skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a whole different discussion/argument by itself.

For most transportation 400km is plenty. That's a week of transport for my family and me.
Show HN: Get a perfect elevator pitch
http://pitchremix.com

About a month ago, I launched this site. I got a ton of great feedback and updated the service.

Some things I've changed:

- Site is much simpler and has less text to read

- I've gotten a few testimonials

- We now work with you to make the pitch. So there's a lot of back and forth.

All feedback is appreciated. Thanks!
Ask HN: The best current CRM solution
I wanted to get peoples take on the currently available CRM management systems and what works well for everyone. I know salesforce is the "best" but it is very expensive. Is it work investing in?

Here are my facts.

1. I'm going to be dealing with a lot of customers / cold calls. roughly 300 - 600 a week.
2. Everything will be web based i.e email, forums
3. I will be managing a team of 10 which needs to hit 10 hot leads per day.
4. I will need good reporting and graphs for management to evaluate my progress.
5. I will need social media integration and finding across all networks.

Any ideas?
Get ShiftIt, and you can maximize without needing to piss about:

https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt/issues/72#issuecomment-3727710

(You want this build, rather than the official one from its page on the git hub.)
Clickable: http://pitchremix.com/
Thanks for pointing that out as well. I'll work in a solution to that.
The solution, obviously, is to have the Login form default to HTTPS, but then have an unencrypted version as well (linked from the FAQ page where it can be found by those in need).
I was in my garden, the sun was on the screen. Looked more-or-less nude from where I sat.
What do you develop Windows app with? I've been toying with making a Windows version of web only app I am working on, but so far the only option seems to be using C# with .NET. Are there any other options out there? (Not that I have an issue with C#)
I take it you have not seen this yet (linked elsewhere in the thread, but it's been on HN a few times): http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho...
The article somehow implies that the feed-in tariff is Germany was 0.57 EUR until 2011 when it was cut 29%. In fact, there is a formula for automatic tariff cuts built into the law that introduced them: if i recall it correctly, tariff goes 8% down each year at least, but more if there is over 3.5 GW installed. That way, they descended to the levels that are currently much below retail electricity prices there, 0.17-0.24 EUR depending on the size of installation, with electricity being 0.24-0.29 depending on the region. And yet it is highly profitable to install solar systems there.

Retail grid parity in Germany has been achieved.
I'm sure you've seen this[1] before, but the answer is probably more of a feedback loop. The big-money movies could afford to do more color alterations that caused movies to appear to "pop", getting audiences used to those colors, forcing less-expensive movies to do the same as the technology to do so became cheaper.

1. http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho...
What happened in 1977?
Is Microsoft viewed as "the" innovative company or even "an" innovative company? They're playing more catch-up now, even though they have the knowledge inside to actually impress. There are lies, damn lies and quarterly earning reports.
Really? Sounds like a great opportunity to blackmail the CIA to me.

One of the disadvantages of committing illegal and morally questionable acts is that you become vulnerable to the consequences of the disclosure of those acts.
Right but if you create a layer of plausible deniability you are still responsible for the consequences. If the head honcho says "Yeah you can kill the people on the list I haven't seen" I don't understand why seeing the list is a requirement for them to be responsible. Otherwise, what is the point of them authorising the act? May as well not bother.
If push comes to shove, is there a tool out there to export the links and titles of my favourite videos?
According to the compute engine talks from this year's google IO, they have their own private network covering most of the world and uses anycast for external Internet Addresses. This basically means that a connection from you will be routed to the nearest google data center, and from there to the final server using google's private network.

Google DNS uses both anycast and multihoming, so you will both be routed to the nearest google data center and then to the closest DNS server inside google's private network.
they're totally worth it:

- less time spent optimising
- fewer machines needed (can pile a lot more data on to one server)

If money really is an issue then something like flashcache might be a good stepping stone (https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/)
Guy Kawasaki's GREAT PR Resource
Perhaps the whole idea of "Real names" is outdated in the days of the internet. Since they have problems.

They collide, especially with a common name. Somebody googles your name and it may be difficult to find the "real" you.

Also people are pretty bad at spelling, many peoples names are very hard to spell. Not to mention that many of them are going to use different character sets.

Besides, if your life revolves around your internet identity. Is that a less legitimate identity than your real name?

It may be more practical for parents to assign some sort of "default handle" to their children which is expected to be changed as the child gets older.

For government purposes, perhaps a unique ID that cannot be changed would work better?
> "At a big company (like Amazon) there are good managers and bad managers."

This is a lousy excuse and doesn't stand up to scrutiny. I too had a bad manager at Amazon. So did my roommate. So did my friends in the company. So did his friends.

In fact, I was a returning intern who went back full-time with dozens of other employees, and here we are 3 years in... and practically no one remains. I can count the number of people who have stuck around on a single hand.

Look into Amazon's employee attrition rate. Eye-opening. Hell, if you can, go to one of the company all-hands, where at some point they encourage new employees to stand up (hired in the last quarter)... that's not company growth, that's replenishment.

Amazon has consistently one of the worst retention rates, if not the very worst out of all the tech "majors". The problematic management is incredibly pervasive, and I'd argue that the islands of sound management are the exception, not the rule.

Be very, very, very wary of working for Amazon.
On why Indians do not buy online
> Navigation: Links open up with the system web browser

What if I want to open another web app, like a calculator?

Say I create an App Launcher where I drop web app icons and expect them to run on click. How do I do that?
Yeah, well this a problem. It shouldn't be considered extreme to have this point of view.
Vagrant Usage Patterns
Great stuff, thanks. Right now, money isn't the issue exactly; it's the time it would take to migrate, especially when I don't have a huge pressing need. Next server though, I'll be there! :)
I don't think "vindicated" is quite the word - as far as I know, the author hasn't taken any significant flak for it, nor have I heard much about it beyond "Huh, yeah, they do look like that now." I would just go with "this analysis is in agreement with this other one."
If your manager was a dealer, and you could document his dealing, it seems like the problem could have been trivially solvable.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't code of the following form fix the timing attack?

int MAX_RESPONSE_TIME;
start = Date.Now();
user = Database.findUser(email);
SleepUntil(start + MAX_RESPONSE_TIME);
return user;
V***** Envy
There's generally a lot of talk about how the tech community isn't friendly enough to women, right? Too must testosterone, too much condescension upon exhausted stereotypes. Too much hair in all the wrong places.

But hey, we're doing alright -- we're doing better. So many more programming-for-women workshops. In Montreal we've have some amusing oversights by various tech communities (in particular some offense about grandmas http://bit.ly/jxiqwL ) that have been called out on quite immediately and fixed out of sheer respect.

And now even great stories like Marissa Mayer becoming CEO of Yahoo... Oh, wait. Scanning the headlines of HN today I saw this: "Marissa Mayer's looming hormonal crisis" as well as all the other bull that's been flying helplessly around in the last several days.

So this is a call out to all of us. Don't devolve. Hold on to the mildly acceptable progress we've made in our field and keep it progressing. Otherwise we might as well invest in some fire hoses.
How cybersecurity is like Star Trek's transporter
Kinda weird being told I need to switch to Chrome from Chrome (for iOS).
I've had a Pwn plug for about a year now. What a powerful tool. In this form factor social engineering will be very simple. "Hi, I'm Jake from IT and we're required to replace your power strip for compliance with electrical code and fire code. It will just take a minute." I am sure white-hats love this tool to prove to their clients how vulnerable and susceptible they really are.
Proof of the divisibility rule of 17
Screenshots are great; however, that particular screenshot could have been heavily redacted for the benefit of those reading in a professional environment.
I don't mean to be facetious, but there are also developers, and I mean that in the loosest sense of the word, that call $100 their daily rate. My guess is that both parties need to maximise the value/profit ration by negotiating. $10k sounds right as we are delving into hypotheticals.
Why newly startup founders should know this
While an assumption, it is possible Page learned from Job, in which case Google should have another competitor they should thank. The important lesson is that Page & comp were not too proud not to learn from others, especially from their successful competitors. Jobs himself learned a lot while taking some time off and had enough humility to turn things over to Tim Cook when he did not have the physical energy to perform at his own standard.
"What are tuition fees like at the sort of community colleges which offer part-time vocational programs"

The school I attended didn't really have the concept of "full vs part time" it was solely credit hours with one minor little exception of $7.50 for liability insurance per semester no matter how many or few credits.

Fifteen years ago when I got my near worthless associates it was approx $1000 for 16 credits per semester. Next fall its exactly $1870.40 for the same 16 credits, however there is a MINIMUM material fee and MINIMUM activity fee adding up to at least $176 per class, even if the class involves no materials or activities. Also there is a mandatory liability insurance fee for all students tacked on at the end of the bill (Student has coverage if during carpentry class he drives a nail thru his classmates hand, that type of thing). If you take classes online its an extra $160, apparently its extremely expensive to heat and cool a virtual classroom... or some BS like that. It would be very difficult to escape below $2100 per semester at full time, so lets call it $1050 in the fall of 2012 for half/part time per semester (at 3 semesters per year)

The killer problem is I've never found a corporate employer who cares about AS degrees... considered no different than graduating high school. Perhaps Amazon is the first employer I've ever heard of who cares about a AS degree. My entire career has been about knowing people and no one cared about my AS degree. Now that I've been out in the world for awhile, no one cares about the BS degree I later received, either.

The "electronics telecommunications" AS degree requirements were basically the standard EE curricula minus about 64 credits of liberal arts and electives (the suggested curricula had only one possible elective... Instead of photography or whatever I chose microcontroller programming, crazy me). They had a variety of options where you could transfer into the local public or private engineering school after your AS to get your BSEE degree, basically 64 credits of history/fine arts/writing/foreign language/etc plus a little extra math and science (diffeqs, second semester physics, those are the only two "technical" classes I can remember as requirements).
In the countries that actively pursue renewables, they take a good share of the energy mix. Germany went from 6% of renewable electricity (nearly all hydropower) in 1990 to 21% in 2011 and about 24% now, and from 3% of overall energy mix (including heating, fuels, etc., not just electricity) in 1990 to 12% now. And current rates of adoption is at least 2% per year for electricity and 1% for overall mix. That's a big deal. Most renewables have already worked themselves out to be competitive.
the kind of jobs that would be created would be to install and maintain these robots and machines, until someone figures a way to automate that as well
Btw, are there any google groups open yet for this so we can ask silly questions?

* Found it: chromium-apps
It always amazes me how a business can be built out of anything, "fork lift battery inventory" You just need to find a pain point.
As far as luck goes, I do consider myself lucky that something I enjoy and have passion for happens to be in demand and lucrative.

If programming wasn't worth the money it is, I'd either be making less money or doing something else that I maybe don't have the same aptitude for.

So to that extent, lucky that the market values us so much for something many of us were innately drawn to anyways.
New Memory Method Lets Users Remember Long Passwords Subconsciously
> The core of how the language works (imperative, prototypical) is great.

Some might disagree with this assertion. I don't think I'd ever put imperative in the pros column for JS, and in any case its imperative nature doesn't really distinguish it from most popular languages.
>It is hard to get everybody up to the latest version (even if the upgrades are free)

Automatic patching helps with this, although it requires a little more work designing a patching system (you might not want everyone hitting your servers at once), and it doesn't affect everyone (some people's computers are offline or require a proxy to be set up for patching.)
Controlling the Nexus Q LED Ring
It's the difference between being held responsible (politically, maybe, eventually) for a botched policy execution and being held responsible legally for a criminal act. Plausible deniability shields you from the former for long enough that the political news cycle has stopped caring and shields you almost absolutely from the latter.
He offered $45 an hour expecting you to ask up to $50.
Correction: most people you interview don't demonstrate that they're good, for whatever reason. Is that because they aren't good? Or is there another reason? Since you won't be working with them, you'll probably never know.
Simple, no fluff, but makes me want to work there
The earliest versions of NaCl attempted to align to the mess that is NPAPI, but that was literally years ago. For the last few years NaCl has used PPAPI, which is well-defined, more loosely coupled to the web, and has a clean versioning mechanism: https://developers.google.com/native-client/pepperc/
Full Time Consulting - A One-Month Retrospective
That sounds like a pretty ideal position assuming you have a consistent stream of new work.
I find Google's new policies surprising. Maybe "surprising" isn't the right word, but it's certainly a change in attitude that seems to ignore their own history. They started off by giving the web what it wanted and needed, a no-bullshit search service, adapting themselves to the web and profiting from it. Now they are trying to adapt the web to them, and I just don't see it going that way. Pseudonymity and the web go together, I really have my doubts in their their ability to remove it, influential as they are. Granted, Facebook may have changed people's attitudes towards pseudonymity, but I tend to think it's still something people fundamentally want.
You get more than just "no ads". It also provides domain filtering, which is a nice feature with kids and a million internet connected devices.
> One which resembles our own, duh.

Thought so you have no examples.
This is a great read. Thank you for posting this link!
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean's impressive features for the Visually Challenged
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."
In the waffle case it's different since they were personally making the waffles and spending the money to give them away. This should not have been interfered with.

In an open market, yes. But this was at a municipal festival. It's quite likely that the festival itself was in part funded by fees paid by licensed vendors. You might argue that the festival should be paid for some other way, and maybe that was the point. If so, the protest probably should have included some demonstration of an alternative.

If the purpose was to draw a parallel with file-sharing, it missed the mark. The real problem with the modern music industry isn't that people are charging for music, it's that distributors are taking the lion's share of the money when they are no longer needed. They maintain their position artificially through marketing, essentially manipulating demand at the expense of the consumer and the vast majority of artists. Without them, more money would go directly to more artists and there would be fewer mega-acts.
Very simple no-nonsense password manager that uses directories and gpg
Since the paper is about the new method, one assumes the examples show the new method's results. The first impression, is that the new method isn't very effective.
Crowdsourcing a marketing plan: A $1,000 shared prize
I thought this would be interesting. PieceWise is trying to crowdsource a marketing plan with lots of crazy ideas. Thoughts on whether this is going to work? There's some cool features; for instance, the project is open-source so anyone can contribute to and use the plan. Also, the $1,000 is shared so the amount you get depends on how much you contribute.
Human brain has a limited ability to juggle a large amount of independent balls at the same time. This is a biological constraint, there is no Moore's law for human brains.

Code complexity is given by the invariants size, not by the actual code size.

If you couple N concerns in 16 lines of code, your invariants may become quite large and you have to keep them all at the same time in your head. Worse, the invariants may dramatically change when you do a "one liner" bug fix. When you decouple your N concerns into N code units, then each unit of code has a clear simple easy to understand meaning/concern. Bonus, there is a lot less risk to have you app subtly do something else as a result of "minor" changes.
Really? I've never had that problem for movies. There are times apps seem to take a long time to update, though. I'll have to experiment.
I really like your 1 penny per account pricing. :-)
I've never met a technician (outside the government) who didn't have his own tools. This is probably why.
Google Begins Practically Begging You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube
How did you build it up to that level?
Nice post on startups helping each other out!
I believe there is some subtlety to this. As a Norwegian I notice Americans co-workers often crave more praise and positive feedback than say Northern European co-workers. Americans also more actively give praise. However that doesn't mean that Northern Europeans don't like to be praised. But one needs to feel that the person giving it is honest about it. I try to give praise when I know people have performed better than is normal for them.

I know myself that I find it just irritating if I get praise for mediocre work, which should be plain to see for anybody who care that it isn't anything special.

I don't know Bangladesh culture but I would expect that there would be similar mechanisms at work. They don't want unwarranted praise. They wanted when they have performed well.

I am guessing because from when I lived in the US, there was one thing I could find common ground among all other foreign students whether they were Japanese or Spanish and that was that American optimism and positivism is a bit alien to everybody. Don't misunderstand I think it is quite admirable that Americans are so positive and can-do attitude. The rest of the world could certainly learn a bit from that. But as with most things there is always a flip side of the coin.

Sometimes Americans seem to hit the wall of reality a bit too hard because optimism was running a too high compared to what was realistically possible.
Lies, damned lies, and Internet speeds
Very interesting, I found a thread on Quora with more info and pricing if anyone is interested... http://www.quora.com/Amazon-Web-Services/When-did-Amazon-Web...
I've been saying this for a while. I think all manufacturing will turn local at some point, though it may take decades still. If I ran FedEx/Kinkos, I'd be researching all the best 3D printers and trying to pick winners and losers.
The audio fingerprinting at the Echo Nest FAQ
There's no such thing as "intuitive", there's only what you've become used to.

All the things that annoy you are "intuitive" to me.

You could probably code a maximizing script in Automator in a matter of minutes and bind that thing to a keyboard shortcut if it bothers you that much. I think the fact that most people don't is a sign that maximization isn't that great an idea once you get un-used to it.
However some people would just say "yes" straight away.

He offered $45 an hour because he know some would take it and he'd save $5 per hour. Don't be that group.
> I don't use iOS, but Chrome has had "Create Application Shortcut" since I think version 1.

Does "Create Application Shortcut" stuff work offline for compatible web applications, or does it just create a shortcut to a chromeless version (à la Fluid)? I can find no conclusive evidence towards the former by browsing.
8M Emails & Passwords Spilled From Gaming Site Gamigo Months After Hacker Breach
Benjamin Button style leveling.
Consider the other event that was contributing to that 20% increase in defense spending. (ie. the Afghanistan war)

Afghanistan was part of the Russian sphere of influence since the days of the imperial "Great Game" era. The Russians didn't invade Afghanistan because they got a kick out of tribal politics -- their sphere of influence was being threatened.
You're right, I was thinking login forms.

But the same trick works for signup forms as well: I could get an email to my mailbox "hey, thanks for registering again but you already have an account. If you forgot the password, click here." That plugs that hole. Note that this won't work with usernames, but usernames are far less tied to a specific person than email addresses. (apart from some people that have very specific and well known usernames).
No, it's exactly the same down here in the US. Parent poster is just clueless.
Excuse my ignorance on the matter but you make yourself look immature, arrogant and patronising and this does no credit for your project or yourself.

So basically, NaCl:

1. Validates the binary image. Of course that validation has no holes in it. When it does it...

2. Stops unsafe operations. Of course it never misses any and knows every instruction side effect...

3. Oh wait...

I'd put cash on someone breaking the sandbox, I mean after all it's perfect isn't it:

http://www.matasano.com/research/NaCl_Summary-Team-CJETM.pdf

You can't build a flawless sandbox on top of a system by closing the holes one by one, especially on x86/x86-64. The number of edge cases is immense.
Fuck G+.