skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice conspiracy theory.

Advertising is there to make sure you're aware of something. It's telling you "Hey! There's this product/movie/service etc that you might not have known about".

I find advertising extremely useful to know about new things.
In-depth interview (e.g., not a lot of editing from VB) that explains what Hacker Dojo is doing and trying to do going forward as well as a calm look at what the City of Mountain View is asking the Dojo to do to fully occupy its space.
Ephemeral, a Ruby ORM for in-memory objects
Steam Community Game Hub Brings Out User-Created Content and Rating System
So when amazon suggests that you might want to buy a certain bike helmet based on the fact you're buying a bike, you find that information utterly useless?
With Facebook's f'ed up app ecosystem I've seen friends Like some pretty embarrassing stuff without realizing they had done so. And besides, the change has been recent, there has been a training period as people realized their Likes and comments were shared. I can't imagine how many millions of awkward embarrassing conversations have happened because these vampire companies don't care about their user's privacy.
Twitter missed its chance to become just such an Imternet messaging protocol, on the order of email and HTML.

APP.net is a collaboration to reverse Twitter's historical lack of backbone, choosing not to evolve into that world-class protocol. Remember, @al3x Payne (+many Twitter engineers lost that battle, and left).

By the way, I agree with you below about Linus Torvalds and John Carmack not joining. I do understand and believe in where you're coming from.
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His talk is fundamentally wrong. Turning real life problems into a mathematical form (in other words, modelling) is not a subject of mathematics.
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Steve Yegge gave a great talk about why we should start tackling real world problems instead of building another social network. This is the first step.
Well, it requires an unmanaged dll (NQuantLibc) to be compiled which would be pinvoked by the managed bindings dll (NQuantLib). The unmanaged dll will not be platform independent (I don't know if you'd be using x86/x64). It also needs to be copied over to the same directory in which your output binaries would reside.

Anyways, I've uploaded an x86 version:

PM> Install-Package NQuantLib
(https://www.nuget.org/packages/NQuantLib)
The whole point of the iframe is that it prevents the code from inside the iframe (ie the payment handling code that sends data to stripe) from having access to the parent page's data. Sometimes the CC info isn't the most sensitive info a user has given that website (particularly for a service that manages your online backups).
The 'Le's are actually a "feature" of Bootstrap.
Quora is simply turning into ExpertsExchange. I haven't found anything terrible insightful on Quora that I can't find at the top of an HN, Reddit or StackOverflow thread.

Never quite understood the hype centered around it.
What role does truth play?

I think most readers understand that apple news is rumor (unless it comes from apple). So the reader doesn't really care if the news is true. They want are stating their opinions as if it were true. They may not explicitly say "i know this is probably fake, but if not, apple can go screw themselves."

Similarly, the publishers are purely reporting the existence of this conversation to their readers. Like "hey, this is what folks are talking about, you might be interested".
That rapist thread in /r/AskReddit was, next to the time a poor girl was harassed due to a user thinking she faked her assault story, the worst thing I've ever seen on reddit. The direct responses were exactly what the OP had asked, but the comment replies by users were flooded with rape apology and victim blaming. In one instance, a rapist had to tell people to stop apologizing for him because he knew he was an actual rapist.

I would never, ever point someone to reddit as a place to have an honest discussion. You might as well make a thread on 4chan and only ask for the worst possible answers.
I've do the the same thing for my trips and think it's great. If Google could integrate the travel guide content with the "view offline" feature in GMaps it would reduce the need for roaming too.
I feel like I've been living under a rock. Please replace said rock.
Reading someone's email without permission is a crime. Nice idea though :)
Playing devil's advocate here, but in his defense, he DOES usually answer the questions in the first sentence or two but then goes on to support his point of view as a whole in the next paragraph or two.

(Keep in mind I do not support Patent Trolling, or most software patents at all, for that matter.)

From what I can see, Myhrvold views himself as a 21st century Robin Hood. He's stealing from the rich tech industry and giving to... well.. preparing to give to the poor.

In his answer on why he doesn't become more transparent with his patents he answer partly with: "The truth of the matter is that big technology companies use patents as a strategic tool." I think that is the whole answer to the question. For his company, patents are used to strategically used to acquire funds for "God's work".

Of course, this begs the question, is Myhrvold really focused on "the good of the world" or personal gain?
Ha! Clever idea, but I hope you're not serious :). The most likely result would be infuriated users, and quite possibly lawsuits.
This is unrelated to the actual product, but it's interesting that they'd choose to feature that branch on Obama. While a lot of the other branches seem to be highly informed discussions among experts who supply real evidence, that conversation seems shallow at best, very uniformed at the worst. Seemed more like a discussion you'd find in a Facebook comment thread and less like the conversations branch wants to foster. Did anyone else get that feeling?
Interesting, I've been building a similar framework at Prontotype -- though with Bottle, Jinja2, MongoDB and Backbone. One thing I'm missing so far is the ability to "generate", maybe I'll add that in and show the world at some point. Good start & good luck.
The effect on pain relief, they found, was “trivial.” They did observe small beneficial results to range of motion in two studies, and some beneficial effects to strength,

Um, so it actually works?
T-Mobile engineer: 99.9% of 2G traffic is from the iPhone
My definition of a customer is someone who pays me.

Someone using a free service is a user, they may not necessarily pay.

Didn't mean to come across as underestimating human generosity, I very much believe in keeping kindness, goodness and giving fashionable, but in money, the context of a business, is largely it's bloodflow.
on websites, usernames are unique, and they are usually unrelated to passwords

on a related note, we encourage each of our users to select a passphrase, and even scour yahoo news from the past year, and other sources for three consecutive words, that the user can easily remember, such as "that truck driver" or "what he did". This in practice causes users to have a much better space of possible passwords to begin with ... without which any system would be susceptible to brute force rainbow table type attacks.
That is definitely a good book on the subject but I thought HN would appreciate a short overview more than a 400-page book to read in their spare time.

I currently work in software in the space industry (for about 5 years now), and I definitely agree that the cultural pathology is difficult to comprehend. I didn't realize how difficult since I haven't worked in any other industry, but seeing the comment sections on recent Curiosity-related posts here on HN has shown me how much the community wants to understand and how wide the understanding gap is.
bottle's great. With any of the microframeworks, transitioning to something a little more hefty is pretty easy. I 'migrated' from bottle to tornado in a matter of a few hours, and I'm a python newbie
You can tap CTRL+A to see through the blurred text.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/national-obituaries/g... without registration
Nice! Thanks man.
These guys are in my backyard and are featured in a great documentary on sustainability which focuses on the Sourland mountains in NJ (http://www.sourlands.com/).
WikiLeaks looks to be back online.
It's "tongue in cheek", by the way.
Big ol' hole here: You can't identify web apps by domain. Are you going to tell me I can't use "password123" as my password on store.foo.com and secure.foo.com (when they both point to the same database and the same user record)? Are you going to assume that passwords may be shared across all TLDs? (so I can re-use passwords on multiple separate apps on the same TLD)

It's a nice idea, but in practice, it would drive you insane because the web is not a nice uniform entity where everyone plays by a pre-arranged set of rules.

Just use LastPass and let it autogenerate passwords for you. It's stupid easy, and super effective. LastPass will even tell you how many sites you're using the same passwords on! ( https://lastpass.com/index.php?securitychallenge=1&fromw... )
I remember unpacking PERL from usenet and compiling it on my Xenix box!

Really back then it was amazing. At the time I was writing everything in C and having the flexibility without the pain of C that PERL provided was such a great gift. I wrote literally 100,000's of lines of PERL (one project alone was 25k LOC) and enjoyed it all the way up until maybe 1993!

CPAN is hard to beat, having modules that work, etc. But I won't defend PERL because the reality is I almost never use it anymore. Not because there is something wrong with it, just because more often I run into problem sets that either require me to return to C (Think 45,000 QPS under 4 ms response time) and/or web stuff my dev team is more comfortable with on PhP.

PERL transformed my life and my thinking. It taught me that "Just because you CAN do something a particular way doesn't mean that you SHOULD do it that way.".. I took this much further then PERL and learned to apply it to all my projects and started writing in the "right language for the problem set". Instead of trying to fit every problem to the handful of languages I could program at that time.

Now I write in so many languages and utilize so many platforms and systems that the concept is just part of who I am when I am presented with a new problem to solve. For that I owe Larry a lifetime of beers whenever he wants one I'll be there to buy it for him! :-)
I'm not sure how any of the highlighted features really promote intimacy or quality in conversation.
Comparing to Instagram, which even its defenders admit is an outlier, is poor choice.
Excel is used quite a lot in the finance sector.

I my previous job I had to write a plugin to allow traders to do some simple algo trading in Excel.

Oh, and once you are forced to work in VBA all other languages seem amazing.
Life expectancy is going to plummet in the next few years.
That was my biggest concern -- it would seem that if you're building a pay-supported social network, your scaling issues will be business-side long before they are server-side.
Frommer's has a rich licensing program. MS is only one of their partners. You can see how prominently their content is displayed in the NY Times travel section. http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/europe/britain/engla...
I know there are many others, but they are escaping me at the moment.
There is really no possible fact checking on this. This is a 100% anonymous post. Unless you happen to know someone who works in this particular department at Apple.
By publicly suggesting that Apple did something wrong, you guarantee yourself a large number of enemies.
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Another competitor designed for industrial settings: http://collaborate.io

Disclaimer: I'm the founder
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Samsung copied Xcode?
"The best place to ask questions from the article like "What is the best way to hide an affair"

Nahh ask it on 4chan- /s (of course). Be more fun. ;)
> I still haven't completely understood why Google bought Zagat, and now Frommer's is a bit odd as well...

2) Brand recognition and perception of quality control in consumer listings.

Speaking as a consumer, I'd say that both are highly respected brands.
Does anyone else have a really hard time reading this? Need a little more contrast on the font color, por favor.
those solutions already exist even as open source

http://volkszaehler.org/
So you take the replies to replies from a single thread, and conclude that the site itself is useless? I suppose I should discount Stack Exchange, as there undoubtedly questions for which all of the answers are unhelpful or incorrect.

Your comment reeks of the typical reddit hate on HN, without anything to back it up.
This was a great piece, thank you for putting it together. The language and phrasing is absolutely spot on.
I asked if it was OK; they said it was.
> Myself, I'd place a lot of trust on cperciva

Sure, but you can just compare the two sites' external measures of security, and they're not even close.

Stripe domains:

- Pass optional HTTP security headers (like X-Frame-Options on manage.stripe.com)

- Are pinned to Chrome's HSTS list (http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=...) and pass a Strict-Transport-Security header
Perl 5 vs 6 (or Go, Python, Ruby et al); which language(s) FTW, and why?
It is equally obnoxious to generate a random string of garbage and:

* insist it's the username,

* insist it is in the password somewhere, or

* make them type the string in a third logon field

It adds friction to the process in order to solve a problem that is not "ours" to solve.

An option with less friction would be to ask them to choose a picture from 16 candidates. The 16 candidate photos would need to be generated from the username to avoid the ability to refresh the page and find the persistent image. Each image could have the random characters associated with it to be used as an addendum to the salt, or for whatever purposes on the back end which the random characters are supposed to accomplish.
Reliability, security, performance. Don't take my word for it http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Are you seriously suggesting that Coca Cola spends a billion dollars a year to reach people who are unfamiliar with their beverage?

I'm not sure what conspiracy you think I'm suggesting. There is nothing particularly hidden about what advertisers do. Go talk to people who have made ads for a living. Or take a media literacy course. Heck, go watch the Superbowl beer commercials and tell us what novel product information is being conveyed there: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/27/top-10-super-bowl-beer-com...
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I cry everytime I read these threads on HN. I've never seen such stubborness than people desperately convinced that they need to be able to memorize their passwords, or that password managers are the devil.

I'll say it again, just use a password manager. It generates random, complex passwords. It memorizes them for you. It pre-populates forms. They are locally encrypted and can be synced by themselves or with other tools. They can even be protected with two factor auth.

My mother uses LastPass. So can you.
I was in a Nordstorms, hanging out on a couch with a sleeping kid while my wife was off looking for a dress for a wedding. So I'm watching the clerk process a bunch of clothes, and I'm thinking, she's doing returns, or something. No customers around.

Then the customer comes back with a couple tall Starbucks fruity drinks, gives one to the clerk, pays, collects the piles of clothes and leaves. $2700.

This is not normally part of my universe.
> I am as avid user of smartphones and tablets as any other HN user, but there are many places in the world where you certainly do not want to pull gadgets out of the bag or pocket.

Single-purpose travel PDAs for rent in such parts of the world might be of some use. Have them optimized for the travel guide function, and make them hard to jailbreak and susceptible to bricking when jailbreaking. It may be possible to make them unattractive to steal. (You can steal them, but no one particularly wants to buy them.)
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Ask HN: What are the rules on publishing exploits?
I've always wondered, what are the rules (ethic wise and legally) on publishing exploits you find? Lets say you find a way to circumnavigate security features on an app; or find an oversight on a websites part where it doesn't verify user input.

I've seen people publish exploits anonymously, and on the other hand I've read stories of people like Cody Brocious [1] or Alexey Borodin [2] publicly explaining their exploits. On the other hand Billy Hoffman [3] got a gag order when he tried to reveal his work. Does the type of exploit matter? Are there protections on hackers publishing research? Why is it that people aren't arrested en masse at Defon?

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/23/hacker-will-expose-potential-security-flaw-in-more-than-four-million-hotel-room-keycard-locks/

[2]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/07/21/ios-in-app-purchase-hack-extended-to-include-mac-app-store-apps/

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hoffman
Nobody gets the point. The point is that you can't force 99% of the people to use something. What I advocate is enforcement on the part of the browser and / or sites. If the user has the choice to be lazy, no solution works.
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I wouldn't say the entire site is useless, but the good communities are few and far between due to the reddit's culture abhorring any sort of moderation.

Would you like me to edit my reply to be more specific to /r/AskReddit? Certainly if you have a scientific question, /r/askscience is great, and /r/philosophy tends to be decent most of the time. But my point is that getting honest, relatively troll-free discussion on reddit, especially in the default subreddits, is uncommon.
For those who are interested, Suitable Technologies (from Willow Garage) will be making an announcement next month:

http://suitabletech.com
See all my other comments on this thread. Why does your mother use LastPass? How did she learn about it? How about the other 99% of the people? How do you make them use LastPass?

This is not about us.
99$ a month is reasonable for bootstrapped company's.

I think HN has been collectively in denial on this kind of point lately. Yes, services offering real value should charge commensurate with that value. Yes, it's lovely if you're Patrick or Thomas and in B2B world where you can whack up your prices and hope whoever is paying the bill isn't spending their own money.

Newsflash: If you're dealing with a bootstrapped business, it might well be that the person paying the bill is spending their own money.

Newsflash #2: There are dozens of companies pitching useful-but-not-that-useful tools and services to these bootstrapped businesses. If you spend $100/month on this one, and $300 over there, and $150 on the next one, and ten more after that, and then you multiply it by 12... Well, before long you're spending on the same kind of level that it takes to hire some office help or to run a long-term marketing campaign with a significant level of funding or for that matter to hire in a guy who knows what he's doing for a few days to build your own customised versions of a lot of these services.

In short, if you think the ability to monitor a couple of production servers is worth $1,000+/year to a bootstrapped company, you're crazy. Yes, it's a convenience, but you're talking about a service that could be built using a couple of widely available building blocks with a tiny fraction of the running costs, and frankly to a business at that stage in its development it is highly unlikely that a server falling over until the morning is going to cause any real long-term damage anyway.

When you're dealing with relatively time-rich and cash-poor early stage businesses (OK, time-poor as well because they're trying to build the business, but that's not really the point here) you can't just dismiss the cumulative effect of all these SaaS gadgets. They add up, and if you want to know why so many small businesses fail, I expect not controlling costs is probably somewhere around #2 or #3 on the list.

Does that mean bootstrapped companies are bad customers for these kinds of services? Sure, maybe it does. If there isn't enough in it for both sides to make it a deal worth doing, it's not time to do the deal yet.
> Computers can't grade everything... Papers are out of the question.

I'm currently taking a Coursera class where I write an essay each week. Then my essay is reviewed and graded by 4 other students. I grade 4 other students' essays. This works really well.
"For myself, if I pay for an app I expect a lot more from that app. I expect a quality apps with updates and support"

So pay 2$ and get updates for free.
Just wanted to second this. I've been using Ubuntu on Thinkpads since 2006. It's been 5 years since I really had to deal with the Ye Olde Unix Desktop problems of yore ("why doesn't my wifi / digital camera / suspend resume / etc work").

It's been the same disk image and /home partition this whole time, too -- no full system reinstalls. I just keep upgrading to the oldest supported LTS release, which might have something to do with the fact that everything "just works."
Didn't that happen over a decade ago? Or am I confused?
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Silicon Valley Tech Boom inflating rents by $6k/year in Bay Area
Not if you're doing it the new cool way. ;-)
It's Pravda. They are barely a step above Weekly World News.
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I love Apple too!
> if you have a large site its cached for every other page visit

until you modify your own js (not that rare and uncommon) and it's back new and shiny again. from the cdn, it's just already there sitting in the browser's cache.

> Is it really that big of a perf hit

maybe not, but if you had the option to wake up with your teeth already brushed, wouldn't you take it? :D
If you have a CS degree and you get into Bioinformatics by reading books about it... you're dipping your toes into it.

If on the other hand you go ahead and get another degree then you're taking things to heart.

In other words, bioinformatics programming is easy for programmers. Biology is not. If you want to be a hero, really go for it!
One important remark: if you check it out from github, be sure to get the Beta1 branch.

The master branch is really long behind the current development. I also stated that in the screencast.

And as i think about it, some of the comments might refer to the master branch (like the one saying there is no directory structure) which is not the case in Beta1...

Regards
This is pretty great: https://img.skitch.com/20120813-1iq1gk3ymwrguhy8qe3qi4192s.j...
How many co-founders did Paypal have? Seems like everyone was a co-founder. This guy is not mentioned on wikipedia page.
People routinely paid for photo sharing on the Web before Facebook. Mentally strip out the rest of the site if it helps understand, and you're left with a site where you can instantly publish pictures to your friends and family from your mobile phone. People have and do pay for that feature alone on other sites.
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