skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually a great idea. If someone offered something like this, I would expect that link tracking should also be part of it.

My main issue with something like whoreadme is the idea of adding their domain to the email address. It adds clutter to my gmail contacts and it causes any replies to not be grouped as a conversation by gmail.

This was a good idea but I think there are much better ways to achieve this goal.
this is ridiculous, that 1. IEEE would be using FTP (instead of ANY more secure protocol (SFTP/SCP)? and 2. plaintext passwords in 2012 , man...
If it's that important, it shouldn't go on a 404 page (which, ideally, people won't see). You should dedicate space on all of your pages for pictures of missing kids. And escaped convicts.
Well obviously everyone is unique in that there's only one of any given life, regardless of whether or not anyone's life is qualitatively unique. But it seems obvious (at least to me) that what's much more relevant is that as self-reflective human beings, we have a responsibility to protect other human lives, within reason. Of course, what "within reason" means is a whole subject on it's own.
Ask HN: Reference or Reading materials for Learning Hadoop
I am trying to learn Hadoop and was wondering if there are any references, tutorials, or papers that HNers use that I could make use of and make learning Hadoop more simpler, efficient, and productive.
repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4570494
http://eda360insider.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/a15-relativ...
Defensive driving includes not speed-matching people in your blind-spot, and being mindful of merging cars, going so far as to move into an adjacent lane if the merging lane disappears. The cars need to consider this anyway.

More thoughts on speed-matching the car in your blind-spot: there are many, many things that can go wrong, even if a car has omnidirectional visual information. If a tire blows, you have to compensate. I wonder how much sway-room a computer needs to retake-control/move the car off the road.
Ooh, I like that even more than I like my usual explanation: the "Venn diagram game." (One circle gestures with fingers represents all X, one represents all Y, take the intersection, there's only like four people in it and three of them can't be hired for love or money.)

I don't typically sell engagements primarily for SEO, by the way. (I also don't think that it is the case that I would not be strictly dominated by someone, somewhere on those two axes. If you phrase it like "Among the universe of people a potential client could actually hire" then my confidence that there exists a better option than me falls rapidly for each constraint you impose on the hiring pool.)
Well, aside from blowing the signal/noise ratio of stderr out of the water, I suppose it would be fairly entertaining at first to see log files get filled with advertisements.
See related discussion from 3 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148200

And as I said then:

I think the intentions behind the idea - trying to do some societal good with your web site - are great. It's just seems odd to me that the way you handle not being able to find what the user wants is by showing them something unrelated that is guaranteed to be not what they were looking for. What is the attraction to doing this on a 404 page, vs say a banner ad (as suggested elsewhere in the thread)?
I think it helps more the image of the site owner than the chances of these poor children to be found, (though I don't think it can hurt anything, just don't think it helps much)
However hidden GPS tag (in a watch / shoes etc) on my child that only I can use to locate them in the first 3 hours, now that's a solution. Is there anything like this?

EDIT: a quick Google search suggests there is, are any of these solutions really work?
FCC chief takes Uber's side in battle with DC Council
Yes, gas powered cars will be largely dead in 30 years. It will be all electric bot cars.

The cars won't orbit though, they will go park themselves or pick up someone else for an errand.
You can use mod_ssl: http://onlamp.com/onlamp/2008/03/04/step-by-step-configuring... . Other good resources are an easy search away.

There are basically two steps, both of which can be at no additional cost:

1. get a certificate, and

2. configure your server to use the certificate.

You can generate a certificate yourself, without paying anyone, and it will work fine, but some browsers will throw up a warning page if it is not signed by an authority (more: http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...).
I think disconnecting is only useful for forensics (kicking out the bad guys after being owned). The real problem in security is how to be connected yet secure and IMO that's a software problem that's the same regardless of where you're located. Even at home, Tent has to be listening on port 80.

Apple's DarkWake might be useful for P2P.
Sorry, wasn't trying to be obtuse, just concise.

* An inductor is a primitive circuit element, like a resistor or capacitor. An ideal inductor maintains the relationship V = L x dI/dt, where V is the voltage across the 2 terminals of the inductor, I is the current through the inductor, and L is the inductance.

* The simplest inductor is a coil of wire. You've probably seen ones that look like this ( http://www.electronicplus.com/images/products/387268.jpg ) on motherboards, power supplies, etc. Inductors are used in power supplies all the time, but also in clocking-related circuits, filters, and other components used in RF devices like the chip referenced in the article.

* In the context of a planar CMOS chip, you can't really build a 3D torus like that, so you build a 2D spiral that approximates a coil ( http://bmf.ece.queensu.ca/mediawiki/index.php/Spiral_Inducto... ). That's called a spiral inductor.

* The horseshoe inductor is just a spiral inductor that only has one loop, and is consequently shaped like a horseshoe. Designers vary the size, spacing, number, and geometry of loops depending on the inductance, parasitic resistance/capacitance, material properties, etc.
Yeah, the problem is in the US judges can't be trusted to deliver injustice so the president takes that role upon himself.

He's a real go getter, everything from instructing jurors on the guilt and innocence of the defendants, to unilaterally ordering the execution of citizens.

The man and the law have finally been unified. Whatever his whim so shall the law be.
couldn't read the post since i'm on a phone
I think it is interesting that a good portion of HN users are quick to point out the security issues in a scheme like this, considering the fact that this is basically the current security model with the intermediate steps removed. The only thing that makes it different from logging in to my bank is that if I try a bank password reset I might get asked what my mother's maiden name is.
Fred Wilson on Indeed
Yeah, but who said anything about writing drivers? Very few people can do that. How about just really basic stuff, like how to not have ads for Amazon popping up when there is no need?

The driver issue is, in my opinion, the single biggest problem with not using Windows or Mac. If you just jump right into that issue i.e. that the latest driver for your peripehral is not going to be available for some time and ignore all the other benefits of Linux and other UNIX-like systems, then you could pretty easily conclude these systems are worthless. Hardware manufacturers don't care about them.
They only care about Windows and Mac.

But we all know these other systems like Linux are far from worthless.

Clearly, there is some middle ground.

You can still do a heck of a lot without the source code for the 2012 driver for Whiz Bang Hardware Component.

If Canonical and Ubuntu decided not to accept any binary blobs I wonder if the "strides" would seem as huge.
This is all pretty standard stuff for email campaign software, but there isn't much out there for emails that are going to be on a more personal, smaller scale.

My point exactly
"potentially more effective ways of rescuing kidnapped children"

Agree.

Better than nothing? Ok, yes. Better than a company giving people an opportunity to monetize their 404 traffic (people do this obviously) and then taking those earnings (even if nominal) and putting it toward a cause to help children (or anything "worthy") even better.
"too hard, too much time" is just an excuse. It's a relatively new process so it will take some time for us to straighten out best practices.
This makes @replies rather harder, doesn't it? You have to know both the username and the domain
My point wasn't that as soon as you say the word "browser" their brain's are going to shut off; with the message as presented you don't need to know anything about the word "browser" or even what a browser is or does to understand what they are saying.

Obviously they could have written a paragraph of text explaining that, but just saying "something you are using is so old that it is lame (in the duck sense, not in the teenage slang sense), here's how to fix it" gets the job done in one sentence.

This isn't a business website, this is a social network that gets most of their traffic from bands now. I can't fathom how the smallest amount of snark about IE8 being old on a product like this is raising so much anger on the HN community.
Some banks are researching into extending that functionality too - creating effectively a disposable browser inside your browser to help mitigate against keylogging and screenshotting account details.
If we all start doing this we will end up with huge traffic problems. Luckily, the wasted car mileage and fuel consumption will probably make it an unattractive option. One thing you could do though is ask your car to drop you off and go find a parking.
If you're a parent of a kidnapped child who you lost most hope of finding, what effect would seeing this on each and every 404 have? My guess is "not that great", to say the least.

If it's really that much ineffective as some are arguing, I think the costs to our mental health far outweigh the benefits.
Ballmer Pitches Window 8 to Developers, But Keeps Tight Rein on Surface
I don't know about you, but social networks and email seem fairly similar in that I don't want to be locked into the same website my friends are using. Can you imagine how painful email would be if it had been controlled by one company from the start? That's why people are excited about Tent.
http://notfound.org/lkasjdlkasjdasljk
Unlike humans, computers never get tired from working long hours, can see around corners using various sensors and process the information fast, and can act immediately on instructions from a remote operator.
For now. That will change eventually.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains)

Docklands light railway, in London, is driverless.
Doesn't it seem far more likely to be indifference to a negligible market share than ignorance of Opera's existence? It's not worth their money to spend any amount of time making a custom error for "Your browser is new, but we don't support it anyway" separate from "Your browser is old and we don't support it" when 99.9% of the people seeing the message are in the latter category.
I'm very annoyed by this requirement. It doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny as being necessary yet completely hinders most opportunities for true disruptiveness.
In my experience, code reviews get contentious when there is subjective feedback involved for e.g. naming or class design. In that case, it helps to discuss and resolve the issues in person. Plain correctness errors or formatting issues get resolved quickly over email.

Some other things from personal experience:
1. A thorough code review is time consuming but the team will appreciate it despite the disagreements.
2. Be polite and put forth your feedback with clarity and based on facts.
3. Practice what you preach - follow the same quality standards that you expect of others.
Saw this from a few HN threads down. May be helpful?

http://blog.keen.io/post/32269955563/pricing-is-hard-we-need...

Personally I like the "Utility Pricing" (per article) for something like Jetstrap but maybe on a per project basis instead of per screen?
its a social network, similar to twitter except not owned by anyone.

so your twitter handle is twitter.com/mrchess but if twitter was cool like tent then you could CUSTOMIZE it to your own domain like mrchess.com/tom

Tent lets you do stuff like that because all they're doing is creating a solid platform. They're creating the pieces that connect and communicate.

Don't want Ads on your social network? create your own tent server by installing some software and follow people that you want to. their updates will be sent to your tent if you follow them.
I'm confused as well. Every claim of the patent begins with "A computer-implemented method..." so it is definitely a software patent.

I think this is just for damage and they have to counter-sue for invalidility separately.
On the flip side (or rather, other side of the pond), in Portugal, they have the "livro de reclamações" (book of complaints) which a customer can request at any moment. One copy of the complaint stays with the establishment, another with the customer and the third, with the gov't agency that can hand out fines to the restaurant or what-have-you.

http://pigletinportugal.com/2010/10/28/how-to-make-a-complai...
Were you able to find one? I clicked through to a couple of their "participating websites" (google.com and hilarious.be are listed), generated a 404, and got bupkis. At that point I assumed this was some sort of bizarre joke.
I tried to see if they were doing it themselves. They were.
But I don't understand German...

23 years old
Liege / Luik
Zeer slank. Zwart haar. Donkere ogen. Schoonheidsvlekje op voorhoofd.
Just the domain - but its also too bad they chose "^" instead of "@" - why change something everyone know how works?
I tried to see if they were doing it themselves. They were.
But I don't understand Dutch...

23 years old
Liege / Luik
Zeer slank. Zwart haar. Donkere ogen. Schoonheidsvlekje op voorhoofd.
> There are some really disrespectful people in this community.

Your article begun and ended with sarcastic remarks about the product. Realistically, what kind of response did you expect? The issues described in your article are very real, and very worthy of repeated discussion, but the article itself eschews discussion in favor of pontification, sarcasm and flamebait.
You're thinking of time and money costs; those are just a small part. What about the costs of being reminded of such a terrible thing every time you hit a 404? And what about those costs for people who lost their child five or ten years ago, and for whom those are just terrible memories, with no hope left?
It's only cheaper because the cost of the space you're taking up on the road and the cost of the traffic you're causing is not accounted for. The solution to this is a VMT tax that accounts for that cost.
What if it's not worth it? Can notfound.org keep up with increasing server loads? Do Missing Children Europe and Child Focus have adequate resources to run this project along with everything else they do? Will people become desensitized to missing children photos on 404 pages? What about all the other potential issues I'm not thinking of? Yeah launching this website is definitely a morally good action, but whether or not it will prove to have any actual positive consequence will need to be seen.
People are forgetting how many websites on the Internet are "inspired" or based on each other's design. Heck, pretty much every website has the basic structure of the very first websites, so in a way they are already copying those.

I understand saying something like this when it may be a complete rip-off, but people get up in arms these days even if something is 5% similar to something else. That really bothers me, as that world actually works like that. Everyone creates "new" stuff based or other people's work or inspired by them, so of course they will be at least somewhat similar. But they are acting as if the world doesn't work like that.
Today's Samsung Galaxy S3 exploit as a Rack middleware
I welcome our robot overlords. I do wonder, however, who's going to do quality assurance on these cars. The first startup launching MVP driverless cars with a horrible accident record will set back the industry for years.
The SkyTrain in Vancouver has been driverless since it was built in 1986. I don't think any such LTR systems have had drivers since then.
It's fun to speculate on what will happen when driverless cars become mainstream. Essentially, the question boils down to: "What would happen if every car owner in the world suddenly had a 24/7 personal driver?"

- 7 year old kids can now own and "drive" a car.

- Need a lift? Ask your dad/friend to send his car to pick you up.

- Forgot your laptop at home? Send your car back and ask your flatmate to put your laptop in the car.

- Leaving New York for some vacations in Miami? Take the plane and pick up your car whenever it arrives.

- Want to take a nap? Pull down the windows and windshield curtains.

- Traveling abroad for a few weeks and don't know what to do with your car? Set it to taxi mode and profit.
The latest post from Mark Mulligan, a former research director from Forrester and musician, who I personally think is one of the smarter pundits on the music/tech industry. Definitely belongs on HN.
I've just implemented this as a Rack middleware, meaning it can be added to every page in a Rails/Rack app with 3 lines of code. A bit of hacker fun, albeit scary hacker fun.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4573320
A large part of the problem is that much of the total risk of driving is borne by people other than the car's occupants. People in other cars, pedestrians on the sidewalk, etc.
Except my response that you flamed me for I specifically said that it could be true that it is not 100% cultural 0% biological. If you are purposefully trolling, it's really lame. If you aren't purposefully trolling then you are trying so hard to push your political point that it is indistinguishable from trolling and isn't going to convince or enlighten anyone.
The ENCODE delusion
That would depend entirely on the cost of the initiative and what other things, including potentially more effective ways of rescuing kidnapped children, could be done instead.

No, that is incorrect.

The program would be regarded as successful if it rescued one child at any cost.

It is possible that there are more effective ways, but the existence of those possibilities does not preclude a less effective way of being successful.

Additionally, it seems unlikely that any other "more effective" way would be precluded by this method so it is inaccurate to measure the effectiveness of this method vs other methods ("could be done instead") - it would almost certainly be done in addition to other things.

Finally, on a personal note I believe attempting to argue that returning a kidnapped child to their parents may NOT be regarded as a success because of the "cost of the initiative" is morally indefensible.
You just know this will lead to Google Street View getting updated a little more often as the cars get to navigate themselves around constantly.

Oh right, except for this: "The regulations would allow vehicles to operate autonomously, but a licensed driver would still need to sit behind the wheel to serve as a backup operator in case of emergency."
Huh, that doesn't work for me. I tried both Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on OS X. I don't see any content from notfound.org (ie, their little iframe) in the source of the 404 page at all.
Isn't this just 1 line of code without middleware?
Is this about my ROI on the carrot juicer? I really tried to avoid fuzzy math in here and stick to concepts. Specific examples would be helpful. I'll get the numbers cleaned-up, if possible.

Radical transparency != make shit up.
Sure. We still allow people to fly planes, don't we?

I expect that once a drivers license is not a requirement to exist in much of the US that the standards for being allowed to drive will be tightened significantly though.
lobste.rs

go there now.
List of driverless trains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains#Compl...

Although these are short-range, urban trains.
Very OT, but why in God's name do some people/countries feel it appropriate to use imperial units rather than metric units? The reasons are the same - historical usage and inertia against change.
MongoDB is kind of like assembler, if you read processor errata sheets for fun you can make some really fast websites. Get that OS, and everything out of the way, just you and the network card.

However, if you just want to write a web app that doesn't lose data it's a really crappy idea and should probably use something creating for solving that problem, like a compiler and web framework.
Consider though, that most people do not need serious surgery. Most people who do do not need it yearly. My yearly medical expenses during the past five years have consisted of two fillings and some over the counter drugs. The yearly average ould cover a decent plate of sushi.

That means there's about $3620 left over for someone else's more serious issues. Well, except for the part where I paid those expenses out of pocket so they don't show up in the Federal budget.
Tech Raising in Santa Cruz
> Any lookup on existing maps...

Ironically... I see that leading to a spike in hits to maps.google.com coming from Apple's internal IP range. :)
BART was meant to be fully automated. The "Fremont Flyer", which ended up in the parking lot, put an end to those plans.
The 404 page of the website doesn't display any children:

http://notfound.org/404.html
I've made this point many times on driverless car threads. The auto industry sells cars on the basis of miles driven, not number of families. As the passenger miles will increase with driverless cars, the car makers have absolutely nothing to be concerned about, and much to be delighted about driverless cars.
Out of curiosity, how much code nowadays is tied to an architecture? Operating systems, sure (but even then not much outside the kernel). Most code I write is architecture-agnostic... Yes, in C++.
Yes, they crossed the border on a few apps, but most of the default ones use skeumorphisms positively (the page flip on maps is a good example).

The big damage comes from 3rd party apps that don't get skeumorphism right.
I had this idea not too long ago. An assistant as a service, that would be accessible on IM and would do increasingly more things, starting with handling the scheduling of appointments between two people completely automatically (it would email them and ask them if they're available, of course).

I made a small prototype, but it was way too limited, as NLP is a huge problem. Even a simple TODO list/alerts/meeting scheduling app with calendar integration was very, very complicated.

I'm pretty sure lots of people would pay for it, though.
The site is completely broken if you block 3rd party tracking scripts (Mixpanel). The registration form does nothing when I try to submit it.

$12 a month is way, way too much. Someone could host it themselves on a cheap VPS for <$10 a month and not worry about 3rd parties tracking their activity.
> However, it was not necessary for the business

I don't think anyone is arguing that Indeed would still exist had the $5M not come around. The point is that the $5M helped Indeed purchase the traffic/partnerships necessary to make it the #1 job search site on the internet. And without that money, they couldn't have bought their way to their current size - and their current size is reasons 1, 2 and 3 they were acquired.
The discussion here is exactly why we started the conversation.

Certainly, if we go this route, we'll make sure our users can readily monitor their usage so as to minimize surprises. Even still, we don't want our customers to have to kill the service in the middle of a billing cycle.
Pretty cool - looks like it has come a long way since the Alpha.

What I'd like to see added would be an easy way to change the colour/font etc of elements to make them less bootstrappy.