skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure that ssl exposes url? I was under the impression that the connection handshake happened before any of the rest of the http protocol.
New Flashback malware variant found in the wild
I set up a posterous account. I email myself things I want to check back on. I usually give it a title that means something to me, which may or may not be the same as the actual article title, and I include both the direct link to the article and the link to the HN item just in case the submission gets killed, because if it is killed you lose the article link. Sometimes I add a few notes to myself about why I am keeping it or what I thought or something.
That's why they say, "Always do business with family."
Ask Sahil Lavingia - pinterest designer, gumroad founder - a question
We're now using this for production metrics at Square - thanks to the builtin Graphite support - and it's changed everything about how we can visualize them. This is faster, more intuitive, and more beautiful than anything that rrdtool graph or Graphite's grapher can kick out. Absolutely recommended to anybody who needs to have realtime visual feedback about system performance.
That is great, I couldn't wait to have something like that!!!
Evernote already does a great job with ocr for searching images (along with your notes).
Didn't apply to YC but, I can attest to this first hand.
If you get billions of dollars, you'll be happy that the asteroid mining guys put the space infrastructure in place to allow you to do really cool things.
Hey, let's use XOR-encrypt -- it works so well in the movies!

But seriously, it's nice to see this sort of post about breaking into the inbreakers' code.

I'm a little surprised that people are treating logging into the FTP server (if not deleting the keylogs) as a legal gray area. I understand the moral dilemma of vigilante justice, but in principle, just doing an FTP connect and LIST seems to be well within your right, given that they gave you software which logs in and makes a directory and sends your keylog. Is there a real concern that someone will take you to court for that?
When I was an employee (developer at various web shops in London) I worked the normal 5-day week.

When I started my first company, I worked 5-days a week for the first year or so, when it was just me. Then before we hired our first employee, we switched to the 4-day week.
The problem is not when Facebook sends you targeted ads. It is when third parties access your information to target you in other ways.

Think of the Girls Around Me app. Or employers who want to look at people's FB. Or governments who want to spy on their own people. (Anyone who thinks that the USA doesn't should look at the history of the FBI. And you'd be amazed what can get twisted out of shape during lawsuits.) The 21st century has not had any serious demonstrations of how this can be abused. But it is just a question of time.

And that's just generic. Consider for a moment a spear phishing attack. I am trying to attack target company X. I find all of the FB accounts that I can for employees of X. I then find all of their friends. I now target their presumably less careful friends, and when I find one I then send a targeted phishing attack at the person I really want from their friend. (I do something like promise vacation photos, and then show what appears to be an internal server error, but actually is a malicious page. The target gets compromised, thinks it is a bad URL, moves on...)
you just rewrote my post in other words. Of course I know how to send POST and I call this a little bit "new" vector only because even good developers(check showcases to make sure) use 'match' and forget to specify :via. And it looks OK to them because they miss the point - all GET requests skip protect_from_forgery filter in Rails - this is how it works.

>If you're a web dev making these mistakes then you need to take the time to learn about basic web security.

Honestly, I didn't say it loudly but I meant it. Not understanding GET/POST makes person low skilled dev.
You can’t run around with a sign "Join my startup", right? Duh! Now you can
no, I'm using loads of data-points, including reading about organization near the top as reported by business sources, as well as comments at various places that I can link to (including here), and finally by observing Google's actions as done and as reported. I can detail all of this for you if you like, but, really, it's not so hard to put together. Come to your own conclusion.
> (like somehow with mobile which they currently make no revenue from)

That's not true. They are collecting data about you while you are on mobile and using it to feed their ad algorithms for when you are on desktop. Even if you are the super rare person who never uses Facebook from a browser, your data is useful because it influences what your friends see and click on, which influences advertising for them.
Growth is the concern of investors. They want multiples of their investment, and hence want the company to grow.
I get the feeling that this is also going to force Amazon to lower their S3 prices. To store 100GB on S3's standard storage costs around $12/month right now [http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/]. Even if Dropbox were getting the best price on that page, it would still cost them $3.7/month to store 100GB.
depends I didn't see any banner and one could argue that his posting was covered by hue and cry :-)

"In common law, a hue and cry is a process by which bystanders are summoned to assist in the apprehension of a criminal who has been witnessed in the act of committing a crime."
Making the Web Fast(er) one page at a time / RailsConf
Unless, of course, Yelp or whoever else used the service also ran a man-in-the-middle and captured the information being passed back and forth.
Magic SOAP - Objective-C code from WSDL
Even though gouranga is being downvoted for saying the same thing I'm about to, it bears repeating. Specs matter in the Android world. The faster the phone, the better your experience. This is a tradeoff of an open, general purpose mobile OS. In iOS and Windows Phone, the software is catered directly to the hardware. Faster hardware does not mean you're going to ever notice an increase in speed inside the OS.

So when people say "yes, but can it match my dual core, 1.5Ghz, whatever else flagship Android phone?", the answer is simply "it doesn't matter". That's not a cop-out, that's not a defense, that's the truth. Windows Phone and iOS are built for their hardware and always run at a constant speed. It doesn't have bleeding edge hardware, but it doesn't need it in order to run as fast as a flagship Android phone.
Tor Books goes completely DRM-free
When did commerce become a bad thing?
Check out http://www.getsocialize.com/, you can get a chat within 5 min. Really great.
No argument there. Like I say in the post, I'm all in favor of the goodness of the basics. I just think that giving undergrads all theory and very little practice is not optimal, and they should have the opportunity to go minimal on theory if it makes sense for them. Very few universities offer such a choice today.
The point is to sync so if your local computer fails you can retrieve them. A situation could occur where your hard drive fails AND you're locked out of your Google Drive account.
High school doesn't have to suck if you're weird
Firefox 12 released
Not instead of. In addition to.
My Cubicle It Doesn’t Have A View
[citation extremely needed]
I could counter with my own anecdata, but it wouldn't be useful. It sounds like you had a bad experience in one state and extrapolated it to the entire region.
Commandment: Make backups.

If you violate this commandment, you will eventually lose your data.

Commandment: Test your backups.

If you violate this commandment, you will discover that you weren't ACTUALLY making backups.
That's especially true if they're controlled and funded by people with long-term vision who care more about getting important things done than they care about short-term profits. That's how SpaceX could spend so long burning money out of Elon Musk's pocket before they started turning a profit. This company has the same kind of backing: some very rich people who really want to see asteroid mining happen, and don't give a damn which congressional district gets to manufacture the hardware for it.
Ask HN: When do you see something you want to come back to later?
For me personally: 1. When I see an email that I need to act on but at a later time. 2. When I find a cool song on Pandora while working and don't want to interrupt what I am doing to jot it down. 3. An interesting event which comes up on Twitter or via email which I want to look into when (if) I have some free time.

Please share your ideas!
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Quick everyday scripting in bash
Are there any good visual hacking tools?
Each company is different but I think the way you start a company is usually the way it continues. You can't work 100 weeks then suddenly switch to something sane.
Don't forget your phone, and eventually, your car!!! I give them points for being ambitious.
why does it need access to manage my contacts? I'm pretty sure they're trying to take advantage of the hype to spam my address book. not positive though as I'm not going to sign up.
Girls Around Me was a Foursquare app. And in any case, it only used public information. Facebook offers finely grained privacy controls that allow you to control what third parties can and cannot access- they do a far better job of it than Apple and Google do, IMO.

Obviously, illegitimate access is an entirely different topic.
Apple Infringes on Motorola Mobility Patent
Does anyone know if this exists for postgres?
I think his point was that this could be a way to backup certain critical data without having to think about it… but that their history of hands-off customer service & support may prevent that type of use.
Intro to node.js slide show app written in node.js
They have a fair amount of experience going about it the way they do (since the X-1). It looks like it will take a while to go through all the data and figure out what material / structure changes they need to make. It also makes a couple of other countries a little antsy flying this type of beast.
There is a slight snag that arguments to a function are eagerly evaluated. A built-in if function would be more useful as a special form.
What was/is Yahoo!?

Was it a search engine? Was it a portal?

Is it a news site? Is it a media site? Is it a portal? Is it a tech company?

I think Facebook will always be a social network that's focused on building its core product(s) with good technical people.
Would anyone be interested in disrupting this space? My friend and I have been working on something we quite like that deals with subjectivity/ethics concerns, but it's a tough space to be in, and we'd love some help. If you want to get in touch, email us at questionasker[at]liveDotCA
I'm very suspicious of your review of Yelp.

> Business owners complain about getting demoted in Google's PageRank algorithm quite a bit, too.

Google rankings fluctuate over time, but it is never the result of a direct targeting of an individual company or URL by google, whereas there is ample evidence that Yelp directly targets individual businesses depending on whether or not they are paying customers.
> A: Use the 1995 solution.

But not in the "back to square one" meaning, it is rather "next level of a spiral staircase". I believe there's still room for improvement (definitely there is over the '95 low tech and probably over what we have now) in the way we can combine internet and the '95 solution to find good <mover / restaurant / hairdresser ... etc>

Time will tell - lots of money goes into social, someone will do it right or at least we'll know what obstacles prevent this from happening.
Just FYI, the entire HTTP request is encrypted with SSL, including the URL. Otherwise https://www.google.com/?q=sensitive+query would be pretty pointless!
Growth is so important because that's the reason something is a good investment vehicle. You invest because you want to increase the amount of money you put in, not keep it the same.

Bottom line, the article is talking about growth in revenue and income. The article outlines that growth can come by two ways: growth in the number of users and the growth in $/user. It claims that the former has little upside because of how large Facebook already is. It raises questions about the latter.
How Big Government Saves Us From Being Europe
Why Is a Patent Troll in Luxembourg Suing U.S. Public Transit Agencies?
It did occur to me. If your information is _that_ valuable then you have a different class of problem than the inconvenience of entering a password on a device with a soft keyboard.
Olie: avocado tegen overgewicht en kanker
yeah, probably a new dataset and hopefully more 'history proven', less primitive - more meaningful quotes will appear soon.
Unless you have a legal issue unique to your startup, you can always get general legal advice from mentors and advisors and the HN community - someone just asked about terms of service, for example. You're probably too small for anyone to care to sue you.

But if you're raising money, having contracts signed, you really should work with a lawyer. Asking other startups in your area who they used is a good first step - you want to find a lawyer who specializes in working with early-stage companies, who can avoid some of the legal traps, many of which deal with tax issues associated with stock options and entity conversion. My personal opinion is that there's no good substitute for a good lawyer - using forms from LegalZoom just seems like a really bad idea.

I would also suggest getting a lawyer if your startup business model depends on a fine-tuned understanding of the law. For example, just the other day, a startup that was copying the structure and pagination of textbooks was sued by Pearson and other major textbook publishers. They're venture-backed, which probably means they consulted lawyers and understood the legal risks beforehand. Before spending tons of resources, I think you might want to know whether or not what you're doing is illegal, and whether you are prepared to deal with the legal risks.

Disclaimer: These statements are merely my personal opinions and do not constitute legal advice.
Free UX Idea: Never ending browsing.
Contrary to what that page says, my Google Drive client lists 205GB of space which is the free amount plus the exact amount I got with the old storage plan I have since the days when that was only 75GB (it got upgraded over time for the same price)
Minecraft Creator Settles Piracy Dispute With Deathmatch
I do agree that a lot of valid reviews are being thrown out with the bathwater. There should be a better mechanism to show all unfiltered reviews.

The thing that Yelp that makes it stand above other review sites is that they incentive positive reviews. Like Yelp or not, the idea of "Yelp Elite" is actually a great idea, because it is able to draw out a lot of medium to great reviews, stuff you would rarely see on other sites. When you incentive reviews, either good or bad, then you do tend to eliminate this "one-and-done" bias that tends to focus on the negative.

That being said, my wife is/was a Yelp Elite for several years with over 800 reviews, but quit this year because she thinks that Yelp as a whole has started to go downhill, and doesn't like the pretentiousness of most people on there now.
Well put. This may seem obvious to the HN crowd, but not as much to those outside of the field.
Dear demoted loyal friend, if you hear please write what is your point of view? Do you see yourself as a demoted loyal friend or a demoted successful something?

I wish I could read the other side of this story too. Finally everyone writes as if they are the king, and they see, decide, change, demote, promote and they live in a continuum of rightness and success, or?
I think the parsing method in this article was borrowed from Crockford's TDOP article, except it parses a simpler language than Javascript.
"Roboticists have known for a while that ceilings are remarkably good navigation references, try as you might they are often quite different to the discerning camera."

Would this work in an absolute sense, providing absolute location, or in a relative sense, like an optical mouse, sampling the ceiling and comparing each sample to the previous?
I think we'll see a lot of remote supercomputers in the future. For applications where bandwidth or latency aren't critical this makes a lot of sense.

Iceland is another great example of this. I recently visited there and they have a huge surplus of energy. They have heated sidewalks, everyone heats their houses 24/7 and they're still only using some tiny fraction of their natural geothermal energy (I think around 2%).

If I had to build a supercomputer for long-running computations, I'd build it there.
>it's with them exploiting people's ignorance to get it.

How are they exploiting any kind of ignorance? What is the average GDrive user unaware of that Google is somehow evil for not disclosing in large, red, 52pt Impact?

And I quoted you saying "evil" because it's the relevant portion that I was responding to. You could have gone with "Hmm, cloud storage has a few drawbacks..." but no, you went full derp.
This can also be done by using LEDs and smartphone cameras, which actually gives a higher resolution. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39685/
Yes, those are nice commandments. But most Google users aren't nearly tech savvy to follow them.
Oh, certainly, that wasn't the point of the quote. I was just pointing out how supremely stupid these guys were, for everything they gave us. But it probably falls lightly under burden of proof.

There's a quote which I thought was from a friend of mine, but when I asked him, he denies ever saying it, so I'm not sure where it's from: "Philosophy is the history of bad arguments." I just quoted Russel, because he's a bit more of a respected authority on the subject.
Do you have a link to a video of the talk? I'm guessing this wasn't his 2010 Startup School talk about why not to do a music startup.
You're correct it was intended to be foreign keys, correctly updated now.

I believe the difference would be on the constraint. A primary key is intended to be unique, where as an index does not alway carry that constraint.
It's extremely difficult to create a new revenue stream as a big company. Facebook doesn't have a further scalable business model and i don't see them looking for a new one like Google does. Instagram was a defensive move, exactly the opposite.
Drive competes with lots of SAAS companies!!
or can you compress the damn things?
God says...

departed suitably presumption Augustine
Link to your entry?
Yeah, that's what I meant. I've tried several different
browsers and it's not working for me. Strange.
Sure, now imagine that ADP, Telco, Visa, HP and Dell are the same company.
I know. We lacked practice at the university too. I don't think you can blame the university for that, though. Practical things are better taught by people who actually use them on the job, not by PhDs who write scientific papers. That's why I went to long-term internship at an actual company during my second year, which later turned into a full-time job.
"The Ad's are not targeted at all"

Have you ever run an ad on Facebook? The level of detail you can get into when targeting is incredible. Because people have liked places, added their location etc. you can target an ad at people who live in a specific city and like x.

e.g. If I was selling tickets to a Foo Fighters concert in Toronto I could target the ad so only people who live in Toronto AND have liked the Foo Fighters page get shown the ad.
I'm not so sure about that. They didn't give away the Nexus S (or any phone for that matter) last year, and I believe the Nexus S was launched around roughly the same time as the Galaxy Nexus was, relative to the date of the conference.

If they're giving away any phone at all, I'm guessing it might be a Galaxy S III, just because that's the only major phone that I'm aware of that's launching around the same time as the conference...
Growth could be flat and if they paid dividends and stock price stayed flat as well I'd be perfectly happy to buy that stock.
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I completely agree, huge company, huge resources, lotsa money. With all that, making a Linux client would be super easy, any highschool kid can go ahead and just build it, but with their resources, they can make a just-as-good Linux client very easily.

Damn, this pisses me off, seems like a great product I just can't use. Ubuntu One and Dropbox seem like the best alternatives now.

Also, Google Earth on Linux is indeed a joke, I think it's Wine.
Cost is not an issue compared to convenience. From 1992 to about 4 years ago, I used mostly Linux (desktop and servers). Now I have gone down the dark path of living in APple's little walled garden (except for servers). I don't care if Google Drive is a lot cheaper than iCloud: with OS X Mountain Lion and an iPad, using Apple's iCloud storage is just more convenient. BTW, with OS X Mountain Lion it is strange that for some apps the default storage is iCloud and not your local disk (although obviously you work from a local copy).

That said, it will be interesting to see apps built on top of Google Drive APIs.
New Dolby Technology to Make Horror Movies Scarier
And so the insane hyperbole begins.
surely do, thanks for brightening my morning each day, I look forward to reading it with my coffee each day!
Your contacts are used for auto complete, they won't be spammed.
That sounds like a problem with your friends, not Facebook. I have never seen one of those posts on Facebook. I see them all the time on Twitter as they are retweeted a lot. I have around 150 friends on Facebook, all of whom I now well 'in real life' and 90% of the content I see is interesting and relevant.
This is a great question, which I'd love to know more about myself. You mentioned legal documents. I'd also love to know more about protecting your domain/product name from potential trademark issues. Even if your domain name
doesn't infringe anyone's trademark today, how to prevent it from happening in the future? How to deal with that in a global market? I'm not much worried about people stealing my ideas, but rather worried about people preventing me from developing my own idea. Any book recommendation on the subject would be very welcome.
>You're getting into dangerous legal territory there (technically you are by just connecting to the FTP I guess).

How would you be? The software which was unsolicitedly installed on your computer is already going to be making that connection whether you want it to or not.
"[Some users] store multiple terabytes."

They are certainly not a replacement for S3, but could be a substitute for some use cases. Also, they can certainly change their stance at any point, but they are certainly committed to truly unlimited.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/02/03/backblaze-is-committed-...

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/10/26/backblaze-2-0-unlimitin...
Code Avengers: The most effective online Javascript tutorial?
Why not? I guess the features would have to be large/visible enough to be picked up by the camera. For initialization some kind of qr-codes could be placed wihtin the relative positioning patterns...