skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
use an add network to bump your app to 1g revenue
Hasn't craigslist been doing this for awhile now? For those worried about the hassle/security of checking email to sign in to a website, there could just be two methods of login. One is the proposed NoPassword, other is the traditional username/password, and leave it up to the user to choose.
Should Justin Bieber Invest In Your Enterprise Solution?
Show HN: Auto-reset blocker (blocks USSD attack)
It's not compatible with any of my devices, a Galaxy Nexus and a Transformer Prime. Any idea why?
LayerVault, Svpply & Art.sy have been a major inspiration of mine. When I first saw LayerVault 2 it was shocking and amazing and I hope others have the same reaction.

An upcoming (da da DA) Minefold release will convert the entire site to "Flat Design". One thing that goes hand in hand with "flat design" is clear simple writing. I've spent the better part of the last month brainstorming names and finding clear, simple ways of explaining what we do.
Interview with Vanessa Dawson, Founder of GoEvry
What graphics card do you have? It looks fine on mine, I'm on OS X 10.8.2 in Chrome.
Woah! Nice work...
They just changed from 140 characters limitation to 256 with a blink of an eye!
Assuming 6315 waking hours per year and 540 hours a year spent in a car, I would say a 9% increase in productivity for the average American.

Numbers from:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=392456

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/PatrickLi.shtml
What kind of license do they need? Would a regularly licensed teenager now be able to "drive" taxis and other commercial vehicles?
All great points. I'm reminded of that whenever I see one of those "cleft palate" pictures. It's a terrible thing of course, but it's not exactly something that lifts your spirits and should not be forced upon people.
masklinn was very clear about the difference between an ivory tower example (yours) and the reality of user passwords. It appears you have missed his point.
Thank you everyone for your feedback! I published my application on Google Play.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gicode.and...

It is still rough on the eyes, but it serves the intended purpose.
I imagine you'd read from /dev/random, if you wanted to play as well as I do. All joking aside, I imagine that one could easily write a bot that allowed one to give it heuristics via STDIN or a command line parameter.

I doubt many would do it this way, but it would be consistent with the unix design ethos. One program would manage the Playing the Game and perhaps providing an API for interacting with the game, or even a pluggable section of games, and another would handle generating heuristics (or retrieving them).

Then you could, e.g.:

multibot -g quake3 --name "Rocket Llama" -h rockets.lua
multibot -g quake3 --name "Ash" -h shotgun-only.lua
cat /dev/urandom | multibot -g quake3 --name "Confused"

multibot -g civ3 --name "Dr. No" -h well-defended-island.lua
multibot -g civ3 --name "Dr. Evil" -h meeeeelion.lua

That'd be a nightmare to implement, of course. :-)
Law makers are uncertain about the technology right now. When they're the ones sitting behind the wheel in one of these cars, reading a book while it drives, then we'll probably see new legislation removing the necessity of the driver.
Divshot lets you create websites quickly and easily, no coding required
Interestingly the chart at the end suggests implementations for everything except the raw data, but generating batch views from an arbitrary store and keeping your raw data reliably are hard problems. The charts motivate dumping this stuff in Hadoop (or some distributed file system), but any reliable store would do. (@nathanmarz: would love recommendations)
California affirms legality of driverless cars
Yeah, it sure is awful when humans are able to apply logic to figure out solutions to terrible problems.
I think it is a useful reference (the book), it seemed to go over a lot of things which folks who are dealing with large data sets today are already familiar with. If however you were a DBA on a typical DBMS or RDBMS system and were told to develop a "Big Data" system I could see how many of the things that Marz points out would trip you up. So I was asking if that was the target market for the book.

As to the content, see the papers on data flow architectures from the 70's and 80's [1]. They are very cool. We've done something similar at Blekko where we store raw data in a table structure and build in pre-computed results with combinators [2]. The Map/Reduce paper [3] is an excellent introduction to a number of these concepts. This is all good stuff and something that is helpful for people to have in their toolboxes. The title of the post gave me the impression that there was something new here (I'm always on the prowl for new stuff on these problems) and I didn't see what the new stuff was, it seemed like the stuff we know just presented more coherently rather than as a collection of links. Perhaps that is more clear, perhaps not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow

[2] http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/25/the-anatomy-of-sea...

[3] http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf
Agree; it's most in line with what the customer wants, facilitates segmentation in a way that's fair to both parties involved, and allows upselling when material changes in product or service take place.

Even if you use utility pricing, it's still best to frame it in terms of something meaningful to your customers.
The specific wording was "great success". Not merely successful, but greatly so.
Not only your country. It takes a little effort to understand why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l...
Thankyou. That's perfect.
Yeah, I've been following them for a while. Aside from the obvious difference in focus, my biggest gripe with that site is that the basic taxonomy is per supplement. The typical use case is the user hears about supplement A, hears it's good for purpose X, then searches for "A" or "A fox X", finds the examine.com page, and sees if A is really good for X.

With my project, the basic taxonomy was always per-complaint (or per-illness if you prefer). It doesn't presuppose the user has ever heard of any particular supplement. The idea is the user can browse to the page that documents their condition and quickly see a summary of all the evidence for all the different tested herbal treatments.

Now, I'm not at all sure that this difference in structure justifies starting all the research etc. from scratch. It may be the case that examine.com could trivially switch over to the structure I used. But I do think that my structure is superior.
It seems my previous comment was removed/censored even though I raised a good point about people abusing these stickers to park wherever they want. I did not use any abusive language, I simply stated my opinion. Do you guys have a stake in this ridiculous app or what? My comment was posted under the nickname "jimbotheredneck" which I created quickly to comment as I do not like being tied to a username. I loved this site but seeing this made me realize most comments are probably staged or fake. I shall explain the situation to my friends at 4chan. Maybe then you will respect freedom of speech.
Opportunity costs always exist and should never be discounted. Yes, the opportunity cost for each instance is low, but it's also being spent by a whole lot of people.
A device which can record my thoughts, articulate it, store it and play it back. I would rather love to build a similar device if i can use it to see other peoples thought process too, obviously with their permission.
What's more surprising: banks using Java in the browser or people using cheques in 2012!
Liked the Stripe CTF? The World's Largest Student-Run CTF is this Weekend
"An object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside, unbalanced force."

Keeping the ions moving once the material superconducts (reducing its "electromagnetic friction" to effectively nothing) requires very little, if any, energy. It can run entirely off its own inertia.
Thanks, I appreciate your comment. Unfortunately, barring a change in my circumstances or a sudden upsurge in interest from the public, I just don't think it will be possible. It may not look like it but the research involved even in that one modest test section was (by my standards at least, possibly I'm just workshy) a massive undertaking.
If they won't, he knows something is up. Did they never let him outside in public, never go to school, never have contact with anyone who could help?

If so, he was basically just locked in the basement, the whole thing about saying he was sent there didn't actually matter.
What country are you in? We're currently only available in Canada and the US but we're expanding very soon.
There are 700+ teams currently registered. The competition is open to anyone, but only students are eligible for the over $200,000 in prizes and travel scholarships to attend the final round in NYC.
Amazon uses it in the S3 dashboard for their "Enhanced Uploader (BETA)"
The one inaccuracy you have here is stating the market will take care of it. It won't because the majority will know these cars are better and safer.

The 'irrational constituents' are always a disproportionately powerful minority. That's one difference between free market and politics.

Though, even a 'minority' (< 50%) of people considering these cars are safe enough to own would likely be enough to sustain the industry.
"Parkless" cars. You own it, it drops you off and picks you up at work, and spends the rest of the time at your house.

Personal local delivery. Your car drives to a lot next to a grocery/department/whatever store. A grocery clerk walks to your car, presses a button on a smartphone app, and loads up your car with your online purchases then your car drives itself home.

Same as above except your car/truck is rented out for overnight local deliveries / short-distance freight hauling while you sleep.

Use of sensor streams from driverless cars for surveillance, mapping, etc.

Installing high-speed municipal wireless data or cellular infrastructure on fleets of roving cars without the necessity of securing right-of-way for fixed structures or ground data lines (e.g. using microwave or open air laser comms for high-bandwidth links to aerial drone stations which then eventually link down to base stations or just form a completely wireless mesh across an entire country/continent).
That seems rather egoistic. Can you imagine how many children could be saved for the cost of a single mars mission?
Perhaps, San Francisco policy is to use parking prices to discourage vehicle use. They haven't gone the London 'congestion tax' route yet, perhaps they will.

There is a difference between what "is" and how the system responds to what "is". In this case I don't doubt for a moment that drivers of self driving cars would use this technique to economic advantage, and yes if it got too bad it would invoke a response (much like the $5 parking meters with credit card readers in them was a response to cars in general).
Juggalos (Insane Clown Posse fans) mount legal claim against the FBI
Ah, I'm in Greece, so that'd be why. Thanks.
fail: "You do not have permission to preview drafts"
Here's what it looks like, so you don't have to put it on your site to find out (grabbed from the iFrame code they provide):

http://notfound-static.fwebservices.be/404/index.html?&a...
Siri satisfies all my query related NLU needs, BUT...

There are other applications for NLU that I'd use daily were they available. A prime example is taking text and producing a tl;dr version for me.
I agree, I'm just saying that marketing department usually wants to throw as much tactical words at the users as possible.
I was referring specifically to khet's statement I quoted. What is Myspace "standing up for" here?
He didn't miss anything. He's replying to the serious points obtained by inverting the sarcastic statements.

Steve Jobs didn’t work constantly

Missing the sarcasm: "Actually, Jobs worked really hard."

Getting the sarcasm: "True, Jobs worked hard, but the consequences were severe, so maybe he's not the best role model to adopt."

The parent comment clearly falls into the latter category.
Okay, now that I've officially implemented Stripe the official answer is dev time. PayPal took days to get a full solution implented (start to finish). Stripe took on the order of three to five hours. I can already tell maintenance will be almost non-existent in comparison and user experience is way, way better.
You don't think the novelty and risk associated with a fully automated system that's still in the experimental stages warrants any immediate caution?

Commercial planes have had autopilot for years, but they still require at least the pilot or co-pilot to sit behind the yoke.

When driverless cars have had a few million or billion hours without statistically significant incidents, I think we'll see the laws adapt to not even requiring a human fail-safe.
Oh and yes, I did make this remark "Usually I just scratch the car up first, then I have it towed. Afterward they usually complain to the towing company about the damages." which I assume is the reason for my comment deletion. Well I actually do this, I have done it a 100 times maybe. Because 3 times a week some guy decides to park in front of my driveway. After a while it gets annoying. And yes, I have put up several warning signs asking people not to.
I've had good success doing public code review sessions at conferences where the goal was simply to generate discussion points rather than to catch errors.

The discussion center around how to use the language more effectively and sometime venture into architectural issues.
From http://squid314.livejournal.com/260949.html: Contrary to popular belief, you can put a dollar value on human life. That dollar value is $5.8 million. Denying this leads to terrible consequences. Let me explain.

I'm guessing these 404 pages aren't at all cost-effective. The chances of saving a life are incredibly low, and the cost of implementing and maintaining them is pretty high. Also, there's value lost to users. They'll see a missing child instead of helpful navigation suggestions.

These things sound inconsequential compared to a human life, but they add up extremely quickly. Our minds can't intuitively do the math.
We've found Gerrit (a git equivalent of Rietveld code review) to be significantly more usable. We were probably using it wrong, but it seemed like there wasn't a week that went by where we didn't have to re-initialize a local repo because Code Review had gone off the rails.
Since the link doesn't allow you to view it, here's the blog link:

http://theindustry.cc/2012/09/25/divshot-lets-you-create-web...
> then bury you in support tickets

After all, Myspace has a commonly-used bug reporting functionality.

> complain loudly to their friends

Because they won't complain about being locked out?
It is not a stunt. It is a direct counter to the anti-EV argument "Electricity is made from fossil fuels anyway, so by driving an EV you are just shifting the source of pollution to the power plant."

Tesla is attacking every single anti-EV argument in a very deliberate way and most of the attacks are strong successes.
Fortunately, they have a template email you can send to them:

> Copy this e-mail and send it to a friend, your ceo or your company webmaster.

> Dear www.notfound.org,

> In the European Union alone, thousands of children are still missing. They run away from conflicts at home, are the victims of parental abductions, disappear after having travelled across the EU alone, or are abducted by criminals. But there is a way you can help, namely by installing the Notfound application. By doing this, automatically, a picture of a missing child will be posted on every 404 page of your website. This is how you can help Child Focus spread a maximum number of photos and help all missing children find their way home.

> Discover the application on www.notfound.org.
Containerization - A companion film to the book TRILLIONS
Ok, not NURBS but its annoying that I can describe a sphere with 6 NURBS perfectly and can't with 10,000 triangles.
How is it "passive-aggressive douchebaggery" for Schmidt to say that Google would have preferred if Apple stayed with their mapping solution, but Apple had a right to make their own decision?

Seems like a relatively straightforward statement about the situation in response to a reporter's question.
Looked at from one (unreasonable) level, everything is unique. Looked at from another (unreasonable) level, most humans could be replaced with other humans and very little would change.

There's no obvious-to-me level to look from where this argument applies to humans, but not to pet cats and dogs.
To be honest, I think that it is reckless to disavow any responsibility for what consumers of information you produce will do with it in your own organization.

Going back to TED Talks, ridiculous analysis and comments citing a TED talk are often based on a talk that itself was not ridiculous.

I asked about elaboration on that area of responsibility because I'd assume that he had a relatively small audience of highly capable people, yet even so had more intimate contact with the specifics and had to struggle with just how to present that more full knowledge in a concise but still responsible way.
The trouble is, the period already means something very different. This has been the case since at least the 15th century. ( http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2298362?uid=3739960... )

Overloading the dot/point symbol as a place-value separator was just insanely goofy. This isn't like the Imperial versus metric system. There are reasons to scrap the Imperial system, but there was no reason to introduce a second notational convention for decimals, especially in a way that seems engineered to mislead and confuse people.
It reminds me of the "Red Flag" laws, passed in the early days of the automobile, that basically made cars useless, so you'd have to defeat their very purpose in order to obey:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_laws
In Australia (and presumably the rest of the world?), it's never the fault of the driver who was rear ended. Everyone else is expected to maintain a safe distance in case the driver needs to perform an emergency stop.

Actually I remember hearing somewhere that Japan uses a 50/50 split for all accidents, without working out who's to blame, to encourage everyone to be more responsible. They'll definitely have to tweak the cars driving styles per region. I'm now actually pessimistic that this will ever leave the USA any time soon, given how long it seems for even simple things to make it out.
Does anyone know what his NewSQL critique was? (The "“NewSQL” is misguided" slide. BTW, I've read the released chapters of his _Big Data_ book, so I know a fair bit of the slides' context.)
None of the above. Can't generalize it like that
Averages are nice, but I'll be interested to see what happens to the workforce that depends upon them entirely, as mentioned above: truckies, taxis, FedEx, etc.

I say, leave it for a year to lull the companies into a false sense of security, then tax the hell out of companies using them for a few years to pay for some re-education for the old employees.
First example I tried was for a 31 year old man. Strange definition of "child".
Can anyone explain the purpose of this?
Dear Apple Support
Dear Apple Support,

It seems your awesome new Facebook calendar integration feature has anticipated the mapping problems with iOS 6 and is reporting events happening a day earlier than they are scheduled.

While this may be a useful featurenotabug for some, I use TomTom for my maps and route guidance, although apparently more successfully than Apple, so I would like to disable it.

Any ideas when that option might become available? ;o)

Cheers
Callum

Sent from my iPhone
Certain versions of Android are currently vulnerable to a USSD attack. This application is intended to block USSD code execution from URLs.

Discussion of attack here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4569686

The worst known exploit of this vulnerability will factory reset your phone without confirmation. The core vulnerability is NOT limited to Samsung phones.

After installing, configure and verify it works for you:

1. Try this IMEI test: http://jsfiddle.net/kKFn8/
2. Check the box to make "Auto-reset blocker" the default action
3. Auto-reset blocker will show you the malicious number
4. Open this safe telephone number test: http://jsfiddle.net/tLHpw/
5. Auto-reset blocker will show the safe number and you will be asked which dialer to use
6. Select your normal dialer
7. Your normal dialer will open with the safe number
The actual announcement: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Sep/170
Also, do you know how I can revoke its access to my data? I can't find it anywhere in the Google profile options...
The issue isn't "supporting". They actively went out of their way to specifically add code blocking Opera's user-agent string. It's more work to that than to let it through and let it fail if it must.
Oh, I know! Challenger basically made private spaceship manufacturers and pilots have to hide their faces in public, so vilified were they!
all of the damn physics simulations out there...
I'm taking a physics course right now...
I think the extra $2 accounts for the laziness factor. By all means run your own - that's probably better for the overall ecosystem.
What about [ubuntu's bug #1](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1)?
Amusingly, I have a similar reaction as you, but to the other side of the debate.
Don't forget the cost in electricity of finding deposits, mining them, transporting the pre-refined gas, transporting the post-refined gas, and lobbying Congress.
A nasty exploit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4569686
Deadmau5 Withholding His Latest Album from Spotify
You must be joking. I've built several projects, for pay, using Titanium and find it to be very powerful and fast for building even complex mobile apps. The customers have been thrilled that I'm able to deliver tons of features in shorter time frames and hence lower cost.

As for error output - you just need to look at the logs in detail (and turn them up to trace) to get details for hard crashed.
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> - Leaving New York for some vacations in Miami? Take the plane and pick up your car whenever it arrives.

Alternatively, in say 20 years or so, going to Miami which would take 21 hours (at 65-70 mph), could probably be done on an overnight sleeper-car (at probably something more like 120-130mph).

Even a cross country trip would only take a day or so at such a rate, and with a few strategically placed stops, you could have a nice week long cross country trip at a fraction of the normal cost.

Here's a few negative thoughts though:

These driverless cars might significantly increase road usage and wear since driving becomes less of a burden.

Suburban sprawl could grow out of control since it's no longer necessary to either have public transit options or be attentive to have a long commute.

Some people might even choose to buy automated RVs instead of homes, decreasing a sense of community and investment in place.