skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days I use Hellofax when I get something that would typically require printing, filling out, scanning and emailing. You can skip the printing part and do the rest through their site...works great! I've used it for leases, bank account applications, state mandated registration forms, address change forms, etc.
Pinterest: Define Yourself Through Consumerism
I'd be quite happy to see Sarah Parcak (satellite imaging applied to archaeology), Atul Gawande (checklists for medicine), Peter Diamandis (X Prize/Singularity University), Wade Davis (ethnobotanist), Regina Dugan (DARPA director), maybe Edward Glaeser (city growth), Steven Pinker et al, Bill Nye, , T Boone Pickens, Prof Sadoway (materials science), Tali Sharot (neuroscientist), Frank Warren (PostSecret). Maybe not worth $6k for the speakers themselves, but worth it for the other people at the event.

I think part of the reason for having ~50% of the speakers being "entertainment" is to give people at the event a break intellectually, and to get to socialize with other attendees. It doesn't produce great video for home viewers, though.

I think I might go to the BIL conference (free, and run in parallel) and shoot video/live stream it.
Hey now! There are at least 2 other streets that get traffic at least annually.
I think I finally understand the etymology of their company name. I'd be willing to bet that insurers are or will use people's buying activity as one input of insurance premiums. With someone's credit card activity they could ascertain massive amounts of information about their lifestyle. Everything from how late they stay out, to how early they get up, to what types of food they eat, and what activities like drinking and smoking they partake in. Heck, Mint could do that for most of its users.
If the little bit of document sticking out on the left is clickable, that would let you go "back" no matter how far down you had scrolled, which seems like a good feature.
In cases like these, parents are usually the last to find out...
Not sure why there are so many upvotes - I don't know anybody in their right mind who would use this.
Look at some text in braille and look at some text in dotsies. It looks pretty different. Dotsies letters are smashed together so the words look like shapes of their own. If you did that with braille it would likely be confusing due to each letter having 2 rows of dots, and it would be stretched out to about the same proportion as normal text.
Care to elaborate? I was thinking the same thing, all the vowels have a logical symbol in the pattern, as opposed to something unique or more striking.
In contrast to Google, whose malware auto-detection algorithms will still flag Google-owned domains.
I got my first credit (as in line of credit, not debit/bank card with VISA logo) card at the age of 16.

More common than you think. On the other hand, I was living on my own at the time.
Don't go blaming Apple for Growl's dick move, or anything else that is similar. Anything that was truly open-source still is, even if future versions have gone proprietary. (And by the way, you can still checkout the latest source code from Growl's mercurial repo.)

The Mac App Store sandboxing rules, while not perfect, are obviously a good thing. Complicated pieces of software should come with ACLs. I really don't want to trust Adobe's stuff to not mess up my system or phone home with all my data. As long as the option remains to acquire software elsewhere (which it will!), the sandboxing thing is nothing to complain about.

And why do you assume that Gatekeeper will be so much more effective than UAC at stopping unsigned software from running? It really won't be hard for users to learn to open an app through the context menu when Gatekeeper complains.
It makes me hold my nose too, but I think in twenty years this "rewrapping" method will be a staple in J-school textbooks.
Or maybe we'll see malware distributed in source form. That could be nasty if the development environment gets compromised. Probably more dangerous than a compromised website.
It's free to get a cert from Apple to sign your app, but you have to be a registered developer (which is also free).

Essentially, you have to be a real person who can be identified if they produce malware.
You can get the data by hanging out in target and watching what people buy.

On one occasion, some kid in a CVS gave me a high five after seeing me buying a mega-pack of condoms while carrying a bottle of whiskey. Did he violate my privacy?
apt-get purge it!
Yeah I tried the first example (A-E) on their memorize site and was blown away by how poorly thought out the whole thing was. It asked for the answer in dotsies and all that came to mind was "... uh, a dot somewhere around this region? -click- oh nope, it was up here further. How mind-numbingly interesting."
What Makes Anyone A Hero (story)
Lower redundancy means higher error rate.

How would you distinguish between AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD, EEE without a baseline of text (for example, in a headline)? Without a reference for the top and bottom of the text, here's no way to know whether the dots are high or low.
Yeah same, found it like 3 days ago and was like thank god. I'm going to create a fix for IE7, whether it's a polyfill or sass wizardry, and I'll make a post about it when I do. Easy fluid responsive layouts for all!
I'll take your twenty dollars any time. You in the bay area? I can read it about %75 percent as fast as normal text, and speeding up over time.
For what it's worth, I'm a US citizen and I got a credit card a few months before I turned 18; I was just starting college, and they must have used that bit of data to offer me a card.
But you change the default to be smaller than the default (13px fixed size font instead of the 16px the typical desktop-browser has as default). You shouldn't mess with that even on a normal site, but especially not in this case.

One can't recognize the dot-positions anyway, but making it smaller makes it only harder.
From Apple's page on Gatekeeper (http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html):

"You can even temporarily override your setting by Control-clicking, and install any app at any time."
Show HN: Review my web app for podcast fans
Hi all,

I've been working on a web app for listening to and sharing podcasts called Flapcast. I built the site for myself so I can listen to my podcasts on whichever computer I'm on (and share my favorite episodes with my friends), but It would be great for it to get enough traction that the social element will take off (making it better to discuss and discover episodes with new people).

Its been online for a few months now, with almost no traffic, and then I inexplicably got picked up by Lifehacker last weekend (I think they found me on makeuseof.com, which posts stories on all sorts of web apps, so I'd definitely recommend other developers to submit to sites like this). It was incredible to get my idea validated like this, but I'd love to hear feedback from the HN community on the site (since there seem to be a lot of podcast lovers on here too).

http://flapcast.com
Interesting thought, but the reality of the situation is quite different. If something is in the public domain (i.e. something you can see, hear or smell) what provisions within the realm of the law protect you from using that sensory data? A company's parking lot may have provisions for me not entering it (i.e guard, fence, etc), but if I perch myself on a parking ramp across the street and use a camera with a powerful lens I can still take pictures of cars and people within the lot.

The same is true for radio, and conversely 802.11. If you expose yourself to data leakage via loud APs / incorrect antenna then it should be well understood that that information is being placed in the public domain (i.e. WPA handshake). A would be malicious user is not bound by any of the restrictions mentioned, and so placing them on people that are knowingly auditing is highly counterproductive unless all the client is going for is a warm fuzzy. This particular way of thinking about pen testing and assessments needs to be at the forefront of the testing itself, because if the client is that misinformed/misled they probably need more help than an incorrectly scoped assessment.
I think any PCI or other auditor who doesn't flag "domains registered with GoDaddy" during an audit is doing clients a disservice, given all the bad stuff that's happened. I'm not sure how exactly you could flag it for a client, though.
I wasn't OK with it when they introduced the mac app store, I got really unhappy with it when random open source tools suddenly disappeared offline and became $2 pay-to-play software on the mac store.

So that's Apple's fault? You wouldn't be referring to Growl, would you? They're complying with open source licenses; you can get the source code and build it yourself: http://growl.info/documentation/developer/growl-source-insta...
The article is clearly not substantiated. Personnally, I avoid treating TED as a whole, because the quality can vary from one speaker to another, from one topic to the next. It's not always consistent, it's not always cutting-edge, it's not always new. TED's promise is to deliver "ideas worth sharing", but not all of them can fit that description. This being said, they still do a pretty good job to keep the quality high.
TTAGG: Using Social Data to Beat the Market
It seems much more likely that users creating accounts for phishing purposes created multiple accounts. In that case, nearly 10% of accounts ≠ nearly 10% of users.
But neither button says "trash it", and "eject" in the context of disk images just means "unmount". So now I'm even less clear about what those buttons do.
Pinterest Data Analysis: An Inside Look
Indeed. I would have some reluctance about giving my postal code to a website about illegal activity. Asking for the city would be much better. I doubt the increased precision would even be useful without a massive amount of data.
Dictators Have Good Reason to Fear the Internet
I noticed my tweenager son playing with redstone circuits on minecraft. I asked him to make a JK flipflop. To my surprise he not only knew what it was, but had made a few flipflops.

So check out Minecraft. It's good to get immediate feedback and make 'actual' machines.

Amusingly, minecraft is the second link on google when you search for T flipflop.
I'm interested to find out how this will affect car insurance in the future. Although the human operator of the vehicle is held liable for any accidents, even if he/she is not physically present in the car [1], the likelihood of an autonomous vehicle accident will obviously be largely dependent on the car's software rather than the human responsible.

Will insurance companies stop charging you based on your driving history and instead determine your insurance rate based on the safety rating of the AI powering your vehicle? Or perhaps some combination of both? Insurance pricing based on AI safety could become a powerful motivator for developers of the software to continue to innovate and ensure driving safety.

There is certainly a lot of marketing potential in a company being able to say, "Not only is our car the safest autonomous vehicle on the road, but you'll also pay the lowest insurance rate as a result!"

[1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46419453/ns/business-autos/#.Tz2...
Why isn't it considered a destination for technologists? You blockade Wikileaks. Period. When did Paypal's problems in this domain begin? I'm guessing circa December 2010.
It is not benign, now or ever. It is the ultimate discrimination tool, targeted on our private actions and not on broad categories like "petit-bourgeoise".

Yeah, it's all fun and games if shops do it and they apply it to baby powder coupons. But the invasion of privacy and the private dossiers Target or Visa or Facebook are building on every one of us can be used in other contexts.

Is this person likely to engage in extreme sports? Hike his health insurance quota 5x because he is a "risk" to profits.

Does this job applicant fit a union sympathiser profile? Deny him the job, on the "pure" economic reason that he is a risk to our bottom line profits.

I'd much rather ensure that this kind of data collection and targeting is illegal across the board. I'm ready to sacrifice the coupon industry, thank you very much.
"You shouldn't be using terms of art anywhere in your copy unless that's the language your audience speaks, too."

In general, that's good advice. However, when it comes to security, and if you're an OS vendor, you don't really want to enable your users' continued ignorance. The concept of digital signatures needs to be a part of normal computer use.
In 20 years? That's what the Internet is today. 90% of stories are based on an interesting article the author read, and rewrote as a blog entry.
If you look at dotsies.org you'll see capital letters have smaller dots above them to distinguish them from lower case.

Using a pattern was done to make it easier to learn, but many options (with patters and without) were tried out and rejected. Notice that the vowels all have dots at the top row or bottom, which is desirable as it tends to give words hollow shapes with negative space in them.

Optimizing for space efficiency has many dimensions, too dense is not good, and too sparse is not good. There were a couple versions where the frequent letters had fewer dots and were concentrated toward the bottom, but that increased possible ambiguity between words one might mistake for being shifted up or down one dot.
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Your first link is about gfortran executables for Linux (specifically a specific snapshot build, not the source code itself), not OS X. Your second one is about glibc systems, not OS X, is over six years old, and complains simply about buggy functions in glibc -- what is it that makes you think using glibc would solve a glibc problem?

Neither of these in any way imply a general dependency on glibc. On the contrary, the second one implies you'd have more luck without it, if the issue were still extant -- which it's not, the bugs were closed out six years ago.
BuiltWith reveals the tech used by 130 Million web sites
Forgive my naivety, but what problem is this solving? Maybe I'm not in the loop, but I'm not aware of a large amount of malware that forcibly downloads itself marked as an Adium.dmg file. It seems like this is a hoop to jump through. Come to Apple or else your users will be scared to install your application.

(also, none of the comments seem to touch on the fact that this is OPTIONAL in Mountain Lion. Of course, I hope it stays that way or it is modified to be... less fear mongering)
If you're honestly interested in knowing how I came to that conclusion, here's my proof:

Try telling apart "be" and "ad", with no nearby words. They are identical, because you don't know where the baseline is.
SoundCamp -- Adding more sounds to your campfire sessions.
SoundCamp is a chrome extension that adds more sounds to Campfire chat sessions.

It's so useful at annoying your work mates!
The original poster is right to point this out. Outside of the traditional dictionary definition, the term "corporatism" is virtually meaningless. The modern usage which floats around is used exclusively as a pejorative when getting angry about some aspect about the role of corporations, but it's never really defined. Sometimes it's used to mean corporate influence over government. Sometimes it means being "too corporate". Sometimes it just refers to the corporation being the dominant form of business today.

Sure, language drifts, and you are welcome to use the term as they please, but if you expect people to understand you, it's wise to not misuse words.

In the case of this article, I have no idea what the title even means (except that it certainly involves some type of complaining)
AEBN was and might still be the largest VOD service online and they run Windows or at least they did while I was there.
IMHO this isn't a good task for the Turks. If it's reasonable that a Turk might click 'Looks good to me!' most of the time, you'll gather a hoard of them that just click/script that same response 100% of the time and not look at the question.

Of course you can include decoy questions to try and detect this behavior, but I just don't see the whole MTurk review process being terribly reliable overall. I just don't think the worker quality is that great, and they will do whatever possible to just churn through HITs (because they get paid zero for them).
It really depends on what you are making. Blinking LED's require little theory, and voltage dividers never really need to be precise.

But, when making a multi-pole active filter, the whole "grab a few resistors and test it until it works" is a colossal waste of time- you need the graphs, equations, and so forth (or at least a computer program that will take care of that).
It'd be even better to figure out the details of their targeting algorithms and swap cards intelligently. If it looks like you used to be a strong (brand/store) customer and then stopped, they'll give you worthwhile coupons.
Steve Case: Improving the Environment for Entrepreneurship
Fair point. Normally the downside is just a stamp when the coupon gets pitched. Here it's more. but it's still a cost benefit analysis like anything else.
Lux TX9000TS Touch Screen Seven-Day Programmable Thermostat
This would appear to violate the Google Maps API Terms of Service: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html

(b) Restrictions. In using Google Brand Features, you will not:
[...]
(ii) display a Google Brand Feature in your Maps API Implementation or on your site if your Maps API Implementation or site contains or displays adult content or promotes illegal activities, gambling, or the sale of tobacco or alcohol to persons under 21 years of age;

(f) No Violation of Google Policies. You must not violate any policies in the Maps APIs Documentation or violate Google's Software Principles (available at http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/software_principles.... or such successor URLs that Google may designate from time to time) and other policies as Google may develop from time to time, including but not limited to the Google policies below, under which you agree not to:
[...]
(xv) promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities;
Christ people! This is so stupid I have to think we have been trolled with this one.

"Optimized for writing, not reading?" You have to be kidding me, right?

Yes -- and the Romans had indoor plumbing, aquaducts, and crosswalks. All just as antiquated as the serif.

See there? I've fed the trolls.

-- I would love to see the brouhaha this would elicit from typophile.com.
While obviously based around the live linux distros, windows to go does sound pretty amazing.

It doesn't sound too difficult to extend this and use a phone capable of mounting as mass storage and boot your desktop off of your phone. A Windows Windows Phone anyone?
Yes indeed. This is why I'm so interested in the educational revolution that is currently happening. Education is important in this situation.

The good thing is that the higher end jobs tend to be creative(Research), and in near infinite supply if you can get money flowing into them. You can never have enough inventions or new technologies.
Does anybody have a link to the software that Saaed created? It sounds like it was just either a library or just generic image sharing software, but none of the stories seem to link to it.
Could only really work if ALL cars are autonomous. How many car accidents involve only 1 car?

Also insurance is hardly an innovative industry... I'd bet they don't change anything about how they insure people for a LONG time.
When was the last time you got a job without submitting to a "credit check"? Your very existence could be at risk if the "credit check" pigeon-holes you in the wrong category.
> I honestly expected the author to touch on some important issues like the fact that your game is naturally open source.

Small correction, your source is readable, but it isn't "open source" - "open source" means available under and open source license (which your code is not, unless you actually do that).

Your source also doesn't need to be readable - you can obfuscate it, to the point where it is as readable as native binaries - disassembleable in theory, but only by experts.
It is. It's also one where you don't need to remember context.

Bret Victor describes and demos this in his presentation "Inventing on Principle." [http://vimeo.com/36579366]. BCX is better than a page-based back button. By the way, back still works.
It's not that I think it would be difficult for almost anyone to figure out that I'm pregnant, it's incredibly obvious.

My point was that it is crass for a company to send an announcement like that to a woman in her first trimester. And crass in general to send out mailings targeting specific medical conditions. If I had bought hemorrhoid cream at target, I wouldn't want a mailing non-subtly directed at hemorrhoid sufferers showing up on my doorstep.
Now you're aiming for the laurels of hieroglyphic writing, which has kind of lost almost every battle it fought with alphabets and syllabaries for the last couple of thousand years. It's not even convincing that this will be a good hieroglyphic system, let alone better than the alphabet.
I don't hate Paypal, but I'd prefer not to implement anything again against the Paypal API.

I wrote a small e-commerce engine for a friend's site a couple of years ago, utilizing Paypal for the shopping cart & IPN to notify the site when merchandise had been purchased. There is an extreme lack of precision in the documentation for the various APIs, that made the entire process take twice as long as it should have (or was, I haven't checked back since I wrote the implementation). When I implemented the IPN receiver I tried to find out, precisely, what data would be sent, and gave up, instead running through a series of transactions to get a 90% coverage of fields for payment and refund transactions.

Receiving all of the ebay transactions for the account was a surprise, but one I was somewhat prepared for.

Maybe there is a flow chart of what data gets sent with what transactions, but in the time I was doing development I couldn't find one. During that time there was some sort of changeover from the existing Developer portal to x.com for some, but not all documentation. Was extremely frustrating for links to examples to break, even more so to return months later and find them still broken.

But the thing that really killed the utility of Paypal for me, and possibly doomed my friend's site, was the long delay when clicking "Add to Cart", which POSTs the relevant item information to Paypal to create and/or add to an existing cart. The delay was measurable in the multi-second range, and was entirely on the Paypal side. Totally independent of browser, O/S, network (I checked). This lead to a cart abandonment rate of close to 50% (measured via Google Analytics data, amongst other means). Never any indication of errors, no messages to the merchant's paypal account indicating anything was wrong with the data being sent. Just. A. Long. Delay. If you were patient the cart would appear with the item(s) displayed.

My friend ended up shuttering her business at the end of 2011, for multiple reasons, but the abandonment rate was certainly one of them.

Had the business not closed I was going to try shifting to maintaining the cart on the site and doing "upload cart" to Paypal to see if that sped things up, but we never got to try it.

So, lack of precision in documentation, performance, lack of diagnostic information [aside: we didn't see the performance hit using the sandbox, solely in production].
Chrome has bugs and so do all the other browsers - not sure it is fair to single it out here in this post.

Overall, sure, browsers have bugs and it is a tricky platform because of that. But, it also reaches far more people than any other platform. That's a tradeoff, if it makes sense for you, make a game for it, if not then don't.