skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brings to mind Lifelapse (http://www.lifelapse.com/) -- you hang your smartphone around your neck and let it take snapshots of your day. I always thought it was a fun idea but never got to try it. Probably a great thing while traveling.

I used to do this with my desktop using TimeSnapper (http://www.timesnapper.com/), it does provide an interesting view on where your time goes throughout the day.
$50k for a CTO isn't insane. The CTO is probably going to be given more equity at that stage than a programmer, and will also have more control.

I wouldn't take the job, but I imagine there are less risk averse people that would.
Push button switch
Or publication got lazy and ran a lightly-edited PR release paid for by Proctor and Gamble.
The reason I posted it here is not to recommend it, but to notify people that deleting your comments isn't guaranteed to save your bacon.
> You don't even have to know/touch html/css.

Most people here know and prefer html/css to magic.

> You also have an automated generated page (that contains all of your js files or 1 big file if is min)

Easy with Rails. A lot of backbone apps are running on rails.
Getting an office was an order of magnitude more expensive than our conservative estimates.
Not sure about that.

Valve might want to have their own walled garden rather than ending with walled gardens. It's a tested and very profitable model.
According to the senior editor of The Atlantic back in January 2012, 'QR Codes Are the Roller-Skating Horses of Advertising'

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/qr-cod...

> QR codes are an intermediate technology at best, a novelty at worst.
True. Investment in first-party studios is critical to create "great" games. Most often, these are the games that push the boundaries and will be remembered, IMO.
Journey(PS3) for example came out of thatgamecompany, an awesome game studio that benefited from Sony's Santa Monica incubator.

First party games are still the "killer apps" of game consoles, although they aren't the only ones (yup, I believe ecosystems are importants, too). Nintendo is sitting on gold mine with the Wii U's MiiVerse, a twitter-like social network, but with drawings added (of course of limited size, only black and white). But it might be "just another app" if they don't invest in it.
I wonder if there's anyone else in my boat..

None of the 360 exclusives are really interesting to me. I've never played a Halo or Gears of war game. A lot of the PS3 exclusives -do- interest me, I'd played the previous games in a few of the series on the PS2.

But I own a 360, and not a PS3. And I don't really feel like getting a PS3 at this point, being so late in the cycle, and owning the 360 version of -most- of the games I play.
Using Form Elements and CSS3 to Replace JavaScript
He said he planned to switch to the Xperia T, but I guess he will want to leave something at least workable for the S3 before that.

EDIT: not sure about the current state of things, seems that this is a translation from an interview that happened several months ago, which explains why the Xperia T wasn't out yet.
> FIXED: Disable insecure content loading on HTTPS pages (62178).

Very nice. Check out the test page here: https://people.mozilla.com/~bsterne/tests/62178/test.html

Also, if you can, switch your site to default to HTTPS (redirect from HTTP to HTTPS right away), especially if you run some kind of an API. I am looking at you Google, with your Charts API. Last I checked the only way to get those via HTTPS was through one employee's epic quest to make their API's HTTPS-capable.
Yes, you are right the plastic bricks are injection-molded. Sorry for not being clear, but I was actually thinking about Mindstorms + TETRIX, which includes precision milled metal parts; http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/categories/products/universi... . There was an and over here that got deleted during editing. Lego's tolerances are crazy, btw. In some cases it's as low as .04 mm.
Never heard about Derby before. I'm going to have make new project which primary client are mobiles (at the beginning through web browser, later dedicated app).
It's seems that Derby manages this task much better, and has better architectural decisions (easily working with different components like Angular, Redis ...). The only thing which wonder me is Derbys scalability issues https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/derbyjs/.... But Meteor also doesn't manage it well.
Show HN: Fun 2 hr project to help me discover new music
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Solid web browser ;-)
How is delivering adds and offering no value whatsoever "innovation"?
Well, I'm not talking about using it for advertising per se. I'm looking at what happens when every item you own has a machine readable tag. Hence "Internet of Things" .

And, most intermediate technologies tend to stick around for a long time. Look at AM radio - supplanted by FM, DAB, satellite - and still going strong.
There are a lot of different ways to do Javascript and people are very opinionated. Not every client-rich website is a single page app, and the types of operations from familiar CRUD manipulation to complex workflows. In the wild people often have existing code bases.

Backbone serves all these interests by providing only a very minimal framework for model/view binding. How you structure the app and what supporting libraries you use are completely up to you. It also makes it very easy to port existing code into Backbone which is quite a strong evolutionary trait for a javascript framework these days.

Long term I think Backbone will lose the popularity contest to richer solutions, but similar to HTTP and the web itself, sometimes less is more.
Thank you for the term 'Citation Graph'. Now I know at least some people have been working on this topic.
I see lots of backbone app tutorials with Sinatra, would you suggest that Rails is better?
I didn't expect it to take that long. Then again, there are probably many small hobbyist servers running debian.
The best example of QR codes as far as I have seen is Tesco's efforts to dominate the S. Korean market.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7HnR02kJxY
You are not a representative sample. If you look at the statistics for QR codes, you'll see that they are fairly widely used.

I agree that going to a product's QR code for an objective review is silly. But to see, say, a movie trailer or get an instruction manual for a bit of furniture, I think they're very useful.
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I'm in your boat. Except I have a PS3. My best advice: get a second-hand PS3 Slim (a bit better than the last model IMHO), and start playing. The PS3 game library is pretty big now, so I'm sure you'll find what you like.
http://keepass.info/
I always use dtrx (do the right extraction). Check out its features:

http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/
> Are you seeing something else?

I was. The ad being served was Hotline: Miami not Prison Architect when I made my comment.
I can't decide if this is honest or a fantastic troll. At each point where the government "stepped in", it acted in a way that likely provides any technical reader with relief.

I had assumed that when "[the government] did play a role and, for the most part, it was not a good one", it would be in the form of business or labor regulation. Instead, this company laments that setting up their private revenue mechanism in the middle of public infrastructure was met with government regulation? And their inability to gain patent protection on an idea that is obvious but not previously implemented only works in this world that seems to assume that truly anything is patentable. The government acted in both situations to protect the common good from the selfish desires of a business.

For my own sanity and faith in humanity, I will assume that this is a fantastic troll. To assume otherwise requires me to fear entrepreneurial "innovation".
Looks good. I'm no expert on this area, so what's below is conjecture; hopefully you'll find it useful though.

A post here called "Show HN: Crowd Reviewed Websites (Chrome Extension)" would be a good place to start. You can set up facebook and google+ pages where you give information on your extension, and have these point to a blog where you deliver progress updates on developments. Once you've got the pages up, tweet links, get friends/existing users to like and share the links so that more people become aware. If it's something people are interested in the news will spread.
If it's not spreading fast enough through that, be a bit more creative. Contact people who produce good content (e.g. popular bloggers/YouTubers, other indie developers, tech journalists) asking for their help. Some may like your product so will publicise / link to / review / for free, others you may need to offer incentives to (what that is depends on who they are and what you can offer them).

It's also a good idea to create a brand and have your extension as part of that brand. Publicise the brand more than the extension. The reason for this is you may have other projects in future - you don't want to start from scratch each time. Once you have the brand, you can talk about other products within that brand's context, and people who've subscribed to your brand because of your previous work will then be informed about your new stuff.
The award for least sympathetic story of government mishandling of startups goes to this guy, who was prevented from hijacking NX records at the root name servers by the commerce department, and then prevented from obtaining a timely patent for same from the patent department.

This is the rare case where a mistaken midnight raid by a militarized ATF team might actually be cause for jubilation.
I agree, this is a great overview of the current and past events
You are glossing over the fact that the current board of directors are not the same people who got the company into trouble in 2008. They are the ones who turned the company around. They also have the same mandate as the board of any other publicly traded company: maximize value for the shareholders.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining it its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” -From the opening paragraph of ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, H. P. Lovecraft
I think a web-based solution that is accessible from anywhere (incl. mobile) is pretty useful.
Where I went to college there was a Starbucks on the most prominent corner of the most prominent street that runs directly north of and within spitting distance of the main campus.

An independent coffee shop opened up on the opposite corner (actually one unit down from the corner). Within a year, the Starbucks had lost so much business that it was closed down.
The biggest difference between password.ly and most other tools (including keepass), is that each password on password.ly is generated from your master password.

There is no database to lose, or not have access to if you're on another machine. It also has a command line client which works completely offline (though has sync if you're signed up and want to save sites/comments)
Not what you are asking, but save you some money and get some IKEA DIY stand-up desk. Been using it for about a year.

for example, http://lukethomas.com/100-dollar-ikea-stand-up-desk/
When you run 64 bit it assumes all the SSE extensions, the presence of the extra register sets, and everything between the 386 and 686 being available. It almost always performs better with software compiled to utilize the extra goods, even if it has slightly larger memory footprints.
In fact, as far as I understood, they do have an obligation, because the (GPL licensed) kernel requires them to release source code for some parts of the system
The date in the last screenshot (19/3/2012) doesn't match the date in the rest of the images (7/1/2013).
This is an example of how a competent cracker (as opposed to a script kiddie) works. He's:

1) Identified a badly protected side entrance to use rather than the front door

2) Painstakingly researched the third party product (similarly one could investigate a third party library used in a bespoke codebase)

3) Figured out the adaptations the target organisation had made to it and guessed some mistakes they'd made

4) Eventually hit on a cookie modification attack made possible by limitations found in that publicly-available codebase.

Smart.
I never scanned a QR code in my life, albeit I gotta admit I've already searched on libraries to create them(talk about totally not scratching my own itch!)

the best use case I've ever thought for QR Codes is vandalism.
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The Turktrust SSL certificate fiasco
If Nokia is losing money by staying with Windows Phone only, what benefit do they get from it? I'm a big Android fan, and I've always liked Nokia phones. If Nokia made an Android phone, I would probably use it. I know I'm not alone. In the article, Nokia says that it felt like it couldn't stand out in the Android market, but Nokia's hardware stands out on its own. I think an Android Nokia phone would sell like hotcakes.
I worked with AIG in the weeks after the bailout. This does not surprise me. I've never felt less good about the work I was doing.
Ideas Are Not Evil
Working with the Devil or HTML5 for mobile apps
Maybe I am missing something, but all I see here is 'rich people want to have their cake and eat it - and btw at the expense of joe public'.

Maybe I just find it hard to think its anything other than greed when the company involved is an organised scam... er insurance company. ;)
This is an interesting idea, but how did he decide which one from 86,400 sec in a day that's worth to keep?
ICANN is awful for so many things... but on this, they are absolutely correct.

NXDOMAIN isn't just an error message, it's a piece of information that can be absolutely essential to debugging.
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"rules make it a snap, and potentially quite lucrative, for people to file civil lawsuits"

"One suit against us, a proposed class action, came from an elderly woman in New York City"

Seems like I'm in the minority on this, but I'm always amazed by the rage some people have for other people using the courts to redress wrongs. Call me naive, but the U.S. justice system is for all Americans, not just for the rich and powerful.
I'd say you waste time taking a conscious decision between 64-bit and 32-bit, there are few good reasons to not just go with 64-bit, and dwelling on it just wastes time. Do you have any metrics to support your claim that 32-bit Debian is faster than the exact same 64-bit distro?

And what difference does virtual versus physical machines make? Heck, you can even run virtual 64-bit guests on a 32-bit host machine if the CPU supports either Intel-VT or AMD-V.
If you get to the point that things are scanning each other silently and automatically, QR codes are a fine solution.

It would be much easier for a hypothetical 'smart' refrigerator to read a QR code on an item being placed inside than trying to get a clean barcode read from arbitrary angles or visually recognizing every possible object.

Similarly, a Google Glasses sort of tech would have a far easier time offering context-aware services if it could passively identify objects by a QR code. No-one would actively scan a poster QR code to order tickets to a movie. But if you were looking at a movie poster with a QR code, you could say "remind me to buy tickets to that" and the glasses would have a much easier time than if they had to visually recognize the particular poster and parse out whether it was for a film or tv show or stage production and figure out where to order said tickets, etc.

So... as a shortcut to effective computer vision and understanding that human beings will not ever actively scan them, sure. Why not?
For a non-facebook user/employee, can someone please explain which service that is?
This idea is absolutely not innovative. A couple of years back VeriSign tried this crap on *.com and got called out, loudly, harshly and correctly, for messing with basic infrastructure.

The idea that replacing sensible error messages by worthless ad-portals is somehow innovative is ridiculous, and granting a patent for it would be even more so.

I am very happy that this company died. This is one technology that is not "innovative and disruptive", but merely disruptive, namely, disrupting the basic working of the Internet. It is a pity that taxpayer money was spent on it.

Edit: It was VeriSign not Verizon.
Great tips! I start it right away.. tnx
SSL in Ruby on Rails
Have a look at your competition such as; http://supergenpass.com/

Your system is creating the passwords server side and so taking the user's "master" password in. Where as SuperGenPass is purely javascript based and runs completely in the browser; thus is safer.

Also being a bookmarklet make's it more convient, as you can just click the button from within your browser toolbar, rather than having to go to a sepearte site, remember exactly what you put in the "Create password for:" input, did you put the domain with a www or without? with http:// or https:// ?
This merely gives the user a false sense of security. What if a hacker get hold of your master password? I rather advocate the use of different high-entropy passwords divided in security tiers. A junk password for places you don't care about or fully trust, a generic password to use on trusted services and secure passwords for crucial services.
Before blaming OEMs, look to Google for leadership, or lack of it, in supporting Android as an open system by encouraging open drivers and documented peripherals.

Google has wielded the "Anti-fragmentation Agreement" as a whip to keep Android OEMs from straying into temptations like Aliyun. Surely a bit of love for AOSP-based Android distributions that grow the system integration talent pool are within the scope of not being evil.
The site seems to suggest it will only generate passwords in the moment. But the text of the site mentions you guys saving them, and your comment mentions a command line tool. How can I find out the extent of password.ly?

My initial impression was "no thanks" because 1Password will type my passwords in for me, a huge benefit. But maybe password.ly can or soon will do this?

In other words, IMO the landing page doesn't have enough info.

EDIT: ahh, now I see the link to the command one tool at the bottom.
Redirecting errors is not "actually innovating". Even if they were doing something useful, respectable and not leeching on international infrastructure that they did nothing to help set up, to expect a technical patent for this business idea is patently absurd!
There's an Arch developer named heftig who maintains a custom repository with Aurora. I've been using it successfully the last few months. I think aurora is updated daily, but I haven't watched it closely.

Info: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157
Repo 32-bit: http://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/repo/i686
Repo 64-bit: http://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/repo/x86_64
The diversity backlash
There is no reason why Nokia shouldn't do an Android phone. It is the same case with Windows Phone, there are other OEMs. Hell, HTC8X even looks like Nokia Lumias. How is Nokia really differentiating in WP? Hardware like camera, touchscreens thatcan be used with gooves etc and, some software like Nokia Maps. They can do the same with android.
I'm a bit low-tech in regards to my password scheme, but here's how I do it:

First, I generated an 8 character password using pwgen (great program, btw) that is just mixed-case. I then add several characters based on the name of the website/service I'm logging into.

Using this, I can easily remember my password to everything, and each one is unique.
I think this is a good idea for a site, but I'd caution that it could give users a false sense of security. As the site gains popularity, the site-specific passwords are only as secure as the master password used to generate them. Therefore it is still important to choose a strong master password when using this tool.

This may be obvious to users here, but to most people the fact that the generated passwords seem random may lead to a false sense of security in this matter.
While I appreciate your points, personally, I'm wary. I've seen stickers overlaid on top of printed codes, and/or social hacks to dupe people into downloading malware.

I went to the media lab not too long ago and got to see VR codes. Imperceptible patterns ftw. This doesn't necessarily relate to your points about the opportunity cost of placing QR codes on packaging (after all, VR codes are designed for digital displays), but I think QR codes are sort of a stepping stone.
If you're interested in efficient compression with English you might like the Hutter Prize (http://prize.hutter1.net/) - a €50,000 prize if you can compress the 100MB file enwik8 to less than the current record of about 16MB. They claim it's an AI problem. I guess it could be if you're compressing a bunch of different English texts, but this challenge has a single text. A program that provides very efficient compression of this text might not be so great for other texts.

Mike's challenge took a specially selected random file. As other people said, this was an attempt to show compression kooks that some files are not compressible (if you include the size of the decompressor).
The master password is an Achilles heal in all of these systems. Granted, it is even more of a weak point in password.ly.
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I don't know about great, but I'm in the market for a new car. When I went to a Subaru dealership they had QR codes on their vehicles which led to a page with stats, videos and other information. I had already researched the vehicles I was looking at, just wanted to see them in person and in various colors, so it wasn't that useful to me that day. However, in the past I've done some window shopping without the prep, would've been nice.

EDIT: Wehicles? I need more sleep.
That is also a significant weakness, as revoking or changing passwords becomes very difficult.
Hey,

It's really just a MVP at the moment. There are quite a few improvements planned, and definitely a browser extension if there is any interest.

At the moment it is limited to the password generator, site names along with comments saved when you've signed up and a simple command line tool.
I am asking for an interface similar to this
http://www.bunch-it.com/web?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=hacker+...

This has been done by 2 of my friends as their graduation project. But it does not work in the fashion I wanted.

I looked http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ and liked it but I could not walk the citation graph as I meant. I looked at the about page and they also do not mention about 'Citation Graph' as a feature. But it seemed to me someone could use that site to create a 'Citation Graph' easily.
Which is why I am against such services. Imho, they do more harm then good.
Well, thank you. But the do-what-ever-you-want part applies only if there is no other license.

You can use MIT + HUGWARE.
AM has a couple of things working in its favour. Power requirements and incredible range with those power requirements. It's no coincidence that sports, religion, and talk shows are popular on that band.

QR codes could be useful but between URL shorteners, geofencing, and RFID tags they are yet 1 entry in a crowded arena. I'm not exactly sure why it didn't take off but I assume a certain fruit company didn't think of it so didn't care to include it.