skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Docs are high on our list of things to revamp. We should be refacing and improving in all areas starting right about now...
I consider my home address public – and companies such as Amazon should too and therefore never use such public information to verify etc. users. The same goes for birthdays, credit card numbers, well, simply everything that others could know.
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you mean like this? http://wiki.basho.com/Installation.html
Fully agreed. I in no way wanted meant to paint Living Social & startups as being the end-all of DC talent. In fact, the challenges several of the local contracting shops work with are in many ways more interesting than those of the area's startups.

While I've never worked for a contractor, in my experience their salaries are quite competitive - although they may be strict about degree requirements both for better and worse.
I think this will result in Apple selling less apps: People will set a way better password on their Apple account, and since you need the same password to buy $1 apps (every time!) as you do for remote wipe, people will buy less apps. They should probably have several levels: one simple PIN code for less intrusive stuff, and a lot of checks for the remote wipe (or expensive purchases).
Yes there are stupid people of every stripe in the world. Do not assume everyone who believes some of what they do is also as stupid.
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I've always preferred Apple's 3:2 aspect ratio to the more common 16:9 (used by most flagship Android phones, like the Galaxy Nexus and the Galaxy S III). I use my phone almost exclusively in portrait mode, so I think the advantages of 3:2 in portrait mode far outweigh the advantage of watching widescreen videos in landscape mode.
I am not sure an investigation is needed. It just comes down to money. Netflix doesn't want to raise rates (recall the huge backlash they received that last time they did that) and probably can't afford the license costs that are being demanded for premium content.

Realistically, consumers need to realize that you get what you pay for. ~$8/month is less than the price of a single movie ticket, and much less than the cost to purchase a single movie on dvd. Premium cable costs 10x that amount and the on demand selection of movies are just as bad..
3D engine from RIM - "gameplay"
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RE: "At the bare minimum, for this level of recovery that bypasses security questions, they should require confirmation of the entire credit-card number and verification code."

That's still a fail because if your wallet probably contains credit cards, which have your name and credit card number, obviously. And driver's licenses in the US, as far as I know, include an address. So it's all there. You're screwed.

What is necessary is 2-factor authentication, which is what a lot of us have been saying for a long time (I wrote this blog post in 2009, after another Twitter-related hacking: "Why The Twitter Breach Is Bullish for Two-Factor Authentication": http://chrisco.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/why-the-twitter-brea...). If not 2-factor, at least don't make recover possible with things so easily obtained, such as information from items typically contained in a person's wallet.
One possibility might be writing a SIMBL plugin. I hacked the iOS simulator before using SIMBL in order to do things like modify the multitouch input indicators, and other views. Dangerous and fun territory.
Agree 100% with the college entrepreneurship club comment. The connections I made with entrepreneurial-minded, passionate people while still in school have been hugely beneficial.
Always using feature detection isn't feasible, some features can't be detected.

https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/Undetectables
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That's exactly what I came here to say.

Android 'supports' CSS transforms, but a bug in Android 2.2+ (works fine in 1.9) means that you can't apply more than one simultaneous transition to a single element at a time (I don't know if this has been fixed in more recent versions, but it's still a big backwards compatibility issue).

iOS MobileSafari supports 'multimedia' (and is listed as such), but it's not until iOS 6 lands that we're getting proper Web Audio API support to actually provide a non-hacky way of playing sound for uses like games that require precise timing.

A binary yes/no really doesn't encapsulate the subtlety and complexity of mobile feature support.
Yes! It is the typical situation. That's why 2fac auth comes in.
despite that being an important feature for any site that lets users delete their own content.

Well...no. How is it important for a site that lets users delete their own content not delete it? Your statement is self-contradictory.
Great tip. I added it to the original post.
Getting technical cofounders is pretty tough if you don't know much about tech. Too many non-technical founders are interested in technical cofounders to "Build their idea for them". I don't think this arrangement is a co-founder arrangement as much as it is a work-for-hire agreement. The key with getting a technical co-founder is that you actually "co-found" the idea together. It is just as much as his idea as it is yours. If you keep this in mind, finding the right technical co-founder will become easier.
I didn't find a lot of information on what this really IS, but one of the founders is Etgar Keret.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etgar_Keret
>I suspect Google is in a better position to judge how widespread account compromises are than you are.

There are a couple of problems with that reasoning. First off, I don't see where anything Google has said contradicts my point. Yes, MFA is a good idea. But that doesn't mean it's enough to prevent attacks like the one in question.

Secondly, Google is not an unbiased source on this matter. For cloud services to succeed (which Google is banking on), it is very important that people perceive that they (the people) have some kind of control over their own security. It is reassuring to hear "here are some steps you can take to make yourself safer". It is terrifying to hear "your security ultimately hinges on the competence of some of the lowest-paid employees of the faceless corporations you rely on".

Both of those statements are true, but you're never going to hear the latter emphasized by Google or any other company heavily invested in the continued success of cloud based services. (Which is not to imply that they are dishonest; bias is usually as more about delusion than deception)
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None of my arguments/observation depends on who is responsible. I don't really care who is to blame, I think the notion is fairly ridiculous given the situation.
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While this is very encouraging, the TC article is also very misleading. For example: "There have, of course been some accidents that involved Google’s self-driving cars in the past. All of these, however, happened while humans were in control of the cars." - isn't this far more likely to be the case, since the human only takes control when the car can't figure it out?

Also, who's commute doesn't involve temporary construction signs?
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I'm looking for startup ideas, or an idea to practice my newly acquired coding skills. So, what's your 1 biggest challenge or frustration for your business?
Looks like a big improvement
I turned it on. Had been meaning to for ages, but never did. Thank you, Mr. Article Writer.
Efficient collections as column values in Cassandra 1.2
This description of design ("Design") is fantastically pretentious. You must be a designer! :)
You don't mention if you have other skills you could use in a software development job. I think that's something many older employees can bring to the table. It might be harder to work for a social/mobile company than a company in a vertical that requires other knowledge.
Try not to think so hard.
First API, then GUI
That's a link to page that shows you how to start the server and ping it. There's more to getting started than that.

In contrast, Mongos docs are superb IMO.
coming up with a business idea that will make me money.
Engineers should at least pay their fees if they plan to abandon India. Why put burden of your emigration on tax payers?
Though, is colleges (at least in Minnesota), D is also usually failing grade.
I think your definition of place is very odd.
This was a neat post... Last year, on Reddit. I'm not sure that it's newsworthy today, especially Hacker News-worthy.
These will be huge and everywhere in a few years. Most tech folks seem shortsighted in this regard. Nearly every time touchscreen monitors are brought up I hear the 'gorilla arms' excuse.

These types of setups are perfect for the living room. With more advanced Kinect-like devices it will not even be necessary to touch the screen anymore.

Windows 8 on a large touch screen in the living room is perfect. Small keyboard and mouse available when necessary for work, but most interaction is done via a remote or the screen itself.
My thought is that they should additionally charge a fee for this, using a card that passed name, zip code, and CVC checks. Now you have a higher bar to fake your way over, and in addition whatever laws were broken by the perpetrator, he would have credit card fraud as well, and that's something that prosecutors, courts and juries can understand a lot more easily.
Coding. I wish I could just tell a computer what I wanted my app to do and it would write the code. I mean actually tell it, Siri style. My second biggest challenge is selling. Finding the right people to call or email, finding their contact info, keeping track of who I have called, who has responded, etc.
This was the easy part.

The hard part will be fighting the technophobes when somebody drives into the side of one of these and kills themselves. I don't envy being in that battle.
As someone who has been following this story, the title here appears to be clickbait.

"It would be irresponsible not to speculate." --Peggy Noonan
That does sound more appropriate. :) Thanks.
would it be possible to add ixquick and webchat.freenode you suggest?
"Efficient" here means that unlike most (all?) popular document databases -- and postgresql's hstore -- appending an item to a list or adding an entry to a map does not require rewriting the entire collection, it just writes the new data.
The most part of synthetic biology is a brick and mortar science which will need wet lab bench and fiddling fingers to do the development of the prototypes to test the hypothesis. So Synthetic Biology in its entirety is not going to cloud.

Synthetic biology involves several steps or components such as designing a gene,synthesizing it, cloning it into appropriate vector and then expressing it. Then studying the expressed gene product in the presence of multitude of other gene products in an unknown environment poses it's unique challenges.
However several components of Synthetic biology can be moved to cloud. Take an example of designing a gene of interest. It can be done taking a vast amount of data/information of several similar genes from clouds and analyzing and then optimally designing the gene of interest.

The second example is testing the effect of the gene or its product in silico ( on a Lab-on-a-chip) before going to test it in real animal models thus saving costs and time. So in-silico simulated lab animal software models comprising of complex metabolic pathways can be stored in cloud for analysis from several researcher groups or any groups across world. And this is just the surface I am trying to scratch.....
Thus Craigslist begins the march to their own irrelevancy.
Most people have never owned a Lexus.
It's probably a bit misleading.

The car is pretty eye catching: http://www.vibe.com/sites/vibe.com/files/styles/main_image/p...

So it gets attention...and most accidents happen when people don't pay attention.

Once these become more common, it won't be a huge deal, so people will stop noticing them and accident rates will go up. Probably not by much, since you'd eliminate most of the driver caused accidents
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Right, and that's a legitimate concern. It's by no means going to drive people to Linux, though. WINE isn't going to run Windows apps better than Windows 8, and Linux on ARM isn't going to run x86 apps at all (except maybe in an emulation, which would be miserable).
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I've heard great things about University of Toronto grads as well
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You are my hero. ;-)

Couldn't live without Firefox (Beta) on Android. Admittedly it has some annoying bugs, but nothing I'd return to another browser for.
I completely agree. People need to approach with "What do you think about this idea" not "I've got an idea and now I just need someone to build it". Thats a quick way for me to decide rather there will be a follow-up conversation when I'm being "courted" by someone with an idea.
Hey David, absolutely -- the Shopify guys are awesome. Glad to hear that you had a positive experience with them as well.
Wasn't this the first time "Quora fucked up"? Why is everyone being so harsh instead of waiting for what they are going to say about it?
I think one of the goals with providing brief, easy to read summaries can (and should) be expanding the number of people who care what is in the TOS.
Hey there! I'd love to follow up with you and chat. I guessed your email and was wrong. Shoot me a note when you get a chance - mack@tastersclubwhiskeyofthemonth.com - and we can take it from there.

Mack
You are suggesting human's will run into it more often right? I sincerely doubt we will see too many autonomous-car-at-fault crashes. The blacked out Lexus SUV's I saw at a Google event a few weeks ago were very discrete minus the velodyne sensor. If it adds an credibility I was on a team at the Victorville final in 2007. :)

As an aside, I've been waiting to buy my Google car for 5 long years. During this time I've become so disenfranchised with day to day driving that I avoid it at all costs. Commuting via roads in a car is such a mundane task that is, in my opinion, a solved problem. Bring on the autonomous cars!
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I did that, installing Ubuntu last fall. It was miles better than the last Linux distro I installed, Red Hat 6 back in the 90s, but it was still a painful process.
The jargon seems to have gotten denser over time. I left off reading it a few year back, and now some of it is just incomprehensible.
Heck, let's go one further. Go beyond growth hacking, and even behavior hacking, and straight to hack hacking.
That's kind of cool :) But what about the case where I have an important server that's down for a few hours. Do I lose all the data previously collected?
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I'm a Co-Founder of Synbiota a startup in this area. We've shipped a beta of GENtle, an open-source, web-based (HTML5) DNA editor that you can try right now at:

http://synbiota.com

We're also in closed beta of our integrated environment for collaboration, project management, file storage and DNA synthesis ordering etc. We have a number of iGEM teams as well as some DIYBio groups that are currently using the platform in their everyday work, which is pretty cool ;-)

We've been a part of Mozilla's WebFWD accelerator since last Fall which has been a huge boost for us. Definitely check them out if you are working on a web-standards based startup!

We also recently launched the S Prize - our contest to incentivize the development of open-source plug-ins for GENtle (the DNA editor) - we have a cash purse of $5k on the line for any developers who submit the most useful and delightful contributions.

Check it out at:

http://sprize.synbiota.com

Please spread the word!
Or for that matter, most any Lotus 7 replica kit
Horribly complicated? Oh, I'll bite.

All hardware discussions aside (and you do make some good points), the central advance of the iPhone was in the design of the software.

Everything is an app. Everything. The alarm clock is not a special case, Wifi is not a special case, e-mail is not a special case. All functionality has a 'home'. All functionality is 'owned' somewhere. All settings are handled in one location.

There are no scrollbars. No menus. No modes. No windowing. No pointer. No double-tap. The only fixed interface is Volume Up, Volume Down, Home, and Lock. Everything else is mutable, task-specific, and optimized for the space available.

This is the supernova idea that changed more than just the smartphone industry. Vast chunks of complexity and spaghetti UI were drained out of the smartphone experience. Everything else shitty about iOS 1 including the hacky update system and the crappy popups was cleaned up and refined in time, none representing a failing of the product's core design.

So in no way, shape, or form could the iPhone be described as 'horribly complicated'. Literally no access to the filesystem, no ability to add or remove software, no classical ports, no expandability, no alternate firmwares or carrier modifications, simple setup of "cloud" services, effortless PC sync... it was a masterwork of simplicity for the great bulk of users.
maybe "Rationale", but that sounds complicated as well.
Consider this: Of 878 students at 18 high schools across 11 different states surveyed by the Financial Literacy Group, three-quarters of them said they agreed with this statement: “The stock market is rigged mostly to benefit greedy Wall Street bankers.”

I'm not sure how the impressions of high schoolers create an atmosphere of uncertainty and unconfidence in the stock market.
Just as in programming, there are no short cuts here. http://norvig.com/21-days.html

I too think this is something to be on the curve of. You're gonna have to at least learn the basics of [organic] chemistry, genetics, molecular genetics and cellular biology. A blackbox approach will give you a very low ceiling.

Some books to start with:

Genes, Proteins and Computers

A Practical Introduction to the Simulation of Molecular Systems

Understanding Bioinformatics
That's part of what I'd like to see more.

- scalability cases : many many moving obstacles.

- reversal cases : gCar behavior if a vehicle is misbehaving.
What happens ? can they compute a safe avoidance path ?
if not but with impact still being detected in advance
by the system, can there be a pre-protection system ?

- systemic cases : how 2 gCars react to each others, any oscillatory patterns ?
computing a path using the same heuristic leading to
avoidable collision. With more than 2 ?
One of the guys at SplatSpace[1] who is something of an expert on genetics / biology / biohacking stuff is always recommending people read this book:

Molecular Biology of the Cell

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0815341059/?tag=hyprod-20&hvadi...

It's not on synthetic biology, mind you, but presumably some understanding of the natural biology is a prerequisite to doing the synthetic stuff. Anyway, he works for GSK doing some pretty interesting stuff and is an all around smart guy, so I tend to assume his recommendation is a good one. YMMV.

[1]: http://www.splatspace.org
I'm curious to what they have to say about having to email them (and waiting 24h) in order to delete your account.
Well I think "it Depends." At my school we had E's both E's and F's where failing, but the difference was that with E's you could make up the class in summer school, with F's you had to repeat the class the next year, multiple F's would mean you had to repeat the grade.
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Yeah, but at least it's a bit more trackable - they know they gave you a check.
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The left wing has always been against the repressive/agressive methods of hadopi, and were instead always favorable to better legal options.

What is refreshing is a government keeping its promises after the elections, especially on matters like this which the general public doesn't really care about while some huge corp are fighting for it (remember that vivendi/universal is french, for example, and our "culture producing" industry is quite huge).
That's a common outlook to have if you've never run a site where users upload content.

In practice, if you give your users a way to damage or delete their own account, they'll do it without giving it any thought. Then they'll think about it. And they'll want to undo it.

When they don't find an "undelete" button, they'll write you an email. And if you don't have an easy switch you can flip to magically fix the problem they caused for themself, they'll get mad at you.

So you quickly learn to just set an IsActive bit to false instead of actually deleting things. And it's not in any way a big deal for a "twitpic" style site where people are uploading things to the internet with the intention of sharing them.

My privacy policy that explains this makes a point of telling you that "If you don't want the things you upload to be on the Internet, please don't upload them to the Internet". I still field plenty of "undelete my stuff" mails, and it's nice to know that it's a 30 second fix to fix it. (And I've never once gotten a mail from an angry user because I didn't actually delete the bits from the hard drive when he hit the delete button)
Not C .. but are you familiar with Ometa (and its variations, Ometa/JS, Ometa#, PyMeta, etc?) http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/

It's a turing-complete parser specification language with an interpreter that is very close to being a packrat parser, which embraces adding and extending syntax (in a more general way than your library does, if I understand correctly).

Implementing the same idea in C should be possible. I have no idea why you want to add syntax at runtime, but the Ometa model might fit your plans better.
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Look at this page (linked from Basho home page, titled "Learn More"): http://basho.com/products/riak-overview/

There's nothing on that page except useless talk and a chart. There are hundreds of other NOSQL highly distributed, available, blah blah blah databases. Why should I choose Riak? Why not MongoDB? CouchDB?

And I challenge you to find a link on that page that tells you anything more. All other links are just as bad: http://basho.com/technology/why-use-riak/ and http://basho.com/technology/architecture/ and http://basho.com/technology/technology-stack/ and http://basho.com/technology/technology-stack/ - The wiki is also not good at all: http://wiki.basho.com/Riak.html

They are just spec sheets and vague sentences. For God's sake, show me a sample project. A to-do app so I can get my head around all these new concepts...

It's been 6th or 7th time in the past year that I've stumbled upon your site and was mildly interested to know more about Riak, but the docs are so horrible that I know "nothing" about it.

I gave a (introductory) presentation (to an undergraduate class) about MongoDB after 10 hours of reading their site and "The Little MongoDB Book"[1] and hacking around with it (that's how good and thorough they explained their system). I'm not sure how much it would take for me to understand enough of Riak to explain it to someone.

That guy also wrote a decent "Little Book" on Redis, which I also found extremely compelling. Please, if you like your product and want to see more people use it, write a better documentation. Or hire Karl Seguin to write one for you!

[1]: http://openmymind.net/2011/3/28/The-Little-MongoDB-Book/

[2]: http://openmymind.net/2012/1/23/The-Little-Redis-Book/
Will you be OK with google tracking everywhere you go and serving you ads for every shop you pass?