skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually just rolled out a new Dev portal at Dwolla. He I it out over at developers.dwolla.com. I tried to make it more of an integration portal, so that there's something for coders, but also for non tech people trying to figure out if Dwolla is right for them.

Mainly tho, I think that the 4sq model of being able to try out every method on the fly is super important to devs...
That's a really interesting project. And I love the graphics!
No - done over SSL
Sure. And that's why civil and criminal law provide remedies for wronged content owners.

But no-one's arguing that copying isn't wrong or a civil and possibly even criminal act. I'm explaining the distinction between infringement and theft, as it's far more relevant than the ultimately unknowable "whether or not the unjustly enriched party may have bought a license".
One practice that I use is to set an hourly reminder on my phone to tell me that I need to focus and, that I have long term plans and dreams. Positive enforcement, and it works like a charm every time I have used it.
I'm an occasional contributor to NoFlo. I find it very useful for creating NLP pipelines; i.e. doing all the tedious data munging that is necessary to turn, say, a directory full of OCRd PDFs into sentence-tokenized plain text.
In my opinion (and I was there), the never ending side projects killed Digg. Revision3 (especially), Pownce, Wefollow, etc, etc.
I left Digg for Reddit because Reddit's community at the time valued articles with content over images. As Reddit has absorbed Digg's old user base, so too did it absorb much of the culture of Digg. Reddit no longer seems to have much focus on reading and has instead become a place to find funny images, much like Digg in its heyday. It feels inevitable that the culture of a website like Reddit will change over its life span but it bothered me to see it happen first-hand.
The retina macbook is rated EPEAT gold.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
Exactly, elitism is basically empire-building on a personal level. You can of course wield influence while still being strongly meritocratic. But feeling some entitlement or ambition to control aspects of other people's lives is elitist.
Stripe is pretty spectacular.
Note that while Chromium uses WebKit as the rendering engine, it does not use JavaScriptCore as the JavaScript engine. Rather, Chromium uses V8 (which is not a WebKit project).

http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/JavaScriptCore
With a brand new payment due every month. I've not had a car payment in about 8 years </grin>.
I think the word your looking for is politician.

Fortunately the world has shown there are solutions for them, the trouble is the country usually is in a very bad position before the populace acts on that solution.
Great! Are you using a markov chain for the suggestions? Is it a "dissociated press" kind of thing?
So glad to hear. Feel free to contribute ;)
Mt. Gox offers two-factor authentication methods (Yubikey and Google Authenticator). Neither was used. Lastpass offers two-factor authentication methods (Yubikey and Google Authenticator). Neither was used.

But also, nobody who also works with Intersango had access to either of those two accounts. [Update: I may have been mislead on that as there is now conflicting information: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93074.msg1028157#msg1... ]
Considering how dumb most people's passwords are, it's likely easier than you think.
Interesting. I will take a look, thanks.
It's one of the top level comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tmtd4/what_are_th...

The list at the top of the page is perfunctory, the rest of the top-level comments are meant to add to it.
Uh...

I don't think this "rubashov" guy is an American. No American could possibly have THAT pointed a lack of knowledge of our history. Our educational system is not THAT bad.
I recommend this as a starting point for finding intellectually stimulating websites: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cktxy/reddit_let...
Apple backs down: Macs will stay EPEAT certified
This has already been done in the form of a tweak for jailbroken devices. This only brings it to unjailbroken devices.
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It's hard to learn to code, it's hard to teach kids, it's noble to help underserved kids, but the combination resulting in "Do YOU believe any kid can be the next Steve Jobs?" seems a bit off. It's probably just brand positioning and their underlying effort is to teach "new literacy" in the same vein as other non-profits combat illiteracy. I hope the program becomes popular though, it'd be nice if students can overcome the barrier to entry with the initial learning curve and get a feeling of what they can be starting on. This can help them start to learn outside of the school structure, which would make them better learners. This program is also an amusing contrast to the other new thread on Python Core Mentorships: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4240638

What are they coding in? What programs are they writing for? How does the program make sure the students continue to be interested after the program ends?
Does it support Ogg audio files? And as the other commentator mentioned does it support WebGL?

Microsoft and IE drag their heels at every opportunity with the web. I'd be happy to see IE completely fade into obscurity going into the future.

It's slowing progress down regardless of what their new fangled marketing campaigns say and we don't need it anymore.
Avoiding the login & password authentication is a desirable feature (see http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/) but a user authentication is still required at some point : unlock the secret key, use browser on public access devices, etc.

Since typing a user identification and password is not convenient with touch screen devices, we should obviously use method adapted to such types of interface. A combination of taps and slides on a changing interactive pattern could do the job. The service needs only to allow using both methods to authenticate.

A javascript widget with a commonly accepted method would be great to have.

Sending credential by mail and making their use implicit from a particular browser seems unsafe.
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My professor's favorite joke:

Java: Write once, run anywhere

Perl: Write once, run away
You are ignorant of basic facts, to the point that you should be ashamed of the laziness implicit in your reply.

Do some research, starting with googling "Jim Crow" and "Jewish quota".
Good advice generally. I also use a technique personally which works very well for me even though it could sound absurd to some. I talk to myself from time to time (not in public though :) and that works really well for me to keep my focus, motivation and passion on track.
Why math teachers feel poorly prepared
Or ask for 50% discounts.
The value in Digg was the tribe it created, not the software, not the ads, not the human beings keeping the lights on. It was the tribe of people who found interesting news on the internet and shared it.

FB, Reddit, HN did not "kill" Digg. The tribe growing up and or moving on to other things ended Digg. A similar tribe is at Reddit now, but a similar tribe used to live at Slashdot. Before that they probably lived on Usenet message boards or wherever.

In college, the comp sci program I was in had a private message board that ended up having a very similar vibe to digg/reddit/slashdot. Tech heavy, at times very heated political and religious debate. Eventually the original group graduated and it's never been quite the same.

It seems that each generation has something like digg, slashdot, reddit, whatever... that is "the thing" for hanging out and sharing/complaining about the news of the day or whatever is interesting. They might look like fads because on the internet they peak and crumble pretty quick, but really it is probably a natural cycle that communities and tribes go through.

Eventually HN and Reddit will become irrelevant to certain groups and the tribes that live there will move on to the next thing, whatever that might be.

I'm guessing the next site like this already exists or is going to be built soon, so any guesses as to what it will be if it's already out there?
"I'm a web designer and was talking to a YC company about designing their site

....a whopping grand prize of $200. They kindly let me know that they would love for me to enter."

Apparently they think everyone places zero value on their time as well.

I think this also shows a certain maturity level and knowledge of business on their part regardless of the direction they have chosen. It would have been more appropriate to show an understanding of how things work and give you a softer landing. As in "we decided we didn't want to spend money on a designer and have decided to go another route. Thanks for your time and effort."

By the way I think I figured out who you are and you do nice work. (100 billion beverage cans?).
Reusing passwords. Check.

Using passwords after they've been known to be compromised. Check.

Storing passwords protecting north of a million dollars in an online password storage system and not even using the provided two-factor auth. Priceless.

This is just like the Mtgox guys claiming the bcrypt was not good after getting caught using unsalted MD5.

This is amateur bullshit and the lack of actual penalties makes me think I should have finished the exchange I started writing. You know, one where I would have the common sense to store financial values as decimals and not floats.

These are such naively simple mistakes, it just is hard to fathom.

The first reply's conclusion is spot on

You failed to disable Mt.Gox API,

You failed to protect mt. Gox with a Yubikey,

You failed to change Lastpass password,

You failed to protect Lastpass with one of their many 2nd factor auth. (some free)

This is embarrassing to watch.
Amazing Alex the next incredible Machine(DOS Game)?
You mean like this? http://www.useit.com/

I would make a distinction between designers and researchers in the field. The researchers and scholars, almost without fail, seem to care the least about their own website aesthetics.
Interesting! Unless I'm misunderstanding a subtlety here, the common wisdom seemed to be that the retina MacBook's glue made it ineligible to get EPEAT certification and, since that style of design is obviously Apple's future direction, they pulled their EPEAT participation now.
Actually up front you are correct. BUT the banks also used those loans (which by the way, were granted with VERY favorable terms at VERY low rates) to pay bills due to other banks

Take AIG for example.. Banks made billions on payouts from AIG. Where did the money for those payouts come from? Us. The American taxpayer. So not only did the banks get their bad debts marginalized (at our expense. example: look at the sale of Bear Stearns to JP. Who assumed most of Bears' junk debt in that deal.. that's right, the tax payer.); they also got cheap cash at cheap rates; and all the inter-banks fees were paid.

In other words, the whole mess was a giant shell game. I have no doubt that some bankers knew exactly what they were doing during the whole mess. They played the Fed, Treasury and us.

And the got away with it. And they will again.

Make no mistake, the game is rigged. And not in your (the masses) favor.
> Really?

Yes, REALLY My memory seems to function better than yours.
That's probably the shortest yet most comprehensive response to "explain this". Nice!
So... how does this protect against a replay attack?

i.e. I'm sniffing traffic at a local coffee shop, or I find out your 'unique' phone ID through a malicious app.
Once I have that, I spoof my phone to be yours and suddenly I'm logged in as you.
I am a teacher and I'm excited about Securly! My observations: I usually visit students in their homes for after-school tutoring. The kids are generally preteens, too young to be exploring uncharted territories on their own, even if the parents had the "talk". In fact, almost all the parents I work with are very concerned about their kids coming across inappropriate content on web through computers and portable devices. They would like to delay this kind of "acquired worldly knowledge" as long as they can. I feel the same way as a parent myself. As to what age is appropriate, it is unique to each child and the family. Keep in mind that the decision making part of the brain does not really mature until late preteen age. All my students have special needs and parents need to be extra cautious.
I strongly hope that Securly finds its place in our homes and schools and the parents and schools must start taking proactive measures by thinking about new safeguards to put in place.
Nice, I haven't read that yet. They even have the author there. He must be getting pretty old :)
Thanks! Your contributions have been very helpful. And it is interesting to hear what you're actually using it for :-)
Absolutely. Both the quality of submission (it's an aggregator like HN or Reddit) and of discussion are unparalleled in my experience of web communities. Three things possibly related to its success:

- Lack of an upvoting mechanism, which can lead to problems

- Incredibly fair and considered moderation

- MetaTalk, an area of the site where no rules apply, and where arguments/vendettas/in-jokes can carry on out of the way
why would you name something after an already successful project with the same name.

face palm
Very cool; I'll be playing around with this a bit, looks like a nice and fast way to get started with a Node web app.

Side note: generally good practice to throw your name into Google (for example, "skeleton framework" or some combination of relevant words) to see what was returned before landing on your name (http://www.getskeleton.com/)
The question is not, "were some geniuses able to surmount discrimination", but "was there discrimination".

Your intellectual dishonesty is showing.
Why are you citing something from 1998 as an example of successful design in 2012?
I was struck by the authors comment "Well, they haven’t redesigned since what appears to be 1997, which has pleased their user base who like the simple look."

How long before web designers start complaining about reddit the way they complain about craigslist's design?
Read the fine print; it says, "Macbook Pro was rated EPEAT gold." Everywhere else, the Retina Macbook Pro is referred to as "Macbook Pro with Retina Display." They are separate products; and, I'm guessing the EPEAT gold rating does not apply to the Retina MBP (though, if someone can show otherwise, that'd be great).
It's the british journalistic tradition: every magazine or newspaper openly establishes the fact that it has certain assumptions, and then argues from there. There is no "unbiased" source when it comes to politics/economics. You'll notice that the pure empiricists do not have opinions on macroeconomics.

It's only in America that certain news organizations pretend to be unbiased arbiters.
I don't but I do cringe whenever I see the world "niggardly" regardless of how objectively irrational that is. There is a lot of nuance that goes into product branding. The parent is not making as absurd a point as you think she (?) is.
That is nearly everyone.
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I like this idea. It'll be difficult to convince the best and brightest to start using your site when they have their pick of the entire internet. Tell them that you have a space already prepared for them, with a curated list of all their previous work... might make it more tempting for them to add to it.

And don't call it "intellegacy." When I read it the first time I pronounced it "intellajesse" because I was thinking of "intelligent", then I re-read it as "intel, legacy."
Except that every sort algorithm in every library on earth falls back to selection sort (or similar) for small problems (e.g. N < 10), because that's more efficient than drilling a merge sort all the way down.
Agreed. People still would have gone elsewhere even if Reddit didn't exist.
BlackBerry Bleeding Developers? Far from it.
So you halfway implemented BrowserID. In it's current incarnation (well, originally, now it's more traditional with a password), you can create an account with an email address and login via the link sent to you in email.

Unfortunately, you're also missing out on the federated and vastly potentially more secure nature of BrowserID in the rush to say that you've "done away with logins" which at the heart of it, isn't true.
It's regional thing too. Depending on the location, the startup's values places emphasis on different things. An NYC startup probably has more emphasis on 'smoke and mirrors', and has more of a market to capitalize your design skills for.
I used to be a huge Digg fan, and checked it religiously. Digg v4 is what completely drove me away.

The Digg v4 idea was good, but poorly executed. They shouldn't have suddenly forced you to follow other people to get your news. They were trying too hard to become a social network like Twitter / Facebook. Instead, I think they should have integrated with Twitter / Facebook to find top news, rather than starting their own social network.
Please don't sell it or break it down. If it isn't costly to maintain, then don't sell it for scrap as most people seem to want it. Close sign-ups if anything, but free users look like they're happy with it and after trying it, it works nicely. It's something easy to clone and it's not really something anyone would develop on top of, so rather than selling it for its user base (selling your users) plus the concept, open-source it. If anyone wants to copy the concept, it's easy to (and anyone buying it would need to write it from scratch if they want to make money out of it, anyway).

That gives me mixed feelings…
That was really lovely. Thanks.
My favorite book on writing comes from advertising. Two authors, Kenneth Roman (former Ogivly CEO) and Joel Raphaelson (former Ogivly creative director): Writing That Works (http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Works-Communicate-Effectively-...)

This book has been transforming my long and vague e-mails, letters and blog posts into more crisp and to the point while keeping the tone of the message. Still learning, the book has tons of concrete advice to follow.
Why? You still have a password. You now have a password you don't know, that's entered on your behalf by querying some aspect of your phone, but it's still a password in a database that can be compromised if the database is compromised.

I now need to pretend to be your phone, instead of pretending to be you, but that's not such a leap, security wise.

If some library becomes common and used by multiple sites, now you're even worse off, because now, you have the same "password" on multiple sites, and you are relying on each site salting this "password" for your security. Since you now no longer have the option of using different passwords on different sites, your security is now completely out of your hands and you are at the mercy of each person using this "mobile authentication library" to properly salt before saving it into their database.
They will, once (if?) google goggles gets off the ground.
Their environmental report for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display (PDF: http://images.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/macbookpro_...) specifically says it "Achieves a Gold rating from EPEAT".
Clearly this IS a bug and not a feature. No doubt.

And, yes, this has already been a properly filed (but ignored) "request" for at least a year or more. That's why I'm always glad to see it pop up as a regular post.

If HN is listening, here's the fix: Make the [more] link go to its best guess by TIME or by RANK (depending on which is being shown). Who cares if the sequence numbers match (i.e. 39 was last on the page, you click next and 44 is at the top of the page)? If that bothers anal retentive types then include a NEXTSEQ variable in the [more] link so the page can fake it. Again, who cares if my #44 is your #32? This is a news feed not a database-of-record.

Does this "paper over" the problem? Sure, but the user experience would be all the better for it. Just make [more] work please.
He is retired, but seems happy to help us "youngsters" understand his concepts.
Wow, great work! It takes a lot of effort to think and write in character (phrases, vocabulary, and most importantly mood).

I've had a lot of fun tweeting as the old-timey characters for one of my brands (https://www.blamestella.com/news) but it's definitely felt like hard work at times. Huge kudos for really breaking it down and simplifying it.
Similar, yes. The main difference here is the role that you (the user) play in shaping the output.
When a group is more gender-equal, in my experience, it's more polite.
So if I want to login from multiple devices, or if I drop my device in a lake and create a new one... I still have to "relogin" via a link sent to my email.

As I mentioned in my other comment, just use BrowserID. It's federated, it's in the hands of the user, and it can be vastly more secure than this can be (and it prevents everyone from having to implement this system if they just support it).

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The other cool idea plays off of what Google tried a while back. You could open a browser session on a new computer to login to Google and it presented a QR code. If you scanned it from a logged in Google Account Android phone, it would automatically unlock your browser session. No passwords needed, just a proof-of-(identity/trust) solution.
Can't they eliminate the manufacturing risk by outsourcing the hardware 100% to a company like ASUS that already has a working supply chain and significant experience with Tegra 3 and Android?
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About a week ago I switched my new webapp PelFind, http://pelfind.com/, from fully open to beta mainly because it was buggy. I'd appreciate if you'd check it out and provide your honest feedback, I'd also love to get more beta testers.

Thanks.
Isn't that a problem with phone-based email and apps already? For example, how many people have their email set to ask for a password each and every time and who has the facebook app set to ask for a password each launch? If I had someone's mobile phone, I could easily use the "forgot password" link on most web services and then just pull up the email client.
Would this not mean that to do administrative tasks you need to be using a Windows 7 Pro computer and could not do it from a Windows Home, Mac or Linux box?
Not really. Our game studio builds browser-based exclusively, and IE is the biggest paint point we have.
I'm rather sad to see the Ouya posts and comments like this on HN.

There is no science to the knockdown - it's just naysaying.

It's not like they're raising to build something really crazy like a space vehicle that docks with ISS.

Many developers/startup community have to deal with naysayers all week - and come here to get away from it - to talk/think/discuss about possibilities and innovation.

This is first article I've ever flagged.
That's actually the first thing I checked once I saw the press release. It mentions that they're putting EPEAT Gold certification on their eligible products, and I'm curious if ineligible products means some of the accessories they sell, and that all their computers meet EPEAT gold.
"I recognize that this was a mistake." strikes me as a very un-appleish communication style.
It means one of two different things:

Either Apple has changed the glue used in the retina MBP's to go in-line with EPEAT's certification, or the glue was not rated by EPEAT, which would cause them to not certify it in the first place, but it did satisfy the other requirements, so Apple was able to force the certification through.
While I agree that pg's example is a bit extreme, the point still stands. At the beginning stages, great design won't determine the success of the product. Having customers will. So time and money is better spent in other areas. This isn't to say they won't come to you eventually when a better design is needed. Great design is still important, just not at the stage this company is at.