skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I have long thought there is scope for someone doing "blogging for those who don't want the commitment of a blog", I think your MVP is a bit too MVP.

One thing you could do to instantly improve is use better URLs for entries - even something like onetimepost.com/23982/ has to beat what's there now.
I'd been wondering why all the news suddenly dried up. Illuminating article.
"title"
> I certainly hope the security industry responds with something good.

Security industry? As you said, it's unlikely they'll be surprised. I'd say if it catches on then we're much more likely to see legislation against these sorts of services unless they enforce valid IDs– hell, give it a month and I'm sure someone could find a way to spin it as a DMCA issue. That seems a whole lot easier to them than actually trying to solve the problem, which is that the locks we use are fundamentally insecure.

All in all though I do think it's a great idea, and I hope it does happen. I might even give it a try since I just welcomed a new roommate and it turns out I didn't have as many spare keys as I thought I did...
While the story went away, did the problem for the company? I personally didn't buy SimCity and I know several people that didn't because of what was up in arms at the time.

To me the damage is done. I won't bother complaining or yelling. I just won't pay $80 and if certain organisations keep associating themselves with poor releases/games why would anyone keep handing over their money.

Especially when you're releasing something like the next SimCity sequel which plays on older gamers' nostalgia, why would people pay for SimCity 2 in a years time if they remember how poorly this one was sent out into the wild?
07:52 < HTP> the CCrypter class of the linode application
context was accessable from outside the wwwroot using
undocumented ColdFusion methods. i was fully able to
decrypt the ccs using the in-memory privkey that they
supplied the password for.

From the 2nd pastebin'd IRC log, http://pastebin.com/7WXRDyAg

Note that he states all information was deleted. They had claimed earlier that CC info would be released on May 1st.

note: temp account because I accidentally set noprocrast delay to 1 week. Whoops!
Do not sign up for Rippln, it's a piramid scheme (and not the next big thing).
If you're in California, most of the conditions in the offer letter are unenforceable anyway. You can quit without notice.
Hieroglifs Translations became “more international”
Hieroglifs Translations became “more international”: the translation company opened a new center in United Kingdom. Read more: http://www.hieroglifstranslations.ro/news/Hieroglifs-Translations-opens-a-translation-agency-in-the-United-Kingdom
How has SEO changed in 2013?
Are you kidding me? This is not a first world problem.
I'm a female entrepreneur in India. I've lived long enough in Silicon Valley for my husband (and co-founder) and me to be acutely aware of how we handle gender issues at home and work. But I face sexism on an everyday basis in society and in the tech circles here. That in itself, is the reason the "real opportunities" are denied for so many women in tech.
I've been getting invites from friends to sign up at http://www.startmyripple.com/

I couldn't find info on the company or it's team. After some more research I found a post on Yahoo about it. I think this guy did a pretty good job explaining the possible dangers when you sign up:

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/rippln-investigation-...

Be warned.
I can't help but notice that it mentioned middle-aged programmers with out of date skills. Part of being a programmer is keeping up with the latest advancements. If you fail to keep up and let your skills become outdated, then that's on you.
thanks for the feedback, will look into that.
That might simply related to the fact the SimCity is a failed game, people stopped playing it and moved on.

There are bigger news to run.
Love to Learn
Analysis and responses like this is what makes HN great.
PrototypeClass.method.call(this)
Very cool project! I'm glad to see this area is getting some attention. I did research in GPU databases a couple summers ago at NEC, if anyone is interested the project is at https://github.com/bakks/virginian .

Some background mixed with some opinion:

This is an area still without a major commercial competitor and there aren't yet any such public product efforts as far as I know (IBM has a couple of researchers publishing on the topic). The difficulty is that really exploiting the GPU requires rethinking architecture from the ground up, including how your query plan handles parallelism, how your data is stored, and most significantly, how to efficiently move data to the GPU for processing. Most databases aren't partitioned nearly well enough to shoehorn GPU processing in on the backend, and it seems like the vast majority of recent database development has been around highly distributed systems and commodity hardware, eg Hadoop. A German company called ParStream has a DB that uses GPUs for certain indexing operations, though last time I spoke to them it sounded like there is much much more that can be done with GPU hardware.

In general, speedup is highly variable, and depends on the data set, indexing characteristics, data type (fixed vs variable length), individual query, etc, but its fairly common to see 10x speedups over optimized multicore query execution. Though the extreme parallelism of the GPU is responsible for some of this, in my opinion the big win there is just absolute memory throughput. Newer Tesla GPUs have a memory throughput of > 100 GB/s without breaking a sweat, while most CPUs are around 30 GB/s. If you can push data through your hardware that quickly, its easy to see how the GPU can have such an advantage.

The difficulty, however, is actually moving the data into GPU memory (1-8 GB generally) to exploit this throughput, which is a major bottleneck (some of my research was around doing this better). I understand that GPU direct disk access is just becoming a reality, which could make this easier. The holy grail, however, is a full-powered integrated server CPU/GPU. If both of these components had equivalent main-memory access and this architecture becomes cheap and commoditized, then GPU databases will immediately become extremely relevant.

I expect that there will be a serious commercial competitor in this area within 3 years, either in the relational data warehousing space (think Vertica) or closely integrated into MapReduce type execution. My guess as to the reason it doesn't exist is that 1) production DB development is really hard and 2) GPU processing is only a really big win for certain workloads, namely heavy analytical/research workloads over fixed-size data. As I said, if GPUs become commoditized in server hardware or fully integrated with CPUs, however, I expect this domain will quickly become extremely important. This is a very cool area and its common to see 10x speedups even with optimized CPU implementations.

Always happy to chat about this stuff, feel free to shoot me a message.
There is an easier answer in all of this. RPS is out of news and trying to bring back to life a story that got them a lot of clicks. Other than when they are attacking someone, I don't see a lot of RPS links making the rounds.
There's also Synergy (http://synergy-foss.org).
Is that for both B2C and B2B companies? PG's article doesn't say, and I have a difficult time envisioning how most seed-stage enterprise software companies could generate a 5-10% w-o-w revenue growth rate. It tends to be much lumpier than that.
> In response to the general subject of driving, it is my opinion that arbitrary point-to-point human mobility is an essential feature of an ideal society. The inability to move from place to place for employment, vacation, or recreation is, again in my opinion, detrimental to society's mutual respect and wellbeing, and leads to economic and cultural segregation.

But a pervasive public transit system, combined with cycling and walking, achieves that. What it doesn't achieve is the capacity to ship large items between arbitrary points, and a distinct comparative slowness when traveling long distances (vaguely defined).

And you could just as easily argue that the health of a society is degraded by the over-usage of what amounts to an isolating coffin on wheels. There are no opportunities to casually chat with a stranger (unless you carpool with different people, or yell out the window at stopped traffic lights) while in transit: only the endpoints of your trip matter for the cross-pollination you speak of. I would expect this results in zones of high quality surrounded by the mortar of low quality areas.

Incidentally, I picked up this book today: http://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp... I haven't read it yet and thus cannot recommend it.
Actually, i can find India in the country list.
You're half-right. T-Mobile's actually been adding service in the 1900MHz band, but it's limited at the moment. http://www.phonedog.com/2013/03/15/t-mobile-says-1900mhz-hsp...
Fun With New York City Birth Names
Notably seclists/nmap is (was?) hosted on Linode and was tampered with in this attack.

Apparently, the hackers looked up a Quora list of notable sites hosted on Linode and went after those [2], suggesting that the attackers wanted to burn a 0day for some notoriety or to damage Linode/Coldfusion reputation.

1. Technical info: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/coldfusion-hack-used...

2. http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/40
I don't know about Analytics, never used it.

But I strongly believe search needs to be decentralized. Something like P2P. I mean it's like basic healthcare rights (or right to live) on the Internet. Without search most of the Internet is blocked for you and this mostly lies in a few corporate behemoths; no, I let me correct it - that's just one!

Or are there already services like that? I don't think DDG can simply read from Google indexes and give us the results or maybe they can but it still is dependent on indexes by Google which shuts accounts without notice and it's gone for good if you don't know anyone inside or your story is picked up from the Internet.
Humorous:
http://www.tardsite.com/rules.htm
http://www.notfortourists.com/Features.aspx?ID=299&city=...

Serious:
http://www.iscvt.org/what_we_do/climate/case_studies/connect...
...sorry, I can't find my bookmarks on this at the moment. The first two links capture the sentiment of my comment anyway.
I've always considered "money shot" to be some gambling term until one of the topics here on HN had me look it up in Urban Dictionary. I think UD is a bit like a medical textbook - sometimes it's better for you not to look into it too much, if you're not a professional.
> More convenient than a hardware store

I'm not too convinced by that, the only times I've had to get keys cut in the last year were because:

- I moved into a new apartment and my landlord only had one set of keys. I didn't always want to be home when my housemates wanted to get in so the first thing we did was get new keys cut.

- I lent a key to my landlord to do repairs, and they didn't return it. I borrowed one of my housemate's key and got a copy cut (protip: copying a copy isn't a great idea) straight away.

I guess maybe it's different in the US, but over here I go past at least five locksmiths on my way to work. Other than that, cool idea :)

(My landlord isn't too great BTW)
First of all, you can have any sort of features you want. So you could certainly look at things like sentence structure, pairs of words and so on.

More importantly, I used "pattern" in a very general sense: there is strictly more structure to a post generated with this system than a random post or even a human-authored one. So repeated words between posts are a pattern, and a very important one at that.
Link to database cannot be established: SQLSTATE[42000] [1203] User db59706 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections
I don't think that's incorrect though.

If there exists a mushroom that tends to be lethal in even small quantities and its usage in recipes is restricted, then the fatalities caused by it will go down.

You might disagree with the method on deontological grounds, but you can't really deny that it is functioning well on consequentialist grounds.
I can't speak to the media/publishing side of things, but personally I stopped talking about SimCity because I stopped playing it.

Looking back at the whole fiasco, I'm positive that the always-online requirement and server overload will forever define the game, but there was a much bigger problem lurking below that issue, which is that the game sucks anyway even if you disregard the early technical issues and the politics around "always-on".

It is, IMO, by far the least fun Maxis "Sim" game I've ever played, and that holds even if you include Spore.
Idea is good, execution is a bit shaky.

On my first attempt the post appeared and disappeared after I hit Enter in Author field.

URL definitely needs to be better. Do what word press does, if possible convert the title to url replacing spaces with hyphens.

Remember the Author name in the cookie. Next time I come prefill the author name.

Include author name in url like onetimepost.com/{author}/{title}. Great SEO.
> Many small companies did not make the list, and the result is that their programs wouldn't run after that upgrade.

I've been developing a programmer’s editor for every version of Windows since 3.0 and can honestly say I never notice any of these issues with newer versions of Windows.

I can safely say the crashes I witnessed where all of my own making.
Firefox OS phone will come to India when they release Firefox OS 2 phone in other parts of world. So unfortunate! :(
Can you suggest a viable alternative to Google Mail? I'm feeling uncomfortable having all my mail in Google's hands but haven't found an alternative yet.
Homeworld <3
AngularJS and scope.$apply
This might be just a coincidence but in the last month or so I've seen this:

1. Google Reader on which I relied for my daily dose of news is going the way of the dodo.

2. HN has a story of a person having his Google acct randomly shut down with no warning and no recourse (and I don't have highly-placed friends in Google so for me something like that would mean I'm screwed forever).

3. Calendar services (on which in part my workplace relies to schedule meetings) going down, and absolutely nobody knows what's going on and even where to look for updates or official reaction from Google.

I think it is time to seriously reconsider how reliant I have become on a services of a company that couldn't care less for me. It'd be probably impossible to quit cold turkey but I'm starting to look into the way to minimize the impact of Google on my life (much of which is related to information services).
I believe the main thing with GSM phones is what frequency it expects to transmit and receive GSM data on. This varies from country to country depending on what frequencies the various telcos could purchase at the time, but these phones support "GSM 850/900/1800/1900" and "UMTS 2100/1900/900" which I believe cover the majority of countries.
> Something I have always felt there would be a good market for would be a compact an inexpensive LVDS (TFT-LCD connector) to some sort of driver (small FPGA or maybe SOC).

search ebay for "lvds dvi" (without quotes), you'll find inexpensive LVDS drivers. For about 30 bucks you get DVI in, LVDS out.
The me the kicker was in the comments (one of the first few):

"JarinArenos says:

I browse plenty of gaming sites… but stories like this are why RPS is the only one that gets AdBlocker disabled"

LOL, this is the audience we're talking about here - people who proudly proclaim to the world how they support their causes by gasp disabling AdBlocker! I can see this guy sitting there, basking in his own self-righteousness, how he's such a good guy for allowing some ads (all of which he ignores) to be shown. And then people wonder why companies need to turn to always-online DRM for their software? Ever wondered why the world is turning SaaS-only, with all it's negatives? See it epitomized here.

PS thinking of it (and OT), isn't there an AdBlocker version that overlays ads with a white float, rather than not downloading them at all?
Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist
I had a similar idea with Urgeous: http://urgeous.com/

It lets one blog by email, without the necessity of prior login ("no login necessary... or possible").

It's not generating much interest but the one consistent advice I got was that people would like to personalize the experience (register their own handle instead of having their posts listed under a number).

So I'm working on this feature now.

Good luck to you anyway!
After you have the pile on the bottom you could throw it up and try to move it without falling down :)
Nice feeback. yeah url need a re-shape, and nice advice on the author field.
I read their home page and still have no idea what the hell they are actually selling or doing.
I just learned it from my other question on Stackoverflow not long ago

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15674880/

It's a cool hack which you can serve low-res, monochrome jpeg in the first scan, and gradually to full-res, full-color jpeg.
If you're in the UK, leave the VAT field blank.

Also, KEONS ARE NOW SOLD OUT!
Ask HN: How to use garb gem (Google Analytics with Ruby on Rails)?
I'm a RoR newbie and like to fetch some data from the google analytics api (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/config/mgmt/v3/) with ruby on rails and the garb gem. You can find the garb gem here: https://github.com/Sija/garb

I struggle at the very beginning, because I don't know things like this:

- should I make a ressource for "authentication", "user", "report"?
- what should I fill inside the controller and what comes inside the model?

The description of this gem on Github is not so detailed for a beginner. Most advanced programmers may use this easy but for me it (the description) says nothing...

Does anyone has a little sample app with this gem? Or does anyone can help me the get some basic data from the google analytics api with RoR?

KR, Fabian
Transmuting Dice, Conserving Entropy
Now the just need to attach it with face detection which require a live entity and not just a photo of the person .
> This is especially true in rural or far-flung suburban areas.

There are ways of addressing this that do not involve increasing the likelihood that you kill yourself, though. Better police in the neighborhood, better public transportation in the exurbs, better access to educational materials, better communication infrastructure, and so on.

These are, of course, harder solutions. It is certainly easier in terms of policy to simply roll the dice and acknowledge that those who survive the commute are more fit for society by virtue of not being dead.
China took the clean energy lead in 2012
Stingyasian
The other descriptions I have found on the internet are also not for beginners:

- http://viget.com/extend/introducing-garb-access-the-google-a...

- http://geekospace.com/working-with-garb-a-rails-gem-for-goog...
Check out the Yahoo link I posted. Sums it all up.
Awesome, just got a Peak!

I got the database error but just keep refreshing and it goes through eventually :)
Without wishing to appear negative, I do find it odd the way that a technical crowd react to these online demos. Would you have found this impressive if it was a compiled executable? Because this is just the same thing, just running slower because it's on the web. It's not technically novel in any way.

If you're curious about the algorithm, then take a look at the presentation 'Advanced Character Physics' by Jacobson. They were used in published games at least 13 years ago and are very widely known and implemented.

I get that there's some novelty to this stuff, but we already know that asm.js can achieve performance within a factor of 2 of compiled C code. Since we know that exists, I don't really see what's interesting about seeing each individual piece of code ported to work on the web.
Just to play devil's advocate: maybe you should factor in public transportation infrastructure when choosing where you live?
You managed to echo my sentiment quite precisely. It's like, while you are young, you had better figure out a hit startup that lets you exit with a large pile of cash. Only then can you have the buffer to take it easy and enjoy your time with family. If you fail to make said exit, then you end up tied to your job, and will have to watch the world and your life go past you.

This thinking has filled me with an urgency and i really feel the need to get the hell out of academia, and go on a "hunting spree" to make money...
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Thanks, I wish the carriers in the US were more forthcoming with technical details.

For anyone else who initially overlooked here is the PC Mag article with the list of relevant cities:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416666,00.asp

Unfortunately, I'm in none of them.
I think drinking cold water before bed is not as good as you make it to be.

Cold water is like shock to your system. It wakes your body up.

Your body needs to work on warming the water first.

Although water itself should be good, warm/hand temperature water should be best.
That question is not applicable to SF. I don't know how else to explain.
I received an invite as well. Not signing up for this.
You have to sign an NDA and cannot remove your account if you want to.
TechCrunch also has a post up: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/22/what-not-to-do-in-your-star...
Getting the same. One fails with denied by bank, and the other fails with "wrong authentication". Their credit card processing website seems to kinda suck..
Bradshaw, objectively make the world a worse place

I'm a huge Sim City fan and I'm really upset I'm not getting the Sim City game I wanted, but let's keep some perspective here. Bradshaw and anything that EA/Maxis says or does has absolutely no effect one way or the other on the world.
Yes, but throw it away piece by piece. Often, tossing the whole thing and rewriting from scratch is a bad idea.
I've never had a problem having "DO NOT COPY" keys copied. When I was the manager of a store I had to get multiple copies of the door keys and case keys at various times working there. OSH, Home Depot, etc didn't ask me any questions, just made my copies and sent me on my way.
XSS-Compatible™
This is absolutely great news!
IMHO throttling to 6Mbit/s is a lot different than throttling to 384kbit/s
I'm actually more worried about this[1]. I don't want my key and associated information stored with bank-grade cryptography, I want it deleted after it's cut and sent out. It's easy enough to change a password if you get hacked, it's slightly more difficult to change a credit or debit card but it's more hassle in "changing all the places it's used" than anything else. But changing locks is a huge pain, and not always possible to do depending on what the key is for. I'd far rather take a picture of a key, save it somewhere secure myself, and send it in when I need a copy made. Having both my shipping address and the key to that address stored on a remote server is particularly worrying to me.

1. http://shloosl.com/#Security
I totally agree - my point was that in many places outside of SV/tech, there are much bigger discrimination issues than the "men's work policies" issue. Sadly, it sounds like you've found the same to be true.
Geeksphone Keon (Firefox OS) is already out of stuck.