skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for feedback on Construct 2, we've come a long way since that interview though!

I agree that games coming out now for HTML5 are still fundamentally quite simple, but every now and then one comes along that just pushes things a little further on like this one in my opinion.

It's only a matter of time before we see more sophisticated games, and I for one can't wait!
In these examples, lisp verbosity only comes from a lack of syntaxic sugar, which can be easily added.
Jwz: "Nymwars: I Told You So"
Very few of the applications available on Cydia are "illegal", they're just banned from the App Store by Apple. Similarly, there's nothing illegal about linux, but you'll have to jailbreak your ps3 to install it.
Yes, I use Bing and starting to use DDG for tech queries... You are wrong about fb/twitter are the only ones who care.

Look at all of the comments on the blogs... Here is one for an example. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-plus-your-world/

This doesn't just effect twitter/fb
Can't developers load their own apps directly onto their own device, without going through the App Store approval process? I think Apple even provides a mechanism for corporations to deploy private apps directly to large numbers of iOS devices, without traversing the App Store.
...three weeks before your birthday, your girlfriend - frantically searching for a Python book to surprise you with, wades through hundreds of results pertaining to snakes, eventually gives up in exasperation and decides to head to the nearest Borders and... Oh wait.

I see your point in the post above but disagree. People should control their search results based on what they are searching for, relevance is objective to ones personality, not subject to it.
Larry Page’s “Beautiful” New Google
No, using an OTP isn't actually better. The problems I'm talking about don't depend on keystream reuse; they depend on the fact that you don't have "keys", you have a single keystream.

A real, sound cryptosystem would use keys in at least two places in the protocol (once to provide confidentiality for the message, and once to provide integrity).
A little over the top, but to your point. See this search for cars I just did... 2 real results on the entire page.

http://oi39.tinypic.com/2s62a9k.jpg
Netflix shares surge as customer base grows
No, they vary pretty widely, even week to week. I have several years of suggestions now and new ones continue to come up every week as I add new content and my rankings shift in the engines.
No offense, but you seem to be raging a bit there.

Naturally, you have many interests. We all do. Google is trying to get the best picture of what those interests are, arguably so that they can give better than chance (or whatever they had before this). As usual, I would suspect that having more information trumps having less, so I argue that SPYW is improvement.

Sorry if this post seems impolite...
Has anyone designed a teapot to functionally implement this protocol?
Well done guys. Intercom has been great at helping us communicate better during our own beta.

Can't wait to see what the next 6 months brings :)
I used a jailbroken iPhone for 2 years, I never once pirated an application, I still purchased plenty of apps from Apple's dumb app store and a few from Cydia. Mostly, I just used it to "background" apps before that was a built-in feature.
It produces a 404 until I create a github account with that name.
Unfortunately, it's a lie. Obviously this is a web server and not a teapot.
If you didn't sign any documentation you should be in the clear. However I would definitely create documentation about when you work on it, that you weren't using company equipment (computer, reimbursed internet, phone etc.) in the process of creating the project. Until the project is up and running I probably wouldn't inform him in case you risk losing one or the other.
I'm guessing you haven't heard of BOSS, YUI, or Yahoo! Pipes. Yahoo still innovates, they just don't seem to do so in a way that's particularly profitable.
Republic Day of India
Republic Day of India , Republic Day of India , Republic Day of India ,
In India, Republic Day commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India on 26 January 1950.
http://www.psdmate.com/2012/01/26/republic-day-of-india/
Places like that do tend to over price things for what some people want because of the cost of first setting up some of the runs they do. Depending on your resolution requirements doing it with a reprap style plastic printer could cost you as little as a few dollars for the plastic for an iPad case. Alone that'll be not very smooth but an acetone brushing/bath can smooth it out fairly well.
More people should look at Pacifica. 15 mins from city, I live literally next to the beach, have a pretty good gym, sauna, pool in complex, and my rent is obscenely low for what I've got. Plus free and easy parking and lots of stuff walking distance. But the fog... Not much worse than sf fog though...
Looks nice. I was excited to give it a try. I'm on my company laptop, however, and the screen is only 768 tall. I had no way to view the entire environment which made the game quite challenging.

This is a big feature request, but honestly window sizing/scaling is something you want to handle early rather than late.

Or, you may just want to throw an error page up if people don't have large enough resolution capabilities.

Good luck!
TIL that pcAnywhere still exists. Last time I used it, 56k modem was the state of the art.
Ha, that's such a perfect quote - thanks. I can see Hayek's much more of a libertarian than I am!
Why did I switch from AltaVista to Google? AV was working great for me. Read the history and you will know the reason.

Yes there is a huge market building for somone who can offer something better than what Google is becoming (albeit slowly).

Was Google looking to profit from the fall of AltaVista back then?

I doubt it.

I think they just had an idea of how they do search better. They took out the advertising and the influence of payments on ranking. AdSense came much later. The Google of today is different than the one that provided a better alternative to AV.

Given the direction Google is taking (obsessively competing for unsavvy Facebook users), they are giving me and no doubt others lots of ideas of how we can do search better.

Keep on Google. If this is what you want.
Daily Find: Greplin
Ask HN: Best development language to launch a product in
I'm a non-technical entrepreneur and have previously launched a successful start-up and am working on a new company currently.

The product is going to be web based but is also going to have to interface with the financial industry and able to pull and interpret a good amount of data and metrics.

Not knowing much about the technical side, I was wondering what tips and languages would be recommended to look at as a starting point? I've been told both Rails and Python as two to look into and wanted people's thoughts. Thanks.
This is a basic freedom issue. The freedom to run software I control on devices I own allows me to be free in how I share and protect my own private information. Apple and Microsoft are trending toward making it more difficult and less legal to run alternative operating systems or unapproved 3rd party software on their platforms. It has to be fought tooth and nail. Fight it legally, and fight it with your pocketbook.
> illegally downloaded an illegal application to legally download/listen to music

You mean to _illegally_ download/listen to music; there's no license in your region.
"... seems priced based on revenue and growth expectations..."

Seems based on what? One method, and probably the most popular, is to look at the PE ratio, which for AAPL is a low value, not in comparison to other tech companies, but in general.

Your opinion that there is growth expectations priced into the stock must be based on something, but it's definitely not PE.
Wow, why did this story suddenly go from rank 1 to rank 35 in just a few minutes?
> This is something you can opt out of

Alright so if this all about improving user experience, let users know they can opt in then?
Did anyone even proofread this article? "....(adding 220 subscribers domestically in the quarter)....", "The streaming business also twice as many subscribers....."
FYI.. same dates as O'Reilly's new JavaScript conference: http://fluentconf.com/fluent2012 :-)
Maybe I missed something, but could you add a "Go back to Menu" or "Retry?" option so I don't have to refresh the page?

Very good overall though, I want to keep trying it out and beat it, hence my request!
Professor Fails Entire Class To Give a Lesson On Socialism
Django hosting roundup: who wins?
Thanks for feedback, we do have support in Construct 2 for multiple screensizes:
http://www.scirra.com/tutorials/73/supporting-multiple-scree...

However the arcade doesn't yet support things like full screen (but will at some point).
Show HN: I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation
Hi HN,<p>I've posted a couple times here before (mostly within posts pertaining to Amit Gupta's search for a bone marrow donor) and I wanted to share a site I've been working on for the past 5 months or so that recently went live. I'm going on my fifth year of being an Acute Myelogenous Leukemia survivor, and while I didn't need a bone marrow transplant myself at one point it was a very real possibility. At that time I became aware of the lack of minority bone marrow donors and made a promise to myself to try to do something about it if I were to survive. This site is something of a fulfillment of that promise.<p>I don't know if this is explicitly HN-worthy, given that it's not a programmatically-impressive web app or a strictly technical exercise. But given the publicity that Amit's search for a donor has created for the cause, and some previous posts highlighting concerns around bone marrow donation, I felt like this submission may be relevant to the community. In the end, hacking is very much about finding a problem and solving it using technology. I was dissatisfied with the websites I found and the explanations I was given, so this is my attempt to solve that problem.<p>If this post gets any notice the website may very likely go down given my shared hosting plan. I apologize in advance for that.
From the excellent HTTP Status Cats:

http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/418
While I think this is a good move for backup restoration, I think it's a little hasty to call DVDs dead. Redbox doesn't seem to mind raking in the cash on a "dead" media format.
Can't post it because I don't have it but at my first job I was working late(2am) to get something ready for an 8am demo that absolutely HAD to happen(people flying in from across the country, stuff like that). I found a solution that would give me the right answer. It consisted of a switch statement. In each case of the switch statement was another switch statement. In about 2/3 of the cases in these switches was a GOTO to the top of the function to repeat the process. What can I say, it worked and was pretty good for 2am work(I am not a night person.) But even my year out of college self knew the code was bad and that I would have to re-write it. Except for the fact that the demo went great. Our processes would only let me change code if there was a bug. Try as I might, I could never find one. That code is probably still in use 9 years later.
Hi HN,

I've posted a couple times here before (mostly within posts pertaining to Amit Gupta's search for a bone marrow donor) and I wanted to share a site I've been working on for the past 5 months or so that recently went live. I'm going on my fifth year of being an Acute Myelogenous Leukemia survivor, and while I didn't need a bone marrow transplant myself, at one point it was a very real possibility. At that time I became aware of the lack of minority bone marrow donors and made a promise to myself to try to do something about it if I were to survive. This site is something of a fulfillment of that promise.

I don't know if this is explicitly HN-worthy, given that it's not a programmatically-impressive web app or a strictly technical exercise. But given the publicity that Amit's search for a donor has created for the cause, and some previous posts highlighting concerns around bone marrow donation, I felt like this submission may be relevant to the community. In the end, hacking is very much about finding a problem and solving it using technology. I was dissatisfied with the websites I found and the explanations I was given, so this is my attempt to solve that problem.

If this post gets any notice, the website may very likely go down given my shared hosting plan. I apologize in advance for that.
No I have not.

Problem is, Yahoo's effectiveness is measured in profit.
I use the OTP to encrypt the message. I use the OTP as salt for a hash to verify.

Confidentiality, and integrity.
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect#Analogies_and_th...
Most cars with performance tuning are used to speed on roads, but it should be and is still legal.
These 20 Angel Investors - in Training -want to Invest in Your Business Soon
http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/joseph/teapot.html

The page claims that http://134.219.188.123/ is the device in the picture. Since we may be about to hammer it:

jerf@jerfhom ~ $ curl -i http://134.219.188.123/
HTTP/1.0 418 I am a Teapot
Server: BaseHTTP/0.3 Python/2.4.4
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:38:15 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close

<head>
<title>Error response</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Error response</h1>
<p>Error code 418.
<p>Message: I am a Teapot.
<p>Error code explanation: 418 = ???.
</body>
Ask HN: Interested in buying my site?
I am posting to see if there's any interest in buying my first commercial project, Certician (https://www.certician.com/).

Certician is an SSL monitoring service that checks customers' SSL certificates for upcoming expirations or misconfigurations.

The codebase has CheddarGetter (recurring billing) and Twilio (SMS) integration. It's written in Django (a Python framework).

I'm thinking about selling it because I don't have the time, money or passion to grow it. I also believe that it's a truly useful service and that someone more motivated could do well with it.

In addition to it being a useful service, I believe that I've come up with a moderately good looking site and a good brand (see the logo: SSL + Physician = Certician).

I have very little traffic and only one paying customer.
This site is not something you'd want to acquire in order to instantly gain an immediate source of revenue, it's a site you'd acquire because you see potential and have the passion to grow it.

I'm also not willing to post this on Flippa or the like because I don't want the site or the domain to go to someone distrustful. As a long-term member of HN, I'm confident that a fellow HN user will be a better steward than a random buyer.

If you're at all interested, please contact me via the site: https://www.certician.com/contact/

Thanks for your time.
Prioritize UX over development

Most of the advice is pretty solid but I don't agree with this one. Most of the companies succeeding today are doing so because they are building platforms. The web is migrating to platforms and not having that core concept embedded into the DNA of a company is a sure recipe to get systems that will be coded for purpose, non-extensible and a maintenance nightmare when it is time to grow it.

There are arguments for both sides, but if I had to choose between exceptional development talent and freelancing design or exceptional design talent and freelancing architecture, I would choose the development talent every time. That being said, there are some generalist that are great at both. I agree with the hire a generalist advice, but try to get a generalist that has both design and development experience. In my experience every company that I have seen that has hired the wrong development person, has been a technology disaster. I have repaired many of them and it takes years to undo all the technical debt that is leveraged on, when the seed systems are poorly designed. Fixing poor design is much easier as it is only a front end concern. Poor development infects every aspect of the system.
Thanks for sharing this story. I think it speaks to the commonly overlooked notion that you should set out to build a business, not just a web product. Details on which costs you chose to attack first (technical debt vs. free subscriptions vs. UX) is something all web businesses should think about.

How does the original owner feel about the revamped HitTail?
Angels.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\PLATO.TXT

yourselves and of the other citizens, and have educated you
far better and more perfectly than they have been educated, and you
are better able to share in the double duty. Wherefore each of you,
when his turn comes, must go down to the general underground abode,
and get the habit of seeing in the dark. When you have acquired the habit,
you will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of the den,
and you will know what the several images are, and what they represent,
because you have s

God says...
ha ho_ho_ho I_see_nothing hopefully over_the_top foul sky
on_the_otherhand atheist not_that_theres_anything_wrong
mission_from_God heaven thats_just_wrong go_ahead_make_my_day
don't_worry umm super_computer how_goes_it ingrate comedy
how_about_a_comic news_to_me I'm_not_dead_yet Venus arent_you_clever
thats_laughable Oy grumble kludge now_I'm_pissed Shalom
I_was_sleeping if_anything_can_go_wrong in_other_words
endure gambling abnormal take_the_day_off mundo_stoked
in_other_words

----

Are You a god of the dead?

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\QUIX.TXT

y word of mouth or in writing, lest the object of his ambition should be
attained, nevertheless it became known that he was called Erostratus. And
something of the same sort is what happened in the case of the great
emperor Charles V and a gentleman in Rome. The emperor was anxious to see
that famous temple of the Rotunda, called in ancient times the temple 'of
all the gods,' but now-a-days, by a better nomenclature, 'of all the
saints,' which is the best preserved building of all those of pagan
con

----

No shit?

Put Jesus on the phone!

Jesus says...
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staggered injures shorter hell division salary ANYTHING
criticised lower unfeigned Word rmunday merged boastfulness
gushed dried health's strives cementest ending profit
beating whereof personated provided slackened forgive
eyesight strained disgust bathing visible electronically
bowed ascended Date Rebuke mountain's pardoned
Clickable:
https://www.certician.com/
https://www.certician.com/contact/
Surprised the article is so negative.

This is an awesome step. Is it perfect? No. Not all of the 3000 languages spoken in Africa are represented in the wikipedia. There are probably some challenges with the ones that are whistled or drummed. But 75% of Africans speak 12 languages.

I've never edited a wikipedia article, yet I've found enormous benefit in reading the articles. I'm glad this step is opening up access to so many people that would not have been able to afford it otherwise.
The site should be working now. Hacker news traffic was the culprit - not blaming it though! Over 870 participants so far.
Zynga adds 15 TB of data a day
Pantangan Makanan Bagi Wanita Hamil
Bagi anda yang dalam masa-masa kehamilan mungkin merasa khawatir terhadap kandungannya, hal itu memang wajar, salah satu bagian yang terpenting dalam membantu perkembangan janin dalam kandungan adalah apa yang anda makan dan cara makan anda selama kehamilan ini, maka dari itu berhati-hatilah saat anda memberi asupan gizi pada janin, karena saat ini banyak makanan yang mengandung zat pengawet ataupun penyedap makanan, ataupun yang lainnya, zat tersebut sangatlah membahayakan calon ibu maupun sang janin. Nah untuk itu janganlah sembarangan dalam memilih makanan
Timing Of Serial Killings May Follow Math Formula
Facile. The Microsoft of the '90s was famous for spending on software quality. They didn't have the design mojo of Apple or Adobe, but still produced extraordinarily well designed software that caught on because of its intrinsic value and not just marketing --- Excel and Word, for instance, were simply good pieces of software.

I suspect any narrative that looks at Microsoft as the reason the '90s didn't look like Steve Job's aught's has rose-colored glasses on about the "quality" of (pick any:) Linux desktop software, Nullsoft, Netscape Navigator, NCSA HTTPD, Eudora, Forte FreeAgent.

I think the reality has more to do with technology progressing to a point where it's cost effective to build products with high production values --- handheld computers with a BOM in the low hundreds of dollars can do hardware-accelerated OpenGL compositing for a vector-based GUI.

That doesn't mean Apple didn't do something to carry the industry forward; they did: they noticed the coming new reality first, and did the best job of capitalizing on it by designing new kinds of products that executed a few core features better than anything could have in the '90s, and so didn't need to crud themselves up with 1,000 extra features to make up for deficits in their core.
There seems to be a lot of hate for antiviruses here on HN. I have this question, then - what kind of features would YOU want from an antivirus? If a startup was to launch tomorrow with some sort of antivirus or similar product, what would it need to have for you to buy/subscribe/etc.?
> Symantec says the theft actually occurred in 2006

So somebody stole the source code five years ago and they're starting to fix some of the glaring vulnerabilities today because this somehow got in the news?

That's reason enough to stay away from all network-enabled Symantec products, I would expect them to be equally insecure if this is the way they do things.
Facebook is killing top social networks worldwide
Spreadsheet shows 0.22 meaning 220 thousand.
And during her frantic searching, his girlfriend won't try something as simple as "python programming book"? I find that hard to believe, especially if her default association for "python" is the snake.
> Now I have a dilemma, upgrade to Lion and lose Rosetta (and several key coding programs) or just stay where I am and lose iBooks Author.... or buy another Mac. Wow. That is power. Name me another company that has that.

Or install the older OS to another partition. Not a hack or a workaround, it's actually what you are supposed to do if you require access to two versions of Mac OS X on the same computer

I really don't think this demonstrates the power of lock in, or anything at all really. Just classic "time marches on" software incompatibility. Not unique to Apple or any other vendor.
Zappos Security Breach Reminds Us of Facebook's Role As 'Identity Fabric'
Well, it was also usually written in the local machine language as well.
Are you considering adding SmartyPants to the formatting? Then again, SmartyPants takes options for which kind of formatting you want to use, and, at least in the Python version, I never go with the default one, so it's probably useless to me without the ability to specify my specific formatting.

I really hope this gets a lot of attention; it's one of the best things I have seen on Hacker News in months, and I'm surprised we haven't even hit triple-digit karma for it.