skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be shocked if I was the first person to put this into a flowchart. There are some very reasonable people who claim that it is very rare that anyone ever really "comes up with" anything. One of these people put it into the old testament : Ecclesiastes 1:9 - "there is nothing new under the sun". That chapter is a good starting point in a rather detailed argument, and a fun debate.

Example: George Orwell's "5 Rules For Effective Writers".
Did Orwell "come up with this" or was there "inspiration" from Hemingway's 5 tips for writers?

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.

Another example, is Apple a design company? http://i.imgur.com/whMW7.jpg I bet you that Braun designers would happily take the credit for those very "inspired" Apple products. But I would also bet that the Braun people had some "inspiration" of their own, perhaps from a certain group of Greek folks... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
That's not exactly a rational reason. You're really going to struggle to beat Google's uptime.

The reason I host my own mail because I want to own and control my data.
Tech Skills Shortage Will Get Much Worse, IBM Says
Oh yeah, I'm aware they don't use any sort of JavaScript. Oh, now I know what you mean. The BBC article said each page contained a piece of programming which automatically made his name appear ever so slightly bigger. They do it manually. You're right.
+1, Chrome on Windows 7 64-bit. Started to crash every minute just around the time GMail was down. It stopped crashing after I rebooted my machine - I don't know if it is related or just a coincidence; just giving a data point.
GMail is working fine here (France) both my personal email and my professional email. No Chrome crashing. Linux Debian 64 bit.

I use different browsers (in incognito mode), from different user accounts, to surf the web / do online banking / browser hacker news etc.

No plugins, no "sync" (heck, I don't even know what that "synch" for Chrome is), no issues.
When I was searching for apartments last year, I spent a lot of time on the internet looking for places. Then when I went out driving around to actually go see them, I noticed apartment buildings all over the place that I had never seen online.

I would definitely suggest just going out for a drive in the area you want to live and looking for places that way. Unfortunately, I found that this technique doesn't work nearly as well when you're trying to rent a house.
i'm far more productive with compile time type checking (especially optional typing), so i use typescript for a lot of my larger javascript projects.
Similarly http://commandshift3.com/ but you know, not entirely broken.
What he said. Some bugs are intrinsically unacceptable in the design of a computer program.

Not that everything I do is bugless, but separation of concerns isn't a swear word.
Wow that's crappy grammar.
I experienced a similar issue a couple of weeks ago when my synced chrome settings & bookmarks appeared on a co-worker's machine, a machine I've never signed in on. All his stuff was gone and replaced with an outdated version of mine...
Is that USD or SEK?
Or simply add an option to disable passwords for free apps. Having two passwords will confuse average people, so of course Apple won't do that.
Can HP’s webOS Rise from the Ashes?
When the Israeli terrorists stop murdering women and children and ordinary civilians we can stop flame wars against them. Until then if you stay silent at the injustice, you are siding with the oppressor. That's from Desmond Tutu who fought South African apartheid. Guess what he's got to say about Israeli regime? He said it's worse than what they faced; there were no white-only roads in South Africa and they weren't bombing blacks with F-16s and Gunship helicopters like Israelis are.
Why Americans don't want to break up
It wasn't just you: Gmail went down briefly... and may do so again
Is it a common practice for corporations to sue political parties?
What about the link between sports and aggression? I've seen more fights at sports games than I've seen at lan parties.
Things that systemd gets right
/r/linux discussion

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/14lkmr/things_that_systemd_gets_right/
Trouble with co-founder
So, I'm in a bit of an odd situation. Likely, one that is not uncommon in the start-up world. A few months ago, I began work on a startup idea. A few weeks into my endeavours, a friend of mine told me about his entrepreneurial endeavours. I am technical by nature, and he is non-technical. I threw caution to the wind and we began working together on my project, as co-founders. I've began to realize that although his heart is in the right place, and he is a hard-worker, and he is contributing, the quality of work he is contributing is not up-to-par, and I can just tell that the business plan he is working on will need to be re-done. I think it is just lack of experience, but, my role is that of a founder and not a teacher.

So, this early on in the game, what can someone is my position do? We have not incorporated or issued equity, etc. at this point.
The gravity effect of flagging.
The Guardian 'Person of the Year 2012' is Bradley Manning
My inspiration for Heist came from Lift's template system. That and FBML. Heist is essentially a generalized system for building domain specific markup languages.
Should Available Internet Speeds Affect The Price of A Home?
You call it corruption. They call it lobbying.
DNI website seems to be down at the moment. Report mirror: http://www.scribd.com/doc/115962650/GlobalTrends-2030
Happy 197th Birthday Ada Lovelace
Amazed at the laziness these on HN these days.
Take him out for drinks and say all that stuff you just said.
The Rise and Fall of Lulzsec's Jeremy Hammond
If you're in Los Angeles everyone I know is using RadPad (http://onradpad.com). It's an iPhone app that is like a cross between Instagram and Craigslist. It makes looking for a place so much easier.
I get the following when going to http://www.criticue.com/ :

Application Error

An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.
Wow, I was setting up a new Arch box and decided to install Firefox instead of Chromium, almost there.
Android’s built-in malware scanner gets a failing grade
Pintarrest
Great idea, getting close on execution. I've reviewed 5 sites so far though, and all of them are awful. Would be great to put together a list of 1000 great websites and let users review those, because it makes being a reviewer more fun.
Apple TV expected to support Bluetooth keyboards in upcoming update
It's interesting that, according to that Wikipedia article, "...Research has shown that increasing the severity of a punishment does not have much effect on crime...". Someone should tell that to the state lawmakers where three strikes sentences are prevalent.
Why even bother asking for a password for free apps? That's stupid.
Even better, use a multi-gallon reusable water container, if it'll be used repeatedly.
"The study involved 70 French university students"

A sample size that small won't tip the scales on the debate.
How well would glusterfs work across the Internet? Doing local HA with some kind of SAN seems fine, but the thing I'm trying to solve is "entire datacenter goes down, make the user have no more pain than making a new imap connection". It seems like something that would really need to be handled inside IMAP (using some crazy backing store for mail, like a database) to be done well, but maybe filesystem level replication with maildir would be enough.
On the pleasure of using a ‘dumb’ phone
The xbox360 core launched at $300. Assuming prices of the next generation are fairly inline with last generation, then yeah that's a ton. I have no idea what the cost to Microsoft on those units where, but I remember here they were either sold at a lose or with almost no profit. 13% on the BOM is more than significant especially when there is a viable alternative.
Any risk is increased by sloppy implementation. For example, every single keystroke is being sent over HTTP without encryption. (http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2012/11/09/product-sear...)

Today, if you want to de-Amazon Ubuntu, it's not just the shopping lens you have to disable, you should also remove Unity web app integration. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4888234)

If it gets to the point where you have to run a shell script to remove the 'spyware' (for lack of a better word), Ubuntu will have a real marketing problem on its hands.
At this point, you are just trying to validate your investment. I see that you somehow studied postgres for 1 year before using it. Study postgres for whole your life; I couldn't care less. 1 year is neither the desired nor the required time it takes. But since you invested 1 year, you will go all out declaring anyone who can use postgres efficiently after studying it for 2 weeks is lying.
I'm seeing a lot of inline styles on elements on the site. Not sure if this is part of how the language is supposed to work.
Gmail is up for me as well - but I was already signed in when it went down. Has anyone been able to sign in after it went down?
If Hackbright didn't have the capability to teach skills in a short period of time, we wouldn't have jobs, wouldn't have our own working apps, and certainly wouldn't be winning any prizes at hackathons.

Before the first program was half over, these two students won 2nd place: http://www.women2.com/two-student-programmers-build-their-1s...

Another example is the ESPNW event that took place before the second program was over: http://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/11/female-hackers-represent-...
Precisely. LOL.
I would say the catfish entrepreneurs are eating them for lunch. :-) And hey, after you've demonstrated that with the right motivation a fish can learn to eat adult birds, how much of a stretch is it to believe that our team can pull of this idea with your backing?
Your comment seems to have brought that site to its knees also: "There has been an error initializing CAP web tracking."

So don't feel too bad OP.
Good point. Worth noting that there already are two passcodes (potentially)... one is the account password and the other is the unlock PIN. It'd make sense if they required the unlock PIN for free/cheap apps.
There are a few things wrong with this assumption:

1) Apple exclusively looks at potential revenue when introducing a new product. That they introduced and still sell the Apple TV even though it's still just a "hobby" pretty much negates this assumption.

2) You look at the _current_ TV market and conclude that it's too small. You could have looked at the smartphone market in 2007 and made the same argument against launching the iPhone. What happened instead was that the iPhone had mass market appeal, and smartphone market share exploded.

If Apple is somehow able to do to the TV market what they have done to the smartphone and tablet markets, they don't need to worry so much how the existing TV market looks like and whether that market is saturated. They only need to worry about whether the product is something enough people want to buy.
Interesting, the second point flies right in the face of the entire arc of written history. Humanity has been increasingly migrating to urban areas. I doubt that changes with the pervasiveness of the internet.
Yahoo rips another page out of Google’s playbook
Thanks Charlie. I thought the URLs in the articles are converted into links automatically but just realized it is so only with comments.
I remember something similar a couple years back called feedbackroulette
This is exactly how the Samwer brothers are making boatloads of money: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-...
Would be nice to be able to sign up and submit feedback without having to submit a site, there doesn't appear to be any way to do that at present?
>Why should the internet nature of the discovery matter?

My initial point was discovery is easier because it no longer requires a middle man: the middle man will simply be able to take you further. Traction can be easily gained via Soundcloud, Youtube and a whole bunch of other sites. No longer do the 3 guys playing in a bar have to peddle their CDs to radio DJs and hope to get some air time. If they are "that" good, everyone will know shortly thanks to YouTube.

tl;dr It's easier for talented musicians/artists to get noticed.
It's not clear that the proxy is being sued for copyright infringement. It might be for "aiding and abetting". After all, driving a car is not illegal, but driving a getaway car for a bank robber is. Or it might even be a civil case in which they claim damages.
No, that wasn't the point I was making at all.

Google, as a search engine, is a generic "find the most relevant thing based on the keywords I provide". Amazon, as a search engine, is closer to "find the things I would be most likely to buy based on the keywords I provide". The two functions are entirely different.

I didn't make any comment about it being "less evil" (was that intended to be a quote?); I was making a comment about the intended function of the service. I could have substituted in DDG or Yahoo! or Bing and the point would be the same; equally, it makes as much sense to provide Amazon-based results to me as it would do to provide results from Target or Walmart.
When it comes to innovation in RTS games, it's really hard to beat Kung Fu Chess !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azzsuss-swo
(Princes of Babylon - Meaningless Conversation)

It's chess without turns. Yes, you can actually dodge other pieces if you click in time and your piece is not currently on a cooldown.

The idea is both innovative and very simple. How come no one thought of this earlier ? The idea is also very elegant, if you can look past chess rules quirks like en passant and castling.
While not really applicable to any of the situations he described; I really wish more applications/companies/etc would use 2-factor authentication. It really baffles me that more applications DON'T use it, such as banking applications where I personally consider 2-factor auth a must.
Don't to 1-to-1, do n-for-1 as the dynamics work out much better with higher n.

Look at how other people do it for other sectors (for example Critters for fiction writing and okcupid for photos)
I saw "Swiftype" and my brain thought "Swiftkey" + "Swype"...two things that I wish would someday come to iOS.
How to allow direct file uploads from JavaScript to Amazon S3 signed by Python
I wouldn't go as far as saying visiting North Korea is "profoundly immoral". Would I consider North Korea dangerous to visit though? Yes. The country is still technically at war with South Korea, meaning at any given moment the two nations can dive right back into active combat, which has the potential to become an instant hostage situation for any traveler unlucky enough to be visiting North Korea at that time.
Samsung smart TV vulnerability allow attacker to read storage remotely
QR has error correction and stuff built in, OCR does not.
Blitline is doing it: http://www.blitline.com/
Addressing the address issue
Thank you phragg. It is something I quickly put together to validate the idea. :)
"Very" interesting - does validate it, or at least I believe so :)
Facebook builds Preferred Marketing Developer Center app
That's a good point. A lot of companies in Israel outsource QA, development and other things to Arab and Palestinian firms. Both Neocleus (my first job) and Intel (my second) had real partnerships with Arab and Palestinian firms.
Security is a big problem. Do you want everyone who gets within 10 feet of you to have access to your complete medical history, name, social security number and insurance information? Then there's the fact that RFIDs can't send much data; you could have them send a UUID that allows doctors to look you up over the internet, but now your wristband is a universal tracking device that allows anyone to track your movements.

Beyond that, a medical history that can't be updated is pretty useless, but our fragmented healthcare system isn't able to agree on standards for electronic medical records or how to synchronize them across different providers. Actually, getting doctors to use EMRs will probably be the work of a generation.
I know. If you read my comment, you should notice I did not pretend attackers are not a threat.
Keep Internet Free From Public and Private Meddling
No. Since this is only happening to those that explicitly enable syncing with the web this is just a bug.
I've had a couple normally law abiding friends get arrested on warrants that they've had for years without knowing. It would be a traffic ticket from long ago that they either forgot about or their was a mix up in payment. Given time that ticket slowly turns into a warrant and eventually an embarrassing arrest.
Ask HN: Is there a website similar to HN for web/graphics designs?
A place to keep up with the latest designs' exciting stuffs.
Fastest growing Website listing forums to close entries soon, forum refreshed
5 microsecs translates to 5000 nanos. Assuming an average CPI of 0.5 we have 10000 instructions to render the template. Or 30-50 main memory fetches. This isn't too shabby.

But the numbers before the improvement. Ouch. Those were bad.
It certainly sounds like it, I think Levitt (see above) modelled his solution off the British system. He proposed it as a way for the US government to encourage responsible saving over gambling.
http://forrst.com and http://dribbble.com would be two places to check out.
Please leave those elsewhere.
Yep, never underestimate how long a quality screencast takes. It's totally worth it since many developers and customers want to see what it looks like before trying it. And especially for platforms, describing in words is sometimes too abstract.
I am very worried that a community I like has this reaction to my country. All of the top level comments except yours and mine are negative towards Israel and totally off topic from the article. I definitely support closing this thread.
Mascara (http://www.mascaraengine.com) supports a bunch of the proposed ECMAScript extensions, including classes, destructuring assignments, generators, getters/setters and array comprehensions.
the fact that you make some work doesn't mean that you're entitled to be paid for it

This is true, but I'm not sure it then follows that because you want to enjoy some work, you are entitled to not pay for it. The creator is entitled to charge for it and receive nothing and you are entitled to pay nothing and enjoy nothing.
I am confused about the swiftype value proposition? What does it offer over simply installing elastic search (et al.) and pushing json documents. Making a mobile/web search front-end isn't very difficult using json results+mustache templates etc.

I was unable to find on the swifttype website what the advantage of using the product. I did like the drag/drop result ranking though, that's pretty neat.
If you're really dedicated, you can check the Admin's reddit activity and potentially usurp them as an admin. I know a few people who have taken Reddits by force.

edit: To clarify, there is a reddit dedicated to this; I think it's adminrequests. You can ask the admins to remove mods or close dormant reddits. It's standard procedure, no kneecapping or anything required.
The magnet link is basically a hash of a bunch of hashes of copyrighted content.

If distributing that is wrong, is it okay to distribute a hash of many hashes that are all each hashes of hashes of copyrighted content? (The magnet link to a list of magnet links) Suppose I merely mention the name that you can google to find the hash of many hashes of hashes of copyrighted content? I wonder how many layers do we have to add before everyone admits that the situation is absurd?
Most of these "ideas" are neat apps, but i don't see how they are startup ideas. A startup is a business, has a LOT more to do with a productivity app.

Are these just nice, potentially open-source able apps? I would agree with that. I think the valley, is suffering in realizing the difference b/w apps and companies! :)
I assume it's due to the free apps ability to make in-app purchases and if you have a child using your phone they could rack up lots of charges without ever identifying if there was no password to download the app. If the password was when making in-app charges it would be more of an annoyance than entering once up front.
Must-have clauses in freelance contracts
many sites would not work in iframe (they are an increasing number, sadly), but I second this, as an option at submission time maybe?
By bug you mean design failure. A trivial external API should not be able to take down a desktop application.
This is quite a functional piece of hardware. They've provided a package shaped like a game system with joystick and four-way buttons, plus RGB LED, temp sensor, loudness sensor, light sensor, analog slider, and TFT LCD connector. I fully expect Adafruit or another maker company to come out with kits with this, a plastic case, and screen before long.
They have an overview video on the homepage. Seems like analytics and ease of use are the big wins for it. For someone that wants no hassle search the crawler looks pretty neat.
Can you specify which link you visited? Or what platform you are on?
Well, the latter actually strikes me as more fascistic/authoritarian. In a strict sense it isn't like communism at all. In fact, neither one of these are really communist. Misuse of that word bums me out.
I believe Ryan Bates has said 1 hour per minute. If anything, that's an understatement. Maybe it gets easier as you do more (this is my second screencast).
I still haven't seen your links but I think you are somewhat misinformed by seeing only one side of the issue. Israel (specifically Tel Aviv) is the biggest startup ecosystem outside of Silicon Valley. Do you really think that it got there by being un-investable or espionage risk? And on the flip side, do you not think that the US is even a bigger espionage risk as it has probably the largest Sigint operation (the NSA) in the world?

Edit: After seeing it is a one hour lecture I instead spent 5 minutes googleing the uploader - IRmep. IRmep is not a fair and balanced organization. It is obviously anti-Israel with its statements on twitter (https://twitter.com/IRmep).
It might be for fairness between free and paid apps. If it were so much easier to install a free app, everyone would do free apps with ads and IAPs. Apple likely prefers having apps show their price up front, for good store UX.
Oki-doki. It's a good start, but you need to take it a notch up to make it actually useful.

Specifically, let say I am on a receiving end of reviews made by some random people. I don't really care what they have to say unless it's credible or representative.

Let's look at latter, as it's an easier one. The way to ensure a review is representative, is to ask other people to look at the review and say if they agree with it or not. Once it gets 10-20-30 meta up/down votes, it'd be more or less possible to say if the review is meaningful or if it was a brain fart.

Make the meta reviewing process mandatory. You want to get your site reviewed, pull a "meta" duty on a dozen of past reviews and (perhaps) write a review. When selecting a review for meta, do it randomly, but favor those with low vote count and controversial ones (over those voted way up or way down).

This would be an MVP of your idea. Without this, it's nice, but it's generally useless.

(edit) Oh, and perhaps simplify reviewer's life a bit and have 3 sections - "what's good", "what's bad", "free-form comments".