skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must be a genius.
It would be even funnier if Moot and/or the original photographer sued Santorum because the site published a photo without his permission or a model release.
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How is this any better than passwords? 1/10000 chance of guessing correctly is huge.

Why would I want to remember a different passcode every month?

If after two failed login attempts, I must respond to an SMS before I log in, it's really easy to DOS.

Users will be confused by this new scheme. Stick with what has already been vetted in the industry.
I think it's fairly obvious why someone would do this? Suppose you want to create an event that happens to have a similar audience as those who might attend a Hacker News meetup. Now you can create a marketing message to those people without spending any effort in recruiting members. It's easier to do a hostile takeover than trying to create a meetup event from scratch.

In a way, it's like buying a very targeted email list.

However, I'm sure there will probably be a backlash in this case, and I doubt Meredith would show up at any of these events because she'll probably get stoned to death there.
Interesting. It surprises me that many tech entrepreneurs dismiss UX methods as fluff when they were designed to accomplish this exact goal.
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Yes, I see it in LA without problem. Around sunset is best (I'm not up at sunrise ;-).
You should check out http://codehs.com if you are interested in learning to code. It's perfect for absolute beginners and gives you access to help and feedback from awesome tutors from Stanford.

There are projects to work on, and you learn what it means to write a good program (style, decomposition, readability, etc). Mostly, it's really fun. You start by teaching a dog some tricks and then get to make awesome games in the browser.
> if an attacker got his hands on your database, he could use the [persistent login cookie] tokens to log in to any account

If an attacker gets his hands on your database, it's kind of game-over already.
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Selling something for the first time? You’re probably going to suck at it
When I wanted to develop a mobile app, I started with PhoneGap and then Appcelerator, but I really didn't like the outcome. The UX didn't cut it in terms of visual appeal.
Then I decided to learn Obj-C and started to go through the Stanford lectures on iOS 5. The only thing I did for 15-20 days was to listen to all the lectures without even jumping into coding. After the lectures were over, I started to work on the exercises. That helped me a lot.
I didn't have any idea how Obj-C works and did a whole lot of research after each lecture what it was about and what constructs were used.

I would recommend anyone who wants to learn iOS programming to go through the Standford lectures (https://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-de...) and do the due diligence after each lecture to get in-depth knowledge. It is going to take time, but it is worth it.
They're not trying to sell a brand, though -- I believe the starting goal is to get this on low end commodity phones in South America. (Notice how everything in the original link is also available in Portuguese?) To that end they already have deals with carriers there.

Since Mozilla actually has the health of the web as their main mission, they have a role catering to markets that others will neglect.
Yes, that's it.

For "normal" faculty members (i.e. those not waving around Turing awards, Fields medals, and Nobels), the number and quality of Ph.D. students (where I'm from, Masters didn't count) the professor has advised is one of the most, if not the most, important prestige factors.

Getting grants and writing papers will get you tenure, but are significantly less important after you have it.
Do Not Track finally arrives with version 23 of Chrome
Department Of Homeland Security Could Scan Payment Cards At Borders And Airports
I really like how the LookBook is viewed as a way of "increasing customer happiness." You're essentially helping the customer validate how great they feel about themselves for doing business with you, which I would expect goes a long way to keep them around as a customer.
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I'm not splitting hairs -- suing a company for cloning a CPU, versus spying on citizens to preemptively check that they're not pirating -- the difference isn't a hair, it's an enormous gulf. I'm not hostile to slippery-slope rhetoric, but you have to make it credible; this is over-the-top.
The burning, it hurts. I think the purple is like #17f00017f or something. Seriously, you can't just mix RGB like this; perceptual color scales like Cynthia Brewer has helped popularize are the right choice. http://colorbrewer2.org/
Drug abuse is a serious problem, but it's not limited to those drugs that are illegal. Meth is one of the very few drugs in widespread use that are actually more destructive than alcohol. By contrast, pot abuse can screw up your life but it's still far, far less dangerous to the person and to society at large than alcohol abuse. I'd like to think that marijuana legalization would end up putting us on the slippery slope towards legalizing or banning drugs based on how dangerous they actually are.
I'll agree on Huntsman nationally, but he never stood a chance in the Republican party. He's too close to center (like pre-2008 McCain) and he didn't satisfy the minority, but influential, extreme right.

There are plenty of good Republican, slightly-right leaning legislators - senators, representatives, governors - but the party has been hijacked by the extreme right.

As much as they like to talk about being the party of Reagan, Reagan would be chastised now for working with a Democrat Congress. Reagan was good friends with Tip O'Neil (Speaker of the House, from Massachusetts, liberal) and nowadays that wouldn't sit well with the party.

My father, my father-in-law, and my mother-in-law were all Republicans. After Bush II they all voted Democrat. They'd return if there was some sanity.
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They could pair up with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIwH7ptHCWc (if it wasn't a joke)
Bringing colleagues to technology
I got in an argument with my boss/lab yesterday about technology that I thought HN may find relevant. For reference, I’m a neuroscientist at an IVY league school and work with really bright people(who are also young, 24-41 years old).

With that said, I figured they would be more into using technology, be it computers, mobile devices, software, online tools (dropbox, google docs)etc as it makes the job so much easier. And yet they don’t… in fact, it seems as though they are collectivity against trying new technologies.

Going back to yesterday, I brought up a new product that automates a time consuming/trivial task. I was expecting a “omG!?! That’s awesome!” response, but was surprised to hear “yeah, well…(enter excuses why this may not work here)”. No matter what, that technology which none of them have any experience with, was sure to be faulted. I’m fairly certain I could have said, “Jesus Christ himself guaranteed this works, look at this Youtube video of him using the system successfully” and they would still be reluctant and unwilling to try/listen. I’ve seen this 19038120938756127039.2 times and I just can’t understand that mentality.

I understand that ignorance is what drives this, I’ve witnessed this when I used to work in IT, but what I don’t understand is how to get people past the fear.

I’m asking HN as I’d like to get the opinion of those who make products and have had to get customers to use their new/awesome products. I know I’m going to run into this problem when I launch my product, so any advice, comments, and just plain old venting is welcomed.
> I see multiple, severe problems with this old question from 2008 and I am tempted to delete it outright -- primarily because the most highly voted answers read more like blog rants than actual "answers".

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/95172/old-problemati...
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ColinWright posts great articles to HN, and thoughtful comments to threads. He is a valued contributor.

The duplicate thread posts are irritating to some people. But they are seen as very useful by many others. You claim that this single post is clutter and is not helpful. It is not clutter. It is helpful. It provides quick easy access to previous discussion.

It would be great if people could link to the canonical version of an article, rather than each tech-blog's minimal write-up; and if people could search HN before submitting a post.

But notice that ColinWright has not complained about duplication, and is merely providing useful links to previous discussion.

You've been downvoted. Partly this is because you should either ignore, or down vote, or flag, posts that you think should not be here.

(http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

>Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
If people in the poorer states like Alabama voted the same way as people in richer states like Maryland, that means they have more in common. If people from a small state with low income inequality like New Hampshire are evenly split, that means whatever divides the candidates is not economic, geographic, or cultural reasons.
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Dude, it's just a website
As MartinCron pointed out, it is important to know the source of your images when farming out work. This article is a topical demonstration of that principal. It will cause some embarrassment. It is also a great way, in this soundbite culture, to dismiss a person without having to actually go through the motions of a debate. This same thing can happen to your startup. Imagine some designer not liking your business and slipping in a photo of a serial killer on your site. Or if you're running an amusement park and a photo of a child molester is on your site.

Given all the things that can happen with stock photos, I believe folks should probably hire a photographer or get the photos from staff that swears they took them themselves. Get some releases signed if people are in the photos and be done with it.
Quick note about CAPTCHAs... A more accurate rate is $1.50 per 1000, and that's even a tad expensive.

If you buy in bulk, it's much cheaper.

Source: Security researcher.
Thanks! I didn't know about the youtube analytics. I got 2 views from California.
I loved Big! And Vice Versa (with Fred Savage). I think I fit their target demographic.
Why don't you take some time to explain your opinion? Currently, your comment is only noise and completely useless.
He refers to unrelated, poorly explained concepts: dialogic image, emancipatory media, criticality.

He has important hypothesis that he doesn't provide support for:

>it is a secretive conflict

>Goatse acts as a rejection of ... an ideology of post-fordist labour
Twitterverse expresses awe of Mr. Silver: #NateSilverFacts
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Very interesting. How did you go about signing up 1,600 vendors? Cold calling? What tactics worked best in your experience?

Related question: how do you think the competition (WeddingWire) signed up 200k+ vendors?

Thanks!
Let me take the discussion up a level.

There's huge demand for great writing, that's been made clear in the comments (and we see this every day at Scripted HQ).

There are millions of underemployed professionals in this country, thousands of whom are exceptional writers.

Scripted bridges the two, allowing businesses to get great writing (not just blog posts, also white papers, landing pages, status updates, case studies, and product descriptions) by someone who actually knows the industry.

I totally understand the skepticism surrounding ghostwriting, but it's not so different than hiring a PR agency or marketing firm. We're just making these services available to any business a la carte, and using a distributed workforce of real American professionals.

Where's the scheming in that?
It would show how many people voted each way, not just how much land mass is covered by states that voted one way or another.
Yes, exactly. It's one of the best ways we've found to differentiate ourselves in the wedding space — I'm really dedicated to being personal and real with our vendors, and promoting them as much as possible (like the lookbook, the blog is also primarily a promote-good-feelings-for-vendors tool). It just makes sense, since it more than pays off for our company and our bottom line in the long run.
It really isn't worth worrying about it or counting your chickens before they hatch. The YC app asks you to lay yourself bare when writing it, so applying to YC can be a bit more emotionally involved than other types of fundraising.
> First, all normal precautions would be taken (no common digit patterns - 1234, 1111, 2222, etc).

Why? All you are doing is further reducing an already limited key space.

This authentication scheme is bad, and you should feel bad. :)
> The joke is at least sophomoric, if not crass as others have pointed out.

Those are virtues in a joke.
Netflix gobbles a third of peak Internet traffic in North America
Is this a common practice in Africa? If it's not, then a village already meeting its fertilizer needs can have power after dark in addition.
But the election only happens once. The prediction isn't "wrong" when the outcome occurs 1 out of 1 time.

It's not a single event. Nate Silver made many many predictions about last night. And none[1] of them were binary up-down events. If he did make binary predictions, we could claim he got them "all right," but Silver was never doing that in the first place. Nor am I saying he should have.

Try this: if Romney had won, would it mean that Nate Silver was wrong? Should we say, like Silver's critic Dylan Byers did, "it’s difficult to see how people can continue to put faith in the predictions of someone who has never given that candidate anything higher than a 41 percent chance"?

No, we shouldn't. Because Silver didn't say "Obama would win." He said "Obama has a ~86% chance of winning." Silver gave a 14% chance of finding himself in a universe where Romney would win despite what his data was telling him. Silver made essentially no prediction about Florida -- and we shouldn't push him into making an up/down decision if he doesn't think he can. But everyone wants to force him into the binary prediction box.

EDIT: took out snark

[1] Okay, he was 100% on some states like New York, but so was everyone else, so those aren't interesting to talk about.
This probably REALLY cool. #colorblind
I just took an exam on this....
There are questions of whether a link exists between cannabis use and adult-onset schizophrenia (ie, a "psychotic break" in the early 20s).

The problem is that these variables are highly confounded - not only is it reasonable, but it is almost expected that a person who is experiencing early signs of schizophrenia (even if they don't realize it) might have their life impacted enough that they turn to alcohol or marijuana (or other drugs) to address those secondary problems, even though schizophrenia would be the underlying root "cause".

The question is not whether that second effect (schizophrenia causing drug use) exists, but the magnitude of that relationship. Which is difficult to measure on a theoretical level, and perhaps impossible to measure on an ethical level.
growing marijuana is really easy and cheap.

Well, they call it "weed" for a reason. :)
I like the iteration idea a lot - I'm a little worried about the speed at which Moore's Law applies to networks. Yes, the devices will get better and faster, but if wireless speed is a bottleneck, that seems to improve at a slower rate.

Does anyone know if you can have a button on a website that lets the user put an icon on their home screen? Yes, they can add it themselves, but I bet you'd really like that icon.
The USPTO seems to be focused on moving Silicone Valley to Asia. And the Bay Area is focused on becoming the next Detroit.
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No list of satisfied customers?
Exactly what I was thinking & what got me worried: why do this if your intentions are honest? I hope this is just a terrible case of bad judgement. We may be pirates, but we gave up stoning a while ago. May I suggest a good discussion over a glass of Koelsch instead? I know who'll be buying!
Does the article say that the generator runs the electrolysis? I don't see where it does.
You are assuming that they are all independent events. What if in the calculation to get to 60% the main risk factor was a late national swing rather than a local polling error?
I came here expecting a lot of nonsense from people confusing design patents with utility patents. There's a bit of that, but most comments seem to get it.

Well done, HN. I knew there was a reason I deleted my reddit account.
Authenticity is very ill-defined (just ask any hipster). What makes an authentic company blog in your mind? Does it have to written by an employee of the company? What if it the company is entirely outsourced (except for the owners, obviously)? Does that mean the owners must write it? What if the owners aren't any good at writing? Can they not hire someone to do this job for them? Let's say we're talking about a software company, and all development is outsourced. Is the product now inauthentic? If not, what's the difference between a blog and the product?
It started as a bunch of cold-emailing — that's probably how we get the first 100 or so vendors on our directories. The rest comes from things like the Lookbook (vendors sharing with their vendor friends), and our blog (we run a long of vendor-promotional posts, then new vendors sign up with us so they can participate). I try to keep vendor acquisition as easy as possible on our side since again, we're only two people. We're also launching new features on the directory side to further promote vendors encouraging other vendors to join.

WeddingWire does a LOT of vendor profile scraping — vendors can search for their name and find that WeddingWire created a profile for them, which encourages them to sign up and "claim" the profile. I won't deny it's a working tactic for them, but it leaves a bad taste in vendor's mouths and I'm not comfortable with it personally.

Another interesting thing they do is have a "WeddingWire Award" — which gets sent out to every vendor, practically. These vendors display the award on their websites, which gets more couples and vendors to sign up with WW. That's a good vendor acquisition tactic that I'm looking forward to improving on soon with WeddingLovely.
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The problem is that wasn't practiced under either the Bush or Obama administrations (despite the latter's campaign promises) with respect to medical marijuana.

Because of the way the laws are structured, it's almost guaranteed that any state law that allows people to grow/sell/use marijuana will violate some portion of some law other than the Controlled Substances Act, which means that the federal government always has an excuse to crack down hard.

Which they have no qualms about doing, apparently.

(That said, this will be interesting because it is a much bolder contradiction of federal law, and it will force the federal government to address it directly, instead of using the tax laws for controlled substances as an excuse for cracking down).
Is your product for shopping carts only or can it be used with anything? What if for example i was selling something using something like gumroad or shoplocket?
On a related subject, are rounded rectangles so aesthetic to everyone? I think they used to be popular in the 50s, and apple revived them with brushed aluminum, but now we see them all over the web too. They bring to my mind old CRT televisions which is kinda kitsch imho.
Oh! Actually I had no idea it was based on Android, which actually makes a lot more sense for phones than the regular GNU userland. Thanks!
I still don't understand what's special about that design. Again, as the link says, the only unbroken line is that the front face is made like a rounded rectangle.
Colin explained it, but I wanted to apologize for the dissonance. Essentially, I'm phrasing the abstract "pick an element, then pick again" problem in terms of SHA collisions. Just for fun.
It doesn't help that user research is constantly getting conflated with how to do drop shadows and gradients.
Check out https://flippa.com - it's an auction site for web properties.
Compare the hyperbole in the article, breathlessly talking about the geniuses on the campaign - then compare with the hard numbers compiled in the link I posted.
I interpreted it the other way, as all of those (except for depression) are symptomatic concerns, and marijuana is excellent at treating those symptoms!
They did not have to contend with having to vie for the vote of 300+ million people.

Also, elections for governor do not have to account for the Electoral College which IMO is an anarchic holdover from a time when communication was much harder.
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Couldn't agree more. What separates an "idea person" from a potential true entrepreneur, is that in order to find a technical co-founder they would begin doing everything else to make their product a reality. Things from having a detailed idea of how their product should work, to preparing mockups and wireframes, to writing website/app copy, etc that you can hand off to your developer and say "Build this"
I thought this was going to be about actually maintaining a blog - Upgrades etc.

I am Disappoint.
Drug liberalization, abortion, prostitution, gay marriage, are all far closer to the left when compared to the libertarians than the right.
It's not a rectangle, it's clearly either an iPad or Galaxy Tab. It's a rectangular slab of particular dimensions/proportions, rounded corners of a particular curvature, and a 4-sided front bezel of a particular, uniform width. In combination it's immediately recognizable as an iPad or iPad mimic.

If it were a rounded rectangle being patented, then the patent would look like this [0], not like that [1]. [0] is not recognizably an iPad.

[0] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/eps-gif/RoundedRectangle...

[1] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/D60728...

full disclosure: I'm not "pro-Apple" in this case, I own a Galaxy Tab 10.1, and think design patents are a silly thing to enforce.
Yes, and that's exactly the point that is addressed in the box I quoted.

You're exactly right, and I believe it's covered. I didn't go into detail about the problems involved in generating a plain text that hashes to a specific hash,such as you mention. I did simply mention that the problem I'm talking about is not that one.

So I don't understand the point dsego was making, because I think my reference is relevant.

At this point I'm no longer sure it really matter.
he can't downvote yet.
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Because it's worse than that - in 2007-2008, Obama explicitly campaigned on a platform that would be amenable to drug policy reform (medical marijuna + decriminalization at the state level).. then promptly reversed course after the election to become the most tough-on-drugs president in recent history[1].

There's the chance that he'd flip-flop again, but don't get your hopes high - he made an active effort to extend Bush's medical marijuana dispensary crackdowns instead of ending them altogether, so there's not really much evidence to suggest that he'll change his mind again.

[1] Compared at least to Bush Jr. and Clinton, which already takes us back 20 years.