skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had this idea for a while for an app called ghostbin. It basically a note-taking (or todo) webapp that you didn't have to log in to—the blurb I wrote to remember it was,

'[username].ghostbin.com has a single input box with a submit button. at any time any user can enter a note which will be submitted to that account.

if they want to review or edit their notes, they can enter a password and see the admin page. notes can be viewed, maybe blog style'.

The idea was that when you're on the go, or you simply don't already have a cookie in your browser, you can dump some notes from a meeting, or something to followup later, just by going to an easily memorable URL, and then deal with actually managing the things later on, when you've got the time.

I have no idea how I'd build the thing, though.
where are google maps are used? I see radius search but there are no maps !
Nice catch. It's up there now. Thanks!
I've plugged this here before: I am a big fan of Tracks (http://getontracks.org/). I think I fall much more on the featureful side of the spectrum than people who like the text file approach or something spartan like Gmail tasks.

I'll have to check out Todoist - it sounds like they offer nice grouping features, which is something the vast majority of apps are badly lacking.
140,000 Monitors Sold for 15 Dollars, When Dell Epic Fails
Not sure why I was downvoted: It just got fixed a few minutes ago, as stated on the link and as per my own app.
On another thread, I mentioned that there was a myth that all degrees are equally worthwhile, that the subject didn't matter because really you were "learning to learn". Now that's obviously complete nonsense, so where could it have come from? But that's obvious too: it comes from teachers, who themselves did some random artsy degree, then their teacher training, and having never had an industrial job, really believe it themselves.

I'd like there to be a minimum age for teaching, say 50 or 60, so that we don't get kids (in the sense of experience of the real world) teaching kids. That'd neatly solve the ageism problem too, it would be normal to work in industry for 30-40 years, then go into teaching until you feel like retiring.
Just go to http://awesomeapp.com/ and enter your phone number. We'll install the app whether you want us to or not!
This is the same issue you have when you're building your own analytic system using SQL and you're building big queries to do more complex descriptive, and inferential statistical shenanigans.

No matter the technology, automated tests on known data with expected results are the only way to be sure what you're getting is right. And you better be sure, because people have zero tolerance for inaccurate analytics. They will immediately ignore your tool, permanently.

For instance... if your slot machine analytic system does not include slot machines with apostrophe's in the name in its 'revenue total' column... you are so screwed. Even once you fix the bug, your stuff is tainted. Don't ask me how I know ;)
Yes but if you survive the flight you can switch after you land.
"Apparently you don't understand how it actually works."

Man, nope. No disrespect but if you are regularly querying 12 levels deep into an XML file you have stored in your database then IMO you are almost certainly doing something horribly, horribly wrong.
The gritty person approaches achievement as a marathon.

So make marathon running a criteria by which people are evaluated. I'm not even kidding. Doesn't matter if it takes them 6 hours, since we're measuring character, not athletic ability.
Terrible title, interesting update.
I disagree. The GAE status page was down for hours:
http://code.google.com/status/appengine

What's the point of having a status page it's only up as long as your service? We shouldn't have to hunt around a Google Group for information about what's going on.
Over the past few years I have become convinced that some endeavors, like philosophy or teaching, really only work with older people. There's just too much frame-of-reference stuff that is required to do these well.
Perform math on encrypted data without ever decrypting it
What engine do you suggest? Something simple...

p.s. I'm a rails guy, but can work with php.
I guess anything I post in this thread is going to be downvoted :)
Summary: rain reduces the probability of interaction with people. Interaction with people correlates with homicides. So rain inversely correlates with homicides.
This is singly the most important piece of iPhone news yet. It may even eclipse the announcement of the device itself... From the Computerworld article, the exploit gains root access. Imagine a 21 million phone bot-net created overnight, with the ability to geo-locate each unit and receive audio and video from it. Remember that most PC exploits can be prevented via a firewall, and this cannot. Most PC's are also behind a router and not directly addressable, while phones (via SMS) are not.

How do I stop AT&T from delivering text messages? There's no way to turn them off at the OS level...

EDIT: You can disable text messages by signing up for Smart Limits for Wireless Parental Controls ($5/month). You can then add whitelist numbers and set the SMS quota for greylist numbers to 0.
Personal Bankruptcy Filings increase 40% in June (YoY)
Ask HN: Firefox Collaborative Browsing Plugin - Good idea?
Background:

Today I spent about three hours booking a holiday with my girlfriend. She was sitting next to me on the couch and we took turns in the 'driving' seat. i.e. using the browser. We used one laptop/browser because we were collaborating very tightly. The tasks we were doing include:-

* researching locations, accommodation, flights, activities, car rentals

* managing dates and prices

* doing the bookings - entering personal information & credit card details etc

After the 3 hours we had a two week holiday booked and used probably ~50 different websites. Note: we'd done some research on our own beforehand.

You'd think this would be a fun experience right? Well it was actually very frustrating with the other person wanting certain links to be clicked etc. We have very different browsing styles. Mine doesn't lend itself well to having two people 'driving'. So I ended up just doing whatever my GF wanted.

A few hours later I thought I'd find a tool that would help next time... The closest I got was the cobrowse Firefox plugin - which is a step in the right direction, but doesn't work with FF3 and uses leader-follower collaboration, not true collaboration.

Brainstormed Solution:

Why not use two laptops with two browsers and the ability to share tabs? Features would include the ability to:-

* share/unshare individual tabs

* lock/unlock scroll bars on shared tabs

* enter shared form data (obviously one browser proxies the other to maintain session).

* Maintain relative order of shared tabs.

* Highlight which tab the other person is looking at.

* Graffiti style annotation of webpages

I'm sure there are a bunch of others.

Questions:

How do you manage similar scenarios?

Do you know of any tools that would have helped?

What do you think of my 'Brainstormed Solution' above?

There are obviously some security and technical challenges, but I think it would be a fun project. Just wish I had the time.

Stuart.
believe me, we don't want ownership over any of the ideas. we're also aware that "no-strings-attached" often is not, so I'll grant you that this may all seem rather suspicious. Honestly, I hope people get fabulously happy and can quit the day job off of the $1000 we're handing over. Doing that for somebody is my ROI. But even if all it does is lower the activation energy required for somebody to get off his/her ass and do something awesome or encourage already awesome people to keep going, I think we all win. We could use a little more unfettered joy around us, don't you think?
No problem. I am not too familiar with Hadoop, but those speculative reduce tasks sound like a real blast to debug.

I can see why the approach in your blog would have a lot appeal in that environment. It sounds like some sort of error flagging in combination with a set of heuristics around what failed, how often, what time of day, etc would be the way to go.

I find that intelligent monitoring systems like that are ultimately necessary in systems like this anyway, you just usually end up discovering that the hard way (I know I have, several times. It's one of those lessons you are tempted to unlearn in the interests of expediency). Does Hadoop help you out with that sort of thing?
that may have been true a few years ago but I doubt anyone (except for Rupert, apparently) would argue that FB is nothing short of a full-fledged application platform with millions of built-in customers.
I used Chyrp in the past and actually really liked it. Looking forward to trying this release out when time permits.

In our industry (photography) its hard to convince people to use something other than WordPress (which I don't mind working in, but often find bloated and unnecessary).

I hope that Chyrp (or something like it) can start catching up to WP in terms of community and market share (for self-hosted blogs). I don't know if WP has too much momentum, though.

Nice work
Olympic sprinters wouldn't qualify, even though being competitive at that level requires extreme dedication. But you make a good point; I suppose it's one reason many employers look favorably on resumes which include sporting hobbies.
The nice thing is, now that HTML5 is being specified, parsers can more easily written that will be able to correctly parse the billions of existing Web pages, which aren't in XML anyway.
or at least carry a parachute. business continuity plans should really be part of the spec for everyone who's making money from their app.
Could this be a way of taking ideas? Sounds a bit sketchy to me... specially since the domain is registered to an individual, and not a group/foundation...
There are already companies that do something like this eg. http://www.enfucell.com/
I think this is a great idea, and if I could I'd support a 5K and 10K grant for more complex projects.

Something I have noticed: people tend to do better under a little pressure.

So if you could have some kind of requirements, like regular emails, submitting a video of your work, or an online interview at the end, you might get better results.

Just a thought. Good luck with this!
Can auctions function for goods that are not (practically) scarce?
hope not. too many cooks?
It appears to be accomplishing this using tight polling (from my investigation with FireBug). Interesting and useful, but not exactly innovative from what I can tell. Also, no way to pause or stop it?
I think a tag cloud based on the number of installs of the app would be interesting. As such the most installed apps' tags would be the largest. Just because Travel is the most frequent tag in the store, it doesn't mean that travel-tagged apps are the most installed.
Do they need a reasonable technical explanation? It's their ball, and they can take it home if you don't want to play by their rules. Don't like it? Then, run MySQL/Postgres on Linux.

Perhaps avoiding customer anger is reason enough to avoid arbitrary limitations.
Not just that, but Jeff is a .Net programmer (IIRC, S.O. is written in C#).
Your external motivators are for being phyiscally present in class, not for paying attention much less doing the homework and much less going beyond the recommendations.

Yes, I am certain I could become interested in them, but there would have to be a reason for it. I am not intrinsically interested in them. This means that for me to actually put effort into them some external motivation would be necessary. When I went through, grades and their tie to college admission (and my parents emphasis on them) was quite sufficient. But if I thought lower grades were just fine, then I would still have learned a great deal about the subjects I was interested in, but very little about the others.
This post does a very effective job of highlighting rule #1 of market segmentation: every customer should be almost immediately sure which segment they fit in.

For example: is this computer for business or personal use? do you need the "super-duper full-lenth CGI movie" version, the "regular everyday use" version, or the "i only browse the internet" version? You just can't push it much further than that.

Vista failed miserably on this front, which surely accounted for more than a trivial decline in upgrade sales.
I checked out yubnub based on this comment, is it always this slow?
Not the right place.
I'd rather have 50 loyal Twitter followers than 5,000 I paid for.
The software that runs on any node is pretty trivial as compared to a SQL database. Very easily written and understood. In three years, I assure you the systems will be significantly better and will start to rival many of the features of RDBMS'. At least the ones most relevant to anyone running something like hacker news or stack overflow.
i actually like taskpaper (it's a mac app, but they recently introduced a online service as well).

the nice thing about it is that it understands what you type and displays it nicely formatted.

Taskpaper is created by:
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper
I disagree. For a small to medium size site, getting 99.99% uptime should basically be the default. If you have a competent staff and a decent provider, about the only thing that will take you down is a power/equipment failure at the DC - which does happen, from time to time, admittedly. Yeah, Rackspace had some problems this year, but most of the other tier 1 hosts have been rock solid.

Obviously it's more complex for a large site but for the vast majority I would say that level of uptime is the rule rather than the exception.

Three nines is pretty unacceptable in this day and age. Providers might only guarantee that level of uptime but if they really were down that much I'd run a mile. Netcraft is your friend!

update: edited post to better reflect reality
It's having some trouble with Pandora's interface.
Linus Torvalds thoughts on C++:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...
Blackest Black Ever: Ultra-thin Material Absorbs Almost 100% Of Light
The rain wave going on in the Northeast raises the question - is the reduction in crime on rainy days a temporary phenomenon, or is it something more fundamental? In other words, would an extremely rainy decade see a reduction in crime due to the rain? I'm guessing it would be a reduction, but not as great as the daily ones seen. After all, people adapt, with umbrellas and such.

A similar phenomenon to look at is the increased birth rate observed nine months after blackouts. Blackouts probably cause some births that would have occurred in close proximity to the nine-months-later period to move to that time period, as well as causing others to occur that would not have otherwise (accidents).
Given that it's been soaking wet all summer long so far (and looks to remain so), I guess it'll be a safe summer in New York.
we've done this for http://leaudouce.com/seednotes.htm (raised 10% of budget in 30 days, budget at around 2M USD) - if anyone else is interested in raising the 90%, buzz me! :)
This is kind of fun to look at, but I wish tag clouds would die the innocuous death they deserve. They are basically a useless, and worse a distracting, UI element. If you have a tag cloud on your blog, you're not doing yourself any favors.
And yet, those BSD-licensed projects now have users who cannot fix problems in the BSD-licensed code they use, because of this more liberal licensing. That is what I meant about the code remaining free. The user suffers under a less free regime.
I don't understand...Who wants a 19" monitor, at any price, these days? I got rid of a quite high end 19" monitor just a few months ago in a lot of computer junk I sold in Craigslist for $50 (and the monitor was nowhere near the most valuable item in the lot). It was just taking up space.
Sorry, it would be more accurate to restrict that to "Based on the above FAQs and other discussions on Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, cryonics advocates don't seem...."

From http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/CryoFAQ.html#_VQ_: What is the chance that cryonics will work ?

The chance that cryonics will work depends greatly upon the conditions under which a person is cryopreserved. [...] Probability estimates of future technology cannot be anything other than guesswork, although molecular repair technology does appear to be inevitable. [...] Rather than passively attempting to calculate probability, a person is better advised to realized that preparation to prevent potential problems will greatly affect the probability of success for that person and his/her loved-ones. The chance that cryonics will work also depends greatly upon how much money and effort is put into the technologies and organizational enhancements that can make cryonics work. [...]

From http://www.alcor.org/sciencefaq.htm:
What can scientists disagree on about cryonics?

[...] The likelihood that technologies capable of the required analysis, repair, and tissue regeneration will be developed.

The practicality of maintaining cryopreserved people long enough for such technologies to be developed. [...]

The ethics of not cryopreserving people until cryonics is proven to work.

There certainly is plenty of discussion about vitrification, but that is a relatively small part of the equation. Looking at Robin Hansen's post again, he links another breakdown of the total chance of success at http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/WillCryonicsWork.html. These are the only two attempts I know of, and they do a pretty good job of showing how speculative the whole thing is and how much variation that produces in the estimates.
Unless the vulnerability is used to disable the updates. If that was the case, pushing out updates to all of those phones could be quite a lot harder.
Erdos was always a problem solver.
Not what I expected, but it was nice.
It only makes sense that murderers don't want to get wet either.
This is only true if you are the owner of or have a deal with the distribution pipeline ahead of production. The indie route, flawed as it is, is to produce the film (as in, end up with an answer print or digital master in a industry-standard format), take it to festivals and film markets, and sell it to distributor. The distributor will put up the money for P&A, and keep the lion's share of receipts.

Many indie producers lack a proper distribution strategy or fail to budget properly for post, mastering, or marketing - which can mean marketing to distributors as well as the general public. but if you have a good post crew and you have budgeted for your deliverables, then $25k of the $250 for marketing may be enough to get it sold, assuming a great script and the approval of the film gods.

Of course, the likelihood of the investors making any actual profit on such a deal is very small, since the makers have now exposed their production budget and the distributor thus has no incentive to pay more than that unless the film is awesome and a bidding war ensues (you might as well buy a lottery ticket as count on that, of course). Equally, it's very unlikely they'll be able to negotiate a percentage of gross and it will be a long time before they see any net. On the upside, the marketing method is already generating buzz for the film at almost no cost, simply by virtue of us discussing it.

You can make a film for very little and go straight to DVD. DVD is where the real money is: the theatrical run is unprofitable for a great many films, but it validates the film as a Real Movie in the eyes of the public, and there's a very good chance people will rent a film later even if they're too lazy/cheap to go watch it in the theater.

Without a theatrical release or prominent festival entry it's much harder, but not impossible, to make money by releasing on DVD. A $250k film can break even after 3-5 years if it's of middling quality; the distributor may pay $75k up front and then royalties.

If you have the required craziness to make a sub-$50k film that isn't irredeemably crap, they'll probably buy it outright - and as a producer or director, it's better to have something out there with your name on it, even if it is mediocre. It's a lot easier to get money for the second film, when you can truthfully say 'my debut film, derivative horror flick, is distributed by Lion's Gate'.
Your Browser History is Showing (an artistic javascript hack)
I'm pretty sure AT&T could do some packet filtering and block those bad sms.
I have a buddy who lived in NYC for a decade. I was there for a visit a few years ago and asked him if he ever had any trouble, getting mugged or hassled, because he walked everywhere at every time of day.

He replied with, "Meh. Criminals are lazy. They don't want the effort of earning something they can simply take, so they don't have jobs. I'm six feet and I walk fast. I'm like the strong wildebeests at the front of the herd. The criminals will wait for a weak one to fall behind. Easier."

By his logic, lazy murderers probably prefer to get their murder on without getting wet.
This is the same strategy that Clojure is now using, which is why it's the only LISP that has any chance of going mainstream.
MySpace does, or FB? MySpace looks like someone threw-up on my screen.
this one is on the main page of HN: http://chyrp.net/
all understanding of the real world is simplistic and flawed. Even your analogy because there is no good cloud as service provided that offers anything as good as big table for distributed storage plus map reduce.
Video of a Volcano Eruption from Space
Really? It was an innocuous joke on a quite off-topic submission. Is HN the "right place" for this article?
What would be nice now is a tag cloud of all the search the app store is getting...
Those aren't his thoughts. Those are his thoughts morphed into a flame meant to stop people from bugging him about a particular decision he made that he believed was correct and didn't want to revisit ad nauseam.
German heiress wins ‘landmark’ pre-nup case in Britain
Question: If that is (one of) the reason(s) behind, then the correlation should be observed universally across the country, or even across the world, is that the case?
I walk a lot, too. An interesting anecdote, which dovetails with your "wildebeest" analogy.

I'm 6'2". I have gray hair and beard, but normally am clean shaven (head and face). I walk through a somewhat tough area, and no one ever bothers me. Yes, I walk fast and with purpose.

I was having razor issues and ended up growing a (white) beard for a while. I was completely floored by the amount of crap I got from random people. It was aggressive stares, and in some cases aggressive behavior. On a single day I came close to an altercation with two people.

It was pretty obvious to me that I looked much older, so I shaved the beard and head. The next day, people were back to ignoring me.
This was my reaction when I saw the article come up.

Cracking WEP is rather old news. If they were doing an article for any reason other than just trying to drag a few users to their site, they should have done an article on WPA/WPA2 cracking (http://forums.remote-exploit.org/bt4beta-howtos/23208-aircra...) . WEP cracks have been out for a while, CUDA (or the AMD equivelent) cracking is far more recent, and a decent tutorial on it would do a lot of good.
I can't take this guy seriously. Has he ever used his own product? Abysmal.
Themes are GPL, too