skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not to nit-pick too much, but these splash pages are really getting old quick. im a huge supporter of customer development. splash pages these days are so devoid of information that i question their value.

this is a trend amongst so many "stealth mode" startups that i really wish would just go away. if you're not ready to show the world yet, no problem, but i have to question the effectiveness of these pages.

on the other hand when meeting with first customers i guess having something up is better than nothing?

/rantaboutsplashpagesthatihate
No, their Android games were also available on other platforms. Their bundles were all multi-platforms until now. And DRM-Free.

And THQ does not need money support, they need to go through an internal crisis, fire a number of people and get back to good basics. What this bundles does is just providing another injection to the drug addict.
Ants have a intrinsic instinct to help the whole colony mostly because they are related the the entire colony.

I may have an evolutionary interest in supporting my nieces since they are my sister's children. However, I probably don't have an evolutionary interest in supporting my nephew since he is my wife's sister's child. Biologically I have zero relation to him.
http://raided4tor.cryto.net/ and http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-char... (has scan of the search warrant) should be good enough for now :)
I don’t see digitizers and styluses having any kind of mass-appeal. I cannot imagine any kind of plausible scenario for that. This is not a feature you can sell (except to a niche).

The Surface has to succeed or fail as a post-iPad tablet, not on tech specs no one cares about.
Maybe cocaine? Who snorts weed?
I love it too. I always enjoy reading about post-failure posts from GitHub about their own infrastructure. CloudFlare pushes it to another level in these posts.
How would silicon avoid something like cancer? Why would that make any difference?
This looks very promising. Good potential for affordable fleet-tracking.

I'm also excited to see a local (Vancouver) company with such a polished offer. I'll be following this one closely.
So it's a lot like gold prospecting?
9-Inch Nook HD+ Shown Rooted
The exit in question was located in Poland - Not in my home, i never had any exit running at home.
The server used in Poland was however (naturally) registered on my name.
One interesting point: the tablet has the same CPU as a Macbook Air. It's basically a really tiny ultrabook and should be decently fast. It might actually be really nice with a good keyboard.
It would help if you started responding to what was actually said, and not what you think was said. The two bear only a distant relation, and all the parts you're objecting to only were said in your imagination.

Before disagreeing, review my words and find where I've said anything indicating that I consider pedophiles a "victimized group". Please don't miss the part where I said that I personally am OK with criminalizing child porn because most of the people you find consuming that material are likely to be pedophiles, who probably have offended.
Introducing the new iTunes [video]
Actually Google seems to have fixed the one issue I really cared about; it's possible to create a new device (and then manually use the new code to put the app on both iPhone and iPad) without turning off 2-factor-auth entirely.

But they don't actually check that you have the 2 factor device when you do this, so all you need to do is get logged in once and you're clear to lock the original user out, change auth credentials, etc.

It's totally fine for the "protect a personal gmail account" threat model, but as far as I can tell, no one does 2fa in a way as-secure as I'd want it for an enterprise/IT deployment.
Simple question but how do you get to be a beta tester for such products?
I wonder how desktop apps are going to cope with that high res display. Could become tricky to hit buttons even with the pen. However I like its combination of touch, pen and keyboard input, could be very useful for students and salarymen with lots of meetings.
My (outsider's, totally unprivileged) understanding of Google's traffic data is that they combine official trip-time data in partnership with road authorities with realtime data from Google Maps users.

If true, they've already got data without a dongle required.
The Toy Industry Is Stuck in the Stone Age
The United States and Israel voted against recognition, joined by Canada, the Czech Republic, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Panama.
Cool Buzzfeed & Pinterest type site to share & discuss opinions about anything
Hey, thanks for the tip. We had some last-minute changes that our CDN took a while to propagate; it should be fixed now though. Let me know if you find any other issues.
I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or not. I'd like to know how you measure the damage done to a child who is raped on film, much less all of them. "A lot more damage"...

I guess you're right though. Children being victimized is a small price to pay for free movies on bittorrent.
At the risk of being rude, this website really couldn't say anything less.

* What is it about? An education platform for who? Without clicking "sign up" I haven't the faintest clue. What am I signing up for? A visualization library? A tutoring system?

Other materials say "The Education OS", and that used to be in the <title>, but I guess it was scrubbed. (If you'd like to view the older landing page, I uploaded the image: http://i.imgur.com/BHYlR.png)

* HTML5 what? I didn't see anything that wasn't possible before HTML5 on any of the pages, and the only mentions are in biographies. Why put it in the title if only to tease us? That makes it feel like linkbait.

* About: "We'll be ready to share more details next year." Wouldn't it be better if you waited to submit until then?
Thanks for elaborating, I better understand the claim that OTR plausible deniability is not that useful in court now.
How easily can it be tracked with standard bunny-hunting? I imagine the government would locate this pretty quickly and just mortar the neighborhood to remove it.
I agree, but it's an easy thing for Google to do, and takes away a distraction when comparing the two solutions.
re-writing the code of any big project is insane. You are going to face those walls you faced in the past - again. Using this logic you would change the whole codebase every few years.. ridiculous
How long until some "tech news" site reports on this exciting and obviously legit story?
Snapchat posts more photos per second than Instagram
Adding Boards to Clipboard
In fairness, Microsoft's announcement is competing with the actual sighting of a Linux laptop on Dell's website.
E-Reader Privacy Chart, 2012 Edition
This appears to be a troll.

From the whois entry for nasaupdatecenter.us :

Billing Contact City: Cape Carnival

Billing Contact State/Province: FL

Billing Contact Postal Code: 666666

Billing Contact Country: United States
> Have you actually used or tried to deploy ChromeFrame?

I'll admit, I haven't. That feature list is mighty impressive and all kinds of commendable.

That said, it still fundamentally is requiring people to install something on their machine. This is a difficult thing to do with the uneducated and often outright forbidden in the corporate world, so the two key demographics here are also the two least likely to use ChromeFrame.
Exceptional acquires Ranger Monitoring
Appengine.

You're a development shop, not scalable system builders. Deciding to build your own systems has already potentially cost you the success of this product - I doubt you'll get a second chance on HN now. If you were on appengine, you'd be popping champagne corks instead of blood vessels, and capitalising on the momentum instead of writing a sad post-mortem.

I'd recommend you put away all the Solr, Apache, Nginx an varnish manuals you were planning to study for the next month, and check out appengine. Get Google's finest to run your platform for you, and concentrate on what you do best.
Distance between Cyprus and Syria is < 200km. How much money would it take to setup a wireless link between the two? Wikipedia tells me it's possible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_WiFi#Italy)
Exactly, building up this phone functionality is important to do now so that in 2-5 years we the public are more comfortable with the idea of self driving cars due to the incredible usefulness of blending the internet and analytics with vehicles (presented in a far less technical way, of course).

Imagine having an accurate trip-time estimate, adjusted regularly with information on which parking spots are available, and which entrance of a parking lot will have less congestion.

The high cost of driverless cars will make them take a while to catch on. But a cheap dongle can crowdsource this info to benefit us all.
There's a difference between developer and user. The developer is likely a multi-tasker looking at the design and code and images.

Part of my concern about a "720p" screen is remembering how some unresizable windows wouldn't even fit on the screen of my netbook and I would have to alt + drag them to get to the OK/Cancel buttons.
You wouldn't happen to be one of the people who doesn't like software being patentable, would you?
Two options of models would be a great idea; like iPads: one with cellular, and one without. One version gives you a few more features.
As someone who has (more or less) gone down this path myself, here's my take: you are totally hireable. But the fact is you're a cowboy programmer looking to settle down in town, so there's going to be some cleaning up to do. If you approach it that way, you'll be fine.

If I was in your position my approach would be to either work as a contractor (preferably a temp-to-hire job) or try to get a job a small- to medium-sized startup, something like 10-50 employees. Your value is that you are clearly a self-starter and don't need to be handheld through every difficulty, but you WANT to work in a team and learn how to do that. It's important to be upfront about where you are at, but don't discount what you do know.

Be sure to have a "beginner's mind" because for a lot of things you are a junior developer, but none of them should be hard to learn if you are open to it. Every company has different wrinkles in how they comment code or do QA, so you would need to learn these anyway. Don't be shy about asking questions if you don't know the proper term for something or understand what someone is talking about - it can feel a little embarrassing but if you ask once it'll fix the problem and will help you communicate better.

Don't worry about not getting jobs where they focus so much on algorithms and data structures because that's simply not a good fit for you right now. You want to work at a place where they need to Get Shit Done and are still establishing formal processes.

Finally, I wouldn't waste time learning new languages or going nuts with interview books or working on open source (unless you want to) unless you've already tested the market. Have some confidence and realize that this Internet industry is pretty darn new and many, many of the people that built it came from a background exactly like this.
Grin-Fucking: The Anti-Critique
AngelPad Debuts 12 New Startups At Its Fall 2012 Demo Day
>> "Sole Flagship" strategies, be they for language or DB, whatever, are doomed to fail.

Riiight, cause standardizing on a single platform and maintaining one set of documentation and cultivating 1 shared knowledge-base is really hurting Android's use of Java and Apple's use of Obj-C.
One of the neat things about storytelling, in the verbal sense, is that, when done well, it's not just repetition of words. There are inflections, emphasis, physical gesture, posture, facial expressions, and a plethora of other nonverbal factors that go into communicating one's message. I can use words like "lugubrious" or "palliative," and by expression and action, communicate their meanings to my listeners nonverbally.

I don't think using a rich vocabulary is in diametric opposition to being understood. I think you can achieve both ends simultaneously.
0. visit noisebridge [edit]

1. stay a few nights at the green tortoise

2. take BART to Shattuck station in Berkeley, walk up to Telegraph ave and get a slice of pizza at Blondies

3. dance at a club until it closes, go to house after party until 6am, then go to the End Up

4. have lunch at The Good Earth in Palo Alto

5. go to Fry's

6. visit the Exploritorium in Golden Gate Park

7. buy a zine at Bound Together - anarchist collective bookstore in the Haight
So such a port exists in all cars since 95, and no one did something like that?
This looks fantastic. I live in a duplex, and I would most definitely consider using this when my tenants move out and I have to find new ones.

How do you plan to make a good profit? It seems like you not only have to maintain a website, but also do a bunch of schlepping for each $30. So much so, that I'd happily spend $30 to avoid it.
But most importantly, the Surface Pro appears to be limited to 4GB of memory.

That's really not enough if you're a desktop / mobile software developer that wants to use this as a laptop and tablet. 8GB is really the minimum.

You're better off with either a MacBook Air or an equivalent Windows laptop where you can actually get more memory.
Interesting seeing the different comments in this thread and reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1405fo/the_humble_th...
I do have something to offer such a person, and it's the same thing (s)he has to offer me: we had fun hanging out last time, we probably would again.
Vayable launched with 70 guides in April 2011 [...] Since then, the company's been growing at a rate of 30 percent each week.

30% growth every week for 18 months would mean total growth by nearly a factor of a trillion. This doesn't seem likely.
Haha, I know how you feel. I'm a developer that has a horrible eye for good design.
If you want an HTML5 graphing calculator that handles all of these correctly, try: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/rcnzvu4zh2
I have been using a cheap (<$20) OBD-II dongle in my car for over a year now. The Torque app[1] has an impressive feature list and constant updates. I use it with my tablet inverted on the dashboard during night-driving for giving me a heads up display[2]. It's also great for things like acceleration graphs, tracking stats over the internet, and keeping check on the engine's performance/mpg.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPH7ZJJHV8
Yes. The first step to success is repeated failure. It's okay. If you can accept that it will happen then you can get it out of the way and be ready to succeed.
ITC supports judge's finding that Samsung infringes four Apple patents
Sleepwalking is a crime against humanity.
I didn't imply any such thing; I said luck plays a big role.

Luck was a big factor in Reddit's early success. But luck wouldn't have helped them if they didn't have a good idea ans put in the work.

And luck, as they say, is something you can make, by spending enough time operating with determination, conviction and sincerity, and by learning enough about the world to pick projects that will have a higher chance of success.

But from your comments in this thread, you seem like a pretty cynical, defeatist person, which could be a pretty big handicap in your quest for success - if indeed that is something you really want.
Ask HN: Resources for advanced JS?
Hey all, this is my first post the HN, but I was curious if any of you had some resources that would be useful to an individual hoping to learn some more advanced javascript. I've already mastered the basics (control flow, loops, dom manipulation, etc) and use javascript and jquery quite a bit in my day job for prototyping and data transformations (etl sw w/ js scripting), but I often hear developers talking about the right way of doing things and I was curious as what some resources might be for a aspiring developer who doesn't have an engineering background. I also have some experience with php, python, mysql so I am not completely technically illiterate but I still feel like there is a large jump that needs to be made before I would consider myself a full fledged developer.

Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated.
The hardware is still very much flawed. It's a cross between a laptop and a tablet AND you have to make compromises. Maybe the software will run smoother and support Win 7/8 apps, but the hardware will still suck.
"you cannot predict how long that is going to take."

This is perhaps a bit nitpicky, but in my experience even people who know what they're doing (in either of these fields) cannot reliably predict how long something is going to take.

But they can at least see the trailhead of the path that they need to follow, which is very important, and seems to be lacking in the OP's case.
Pirate Bay Launches Dedicated “Promo Bay” Website to Plug Artists
The Obama Start-ups
A 64gig iPad 2, which is still far superior to this, can be had for $400 or so on the used market.

The real comparison, of course, is to a 32gig iPad, since that will have about the same amount of actual free space as this crapware-monster of a hulking beast of a pseudo-tablet has.
I didn't mean to set them up as mutually exclusive -- but surely what we want to stop is the abuse of kids? While I don't have a problem with banning child porn (which would be what? Younger than 21 in the US, younger than 16 in Norway and younger than 12 in the Netherlands? Who would decide? Does it include all pictures of naked kids? Artists renditions ?).

The real offence is the making of porn that involves kids.

Also; I think it is really weird that possessing (or distributing) any media file can carry a minimum 6 year sentence. That's more than manslaughter. If for no other reason that it pretty much renders everyone vulnerable to blackmail by very easily planting evidence.
The problem with the Surface is that it's a cross between a laptop and a tablet that does require you to make compromises. My friend has one for work and it's hard to type on when it's on a flat surface, and impossible to use with the Touch/Type Cover when it's in your lap. It's not a laptop and it's not a tablet. It's just confusing.
This should have been released 6-8 years ago.
Welcome to Cloud Pricing a´la Oil Pricing

The Confusement of Variable Pricing Throughout the Day

Storage is King

Datacenters are the New Parking Lots

Computation is the Future Occupant
I wear corrective lenses and I can see precise visual detail still. And my prescription is -8. It's the same difference between a retina iphone and a non-retina iphone. You'll see more details in your photographs. Denser text is more readable and so on.
I'm curious about the definition of these "misfires" (links?). If any action that does not contribute to one's selfish goals can be classified as an error, then it seems circular logic to conclude there is no true altruism.
I'm not sure if I agree that that's what happened in this case. I think Ballmer actually believed what he said which is why they were so slow to react and is a part of the problem.

Google's reaction is a good example. After the iPhone launched in 2007 They immediately threw out the original blackberry like android device they were planning to release first and focused on their more iPhone like variant. Microsoft just mocked Apple and did nothing.

As far as the surface goes I think it's an interesting idea and could be great, but they're doing annoying marketing things again that are hurting it. Making people pay an extra $120 in order to get the actual product is annoying, why sell the crippled version without the keypad when that's the entire point of it? Just include the keypad at the lower price point instead.
It's nearly impossible to use in your lap, so it's not a LAPtop, and as a tablet it's just weird. Uncomfortable to type on when on a flat surface, and in portrait mode it's a joke.
I seem to have a lot of trouble with how it manages the brightness of my camera. `luvcview` displays a working, normal image, but Skype really dims the lights. Also, people report that they receive the message, "requires Skype premium" when the attempt to begin a screen sharing session.

These issues make Skype on Ubuntu a non-starter for me.
This is incorrect. Searching text with a variable-length encoding does not require extra branch instructions. If you're searching through UTF-8 text, you can just pretend it's a bunch of bytes and search through that.

This isn't counting problems with normalization, of course. You will have to put your needle and haystack both into the same normalization form before searching. But you had to do that anyway.
I don't understand why it was designed to fit nicely in your hand, and why it was made with bright colors.

#1. This thing will be under your steering wheel 100% of the time, so being able to hold it ergonomically doesn't make a lick of sense.

#2. If one of your advertised functionalities is for recovery after theft, the last thing you want is for the thief to be able to spot the dongle and remove it. If I bought one, the first thing I would do is obscure it with hockey tape, but I would be concerned that the wireless capabilities would be hindered.
Fantastic cofounders in this class.
The team is pumped to make the announcement of the acquisition. It's been a pleasure working with Shay Frendt.

We'll be follow up with more information about the integration in next week, but for anyone at AWS Re:Invent. We'll be throwing a launch party tonight http://blog.exceptional.io/event/exceptional-invites-you-to-... and keeping on the theme of Ranger. We'll be making an official launch event at a shooting range tomorrow. A few spaces are still available. http://launch.ranger.io
Clojure at a Bank – Freeing the Rules
What if our brains had APIs
The interesting part of a Gruber post isn't the conclusion, it's how he gets there.
i am surprised nobody talked about security...i am guessing the OBD interface in cars can be used to send commands to various components....could somebody hack into your car??
We are still tinkering with the price. As of now our cost per application are around 16 bucks...but once we hit a certain amount of orders that will be reduced to about 12 bucks. We have considered charging around 50 bucks for the product...but again, we are still tinkering.

Our product is not completely finalized but I expect it to be ready to go in a week or so. I expect the majority of our users will be small time landlords...we really think the Craigslist Widget is an amazing tool for marketing. Yes, it is a lot of work now per user but very scalable.

As of now, our main problem, like every startup, is attracting users and possibly UX.

Thanks for the feedback!! I am looking for any type of feedback I can get.

If anyone is interested in helping out or contacting me, feel free to email me: my username (samp615) then at me dot com.
> If you say you're willing to work for free, that tells me one thing: You think your work is of no value to me. And so if you think that, I will also think that your work is worthless to me. Instant turn-off.

That's not how I read it. Supposedly a work sample is the best predictor of making a good hire (I think maybe tokenadult posted something on that once?). The fact that he's willing to do it for free (assuming he actually does it) shows that he's very committed to the company. In my opinion, it's a positive -- not a negative.