skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use Mixpanel's Activities to determine issues with our funnel and also for customer service issues. Combined with all the cohort data, we can easily view activities of people who cancelled, changed plans, subscribed etc. So far its worked quite well and helped us improve our site and optimize our users experience. There is a blog post about us on Mixpanel's blog.

http://blog.mixpanel.com/
Good read for the 500+ friends of mine who talk of building a "____ marketplace."
Weighs 6.66kb (2.8kb gzipped) whereas jQuery UI datepicker is 42kb minified (or 30kb (11kb gzipped) via the Closure Compiler).
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings On Microsoft Windows 8, Surface Challenges
Scientology is demonstrably not a religion but a harmful scam.

Which makes it way different, from say, the Catholic Church.
Economic Disintegration Is Almost Here
Very convincing argument. Any advice for painless ways to set it up as a network drive (after the initial data transfer via USB)?
If you actually read those references, it's clear that they're not talking about cold fusion. It's rather a cold form of fission.

The difference is important, because our current understanding of fusion is that it can only occur at extremely high temperature and pressure (because that's what it takes to fuse two atoms into a larger atom). Fission (the splitting of atoms), on the other hand, happens to atoms without added energy or pressure.

If cold fusion were real, it would overturn our understanding of fusion. Cold fission does not, as far as I know, contradict our understanding of fission. That's why it's not surprising that scientists are taking cold fission seriously. But they are not taking cold fusion seriously.
* Unfortunately, the rest of the world does not work that way--particularly in the realm of B2B sales.*

Also "disruptive" startups that enter other realms are going to have problems if they are adverse to phone communications. For example, if you want to do a food startup and work with farms, you are probably going to need to hire an old-school phone-loving sales person to help you if you are adverse to phones because many farmers are pretty much the opposite of this article. No call, no business for a lot of them. Many don't communicate by email at all. It is very frustrating for those of us used to working in tech, but that's how it is right now.
This was my thought too, and set when I searched on un-logged in Google, they are number 1 for "color".
Ask HN: Anyone looking for a "Ruby on Rails" developer?
Experience: +2 years

Knowledge:

- Ruby on Rails

- HTML5, CSS, JAVASCRIPT

- Mysql, PostgreSQL, Redis

- GIT

I'm available only for remote working and paid-jobs.
https://github.com/amsul/pickadate.js/blob/gh-pages/pickadat... the code is a giant var statement. I don't know why, but somehow that bothers me.
Could really use a paired time picker. Good script though.
Scary wasn't disclosed until today, it was scheduled for a vote this week.
Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrant
So the side that loses the most people must be right? What sort of twisted logic is this?
You missed: gets through proxies and firewalls.

Unless that is what you mean by (b).
While I realize that you're not saying the contrary, the "will of the founding fathers" isn't exactly anti-patent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

That being said, the Constitution isn't some holy un-flawed document.
Study: Injured hospital patients more likely to survive if they're drunk
Simply that for all the good will in the world, fixes to Android are gated by forces beyond Google's control (by design).
Top people's wishes
I just found this funny picture that describes which are top 4 people's wishes.
PlayStation Mobile SDK released
its not hard to make a functional copy of the mag stripe on your credit card

They aren't expected to be secure, so the consequences for being caught doing so are immense, and the industry around them has been dealing with this issue since its inception. We have newer technology that supersedes magnetic stripes for secure transactions.
I'm French too. You're talking trademark. It's OK to protect your name. Actually, patents themselves are OK in a lot of domains, when you are patenting a specific process, the concrete, multi-step application of an idea. The problem with software/business patents is that you're usually patenting an idea.

Take it another way. Write software in the US, and as soon as you're making money, you run the risk of being sued by a patent troll in Eastern Texas. Write software in France, you run no such risk (some would even maliciously say that you don't run the risk of making money).
I read it as « It's faster and cheaper to use (other airport plus Amtrak) instead of flying in to BDL. »
That's good (really) but I don't think you get to determine where your $500 offer goes. 'The Matt's Wallet Foundation' has every right to every cent.
I saw you guys at tech crunch disrupt and it looks like you're making a lot of progress! Good luck to you.
I would stipulate (using statistics) that the threat of harm in airports and on airplanes is very very low. Therefore, the searches ARE unreasonable.

What "threat" are we defending ourselves against?

I also stipulate that removal of the security protocols would NOT lead to more hijackings or random murders on aircraft. It's specifically because of the fact that certain places are "weapon free" zones that they are targeted by criminal malfeasance. Knowing that most if not all of your opponents are unarmed is a HUGE tactical advantage.

The problem is that everyone believes they have a right to be defended by someone else. You of course don't have to defend yourself, but your defense is truly your own business.

This is not to say that acts of offense or even attempts at offense shouldn't be punished. We do have a right to justice, and simply put, that is all.
Why would I want to carry the stamp in my pocket along with my cellphone and keys?

If it was similar to a credit card that I could carry in my wallet then maybe.

Right now for my money the Protean guys have a better solution with Echo. http://getprotean.com
Python Web Frameworks' Complexity
Being An Entrepreneur is More About Sacrifice Than Freedom or Riches
Teenagers will find a way to buy stuff if the want it bad enough. Find a way to make the product really attractive and they will find a way to buy it. What type of product is it?
By the way, if there is one segment who will find a way to pay for something its teenagers.
I see what you're saying, but there are at least two separate issues here.

>> you have no property rights in your Facebook account, which is wholly owned by Facebook

By this logic, do I also have no right to expect privacy when I mail a paper letter through the post office? After all, its sorting facilities are wholly owned by the government.

I honestly don't know what the framers would have said about that. If I shouldn't expect privacy there, the argument is done.

If I should expect privacy from the post office, there's a second issue:

>> and which you use for free only as a guest

By this logic, I should expect privacy from my cell carrier, because I pay to use their service, therefore my account and the data passing through it might be argued to be "mine".

>> in a bank safety deposit box, there was typically a contract specifying that you had certain ownership rights... [snip] ... some kind of right-to-information-privacy that supersedes the fact that it's my server and I own its contents.

Both of these parts of your comment suggest that I should be legally able to operate a service and specify in the user agreement that I won't give their data up for search without a warrant; that they have some ownership rights over their data.

Sadly, I think the government would assert otherwise. The only loophole I've heard used so far is to operate a service which, through encryption, actually can't access users' data. And for all I know, that will be declared obstruction of justice.
Use cellphones. Usually when there is a natural disaster or other catastrophes, the red cross has a way to text in a word to number and then they charge it to the phone bill at the end of the month. I do believe though that this method is only good for donations and not businesses but hey, maybe you can prove me wrong?
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> Fair enough, good points. But do you kind of see what I'm getting at toward the end? You may have some strong beliefs on patent law but does everyone? Really?

I do understand. I think its a valid point but I also think the hype throws a lot more attention on the issue. Attention that is rightly there.
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>But that depends on the right window being the "top"

Not on OS X

>I also have problems with accidentally brushing my palm over the touch pad and "what the hell just happened".

Palm brushes don't register on OS X

That's why I wanted more clarification on what you're comparing it to. The only positive I can see of a touch screen compared to a __good__ touchpad is that you can see the content below your fingers as you interact with it - I wager it's the difference between the Intuos and the Cintiq.

I don't know if that's a big enough difference for most people to have to deal with all the negatives that using a touchscreen on a computer monitor comes with. For me it's not.
Please do: there's a card for additional databases on the roadmap.
Would love to hear your thoughts about whether you had to sacrifice something big to work for yourself or at a small start-up.
Here is my epiphany today: Focus on What Works
You don't HAVE to talk to telecom providers - you can use Pay-by-SMS services like Zaypay (http://www.zaypay.com).

If you plan on offering the application via the iTunes App Store or Google Play, then you can have them sign in and purchase "credits" via in-app purchases. This way, they can use iTunes gift cards. Plus, which teenager doesn't have iTunes credit?

Edit: In the case of Pay-by-SMS, the parents would find out either way when they see the bill. So, they might as well just use their (the parents') credit cards instead of allowing the teenager to charge it to the monthly phone bill. In this case (and other cases where the parent(s) are aware of and approve the service), you might just want to include credit card payments (via Stripe).

I despise Paypal, but you can always try that.

And because you pay them a commission for each sale, you're not losing money if you offer these options and they aren't used.

Edit 2: Zaypay IS AVAILABLE in Argentina (http://www.zaypay.com/outpayment).
He had like 5 nobel laureates on there, including Milton Friedman with 96 and Ronald Coase with 102.
You can't do the NFC use case, that is a user unique security token with qualifier exchange. But that certainly isn't to say this isn't a good idea.

So one thought, given the durability, is that you could build this into a kiosk type display add. So part of the frame has the stamp facing 'up'. For more info put your phone, face down, on the stamp briefly while running your app. Then you translate from kiosk lat/long to ad vendor.

Similarly in museums where you want to listen to various bits of the 'tour'.
Weev convicted in AT&T case
Where is Vessel for Linux?
Keyboard support for entering a date manually would be great. The GUI is great. Would like to see what the author could come up with for a pick a time.
A couple years ago, the Django Advent had a nifty JS enhancement for footnotes. I thought it worked so well I stole it for a personal project of mine. I would've linked to the original but they're now offline, so if you'll pardon the personal plug you can see it in action at http://sonsofterra.com/
Yes and I have three rules when working with people. They need to be:

1)Competent
2)Confident
3)Efficient
Seems like they're grasping at straws. Clearly the media industry is in decline if it needs to resort to such underhanded methods of "creating" new content.
In fact, extremist Islamic terrorism [since 2001] resulted in just 200 to 400 deaths worldwide outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq—the same number, Mueller noted in a 2011 report (PDF), as die in bathtubs in the U.S. alone each year.

Indeed. But the problem is how to get the votes in Congress to support a significant downsizing of the TSA. Were the President to do so unilaterally (which he may well have the ability to do), he'd be accused of disregarding Americans' safety and chances are that a good number of those accusations would come from inside Congress since there's still plenty of political capital to be made from opposing him.

As I've said before, there are three factors that support reducing the TSA's budget (and powers) in the coming yeas: the withdrawal from Aghanistan, budget cutting due to deficit management, and economic growth meaning that there will be jobs available for the laid-off TSA employees. These point to a downsizing of the TSA during 2015-16, after the 2014 midterm elections.

According to one estimate of direct and indirect costs borne by the U.S. as a result of 9/11, the New York Times suggested the attacks themselves caused $55 billion in “toll and physical damage,” while the economic impact was $123 billion. But costs related to increased homeland security and counterterrorism spending, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, totaled $3,105 billion.

This, on the other hand, is extremely disingenuous. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been major, major expenses (and major drivers of our national debt, since we didn't raise any new revenue to pay for them). Mentioning them last, as if they were some minor component of the TSA budget, reverses the order of significance.
You are not going to carry the stamp - you are already carrying your mobile device. The stamp is placed with the centralized person or system with whom you want to interact (e.g. at the coffee shop's point of sale or on the outside of the door you want to unlock). You stamp your mobile device to authenticate that you are interacting with that person or system in a specific way (e.g. the coffee shop cashier only stamps the loyalty app on your phone if you have made a purchase - thus purchase-gating that transaction). Does that make sense?
genepartner.com
> Boo fucking hoo.

> Grow a pair.

> Cry me a river.

> So what?

> Again, grow a pair.

> whine about it on the internet

Knock that right off, please, and do it right now.
The ironic thing is that we lose the right to be free from searches, because we lost the right to defend ourselves. It is often the case where the Second Amendment is absent, so goes the Fourth.
Augmented reality done right: Sharky the Beaver
Section By Section Breakdown Of Senator Leahy's ECPA Amendment
That's the default setup in Mail Pilot (http://www.mailpilot.co).

[Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder]
Even more scary was that it was a bill originally advertised as improving email security and then was quietly rewritten to damaging email security (but then wasn't advertised that it did a 180).

Hurray for the internet. Hard to screw people over by this shady business these days.
Small players in cell phones: http://www.phonearena.com/news/10-cell-phone-companies-youve...
Yea. It's one of those ideological dead ends that are hard to back out of. Just like the War on Drugs, Tough on Crime, Privatize and let the Free Market Decide, War on Terror, etc.
It's a cute idea, but a static pattern is trivially defeated by presenting a smartphone that records the touch pattern. Make a smart box that can stamp a dynamic pattern and you'll be on to something.

EDIT: context on why this is important, a comment from the original poster lower on the page:

We already have apps that do retail loyalty, coupons, and micro-payments launched on the platform. We also have developers working on apps to authenticate EMRs (electronic medical records) and industrial systems maintenance. Finally, we won the TechCrunch DisruptSF Hackathon back in September by using the stamp as the authentication step for a webservice actuated door lock

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4811221
Unless I'm mistaken, this is a blatant copy of a project that I saw at UBC last year that has had retail partners for a long time. Maybe a coincidence. But they are strikingly identical.
It was a punch in the stomach. Only wish I could talk to my 2-3 years younger self.
Thanks, something like Zaypay was what I was looking for :)
And then do coalitions form to influence the popular opinion of specific things that might be beneficial to them?

In many US states, they allow ballot measures, but they are often worse than the options that would come out of the legislature because of the free for all nature of advertising for them and the general public's lack of knowledge of the details of the proposal. They do, however, allow issues such as gay marriage/pot to come up if it's too controversial for the legislature.
He demonstrated a proof of concept, collected data, and went to journalists. Cherry picking irc logs for things for possible uses of the data is weak because they have a weak case.

Arguing about methods of responsible disclosure, a very dead horse that has been beaten to dust, seems like a waste of time and not really relevant.

This is just the endgame of the chilling effect of arresting and hounding researchers which has been going strong ever since 2001
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-270082.html
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I learned this working as the technical side of a sales team. If you exchange more than two emails with someone, whether they are a customer or a colleague, and you haven't resolved the issue, pick up the damn phone.
The money quote, "Rather than engage in this empirical debate, or even acknowledge its existence, Kappos acted as though it was self-evident that stronger patents always create a larger incentive for innovation."

And, of course, we have copious illustrations of how he is wrong (and how he is right). So perhaps we should spend the time to determine if patents "always create a larger incentive for innovation" or not.
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So prior restraint of speech and expression is OK in Germany as long as a credible case can be made that that speech in some way supports an organization conducting a harmful scam.

I agree with you completely about Scientology. And I'd rather have Scientology Centers on as many corners as Christian churches than have a government that colludes with private employers to screen new hires based on their religion.
This is awesome.

Something ironic about this though:

"As we are perfectionnist..."
Sadly this is the way non-partisan issues are legislated in the US system. But the system worked -- the vote was scheduled, the relevant interest groups noticed, the media reported it, the people contacted their representatives and the bill was pulled. We win. Note also that "the vote" was a committee vote. There were plenty of other chances to stop this.

This isn't the best system, obviously, but it does work. So don't despair, just be vigilant.
From what I've read: Audits verify the math, not detect fraud.

Fraud detection is a lot more work aka forensic accounting.
I don't understand why the downvotes. This is a legitimate argument -- although the position isn't popular.

On one hand, businesses should have a right to refuse service to anyone, without much reason. On the other hand, customers should have a right to certain necessity services that are vital to creating value or functioning in the modern world -- such as electricity, Internet service, or credit card acceptance.

The problem is striking a balance when these two rights come into conflict. Usually because the industry providing the necessity is a monopoly or near-monopoly. This case calls for regulation. Since HN isn't a monopoly -- there are plenty of other places for people to get their free speech fix -- it isn't a matter for government regulators if HN tightens its policies.

I am worried, though, that the EU government may move in the wrong direction -- requiring compliance with burdensome regulations for providers of non-necessities, or providers of necessities in non-monopoly-like industries.

Right now everyone's thinking of the outrage over the Wikileaks situation. But there's always a danger that the legislation that's passed may be overbroad and do more harm than good. Or, even if today's legislators and bureaucrats honestly believe they've limited the new laws and regulations to the necessary cases, tomorrow's legislators and bureaucrats may be able to abuse the authority being created today.
Autonomy Founder Mike Lynch Contests H-P Allegations
That last sentence is incredibly lame. I've had problems with 'tptacek (from an incident several years ago that I'm finally over) but he argues for security policies that he believes work, not those that are in his interest.

A wild-west attitude, with every man for himself, no-holds-barred, no-legal-resource-when-you-are-hacked is the best possible thing for security people, who would be kingmakers in such a universe.
I have used pair continuously since 2000 and they have always been straightforward with support, and their uptime is excellent.
It's not taking a hardline attitude. If you have, for example, Aspergers, unplanned, unscheduled conversations cause incredible anxiety and are extremely hard to manage. This leads to miscommunication, arguments and pointless stress. And there's no "taking myself out of my comfort zone" that would help, I'm already out of my comfort zone whenever I talk live to someone who isn't one of the half dozen closest people in my life. And even with them it gets tricky sometimes.

As for public speaking, it's actually a fairly scripted and controlled situation. A good middle-ground would probably be something like leading a table-top RPG game, though for me that's already in the realms of fantasies, and I'm pretty sure I'm doing pretty well all things considered.

Anyway, the point is: some of us have our special needs. Some people need extra control over conversations due to their inherent vulnerability. It's not just introversion, it's often anxieties and social disorders. I'm still a pretty great coder that can get along with a team of living, breathing people, and deal with a stand-up every day, but an unannounced meeting — not so much.
Are Software Patents Evil? [2006]
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I dunno I'd tend to agree with this analysis. HN is about pulling people out of their comfort zone, and if your comfort zone is so isolated that you literally cannot get on a telephone call with another human being without being overwhelmed because you need to ask how someone's day is going, you probably do need to figure out how to get over it.
HTTP clients aren't really that bad, if you're not trying to implement the full state of the current batch of relevant RFCs.
I'm so tired of reading ambiguous news about mars and space in general. Not once have I been able to read a headline from a space-exploration article and say "Wow!". I always find myself scanning through the article, trying to see what progress they've made and why it's significant.