skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second one's a trojan. First one's a worm; it doesn't actually infect files or disks the way viruses did "back in the day". It relies on tricking the user into executing a program when the user is not expecting to be executing a program.

Compare to Windows worms that run automatically, or viruses for Microsoft platforms that infect files that are commonly shared.

I repeat my statement that you don't need anti-virus on the Mac. You simply need to have common sense.

I don't think it's too naive of a viewpoint. There are legitimate security concerns on the Mac, just as there are on other operating systems. My point was that you don't need cpu-cycle-sucking memory-resident antivirus programs the way you do on Windows.
Answered my own question. He's still in business:

http://www.thegreatzucchini.com/index.html
This is a very cool idea. I'd love to see more open source hardware/software combo projects, and this is a great way to kickstart that.
How is this news? Even modafinil.com and Wikipedia already list Dopamine effects from modafinil.

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

http://modafinil.com

Worth noting, too, that "may cause addiction" does not equal "causes addiction".
ANS-9010 is a RAM drive, that presents DDR RAM as a SATA drive. You can configure it up to 64 gigabytes, but at that price it's prohibitive. You can buy its little brother, the ANS-9010B, which only has 6 slots for memory and tops out at 24 GB.

Many shops will be able to fit the most frequently used 20% of their toolset onto a small disk drive like this. if the most frequently used 20% of their toolset represents 80% of their development wait, this is still a big win.
How can you render judgment if you didn't read past page one?
Whoops, didn't see that one! Sorry.
Awesome idea! I like it a lot.

My concern is that if (when) your service gets popular, sites that require registration won't allow email addresses with the mailop.com domain (if they want real email addresses).

Other than that... great for you!

-Artel
What's interesting about his page is that it doesn't even show his face on the front, just dozens of happy, delighted pre-schoolers.

The man knows what he's really selling to parents.
My adviser is on sabbatical working on a startup. Three other professors in my department have done something similar.
The whole point of this argument has been over statistical invalidity. Your guesses are pointless without data.
How awesome is that? We go looking for water, and it comes to us.

I'm giddy.
I'm not glad. The only way we can make logical decisions on anything these days is with data. The data is in these databases.

Besides, this information is already available in inferior forms. To the public. Why should we have to deal with inferior forms if we paid for it?

We are entitled to the right to assess how well our government is doing AT EVERYTHING it does. And we generally will need data to assess, otherwise we have to trust what they tell us blindly. The potential scope of information and insight we are missing out on here is enormous.

Further, I'm all for personal privacy. But I'm not for privacy as an excuse when it doesn't apply. When government officials use privacy as a reason, that usually indicates to me that they have something to hide. It is very straightforward to allow anonymized access that sanitizes personal information out of any database that contains private information. Or aggregate it on metrics that make sense.
I actually enjoy many of the posts about the creative (or at least somewhat non-traditional) things people do as solo entrepreneurs. After reading the entire article though, I do find it funny how this tagline was used to position the article for the HN community. The article is actually much more of a character study than a discussion of a business, and it takes a significant change in content after the first thousand words.
I've not noticed this at all. Your rhetorical questions are getting weirder and more tedious.
That's because I was terse and ambiguous.
[tangent] Walt Whitman once wrote:

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."

Always loved that quote. Maybe it applies here in a way.
Python's generator expressions let you get the common 90% of what you would do with Linq. Generator expressions, however, quickly become awkward when nested and don't really support joining or grouping data. Python has a groupby method and similar helpers, but they simply aren't as natural as the SQL-style syntax. Also, Linq puts the object being queried first to make it toolable (IntelliSense can offer completion for members in where and select clauses, etc).

I don't know much Ruby, but I'd suspect that blocks can simulate Linq far better than Python can. However, the Lambda-inspired syntax is a bit cluttered when compared to the SQL-inspired syntax.

Linq is a feature about 3 things:

1) Correctness via static typing checks

2) Interoperability of various data backends (Microsoft provides backends for XML, SQL, and .NET objects)

3) Clean and beautiful code

Neither Python nor Ruby can provide #1 (at compile time, anyway). SqlAlchemy and other projects attempt #2, but I don't have enough experience with them to comment on their success. And while Python as a whole (and I presume Ruby) has lots of #3, complex data querying is not the most beautiful experience.
To cite another grossly biased and unscientific metric: last time facebook changed their design, I was flooded with invitations to join groups protesting it ("1 mio strong against", "Say no to" and so on). This time around, not one. At least my 300 friends don't care enough to invite me to join them in a protest.
"You could just have a party where you all played pin the tail on the donkey or musical chairs or something. But that is just not done in this part of D.C. If you did that, you would be talked about."

That's a microcosm of what I didn't like about DC. The culture is very status oriented and judgmental.
Somebody's got to dig ditches and handle sewage. Until we invent robots to do the manual labor and put nanomachines in the toilet to treat the sewage in-situ, there's no real replacement for the job in our society.
I took a few days before adding the app to vote yes, and I just did that because I was pissed off at the people voting no.

For the record: perhaps 10 of my friends have voted no. This is not a significant percentage. Of those 10, probably about 8 of them did it as an impulse vote and 2 actually got annoyed at the layout.
That's why it's so great that they let you X out on anybody you don't want to see. Once you realize it's there, it's almost an impulse click.
It's the deflationary spiral that's bad. A little drop in price is nice, but when a feedback cycle occurs, it becomes very dangerous.
But the author mentioned qmail, which is an application that was built "secure by design", is non-trivial, and hasn't had many bugs.
This is a little paper by the author of qmail:
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
There never was a "single stream of everything." There were always filters. Facebook's stream is live for the very first time now.
"Hate" is a fairly strong reaction, no? My casual FB experience led me to be lost, again, when trying to figure out how to set my status ... but I couldn't muster enough reaction to go beyond: "meh". All my weird acquaintances are still there and new/old friends/associates still find me through it, so the value is less the UI and more Facebook's ubiquity. Personally, I prefer this to Classmates.com, don't you?
Many sites to block disposable e-mail addresses. Then again, many do not. In my opinion it's no different than a gmail/ymail address.
Facebook has always told users to learn how to filter stories. Filter out people you don't want to hear from and especially filter out applications.

Perhaps that's why I don't get a lot of these complaints. I block apps as a matter of reflex, so the only app stories I get are from Digg or Last.FM or Google Reader - those I can appreciate.
The hockey and outdoor activities would actually be quite nice, though I have easy access to good hiking where I live now. A ridiculously cheap summer home would also be fun, but when I think about it, I always come to the conclusion that the benefits of the summer home "feature" are outweighed by the long-term maintenance costs.

[Edit: though if a large hacker-driven entrepreneurial project actually managed to take over a city block, I would seriously consider moving in. I wonder how the music is in Detroit these days...]
That doesn't mean it's safe. There are disposable e-mail sites that do not allow others access to your mail (mine: 10MinuteMail.com is one of them, but there are others). Just because you want to dodge spam from sold lists, doesn't mean you should give up all your security.
The guy's a user on his own site, you know. He's very sluggish to respond to people, and when he does he's rude and sarcastic and misspells words. I've been on InvisionFree boards with more competent administrators.

Now I've had a chance to talk to a lot of different people in charge of big sites, and his style stands out in even worse relief. The Flickr guys will talk to you if you write them; Marco from Tumblr emailed me a few times in response to questions that I had. Even people from more rabid community sites, like the Gaia Online fellows, would write back and sound like guys who knew what they were doing, even if they were a bit silly or a bit busy. Meanwhile, the DeviantART team (not just Angelo, but pretty much every prominent administration member) is arrogant and hostile and in two cases, writing messages to them asking them about a feature resulted in their threatening to suspend my account if I continued writing. It's atrocious.
Yeah, perhaps I should have read the links instead of just relying on the title. Oops!
This isn't notable. There are always redesign changes. This is just the first major redesign happening at a time when the tech world thinks hating Facebook is fashionable, so it's echoing more.
It descirbes what we all do: hack stuff together.

I guess his point was that if you dont really enjoy it you wont be a wonderful hacker. (I agree)
The new Facebook is horrible and confusing, the main page is just a rubbish of “what country you are” or “what language would you be” from different friends, but I can’t see any useful information in a see of stupid game scores and crazy app stuff. This stuff is not even chronological, and I can’t remove a story to clean it up, I can only block all stories from a user (which is a bit much). Anyway, it’s garbage.

Edit: also only 9 big stories on home page... wtf. And older posts returns "There are no more posts to show right now" after just two clicks.
"Where's my money, Lebowski?"

That was inappropriate, I'm sorry. The author gave me an impression of attempted optimism, something to help people see good coming of all this crap, but perhaps he focused to much on that and not enough on more dark realities.
I had no problem with the ToS, 'this' I have a problem with, the feel is awkward and now it feels a lot more awkward and cluttered.

I think facebook's main problem is that they could gradually make changes, piece by piece and no one would ever really notice. Yet they change the entire home page and you get reactions like this because the feel is drastically different.
You might be more awesome than your grades indicate, but it's hard for them to know that. I agree that what you do outside of class should count, and count alot! But as far as I know, they already do take that into consideration. Admissions folks are just trying to do the best they can.

That's exactly the problem! The system should be designed specifically for those exceptions - they're the people with the most to offer society.

The public schools you mentioned are very good, and it won't hurt you to go there unless you are trying to become President of the United States.

They aren't necessarily bad. They're just unpleasant. Public schools attract a sort of apathetic student that private schools don't, and despite the constantly-made comparisons, the lack of funding shows. I'm about 30 minutes away from Princeton, and every time I visit is a slap in the face.
Well e-cigs are a good alternative to regular cigarettes. If I am smoking e-cigs then I don't need regular ones - try www.smokingeverywhere.com for ordering e-cigs.
Worm, trojan, whatever - I didn't read the links, I left that for you to do :)

> You simply need to have common sense.

I ran Windows ME (of all things) for several years with no AV, using just common sense. So, you don't "need" AV in Windows, but I would definitely recommend it.

Although I agree with what you're getting at, both your original comment and this one seems to be relying heavily on stereotypes more than actual fact. That's what I think is naive.
Hey, glad you like it! There are a couple of hypothetical solar energy possibilities, but neither's really worth the time.

The first is concentrated photovoltaic (CPV), based on the idea that lens is cheaper than silicon, so why not concentrate a larger area onto a smaller chip? The issue here is thermal- if a cell has 15% efficiency, then it necessarily rejects 85% of the energy as heat so significant cooling is required.

The second is solar thermal or steam generation. Heat water until a phase change occurs, then use the expansion to drive a turbine. It's not particularly safe or easy to do on a hobbyist basis.

As ars peripherally mentioned, the Fresnel essentially produces an energy rate. The thermo take-home is that there IS no maximum temperature, except perhaps the surface of the Sun. That makes the (incorrect) assumption that you have a perfect absorber with no convective or radiative losses. My current kiln design should nearly eliminate convective losses, and will greatly reduce radiative by refocusing the lost energy.

Come check it out at Maker Faire!
don't forget the fifty trillion or so to pay their entitlements til (avg) age of death. or the extra three trillion they'll peel off of the stock market when they are forced by law to start liquidating their 401ks faster than we can make contributions to ours.
I think they have a solar powered metal melting furnace in France. It uses mirrors, though.
Not quite. It will force them to go through the password recovery process every time they want to access their account.

Security policies like this make things worse, not better. The only way most people know to remember a password that changes regularly is to email it to themselves or post-it it to their monitor.
It's bad that he didn't get any kind of feedback from Apple as to why... however this headline could also read "iPhone Developer Spends $600K Despite Having No Guarantees of Acceptance into Proprietary Platform" ...
What? Your logic is as if all users knew about this poll, when I guess that the number of people checking for new apps is extremely tiny compared to the entire user base. I don’t even knew about this app, and it's more likely that 700k is very close to how many actually look for new apps on facebook during this period.
Note that these are illegal in some jurisdictions.
A lot of people on here probably meet the criteria for ADHD. Methylphenidate is addictive to a certain extent, but not as much as caffeine and is basically risk free when taken as prescribed. I agree with the other poster, I don't think there are any stimulants that are tolerance free.
They don't even stack posts by the same people, I've got 4 messages from one person, all within the space of an hour and no other posts between. Yet all four are displaying, why?

The highlights, display new photo groups... yet a selection of the photos are displayed on the home page anyway. The entire highlight section is completely moronic, it just displays less information in a less convenient way and there's no way to control, remove or filter any of this.

I really don't need to know my wife's cousin has joined the 'I Love Sex' group when I've already removed her stuff from my homepage.

I also have serious problems with Facebook's 'People You May Know' crap, because it's completely unintelligent. There's no way to prioritize your relationships with people, so I'm suggested friends of my wife's cousins who live like a 28 hour drive away. My wife doesn't have the person on, I'm not down as living anywhere near the person... so why does it suggest them to me off of 2 people I know who know them, but doesn't suggest a single one of my wifes friends?

It failed to suggest a family friend who comes over for coffee like 4 days a week, yet it has suggested me someone from a different country before despite having less mutual friends.
I cant say whether you are the one, or someone else, but I see this exact, word for word quote posted in almost any news story or post that relates to polls or voluntary response data. I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment, just the fact that you (or whoever) post the same comment/reference in many stories. Wouldnt it just be easier to link, instead of perpetually pasting this whole thing? I know it would annoy me less. /rant
Bank in Silicon Valley for small business?
Can you please advise a good bank for a small startup to open business checking and, potentially, credit?

I've heard good things about SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) and First Republic to keep your account there. As well as Amex to keep your corporate credit card.

We just incorporated and would prefer not to make a personal guarantees for loans taken. ;)

Thanks.
"There have been numerous interesting studies that indicate that a significant percentage of users will trade their password for a candy bar..."

I have a few dozen passwords if someone else out there has candy to match. I withhold the right to decide which candy bar is worth which password.
Yet they've never given this option for people using Facebook on the PC. I mean even windows when they came out with all the Live crap allowed hotmail users to retain the original design.
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Don't screw around with your brain unless you're willing to accept the consequences for something bad happening to it.
I ... had a very, very low grade point average considering I wanted to apply to snooty upper class schools.

Confused as to why you're against standardized testing. Acing the SAT is like a magic wand for smart kids with subpar GPAs.
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Funny -- this got downvoted to 0 and is perfect through 5 games
I joined Facebook for Facebook, not for a twitter clone because I already have an account for that.
Im currently reducing my smoking. I'll probably quit eventually. Im not a heavy smoker, so that won't be that hard(i hope).
Not reading past page one is a judgment. It's one I make all the time about various articles and stories.
He's applying labels which is never good. Startups have a huge range and aren't necessarily just people who are living on ramen hoping to strike it big. I think this is a huge misconception in fact. While there are people out there who are experimenting with new trends, there are also many people (from what I've noticed) who have found a target market and are able to pull in some money. I would be interested to see some statistics on sv startups vs. general entrepreneurs across the US.
I keep reading these articles, but I'm still making a free website.

In my estimation, the big internet sites serve everyone, not just the chosen few with money. And I want to build a big internet site.

So it must be free.
3 years ago suburbanites were swimming in money and had nothing better to do with it. I doubt this guy is still pulling in a full weekend of @$300 shows.
Certainly. But then you don't pass judgment on the work as a whole based on the little bit you read.
There's a bit of chicken and egg problem with this, though. I know of people working on hard problems and there's no funding at all. Maybe a grant if they're lucky.

The investors are just as into the get-rich-quick-scheme madness as the developers. It can be a terrible circle.

That said, I think there are really interesting ideas out there, and I'm proud of what a lot of people have done at YC, but this post is good reminder that it's easy to get lost in the superficial feedback loops -- and that what we all (ok, what I think most of us) really want is to come up with true innovation and honest steps forward into the next and better.
I really agree with this. I had the good fortune of getting an internship at an engineering firm that was managed really well.

Management did not seem to assign overtime work needlessly. It was an engineering firm set up to work on long term construction projects. So the the work load was cyclic. My boss mentioned that there were times that there was almost nothing to do. So people ended up taking vacations around those times, and sometimes worked less hours. But during crunch time, people would end up working 6 days a week, and longer hours. It seemed like it was appropriate though. The increased work load had a defined reason, and people knew that once they got finished with the majority of the contract, they would work less.

Management seemed to be of the opinion that overtime was a symptom of bad project management. Some of the technical areas where very specialized, so the available work force was small. So they were stuck with overtime. But all overtime request had to be approved by senior management (vp of finance if I remember correctly). And employees were compensated time and a half for all overtime. So management had an incentive not to work overtime.

That firm showed me that I really don't have to accept unpaid overtime, there are jobs where it isn't a problem.
Your first issue is incorrect. You can easily accomplish the query with one sql hit. The extra() command would work if your foreignkey was defined in the comments model.
POTUS and TOTUS -- dissecting the Obama/teleprompter meme
The Creator’s Culture
Flagged. Come on, really?
I've read a bunch of marketing books, and one thing I've learned is that you can do the equivalent of "push polling" with questions.

When you ask "is thing X adjective Y?" you're basically saying "I think that X is Y".

Personally, I find it a lot more honest if a person just comes out and owns their own assertion.
The article should read Company Spends $600,000 Developing App for Proprietary Service that Violates TOS (but Gets No Response).

The article states "FreedomVoice was planning to charge a monthly rate of $5 for the service." This is a clear violation of the App Store TOS (although that will change once 3.0 comes out).
Finally a reply and not just downvotes! Thanks.

I don't mean it's rumor or gossip - I find interesting discussion on reddit. It's the general topic I have an issue with. It's (VERY) newsworthy, but I'm not sure it's in any way hacker-related.
Thanks. SuperHappyDevHouse looks great, as do local coworking facilities - I know about artist co-ops, but wasn't aware hackers had similar setups.
Brilliant article, brilliant HN positioning, brilliant page partitioning. Best thing I've read on HN this year.
Shit didn't work. Often something in the DB layer, sometimes just getting a "hello world" in a browser.
I wonder if there would be repercussions if he were to sell his application for jailbroken phones in the meantime.
Me too. It's more that there seems to be fewer and fewer startups worth telling less geeky people about as in "Here, this may be useful or interesting to you."

Don't know if I'm the only one noticing this.
Wow, this is quite a kerfuffle.

A TelePrompTer is a tool.

Professional TV presenters list proficiency in its use on their CVs, it's like a secretary being proficient in Word.

The POTUS's job intersects significantly with that of a TV presenter in a lot of ways; it should come as no surprise that he would use the same tools.