skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the input. I've wondered about whether the engineering route is for me. Sometimes I view it as something I dislike less than everything else.

Generally I really like building and designing things, but unfortunately many of the classes in school don't revolve around that, and instead revolve around copious amounts of math and equations, which is understandable, but not something too many engineers do on a daily basis these days. I like math in general, but calculating projectile motion of a spring-launched object and the like doesn't really keep me interested.

I will try the small task lists. Thanks for that.
Wow. I only knew about the stuff in Fabrice Bellard's site, I never knew about JSLinux. Thanks.
Very nice library. It would be nice to add the ability to generate random values based on a distribution, e.g. the values are random but correspond to a normal distribution with a given mean and standard deviation. This would be very useful for testing statistical libraries and applications.
He just uses JSONP-ajax to get result from "http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/qrgen/qrdecode_widget.php?.... It's a dumb idea to sell this for 15$
I definitely saw it... it is very interesting! thanks!
Online learning: Campus 2.0
Ypu're not alone and yes everyone has this to a lesser or greater extent The key is that there is no medecine that makes this better, just ways of adjusting your outlook, setting clear goals and overcoming procrastination.

I would second offdrey referral to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5378462
It seems all this code does is send the image url to a remote server that does the decoding and returns the content. I'm actually not sure how this takes 1.5kb of code.
Why should it run out of memory?
What exactly is fire?
It's basically just a jslib that wraps a few divs around an image with a class and then does jsonp requests in order to decode the image - so, I'm sorry to say that but there's no real clientside decoding here
You make good points, and I agree with you, but it doesn't help the author's case any, as his entire point in the whole discussion is an origin story for monogamy - men wanted their biological sons to inherit and thus enforced female monogamy to ensure biological heredity. It doesn't follow at all from his previous conjectures.
This stuff is very interesting to bring into conversation with early work on cybernetics
My way of keeping up: OS X - NetNewsWire and Vienna (you really should be using Vienna), iOS - Feedly, Pulse News, Google Currents. Also Prismatic which I use on iOS more than RSS.
we can start calling this the SimCity strategy:

1. pitch a software product (script/game)
2. sell a service
3. be misleading about it
It's unfortunate that more people don't understand just how serious a breach it is to install special root certificates. This actually does a complete home run around the entirety of web-based security.

It's very close to having every physical lock sold by a company having a special key that can open all of the locks they sell. Even if you trust that company to buy your lock from them, it's going much too far in allowing them to open up your safe whenever they want to.
Witnessing papal history changes with digital age
this should be mentioned on the page, otherwise it's misleading, it's a service, not a script, the script is just the interface to the service.
How ironic then that Gruber and co are themselves quick to dismiss Microsoft in pretty much the same way.
How Not To Be Seen - deleting moving people in HD video
Just don't have sex with poor people. Ask to see some tax returns.
Why does anyone give a shit about digg these days? FUCK EDITORS!
Not sure I understand why this was even created in the first place. Wouldn't it suffice to simply spell out the content of the QR next to it, on hover or else? It's not like QR codes are born out of thin air; if you place a QR on your site then it's unlikely you don't know what data it represents.
good point :D
Resistance is futile
$ curl -About sonsuzdongu.com | aplay
As well as patents, there is another class of intellectual property rights applicable to plants called breeders rights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_breeders%27_rights.
Show/ask HN: I'm thinking about making a feed reader. Should I continue?
Yes we record statistics, there's about 10 scans a day

Edit: Dont get me wrong, I think this is the only real relevant use of a QR code - all it's doing it making it so the user doesn't have to type a short URL in.

As an app developer I'm always hearing "let's put a QR code there!" and 95% of the time, it's useless and we shoot down the idea
I think it's even more relevant than that. This article pretty much directly inspired Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson, who in turn went on to work on the first hypertext systems (Engelbart on NLS [1] and Nelson on Project Xanadu [2]). Although today's web doesn't quite live up to the standards set for Project Xanadu (it involves microtransactions, link rot [3] prevention, the ability to trace back what links to any given page, transparent creation of compilation documents and other such things) those projects are part of history that led to us being able to have this discussion right now using a HTML-based medium.

Looking back at As We May Think and the systems it directly inspired today may be a way to help us make the internet better. It's not hard to imagine how with a few tweaks Xanadu-like micropayments + trasclusion [4] could a least partially replace banner advertising and help revitalize web journalism by making it not dependant on ad revenue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_%28computer_system%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion
But the art of selling (thinking like the buyer) also applies to other transactions in life. Getting an open source project widely adopted. Presenting yourself for a job or a rental apartment. Showing your accomplishments online in your writings. Applying for the job of boyfriend to some girl who has many prospects. Same principals.
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Attack on SSL targets popular RC4 cypher
I was aware that customers reading the ToS is a little white lie, but I thought at least the company would take the time!
Start-up nation Estonia: an Austrian’s view
b) is like saying 'how is this any different from a car if you drive it until it runs out of gas, and then push it into the ocean, and then wait until it rusts from being under the water, and then you forget where it is?'

Yes, of course it is possible to deny yourself the ability to view content, use software, or access goods that you have purchased. That is beside the point, which is that webapps are inherently transient - unless you have access to the ability to configure and run your own server to host the application, the ability to use it can be revoked at any time, either through malice, negligence, or the regular operation of business. There are numerous examples of all three categories. This is, in fact, worse than proprietary software. At least with proprietary software (DRM/authentication notwithstanding), you have an executable, and it works on the machine you have right now. VM software like VMWare allows you to preserve a particular software configuration indefinitely if you wish, and access that software as long as you like.
Ask Yourself 5 Questions - A simpler business planning process
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I like the idea of a minimalist, stripped back version of Google Reader, however, I think you'll struggle to get $20/year out of people with the amount of quality RSS readers you can get for free. Find an audience before you start building this thing and build it based on feedback of what they liked/disliked about Google Reader and the other RSS readers out there.
Err, that's "Stat Counter GLOBAL stats".

Try "North America", "Japan" etc.

As I wrote explicitly above, Apple goes for the higher end of the market.

So, global stats (which include third world or relatively poor countries) wont show the same things. Those regions buy far fewer Apple stuff.

Here are the US results from the very same source you gave:

http://gs.statcounter.com/?chart_type=line&statType_hidd...

What I said is backed up by multiple sources for the US. But even Globally (which I was not speaking of), they fair quite well, given the higher margins et all:

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/apple-and-samsung-displace-n...
Is there anything like an art based product design class? It's what I did and found it great because it totally avoided all maths - the idea was that you came up with the ideas, you built the prototypes, solving engineering problems by doing and learning intuitively what works and what breaks rather than by maths. In fact the engineers often work for designers, so it's a question of where you'd like to be in the food chain.
Picbook.js
It's Apache. It's what it does best.
I don't see why Facebook would have a problem with you taking content out of G+
Isn't that an argument against many optimizations, such as function inlining?

In any case, it's possible to have both, if the compiler outputs some (optional) extra debug information. For example, gcc has options that let you reconstruct a 'virtual' stack trace in gdb even for inlined functions.
Why Did Google Reader Die? And what free Web service will be next?
The prescriptivists lost a long, long time ago: language is defined by usage.

You can be "correct" according to some prescriptivist definition of the english language, or you can be understood by the people who actually use the language to communicate. Since nearly everyone uses "dice" for both the singular and plural form, and most people will never even have heard "die" being used in this context, dice is the correct form.
Your posting assumes as a fact that a) winning means having more market share, and b) Android's combined success stems from a very diverse ecosystem. Most of Gruber's blogging in the last months has been about questioning these assumptions.
I'll have a read of this later
>I am still a Go newbie, but my initial impression is that certain constructs make it more difficult to write beautifully than it should, which only serves to detract from the readability (not talking clever one-liners here – which shouldn't even come up in beauty discussions). However, given that I am new to the language, I may just not be yet able to express things as well as I could.

It depends very much on what you want to write. If you want to write something related with File I/O or Network I/O in a reliable fashion, chances are that you cannot see it more beautifully implemented than in Go. No big surprise, the language designers are known for being involved in a lot of Unix stuff.

On the other hand, if you want to implement a linear algebra package that has support for a lot of structures, you will see less beautiful code. The same is somehow true for a number of algorithms that act on collections. There are no templates, so you either Copy&Paste or you work with interface{} worst case, meaning such code is cluttered with type assertions.

But besides that, I think most Go code can be made beautiful. It definitely has its sweet spot in Server Programming.
Indeed I have, but subclinical which is why I never got any medication.
60% of 60 hours would still be pretty much full time.

You have a salary???? You have money??? Both unknowns to me.

Maybe cut both your salaries and employ some more people, that can help put more of your ideas into action.

You need to work less hours yourself. Delegate more. Spend some time on a hobby / interest / go to the cinema / anything.
Good PR, but why would anyone want to get part of their salary paid in bitcoins? You get the disadvantages of both.
Automated brute-force attack against iCloud PIN Lock with this Arduino sketch
Ohh well thats absolutely fine then if they're killing off all the competition with a subsidised product then switching all the standard access to their own API because they're doing it for ★FREE★.
You can put controls on public monopolies that you can't with private ones, such as making them accountable to the voting public. Even the free market is regulated by the government in an attempt to create a level playing field. When it comes to telecommunications though, it's a natural monopoly since it's not really economical to connect each house to multiple underground fibre networks (though the redundancy would be nice :D).
Porn can create/maintain different thinking patterns, underhabituate you for normal real-life cues. By withdrawing and resensitizing your dopamine circuits you might jumpstart your motivation, getting more fun and getting out of the rut. Shouldn't expect a miracle but may worth a try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU

good luck!
Unless you don't need to pay taxes if you get your salary in bitcoins :)
Good luck doing your taxes!

Seriously. Is there any simple guidance on how to figure your income if paid in BTC?
Samsung's Galaxy S IV: A little bigger and a little faster
Agreed. But I'd say the agro produce regulations, and sniffing the hand baggage of air passengers, are a bit similar thing for food hygiene as TSA checks are for air safety: an illusion that something is done.
Exactly, the whole presentation looked artificial to me. Like they were forcing themselves to be liked, instead of just being natural.

W.r.t the device - as I said, some nice features but I am not a big fan of plastic phones. It might sound funny, but I like that I can 'feel' my iPhone when I'm holding it.
This is cool.

I'm gently disturbed that it generates valid email addresses. You pick a random name, follow it with an @, then add a random word, and then add a TLD. Obviously you're not responsible for how people use the tool.

Best practice would be to use the domain example.com
All my files are in Dropbox and I can't access my account
Hi,

All my files are in Dropbox and I can't access my account.
It's been 2 weeks that whenever I try to login I get a 500 error. (I tried from Dropbox for iPhone and I still get and error).

I contacted Dropbox support and 4 days later I got an automated email that states:

"If you are still experiencing problems, please reply to this message. We will try our best to get back to you, however we cannot guarantee a response. We're very sorry for the inconvenience."

I understand that they're busy with pro users but how am I supposed to access my files ? I can't even login to Dropbox forums because it needs authentication and you know, 500 error.

Any idea?
NIST's National Vulnerability Database hacked
If all it took to avoid income tax was to be paid in a different currency then I would assume someone would have noticed that by now.

Personally, I find tax returns are bad enough without including multiple currencies! :-)
Coolest SQL injection attack ever
Yes, you might be right. Nothing's set in concrete, so if I do go ahead with this project, it's entirely possible I will change some of my ideas. Getting feedback is exactly what I'm here for. Thanks :-)
I've got to mention the FF add-on "InfoRSS" which I haven't used in a while, but I just exported my feeds to it rather painlessly and it offers some nice features if you're willing to put a bit of time into customizing what you want from it. Deals with podcasts as well.
If you compare the fortunes of Apple and Amazon in the stock market, it is immediately clear that the stock market is not a good way for individuals to benefit from the profits of corporations they choose to invest in. That seems pretty broken.
That seems about as notable as being paid in Turkish lira or in watermelons. Anyone can take their salary in local currency and exchange it for something else. There's little incentive to lock part of your salary in a foreign(?) currency when they "use the daily exchange rate of the payday."
At least one of the million things wrong with Messages has been fixed. That app is awful.
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Relevant Bruce Schneier:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/sql_injection_...
NHS app store runs on Wordpress
Automatic dollar-averaged investment done by the company. I would like that service if I were a regular worker.
How we designed a new News Feed using your feedback
Which attributes would you sample from a normal distribution here? I don't see any numerical attributes where this would make sense. One could add weight, height, age etc. and sample from the relevant geographical/gender distributions?
yes! so far i have not found a mobile friendly web app that also saves your feed, or at least a significant amount like g reader. i wish they weren't shutting it'd down.
Samsung Galaxy S4 is out
Ask HN: What's the best cofounder finder sites?
Hi,
I'm debating doing a geographical based site for Manchester (UK) and the surrounding area, but keep thinking we've been here before, and their must be a really really good site for this already.

http://www.cofounderslab.com - Doesn't have any UK cities in!
http://www.founder2be.com/ - have to sign up to search. The web header takes up too much space, and most will get bored before doing anything.
http://www.techcofounder.com/ - bit too focused on just one aspect of cofounders...
http://www.weekendhacker.net - Original site I knew of but still doesn't have geographical search.
http://cofoundergoogledocs.com - not bad spreadsheet, but well it's just a spreadsheet and it's quite large now.

So, are there any better ones out there? Especially for the UK?
I am with you on this. I wouldn't want to use this type of syntax. It obviously serves a different purpose to Java or Ruby though, it might have to do with a different mindset.

I doubt that there is any syntactical advantage though. In the end it is just a matter of opinion.
Lots of people rushing to build RSS clients, but why not build something better?

If you can build something that will take any URL, figure out which bits are changing regularly (the news items, etc), and push the changes to a Reader style interface, you might be on to a winner.

It's 2013, a reader should be possible without RSS.
This is quite an achievement to go from no cure whatsoever, to a cure that works on 1% of people. Because now you don't need to look for things that works, you need to improve something you have.
This is the same Arduino sketch I used to brute-force the EFI Lock but I have implemented a set of conditional loops to wait the 1, 5 and 15 minutes cycles that the iCloud Lock PIN implements. I still use the Teensy 3 for automate this attack which gets done with minimal intervention, just plug it and thats it.

This is specially useful for those who dont have an apple store nearby or those who just dont want to deal with "The Geniuses".
I am not a psychologist, so give careful consideration to what I am about to say.

Have you ever noticed that you can achieve a goal when there is no pressure or expectation? If that is the case, I recommend finishing this semester the best that you can, and then take a one or two year break from school.

Apply your creativity to a project that incorporates some of your education so far. Don't set a deadline, don't tell anyone about it, and don't concern yourself with whether the project can be monetized. Come up with a project that starts out small but can be built onto and improved. A project that can be used later in a larger project is ideal. Don't spend a lot of time researching before you get started; simply start on it. Don't obsess over details; remind yourself that you are working on a prototype, and that afterwards you will be building another one. Take regular breaks from the project and go back over past course materials for ideas in ways to improve your next design. Most importantly, the whole process should be FUN.

The one or two years spent should allow you time to fortify your education and change your subconscious attitude towards engineering. Completing a large project will give you a reference point of what it takes to succeed in the long term.
Can this be used for selling virtual goods? Is it convenient enough when shipping address is not required? And are people willing to pay?

To experiment with that, I set up a new store at http://askme.tictail.com/
Sorry if I misunderstand, but would that mean that (along with what you wrote about whitelist/static) a "replace hash values", for instance, would mitigate the attack?

I currently have a OAuth (1.0a) implementation down the road (and would be very willing to hiring you when we begin).
Am I understanding this correctly that a "good" practice would be to redirect the user always to e.g. a static "you've granted app X permissions", or other dummy page (within our domains control) which the user will simply close, or oob?

Not asking you to dish out your expertise, just a quick question :)
And thanks for the nice articles, you're doing a lot of good.
I think the water is perfectly fine. :) It's just that shipping costs make this kind of business absurd.

I'll try to set up a shop selling virtual goods instead (http://askme.tictail.com)
Gorilla, a web toolkit for Go
Avast also installs plugins on every single kind of browser you have to monitor urls and the newest version now has a remote support agent I assume to help fix problems but remote control in an anti-virus product? What could possibly go wrong.
Backward-cpp – A stack trace pretty-printer for C++
Well, I'm now a paid-up Newsblur subscriber ... couldn't find an easy way of giving feedback on the site so thought I'd use HN.

The layout feels visually ... cluttered? ... but the functionality is excellent so I'm happy. Also the Google Reader import failed the first time, but succeeded the second.
Embarrassing number of typos made on train home yesterday. Can't fix now, but good reminder to proofread when tired.
It's Not Just Apple vs Android
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>> "I agree that this is insane, but I'm not sure what the solution is."

I think the core problem is that plant patents mandate that you not reproduce something that naturally reproduces. It just isn't a sensible thing to patent.

I'm generally pretty free-market libertarian, but given the nature of this issue, I think the solution is to do bio-engineering in a way that inherently becomes public domain: by collectively funding crop research with taxes.

Public funding got us the internet. Why not better crops?
This is partly due to recruiters really having no idea how to judge candidates other than scanning resumes and cover letters for buzz words.