skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware that it's basically HIIT. I'm saying people see results because P90X includes some diet guidelines and I would argue it's the diet moreso than the exercise that produces the results :-)
If it's a website that makes money there is time and budget for a/b testing

if it does not make money how is there budget for professional designer and copywriters?
Edit
It's late, that post is more aggressive than I meant it to be and so, I apologise for snapping at you, I would like to suggest you have a look at @patio11's blog Kalzumeus if you want to be bludgeoned with AB test positivity, and bid you goodnight

But seriously, AB test your designs - in fact I might suggest that designers who offer a design-and-test service would make more cash and more leverage in negotiations than
not

now there is an interesting counter to 99designs
Just out of curiosity - enclosures for what? Hard drives or something? Did you also sell the shelving, chess sets, heart gears, spool rollers (for spools of filament?), and desktop ornaments? I've got a Printrbot on the way, and I'm interested how people are using these things to make money.
So the solution to sub-par multitasking is to buy a small iPad to use at the same time?
Hilarious!

Trademarks are not verbs.

Correct: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.

Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.
The Best Way to Prevent SQL Injection
Mark Zuckerberg is not the only reason Aaron Greenspan is not a billionaire.
Note: If the DMV doesn't have your signature on file, you have to print out the application and send it in.
I tried a bit SublimeVideo, it seemed a bit slow in mainland China, not so sure about this, but clearly the SublimeVideo website takes ages to load here.

I finally gave it up.
I appreciate that building Facebook to the point it is at now, and maintaining focus on the future company despite buy-out offers, is not trivial. Mark is clearly a talented individual.

However what is good for Facebook =/= what is good for Facebook users. And one point that emerges from Greenspan's description of Mark is that the man may be a genius for cutting out friends and building an empire, but when it comes to human warmth, he's lacking. And the problem with that is that it may very well limit Mark's ability to imagine how something like Facebook could evolve and work, and thus limit his ability to better equate what is good for Facebook with what is good for users.

A subsidiary point is that, due to network effects, Facebook's vulnerability to a poor core philosophy is reduced, at least in the short term. Once a social network grows into our lives, it isn't easy to replace. So if Facebook is indeed "rotten at the core" (I'm not arguing it is necessarily... just saying) then it may be able to buy itself a lot of time, even if it acts in its "own" interests, not its users'. But as technology continues to develop and its environment destabilises it won't remain invulnerable forever. Unless you are interested in slavery and extortion, eventually, under our moderated democratic capitalist model, what is good for a company is being good for its users.
The reality is that it's a terrifying mixture of the worst of both worlds.
Am I right in reading the Symantec C&C report and seeing that the servers were on Linux machines? Were the hiding the activity from themselves in case they were compromised? I assumed that they were infecting machines and using them as servers. Was there a linux vulnerability too?
The Pun in Martin Odersky's Scala Course
"I also agree where he said any legal start up is fine and free of guilt - but don't worry I would be behind any start up or government initiative that gave away heroin to Junkies"

And if the government does make it legal to give away heroin? While that is seemingly improbable I think it can get dangerous to assume that laws are representative of ethics or humane behavior.
Amazon pretty famously does not adjust base salaries upward compared to other big companies.
Poorly written article, I agree! However, the comments section contains uncountable kernels of white nationalist wisdom. What woodwork did these people come out of?
> FaceCash is currently prohibited from doing business in California by the Money Transmission Act.

Aaron Greenspan has a whole song and dance about how the state of California screwed him over, too. The guy comes across as nothing but a professional victim.
Also, just to make sure I'm understanding you: are you saying that there is a group of people on HN who will vigorously downvote me or anyone else simply for satirically rebutting a laughably verbose comment from a popular user?

Hmm, and I thought I was finished with primary school.
Yeh I can't imagine apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Angry Birds being popular without Apple featuring
them. Oh wait.

And I am not sure what specifically makes the algorithm primitive.
Maybe https://browserling.com/ would do
Of course! There's no possible way to promote your app other than telling users to search for it in the App Store. If having users stumble upon your app is in your critical path, you have other problems.

The search results have always been less-than-stellar whether you could scroll through 25 results in 1s or 11s.
You have no idea how brute force md5 was like. You just look up a 80TB db table full of hash strings.

http://www.cmd5.org/password.aspx
Why use zsh?
I agree that iOS 6 layout is ridiculous and far from usable.

However, if you are building an app for Picasa, it better have "Picasa" in its name. The results are probably sorted by relevance (whatever that might be) and not only by ratings.
What do you think the company in Atlanta will use it for? I mean, who are the users that need things printed in plastic? Architects maybe? People who want custom desktop toys? I have a 3d printer on the way and I'm trying to think of how I could make money off of it.
With camera phones and drone technology, soon no one will be safe
I like the photos of the solidoodle2 and the price tag. How is the end product? Some dudes in a local hackerspace built a reprap a while ago but that thing is nothing but disappointment... Head drift, ooze problems, constant maintenance. What's the most complex thing you've printed, if you don't mind me asking?
> Can they both use the same filament?

If you get the heated bed option, yes.
The number one search for "picasa" should be Picasa.
App Store is basically just a web browser, so easier for them to upgrade. They do make changes over time that don't require software updates. One big one I remember is forcing people to have bought an app to be able to rate it. But you are probably right that a major overhaul in short time isn't their style.
Boson outside standard model potentially discovered
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html?_r=... discusses a case involving a court order that said "you shall arrest or issue a warrant for the arrest" and a CO law that mandates arrest for violating protective orders.

It's a followon to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales which had a similar fact pattern.

There's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County which doesn't involve police. That decision says that it isn't just police who have no duty to act. I don't know of any US, state, or local govt employess who have a duty to act, with a minor exception for teachers, who have an obligation to report suspected child abuse in certain circumstances.

This isn't new - see South v. Maryland, 59 U.S. (How.) 396, 15 L.Ed.433 (1856)

Lower courts have typically come down the same way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia is the classic, often cited case.

Bowers v. Devito, 686 F.2d 616 (7th Cir. 1982)

Hartzler v. City of San Jose, 46 Cal.App.3d 6, 120 Cal.Rptr. 5 (1975)

Barillari v. City of Milwaukee, 533 N.W.2d 759 (Wis. 1995).

Ford v. Town of Grafton, 693 N.E.2d 1047 (Mass. App. 1998).

Lynch v. N.C. Dept. of Justice, 376 S.E. 2nd 247 (N.C. App. 1989)

My personal favorite is Riss v. New York, 22 N.Y.2d 579,293 N.Y.S.2d 897, 240 N.E.2d 806 (1958) .

The Riss dissent argued "What makes the City's position particularly difficult to understand is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law, Linda did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of NY which now denies all responsibility to her."

However, that dissent is wrong as a matter of law. There's nothing unconstitutional about govt policies that impose a Catch-22 on law-abiding people.
I have about a decade of experience in low- and no-budget filmmaking, including 9 feature films and too many shorts to count. Technology is a wonderful thing, as is the fact that people are willing to pitch in and led equipment, talent, and locations for nothing. But...

a) if you work this way (with actors doubling up as crew and so on), then you say goodbye to QA. Although there are clear improvements from project to project the quality is...not good. I don't want to go through a laundry list of critcisms. But I suggest ditching the DV camera, getting a DSLR, and learning to shoot at 24p with a 1/50 shutter speed. The cost and time savings of not using DV tapes alone will cover the food bill for your shoot.

b) "I raised $2,000 using Kickstarter." That's a very small budget, but it's a hell of a lot bigger than $0, no? This sort of bait-and-switch marketing technique only works if you have a commercial release. Your budget is part of your marketing plan, and you can only use this trick once. OK, so the point is that the filmmaker did it with $0 of his own cash. There's a thin line between creatively financing your project on a shoestring, and coming off as a freeloader.

c) "If this is what I did with $2,000 imagine what I could do with $2,000,000." Production companies in Hollywood hear this pitch approximately weekly. The response (among themselves, not to you) is 'I'm perfectly capable of wasting my own money.' What you need to focus on now is leveraging the achievements so far into a $20,000 budget (enough to pay a minimum wage to a small crew and cast), and having a plan to generate a similar amount of revenue. That will open doors to larger things.
Enemies of the Internet
Hacker News broke your blog.
And HN broke this article
Bookmarklet to increase width of GitHub diff viewer (via zoradude5)
It's not if it's once, but if it's always the case? Seems kind of transactional - I need to talk to this person for this, so I do; I completed that, so we're done.
Linden Labs (Second Life Devs) take on the Minecraft genre with PATTERNS
Another for your list, and the biggest hindrance for me:

5. never made a habit out of exercise/did make a habit out of eating shit food

As I get older, the habits become harder to change. Most healthy people don't seem to understand the huge impact this has.
Ask HN: What features would you add or subtract from Facebook? 
It seems as if much of Google plus's assault on Facebook has been based on improved or superior features. I wonder if "features" are an incentive for anyone to visit a network or if it simply a function of the users on that network? If you could, what features would you like to add to or subtract from facebook?
Oneone is an http 1.1 server library for node.js
Previously: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/zuckerberg.html
"This is a great happy hour story, but not such a great epitaph." - nailed it!
Goals should be to avoid privacy violations by leaking private user data like IP to other users. LinkedIn has no respect for users, though.
This seems a fairly dangerous injection vector for malicious wifi APs. I assume that the browser is opening to the same URL and capturing that and redirecting to a malicious site should be trivial.
Wikimedia releases anonymous search log files for Wikipedia
When searching for apps, do you guys usually immediately jump through the whole list? This is something I never do.

However, I will look at apps one at a time and decide which one is best. On iOS 5 this meant clicking on each list item one by one, waiting (forever) for the app page to load, and eventually picking one. Allowing me to browse through apps one at a time and see all the information I need without ever leaving the screen seems like it would encourage discovery, not hurt it. I can even download the app right from the search screen AND I don't get thrown out of the App Store when I start the download so I can just download all the apps I want to try at once. This seems like a huge win to me.

Do other people browse the App Store differently?
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Well, app store searching and browsing through either an iPhone, iPad or even iTunes has been, to be kind, far less than desirable from day one.

The same is true of iBooks.

Apple has crappy search technology and even crappier implementations.
Ahhh I see. I have three finger drag enabled, so not as much of a pain.
Valuation multiples are not against revenue, they're against earnings.
Live, in-browser demos of hadoop, git, riak etc
We are eager because I think the only things I have ever heard from Greenspan on this site are posts which are still whining about how he got screwed out of lots of fame and fortune in Facebook, or how everyone else is spamming and breaking the law over at AirBnB.

Want me to not paint him as a whiner? How about a Show HN post of a cool new tech company he just started that actually will be useful. Failing that all I hear is someone who is mad he too doesn't have a billion in the bank.
Every time I've seen tptacek post on HN's Who's Hiring threads, he makes it pretty clear that Matasano has a bay area office.

You should email him. The worst that happens is he says "No". And, well, in that case, nothing changes.
Victoria Walker, 11-Year-Old, Wins $20,000 At AT&T Hackathon
What exactly stops an impersonator (or the operator of a captive network) from capturing/reproducing the content of http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html and serving that to the iOS device? I could understand if it were over SSL, but it looks like this doesn't really do anything to stop a MITM attack.
NYPL revises plan to remove most books
Bing landing page to convert users with Google-Safari privacy breach
Since for 99.99999% of users being able to visit a web page means the internet is working.

Remember Apple never optimises for edge case.
Arctic sea ice reaches record low
This is going to change the motorcycle industry. Most of the (very expensive OEM) plastic pieces on the bike are small enough to be replicated within the scale of the Replicator 2, and those that are could easily be segmented into printable jobs. For example, right now I'm waiting for a small $70 part to be shipped from a warehouse in Bologna - why couldn't I just print it out myself? Even better, why not replace it with a more personalized design?
Nothing is broken and no one is "doing it wrong". It's not broken, it's just inconvenient for you. This sucks for app developers with bad app store SEO and lackluster icons, app designs, and screenshots of said designs. Many apps at the bottom of the stack will be neglected. This is a good thing. I'm about to release an app into the app store for the first time and I'm happy about it.

This will raise the bar for developers. It'll force them to do better app store SEO and it'll force the, to pay attention to design. Ugly apps aren't always necessarily bad but more ugly apps are bad than ugly apps that are good. This isn't Android. On iOS, users tend to judge an app by its icon and screenshots and they use pretty apps more than they open ugly ones. I didn't make the rules, I just play by them. Developers should be welcoming competition and with so many crap apps out there today it's probably better for good app developers to work on getting their rankings higher while the crap app makers languish at the end of the results.

While its bad for developers it's great for buyers. Guess what? There are far more buyers than developers on the app store. You may argue that if developers leave then iOS will die. Not so. Again, iOS users are a different animal. They can live with just a few big name apps from the major players. Android users tend to like lots of apps from indie devs and iOS users do too but if push came to shove they'd just keep their Angry Birds, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp and go on with their day. Screenshots are very important in the buying process and putting them front and center like this.

As developers we tend to think we're the center of the universe. We place far too much importance on our role than is deserved. Witness the outrage over Twitter's API. While developers were screaming about revolt the users barely noticed and kept tweeting away. Meanwhile Twitter pretty much gave us the finger because they know we'll be back because they have the users. Developers are like parents in a way. We raise a platform then the platform rebels. We threaten to cut them off but by that point the platform is all grown up and doesn't need our help anymore. iOS won't be hurt by developers leaving. If developers leave over not being found in search results then by definition they're leaving because no one's using the app. Who's going to miss an app that never gets used?
Err - the British system was a compromise where it wa legal for doctors to prescribe herion to patients under their care - ie junkies, so they stopped petty crime to feed their habit and started getting some strucutres back in their lives

so I was in favour of that system, and think it ethical to look to harm reduction as opposed to all out prohibition. Which I think means we agree - but maybe not. I am not too sure
Why HTML 3.2, I wonder?
Soooo, if they did actual work, they deserve to be paid fairly for that work.

They certainly do not deserve to be paid for things they didn't do, nor a perpetual monopoly on others' work, simply because they've managed to lock-in their customers for historical reasons.

Rent-seeking is rent-seeking, and is bad for society.
There is no official Picasa in the iTunes App Store.
More along the lines that if you don't disclose how you do the illusion you can't prevent other people from publishing write-ups or selling kits to do something similar.

Then magic tricks can all be patented, and protected for the life of the patent. Interested amateurs can look up the patents, but magicians can rest assured that few in their audience will take that step. Seems like a perfect tradeoff to me.
Definitely helps, thank you :) So maybe more than just sharing coffee pictures. Maybe links as well :) Possibly rendering/generating a screenshot of the website as the image itself would do.
What an embarrassing pair of comments.
Responding to Recruiting Emails?
I am not looking for a new job, but I keep getting emails from recruiters and startups.

I have been treating them as spam and ignoring the emails, but that just results in follow-ups.

Should I respond to all of them? Any advice?
Following Gladwell's 10000 hour rule, I would say you could probably call yourself a data science after 1000+ hours experience working with datasets successfully. As far as the math goes you should be able to do regression analysis, you don't need to know tons of stats but you do need to know stats and probability essentials (first few classes at a good school) deeply. I like this Wikipedia entry on "mathematical maturity": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_maturity; apart from writing proofs, it is very relevant.
Has everyone on HN always been this cynical?
I guess as an aspiring minimalist I just don't care for chess sets or desk ornaments.
The Cloudera packages make it extremely easy to get Hadoop up and running, as well as processing sample data available on the web.
There's a great indie film making community in Fairfield, IA. Have you ever been there? http://theskyisfree.com is an example of something out of Fairfield - also made on basically 0 budget.
Can someone explain the Apple WiFi thing. Why would it ever contact apple.com
Yes, he absolutely is writing out of bitterness and jealousy.
Streaming frequency distributions with anytop
As someone interested in making documentaries on a shoestring - I think it is an intereting educational and interview tool - are there specific products you would point me at, community film groups - are they any good? Just basic 'mistakes not to make' list would be very appreciated - top of the list is which camera to (not) get and whether OSS can handle non linear editing

edit : and, rude of me not to ask first time, do you have links to any of your 9(!) feature films - would be interested and the hackernewser links don't seem to take me there.
AOL and Netflix have been bitten by the deanonymization of their search/recommendation logs before. What will keep the same from happening here?
Again, I just don't think this issue is as simple as you portray it. There is a place for critics and criticism in society, a society with them is healthier I think than a situation (as you seem to, forgive me if I misread you, be promoting) where the only thing worthwhile is creating a startup, and if you have not or are not actively creating a startup and achieving the current consensus definition of success, then your opinion is worthless.

Perhaps Greenspan is, as you say, just a whiner. But he does seem to have a lot of experience in tech, have come up with a lot of different ventures, and, very importantly, he was there in the early days of Facebook, he saw Mark and experienced Mark's behaviour first-hand way back in 2004. Say what you will, I think that experience is important. Facebook is a massive force in current history, and Mark by-and-large defines Facebook's culture. So yeah, I think this stuff matters. Are you saying that we should discount Greenspan's opinions automatically, because what, he's too bitter, or has complained too much already, or hasn't created something nice and shiny and new recently?
I've purchased about $1000 worth of applications on the iPhone/iPad in the last 4+ years, about 350 or so in total. 95%+ of the time I chose the very first app in the list. I don't recall the last time I was looking for an App that I didn't know the name of - but perhaps others use the App store differently.

Of course, this is negative for publishers who are trying to leverage the search field with "like names" and, for those publishers who get business from people searching for random apps in a particular category.

But, in general, this is good for people like me - who heard about a great new app by name on a podcast, and just want to try it out - having the extra data around the screenshot is useful.
When can I pre-order?
Relevant evidence is not deceitful nor manipulative to disclose.
I have not seen this movie (yet) - But there is an other film that was made on a shoestring budget (ca$5000) called Donkey.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1595388/

This film has the feeling and quality of early Quentin Tarantino films, and a plot that is much better than 90% of major US films.
Many states are also actively trying to prevent registered voters from voting with voter ID laws.
On a side note, could you imagine Google changing their search results to this kind of layout? I think it would probably trigger a ton of lawsuits.
From what I've gathered, Twitter would be upset that LinkedIn doesn't support "expanded Tweets" (so you can preview images and links), among other features. If the features make the experience nicer, then wouldn't that be one more reason to follow the link to twitter.com? Having the full feature set on LinkedIn would decrease Twitter's traffic. Not to mention that they're asking LinkedIn to make their interface more complex, which LinkedIn is right to reject.

"You need to be able to see expanded Tweets and other features that make Twitter more engaging and easier to use."

-Michael Sippey, Consumer Product Lead, Twitter

https://dev.twitter.com/blog/delivering-consistent-twitter-e...

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/06/linkedin/