a 66 page essay about our failures and accomplishments. But I imagine that would discourage most of you from reading this.

PS2: note that zerostartup is not the name of our company.
6 Keys on USB, if I recall correctly. However, PS2 doesn't limit you at all, and a number of keyboard let you press any number of keys you want. (Typically high-end mechanical keyboards, or gaming keyboards.) A honza mention in his (dead) comment, the technical term is "n-key rollover" where n=6 for USB, and n="n" when it's unlimited.
Along with 750 instance hours of Windows Server 2008 R2 per month, the Free Usage Tier also provides another 750 instance hours to run Linux (also on a t1.micro)

Does that mean you can run two t1.micro servers concurrently?

Edit: yes it does - http://aws.amazon.com/free
Right, the only trouble is that if I want to create a community, I have to send the same thing to everyone, otherwise there can be no common discussion about it.

If I totally abandon the community aspect though, then I could start designing the ultimate sequence of candy that maximizes retention. Not sure which is better.
I'll have to agree with thebigshane's speculation. Extrapolating from my own experiences, I think a lot of people here were doing great things (programming, writing, art, etc.) at a young age and didn't get nearly the recognition that they wanted. In my own childhood I saw people around me getting more recognition for less and poorer work, and others who got no recognition for excellent work.

There are at least two ways to approach this situation: the first, taken by the negative commenters on the other article, is to allow jealousy to take over. The second is to look at a lack of recognition as a simple problem to be solved, and learn from those who receive it. Let's quit whining about not getting the attention we wanted when we were programming at whatever young age, and try to learn how to market ourselves better. Above all, let's show some respect.
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