skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great benefit of PCI DSS is that a huge number of places choose not to store CC numbers when given a choice of trying to get an expensive PCI DSS certification and not storing CC numbers.
We get less of small, random places handling data that they won't ever be able to secure (since it really is completely prohibitively expensive for a small shop to do it properly), and that is a good thing.
Of course, the fact that certified places still often fsck up in some way is a bit sad, but at least there are less of them.
Ask HN: What are some practical applications of computer vision?
Is there any particular problem you know that can be solved through computer vision? Some existing applications include object recognition(face/cat recognition), hand gesture recognition(flipping page of book with hand movements), object tracking (Did anyone parked his car in No Parking Zone?), etc.

Basically, I am looking for some practical/meaningful project ideas to practice computer vision using python. I will be using OpenCV/SimpleCV for this purpose.
It is? I'm coming up on five years in Jan, can feel the itch already but I feel I needed the stability to grow for a bit. Hard to move on though, the company is filled with lifers who've been here for 10-15 years.
http://hackerbuddy.com/ - One on one mentoring for coders & designers (took much longer than 10 hours, but it's free!)
"When was the last time you heard of somebody doing a GUI desktop app or web app in C or C++?"

Anyone working in Qt has probably done a GUI desktop app in C++, but I whole heartedly agree with the rest of your statement with some caveats as there's still many projects getting written in C++ as it's often better the devil you know.
Thanks! WiseCash is a labor of love for sure - glad you like it!

It's a very good suggestion and it has deep ramifications.

Mostly: the divide between people without a recurring income, and the others.

Most freelancers I've talked to have planned expenses, but planned income, not so much.

This results in this typical graph :)

I'd like to encourage people to think about creating more recurring income over time. The time-wealth WiseCash computes is a good way to spare some time to build a SaaS product, for instance.

So thanks a ton for this comment, it really got me thinking!

I will very likely use more positive screenshots in the end, and will work on encouraging people to reach that situation where they have a growing chart.
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Deprecated in favor of what? This post talks about a compatibility layer between app source code and OpenSSL.
> “I’m ashamed of it,” said Ms. Crosby ... In meetings, she says she hides her BlackBerry beneath her iPad for fear clients will see it and judge her.

> BlackBerry outcasts say that, increasingly, they suffer from shame and public humiliation as they watch their counterparts mingle on social networking apps that are not available to them, take higher-resolution photos, and effortlessly navigate streets — and the Internet — with better GPS and faster browsing.

> Ryan Hutto, a director at a San Francisco health information company, said he frequently depended on others, often his wife, for music playlists, navigation and sports scores. “After two or three questions, people start to get irritated,” Mr. Hutto said. His wife, Shannon Hutto, says with a sigh: “Anytime we go anywhere […] I kind of feel like his personal assistant.”
I've found http://ihackernews.com to be useful for mobile reading
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IPhone-Maker: Yes, We Employed 14-Year-Olds - Business Insider
Sorry, I didn't see the beta popup as it must have cookied me when I revisited. Updated my comment.
Cornell NYC Tech Campus Unveils Images For Roosevelt Island Center
I guess it depends, in some parts of the world that seems to be the case, in others not that much.
Show HN: Use InfoVis to Help Kick Off Your Next Hack or Startup
Http://www.leerwiki.nl/Hoe_gezond_of_ongezond_zijn_koolzuurhoudende_frisdranken
I see 27 symbols removed in version 1.0.0. That is 27 symbols that cannot be found by the dynamic linker if an older app binary requires them.
Carbon credits for dumping iron into the ocean? The artificial plankton bloom may absorb some CO2 but how permanent is that? It would be nice to see some research on that.
I have two HN related newsletters:

* http://hackernewsletter.com - best articles from HN each week hand-picked by me

* http://waybackletter.com - a look back at the last five years of HN
Like I said elsewhere; the hoster is supposed to defend and support their clients. Who cares if they were justified in doing this.
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Thanks. That is helpful. So there's no scenario where a planet could be in a figure 8 orbit? That would be amazing.
The Private Sector Needs to Come Clean About Doing Good
Privacy policy: lets make websites like the Economist use cookies, but Microsoft can keep _NSAKEY in.

Remember: you have a right to privacy from corporations that want your money, not from governments that want your money.
What are the best tools to visualize table data?

I've been testing Tableau, but it's only for Windows and I'm on a Mac.

I'm looking for something which easily connects to your SQL database and allows you to produce all kinds of fancy graphs, with a easy user-interface. Tableau comes close to what I'm looking for, but my gut feeling is there should be a whole bunch of good commercial and free software in this field out there, but my googling haven't gave any good results yet.

So if anyone have any good suggestions, please let me know.
Criminal damage is slightly different to killing millions of people, especially if that act is undertaken by a state.
Also, reassuring - they aren't developing straight on the live site, which would not surprise me in the least from a government site.
The Future of Email Marketing and Newsletter Designs
Just an update everyone: Gary McKinnon's extradition has been blocked by the Home Secretary. I have been watching live here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19962844

"Home Secretary Theresa May says there is no doubt Mr McKinnon is seriously ill. She says she has carefully examined the medical evidence and taken legal advice and has concluded that his extradition would give such a high risk that he would end his life that it restricts his human rights."
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I believe it may of had to do with compliance with some US Government standard? Their own stack complies but they are unwilling and/or unable to do the same for OpenSSL.
I recall there being a presentation from last years WWDC about this change...
I think my Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) project can help with that for a lot of people (as well as this great extension), but yeah, anytime HN is involved there is a good chance time is going to go out the window. :)
How to print headphones?
See WWDC 2011 session 212 slide 50.
It's only deprecated in the sense that Apple are no longer going to supply it. You can either switch to CommonCrypto (if it's appropriate) or bring your own OpenSSL.
That only works for the function-level return value, and not something like returning from a let x = match blah { ... } block.
Thanks for a great extension (that I have been using!) and I noticed the new changes going live.

Does this fix the bug (which I assume was caused by this) where if a story was marked as read then it sometimes loaded the comments page without the main story link?

Also, the "Follow Comments" functionality wasn't obvious to me until I read this blog post - perhaps a rewording?

Thanks for a great extension!
Thank you for the feedback and for the links. The one about building documentation around WCF contracts is very interesting.

Regarding WCFStorm, it has several features that are not in the built-in WCFTestClient such as (1) Save requests and responses and organize it into a "project", (2) Performance testing, (3) An object editor similar to WCFTestClient but with support for more types and others. http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more.aspx

Regarding WCFStorm.Rest, it does have similarities with POSTMan (and other clients). I'm not very familiar with POSTMan but the list of features for WCFSTorm.Rest is here http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more-rest.aspx
This doesn't really 'replace' Directgov. At least, it doesn't yet.

Look at the most active searches on the site. Top of the list is the JobCentre Plus job search. All gov.uk does is link you to the existing JobCentre Plus website on Directgov.

Similarly, let's say I want to book a driving test (another of the most active searches). All gov.uk does is link me to the existing booking service on Directgov.

Okay, so I want to renew my tax disc (again, another of the most active searches). Again, all gov.uk does is link me to the existing DVLA interface on Directgov.

This goes on and on. The only useful thing gov.uk can do is link me to the existing Directgov sites. Google already does that for me.

I assume the long-term plan is to integrate all these services into the gov.uk site, but one can't help thinking they should have done this — and actually made the site a useful port of call in and of itself — before shedding the beta status.

Edit: Just noticed the site doesn't properly launch until tomorrow, so I wonder if that will change all of this. If so, you can colour me impressed.
Well I guess this <del>asshole</del> entrepreneur is doing the research.
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Great concept and nice execution, if I was looking for a job I would give this a try.

One thing to consider; I spent about a minute looking on your site (and on Laudits) for information about you and didn't find anything. So you seem kind of anonymous. You could be a bunch of sniggering recruiters, I don't know.
This is entirely content-free.
Quick overview:

We built a site scraper that grab keywords from news across lots of sites (including hacker news, slashdot, theverge, gizmodo, engadget, google news, and cnn). The information is then used to create visualizations over time, and projected forward to suggest some possible futures.

We're planning to use it as a way to jumpstart 1-day hacks and brainstorming. Thought we'd share it since it's more fun with others (you can see what people like in realtime on the right side of the page -- hooray nodejs+websockets!).

Enjoy :)
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Link shoud be to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
Where are you now？
Third parties rarely counter-claim, because they fear expensive and protracted legal battles; even when they do, it's usually post-disconnection, because ISPs don't like to look bad in the eyes of companies the size of Disney (with their array of mud-slinging lawyers) so they disconnect first and ask questions later.

You have a system that, de facto, introduces incentives for ISPs to disconnect, but no incentive for them to help an innocent third-party or even just carry out due diligence.
Duck types will take over the world?
Its a college, so why don't you make a shoutt launch party? Buy some beer, get some female students to attend (then the male will follow), have them download the app to get into the party, and make some weird game where they use the app to meet people in the party. Alcohol + young people + app = traction. One of Facebook's primary functions still is helping people to hook up with others at parties (and getting them laid). This is also something you can repeat on other colleges with minimum investment.
Two questions still remain:

- Price?

- Battery life?

Also, the behavior of the screen in direct sunlight looks doctored to me.

EDIT: The schoolgirls have an evil look in their eyes, is that good marketing?
Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to the US
It's just been announced that the extradition is to be blocked. Superb!
Betteridge's law?

Given the recent IEEE clear text passwords stored on an FTP server fiasco we need to transition from shock and outrage and switch to resignation and ennui.
Flashboys: HEELLLP, we're trapped in a process size shrink crunch
Gary McKinnon extradition blocked by Theresa May

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19957138
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what's missing from any discussion here or in many of these "this is the new hotness" posts is this: science.

where's the science? it is, after all, a data scientist role. where is learning to do actual science?

what the world's been describing is an analyst or an engineering position, not science. if you don't know how to ask questions, interpret results, structure experiments - then you don't know science, so quit calling yourself a scientist. science involves a rigor of thinking and doing that has been omitted here.
A not very related comment, but I feel this will be the best time to ask.
Why is this site called Hacker News?
Very few stuff I see here is what I would potentially maybe consider related to any definition of "hacker". Huge part the posts are ruby/css/new-hip-web-framework stuff, the other big part is startup circlejerks (yes, I know what the hosting ycombinator is).
ya anyone got any links to more info on this process? possible damage? possible gain?
Breaking news - Home Secretary has blocked his extradition see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659305

Its the first thing she has done right in the job. Probably the last as well. She only did it because of public pressure, which while thats the way democratic government should work, its a pity she couldn't personally see the case for it (cf her previous comments).
Look at what a good COO can do with a company that doesn't have many good products.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-person-running-aol-is-not...
Removing 'again' to overload the meaning of 'loop' for example.
Radar Livepaper: Android live wallpaper that shows the local weather radar

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appidio.ra...
i only wish i had learned to spot the difference earlier in my career.
Show HN: findthin.gs - Find where to watch tv series & movies (RailsRumble)
A: what you say complements what I said, but does not deny it. ISPs are accountable if they don't play along, which is what I said, and that's fine.

B: you're misinterpreting what I said, which was rather: "Should we punish the telephone company for unilaterally disconnecting the line of people accused to send bomb threats, regardless of whether they actually did use it that way?" And my answer is hell yes. At the moment, ISPs pay no penalty for screwing the innocent, unlike the other two parties in the law. I don't think that's reasonable.
I have zero coding skills.

Edited to add: Just read up at the site. I would need a Pre-Hacker School (Hacker Pre-School? Heh.). Otherwise the program sounds good and I'm glad to see something like that here in the NYC area.
Thanks for liking :)

I've never been able to reproduce that bug; the code has changed enough with this new version and I never noticed that happening again. If you notice that again, please let me know.

For the rewording of "follow comments", if you have any suggestions you're welcome.
Hey guys - Our team made findthin.gs in 48 hours last weekend for this years Rails Rumble (http://railsrumble.com/). We built it because we're from Australia and sick of finding online services that are region restricted or don't carry what we want.

Thus, we wanted to make it super simple to find where you can legitimately watch tv series and movies online by taking the hard work out of finding where it's viewable.

Our current version only searches Hulu, Netflix (in the US - If anyone has advice on international API's for them, I'd love to know) as well as iTunes. We're planning to support a bunch more services (in the US, Canada, Great Britain and Australia) in the next few weeks.

Also, it's a bit buggy (due to time constraints) and I'm not sure how well it works in non-WebKit browsers, but we'd love to know what you think.
And that's important because?

What makes Chrome look cleaner to me is mostly the number of strong horizontal / vertical lines I have to orient my eyes at - and in what order those lines appear. In chrome I see

First line = bottom border of OSX menu bar

Second line = top border of tab

Oh look, here is the content I'm looking for, website icon plus website title -> nice.

In Safari:

First line = bottom border of menu bar

Second line = top border of URL bar

Nothing of interest here, I know which site I'm at right now

Third line = bottom border of URL bar

fourth line = bottom border of toolbar

Ok, now I see tabs. But NO ICON! It's very hard to make out the different websites I have open.
>> "...can you say you should never extradite someone for computer crimes?"

That's a big question and as someone with now law experience I can't really answer it. I guess it would all come down to the jurisdiction, that seems to be an important point which needs to be worked out and made clear. Once there are a clear set of rules for determining that I think these cases will be much easier.

>> "You also need to ask yourself how you think an attack by someone in Iran on the US should be handled. Are you happy with that being dealt with by Iran?"

Creating laws on a country by country basis won't work. If it is agreed that the computer crime takes place in the country the computer and person was in it should be up to that country to deal with it not the country attacked.

And, although Iran may not have a good record, if speculation is correct Stuxnet was a US/Israeli invention [1]. What gives the US the right to create/spread a computer virus and then extradite someone for breaking into their computers? It's the double standards that piss me off.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#United_States
It seems to diverge from my goal, which is to really learn JavaScript (learning HTML5 and CSS are bonuses). Seems to focus on Ruby on Rails and hardcore web development.
In fact I hacked a Perl script to make slit scan video (which is a trivial step in digital).

Some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJF1RPLgjo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF-EOehtHOc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYIt_JR1AU
This idea has been around for a while, but I didn't realise there were field experiments going on. Basically, iron particles are dumped into the ocean which encourages a massive algal bloom. A proportion of the algae will sink to the bottom of the ocean, trapping the carbon. John Martin, an oceanographer, famously quipped: "Give me half a tanker of iron, and I’ll give you the next ice age.”

There's a better article here: http://planetsave.com/2012/07/22/geoengineering-news-controv...
This looks fantastic! Cash flow has been a major pain point for me, and quite an unexpected one with a rapidly growing apparel company (https://www.kigu.me).

We've been managing this using a spreadsheet but tracking loan repayments, stock purchases, postage, cost of sale and salaries as well as picking a useful scale (daily vs weekly) has been a real challenge.

I can't wait for an invite.
In what way does it save money? Would be interested in some stats if there are any; presumably they'd be projections at this stage.
How about something that explains what Mixture actually is in a nice concise manner?
>>>I've been fed up lately with all the wrong people learning to program for the sake of learning to program.

Do you mean that from the perspective of having such people clogging resume inboxes with insufficient skills and experience?
Yeah, that was my complaint: the name is misleading.
Oh, and suggestions for other countries with decent streaming services would rock!
The data scientist title implies responsibility for creating product. By analogy with Wall Street: a data scientist is like a high-level quant designing trading algorithms, while an analyst is like a BA analyst plugging numbers into Excel for the boss.
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Cities are necessarily liberal entities, and people who live in cities tend to vote for more liberal parties.
What does the African startup scene need?
off-topic:

That House of Commons seems like a really funny business. Why are those people standing up after someone has spoken. Is it something like a +1 mechanism? Is anyone recording it? The whole scene seems like something out of Alice in Wonderland.
Want the old Activity Viewer back so much
The right decision. I'm frankly surprised and pleased.

What happens now?
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Big cities in the US tend to be extremely moderately liberal, not extremely left wing. In any other industrialized country, the Democrats would be a conservative party.
While she was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, she studied in Paris and Sorbonne. She was denied higher education in Poland because she was a woman. Later, University of Kraków also rejected her, because she was a woman.

It's not nice, but I think it's OK to call her a French scientist. Poland clearly didn't want her. It is an old tradition that best polish scientists, athletes and inventors go abroad. They're not valued in the country.
Additional info:
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They wish to speak and standing up is the signal to the Speaker of the House (http://www.parliament.uk/business/commons/the-speaker/the-ro...) that they have something to say.
Yes it's absolutely crazy. It's like a look back to the 1700's. You can watch it all live here (you may need a proxy to get it outside the UK):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_parliament/watchlive
sk uo dovska
demand for more on the news seems to have killed the guardian. bbc now down (or very slow) too.
I believe it is to signal that they want to speak next.
They stand up to "catch the speakers eye" and indicate to the Speaker (the chairperson who mediates the debate) that they would like to ask a question of the home secretary.
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Oops, you're right on Santa Clara County. LA County is fairly common though I think.
4. Let's face it, Ada Lovelace was a bit of a looker, or at least she was painted that way. She even had a sexy sounding name. We have real, unromantic photographs of Curie on the other hand the reveal her to be rather plain by comparison, plus her name is now linked with a scary unit of radioactive decay! It's a case of the Belle vs the school-marm.

We should fight this attitude. Women have a history of being judged solely on their looks, and that is wrong. Everyone should be judged on their merits.
The people standing up want to talk next. The Speaker chooses who does speak next, in a kind of opaque way. Senior gov officials are usually favoured over back-benchers.
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I'm from germany so i cant say nothing about the service itself, but i love the coverimage-animation. It works great in this context!

Also you have a small code-glitch above the logo? or is it intentional? you never know these days
It saves money because they're doing the work with an in-house development team, instead of blowing millions of younds per project on expensive consultants from IBM, Accenture etc.
Is it possible we'll see noticable global cooling from this or is it too small?

Legal/approved or not, it seems like this will be a great data point and it will be good to have as much information as possible on strategies like this is global warming ever becomes a pressing issue.
I used http://dbdsgnr.appspot.com/ for something like this. It has sql export and it supports a few database engines. If it would allow better forking it would be awesome.