skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This system is the entire reason I switched to RSS (first with NetNewsWire, now Google Reader) in the first place. I found myself wasting an incredible amount of time just reloading a website to see if anything's new, processing the page, trying to figure out which articles I might have already read, etc.

Now, in Google Reader, I typically use the "all items" feed and blast through the list, only looking at the headlines. If something interests me, I'll either hit "s" to star it (meaning read later, not now), read it inline (if it's a full-text feed) or middle-click it to put it in a tab and read as soon as I'm done scanning.

If there's under 100 items, it probably only takes me about 5 minutes to go through them. If there are more, I'll typically load up the most post-heavy blogs (which I keep in a folder) and speed through them, then switch over to all feeds and read through them.

My only problem with my current system is that I check Google Reader way more often than I should - but I'm generally fairly happy with how I do it.
The author says "instead of scouring the Web for interesting stories, everything came to me!"

I believe the author is confusing the presentation of content with the filtering. The author went from using a browser, to an RSS reader, back to a browser. What remains unsolved is the problem of filtering uninteresting stories.

The real reason his new solution works is because he's manually filtered stories. But this approach doesn't scale with the number of websites that are being tracked.

What remains unsolved is an algorithm to find stories that are interesting to the author.
I didn't expect to see a downplaying comment from you after your strong stances in this thread and your article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576021

Is it a big deal to properly store the passwords or isn't it?

> stop working on your social shopping cart calendar application right now: I can’t trust you with my Reddit karma score, let alone my credit card number.

and that's what you said for developers using fast 1-way hashes. So it's embarrassing to use md5+salt, but not embarrassing to use plaintext?

The method we use for storing passwords is either vital or it's not-- I'm currently lost as to how you could respond like the above and have such strong feelings about the matter in other discussions.
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This is basically my system. I never hit anything but the all-items feed and I'm pretty strict about leaving zero unread before I navigate away so I can't just pop in for a quick read unless I've got at least 15 minutes to kill. I breeze past most items and middle-click anything interesting that's longer than a screenful.

The downside is I end up having a lot of open tabs with things I want to read.
The overall idea is cool, yet I wonder what is the performance of the "engine", like its max speed, horsepowers, and bars-per-miles usage :-)
Hacker News is my amazing system for browsing the web.
I like to disable the read/unread functionality and read only what grabs my attention.
That title seems inaccurate for a posting that talks about a single article. Having a cogent argument for why exactly that specific event was "ground zero" would have been better.
Let's not forget the Friendster exodus. That was pretty extreme.
I'm very aggressive about starring things.

I only middle-click things that immediately pique my curiosity or that are time-sensitive. If it's something long or that I can read later, it goes into the starred bin.

What's wound up happening is that I have (I think - Google doesn't give an exact count) several thousand starred items in that list that I have yet to read through. I used to feel pressured about this, but I've recently stopped worrying about it. If there's something important I want to come back to later, I can search through it, and if I didn't read it, obviously it can't have been that important.
gets interesting with torrent client
I feel canceled credit card is a too melodramatic metaphor for marginally increased cost of borrowing.

What is more, the cost of borrowing for the Treasury has actually decreased over the course of the crisis [1] to almost nothing at all [2].

1: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/flighttoquality.asp

2: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/RI/OFNtebnd
The Lean Startup Era?
Sharing your SSH commandline
Does it seem realistic that you can just plug it in and push power to the house?
"The movie "Jurassic Park" was a lesson in how resurrecting extinct organisms can go awry."
It truly was.
I can come at this from the other end: part of my consulting deals with end-users on a daily basis, and I've seen even novice users _finally_ starting to use multiple passwords on their own without prompting.

So, it more likely would be a simple case of their forgetting which password they used on that particular system.
at his startup school talk, dhs mentioned:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

not sure if it's considered affordable.
Here's the website of the company described in the linked article: http://www.clariantechnologies.com/

I don't think either component (wind or solar on a commodity scale in residential locations) is a good idea. Small wind turbines and solar panels are barely worth the money, even in the best locations. Most backyards (or whereever you have in mind that isn't a carefully chosen site for the technology in question) are terrible for wind and solar. It's not true everywhere-- there's a lot of wind in North Dakota, and plenty of sun in places like Arizona, but those are rarities. The vast majority of houses don't have many renewable resources available.

Just to be clear: I'm a strong proponent of large scale renewable energy; I work full-time in the solar industry. I just don't think that these products will pay back nearly as much as they will cost, even counting the carbon dioxide emissions they will save.
Ask HN: Are internships mainly for college grads?
I hit my 3 year first-post-college-job anniversary a few months ago, and I want out of my industry because it bores me to tears (storage, fwiw). Not sure what's next, but I've had a lot of fun lately playing around with Python (it's C/C++ at work). I'm thinking maybe a hip, young web biz is a better fit for me, but I have nothing on my resume remotely related.

I know some common advice might be to build something in Python and show it to a potential employer, but I don't think anything I've coded thus far is substantial enough to impress anyone.

So I was wondering, would an internship doing something web-ish/pythony be an option? Even with 3 years work experience? I'd rather not live off savings, so living expenses would be nice...but is this taking a step backwards? Should I do something instead like work harder writing a neato python app? It's just tough finding the hours to build something cool in my free time after burning out at work all day.

Sincerely,
-BoredInMassachusetts
It's probably prohibitively expensive, but from a technical perspective, you can do it.
"Just plug into a wall outlet", it says.

Hmmm...

I have to say, this doesn't smell correct. If this is safe, than it's useless. If it provides enough power to be useful, than it's unsafe.

1) You have to sync to the grid, and if you go out of sync by more than x%, you have to automatically disconnect to protect the grid. Are they doing this? If they're not, it's because their power output is so miniscule that nobody cares.

2) You have to provide ability for line workers to guarantee that you aren't back feeding power onto a line they had turned off and so thought was safe to work on. Are they doing this, or, again, is it a don't care because they're only producing 5 watts or some equally silly power.

I imagine these devices to be so ridiculously low power, that items 1 and 2 are don't cares. However, are they so low powered that we don't even care about risk to the house itself? Plugging into a wall outlet bypasses the breaker-box in the house, Say that you're producing 10A of current with your little device. If your breakers are 15A breakers, now they won't trip until 25A of current is running through that circuit.

My gut feel is that the answer to all these questions is, nobody cares, because they produce embarrassingly low amounts of power which means they're just a way to get rich off of environmental guilt.... Thinking about it that way, I'm all for it.
I did not say that the reviewers were generally incapable of properly reviewing papers, I said that they are less likely to. While most have only the best intentions, those who are capable of subjecting research to proper scrutiny tend to be extremely busy with their own projects as well, especially considering the short time frame they often have for review. The default is to assume that if it passes the lowest threshold for academic rigour (slightly higher than the crackpot test), and conforms to certain practices which vary by field, it is publishable.

I was exaggerating, and for the most part respected journals are of high quality. That does not necessarily have anything to do with the review process. I tend to believe it has more to do with the character of those who choose to do such research (without other significant monetary motivations than the long-shot that what they're working on may produce marketable results).

Regardless, I would not suggest that the review process is not useful and necessary, as it is the best system we have, and works well for the most part given the dynamics of the system it exists in. I simply wanted to point out that it is very far from perfect or provably reliable (I'd argue most academically dishonest research slips through as not notable enough to warrant particular scrutiny anyway and fades into obscurity without question) and that it is vulnerable to gaming by sufficiently knowledgeable people.

Well, that got me off topic without even being the main thrust of my original post. Hit a nerve and started rambling. apologies if my comments came out more critical than I actually feel.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JustIsaDangerousWord and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CouldYouJust
no its cool, they use macs
What kinds of things would you like to work on instead of storage?
I call shenanigans on Dr Einstein.

“Sheep May Safely Graze" is as pop-ish as Bach can get and it would not have been surprising if Bing Crosby put lyrics to it and sang it.
Well, majority of the meat/bindings/scripts etc is written in XML. If you want to use something other than prewritten samples, you'll have to deal with XML. Period.
One needs to deal with large amount of XML for non-pre-canned query. That's a fact.
The thing is, Yahoo has been doing really great things for developers for years now (YUI, BOSS, Hadoop contributions, etc., hell, Douglas Crockford alone, by teaching us what JavaScript ought to look like, has done more for JavaScript development than most whole web-related companies I can think of). And they're really generous with their licensing and usage terms. Google and Facebook look downright stingy in comparison...I've never felt like I could build something of lasting value on those platforms. I would trust Yahoo enough to build something on their platform, if I thought the board of directors weren't going to do something stupid and force a sale to a less enlightened company in the future.

But YQL is pretty brilliant. Takes "microformats" to a whole new level.
The college/department each take a percentage of every dollar that a professor raises to fund his/her research through grants. It ends up being a sizable amount of money, so there's incentive to hire and keep professors that bring in the most research money. There's no direct monetary incentive to hire and keep good teachers who care about undergraduates.
Hypertable running in single node/local mode requires zero configuration and runs orders of magnitude faster than these alternatives when RAM to DB ratio is small.
Socrates by way of Plato said something along the lines of "I'm the wisest man in the land because I know that I know nothing."

It seems to me that many of the geniuses I've read biographies of started with a similar humility and a healthy dose of curiosity, so I always figured that was a good place to start too.
Video: Domino's clip tops the list of the top 5 most damaging viral videos
Given that putting a shortener online takes about 15 seconds, why is this surprising?
Another thing is that the grid power is 3 phase. Your wall outlets are single phase or, at best two phase (for your dryer and oven). So, even if all other considerations were ignored, you're feeding unbalanced power back onto the grid, by not adding power to all three phases.
Not sure on specifics honestly, but it would probably be a web based business (facebook, reddit, amazon) and use python. But maybe it's naive to narrow my search by what language they use.
The joke might not be obvious to some of the folks here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I love screen. Still don't know half of what it can do.
Why go through the trouble of a "2-way" encryption scheme which, as you point out, could easily be compromised by someone with access to the server, instead of just storing a properly salted hash?
Why does it have to be web-based?
It sounds to me like he's trying to discount the perspective that "men have kept women down" by suggesting an alternative explanation, "It's just genetic selection. i.e. men are more aggressive and care about dominination, women are more likeable and care about having families".

I think he is ignoring the fact that men have throughout centuries passed laws that did not allow women to own property, get an education, vote, walk outside their house unveiled etc...

Maybe part of the reason that women didn't build boats and sail around the world was because women weren't allowed to own property in many areas of the world, or because women were prohibited from obtaining an education and learning astronomy.

If you can't study astronomy, it's hard to sail around the world. If you can't study medicine, it's impossible to be a doctor or improve Obstetrical care. If you can't own property by yourself, it's hard to build a business. It's hard to be a political leader if you can't vote.
This sounds exactly like Dave Winer's thoughts on how RSS readers should be structured, minus the correct solution: http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/riverOfNews

From reading the article, the author was clearly using an email-style aggregator. I strongly agree with Dave Winer; this may seem like a good idea at first, but it is grossly at odds with how the human brain works. River-of-news is the way to go and good keystrokes for scanning is the way to go. Google Reader is acceptable. (Ironic, since that's the picture used for the article, but it is clearly not what the author is using. If you look at the picture, it's what you get with a brand-new signup.)
While Hacker News is almost the same as I ask, is there a way to filter items in my RSS feeds by ratings? For example not reading any entries unless other users have rated them at least 4 stars.
I've been wondering if it might be interesting to see webcasts of just smart people coding some project from start to finish, say one hour webcast per day.
The worst part about this is the company knows full well that their product is useless. Their entire business model is taking advantage of guilt and ignorance.

He is no Thomas Edison. So, I suppose he is a lot closer to Don Quixote.
Because that's what I find interesting I guess. Having a living, active product is just sort of fascinating to me. But I'm sure there's non-web stuff out there that I would dig too. The question was more about the internship thing.
really good idea.if some one do it right it can be a business as well.
People are missing the point. The main reason for this is not to defend against "hackers" so much as malicious employees within the company. If you hash and salt the passwords, it's simply not possible for anyone within the organization to access them. Even if you trust all your employees, it can help in avoiding liability.
Well, that Secret Sauce was fun while it lasted.

What really interests me, is how long has it been since Apple did the Airport Express? Years. And that has universal plugs for around the world, just like their laptop chargers.
Torrent client on the plug will be really cool. I can have the plug switched on all the time and can run the client on it without having to run my home computer just for torrent.
Amazon S3 could use them as write-through cache.
You must be new here... ;)
I would love that! I would also like to hear their justification of why they do some things in certain ways.
Any chance I can earn points for not responding?
people who can't possibly actually enjoy music considering their listening tastes.

That sounds contradictory to me. They might like unsophisticated music, but it's still music and they still like it.
Encyclopedic Knowledge, Then vs. Now
If you make your window smaller than about 1000 pixels wide, you get scrollbars. It's not a presentation bug, it's the <pre> tag keeping line lengths like it's supposed to.

Here's an example that you'll probably see:

horixontal scroll bars ----- ----- weeeeeee ----- ----- scroooollllll
Startup Signs: Gang Signs of The Web
How Lehman Got Its Real Estate Fix
Tinker Away, Facebook Says
Linux marketshare hits 1% (according to this site)
Anyone who asserts in blanket terms that his application is secure is providing evidence to the contrary. Anyone who actually groks security won't make any such claim without loading it with carefully-chosen qualifiers.
Yeah, they overreacted. NoScript shouldn't have started out that way. AdBlock Plus shouldn't have forced the issue by making it even more of an "island" war. They should have started with this kind of blog in the first place before escalating on the technical side.

Note that NoScript could easily change their scheme to move further into their island where AdBlock Plus would be forced to invade fully-- it's in no one's interest to escalate before diplomacy has been worked through.

The last thing we need is the light-smattering of gray Firefox addons (who are at worst showing some adsense ads) to be forced to push things deeper into darker areas.

Imagine if this was Symantec and Trend? Microsoft or Apple? Do you really want them to be fighting technically on your machine? In principle, it's just fundamentally bad for us to encourage that kind of behavior. They should use diplomacy, and shine lights in the dark areas before escalating technically.

Yes, NoScript reacted to the escalation fiendishly. I just don't think it was responsible on AdBlock Plus's side to escalate technically on such a minor issue when diplomacy/communication is so much better for everyone.
Not hyperbole-- it's very much in our interest for these guys to sort this out publicly before escalation. It's irresponsible to cause a technical fight on your users machines. Essentially what I said here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590263
Is there a way to do this without having to sudo on one or both ends?
Two people typing into the same shell at the same time, both as root? I don't think this is a good idea.
Comparing power consumption between commercial server and Plug:

365 days = 8760 Hrs

Conventional Server:
Assume 100 watts and cost 15¢/KWH(based on commercial hosting service)
Cost/Year: 8760 * 0.1 * 0.15 = $131.40/Year

Plug:
Cost/Year: 8760 * 0.005 * 0.15 = $6.57/Year

Plug is definitely cheaper and greener.
In the computer age, why are people still asked to do their own taxes?
Isn't it feasible for the government to track all major taxable items by computer so that people don't have to report it themselves?

This is already done to some extent, so why not take it further and get rid of income tax returns altogether?
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/screen/screen_toc.html

Screen is the sort of program where it's really good to skim through its manual now and then. There's tons of stuff in there that most people don't know it can do.

The scroll/copy and paste functionality functionality (under M-[ and M-], where meta is C-a or ` or whatever) is really handy, you can change settings interactively via the : prompt, and you can also interact with the running screen session(s) via scripts.

Also, from my screenrc, a statusbar (looks like this http://shenani.gen.nz/~scott/screen-statusbar.png):

# Set up my status line at the bottom of every frame
caption always "%{gb} %{ck}%m-%d %C %{gb} %{gb}%?%-Lw%?%{ck}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{gb}%?%+Lw%?"
Link bait. One minute it is plain text passwords the next it is this. Somebody call these guys out.
It's not really moot because I never assumed you were asserting that.

But you did just say that you would either not mention or flag as low priority (and the suggestion is grudgingly) a plain text passwords issue because "I would get my ass kicked by my clients and partners". I'll be honest - I wouldn't hire you if I had seen that written publicly like that :(

I sometimes think that one of the major failings in our industry is that we toe the corporate line and never stop to think like a cracker. That's why I have my job - because I do. Some people see plain text passwords as a "making life easier" issue, whereas for me it is a major weakness at the core of the security chain. Throw all you like in the way but, at the end of that day, the passwords are there in clear text waiting for me to find it. It doesn't matter how many different ways I can or cant compromise a site: all I need to do is do it once...

And anyway, my point was less about this specific issue than about how I think you address it wrong. The hashed passwords issue is one you can dress up for a client so they think they get value for money. If they get nothing except a green tick on the "critical errors" page then you leave them with the feeling that they are missing something. Hashing passwords should be fixed - and we can get them to fix it. And at the same time they get something meaningful from their audit :)
I believe this was discussed in the tax day thread, Japan does it this way.
Technology the new engine of central Canada
You don't need to use sudo at all. I just tried it without, it worked fine. (On OpenBSD, but that shouldn't matter.) Logging doesn't have anything to do with sharing sessions, either, though it is quite useful for other stuff.

The multiuser section of the manual is here (http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/screen/screen_25.html), and there are a couple commands for changing user permissions.
You can login as the same user and use the same command (without sudo).
The Power of Ridiculous Reasons
Is there a privacy issue?
I'm not one to break house rules, but sometimes it is necessary. So why did my comment get down voted? Assuming it wasn't a slip of the click etc you have to conclude it was a deliberate decision by someone who didn't _like_ what I said. I don't know what it was in my comment that gave offence to you, guy, but fact #1 is you shouldn't be in charge of our water supply. QED. :)
Buffett Sees ‘Unending Losses’ for Many Newspapers
So much for maintaining objectivity...
Tax isn't about raising money... its purpose is to instill fear and drain your mental energy so you are not equipped to compete with the bureaucratic entity that imposes tax on you.
People don't need music to live, like they do with food. It's a different situation.

My assertion is that if there are people who don't "do" art and people who don't "do" theater, then there must be people who don't "do" music. Yet I've never met anyone who will say this aloud.
Do you have any advice for someone considering becoming a web designer?
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Your math is right, but I'd bet a pretty penny that Oprah's traffic won't have anywhere near a 40% retention rate... I'd guess 10% and call that optimistic.
The answer is simple. There is a huge and powerful tax lobby that doesn't want to see this happen.
Google asks illustrators to work for no money