skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security is an never ending war. It is evolving. And, there is always a way to crack whatever you want(it may take time). But, the question is: do you really have to waste so much time on secure something? Or, you can use your time to implement something useful.

You are right. Use whatever auth system which is available.
Here is something 80 px wide http://www.novavision.com/clinic_images/Neurol%20Inst%20Colu...

to give you an idea of what kind of value can be added

Sure adding another column could be useful but as you can see by the authors tone he is talking about flow and divisions of columns and how those go well together and in all reality it sure doesn't make a hell of a difference even if you shrink something to add an extra column. After a while you get cluttered and usability/simplicity goes out the window.
Why metrics can be dangerous
My ThinkPad running Vista has all the advantages you list for Mac OS X--I don't have "gestures" but I get to use the TrackPoint + 3 buttons instead, which I greatly prefer. Plus, I have "page up" and "page down" keys.

Can anybody give an example of something that makes Mac OS X better than Vista? I am not worried about driver issues because my hardware vendor gives me good drivers. I'm not worried about malware because I use UAC and because the network clients I use (e.g. IE8 and Chrome) all use more layers of malware mitigation than are even available on Mac OS X.

Also, why do you count your company's preference for Microsoft's 8-year-old version of Windows over modern Mac OS X against Microsoft? Doesn't it show instead that Windows was better 8 years ago than Mac OS X is today?
backup the registry

regedit /e file.reg

restore the registry

regedit /c file.reg
Yeah, but you have to admit Geocities survived a long time; it's been around eons in Web time.
Treasury preparing Chrysler bankruptcy
Ask HN: A User's First Post?
I've been an active HN reader for a while now. This whole time I've been sitting on the sidelines contributing nothing to the discussion; I only recently created a profile.

I'd imagine there's a lot of HN readers like me. It's the classic "free rider" problem. So today I've decided to start adding to the discussion. But is it just me or is your first HN post/comment a little intimidating?

Anyway, considering the bigger picture, there are a lot of other community-based sites (e.g. Yelp, Wikipedia, etc.) that have the same free rider problem. I'm curious if there's any data out there on the percentage of members that actually contribute to these sites in the form of comments, postings, reviews, etc. And also, have you seen these sites do anything to actively encourage someone to leave their first post? I'd imagine that's the biggest barrier.
+1 for using svn for schoolwork. No matter what schoolwork I did, if it was on a computer it was in a repo. Nothing beats a plagiarism accusation like being able to provide 40 revisions of your previous work spread over a few months.
I love the phrase "platform agnostic." Does that mean that one doesn't think it is possible to know whether there are platforms or not?
[Edit: that was a quick downvote; less than 30 seconds. Sorry to spoil it for ya, this could have been another high-brow discussion about scientific advances and what have you, but you can't solve all problems with science :-]

Why not solve this by, you know, asking for the community's help and not be hell bent on hanging a teenager or sending him to life in prison? They would never have been in this legal dilemma to begin with if they didn't insist on keeping this wounded[1] broke ass dimwit, and been cowboys for, and the A-Team of, Justice and the American Way(TM) in Somali waters.

I am a Somali and speak the language; the pirates agreed to release the hostage if they were allowed to go home free. Guess who didn't wanna take this? That's right, them boys with them fancy guns; the new Lockheed scopes had to be tested. Fuckit, who cares if some Vermont dweeb takes a hit? we call it a failed stand off and blame the Somalis. Fortunately, things turned out a little easier and three pirates were killed. Mission accomplished? no. Someone somewhere had to be the hero and hit two birds with one stone; 1) Prove that no act of aggression against American interests goes unpunished, and 2) Show that "even our enemies have rights" and we're a people of law and respect .... WHAT? The fucker is a minor? and he boarded our ship under truce to negotiate with us? Why are you telling me this after we agreed to a press-conference and flown the fucker to JFK?

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[1] he was stabbed in the arm and the neck when he went on board for negation.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article61...
Google for 80-19-1
Mentioned in the article.

"They are energetic and excited about getting paid to do something they really enjoy (and probably have been doing on a small scale for years without pay). "

"Others think there must be a better, more humane and sustainable way to do this work, and they found their own projects with better conditions. This latter group seems less visible and prosperous, although more outspoken."
Reddit, actually. I don't read comments, but I do have a pretty beefy set of sub-reddits which are able to find a lot of good reads. My sub-reddits:

browsers, business, c_language, C_Programming, cogsci, compsci, computergraphics, computers, ComputerSecurity, economy, energy, erlang, Flash_Programming, functional, functionallang, geek, hacking, haskell, javascript, lectures, linux, lisp, math, operabrowser, plt, programming, ProgrammingLanguages, Python, robotics, ruby, scheme, science, software, softwaredevelopment, startups, technology, tedtalks, virtualization, web_design, and for fun WebGames,
That would be a step in the wrong direction, in my opinion. Pseudo-leetspeek hacker news? It's even sketchier.
You know, I'm not one of those weirdos that think desktop applications are going away. But I'd say most people who keep up with software development believe that's the case. <rant>I think that would be pretty bad if the best we'll ever be able to do is Javascript.</rant> Anyway, IF most apps people are using are Web based and compatible with Firefox or a Flash version supported in Ubuntu ... it seems less and less like there would be much point in paying for, using, and dealing with Windows.

I think most seniors can just about already switch fine to Ubuntu.
On one email list I moderate, I tell all participants in an automated welcome message that they are encouraged to introduce themselves to the list, and that once they have, they will be taken off the moderation of submitted messages that is the default on that list. Over time (four years), about a third of the subscribers have posted, as I can tell from how many users are no longer on moderation. There are almost 500 subscribers on that list, all sharing a membership in a state organization of which I am president.
Microsoft has paid "special dividennds", some quite large ones (it paid 3 dollars per share , or 32 billion dollars juste a couple of years ago), so it's historical dividends aren't that bad.
Well, traders more specifically. You see plenty of 50-year old senior investment bankers -- they're the ones with the client relationships who bring in the big deals. It's pretty rare to see a trader over 40.
Piracy is a crime against the law of nations,

http://cornellsun.com/node/37087

and there doesn't seem to be any serious doubt that the four men who had guns in the lifeboat of the Maersk Alabama had got into the lifeboat after committing an act of piracy.
must be great for twitter to have an entire blog donating such vast resources for QA. i'd read the article, but TechCrunch is currently (and probably will remain) mapped to localhost in my /etc/hosts
Angel Investing is Where VC was 25 Years Ago
I thought those were just aimed at Hipsters and people who drink Pabst Blue Ribbon?
What’s a Necessity?
Whatever happened to the top 15 Web properties of April 1999?
The title is unfortunate: it doesn't reflect the tone of the article; the UK government isn't plotting against the dollar's reserve status; and the phrase "dollar as global reserve currency" implies a monopoly that does not exist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency).

http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1... has more information on what special drawing rights are, and some of the politics involved.
Unfortunately, I went to business school and remember the Pareto principle (80% of something comes from 20% of the population). The Feld post on 80-19-1 was a great read though b/c it talked about it in the context of user-generated content sites.

Basically the post says, at sites like Judy’s Book or Digg, 80% of users will always be passive, 19% of users sit on the fence, and only 1% of users are active and contribute.

I’m wondering what strategies these sites have come up with to tip that 19% over the fence to actively contribute, if there are any.
Deep Thought
This is established, but it doesn't help ONE bit in determining the age of the captured pirate.

Here is how to find out his age: hand him over to the provisional unrecognized government of that part of Somalia, it's called Puntland, and let THEM use their local resources, find out who he is and who he went to school with.

If we handed Saddam Hussein to the provisional Iraqi government, and didn't bother bringing him here, then why would we get our hands dirty with the trial of some low-life criminal? I will tell you why, because someone in .gov thought it was a good idea to project the new administration as a transnational law-abiding citizen of the world, yet still capable of delivering ass-whooping solutions where necessary. It goes hand in hand with the Obama administration's image of itself as a Canada with a better military. All the sensitive feel-good B.S. of the /other/ developed nations, plus all the interventionist, gungho mentality of Bush Jr.'s
The thing that really annoys me is that "You are required to contribute a $50 application fee to help cover processing costs." in order to apply.

Seems somewhat scammy to me.
I think that's a great idea. And 33% is a hell of a lot more than 1%. I think basically you found a clever way to convince a lof the people that Feld would say are "on the fence" to become active users by breaking down the biggest barrier, the first post.
Python That Doesn't Suck: Whitespace-Inactive Python
after ... building it, ... they’ll understand the whole.

While I agree that understanding is a motivation and that building it does help, as your ideas become more complex, just being able to code it does not mean that you understand it perfectly.

My coding thrills are for understanding, for automation, and for impact (including the childlike-joy of just seeing something happen when I do something).

For me, the PC is an experimental lab. I can quickly test my hypotheses; and get fresh data, which inspire new hypotheses. The PC is a means, not an end.
You just inspired me for a CAPTCHA replacement. Simply asking questions can't work because we either have to have a preformulated DB of questions and answers (which could be cracked easily) or have to generate the question from a simple enough formula that a computer could derive the answer. How about, instead, we generate CAPTCHA questions on-demand from humans? Or, even better, don't bother with an automated Turing Test at all: just pay people to have a short conversation with the possible bot, and then say whether they think they're human or not.
The USA is going to lock him and up in the tortuous federal supermax prison no matter what age he is, international outrage be damned.

If Abduwali knew what he was in for he wouldn't have been smiling for the cameras. I would take life in Somalia over ADX without hesitation.
Here is how to find out his age

My first reply to you was to the issue of letting him go. The United States authorities who captured the pirate have good legal authority to keep him in their custody. But as to the issue of finding out his age, that is certainly an issue that his defense lawyers will bring up at his trial. That is always brought up if there is any doubt about a defendant's age. Any competent witness who has information about his age is likely to be called at trial, either by the defense or by the prosecution. If the provisional government of Somalia is in good working order, the witnesses will be produced at the trial and testify.
So on one hand, no country should ever take its currency's favor status for granted. But if you've ever spent a fraction of your life looking at the rules and regulations behind currency trading by central banks, you'll see two rules everywhere:

1 - Every central bank will trade its own currency.

2 - Every central bank will trade in USD.

(Even if they hate the USD with a blinding passion.)

The USD is the global standard not because of some diabolical scheme by the US, but rather because it is liquid beyond liquid. EVERYONE IS WILLING TO TRADE IT!!

Can the same be said about the Mexican Peso ? Nope, even some of its neighboring central banks are not willing to trade it.
I assume you mean "lock him up," and, yes, I would expect the defendant to end up doing a long prison sentence here in the United States, after a trial and a vigorous defense.
this could have been another high-brow discussion about scientific advances and what have you

Yes, the article was submitted for discussion of the science involved.
The only other good news filter is the set of friends and peers I find interesting.

Social voting in the form of posting links and content is awesome. I do this on Twitter, FriendFeed, Tumblr, and Facebook.

It's the people that matter here, which is also why I like In.News.
Can anybody give an example of something that makes Mac OS X better than Vista?

It's Unix. That's the big one. Unix isn't necessarily the Platonic ideal of an operating system, but it is the standard. Learn it, and you know an OS that runs on almost all the hardware in the world and that powers the majority of the web.

No more Cygwin. No struggling with bizarrely different Windows semantics. No falling behind the open-source development curve -- git works better, ruby works better. Any software which is developed on Mac or Linux works better on Macs or Linux boxes -- that's where the bugs get fixed first.

Obvious other reasons to love the Mac include really not worrying about malware, and the Mac software community and its well-designed Mac-only apps. I'm not a heavy user of such things, yet even I have a few that I would be loath to give up: 1Password, Quicksilver, Textmate [1], Pixelmator, xScope, iWork, HandBrake, VisualHub.

A final obvious reason: Mac users have Windows around if we want it. [2] I've got two Windows VMs on this machine right now, which I use for the dreaded Quickbooks (argh), the occasional game, and (of course) cross-browser testing of web page rendering.

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[1] Though I use emacs most of the time.

[2] Windows users can apparently also have the Mac around... but it's not supported, and they have to solve a lot of those pesky driver issues.
...that, or they're simply a diverse company whose fortunes are well-correlated with the economy, whereas Apple makes several fashionable consumer items.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1y&s=%5EGSPC&l=on...
The other sites I read are too elite, I don't want to blow them up by posting them here.
Great. So now you can write code that you can only get the rest of the world to use, if it's so absolutely magnificent that they'll replace their default interpreter for it?

They might have also made it auto-insert the "self" method parameters, while they were at it (I'm ignorant enough that I don't understand the usefulness of those...)
Checklists of features tell you nothing about how well they are implemented.

OS X features are implemented with attention to all of the details that make them a joy to use. I rarely get frustrated anymore because my computer isn't doing want I want it to.

Check that. I still get seriously frustrated whenever I make a new feature for our site, verify that it works in every browser other than IE, and then test it in IE to see that I need to perform some javascript, css & dom acrobatics to get it working.
The entry-level editions of DB2 and WebSphere Application Server are both free. They aren't open source, but you certainly don't have to pay $20K. DB2 has far superior XML support than any open source database, so forward thinking developers can get a lot of value there for certain applications.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/community/
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/
I'd liken their products to an interesting genetic mutation rather than an evolutionary step. The original machines were expensive and didn't seem to serve any purpose other than allowing people to say gee-wiz. Their claim was that, since the device ran windows, corporations could use existing apps as-is and make them mobile. Nevermind that these apps relied on either (1) a real keyboard for green screen legacy cases or (2) large type and a real mouse. So, developers would have had to modify/rewrite anyway. Therefore, why not write for a blackberry which had the wan connectivity issues solved a long time ago?
Does @charitywater know you're using @charitywater_tw ?
Start them off with a hideous default avatar and intro post. Cheney pic and you fill in the rest. Look at a default wordpress install. You have to take immediate action to not publicly look like you're lazy.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/ and http://www.newsvine.com for mainstream news
Is this a joke? I don't mean to be insulting if it's not, but "Python That Doesn't Suck" seems intentionally inflammatory. And as a Python coder, the idea of the parser disregarding the indentation seems silly.
Tell HN: My account was vaporized for no good reason.
I was posting under the name banned_man. I was downvoted for stupid/bad reasons and started a thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576552 ; you'll need to turn on showdead in your profile) to discuss an annoying recent trend of downvotes for stupid reasons.

The thread was killed, which was a reasonable decision, but I found myself unable to log into the account. It seems to have been terminated. While killing the thread was potentially reasonable, nuking that account was not the right decision. That was ridiculous and unfair.

Although I've enjoyed this forum in the past, I don't have any interest in posting here any longer, given how the quality of discussion and contributors has declined in the past couple of months. I'm only posting this because the HN community should know that peoples' accounts are being vaporized for not-very-good reasons.

[Edit: I'm linking my contribs so you can form your own judgment as to whether or not I'm a troll: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=banned_man ]
"Any competent witness who has information about his age is likely to be called at trial"

And provide an opportunity for the prosecuting government to indulge itself as righteous and morally upright. This is cultural posturing at best, using one hungry man to an advance an agenda and project a world-wide image.

There is no need to drag the issue any further; no American was harmed and no American ship was robbed. He is no Eichmann, hunted down to face justice. And he is no Hannibal, driven to Rome in shackles to face the imperial might he had the audacity to challenge. He is a hungry man with a rusty AK who risked his life in an unseaworthy vessel to take a shot at instant wealth, LA gang style. But my feeling is that the government will ride this pony until it gets what it wants, not just the global image improvement when he is slapped with an easy 10 year sentence, but possibly an American base or an outpost in his part of the world.
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Cognitive fun is good for neuroscience. It's small, but extremely focused.
http://cognitivefun.net/talk
Die, yes. Innovate, I dunno. This thing never had a chance.
I never felt any barrier to posting on HN. Nearly everyone on this site is pretty welcoming. Just comment on something that interests you, or that you know something about.

By the way, for me, and I suspect many others, it's not really a free rider problem like you describe. I don't gain much by simply having a collection of interesting links, nor do I feel like I'm doing a service when I post a comment or article. I gain from the actual discussions around interesting articles, especially when people respond to my comments.
I agree on the merits of DB2 -- I've used it before, and it seems pretty nice.

The free versions are great until you want to scale vertically:

* Processor: 2 cores
* Memory: 2 GB

That's the limits unless you pay for support. It goes up from there.
Well, I went with that name 1) because I couldn't think of anything better, and 2) because if you don't think python's whitespace-activeness sucks, you're not going to use it anyway.

Truthfully, I think I could get used to it (I'm a rubyist myself). But I've talked to a number of people who have said basically, "I've heard it's a cool language, but I hate/will not use whitespace-activeness.
LoseThos V5.05 Released: 64-bit, Free, Open Source, Operating System. Not a Unix
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Yes precisely, because the similarity is that the US started the process of both times by starting expensive foreign wars and borrowing big to pay for them. Nixon dropped the Gold standard because countries holding USD (notably the French) were starting to get nervous about the massive waste of money in Vietnam and started demanding Gold for their USD. That was the true start to inflation in the 1970's, and very much a US-based event.

I didn't compare it to the Asian financial crisis of 1998 or the LTCM crisis of 1999 because the US didn't start those off.

My main point is the Vietnam ~= Iraq and Oil Crisis 1973/74 ~= Oil Price Spike 2007/8, so therefore hyperinflation 1975-1982 ~= hyperinflation 20009-??
no American was harmed

Are you seriously saying that being confined on a lifeboat with four armed men for days at sea is not any harm at all? In general, threatening people with deadly weapons crosses the line into "violent crime," even if none of the weapons are discharged.

And the ship was carrying RELIEF SUPPLIES for Somalia, which were delayed in delivery to the pirates' compatriots.
I don't think they have WiMax in NY yet, but they should soon That's what I'd hold out for.
Offer them a lottery to live in American prisons and I can get you enough Somali youth to fill the justice system up in a weekend.

The American tough guys I have seen are pampered Care Bears compared to the Somali "Moryan"; they go for days without food, running on Qat, cigarettes and methamphetamines. Completely irrational, for example, it's not unusual for a moryan to attack you with a knife so he can take your gun.
I love Zappos as much as the next guy, but I wonder if people feel like they're being forced to be happy.

If I was haxin mad codez, and someone walked in and it was expected that I'd get up and wave to them in a silly way, I'd probably flip them the bird. I wonder if you can decide not to partake in all the look-we're-so-happy-awesomeness. I love having fun at work as much as every other person, but some of this feels a little too much.

Maybe I should go take the damn tour.
I almost never spend time on a community without contributing. If the other users are annoying, I stop, e.g. reddit. I still vote there though.
ADX is not your average American prison.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...
Ask HN: Django Site Samples
All --

My team is building a site using django. We're in the very very early stages; however, I'm curious about the final product.

Would any of you mind posting some sample django sites

For example:

a django site with very extensiver traffic (one that's popular)

a django site that looks really nice

one that is very fast

Not sure how useful categories will be; regardless, I'd really appreciate any sample django sites. For some reason I can't find any on google

Thanks