skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, I know a guy who just bought his driver license. He paid some cash ( If I remember correctly something around 3000 BRL ), they took his picture and information, made a similar silicone finger from the described in the article and after some time he received the permit. No classes, no tests, no physical and psychological exams, just like that.
Me too, but it's only been launched for an hour at this point ;) I'll try to post up real examples and excerpts as soon as any are available.
FYI, it appears that if the page times out but successfully posts a "pending" Wallet transaction, you are not registered.

On this suspicion I tried again, and eventually paid again. This transaction succeeded, and the page took me to a registration form. After filling out the form, only then did I get a confirmation number and e-mail.

http://i.imgur.com/jvcbpxP.png
Hieroglifs Translations Romania receives the certificate 
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I have a design trend I would like see go away, how about the "Join FREE as a Bronze member" bar at the bottom of this website.
I can't choose without a proper mockup. Images don't give the real feel of how it should work like and I don't even know the real use cases here. Are short lists common or is it going to get filled quickly? What kind of projects are these? Do I even need to search my projects?

> Which actions should be available from project list?

I don't know! What are the most common actions? Is "starting a project" common? How could I possibly answer this non-randomly?

These issues made me leave the survey.

Prepare a proper mockup and give simple tasks (abstract enough to be understandable without domain knowledge) to your users. THAT's real testing.
I'm just giving honest feedback on the product: I think you're limiting the scope of the product by using words that offend some people. Given the upvotes, I don't think I'm alone.
Tried on my Droid X phone, web page still says waiting for a ticket, never put me back on the main page. Bug?
The Biggest Disaster in SimCity Ruins It for Everyone
Two cancelled $900 charges.
Solved by uploading to an imgur-like service and producing a link that can be emailed/texted? Or something fancier?
I hope to see a day when the perception of modern Linux environments will change. Ubuntu for example is more than capable of being used in a business environment.
Timid Development - a dysfunctional process
You mean the first hit for googling "telegraph MP expense scandal" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/9815...

It's about "The police have re-opened their enquiry into the former MP Denis MacShane after he admitted submitting fake receipts to claim expenses.", which sounds a lot like your story.

So I'm guessing the guy you're looking for is Denis McShane.
The problem with this kind of analysis is that it's to short-sighted. The main benefit of advertising has never been direct conversions. Rather, the main benefit is keeping the brand in people's minds, so that they'll be more likely to come to you in the future.

When Coke buys a commercial slot on a TV network, do they expect someone to say "Holy crap, I need to drink a Coke right now!", turn off their TV, and drive to the grocery store? Of course not. They're playing a longer game than that.

This is also why the PPC model for internet advertising is totally broken.
I was about to come and mention the same thing. On a 1440x900 monitor I was losing about the bottom 6th of my browser just to an obnoxious signup bar.

Maybe they should take a note from the HTML5 and Javascript revolution and have it auto-hide after a period of time.
Or you know ... microsoft should drop the "emulate badly Apple" act and show real innovation.
We thought so too ✌
Ask HN: What happened to pingwire?
IIRC, this was an HN-announced site, but noticed it's not around any longer.

Sorry if this is old news, but I've just now realized something I was thinking about would benefit greatly from a real-time twitpic feed. Perhaps twitpic doesn't allow this now?

Thanks.
GOT ONE! Try opening a new tab an logging into Google Wallet after a ticket is reserved...That might have been a coincidence, but it worked
Don't know if you're seen http://writeordie.com/, it's mostly for papers. Just remembered it because if you don't write fast enough it starts eating your text.
Technology Parks and Entrepreneurial Outcomes around the World [pdf]
Well, some call it reverse psychology. ✌
"Google I/O is sold out."
If you want a negative view on Bitcoin, the one from the Rational Wiki is pretty good:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Although after reading it I'm still convinced that Bitcoin is a good thing and that its use and value will go up.
I understand the evented nature of Node.js and I'm not taking that away. In the code example I gave I'm still using the async methods.

DirectoryScanner.scanLibraries = function(librariesRoot) {
// Asynchronous Function Callback function
// | |
fs.readdir(librariesRoot, this.onLibrariesDirRead.bind(this));
};

All I've done is pass in a bound method on an object as the callback function. OOP does work for Node as far as I can tell I broke nothing with my code, it's all async/evented...

Can you give me an example as to how my coding style would break Node? I'm genuinely confused.
Pinterest Web Analytics Puts Third-Party Developers And APIs Into Focus
It very well could be, but part of the idea here is to make it as much of a "product" as it is a consulting gig. Having a clear scope and a document delivered at the end should help keep things clear-cut, and simple for both parties. In theory, at least.
It was windows "No Thanks" in my circles. But win 2000 was a gem - I liked it much more than XP back in the day.
I considered doing this same thing a few years ago but decided that I don't scale. I'm glad someone is trying it out. I'm curious to see if there's a market.
All sold out.
... but without the profanity.
I'm getting registration closed messages now. 6 instances of getting a ticket slot and having wallet time out. Disappointed.
You should really try to see the issue from the point of view of someone who simply doesn't want to be locked into Apple's walled garden, or who doesn't like the way Apple does things. When I can get the same hardware without any software restrictions - Apple products seem overpriced to me. But again, that's because my valuation is completely subjective. You obviously see some value in Apple's offerings.

This is not some left over thought from the PC era, so please - give that a rest. It's about wanting some modicum of control where Apple offers none.
Google I/O is sold out
7:50pm PST - it says "Internal Error" then "Registration closed"
yeah well, my response was a little tongue in cheek. i tend to watch the videos online. people don't go there just to watch stuff. they go there to network, and get free stuff.

contrary to what the current conference/technology trend may dictate, technology is not a rockband where the live show is better than the studio recording.
Registration is now closed.
Archiving content is one thing but to able to use it again is another.

We are helping users move to tumblr & save their blog. So far moved 500000+ posts (mostly small blogs). But we are not able to help all the users who have multiple images and videos in a post. Currently we support only single image & audio posts. If we can find a way to host their files separately on S3 permanently, then the move would be effortless & many would thank.

There are so many users who don't understand what to do with their backup, for them moving to wordpress is too complex task.

I have reached out to Sachin aggarwal, but yet to hear a positive reply. Tumblr also rejected to host the files of Posterous blogs.

We are ready to collaborate with anyone who can host users file permanently, if needed users can pay directly to you. We were also considering dropbox for hosting files. Moving to new blog platform is a pain and we wanted to minimize as much as possible.

Any advice is appreciated (http://justmigrate.com)
Google Offers Help to Webmasters Whose Sites Were Hacked
I can ignore the auto-playing video well enough, but jesus, why anyone decided to bring back auto-playing video WITH SOUND is beyond me.
In my previous life as an enterprise code monkey I've came across good and bad Architects. Just knowing and being able to tell me how something could be done better is valuable. But I found my frustration often was 'just f*ing do it!'.

If an Architect came with great refactoring suggestions that would take minutes or even seconds to implement, what's the value in dumping me with a document?

The best Architects would just do it if it was straightforward, review it with me (so I'd see why/if it was better and teach me) then commit.

I'd like to see a similar thing here. Hands-on code reviews with commits. There's little I hate more than documents that never get actioned.

I love the spirit of this service but add in commits to make it dynamite.
As opposed to the many different and less terse idioms you have to do with regular languages? :)

Everything is alien before it becomes familiar, I think a condensed guide to get people up to speed on the symbols is all that's necessary.

APL doesn't feel like a weird throwback, it feels like it is from the future.
Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes
Same error. Now sold out.
I feel like this article on generalization could be a biography of my life based solely on the introductory paragraph, but I don't have enough time to finish reading it to be certain.
http://imgur.com/B7xRaPZ
sold out :(
Exactly. Remember the Neo Geo? Arcade-quality games... better than any other console of its time! The price point killed it.
I'm pretty convinced it's a bad thing but that the same thing will happen!
Finally got a ticket reservation @7:40PDT.

Checkout #1. Timeout - Wallet shows a cancelled transaction - "Unable to notify the merchant of this order.". Pending transaction of $900 showing on bank account.

Checkout #2. Same as above. Now bank shows two pending transactions for $900.

Checkout #3. Card is now declined.

Checkout #4. Ticket reservation expires, redirect to start.

7:50PDT - Registration is now closed.
well that was a waste of an hour...
This bit alone makes the article worth reading.

"Make no bones about it, HTML5 design is a massive, musty elephant in the room, and it is about to charge. In its path lies a flailing, unarmed Jakob Nielsen, backed up with legions of user experience professionals, who are gently sobbing."
Annddd... registrations is closed. SOLD OUT.
Experiments with Cornell Boxes - Eyeo 2012
registration is closed, apparently
Oops, noob mistake. stech.joe+hn at gmail dotcom
Better than I managed.
Same here. Got a "ticket" 6 different times and had wallet failures til timeout. A friend of mine got his, though. I am no longer speaking to him. :)
It depends on your WiFi card. Most Intel cards are pretty much plug and play in terms of packet injection and wireless cracking, but some strange WiFi cards can be hard to get working.
What can we say, except for JFDIN ✌
What is the added value of being there physically?
I wouldn't use OSX in an enterprise either. For almost exactly the same reasons.
I made tons of cash developing for NT both for clients and for myself.
I loved the platform and loved clear, well defined and well documented set of Win32 API's, exceptional debugging tools and development tools.
And then came Ballmer with his complete lack of vision, absence of creativity, bigger-than-god ego and "me-too" business strategy producing nothing but mediocre and frustrating copycat products and services.

I deviated from development for Microsoft platform as it became overbloated with useless and then quietly abandoned with layers and layers of miscellaneous technologies.

Microsoft superiority is gradually rusting away by more creative and intelligent tools and solutions from other vendors.
Until Ballmer is there - I do not think we can see any major improvements or anything even close to revolutionary new directions.

I wish Bill Gates would take a few months break from developing advanced toilets for Africa and clean up his old beautiful house, starting from the attic.
I agree with a lot of the points, but I'm taking a limited exception to loading screens.

Sure, most of the time in ordinary websites there isn't a point. On the other hand, there is now a class of "website" (such as games, demos, productivity tools etc.) more broadly in the category of "web application" that do need to load a bunch of resources, they can't run before they don't have them, and they will include a loading screen, for good benefit, too.

So the answer to loading screens is really: it depends, and not by default no.
The site says sold out. I just got up.

I hate to be obvious, but putting registration up in the morning for a bunch of developers (most of whom are on the West Coast) isn't the best idea in the entire world. Especially when it sells out in 15 minutes.
I don't hold out much hope for a Bradford on Avon HN Meetup so I'd definitely come along to one in Bath.
The disgusting amount of free swag they throw at you.
I'm not really bothered by the fairness (or otherwise) of it, I'm just amazed that Google keeps getting this so horribly wrong. I thought they might have learned after the Nexus 4 mess that they need to improve their purchasing system, but no.

Their 'fix' appears to have been handling page reloads for us, and making sure it's only done every 30 seconds- rather than, say, addressing the underlying weakness in their system.
"Google I/O is sold out" and I finally got one!!!!! http://i.imgur.com/DYPcEe9.png
Shingle Roofing & Hail Damage: From Inspection to Repairs
From the article: "A council spokesman has told BBC Brasil that among those believed to be those "ghost employees" - as Brazilians call informally those who receive regular wages without actually showing up for work - are public workers in the areas of health, education and security."

Yes. Education especially. The fraud is not always so high-tech. In many places in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America, schoolteachers can be on the taxpayer-subsidized payroll while regularly failing to show up for class on school days. School pupils can't count on teachers being in the building when they show up for school, so sometimes the pupils don't show up for school either. A similar pattern of schoolteacher union takeover of the state education system led to such widespread fraud in Mexico that the president of the schoolteacher union was recently arrested

http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-mexican-...

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130227/mexico-te...

as part of a corruption conspiracy investigation.
Got through the payment screens. Was interrupted during the survey to let me know that my work AMEX was declined :/
I got one though!!! See you guys in May!

http://i.imgur.com/DYPcEe9.png
Warning: Some of the linked-to sites are hosting malware.

Huh . . . is this another bad HTML5 trend? :-)
The Language of Monetization Design
That data includes cars going back to 1984. From what I have heard (and have no citation for this), newer cars remain efficient at higher speeds than 50 mph. Do you know if that's true?
Networking. Early developer advantages; I want to build the first innovative weather app on Glass, for example. It would help immensely to network with the other excited developers and get hardware to develop and test.
No, but thanks for playing.

Specifically, there is no mention in that report of expenses claimed for public relations training.
My brother got a pending charge of $0.00 and a confirmation email and confirmation code. I got a pending charge of $300.00 without either of the two above...guess we have to wait and see what happens...
What does the 404 error have to do with HTML5?
WWE: Where have all the Tag Teams gone?
Not so free if you consider the $900,- fee, excluding the cost to get there and place to stay.
Although I don't think the free stuff helps matters, WWDC tends to be a very similar free for all - slightly less hectic, but that's only because Apple don't give notice of when the tickets are going on sale, so it's more of a mad scramble than a pre-planned thing.

Which is to say, in terms of registration issues I'm not sure making it more technical and getting rid of the free swag would alleviate matters, if you just go by what happens with WWDC.
Instead of a whole new windows how about this:

Disable "Metro" = true,
Enable Start Button = true

Done! Now you have Windows 8 NT
Super stoked to hear about those upcoming posts. What is the guiding strategy for dealing with these complexities? Hold on to everything and only present the relevant ones to the connecting client?
Several options do this, I think all of them paid. Diigo, Historious, and many people here on HN swear by Pinboard.
That's the only reason I attempted(and failed) to get a ticket.
You can use anything in an enterprise if you have infinite budgets and time.

Ubuntu is easily the furthest any Linux vendor has come at producing a workable client, but there is still a long way to go.

Right now managing Ubuntu centrally is painful - I mean having it hook into Kerberos is easy enough but that only gives you control over users and remote files, you still have little control or visibility over the client OS its self.
Better than 8 instances of not finding any tickets, despite starting at 07:00 sharp...
It really depends on the market. I've found that brand terms can convert really well if you can drive them to a targeted microsite or similar segmented area. Usually it means that the customer is far down the purchase funnel, a search for "washing machine" may be just research, "whirlpool washing machine" can mean the brand part of the decision is already made ("whirlpool duet" is even better).
Introducing Netflix Social
Don't know if anyone is still reading this thread.. but I randomly came across a US version of this today too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
Got one at 7:45 PDT. Was a pretty smooth transaction. Got it in my first try for both the ticket and the payment.
Same here. Patiently waited as well..
Oracle Acquires Sequoia-backed Nimbula
> no links are ever broken.

I'd take my broken links over Google's "Did you mean..." any time. Practically speaking, except for constantly recommended stuff, Google's memory doesn't go more than a year or so back in the past, unless you know very precisely what you are looking for (at the very least, title and author of stuff).
So many issues with this article.

What on earth does a 404 page have to do with HTML 5?

Hidden navigation on http://orangesprocket.com/ is a design decision. Is it HTML 5 related because it uses CSS3 animations? This effect could have been achieved in any Javascript framework for quite some time.
Webmasters help for hacked sites
Agh, I clicked at 7:00:02, got a 500, refresh, and I've been retrying on every bounce. Now it's closed :-(
got the ticket but my wallet throw an NoFundsFound
I mentioned this in another thread: lots of engineers do live outside of California. The majority of engineers in the world are not based on Pacific Time.

Last year Apple put WWDC tickets on sale at 5:30AM PDT without notice...the rumour mill suggested this was deliberately done by Apple to ensure more attendees from outside the west coast. I heard something similar from someone at Apple as well.

Whatever time you put tickets on sale, somebody is going to complain. There are certainly two sides to the coin here...I'm not pretending to have a solution, but merely pointing out a time that's convenient to you may well not be convenient to, say, developers in Asia.
Yeah, sat through about 6, 6 minute sessions of loading only to be told it was sold out.

Google, you suck at tickets
It's hard to believe that a site with that kind of traffic & resources hasn't even bothered to concatenate and minify its JS & CSS. Most of the JS files still have comments. Bizarre. They should know better.
I think using Windows Server Core nodes for actual work and a dedicated node for administration and UI has more potential than Windows NT ever had. And honestly, Windows NT was a nightmare. It seemed compatible with Win95/98, but wasn't entirely. And I'm not talking about DirectX here. Back in the days, a HP-67 was a major innovation and some people didn't know what they ever did before getting one, but no one would really want them back today, right?
Y Combinator-Backed GetGoing Helps You Find Big Discounts On Airfare
The Small-State Advantage in the United States Senate
I hear you, but I'm concerned about trampling on other folks' code without being involved in a long term relationship. Code bombs dropped by consultants often have this sort of problem -- where some of the more invasive changes either aren't welcome or are more difficult to integrate with the existing system than they're worth. I'm hoping that having inline examples of working code, with references to the source, strikes a happy medium here. Plus, "teach a man to fish", and all.

That said, we do live in a Git world these days. Maybe a fancier package could include the creation of a branch that implements some of the tweaks/changes/ideas.
China hacker's angst opens a window onto cyber-espionage
While it's possible that too-low fees could hypothetically make the USPTO a drain on the federal balance sheet, it's currently a revenue source. [1]

And there's long been a separate (reduced) fee schedule for "small entities". And it's long been recognized those are still fairly high for situations like the lone-inventor, and such situations make up such a small slice of the USPTO's total revenue, that they certainly could be tweaked to be more accommodating without much net impact.

And because all that was well-known:
The AIA included giving the USPTO some fee-setting authority. And one of their first proposals was to further reduce some small-entity fees and to create a new micro-entity status with commensurately-lower fees.

So it's not only a problem that would be fairly easy to address, without much adverse impact, it's actually already being addressed. (Though not really in-effect until later this year).

[1] Much ink has been spilt over the fact that the USPTO brings in more than it takes from the federal balance sheet, yet their budget has been left so low that they're chronically short on resources and thus backlogged.
Cutting Code
I posted all my code very pretty on my web site.

I have to kill the CIA. That's my problem. Don't worry I got God.

Indexed by file.

Indexed by alphabetical symbol

indexed by address (on a certain install)
I've always thought it would be interesting to see how long it takes tickets to sell out if you had to write a bit of code first. Something simple like fizzbuzz perhaps. The architecture from code jam is there.
Ubuntu SDK Apps are coming
Make Fucking Badass Just Fucking Do It Now API (FBJFDINAPI for short);

If I supply a string of text for a task, I need its ID.

Given an ID, I need the time remaining on the timer.

When the time reaches 0 on a given ID, I need a message to display to my users.
got one finally!
Firefox OS Simulator – previewing version 3.0
Is it possible to install OpenSUSE 12.3 on my Win8 secure boot Asus Zenbook?
The NYT website is not something usual. That's a website made up for a newspaper, a giant newspaper, with dozen of business, info and other resources playing a role of importance in the frontpage. But I'm with you: the web even with HTML5 can be fatty, pretty fat, but I prefer this, than Flash one, forever.
I especially agree with regard to loading screens. For example some blogs have this "gears" animation before they display their text. I'm not sure who ever came up with thinking that might be a good idea... even if the site is slow that it required a few seconds of loading, just showing text and images incrementally means that you can start reading immediately instead of waiting for the "funny" animation.
China to US: Let's Talk About Cybersecurity