skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point isn't that patents are equivalent to genocide, it's that helping the USA become stronger doesn't automatically make something a good and moral thing that should be perpetuated.
Then you would just have two attack vectors; compromise either of the private keys and you can be the MITM.
I was replying to pavel_lishin's parent comment, in which he noted that he has been burned many times by not optimizing early for flexibility:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003341

My experience is similar to pavel_lishin's, and our experiences are contrary to the author of the article.

I hope that helps to clarify the first bit, anyway.
Just added basic file upload support too, so this should now work on mobile devices. I apologize in advance for the lack of a mobile layout.
No, I'm pretty sure that is not technically possible.
You're not the first person to say so. :-) While we're good friends with the KISSMetrics folks today, I wasn't aware of them when I first designed our logo in 2009.

I was inspired most by the iStatPro logo[1] and the Mac System Preferences[2] app logo[2].

1. http://istat-pro.en.softonic.com/mac
2. http://bit.ly/WhfdaG
A python interface for the Facebook Graph API that doesn't suck
Interesting. For comparison:

Apple: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000021754

Amazon: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000023883

Facebook: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000033563

IBM: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000720

Intel: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000804

Microsoft: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000115
Fiscal Cliff 2012 – How it affects Health Care
See post at: http://blog.medigr.am/?p=253

Anything else to add on recent changes to health care?
Just disabled. Too much HN love? :)
John Cleese (Monty Python writer) on how to be creative
I was answering the question of advantages of bicycles over horses, not on the feasibility of their production in ancient times.

That said, history is interesting.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations describes mass-production techniques, including specialization, special tools adapted to single sub-tasks, and a style of production approaching an assembly-line (work produced at stations, with the pieces moving from station to station. In 1776.

The Chinese were employing mass production techniques in the manufacture of crossbos in the Warring States period (475 BC - 201 BC): http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/aaa/2008/0000000...

Modern mass production dates to 1803 and production of sailing blocks (used to raise and lower rigging on ships) in England, from which it spread to the US for clock and armaments manufacture. Eli Whitney (of cotton gin fame) attempted mass armaments production in 1798 but failed to achieve quantity output for another 8 years. Refinements in metalurgy, scientific management, steam and electric power, etc., produced further advances -- as with most developments, the seeds were planted early and incrementally developed over time.

As I note in another post, the two specific advances that really made the bicycle possible were advanced metalurgy and vulcanized pneumatic tyres. Both of these weren't particularly feasible until they actually emerged. That said, high-quality Damascus steel dates to 300 BC. The Greeks and Romans had and used coal (used in the production of both steel and synthetic rubber). Rubber was known as far back as 1600 BC, but among the Mayans in South America (it wasn't introduced to Europe until 1736): http://www.essortment.com/history-rubber-21100.html

But the biggest trigger for widespread bicycle adoption was probably socioeconomic, not technological. By the late 19th Century, a middle class with both discretionary income and free time had emerged. And though bikes were used for utility (commuting, errends, light transport), the real driver was recreation. The presence of intense socioeconomic stratification, slavery, feudal systems, and the like, had a serious damping effect on both creation and adoption of new technolgies and products.
How to Win Friends and Influence Users through Emotional Design
> there is no bad press

Does the following review qualify as good press:

This product did not work at all once I bought it. I
contacted the company to get a refund. The customer
service person swore at me, called me an idiot, and
told me to "get lost." Enraged, I found the contact
information for the CEO. I appealed to the CEO that
the product was non-functional. The CEO replied by
email with a pornographic picture with the caption,
"GO F**K YOURSELF!"

I bet that company is going to rolling in the money due to all of the brand-recognition that they just got, right? </sarcasm>
I'll post it in the morning when I'm back at work. It's just a dead-simple Tkinter app in Python that tells me to take a break. My work computer is Windows and I scheduled it using the Task Scheduler. At home I'd add it to my crontab.
For the $250K figure, you would be wrong. When that number was being cited, the top tax bracket started at something north of $350K ($366something, IIRC, but I may not) which wound up being $250k after taxes. This is, of course, precisely what is bugging me.
At ~5 MPH for most travel, bikes wouldn't have had significant handling problems, though shock absorption on cobblestones would have been a bigger issue.

If you ever get up close and personal with a stage coach, you'll likely find the suspension interesting, though most in my experience are spring-loaded but undamped. There are reasons long land journeys weren't generally looked forward to.
The full use of the screen is quite nice when there is less is happening, such as the About page. And while the Dashboard/news page is clean, it could be rather overwhelming to look at and visually cluttered with poor pictures.

The one area I think he did fantastic in is of the displaying of individual pictures, events, finding friends, and company pages.
the awesome thing about a lot of the kickstarter pens is that they use hi-tec c refills
"But, more likely, your code has some mistakes or style violations and needs to be fixed up. So the reviewer puts comments against the relevant lines in a web-based review system, ..."

is it rietveld? http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/source/browse/
Twitter Replaces Facebook — As Tech’s IPO Obsession
> @beaumartinez Unfortunately, there will be no public API.

I always wonder why company reps phrase it this way. "Unfortunately"? For us, yeah, it's unfortunate. But for Nike...?
Liquid Expresso Pens are my favorite by far, but you wouldn't like them if you like to write on both sides of the paper. I never write on both sides of paper because I can't live without spiral notebooks either. Expresso Pens are unfortunately difficult to find.

I used to work at a place that specialized in higher end pens. The pen body itself almost never matters: it's all about the insert. I can't withstand the feel of using ballpoints because my hands are highly tactile since I used to do a ton of drawing and massage, so every little skip -- that many people don't notice -- feels like a punch in my brain. For me, I can't stand to use anything but roller balls or felt-tips, but even then you have to be careful. Pilot roller balls feel just as "skippy" as ballpoints, IMO. For the most part, I find fountain pens to be pure torture to use.
This looks like what ad agencies wish we did on the internet
"dumbed with" skips the "with so much drama"
Yeah +1. With the ridiculously high amount of money you spend every year on those goddamn OSS devs, how DARE THEY not support every obscure chipset under the sun, HOW DARE THEY.
Ask HN: How many http redirects to follow?
I'm doing a "share box" where users can enter a link and the app automatically scraps the URL to get a thumbnail and some other info. My question is: What would be a good number of http redirects to follow until giving up? The library I'm using has a default limit of 10, but I just realized some sites are doing more than 10 redirects. Take for example this curl command:

# This doesn't reach the final content

curl -L --max-redirs 10 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/world/americas/bernardo-pazs-inhotim-is-vast-garden-of-art.html?_r=0

# Increasing the --max-redirs to 11 works

curl -L --max-redirs 11 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/world/americas/bernardo-pazs-inhotim-is-vast-garden-of-art.html?_r=0

Can I just set a limit of 15 or 20 without affecting in a negative way the performance of my app?
Such aggressive prosecution has a lot do with the elected nature of sheriffs and DA's, a peculiarity of the US system. The political nature of enforcement and prosecution seems to change incentives towards maximizing conviction rates and publicity of high-profile convictions... sometimes it would seem at the expense or beyond what would be optimal for society or the crime.
Android versions distrubution - January 2013
Small Experiments, Often
Shame it does not have player ids. I wonder how many players with the same surname and the same first initial play for the same team.
http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/After%20Larry%20Page%20un...
The Real College Crisis Isn't High Costs, It's Low Information
Ok, this is an interesting step. In-situ genetic manipulation without the use of a retro-virus.

If this pans out I expect it will have a disproportionate impact on both treatments for genetic disorders, and shady manipulation of genetic information for profit.
The hype around this Facebook redesign is a testament to the fact that the user never knows what they want. He neglected revenue, typography, balance, rhythm and purpose, but that's obvious, I guess, I hope. Frozen within the current paradigm of Facebook, bickering with itself, it fails to push the argument in any direction. Good man for trying, but we have to think higher. Does Facebook even need to be a website or an app? If we're going to design so recklessly, why not commit to it? What if the solution was no Facebook?
Corning Gorilla Glass 3 to be three times more scratch resistant
Free.fr was once a real game changer, but that was 10 years ago. Over the past few months they have been caught red-handed filtering Google services (starting with YouTube) in order to pressure Google into footing the bill for their peering. Did not work so far, now they go for the ads.
I have no say in the Free.fr/Google quarrel, but as an end-user I could not accept being taken hostage. The first time I could not access Gmail, Google.com, or Google play for several days, I took it as a breach of their contract and switched ISPs.
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Thanks for sharing. I've been on the lookout for a good but inexpensive pen. I just ordered a couple and can't wait to try them out! Stock Bic pens from the generic office supply box tend to keep be away from writing on paper.
And my sons will never feel comfortable in the cologne industry. :(
you're going to have enough problems meeting my expectations, never mind 'delighting' me.
Ask PG: Is Ray Kurzweil full of shit?
I've noticed that few other topics spark as much acrimony and mudslinging on HN as Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity -- maybe it's worse when the libertarian and liberal wings of HN go at it, or the ongoing "language wars" flare up, but that's about it.

Ray seems to have a pretty impressive list of supporters - Marvin Minsky, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Dean Kamen, Peter Norvig, Rafael Reif, Tomaso Poggio, Stephen Wolfram, Dileep George, etc. - and some high-profile detractors - Hofstadter, Kevin Kelly, Mitch Kapor, Gary Marcus, and Paul Allen.

Personally, I think a lot of his conclusions are probably inevitable in the long term - say 100 years out - but I'd guess that his timelines may be too optimistic to benefit any of us here personally. It's also hard to ignore the parallels between the Singularity and religious belief, and how that might betray wishful thinking on the part of its adherents.

Anyway, I just thought it would be interesting to hear your take on it.
You may want to read this before trusting Denise Minger's response to the China study.
http://www.plantpositive.com/blog/2012/3/21/a-reply-to-denis...
> Maybe the beholder doesn't think of women's body parts as playthings.

Isn't that a valid use for many body parts, and a primary use for a few, regardless of gender? I don't think this marketing, by displaying legs and lips in the context of sensuality, is implying that other uses for legs (like running) or lips (like playing the harmonica) are any less valid.
SEEKING WORK

Freelance web and iOS software tester.
Brighton, UK - remote work is ideal.

If I don't find any good bugs you can have your money back! :)

http://www.testninjas.com/explore-ninjas/?id=41
As a straight male I guess I'm the target of this type of advertising. But I don't find it even remotely sexy or titillating. This is a shallow, junior-high level male teen deuche bag perspective on sexuality. God damn it's sad and just plain gross.

What do ads like this say to me? What impression do I get of the company (Voco)? "Are you a dull, hyper-sexualized idiot? Do you treat women like trash are rarely get laid? If so you'll love Voco! Play with our V-spot, 'cuz that's the only action you're going to get!"
How can such insurance exclude deliberate criminal acts? Wouldn't it be impossible to determine if such an act had been committed at all, let alone deliberately, until the trial had concluded? If it turned out to be deliberate, what then, do they send you a bill for the lawyer's fees?
A plastic nib? Are you sure that's possible?
I wish! The words empirical distribution are music to my ears.

No, usually the rule people use is this: "If A1 and A2 show a statistically significant difference, then do not reject the null hypothesis regardless of A1/B or A2/B."
As far as I'm aware, neither Yudkowsky nor Muehlhauser have built anything, and were primarily bloggers before getting involved with the Singularity Institute. How about Ben Goertzel, if you really want an AGI?
The truth about Ancel Keys can be seen in the following video.

Primitive Nutrition 36: The Infamous Ancel Keys? Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDwjkv1FW5g

Also, Denise Minger's "refutation" is hardly to be trusted.
She even plagiarized this man's work on Ancel Keys.
http://www.plantpositive.com/blog/2012/3/21/a-reply-to-denis...
Diversity in tech: still an issue in 2013?
Zipcar's Sale Represents a Triumph of Brand Over Business
You've missed the point.

The issue here is that the company's marketing pivots entirely around the desire to have sex with women.

Which signals to, say, heterosexual women, that they are not a valid user of the depicted technology.
In short, people would take out the insurance right before they commit a crime so they didn't have to pay for their own defense. It doesn't guarantee a verdict, but if you've decided you're going to go to trial anyway, you might as well take out the insurance, and I don't see how the insurance company could survive in that environment, since the principle of insurance is that most people won't need it.
Our Principles Behind Building Products
Awesome thanks for that!
Spectral analysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_density_estimation

Without frequent sampling, you can't get access to high frequency information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency

An example (not for regular sampling, but I hope it gets the point across): if a pedometer records the time of every footfall through the day, you can discern whether your pace is faster on Tuesdays than Sundays, even if you take the same number of steps. If those data are aggregated into steps/hour, you'll never see it.

The lack of open access to the data acquired by a FitBit (I'd been considering buying one) is a certain dealbreaker.
Cologne is now a pillar of the future economy, is it?
Why We Don’t Do Free (Small Is Beautiful)
> Guys, this is why we don’t have more women in tech: It’s a cesspool. As long as we’re passing offensive schlock like this off as marketing for a major technology conference, we don’t deserve more women in tech

Engineers don't design advertisement campaigns.

Engineers aren't staffing booths at conventions.
Backgammon uses dice too. That would presumably fall under the illegal game category. Hard to believe, but good to know.
Of course if they get a net 10% bump in attention from male software engineers by this ad and a 99% drop in attention from female software engineers, then they probably net quite positive on this. Thus the male dominated industry self perpetuates.
I just couldn't resist... >sigh<

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHzcWMMpec
> Engineers don't design advertisement campaigns.

You're totally right. I can't think of any technology companies with engineers in their leadership. Further, leadership never approves ad campaigns. Ads get designed and run no matter what the CEO thinks.
Github-Backlog
I just read it as a satire on how ridiculous safety checking could be if taken to an extreme. In the same way that some dynamic language advocates think its hilarious that statically typed languages won't even let you run your program if there is a type error in case you might harm yourself by violating your own rules!
Thinking about using Phonegap? Think again.
Google's FTC Settlement Is An Epic Fail For Microsoft
Do people need to be told everything? I mean, they really can't figure out for themselves if they should rather use pen & paper or a computer for prototyping?

Even if somebody tells them, shouldn't they still try for themselves? Maybe it works for the person who tells them, but not for them?
Adding virtual rooms to discussion boards makes sense?
Coca Cola INVENTED Santa Claus?!?!
I mostly agree with you. I however disagree that the citizenry shouldn't be involved in the fed. If the fed (and states) wish to approve some law or program that requires increases or creating new taxes, the citizens who ultimately pay those taxes should have a say... currently they do via the House of Representatives.
When should you use UI walkthroughs?
How it happens isn't relevant, we know for a fact that hunter-gatherer tribes have low population growth rates compared even to stone age agrarian settlements. Exactly why this is so is probably an interesting question. A few things to remember: fertility is dependent on consistent nutrition, people don't necessarily have sex like rabbits all the time, and in low population tribes the ability to find a mate may be a challenge. Also, infant mortality during the winter can be a bitch, even in an agrarian society with tons of stored food.

Edit: poking around on the internet, it looks like infant mortality is the big differentiator. In hunter-gatherers it's rather high, at around 1 in 3, which is nearly double the infant mortality you'd expect even in primitive agrarian societies. That's going to have a tremendous impact on the population growth.
I don't know of any, but worst case scenario is you could find a freelancer to take care of that quality assurance for you. I would be available to do this for you, and there are of course websites like Freelancer.com or Odesk.com too. You can email me at kevin.stubbs [at] therubyhouse.com if you want to talk more to me about it.
First off, I'm not against women in the workforce, technology or otherwise; my wife is a project manager in a software company. And for the record, the ad in question is indeed tasteless by my standards, however...

I'm no expert, but I know this: marketing is a game in which you're trying to turn heads. You calculate your odds of turning enough of the right heads with a given advertisement. You want to make people talk and remember you. From that perspective, the ad is brilliant.

The marketing folks behind this ad obviously knew the demographic they were attempting to attract. They also knew that the ad would undoubtedly reach the inbox of people that don't fit their demographic, but even with negative feelings and press about it, the ad is still worthwhile for them.

It achieved the desired effect: it shocks you into paying attention, rather than skimming.

From another point of view, let's consider movies these days. A movie is its own marketing, its own advertisement. Violence and sex in movies have become much more graphic over the decades in order to:

1. compete with the plethora of other movies out there

2. overcome our desensitization to graphic imagery

Do movies and ads like these that contain questionable messaging/content work? Yes. Would they work as well if they weren't as in-your-face? No. Are there other approaches rather than resorting to questionable content? Maybe, but the methods mentioned are tried and true.

At least until our desensitization reaches abhorrent levels.
Is the issue the desire to have sex with women itself, or the choice to market specifically to people that desire to have sex with women? I don't see anything wrong with either.

And does it really hint to heterosexual women that they aren't a valid user of the technology? I certainly don't automatically assume that I'm not a valid user of a product when I see marketing directed at a demographic of which I'm not a member. I've bought laptops and tablets despite them being primarily shown in ads with college students or teenagers.

I am tempted to think that the author has a specific problem with sexuality in marketing, not simply marketing that targets a specific demographic.
I would like this article more if it not only addressed the problem, but provide some solution. But I guess that's their business afterall, a service for user retention.
Congrats, you are on HN. Marketing mission succeeded...
> I certainly don't automatically assume that I'm not a valid user of a product when I see marketing directed at a demographic of which I'm not a member.

Did you have an Easy Bake Oven as a kid?

> I don't see anything wrong with either.

I know, that's part of the problem we've got, here.
Can someone explain why something like this is better than a simple to-do list/app? I'm a fan of GTD apps because they're a place I can structure my thoughts of what's next, and see some performance metrics to remind me when I'm slacking.

However, this system seems like overkill to me. In the end, no matter what kind of system you place your "Write end-to-end tests" to-do in, you're going to have to sit down, forget about your time management system, and focus completely on writing these the specs. Reading through his blog posts about Autofocus, I get the feeling that he's sending the message that if you use this system, the actual task of writing your end-to-end tests will be easier. But it seems to me that you will just be wasting precious time maintaining this time management system, and will have less time to do whatever it is you actually need to achieve.

This is all coming from a person who hasn't tried it. Does anyone have experience with this? Do all the complicated rules actually improve your productivity?
Facebook is all about marketing, marketing yourself to the world. That's why i hate it, i prefer the tool like Yahoo Blog: very ugly design but it's useable and useful. Facebook's new design just makes the marketing faster.
> Re your enquiry about our awesome product!

I get a lot of spam with this type of shady subject line, seems like a well known fact.
Pop-up Fabrication of the Harvard Monolithic Bee
What does this have to do with "women in tech"?

The ad was created by a female marketing puke and her advertising team that put together this promotion.

It wasn't created by engineers, or physicists, or software developers, or occupations traditionally associated with tech. This could ad could have been about anything, because the woman in charge thinks that sex sells.

It was created by people that are much more closely related to journalism, Venture Beat, than it is to tech.

Also Patriarchy ain't a real thing.

Lazy journalism is.