skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intersting that you chose a different framework for almost any field. So there is room ;)
I am thinking about a google app engine port but sqlalchemy is a showstopper here .. Need the models to talk GQL ... So i stopped that port for now. Much to do in the base..

Thx, regards, khz
It is really sad to see Samsung throw away any brand capital it had as an innovative company. People respect you trying to innovate even if it might not be the best solution. People want to associate themselves with innovators.

Disappointing.
This is not any safer. One day your linkedin account is hacked, revealing your strong_linkedin_password. How hard is it to guess the facebook one?

There were plenty of passwords like this in the recent LinkedIn leak.
C-k (the most useful command ever) is captured by my browser. Google Chrome.
Now you'd have to prove that having passwords stored in a file is worse than massive password leaks. I suspect that it isn't. People already carry laptops with browsers that save passwords automatically. Losing your laptop already implies a password-change-fest.
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A screenshot of Eclipse that I grabbed off Google Images: http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/e/eclipse_i...

I don't use a lot of IDEs, but I honestly can't see any substantial distinctions between any of the three. (And no, I don't consider centering a pane a distinction.)
I'd like to ask you a few questions about your finance experience - could you contact me? ben@datanitro.com
Make the body font on your blog bigger - its all out of proportion with the rest of the site design.
So I was thinking about this recently: do companies actually "sell" your personal details to advertisers?

A practical example: let's say I run a cooking website, where users log in and share recipes, vote and comment on them etc.

I (the site owner) store your votes, and comments, as well as track what recipes you view.

From this I (still the site owner) can learn things about you. If you're always viewing lots of chicken recipes, I an make the assumption you're a fan of chicken. I can also note that the recipes that you view and like are "upper class", requiring expensive ingredients.

Now an advertiser for a large Chicken producer could come to me, and want to advertise its new Free Range chickens. They (the advertiser) asks me to display an ad for all people who like chickens and like expensive tastes. So I (the site owner) do this, and you (a user) see the ad.

At no point has the advertiser learnt anything about my users, or had any direct knowledge of my users and their preferences. It's a completely one-way transaction.

So if I was writing a recipe website and I wanted to fund it with advertising, that's how I'd do it. I'd probably give some kind of iTunes dynamic playlist / email filter style UI where you get to pick the types of people your ad gets seen by, but at no point would the advertiser actually learn anything about those people.

Is this still considered "selling your personal details"? Or are companies like Facebook and (presumably) Twitter actually essentially handing over their DBs?
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LOL!

I suppose his point is: why look for happiness in a disruptive engagement?

If you're happy/content/satisfied with a vegetative state ... well, good for you. You've controlled your desires, an important aspect of remaining peaceful.

But if happiness ain't about "lying on the sofa" for you, you've got to face the truth: get off your arse and get disrupting like a gypsy!

But I really love that brilliant comment on Siver's blog:

"If you want to have something you've never had before, you're going to have to do something you haven't done before." Rev Barbara King
But doesn't that get rid of the social aspect of "Social Media"? People like being able to comment on things - but why should they have to pay to do so? Just because someone isn't willing to pay doesn't mean that what they've got to say isn't worthwhile, and vice versa. I think a pay-to-post/free to consume setup would result in a spammy, advert ridden service, that would quickly die.
I am the only person I know who uses a unique, memorable and strong password for every site I use. I store all of them in my head.

I have a base password and I add the first several characters of the site to the middle.

For example:

Facebook - sdfb231a2

Hacker News - sdyc231a2

Yahoo - sdya231a2

For strong passwords I can add a suffix to further strengthen the password.

PayPal - sdpa231a2a4

I use the same suffix for all "strong" passwords. If a site requires a capital letter I always capitalize the first letter.

I've gone to create an account with a site, been told I already have an account and I get the password in 1 guess because I'm so consistent with creating them.

I don't know why everyone doesn't do this.
Add some fine print in the user agreement, "During sign-up (only) for service X, I hereby authorize web service X to open my inbox and read one (1) email message, if I choose to provide my email account's password as my password for website X."

No longer a federal crime, maybe? Probably still get an angry mob with pitchforks outside your window.
This was very interesting to read. Very different perspective, thanks for writing.

I have a number of questions/thoughts:

1. With the type of schooling you went through, how many people actually like math at the end of their schooling? I realize you did, but then again there are people in American schools that also like math. How many, really?

2. How much of that math that everyone has to learn is actually useful for the average person?

3. You say "Forget about the whole, um, personality and uniqueness and whatnots." -- This is basically the approach that has been taken throughout most of history, grounded in the idea that we're all empty cups to be filled. However, the "empty cups to be filled" idea is flawed. It's true that in America people hate to be called the same, enjoy their uniqueness, etc. -- however that idea is more than just a skin-deep preference. Young people are different, have different hobbies, different values, personalities, and have different ways of learning. One can apply one method and ignore all that (ie. your prescription), or another is to realize that differences do exist and structure the learning environment to cater for it. The former is a proven way of producing decent outcomes (though very varied); the latter is in many respects unproven/unsolved, and so I believe has much greater potential. Just as HN'ers pursue innovation through technology (in most cases), the latter pursues innovation with learning outcomes.
Does anyone know his bio? Particularly his education.
Flask is really simple to get started with

http://flask.pocoo.org/
Ask HN: How do you land the first online clients?
Long story short, my girlfriend and me have been living in the US for the last year, but in a couple of months we'll move back to Spain.

I'll continue working on my current project, but my girlfriend will need to enter the labour market. Right now the unemployment rate in Spain is at 24.8% (53% for under 25), so I think our best bet is to set up her own company (like somebody said "when jobs are scarce, create your own" ).

She is a graphic designer so we have set up a website with two landing pages offering Logo and Business Card design services.

It is a crowded space, but I think it's not totally impossible to make a full spanish salary (around $1200/month) in the long term.

BEING SAID THAT, I'd like to ask for some methods to land the first clients that may worked for you in the past.

Although our budget is tiny, our initial approach is to start some adwords campaigns and keep optimizing landing pages and ad copies to see if we're able to reach a profitable cost-per-conversion.

The website for the new graphic design studio is http://mylidias.com

So, How do you land the first clients for your recently launched online service?
Workflow and organizing documents (on desktop)
They both look a lot like Visual Studio to me.
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Have you ever tried, like, actually posing a question that you want the answer to?
Wow really? I actually have an idea about payments, basically,you can "sign up" for a membership, but you can enter however much you want, 0 even. The thing is if you decide to pay/give then the amount gets sent to the guys doing the videos. I've thought about even letting the users specify if they want to send 10% to some open source projects (of their choice), etc, I think this would let the community really promote good tutorial givers and also allow some smaller devs to explain their work/tools, and get some money for all their efforts to the open source community.
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How is this different from a forum post? It doesn't do anything for debates. http://branch.com/b/are-we-currently-in-a-tech-bubble
With bootstrapping it's not just a question of write and maintain something myself or use a 3rd party. There is also the option to use something until you write it yourself. Month to month SAAS means you can add an expensive monitoring service temporarily while you work on other pieces, or diagnose a bug. You also get to play with complex features to decide which are useful and then build out those pieces. Think of it as a DEMO that you pay someone else to write and suddenly X$/month can look vary cheap.
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And que the return of the look feel wars of the early 90s.
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Weirdly I saw the screw head and thought "I know exactly how to remove that" and thus, if I had seen the articles I would have ignored them but assumed they were true.

I need to develop a bit of critical thinking I guess.
Eclipse is entirely different - it's not about similiar layout. Look closely at right pane both in Xcode and in Samsung IDE. Object library and inspector look VERY similiar.
Michael from ptable.com recently used our product to create a demo for this app. At first glance I was a little overwhelmed but upon seeing everything that it can do (Check out the demo) my jaw basically dropped the entire time. This guy has put a TON of work into this and I applaud him, I'm sure students love this thing.

What do you folks think?
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"... In my experience, very few people use the default settings when installing Debian. ..."

Good point.
Or maybe they cloned Visual Studio. Or Flash Builder. Or whatever. All of the IDEs with a design surface are largely the same.

Seriously- this is an IDE for televisions.
I think this is just a prank.
A Perl script can almost morph into its own unique language, one that exists only during the runtime of that script and then flashes out of existence like a Boltzmann brain.

To me, there's no disputing that writing Perl is like making art. The problem I have is deciding whether this is even a remotely good design decision for production code.
I have an algorithm for creating unique passwords.

Here is the result for HackerNews:
kcahu3602122@#)*

here for Facebook:
ecafu3602122@#)^

(I can create them practically in my sleep. The algorithm is personal and easy)

To determine the algorithm, one would need plain text from two sites and be able to match them. Now, everytime a site limits my freedom to creating the password I want (assuming I can't provide my own security - by demanding a capital, a number, a this a that) I default to the same password. If they get one site with my simple pass, they get all the sites on which I use it.

When you put constraints on my password creation, you make my online life MORE insecure, not less.

Free my password. Don't tell me what I can and can't do. Offer a full page of help describing to those who don't care what they should do. But don't force them.
Another product that obviously doesn't need to be Internet-connected to function but is (presumably to create a recurring revenue model for the manufacturer). A $250.00 retail price is too much, to me, to risk on a device that will be relegated to the junk heap once the back-end "cloud service" disappears after the manufacturer fails.
That seems like what SuperGenPass (http://supergenpass.com/) does, but with more effort and easier to break. Essentially, with SGP you type a master password into the password box and click the button in your browser (you don't have to install anything, just bookmark the javascript). It uses a one-way hash to create a unique password based on the domain.
I interact with another team almost daily that has to support that. They do their job pretty well, but I really wished we simply had something like MongoDB to store some data in for a recent, rather trivial, project.

It's indeed a complicated, convoluted, growth.
Doesn't the lib kit come with screws and phillips head?

If you don't have those handy, then it can seem like a good deal.
Agreed. Qt Designer used to look pretty much the same as well.

Actually, I don't know why this court nonsense is still making the news.
The worst things are often a truth that needs to be heard.

You are writing from a position of fear. That people can express something that shouldn't be heard.

You can't fight the truth. And you can't fight the open expression of it.

The really difficult part, which is what my post was trying to explain; the really difficult part is actually _creating_ the open expression of truth.

Because you have to have a mix between real identity and the mask of anonymous.
According to browsershots (not affiliated), it works fine on IE6-10.
Perhaps someone can help me with a related capability. I am looking for a tool to administer and query the price of structured products (options, securities, indices, etc)

On the administration side: Manage which clients, have been sold which products, value of the product (notional/sold value) and maturity date.
On the valuation side: link to treasury and banking systems, and various price feeds to determine current value of structured product.

Is there anything off-the shelf that any of you are aware off?
Not really.

The proposed solution adds little to no real world security (see my other post about how easy it would be to guess which part is the random one which makes this system not useful unless almost all sites use it, which will never happen). Given little to no real world security gain from the described system, it certainly isn't worth breaking an existing system that works just fine and securely even if for just a minority of people.
I think the point was frustration over the disconnect between PCI rules and reality, that there's no difference in security between self-hosting the form action (over ssl, sending the cc info to the payment processor, and getting a confirm that way), compared to hosting an iframe and "not touching" credit card data. A compromised webserver means the iframe can be compromised so that the card details do hit your server.
Man, XCode looks a lot like Eclipse.
Pep8 => yes, need to review / rewrite
Dry => again yes, working currently on it for generate_*
did you look at some genrated code, think this is cleaner, though. The generators are the oldest ..

Thx, khz
If you're going to go to that much trouble, you might as well just compile Emacs to Javascript with enscripten and run it natively in the browser. The download time might be painful, but then we'd have a web editor actually worth using.
I understand the technical challenge, but the Emacs-y way would be to run the browser inside Emacs. Not the other way around.
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I cannot see a clear evidence to support the claim (that "samsung copied Xcode"). If you can reach that claim from the screenshot, you can make the same claim for netbeans, eclipse, intellJ,...etc (as the author admits him/herself, any capable IDE looks similar).

If the claim is on the icon design along, the claim could stand stronger; but I guess it's not "catchy" enough to claim "Samsung copied XCode's icon design".

Why don't people make such claims on open-source projects? Is it because open-source project has no money for other people to sue off?
Oh, come on.

http://i.imgur.com/8uL8M.png vs http://cl.ly/IjBC

http://i.imgur.com/2Kn4j.png vs http://cl.ly/Iiob

http://i.imgur.com/RYYv9.png vs http://cl.ly/IiWX

We're not talking similar features here, we're talking lazy carbon-copied user interfaces. You honestly think this was accidental and there's only one way to make an IDE?

EDIT: A few more, now that we have a hi-res screenshot.

http://i.imgur.com/SYSv2.png vs http://cl.ly/IjUP

http://i.imgur.com/2nmUn.png vs http://i.imgur.com/4NFV6.png

http://i.imgur.com/HJ9s4.png vs http://i.imgur.com/qgpWc.png (that bar above "Scheme" is, you guessed it, a drop down)
If you've used Xcode before, you'll recognize things they copied that are not the norm in other IDEs. The object library, IB screen, the layout buttons on the toolbar (the entire toolbar, really). Sure, it's just an IDE, but heck if it doesn't look strikingly similar to Xcode.

edit: cmelbye in this thread has a good comparison: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378379
On the Kickstarter FAQs, they mention that there won't be any recurring fees for Kickstarter backers.
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The post is back up now, there's an explanation here: http://localhost:13244/2012/08/13/the-asp-net-forms-authenti...
It's really interesting to look at the ways in which media distribution models have changed--especially the level of perceived authenticity in television 40 years ago vs now. As the internet becomes a greater and greater form of information dissemination, new models are going to need to develop in order to provide truth in media.
About every IDE that support dockable panels can be customized to look like this. They can also be reorganized to look entirely different.

Quick, find the patent for dockable panels and sue everyone!
So this guy was a co-founder of X.com?
Clickable link: http://mylidias.com/custom-business-card-design/
Next pundits will say even MATLAB copied Xcode...

No, I'm pretty sure Samsung did not explicitly copy Xcode there. Although it's a pretty stupid move to create their own IDE in my opinion. I think the standard these days is to build on top of Eclipse.
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Which is a silly thing to copy. Visual studio has a different color scheme than XCode, and both have different color schemes than Eclipse.

The iconography is similar(i.e. use of a "play" button for running the debugger), but the actual buttons are definitely different between XCode, VS, and Eclipse. XCode uses the iTunes-like circular black triangle on a grey circle button. VS uses a green triangle. Eclipse uses a green circle with a white arrow.
"And, of course, as we all know, with a computer you can take a simple problem like solve 5x2+2x+1=7 but you can make it harder, for example solve 5x4+2x+1=7. The principle of the problem is still the same."

This is not, in fact, true for polynomial equations of order greater than four. From Wikipedia, "the Abel–Ruffini theorem states that there is no general algebraic solution... to polynomial equations of degree five or higher." This is often featured as one of the main results in an undergraduate abstract algebra course.

I'm all for automating calculations, but the algorithms behind calculations and their proofs are important and often fascinating. Handing students an implementation of such algorithms, e.g. Mathematica, takes away their opportunity to code up the algorithms and understand them deeply.

Edit: Wording
I think if anything the best thing about having a paid system is that you have one less person to make happy. Unless your ads are just a dropin (e.g. google ads) you have to have a marketing and sales team, and presumably a bunch of coding work has to go into making a backend for advertisers to upload their ads and decide who sees what and so on.
Well, because there's no one right way to test is why.

Strictly repeating logs doesn't tell you what happens when your access patterns change. Markov chains give you an idea of how your site acts under variations on your current traffic.
Hi, no problem,
Project names are really funny. I didnt know them..
Thx and regards,
Khz
I think this graph by technology review says it all:

http://www.technologyreview.com/graphiti/427964/is-facebook-...

Looking at the value per user (shown as circle size), it's easy to see the huge difference between late 90's companies and the companies of today. Google and Facebook stand out, of course.

Notice any outliers? There's at least one company that seems to be over-hyped... (Hint: it begins with Q, and ends in "uora".)
How advanced and how expensive?

Numerix (http://www.numerix.com/products-and-services) is one. I've used them before at my previous job to handle client portfolios.

In general you'd need to have separate licenses with the feed providers (Reuters/Markit/Bloomberg etc) and those are quite expensive.
Looks like he was the friend who founded Zip2 along with Kimbal and Elon Musk. He probably went on and coinvested with Kimbal in Elon's later companies. This is assuming his angel list profile is correct. The founder title is probably a mix up - looks like he was just an early PayPal investor.
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I'm curious what you're trying to imply by this statement. What about this article makes you think that life expectancy is going to plummet?
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As a person who use Xcode every day, I can tell that the right column indeed looks extremely similar to Xcode. Especially widget panel and property editor. Of course there are a lot of features that any capable IDE should have, but the overall look can't be so coincidental. Sorry.
Reddit has more meta awareness than any online group that has ever existed. panichub, metacirclejerk, subredditdramadrama, ainbow--you name it, reddit's aware of it.

Or more accurately, reddit's named it because you're aware of it.

quick shoutout to google chrome for saving the text of this post when I accidentally hit command-q.
I'm scared, and as a potential customer I hate to be labeled an idiot.

The idiots being scared away doesn't necessarily imply that everybody who is scared away is an idiot :-)

Yes - you will cut out some very nice people who would make lovely customers by segmenting like this. However if this ends up:

* getting more money using the new pricing model

* removing a large chunk of support costs by getting rid of the high-cost, low-value customers

.... as a business should I care?
M-x doctor: No such command: doctor. You should just call that "yet another online editor", really.
Probably just a mix up - see my comment above. Looks like he was just an early PayPal investor.
You honestly think this was accidental and there's only one way to make an IDE?

I honestly don't know. I don't use any IDE on a regular basis.

Judging by the relative quality of your screenshots, you use XCode -- is it possible that you'd be able to point out such similarities between any two IDEs, given the presumption that one IDE must be copying from another due to a current lawsuit?