skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the real issue: finding problems. Here is why:

Anyone who tracks startups knows these two conflicting facts:

1. Ideas are not everything – execution is key
2. It is extremely important to solve a problem that people would find value in, and therefore pay for.

Summary: It is of course important to execute well and solve the problem, but the starting point is to know if the problem is worth getting solved.

Now look at our education system through this new prism the flaw comes out very, very clearly the system today teaches problem solving, applying theory to practice etc but there is little to no emphasis on identifying problems. Think about your own school / college days for a second in how many instances were you given a situation, and were asked to identify problems to solve?

The problem to be solved was always STATED nobody ever asked us to come up with a set of difficult problems to solve.

Over time, this lack of practice in identifying problems translates into difficulties in spotting profitable opportunities. Even if we do, there is a lack
of conviction and we end up pivoting multiple times.

Our education system cultivates employees, not employers – to be one, you need to be trained not to solve a problem, but to identify one.

For some reason HN would not allow me to submit the link for the above, it kept killing the post and any related query. Am trying to be reborn as a new guy on HN now.
How to Disable Photo Download on Google Plus.
Stripe's technical paper calendar
Move is a modern and simple programming language
I came here to put quotes around "creative"; glad I was beaten to it.
Hyperthreading is better now. They even had to add another instruction to fix some of the issues. Plus a lot of work on the scheduler. Not worth disabling now!
Is it a bit weird to compare average weekly wage to median square foot price?

Shouldn't it be median household income?
Apple is bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook combined
Ask HN: Help me to select a microphone for vocal recordings at home.
I'm planning to buy a good microphone for vocal recordings at home. I'll be using it with my laptop and musical keyboard. I have a budget of $100.

I don't know much about technical details and I need your help to understand how to select a good microphone for this purpose. In short I'm looking for a buying advice and product recommendations.

Is there any vocal artists here who can help me?
I didn't know Google finally released the transit API! http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/06/public-trans...
Iluminating, exhaustive article and illustrated history of multitouch. I wonder how many of these papers, prototypes and devices the patent examiners came across when they were deciding on the prospective multitouch patent now owned by Apple. Money quote:

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Multi-touch technologies have a long history. To put it in perspective, my group at the University of Toronto was working on multi-touchin 1984 (Lee, Buxton & Smith, 1985), the same year that the first Macintosh computer was released, and we were not the first. Furthermore, during the development of the iPhone, Apple was very much aware of the history of multi-touch, dating at least back to 1982, and the use of the pinch gesture, dating back to 1983. This is clearly demonstrated by the bibliography of the PhD thesis of Wayne Westerman, co-founder of FingerWorks, a company that Apple acquired early in 2005, and now an Apple employee

Westerman, Wayne (1999). Hand Tracking,Finger Identification, and Chordic Manipulation on a Multi-Touch Surface. U of Delaware PhD Dissertation: http://www.ee.udel.edu/~westerma/main.pdf

In making this statement about their awareness of past work, I am not criticizing Westerman, the iPhone, or Apple. It is simply good practice and good scholarship to know the literature and do one's homework when embarking on a new product. What I am pointing out, however, is that "new" technologies - like multi-touch - do not grow out of a vacuum. While marketing tends to like the "great invention" story, real innovation rarely works that way. In short, the evolution of multi-touch is a text-book example of what I call "the long-nose of innovation."

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Interesting examples relating to pinch-to-zoom:

[o] 1983: Video Place / Video Desk (Myron Krueger)

His use of many of the hand gestures that are now starting to emerge can be clearly seen in the following 1988 video, including using the pinch gesture to scale and translate objects: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo

[o] 1991: Digital Desk(Pierre Wellner, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge)

Clearly demonstrated multi-touch concepts such as two finger scaling and translation of graphical objects, using either a pinching gesture or a finger from each hand, among other things.

This page makes it quite clear how improvements in this subfield of tech, like in many other fields, are evolutionary and build upon existing ideas in the literature. Many potential implementations have been proposed and experimented with. What role do patents play in this picture? What is the breadth of Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent - how far does it extend beyond smartphones? Are any of these devices close enough to the patent to legally count as prior art?

Thanks for this great submission. Buxton has been referenced on HN a few times before, but it's my first time reading his page.
Nothing against the skill of mechanics here. Striped of hyperbole my point was that 'high tech' is another phrase that needs to be rescued. Recently the term has come to mean 'anything that uses custom code', and the distinction between technology and high technology has decayed. Of course mechanics are skilled; my point was that the bar for considering oneself to be on the cutting edge of technology has moved upwards and that the companies and programmers building routine Ruby on Rails web-applications and iPhone apps need to re-assess their place and adjust their egos accordingly.
I guess they didn't need a "creative chief" after all.
If you want to be conservative about your data, it looks like Datomic is an excellent choice. It preserves the entire history of your data instead of allowing it to be modified in place.
Is it just me, or does it seem inspired by MS' Metro/Modern UI looks?
Armenia tourist attractions – Geghard monastery
Geghard is the church carved inside the rock. The name of the church comes from a legend. According to it a spear (geghard in Armenian) was kept here with which Jesus Christ was pierced on the cross by one of the Roman legionaries guarding him.
Wanna laugh (or cry, if you're a Brazilian)?

São Paulo $ 969 / sqft

With an average income of $ 783. And the land tax is probably a lot higher, too. Rio is even higher.
The page in itself does not look scammy and the video is quite professional I think and explains a lot so that's nice.

But it so reminds me of the programs you had to install at the end of the 90s to have ads displayed and you were supposed to be payed if you watched enough/clicked on enough, etc. So this kind of payment by watching ad seems "unreal" for me. Would advertisers really pay you money to fake watch ads? Cause in the end why would I stay watching the ad on my iphone if the only reason I get paid is too "launch" the ad or click on it?

Another strange point for me is the name. Goggle is typically a word you enter wrong when trying to go on google. So adgoggle really seem like you're trying to capture people searching for google ad. Am I paranoid here?
Or just frequents there (and here) and submits "everything?" What would Ockham's say?
It is also trivial to see which MAC addresses are associated with which APs.
Er, what does "stuck in 1995" mean, exactly, for documentation?

The Lua reference manual is, I think, a pretty good reference manual. It's quite complete, well-indexed, and reasonably well organized.

If you're simply annoyed by having to page through the index to look for a function, you can try the search-based version of the reference manual, at http://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/about

The reference manual is, however, a reference manual, and doesn't have much in the way of a high-level overview of various features, or examples. For those things, PiL ("Programming in Lua") is a much better resource. The latest version of PiL is a real you-gotta-pay-money book, but a slightly older version is available online. For both info about the book, and the online version, see http://www.lua.org/pil/
You have to run the numbers. Right now because a lot of people with bad credit got forced out of homes and into the rental market, historic low interest rates, and a large volume of homes for sale, here in the east bay you'll pay less if you buy than if you rent. Five years ago the opposite was true (in spades).

Mostly it depends on your circumstances. If you're single and you change jobs relatively often, it doesn't make sense to buy a house. If you have children it's cheaper to buy a house in a good school district than to send your kids to private schools.
I've motorcycled in a mid-western winter.

It is dangerous in ways you cannot possibly comprehend.

Sweating in a suit is a first world problem. Try riding on a two-wheeled motor vehicle on ice in the presence of traffic.

I'll stick to California, thanks.
Hm, can somebody explain what threat two-factor ssh-login is a response to?

If somebody went through the trouble of owning your machine, can't they bypass the two-factor as well? Yes, it requires a more "live" and target attack, but one would think ssh attacks like these are pretty targeted in the first place.
Or? What am I missing?
not venting.

rationally trying to describe the shit ideas of the congress(gandhi family) while the stupid UI at ycombinator does not add \n after I press enter.

the ideology that thinks the nation is before the single individual, will not think twice adding stupid restriction like those mentioned by "Christopher Soghoian".

the ideology is like this:
since they care(as shown by providing free mobiles to poor etc..) they have a right to act like parents and impose such violation of personal rights.

the thinking foundation itself is wrong.

The same thought that imposes ban of cars above 16 km/liter average (ie Ferrari will never show its face in India)is responsible such stupid laws.

The same thought that created ibfindia which is now censoring simple words "menstrual" on TV because they think its their job to care what enters my ear is responsible for such stupid laws.

congress is like a physco slut girl friend of every Indian
Your company should say "no" to any service it doesn't trust with its data.

Dropbox is awesome, but it's primarily a consumer product. Corporate IT departments are rightfully wary of its spread amongst staff, in case it doesn't have the security or other (often regulatory) requirements they need for their data.
They're wicked cool in every way except the cost.

This one is worth listening to, for learning a bit about mainframes:
http://www.se-radio.net/2012/03/episode-184-the-mainframe-wi...
I say unquestioningly tax-paying. If he did not pay his fair share of taxes wouldn't he have been under IRS investigation years ago?
"Mr. Verdu, whose last day was Tuesday, will be starting a new venture funded by Zynga, the company said."
Why don't you move closer to work?
Can someone more worldly than I speak to any possible cultural factor here? By that I mean, is the desire to own property as deeply-rooted elsewhere in the world as it is, or at least seems to be, in America? Are people in Japan breaking their backs to own a home? How about Europe? Brazil?

I'm genuinely fascinated by this, because it really does seem like American society frowns upon people who don't own a home by a certain age, especially when children are involved, almost as if a backyard is absolutely fundamental to the child-rearing process.
It is very unclear. Performance per watt on server workloads in currently shipping ARM hardware is very poor, and IO performance is terrible. Waiting to get hold of some of the new server designed systems (Calxeda etc) once they actually ship. Most ARM hardware is two process generations behind Intel. I don't think 64 bit helps that much. A large memory system will consume much of its power in the RAM, so the difference between ARM and Intel per Gig is smaller, especially as no one is likely to stick 1TB in an ARM system so you are likely to get more CPUs anyway.

It is possible it will work out, but theory and reality are so far off now that I am keeping my options open, was going to start a business in this space but very much keeping the options open at this stage.
BART is horrible. There aren't many trains and they never do maintenance on the rails so it's noisy as hell.
Million dollar houses, or small houses with no yards. We have to live in the burbs.

I also did live closer to work but changed jobs.
Say you take out a $400,000 loan for a $500,000 place (this will buy you a 3BR high-rise condo in downtown Chicago). At today's rates, your mortgage payment will be ~$2,000/month. Your first payment on that house will be $600 principal and $1,400 interest. In a condo, your HOA fee will be maybe $800-1000/month. Depending on your tax bracket, your tax savings will be ~$400/month, which will cancel out your property taxes. So your total cost is $1,400 + $1,000 = $2,400. Market rent for the same 3BR high-rise condo is probably $2,500 to $3,000. Moreover, while your rent will go up 2-5% each year, the interest component of your mortgage payment will actually go down (2-3%/year over the first decade). Finally, when house values appreciate, you'll capture that increase rather than your landlord.
Firefox 15: Less Memory, Painless Updates

http://huntall.com/firefox-15-less-memory-painless-updates
I heard about thieves vandalizing apartments where there is nothing precious to steal, so you might just get your bike destroyed in anger. On the other hand, they may as well just take a less secured bike. That would really need to be tested in practice.
Open Source BPM gets another boost from Red Hat acquisition of Polymita
I wouldn't know the hazards of motorcycling: I live in a city with a real transit infrastructure. ;)
Perhaps it is not Romney and Ryan's fault. Maybe we need to simplify our tax system, so everyone pays equal share of taxes? But as it stands now, we have tax code of thousands of pages, so people in the know will figure out the loopholes. The analogy would be doing an SEO of a website. Sure I want everyone's site be optimized. But only people that understand all that is involved with the SEO process can properly configure pages and a server.
Wanna really have a laugh (or cry if you're Norwegian)?

Oslo $ 970 / sqft

In Norway you have a 28% tax decuction on interest paid, but it seems more likely to be a case of tulip fever. Still 85% own their own homes in Norway.
There's also the fact that the 120 cores are all in one cache-coherent domain...
i did spam abatement on delicious for years. look at his history; it's half theatlantic.

also, both things hit the front page with zero comments. that's rare. so i suspect a voting ring, too.
>then your passphrase is vulnerable to a dictionary-like attack by an attacker who has some knowledge of you, particularly one who you've told your scheme to.

That's the thing right there: the difference in practical vulnerability all but requires an attacker to have a certain level of omniscience and access to a massive database of any conceivable permutation of any fragment you might choose of a huge number of works.

>But it seems to me like you're advocating a second-best security practice when we already have a best one.

I'm advocating what can be efficiently communicated to a non-technical user that gets them to use something better than the short keys they'll tend to use otherwise.

What's more likely to stick with a 40 year old office coworker that asks how to secure their wireless network? A scheme that seems nonsensical on surface that requires a comic and basic grasp of what a keyspace is to understand, or the suggestion to "use a sentence from something you like that you'll easily remember?"

Either one is going to stop all but the most determined of attackers. I don't see the point in confusing the issue for them.
Making Hadoop Run Faster
In other news, Iranian economy booms as US sanctions lock Iranian gamers out of World of Warcraft...
I'm surprised that when I look at Haxe's showcase (http://www.haxenme.org/showcase/) - most apps there are only available on a small subset of the platforms Haxe compiles to.

Same goes for the example apps I've seen at Corona's case studies (http://www.coronalabs.com/resources/case-studies/) and Appcelerator's Titanium showcase (http://www.appcelerator.com/thinkmobile/showcase). Admittedly most of Appcelerator's apps in the showcase are compiled for both platforms but they also have by far the smallest amount of showcase apps.
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Sweating in a suit is a first world problem. Try riding
on a two-wheeled motor vehicle on ice in the presence of
traffic.

Arguably, that's a first-world problem too.
I've been using Haxe for several years. I heartily recommend it, even outside of Flash and JS targets where it's strongest. The compiler is very solid. You can still expect to be filling in some gaps in library support - but the other side of that is that it's often very straightforward to appropriate code written for your target platform and use that instead.
But if you compare figures for both cities from the same site:
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...

You'll see that prices for just about everything are higher in Sydney. Except apples, oranges and tennis court hire.

Salaries are slightly higher in Sydney (according to that site), but not enough to make up for the increase in costs.
Nike Free Run - Billig Nike Free Sko 2012 Salg i Danmark
Expanding on the first tip, this is a pretty good piece on scope and execution context in javascript -
http://davidshariff.com/blog/what-is-the-execution-context-i...
The curious case of the A/A split test
Ask HN: What happened to Augmented Reality?
Less than a year ago it appeared to me at least, that augmented reality was the next big thing and it was the future of mobile apps.

Over the last six months I've not seen anything particularly innovative or spectacular in terms of AR and despite immersing myself within the app scene, I don't know of a single individual or organisation creating anything of note where AR is an integral feature.

So HN, educate me. Am I missing something? Was AR a fad or are we yet to see its full potential?
Lots more of his photos here:

http://bryanlewissaunders.org/drugs/

Also, it's worth noting that only a small # of his portraits were painted while "under the influence" (though it sounds as if many were done while medicated).

Though I have experience with but a small fraction of his ... influences? ... his portraits definitely capture bits of the experiences I've shared. Clever.

Setting aside the artistically productive alcoholics and addicts, I assume that this is not the first artist to have intentionally dosed themselves for artistic purposes. Does anyone know of others?
I have to do a lot of this stuff: backups, disaster recovery, security, monitoring, alerting, configuration management, documentation. I'm mediocre to bad.

I'd love to pay someone competent to do it.

Pricing:

What I really want to pay for is service and training. We are on a Dreamhost VPS right now. It's fine for our needs and I can manage it ok, but I've come across different problems that I wish there was a guru around to show me how to solve it. I've spent a ton of time with different problems, some that I've been able to solve, others that I haven't. I'd be happy to pay for someone to walk me through how to do it.

The best pricing model (for me) would be a system that is configured by you initially, after you talk with me. You spend X hours creating policies for me (i.e. written documentation). You charge me a one-time fee for the consultation, set-up, and documentation.

We keep you on retainer for some monthly fee but all other service/training is on a per-job basis. It might be a little odd that I'd pay you for training; you'd be essentially working yourself out of a job. But I think that could justify a higher rate. It would also prevent people from abusing you to do things that they should be able to do themselves... OR they would rather pay you at your high rate to move files around. Win-win. There are a lot of people that don't care to learn about this stuff, so maybe you would have a different tiered pricing for that type of service.

What you /shouldn't/ offer is an actual hosting setup. I know there are some tricky questions regarding how you can get access to the system if you don't host it (you'll have to come up with a reasonable policy) but the hosting market is quite saturated (I think). It'd be difficult for you to offer a differentiated product since most people look at hosting as a commodity.

I think your product differentiator will come to service and training. Contact me if you pursue this. We'd be really interested.
Conservative generally means using tried and tested technologies that has run stably for years on thousands of servers and where every corner case is well documented and well understood. Not using some new largely untested technology that sounds awesome on paper, but has yet to truly prove itself in the real world.

Disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of clojure and Hickey and I think Datomic sounds amazing. I'm currently looking for an excuse to play with Datomic and learn more about it, so don't take what I said as any indication that I'm somehow against Datomic.
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>I mean, how many memorable punctuation-mangling strategies are there on a common phrase anyway?

How do you define common? The person has the entirety of literature, movies, music, etc to draw from. They might select any given fragment of a work, and the attacker has no way of knowing where the fragment begins or ends.

Is a purely random key strictly more secure? Sure.

But my goal isn't to get the purest possible level of security; it's to get normal people to use something more complex than the 8-14 character passwords they generally use now. I'm certainly not claiming it's perfect, but it's a simple to understand scheme that most non-technical users will be able to understand and use that will protect them from all but the most dedicated of attackers.
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The photoshop stuff is very "funny" but I don't know how different it is to other kind of initial traction tricks. For example sites creating fake users and conversations to gain traction. Here she tried to gain traction from a personal perspective.

Gaming the system is what many startups do everyday.
AirBnB Was Not Fred Wilson's Biggest Miss - Apple Was.
So you condone spreading around fake photos of fake connections?
The title is a bit misleading. He is starting to work at a venture funded by Zynga, so it is more like switching jobs than really quitting.
I'm all in favor of closing loopholes and simplification, but almost every single mainstream simplification that has ever been proposed has amounted to nothing more than an attempt to remove progressivity from the tax system. What makes the system complex is not the existence of more than one tax bracket, it's the bewildering array of itemized deductions one can take. Most of the 'simplifications' set out to accomplish two goals it seems: 1) simplify code 2) somehow lower rates. Unfortunately, when they try to be "revenue neutral" by closing loopholes, those hardest hit are the middle and lower class because of the mortgage interest deduction. So ultimately, many of these plans look like a tax cut for the rich and raising taxes for the middle class by taking away their deductions.
I'm not so sure. A friend once had a laptop stolen with the Prey anti-theft software [1] installed, which transmits the location, a screencap and a webcam photo of whoever is using your laptop once every ten minutes. He still couldn't get the police interested.

[1] http://preyproject.com/