skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Am I only one not too concerned about the Chinese hackers stealing my WordPress support forums password then posting WordPress support questions using my login credentials? It's almost a nuisance that a support forum requires you to create a user account at all!
Apparently Android 1.5 is twice as good as iPhone 2.2.

Can we get him to plot in emacs and vi and be done with it? :)
8 & 9 already exist in a number of places around the country.

10 exists in that there is plenty of cheap land all over the US. I have a neighbor that's selling off property for about $12,000/acre. Is that cheap enough? Move a bit farther north and you can find land for less than $8k/acre. You can build a small house for less than $25k if you start with a prefab building. Material cost is less likely to be a problem than people worrying that no one will want to buy the house when they move: that's why no-one builds small houses outside of trailer parks.

What would I like to see funded? Cheap satellite internet so I can move into the middle of nowhere or live on a boat with no POTS, DSL or cell coverage and still get at least a 1Mbps upload and download. I live just 45 minutes outside a major city and I barely have cell coverage in my living room!
Ya I can imagine that supporting the e-book doctypes would be a huge asset for them.
I consider myself to be a highly competent web developer/designer hybrid. But is it getting to the point where even for experienced developers, it makes sense to use something like Weebly? Especially for projects that don't require much customization?
I'm guessing that the interpretation of "Apple-labeled" means "labeled by Apple" and not "labeled WITH Apple labels", but what do I know.

As far as I can tell, it's somewhat vague unless that is accepted legal terminology to denote 'something labeled by Apple', so shame on them for writing a less-than-ironclad TOS (if in fact it isn't.)
Choose Nokia or Samsung Phones
Choosing Nokia or Samsung cell phones can be very tough at times since both companies manufacture amazing...
I'm wondering if it'd be practical to port Gecko or WebKit to Silverlight or Flex, so a site could simply launch itself in an embedded browser, transparently from inside IE?
EFF 'Teaching Copyright' to Correct Entertainment Industry Misinformation
Nice article discussing the importance of general knowledge (as opposed to detailed, technical knowledge).

Implicit in the article is the idea that there is an evergrowing gap between smart people and the professional, technical crowd.

While universities and research institutions are rapidly advancing knowledge, there does not seem to the author to be a reliable source for understanding the classic insights from the past or taking a high level view on the latest technical advances.

Interestingly, he doesn't mention wikipedia, talk about social networks, or consider the many online content such as blogging, hubpages, or knol.
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White Oak is the main sponsor of PyCon 2009.

Must be a US Citizen.

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I mean I'd like to give a user of an application money -- preferably, transfer it directly into their bank account. Or not even a user.

If we can't, that's stupid.

I mean, if the customer had a merchant account and a web interface for it, I could use it to send him money from my debit card or a corporate cc.

From my exhaustive research (googling over this crappy latin american wifi), it looks like the answer is "that's impossible; use paypal to do it by hand."

Stupid, if true.
Choicehow
One great weblog.
Compleatly ignores inflation and defaults.
Perhaps no perfect scheme, but you can do better than provide a "lock someone out of their account if you know their username" button as described above.
yeah this sounds like something that could totally take over the current model of Weebly; not in the sense of a new business model (they are still charging for domain / DNS services) - but I think this could bolster that model up so nicely - they may have to focus on this more, thus becoming their core offering.
umm.... this project has been dead for so long.... this was a candidate a LONG TIME ago for the gnu operating system... you can read (if you really want to) about the hurd and how this was the main candidate until development stopped...
Unnovation
Actually if YouTube opened up access for pay-to-use services I can think of at least one business model.

There's a guy here on HN who rents how-to DVDs. I would pay a fee to view the content on YouTube to avoid having to wait for the DVD to be mailed. Maybe $5 for 12 hours of access.

This would be an interesting way to monetize YouTube: act as a video provider to small businesses who want to sell content, but don't want to deal with the hassle of managing their own servers and would like to take advantage of the name recognition.
12 LogoType Designs - Have you Seen These Series - Part 1
Paypal killer.

Ebay killer.
Popular languages on GitHub ranked by number of bytes stored
hmmm if you can transfer money into your merchant account then transferring money into someone else's account should be straight forward but that's not the case. I would suggest pay-pal but transferring money into someone's bank account would actually take 3-5 working days from it so that sucks...but yes you are right pay pal is the only way...
"Doesn't this fall down on its face as soon as you have a competitor with a team or product significantly better than yours?"

No. For many reasons:

- If they're significantly better, they won't be for long.

- If the pie is big enough, there will still be plenty of business even if your slice is relatively small

- Imperfections in the market (friction) will give lagging competitors a chance to catch up

- Many commercial customers will buy anything but what their competitors are buying. There has to be more than one offering.

- If the market is big enough, underdogs can still find their niche, which may be bigger than entire markets for other products.

Bottom line: Lots of customers makes up for every other problem just like a rising water level in a stream covers even the most jagged rocks.
Yes but you should make that random password a reset password that starts becoming valid only once used and sends the user directly to a new page where he can change his password
Motorcycle Maintenance and the Matter with Kansas
Some men move the world forward while others watch from the bleachers
Love stuff like this. Wonder if C is that popular or if its verbosity is skewing the results?
That would be right if people didn't use the same email and password as their paypal account everywhere... But since a lot of people do, getting the security right on your web app is important.
When you’re small and risking less, you don’t need a business plan.

While I agree with the general spirit of the artiicle, this particular advice is just stupid. Maybe you don't need a written plan, but you absolutely need to address all the standard points in a normal business plan.
So this is kind of like the study of how humans think ... or their "cognition", say. You could call it a ... cognitive science.

I only mention this because the phrase "cognitive science" isn't mentioned once in the linked article or the call for proposals. Cognitive scientists have been working on the problem of finding the "algorithms of thought" for decades. Look at Marr's Vision, or Randy Gallistel's body of work (in particular his new book Memory and the computational brain) for examples.
Ok, that's fair. It was a cheap shot. Sorry. Here is what I believe:

- There is great intellectual depth in theoretical computer science. This field includes facets that are very close to programming, such as algorithms, and those that are one layer removed, such as complexity theory. These deep subjects are implied by any kind of programming.

- If you believe that today's programming languages have nonsensical constraints, you should explain what those are so that we can all benefit from their removal.
Almost, I suspect the idea is you can understand a lot about say engines by understanding say maximum thermal effecency = 1 - (cold / hot) in Kelvin (which is around 300 on the cold side.) There is also a lot of high end math, but a lot of the useful parts of the field can be understood based on that and say the temperature limits of steel.

Add in Stefan–Boltzmann law; which states that amount of thermal radiations emitted per second per unit area of the surface of a black body is directly proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature (Kelven), and kelvin = Celsius - 273. Which let's you consider the limits of say a large solar thermal collector.

PS: It's often not about precision as much as a sanity check.
Apple made the correct choice when not supporting the DIY crowd

Did they? They certainly lost (didn't gain) the bulk of the PC market which you could argue is a good thing, but also relegates Macs to a much smaller (albeit more profitable per machine) niche market.
The story Gail tells about currency rings true at first, but I don't buy that the link between energy/time/labor and trading value was ever so strong. Even starting with the bartering chair maker and farmer, if the farmer can get a chair for a basket of eggs, he won't give two baskets of eggs for a similar chair to the other chair maker in town just because chair maker B is slow and takes 12 hours to make a chair. Even if there were no fast chair maker around, he may still decide he's better off sitting on the floor or on a stump than paying two baskets of eggs.

The real relevance of time/effort value is this: farmer doesn't pay 1 basket of eggs (6 hours work) for a chair b/c the carpenter spent 6 hours on the chair, he pays 6 hours of work b/c he couldn't have built a nice chair in 6 of his own hours (and there's nothing else he wants/needs more at the moment that he could get with 1 basket).

Commerce has never required anyone to believe (though some may have believed) that a chair was worth a basket of eggs in carbon footprint or in the eyes of God, only that the chair is worth the eggs to me, the farmer.
I think this is a really important study. Humans are so arrogant to believe that other species of animals, (humans are animals, don't forget) do not have emotions or thoughts or communicate with each other in a manner more complex than what we hear as a bark or a chirp.

How do we know they aren't communicating concepts as complicated as "Be careful there is a human approaching and it looks dangerous." with one syllable?

If you look at trends in human communication, across all languages, then you'll find syllable reduction increases as the word frequency increases. There are only 9 words in the 100 most common english words that have more than one syllable, and none with more than 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English

If you look up these words in the dictionary, they are the most difficult to describe. Compare the definition of "the" to the definition of "superfluous"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superfluous

This pattern is not just found in English. Some, perhaps most, Asian languages even include tones in single syllable words to indicate different meanings.

It could be argued then, that perhaps the consciousness of animals is actually more advanced than human consciousness. Who knows? Just because we don't understand them doesn't mean they aren't complex, perhaps the very reason we do not understand them is because they are more complex forms of communication than human communication.

Why too then can't this same principle be applied to their concepts of right and wrong? Their morality?

I don't know any animal, other than humans, that will kill another animal just for the sheer pleasure of it. That seems quite morally corrupt. Animals kill other animals for what appear to be rationalizable reasons, food, competition, self-preservation.

Even when fighting for mates, the loser of a battle is allowed to escape with its life. Sometimes accidents happen and the animals die of injuries, but death is not the intent. Humans intend to kill when they battle.
What are you referring to when you say the NBA is conservative? Play calling? Refereeing?
Yes, its verbosity is skewing the results. Same with PHP, C++, and Java. We can see that Ruby is the most popular language on Github here http://github.com/languages, with 28% of all projects being in Ruby. C, PHP, Java, and C++ rank 6%, 5%, 4%, and 4% respectively.
A WYSIWYG for restaurants is also a nice target (built in menus, pricing, etc.). Perhaps with a built-in reservation system.
better idea, see searches that were made by other people who searched the same thing as you, in a recent search timespan. (for example if I search linux firewall, 10 minutes later I search iptables they are probably related).
As of not too long ago, almost everyone was somehow involved in agriculture, and if they managed not to be, they were surrounded by people that were. this is a link to a good ted talk on how recent it is that we got the luxury not to think about food, and ideas on what that means: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/louise_fresco_on_feeding_...
... and it won't be revived:

http://www.coyotos.org/pipermail/bitc-dev/2009-April/001784....

http://www.coyotos.org/pipermail/coyotos-dev/2009-April/0018...
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Coyotos isn't that interesting, but anyone who's interested in security or OSes should read the EROS papers; there are some mind-blowing ideas in there.
What is a better method? I'm not disagreeing with you. I am encouraging you to share better ideas.
With the Mantis Bug Tracker, users can request a password reset based on username, but it does not prevent the user from continuing to login via the existing password if the user does not get/click on the password reset link from the email.
Bartz Wants To Buy Social And Video Startups
You don't have to do one or the other -- there is a huge middle ground. For the time being, a service like Weebly can't give you a great looking, completely custom design, and may never be able to (design is a very human process).

However, why go through the process of inputting all of the content yourself? You include a few tags, bunch everything up in a .zip file, and hand the theme off to the client, who can upload it into Weebly and create the rest themselves. One bonus: never having to deal with clients that require constant wording changing or fixing spelling mistakes.

Also, want to create a simple site for a hobby, to put your resume on, or to host an open-source project? Weebly is perfect for that, outputs nice, standards-compliant code, and you don't have to waste a lot of time hacking up a design by hand (even if you could). For the more involved site (your startup's site, for example), it will still make sense to start from scratch.
At this point, if MS does not implement these features then it will fall further behind and lose relevance. There are enough people using non IE browsers, that one could create a new site leveraging these features and ignore the IE users, or provide a significantly downgraded experience. The thing is, it would not take much to do so. A couple of fun games here and there with some useful apps at a significantly reduced cost and there goes more of IE's market share.
no, google
Wikipedia + Youtube + Flickr = Navify
What is confusing about this "proof" is there is an implicit trusted third party. Let's call him Charlie.

After solving the Sudoku puzzle, Paula needs to give Charlie her solution, ... and a permutation.

Victor gets to ask one of 28 possible questions, and Charlie gives him the (permuted) response.

When Victor wishes to ask another question, Charlie first gets another (random) permutation from Paula, and then discloses the next (differently permuted) response.

The confusion comes from some readers thinking Paula is the one telling Victor a row, column, block, etc., ... and thus perhaps she might lie or cheat.

Victor needs to be able to rely on the trusted referee who knows the solution, and all Paula is allowed to do is give (valid) permutations, ... and then Victor will be convinced. If Victor needs to rely on Paula, then Victor could save everyone a lot of work and simply ask Paula, "Have you solved this Sudoku puzzle?"

In fact, since Victor needs to be able to rely on a trustworthy third party, Victor need only ask Charlie: "Did Paula give you a valid solution?", ... again, saving everyone lots of work.

While article does talk about Victor being convinced of something (Paula solved the puzzle) with Zero-Knowledge of the specific details of the solution, ... it doesn't seem to be a useful example of how Zero-Knowledge proofs can be put to practical use in Computer Science applications.
Football is not a sport that lends to risky behavior. One or two interceptions could lose a game where you otherwise dominate, and turn a loss into an embarrassment. The laboratory for "let's do something crazy and see if it works" in football is college ball, though you are seeing pro ball get more adventurous in recent years.

Basketball lends itself well to "systems" that work well statistically over the long run: you get dozens of possessions, and the other team gets the same number, so you just maximize your average-case possession outcome (offensively and defensively) and the variance will wash out in a seven game playoff series, or a 90 game season. (Which is why boring teams like the Spurs succeed).

But soccer? In soccer, 95% of what you do has no impact at all. Even if it is theatrical, the average case outcome for a soccer play is that a goal isn't scored at all. So you can play systematically, except like football, a fluke play in soccer can win or lose the game. But unlike football (where interceptions are usually more the passing team's fault than the defending team's credit), soccer allows you to create fluke plays. You can spend most of the game doing almost nothing of interest, pull off a fluke play (at the very end, if you have a flair for the dramatic), and beat a team that had a slight advantage the whole game but never capitalized. Turkey repeatedly did this in Euro 2008 and it was the most fun I've ever had watching any team play any sport ever.

If you're an underdog, and you're going to take a risk, best check which game you're playing, and whether you're good enough for that risk to pay off.
I have a chihuahua that (when left unsupervised) would kill chickens and kittens for fun.

When all its doing is breaking a neck and moving to the next one, it's hard to say that it was just hungry.
Data: Perceptions of VC Industry are Broken
That sounds like a reasonable long-term solution (I never understood why the US mints coins with fake denominations anyway), but it wouldn't apply to this case.
This code doesn't appear to include the anti-karma-bombing restriction on downvoting old comments.
> There is great intellectual depth in theoretical computer science

No one will pay me to do theoretical computer science. The odds are similar to those facing someone seeking to be a concert violinist in a national symphony orchestra.

> nonsensical constraints, you should explain what those are so that we can all benefit from their removal

I find forced syntax to be a nonsensical constraint, and prefer to use S-expressions. Most people are happy in their chains and do not wish for their removal.
Sure, I agree. Just making some minor corrections.
There is NO SECURITY DOWNSIDE to emailing a user's password to them vs. having some multi-step reset procedure.

One downside is that the email can later be found and used by an attacker, whereas the multi-step procedure generally relies on information not present in the directions (such as a birthdate or secret question). An attacker who gains access to the email at a later point (not just intercepted) can gain access to the account without further effort or risk.

Another downside is that exposing the password in plaintext allows the attacker to gain access to other accounts on other systems where the user has used the same password. In contrast, the multi-step approach must be used against every site.

To say that there is 'no downside' is to say that there is no problem with storing passwords in plain text on your server, because if an attacker has gained access to your server they already have access to your accounts. Possibly true, but this ignores the irresponsible and anti-social aspects of exposing a user to further attacks.
Ask HN: Startup advice for Norway, and co-founders there?
Two questions for the entrepreneurs at Hacker News:

1. What advice would you give to increase the chances for having a successful startup based in Norway? I have some ideas about a software product which would solve problems for people, but not much more than that at the moment.

2. What is the best way to find co-founder(s) there? Ideally, I'd be interested in joining a company of two other co-founders, since that would reduce some of the risks for me, and most likely increase the chances of success.

I am considering doing a software startup there, and would like as much advice as possible, and get in
touch with people who might share the same goals. You can also reach me diectly at roeschdal@gmail.com
I think there's no doubt that VC's will have an inherent bias towards people of similar backgrounds to themselves. Which I think is the biggest problem they have. Sometimes a complete outsider or wacko is what's called for. My favorite example of this is "Moneyball" - there was the conventional wisdom in baseball that was never really examined - it took a complete outsider (Billy Beane and/or Bill James) to really rethink it.
Ah... that is interesting! I wonder why that is.

My first reaction is to think that perhaps the behavior you describe and that behavior in humans is the result of surplus supply of prey. In the wild, prey are difficult to find and so they are eaten when killed. When there are more prey than can be eaten, the drive to play and gain hunting experience, becomes killing for sport and a display of suitability for mating.
If you had a better strategy you wouldn't talk about it; you'd invest with it.
I don't see why the machine couldn't/wouldn't store print-ready pages and it looks like it is capable of printing a 4-color cover. You may lose some quality in the actual materials and the book will likely be limited to one size but the fonts, kerning, page margins, etc. can all be controlled by the publisher.
Mostly the style of offense. Teams are much more content to keep the ball around the outside and shoot threes all night than to a) drive into the paint and make something happen on the inside, or b) score points off of fast breaks.
Curveball optical illusion
So iPhone's Safari browser now fully supports HTML 5; audio and video?
Thank you! Yes!

It seems insane to me.

I mean, I can see how it would cause all kinds of money-laundering headaches to regulators, but that had better not be the reason. Because money launderers can already operate with near-absolute impunity (their problems are more organizational, scaling their methods while keeping them under the radar).

There's got to be a bank out there that offers an API like this, but I wonder what the entry point looks like, cost-wise.

Man. This seems like an obviously stupid thing. There should be more options than Paypal.

edit: okay, going offline for next week. Will check back next Tuesday.