skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This absolutely rules. I just re-registered (due to having moved) and it's quite straightforward, and you can request a permanent vote-by-mail ballot (most secure way to vote).

For those paranoid about "online voting" - this is nothing of the sort, it simply updates the county voting registry with your details, they do a human effort to match it up with your existing info.

Now if only the swing states had this in-place, it could enfranchise millions of folks who can't/don't have the time to register or don't realize they might have missed the registration deadline.
Voter Registration Form - Elections - California Secretary of State
Rotten Tomatoes Top 100 on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Hulu & Vudu
LinkedIn seems like more of a publisher than a Twitter client, since the content is promoted to non-Twitter-users. If anything, I would think having 'teaser' content on publisher sites linking back to full content on Twitter would work to Twitter's advantage.
ASK HN? : I'm little confused, can someone please shed some light into this so we can all get a clearer picture. What is the difference between Data Scientist vs Big Data Expert vs Analytics Engineer (Statistics, metrics etc) vs Hadoop Architect vs Machine Learning Expert ? Thanks a lot HN people!
Vendor: iOS Library to simplify working with StoreKit (In-App Purchase)
Hacks from PennApps, largest student-run hackathon
> vote-by-mail ballot (most secure way to vote)

[Citation needed].
Most of us here are in software. But if you're in hardware, this might be significantly cheaper and/or faster than working with a plastics fabricator for creating simple prototypes. I know of one company here in Atlanta that will probably jump on this thing right away.
Not only that: "Kaspersky analyst Dmitry Bestuzhev cracked the hash for the password Sept. 17 just hours after Symantec put out a public request for help"

How is it possible to crack 900gage!@# in a few hours?
Insight from analyzing 6.7 billion pageviews
I meant if you want to "control" an article and force other editors to have to fight you to get something put on Wikipedia. You just throw at them a whole bunch of WP (Wikipedia Policies), cite WP:BIO for controversial facts about public figures, or use WP:RUMOR, WP:NOTRS or WP:OR. Most people have no idea about what these mean and just give up.
Guess we're further away with a 3D printer being able to print itself. Thank goodness - what a stupid goal. This new version is 10x better than the last for only a small increase in the price.

Still too much for the average person but someone with some production capacity will bring this sort of device down in price.
Self-hosted Dropbox for Enterprises
E.g., Jobs cheated Wozniak out of cash money:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Early_career
I agree, Greenspan did come out as a victim. His style is heavy.
Its like a "growth hacker", re-branded in a corporate way
I see this 'the product will see itself' thinking often with engineering peeps. They are usually very logical people that evaluate their decisions this way but the market can be very different in their purchasing triggers. Good distribution and brand recognition can sell even sub par products. There is much to be said for getting these parts of a business running well.
I don't take serious offense, I just disagree with the article. Taken at face value it seems to be warning makers not to feel to good about themselves. As a personal belief system about making, it sounds like a negative, unhealthy one. The tagline "Sexiness is vanity" gives that away. Imagine telling your daughter, "Don't feel sexy, that's narcissism that is. Exalts the individual and such. People who feel sexy are vain. Sexiness is poison, it's toxic; if you start to feel it, resist it." That's about half of what this article is trying to drive home, and I think it says as much at the OP as anything. That's ok though, it's a very personal post.
http://snapsite.me/ is pretty cool. It takes a Facebook Page and makes a professional looking webpage out of it.

e.g.
https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist to http://www.snapsite.me/home.php?id=804

It helps less tech savvy businesses only know how to operate a facebook page have a decent web presence.
For a more realistic take on it, think of it as a tenth of a millimeter instead of 100 microns!
Watching someone else play has some large advantages over playing yourself.

1) he has more skill at the game than you

2) he can put in the hours to get gear, friends to join his party, and other resources you don't have that let him do things you couldn't do

3) playing alone can be lonely. a streamer talking about the game provides some discussion about it. and streamers can be on audio chat with their friends, so you can be listening to a discussion between several people while they are playing. whereas if you play yourself maybe you don't have several friends at the same place in the game chatting with you about what you're doing

4) you can watch a stream on a computer that can't play the game

5) save money on buying the game (I often watch some gameplay footage of games i don't have to see if i'd like to play them or not)

So for example I watch http://www.twitch.tv/nl_kripp sometimes. He is in a WoW guild that I couldn't get accepted in, doing things in WoW I couldn't do. I want to see what high end WoW is like but I don't want to spend a year to catch up. So it's great to get a taste of gameplay that has a very high barrier to entry. I also save the $15/month for a WoW sub.

And for what it's worth, I bought guildwars 2 because of Kripp (for $60). It was fun to play the game while having his stream on. Why not do both in some cases!? I got tips from his stream and understood what he was doing better because I was doing similar things.
Have Makerbot printers ever had the immediate goal of being self-hosting?

That is the RepRap project's thing as far as I know, not Makerbot's.
‘And a single ray of sunlight/ Reaches down to touch the golden boy.’
No-Name Company Sues Internet, Misunderstands GitHub
This isn't even funny: A virtually unknown company called PersonalWeb Technologies has launched a series of patent infringement suits against some of the internet’s most important companies, including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM.
I agree. I wonder if it is possible to get hired as a data scientist as easily if you haven't worked on big data before.

Or, I guess programmers and engineers could start using the big data tools even though they are not needed. Has anyone ran Hadoop on a single (multi-core) machine for this purpose?
10k?
Unreal that he was able to crack it so fast.. a little scary really! He might have access to precomputed password hashes in a database. For example, you create a massive password list and compute all the hashes, save them in a database, why would you compute these hashes and throw away the results each time. You might just say "select plain_text from results where hash = '27934e96d90d06818674b98bec7230fa';". Just a guess though.
That goes along with journalistic quality although it's probably worse than 1930's.
Ask HN: Lessons Learned from Client Work
How has your process of doing client work (from negotiating an agreement, drafting requirements, all the way to delivering the final product) evolved? What tips or lessons do you have about managing a client project for a development team?
> I am fine with the literary aspects of it being protected
> provided that the practical aspects are not

I guess you're thinking along the lines of a playwright who sells scripts of her play, but cannot prevent people from performing the play (since they already bought the script)?
Always store beer in a dark place.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man--man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you; if you don’t bet, you can’t win.

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it!

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?

If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.

It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another--but which one? Differences are crucial.

A fake fortune teller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved .

Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Most “scientists” are bottle washers and button sorters.

A “pacifist male” is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described “pacifists” are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman’s breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
> click here to learn more

There's a reason there is no such link. FaceCash is currently prohibited from doing business in California by the Money Transmission Act. Aaron is trying to resolve this, but until he does his hands are kind of tied.
Let me summarize. The 2 methods.

1. Have customers who come back frequently and spend money.
2. Have a lot of new customers who spend money. They tell there friends to come, and spend money. Rinse. Repeat.
Yeah, H1 season just passed -- that's prolly why.
I do. My chat clients are set to automatically log, so that when I talk to someone a week later, I can look at the history. More importantly, a lot of questions get asked and answered over IM, so I can check it for answers to "why is X broken" or "How do I Y, again?", or "what was your mailing address?" without having to actually _ask_ the person again.

I've never looked back at archived IMs from years past, though, but they are still squirreled away on the removed hard drives from past machines.
Bidding on competitor terms is nothing new.

Yes, it might be a poor use of their money, but they can decide what to do with their ad money.

As a commenter on the blog noted: Google regulates this somewhat with their quality score algorithm and charges more for people with irrelevant ads & content, but at the ened of the day, if someone wants to bid their way to the top, it's still just an auction system and they can certainly do that if they want.
What teams inside MS do you think are dragging their feet?
Re: Google shareholders, the founders still control >50% of the votes.
This is great news, I can't wait to attend more classes and meetups at Hacker Dojo, I hope they will go back to hosting bigger meetups there!
This is the Leap Motion for the folks that don't want to click through - which I don't recommend.

Disclaimer: I have one on order.

The hype machine that Leap is unleashing is astronomical. Every day I read new journalists that say this is the most amazing technology ever. Leap has been constantly Tweeting about new jobs - designers, coders, managers, lawyers?!?

There is NO way that they can a) sustain this hype or b) pay for it.

Hope I get mine before they a) go out of business or b) get purchased by Google or Microsoft and left to rot on the vine.
Any ideas where I can find this theme? Tried looking no luck =/
Real artist ship (Apple). Fake artists announce early (Google, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Samsung and LEAP).
COMPLETELY agree. In companies that don't have data as a core competency, "big data" ends up being this business buzzword thrown about because their data is too big for their current set of tools... whether it's R or even Excel or what not.

As a math/stats guy who picked up more programming along the way, I personally think it's MUCH easier to train a DB guy some business sense than it is for a a business analyst to have Hadoop drilled into them. Of course, the downsides of a coder without sufficient savvy are harder to detect than a numbers guy who can't make his program work, and therein lies your problem.
Tech Giants Form Internet-Freedom Lobby to Counter MPAA, RIAA Clout
Accuracy. Detail. They have better analysis engines, which do more complex types of program analysis. The static program analysis field is incredibly deep it takes a lot of engineering to make a world class analysis engine. Just like it takes a lot of effort to make a world class optimising complier. (eg. the Intel C Compiler still out performs GCC despite monumental effort on GCC's side. It takes a long time to build this stuff)

They also have better rules sets from what I understand than the open source tools.
> he is too young to trust as a CEO

Considering he has 57% of the voting power, isn't this criticism largely moot?
Their AngelList profile reveals a bit more about the team: https://angel.co/formlabs

Looks like they're all MIT Media Lab grad students. That's probably a good sign.
The geektastic glasses? I wear contacts so I don't have to wear glasses.
A lead pipe disagrees with you.

;)
I'm wondering how far of the ability to print out CPU. Certianly would appear that 3D printers will become viable for manufacturing more and more common day objects. I'm sure the ability to have more than one print head(ink/material if you like) and able to switch then things realy start to get very exciting.
one that immediately comes to mind is the US Mail system is a best effort delivery protocol.
There are probably any number of reasons, valid or not. The easiest to cite is "Who do I call if we have a problem with OpenJDK?"

Outside of OpenJDK there are other issues that make this a hard push for Enterprise customers. I haven't seen a large installation that uses memcached. Most go with something that is tailored for Java like Terracotta's bigmemory. Again it is "Who do we call if it breaks?"

Heroku is in an interesting place here I think. They are certainly on the right trail but this is VMWare's back yard now. Being a polyglot platform is probably a disadvantage for Heroku in this arena. If you look at VMWare they have a complete system tailored to work with Java. The hardest hurdle I see is that VMWare's solution can go from developer size deployments to production all on the hardware owned by the Enterprise. Heroku can't do that and I assume will never do that. Not "owning" the entire system will be an uphill battle for a lot of Enterprise customers.
What useful things are people actually using 3d printers for? Yes, I've heard all the hype about prototyping and you can print "anything". But honestly whenever I look at things people are printing its just a bunch of cheap looking plastic toys I would never want. Convince me I need one of these!
Admit it... how many of us on Y are like this?
Twitter's Strategy:
Step 1 - Standardize message format and control access points for consumption of Twitter content enabling easier ad unit injection into the Twitter stream.
Step 2 - ??
Step 3 - Profit.
We've had nothing but great results from Reddit advertising. We average 0.18 CTR and 2.6 pages per visit with <70% bounce. The actual ad makes a huge difference, you really need to connect with the Reddit audience. We tried a couple of different ads before finding one that worked well for us.
Anyone heard anything about whether the new hardware and software will be open-source? It would be a shame if MakerBot's continued success and growth come at the expense of openness.
Check out a blog post we wrote some time ago about fraud prevention (we're both using paypal and stripe).

http://www.binpress.com/blog/2012/07/31/fighting-online-frau...

Might be of interest to you.
Another brief takeaway for me was that businesses that grow quickly either

1. see an extremely reliable 4x return on advertising expenditure

Or

2. do not have advertising expenditures at all.

One caveat to the article is that it is not in every business's long term interest to grow quickly.
I use Photoshop mainly for front-end web dev. The most common use of it is just slicing up images to be used, having it work on a retina display would be great. It's so common for cutlines to become blurry the more you zoom out on an image, so I think that having it be 1 to 1 pixel density is a must have. I don't believe that since the pixel density is higher in the images, that the actual controls can't be retina friendly. Isn't that how Final Cut works on a Retina Display? I don't have either, but I remember Apple stating "In this window, you are seeing a full un-altered 1080p frame, along with the controls"
To be fair, it's under a "Sponsored" heading (if you look hard enough).

I completely agree with the article. People complain about the screen real estate on Google results pages without realizing that the other things on the page are either highly relevant ads, or tools to help you search better/efficiently.

In this case, Facebook is doing the opposite. NOTHING about that is good and I don't know why anyone would pay for it. Anyone looking for Obama is not going to NOT NOTICE that they just wound up on Romney's page. They're going to roll their eyes, do the search again and be more diligent.

And Romney will have paid for that click in one way or another. Maybe I'll go do that search a few more times...
Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite books of all time - I stared at that mushroom-shaped cave for the longest time trying to recall where I'd seen it!
Also I don't think it's necessarily a fail.

You got 6 invitations to your service for a $150 spend. So that's a $25 cost per invite. What's the total lifetime value of a landlord to you? If it's more than $25, that's a win right? You have to discuss these results using math in order to say win/fail.

Also you're right that spending more and playing with the headlines day to day is a good idea. (I hear @patio11 in my head shouting "A/B testing!") The $25 acquisition cost could drop to $10 or $5 with the right message wording and trying different subreddits.

Lastly, I always shudder to hear about $100 FB ad campaigns people run and declare them to be a waste of time. As someone else said, it is a bit like golf. You have to play it a few times to get a sense of if you're good at it. The first time out is not a sufficient test.
Sorry this didn't work out for you. I make an effort to actually look at the ads on Reddit because I think those are some of the smarter advertisers. Ignoring that you actively advertised on r/realestate, here are some issues you probably ran into on the main page push (please correct me if I overlooked any of these):

Taking into account the median age range of the average Redditor, do they even have landlords or do they live in dorms or with their parents? Then if they do have a landlord, what's their relationship like?

Even as someone in my mid-20's, my relationship with my landlord isn't buddy-buddy because I have no intention of staying at this location and can't guarantee that she'll have a property in an area I look into in the future. We get along fine and she wants to be a connection on LinkedIn, but that doesn't make the scenario you're proposing anything more than an awkward, incentive-less sales pitch about a product I know nothing about. Additionally, another reason I went with my particularly property manager (and possibly why others have too) was because she is already using Appfolio (so everything is done online), which I'm going to assume has a somewhat similar feature to your product.

You also don't cite any trial time or discounts to property managers who want to compare and contrast before taking the plunge, which would at least give me an easier way to make the pitch. The sample is expecting me to fill out the form to see the rest of the experience, if there's even anything else there, whereas as a landlord I would be just as interested (possibly even moreso) in the admin interface and my customization options.

I'm also less likely to click on an ad with some random person's face. I don't know what it is, maybe the Jimmy Wales (et al) Wikipedia fundraiser effect, but I just ignore it because it's weird.

Lastly, does suggesting this service to her imply that I am unhappy with the one she currently uses or - worse - that I'm making a commission off of this sale unbeknownst to her? I just don't want that kind of baggage tied to the person who determines whether or not there's a roof over my head.
It's a marketing failure to not capitalize on such an opportunity.

Geez, we're supposed to think less of the guy for not milking his controversial history with Zuckerburg for cash? If there's ever a right time to refrain from marketing yourself, it's when you're accusing someone else of being an opportunistic sociopath.
>That's certainly not the lesson. In fact what's always made me believe these sort of attacks against Zuckerberg's character is the fact that you don't see this happen with really any of the other startups that got big. Nobody is accusing Larry and Sergey of these sorts of shenanigans.

I think a lot of it is about the product you are making. Google was started by people who would find Google useful. Larry and Sergey were not laughing at people for wanting to search the web. Facebook is just another in a long line of marketing triumphs, similar to movie and record producers who create movies and bands they themselves would never watch or listen to. Facebook is not a tech company, they are the worst part of the entertainment industry, the nonartists.
It's called a rainbow table, and it would be gigantic for 10 character strings with special characters considered.
That is true for Google. However, we don't know if this is the case with Facebook. I have no insider knowledge, but I suspect that Romney's campaign must have approached Facebook and worked out a one-off deal. I see Romney as the top sponsored result every time I try the search. Apparently it started several weeks ago. For me it won't stop showing up, even when it's clear that I have no intention of ever clicking on it.

My opinion is that it's a terrible way for Facebook to showcase their entry into the market of paid placement for search results.
Is http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/#10/-21.4805/18.7811 supposed to be the Money Pit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#History_of_the_Money...
You might enjoy Charlie Munger's writing and speeches. Here's an example: http://ycombinator.com/munger.html
Thanks for the kind words. :)

Oddly enough, it shows up less bold on a non-windows machine.

Eulexia is an SIL-OFL one that is thinner too. But I haven't worked on the windows font smoothing with that one yet. :-/
It would be refreshing if this industry group took a firm stand against the Great Firewall of China and other national government efforts to censor the Internet. I wonder if that is part of their agenda, as is implied by the main page headings?

I tried to look up the privacy platform page, but got a

502 Bad Gateway

error just now. They evidently still have both reliability and usability issues to fix on the association's own website before they go out to make the world a better place.

AFTER EDIT:

Oh, okay, when I go to the Protecting Internet Freedom page

http://internetassociation.org/policy-platform/protecting-in...

I see a statement that the association supports

"policies that protect and promote Internet freedom – information should flow freely across national borders, uninhibited by tariffs, regulations and government censorship that are fundamentally inconsistent with the transnational, free and decentralized nature of the Internet. To preserve the Internet’s role as a conduit for free expression, Internet intermediaries must not be held liable for the speech and activity of Internet users."

Opposing censorship is one of my causes, so so far, so good.
Im not sure why a redditor would bother helping you out, you need to appeal to them with something, karma, fame, an iPad giveaway or something.