skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't RGB insufficient to represent all visible colors? In that case, the human eye would be able to see more than that.
Http://www.rfidied.com/news/12422/Procter-&-Gamble-Halts-Tagging-of-Promotional-Displays-
The Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G), a pioneer in the use of Electronic Product Code (EPC) technologies in the supply chain, has ceased placing EPC tags on promotional displays bound for Wal-Mart's RFID-enabled stores. Kim Zimmer, Procter & Gamble's leader for global EPC RFID technology and operations, sent an e-mail this week to the company's contract manufacturers, stating: "P&G has made the decision to end the EPC Display Tagging project at Wal-Mart, effective immediately." The e-mail instructed contract manufacturers not to order any additional EPC RFID tags, and not to apply any tags they already have in stock.
Blindness teaches an artist how to paint
Ask HN: Help with my CAPTCHA woes
Hi guys,

I currently work for an organisation who are quite security conscious and implemented CAPTCHA across various login screens on our sites a couple of years back.

Our CAPTCHA is quite easy to read but I can still see from customer feedback and statistics that they are a source of irritation to our users and have actually in some instances even caused customers to cancel accounts!

Our dev manager understands the need to get rid of the CAPTCHA's on the site but refuses to do so unless someone can come up with a solution that will prevent automated logins.

Has anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks
I'm the CTO of a startup and have been VP of Engineering or CTO of others before that. I like the idea of being a servant and working with people smarter than me. Right now I've got a team of 9 people working for me and most of my day is spent dealing with stuff so that they don't have to deal with those things.

Yesterday I did IT rubbish all day, and right now I'm fighting HP over what looks like poor support of multicast IP in one of their access points. These are things that need to get done and it's more effective if I deal with them, than involving the team. They need to get on with the coding.

I'm very happy to be in this position. But perhaps I'm an odd ball.
Even were that uncontroversial, the cost of developers' time generally accounts for only a small proportion of the costs of bringing product to market.
True or False: App acceleration solutions teach developers to write inefficient code
Blog post on pain points with casual use of EC2
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Which makes it even more fun for us. ;-)
I'd be curious to see how effective that is! What's the name of the site?
Well, that was part of the joke. Somebody on #startups submitted it to Digg as a "nonsocial nonnetwork." That pretty much sums it up. It's why we didn't exactly expect the traffic we're getting. (We're up to nearly 3,800 users, up another 800 in about 4 hours, so growth hasn't stopped yet - and that was in the dead of night.)
Crazy or not? Death of free internet is imminent.
It depends on the type of culture. In Japan, if you wanted to address a person you should append "SAN" to their name, irrespective of his position in the hierarchy . SAN is equivalent of SIR in British.
Why Django ORM takes a hell lot of memory in processing ?
Ignoring is one thing, asking for proof is another.

I must have missed science class the day they talked about counting up scientists who "believe" in one thing or another and using as a proxy for personal responsibility. In my class, we were taught that science was falsifiable, reproducible, and tentative.

I'm no expert, but I've spent a couple of hundred hours on the evidence, both pro and con. And so far, I'm not convinced of any dire calamity awaiting mankind if we don't act radically and immediately. If that's being stupid, then I can go spend some more time learning. At the end of the day, however, the climate is always changing. The question is to what degree is it anthropogenic and whether that's bad, good, or indifferent. Unless we're tying to control the climate to one certain setting (which has never been done), then, like all life before us, we're just along for the ride. If we _are_ trying to control the climate (because we like sea levels the way they are or some such) then that's ridiculously sisyphusian. You could easily call such ideas stupid.
how about just ask a simple question? What is the capital of France? London Paris Donkey.
Neat :) Reminds me of the launching days of camarades.com, we didn't know what the hell was happening, it spread like wildfire.

If I can give you any advice at all it would be try to create a reason for those people to come back at some time in the future when you've better figured out what to do with this, you're really sitting on something and chances of hitting it out of the park like that twice are slim.

So, to add to your problems a bit I've given you a homepage link on http://ww.com/

Enjoy the extra traffic :)

j.
This is why I prefer to create a branch for each 'feature' I'm working on, commit to that branch a bunch of times as I feel like it, then merge the branch back into the master branch once I know everything works.

Running a full test suite before every commit just means you'll commit less often, which leads to bigger commits that are more likely to contain a smattering of unrelated changes.
FB is waste of time.
okcupid, sign up to get a better look at their matching algorithm, it's based on asking people loads of questions.
Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7
All Phones to Have the Same Charger by 2012.
All of the "multiple choice" versions are prey to the spammers simply trying a random one. At the moment they don't because it's not worth their effort, but as more an more sites use the "Odd one out" or "What is ... :A, B, C" type CAPTCHA the spammer will simply scrape the questions and put a random answer. The odds are good enough that it will be worthwhile.

However, for now that method does work. If you use it, though, modularize and be prepared to change it later.

And for what it's worth, I find the existing CAPTCHAs infuriating, and I only tolerate them if I really want the service they're protecting.
Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998
Second 'Google phone' is unveiled
... When the fuck was 3.0?
>> The touchscreen HTC Magic will feature a 3.2 Megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, and GPS, but no slide-out keyboard

Is there any further information on what technology they'll be using for their keyboard? I'm hoping someone will use the Swype stuff.
I thought it was the Cupcake's update soft keyboard. There were a couple of leaked videos about this I think...
Hoo boy, this is fun. We're almost at 4000 users, and still haven't sold a single shirt, so perhaps our model's about as weak as Facebook's is. (We're both pretty averse to laying on ads.) Luckily, each user takes up no bandwidth at all, so we're doing fine right now.

The problem as I see it is that our 4000 users means nothing. It's a meme, essentially. Registration happens so quickly that our high numbers don't mean much; the fact that we're getting linked all over means a lot, but I see it as more of a "you have to see this" fad among friends than I see it as dedicated users. (We've got a 50% bounce rate and the average stay lasts under two minutes.)

Anything that we add would have to work without ruining the nature of the site. As in: right now the workflow is "take in answers, give link to profile," which is very sticky but creates a path off the site pretty quickly - and removing that removes the stickiness.

I figure the best route to go right now is just to interact with the people we've got talking to us. We have two email addresses, one for photos and one for haiku, and we got way more submissions than I expected for a first-day submissions thing. Those are the people who're actually talking back and forth with us, so I figure they're a good place to start when it comes to expanding. (I'm figuring out now just how to create the gallery for their stuff.)
The rational marketer (and the irrational customer)
I can't comment on the veracity of Telstra's speed claims, but Optus' are a complete joke. Most of the time I'm lucky to get even modem level speeds out of my 3G card, let alone 3.2Mbps. Once again, the schpiel quotes the theoretical maximum and conveniently ignores reality.
The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives
>> It also says they do everything in accordance with the DMCA. The one thing people don't understand about the DMCA is that whilst it might be evil, it also protects individuals as much as companies because every single photo, sentence or anything you or I make or write are immediately copy protected in all western countries.

1. Warning: Wrong conflation detected. DMCA != copyright

2. Warning: Wrong conflation detected. copyright != "copy protected" (copyleft = copyright, copyleft = "copy invited")

3. DMCA is neither universal nor universal to western countries. It's actually no universal to anything. Just an internal USA law.
Care to cite some european law about that? If true, I thing the GPL would also be illegal. I don't think that's the case.
Here is an interesting thought: How many of the people that somehow made it on the web set out to do that vs how many of them simply did what they were enjoying best ?

My money would be on those doing what they were enjoying best being in the majority.
If You Got Money, It’s Time to Spend Some
>> In the EU telco's are required to retain information...

Just metainformation that is. When?, From where?, To where?, (if applicable) Who? but (so far) never What?.
As someone else mentioned, both David Cohen and Brad Feld have a history in Boston, it's where they got their start (as it has been for many others thanks to MIT and Harvard). There was also a strong push for quite a while from the Boston and Cambridge entrepreneurial community.
New Procedure Uses Athletes’ Own Blood to Treat Injuries
LifeLink Medical Alert System
[Please review]Our small twitter app
Besides, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, to quote Charles Caleb Colton.
Because I don't want the developers of your site to be able to find out the password I also use on other sites.
you don't have a lot of sense of humour either, do you
XMPP is XML based and need heavy processing power (for e.g. not suitable for mobile platform) whereas AMPQ is a binary protocol.

http://www.deepdarc.com/2008/02/14/mobile-xmpp/
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/i_am_under_18_bu...
What might be an idea is to print out the profile user created on a t-shit, or other clothing
25 Killer Facebook Greasemonkey Scripts
25 Killer Facebook Greasemonkey Scripts
Reminds me of GOMS KLM analysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM_(human_computer_interaction...
+1 for a demo screenshot/video. would really help.
Web 4.0 is the slightly square version of Web 2.0. It's Web 2.0 now that it is no longer hip.
Semantic web. It lasted about 10 minutes until those pushing it realized it was a folly.
> Send direct message to users not following you

But, they still have to follow you.

> Receive direct messages from users without having them to litter into your timeline

It doesn't litter my timeline. In fact, I've never seen a direct message on my timeline. It gets emailed to me, and shows up in the "Direct messages" tab.

> Decide who you want to receive direct messages from

Don't I do this already by just not following them?

Not seeing a use for it, sorry.
I Dream of Denver
Offloading a DB even when updates need to be transactional
I think this is a really good way to learn, particularly if you can review code written by a more senior programmer. If you work on the same project, you have a good understanding of the problem domain, so the review provides insight into potentially different ways of approaching the problem.
He cannot make money of the site and he cannot get a job? That is the saddest thing I have read for a while. Not because he cannot get a job but because it confuses one's mind on what success really means. In a way he is extremely successful, but in a way he is $20,000 in debt. Irony!
Sup
hey hackers dudes :P
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PeaCe
Yet another case of an academic trying to put lipstick on a pig. Most of the changes are cosmetic in nature. Why not put your supposed intellectual superiority in critiquing the poor design that makes this possible rather than trying to impress us with how neat and clean we could make the iceberg that is about to sink the titanic?
Goodbye Dubai
Maybe you could send an sms to a new user with a confirmation code ?
It's time to create something worth spending for.
Perhaps that's the price one has to pay for making it easier to do the right thing, which is to say, not squashing a bunch of unrelated stuff into the same commit just because you happened to be working on them at the same time.
yay, so instead of having small crappy pictures, I could have big crappy pictures!

When will people realize quality is more about sensor size then resolution.
KVM & OpenVZ Virtualization And Cloud Computing With Proxmox VE
50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
If he didn't care so much about what kind of advertising 4chan users have to look at, he probably wouldn't be worried about money right now.

If this article is an accurate portrayal, it is surprising yet sad someone with such a site (sole owner, >5M visitors, sustained growth+traffic over years, source of numerous profitable spin-offs, etc.) is in debt and unprofitable.

Surely it is better to run ads that are not optimal but make you money (a balanced comprise), than be unhappy, in debt, and looking for a job?

I don't think he would be happy in most day jobs either (as such people rarely are) and with an income stream he could pursue other ideas that interest him.
Haven't tried but suggestions I have heard are

- submit forms with Javascript (though bots will emulate in the future)

- create honey pot text fields that are invisible but bots will fill in anyway (I guess hide them with CSS)

- I suppose the names of the honey pot and real form fields should change constantly
Thanks for the link, rms. It's a good summary of the situation.

For the Americans here, you can get a quick "gut" feeling for the hukou system by thinking about the illegal Mexican immigrants in the U.S. Sure, they can go to any city and find low-wage blue collar work. The odds are also pretty good that they won't be deported. However, they're always going to be stuck at the bottom of the heap.

The situation is practically identical for people here in China with an "agricultural" residence permit. They flock to the cities by the tens of millions to (illegally) work in factories and do construction work. I see them every day. It's better pay than plowing fields, but they'll forever be working dirty, dangerous, low-paying jobs. If they do manage to climb up somehow, they'll live in constant fear of being discovered.

Going to a university gives you an urban registration, which is arguably even more important than the degree.
What's killing the video-game business? Hint: It's not the economy.
XMPP is TEN years old! You'd sort of expect the software to be reasonably mature by now.
Wow. Onion eyes inducing.
The lights are going out all over Twitter
$1.2 Billion Sitting Untouched in 'Lost' Bank Accounts
With announcements of en-mass job losses, rejected credit applications and increasing repossessions coming almost daily, news that Britons have almost £850million sitting unclaimed in ‘lost' bank accounts comes as quite a surprise.
Hey Zhang Rui, you're not alone, such a situation would soon arrive in India too. Recession is just another catalyst, for such way of thinking, to become popular here in India -- where opportunities aren't abundant and education system has been sleeping for years.
The child of scarcity of opportunities and avenues -- Competition -- about which so many people speak with pride. The word which gives us a false sense that after its occurance, the outcome will be pure gold! The word which kills aapasi bhai chara and life at large. The reason for so many stressed out people in 20-30 years of age... and I guess what not. Anyways coming back to my point, I think competition is the main m&*#^# reason behind all this. And the reason behind the competition is the layed back approach towards education that our government has been adopting and the way we have been giving respect to the ones who get good ranks in a competition.
We just keep forgetting that we as human beings we do, and yes we do, all of us, me you and everyone have the ability to learn things we like, to make changes to things around us to suit our needs, to devise better ways to do things, to create things, to do anything that we want. Now what fuck up competition does is that it puts a force, a palm on your back push you, all of you towards one direction. Now that is fundamentally wrong! You can't have the best outputs from me when you won't let me do what I want. And not everyone knows what one wants at ONE particular age. This introduction to competition at early youthful ages is the biggest fuck up of our life. Our education system is trying to hide its fallacies and fallouts under name of Competition and little are they aware that they are actually taking away our little right to do what we feel like at whatever time we want.
I know my thoughts haven't been presented in an organized manner, loads of you might just say wtf is he trying to say.
So go n relieve yourselves of the doubts and take a lesson, for if you enter the education ministry by your bad luck, your groundnut sized brains would also contain these ideas and with your rice grain sized heart, you would think, and not just think like they have been thinking after independence, you would rather DO something good for my kids, cousins and fellow young citizens who are yet to be born.
Online Tutoring: The Untapped Fields
The general perception is that online tutoring is all about teaching subjects that are taught in the schools and colleges, to the children and the college going adults. However, the online tutoring may find application in those areas that have not been thought of yet.
How much is an Oscar Worth?
When movie budgets, box office takings or stars' salaries are often discussed as much as the movies themselves, it is clear that the cinema industry shares an indelible connection to the financial world. And the histrionic marathon that is the academy Academy Awards is certainly no exception. But in light of the economic downturn, the financial aspects of this year's Oscars are being scrutinised more than ever.
"I know this isn't going to break anything" is the rationale to every build-breaking commit in history.
You said it, Andrew. Because we are focused only on tech events, we can do things that Upcoming can't. We have a few ideas up our sleeve, so stay tuned.
This is about screen resolution. The article doesn't even mention cameras.
The Golden Grid - CSS Framework
Not infringement -- I'm pretty sure that both these use cases fall under the "implied license" case mentioned in the link I provided, above. And it's important to note that there's a big difference between using someone else's copyrighted material and copyright infringement. Don't be fooled by (e.g.) the music industry's attempt to confuse these two concepts.

There's also a difference between copyright infringement and an infringing act for which you will be prosecuted, convicted, and fined. There is necessarily a lot of leeway in copyright law, precisely because everything written today now falls under someone's nigh-permanent copyright.

(It used to be that, in the USA, you had to affix a copyright notice to a work to secure the copyright. That changed in 1989 when the US ratified the Berne Convention. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrights)
I think the proposed benefits are to subtle. The only possible benefit I see is the access levels.
I'm in Chicago. Here the politicians sell the voids.
Hee hee! Point taken.
Another Android phone. Looks pretty nice... and available first in Europe. I'll have a good look at it when it shows up in shops in Italy.
So Jealous,

Why not come down to Sunny Florida. The Space Coast is an amazing place and their is a lot of innovation down here. Its also extremely warm.
Facebook terms compared with other social sites
What's the tweeting protocol?
SMTP never game me a whale. Nor has POP3, SSH, XMPP or any of the other protocols in the Internet Suite.
"It'll be faster to await the broken build email and roll back than to test this on my dev box," is another good one.
Yep, the cupcake update should be coming for the G1 soon. The nice thing about android is that I can look at the change sets and see whats coming for my phone. :)
You should be aware that moot has a long habit of being somewhat less than perfectly truthful with the media.

ED is profoundly not safe for anything: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Christopher_Poole
At this speed this trial will be over by the end of next week. But I think that will only lead to them trying again with a new batch of evidence.

Not sure on Swedish law & double jeopardy.

The funniest thing about this whole trial and the way it has been conducted by the prosecution so far is that if they wanted to help tpb to become even bigger then they could probably not have done a better job, people that never even knew it existed are now getting exposed to it in very large numbers.

If this goes on for a bit tpb will be somewhere in the top 50, right now they are nudging a top 100 position.

If they can't make it stick this will be the end of copyright as we know it, accelerated by a very incompetent prosecutor. Boy will the *aa be happy.
I traced your attackers back to their source IP: 127.23.108.72

Good luck man!
Gotcha. If Techcrunch had included your guys' comment from the start it would have cleared everything up.
What beats me is why so many Americans are against the H1B while barely anyone bats an eyelid at the Diversity Visas.

I assume it would make more sense for the US to cut down randomly allotted Diversity Visas and lift the bar on H1B . Or perhaps put in place the friendlier High-skilled Immigration policies. Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to bring in an expert than some Tom, Dick, and Harry.
I think the sort of ads that 4chan would have to settle for would be far less than optimal. Most brands, I think, would pay to not be seen on /b/.
Wow I actually learned something on this thread... :D
1.Identity is the boundary that separates 'I' from 'non-I'.
2.In order for us to become universal, this boundary must vanish.
3.It is the 'I' that is the doer of anything we do,so this 'I' needs to be expanded rather than contracted.
4.When the the 'I' expands, ultimately it can include everything within it's fold and the boundary can be pushed off to infinity, for all practical purposes making it vanish
5.The way to do it is by experiencing our essential 'self' or consciousness, the sub -stratum of all our thoughts through a natural meditation technique like TM.
6.With practice, we can learn to live the boundless even while acting within the boundaries.
7.This will allow any amount of differentiation at the level of thought and action while keeping all differences integrated and mutually supportive.
Facebook's strategies for social media domination
what this tweet said (ironically on your site) bottom line:
http://snapplr.com/p81m
I don't really know if it massively happening, but less and less people use photo-sharing sites. It's not the quality of photos that count or the availability of Flickr plugins etc, it's
1) the fact that you can do it in Facebook now, so it's easier
2) you can tag your friends (and there's now way to do it for external data, or to put this info out of facebook through APIs)
Remember, "git commit" doesn't share your changes with anyone else. Presumably you run the test suite before you "git push" to share your changes with others.