skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember seeing the crows video. Do you have the link to where it was shown it was fake? Can't seem to find it by googling.
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I'm surprised there's so much negativity about this post. Alan Turing made huge contributions to mathematics and philosophy.

But not only that, he was a war hero. How many other people in the 20th century contributed so much to the world on both practical and theoretical levels?

And the British Government drove him to suicide for no good reason.

I think his story deserves far more recognition.
Rate my startup: Freshlog - Screenshot collaboration for agile development
Freshlog.com

Watch how to easily upload screenshots to your favourite issue tracker with Freshlog, currently supporting Lighthouseapp and Unfuddle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXDJhQqVnyA&fmt=18

I'm looking to integrate with other issue trackers and project management services like Basecamp, let me know what other services you'd like to see Freshlog integrated with.

Would you use this? Let me know how I can improve!
Yep, see:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zf/papers/keyboard-ccs05.pdf
Before buying I would make sure that the $1000 was not a fluke and ask to see the logs. Also, the cost of one click could be more than the revenue generated.
"There isn't an obvious way to achieve a self-brand on Twitter."

Am I the only one who found this comment kind of strange?

Maybe a better question for this group: Do any "Generation Y" members here not use Twitter? Why not?
Clickable links:

http://freshlog.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXDJhQqVnyA&fmt=18
I'm all for giving credit where it's due and I think he could have mentioned the libraries he was using in passing, but.. you don't have much time in a 2 minute tech demo to capture the audience, and I don't think this audience particularly cared what api's he used. He did post links to Papervision3D and FlarToolkit on his blog.
Just shows once again that being a good marketeer is often more important than being a good engineer.

What are the odds that Chris parlays this into a startup or a nice research position somewhere? Either way, the guy now has a TED presentation on his CV and the guys who did all the legwork have no legal recourse because I don't know of any OSI license has a clause about presenting the work as your own for non-commercial purposes.

The only way Chris will get busted is if TED decides to do so and expose themselves for their poor background checking which is a crap-shoot at best.
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Code can still be copyrighted under an OSI license.
Also "web of trust"
Different problem and solution. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer
The coming merger of man and machine
It's also an inaccurate characterization of the "slacker" literary genre. The gen-X "slacker" persona was always more about the cultural malaise caused by the dramatically lower lifestyle prospects afforded to the post-boomer generation, than it was about being "entitled" (for those who are interested, go read "Generation X" by Coupland to see the origin of the genre. It's also a really good book.) Hipsters have been around for a lot longer than that (since the Beat Generation, at least), and are more defined by hedonism and rebellion than by disillusionment.

While I don't think that these sorts of stereotypes are terribly precise (or incredibly useful), it is sort of interesting that younger generations seem to be lumping together gen-X-ers, hipsters, and Holden Caulfield together under the label of "entitled". If you ask me, the current generation of college kids are far more "entitled" by any conventional definition, so it's a curious choice.

Now get off my lawn. :-)
The problem is that he made it sound as though he was representing his own work, which it was not.
I don't. I've given it a shot twice, but it simply wasn't appealing. I guess the better question is, why should I? How does it benefit me?
Sure but I can get up on stage at any conference and talk about copy-righted work all I like so I don't think it matters.

Copy-rights overwhelmingly are concerned with explicitly commercial uses. If I'm using copy-righted work to build up my academic reputation, I don't know if there's anything a copy-right holder can do as the link to money is too tenuous.

I think all the enforcement has to come from the academic side in cases such as these where reputation is all that's in play.
Lately as soon as I see Apache, I think last-gen. After playing with nginx with such great results (and loving the easy of configuration!) I'm thinking a more forward-looking approach would be to build a solid FastCGI implementation which could then work in both (and others too). Nginx is comparatively very small, but the growth is there, and the benefits are definitely there too. Why limit to Apache nowadays?
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Well, the thing about percentages in an election is that a lot of them don't _have_ last digits. Further, if the percentages came out to nice numbers like 57% and 65%, we wouldn't even be having this discussion - it would be really, really obvious.
I guess it depends on what you consider "using" Twitter.

Do I have an account? Yes

Do I follow anyone/post tweets? No/Rarely

Generally I use twitter search to get (somewhat) real-time information about public events.

The biggest thing stopping me from using it more is the network. I've already established my network elsewhere, most of my friends aren't on twitter, so there is little incentive to use Twitter.
No. You need to test on the iPhone. The iPhone is not just a slower version of your Mac. It has totally different performance characteristics. And they have a different feature set even, like other than missing apps on the simulator, certain animations are missing in the simulator.
The relevant controversy of said presentation can be seen here: http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/2009/06/23/ideas-worth-takin... and discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670645
this guy: http://xkcd.com/479/
If you store tanks in a SQL database, it is.
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If you work with the homeless you find a large number of them have mental issues and or addictions. So you could just say it's their problem and move on.

But, it’s somewhat scary to think mental issues and addictions might be fairly random. The largest part of what separates you from being homeless could be random differences in your DNA, and who you happened to have for parents. Which you had zero controwl over.
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The article mentions that they've changed the wording, and I'd assume the new wording is what's in the screenshot.
Bad argument #1: Masking doesn't help since someone can just watch the keyboard or use some extremely complicated and expensive analysis to determine what you are typing.

Response: This is like saying locking your door doesn't help because someone can just get a bulldozer and push it in. Sure, it's true, but you aren't locking your door to make your home impenetratable. You're locking your door to prevent casual unauthorized entry. You don't want someone to just wander in while you're away and take things without having to do any work at all. And you don't want someone to just barge in without knocking (well you might, but it's a case for locking your door). Similarly, you aren't masking passwords to make it impossible for anyone to ever know your password. You're masking passwords so you can log in to your email in front of your friends without them getting tempted to use the information they gleaned.

Also, I can type faster than most people are probably able to read a keyboard (and my passwords are not words which makes them even harder to figure out), but there is likely no one on earth who can type faster than people can read.

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Bad argument #2: It's ok to unmask some passwords because the information isn't critical.

Response: Take the example of looking at pictures of your cat. Where are these pictures? Let's suppose they're on Flickr. Actually, it doesn't matter much. Now, does Flickr (or this other website) just allow you to view pictures? No, it also allows you to post pictures (I wouldn't want someone posting their porn pics under my account), chat with friends (DEFINITELY don't want to be impersonated there), and even CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD thereby stealing your account. If you're just talking about password protecting a directory on your computer with cat pictures, sure show the password... but anything this trivial wouldn't be password protected anyway. Simply put, if it's important enough to have a password, it's important enough to have that password masked. Otherwise, why have it at all?

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Excellent point: Since users DO use the same password for multiple things, you don't even know or control what credentials you are giving away. You may very well give away someone's bank PIN.
Zabbix for servers
Cacti for networks
Controversy aside, I can't wait for a furniture company to start using augmented reality.

It'd be pretty cool to download the IKEA app to my iPhone or Pre or whatever, print out a few strips of paper, and see how furniture would look in my house just by looking at my phone.

This would be pretty cool for posters / art too - tape the paper to the wall, and see what the art would actually look like hanging there.
Hey, I like this idea a lot.

I feel like your video is focused on the features your product has instead of how it will help me solve my problems. My problem is that it's a pain to take screenshots of a bug I want to report, so my developers might be confused about what the actual bug is.

Freshlog can solve my problem by making it easier to send a screenshot to the bugtracker. That's the idea, right?

Based on the video, I'm not too keen on the UI, and that's bad, because the UI is really important for a product that makes it easier to do something I can already do.

What would I envision for a UI for this kind of product? Well, I do web application development. I also don't need the editing features that often; my bug reports would usually just be a screenshot. So what I'm imagining would be a toolbar button in Firefox which lets me drag a box around the screen (or maybe just selecting an element would be enough); it'd capture a picture of the thing I selected and send it to my bugtracker.

Is your site a bug tracker itself? It seems like it just sends the screenshots to an external tracker. I don't understand what the threading features have to do with the screenshot part, and how they integrate.
Forcing someone to commit suicide? That doesn't compute.

Let us honor Turing's memory without making nonsense of the tough choices he faced.
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I find it hard to believe that this point even has to be made, but there is a difference between designing something and implementing a design. There is also a difference between UI look and UI behavior. By replicating the 280 Slides look (by copying its existing design and images), the best you could do is prove that GWT makes it easy to implement a design, but I do not believe that even this was done in the demo you made.

1. I'm not sure what exactly is impressive about this demo, you have a couple buttons which pop up a window that has dummy content in it, and then expect people to think that it proves that making something that looks and behaves like 280 Slides is easy. For starters, this is the least impressive portion of 280 Slides. I don't for example see a slide navigator which shows a tiny version of the working area, and I also don't see a working area that has vector properties that works in all browsers. These are the components which would be hardest to build without Cappuccino in my opinion. I'm not sure even the toolbar works like the one in 280 Slides. For example, when you make the window too small does it auto place the items that aren't visible into a menu on the right based on their priority of importance? If your point was simply that you can make buttons with custom images in GWT, then I guess you've succeeded.

2. Beyond this, designing itself is also quite difficult, which I hope is not something we have to argue about, since to say otherwise would be to invalidate the designing profession as a whole. One thing we are trying to do with Cappuccino is provide a good set of base artwork and a HIG that will make this easier for people who can't afford a real designer. Large portions of this work will of course be usable outside of Cappuccino since we are making them open source, but others will be much easier as they will be built into Cappuccino.
Thats okay, marketing is a learned skill.

You might try making some profile templates that I can start with. The landing page could say, if you like Hacker News, click here, if you like XKCD, click here, etc. Clicking would copy the profile of a user that you have pre-trained with items that are like that site.
There's also a kind of mentality that lots of hackers seem to have: Let the bored one handle it. On IRC, in forums and elsewhere never ask somebody, show your problems instead and if their important enough, somebody bored enough will help you.
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I used to buy and sell sites on SitePoint ~4 years ago.

Selling: I would build a simple blog, drop in Google ads, and get some basic traffic with AdWords and then they would generate some clicks on AdSense. That would give me a few dollars a day in revenue, I'd post the site, and sell it for $500-$600 – I could do about 3 of those a month.

So people got a fully functioning & designed WordPress blog, but the income may not have been completely accurate. It beat getting a summer job.

Buying: Be careful. A lot of these sites take time to manage, market, run customer support, etc. It is not really passive income.

Many people sell after a traffic or revenue spike and give you average numbers. A lot of people flat out lie. SitePoint has some great/honest people, but I always ask myself why someone would sell a site that generates $50,000 a month (extreme example). If it's a need for cash, surely the bank would loan them money against that income...

Just be skeptical.
>Are there symptoms of Clear's demise that signal another attempt to be unwise?

Their primarly failed assumption is that DHS would trust them to clear their customers. There is no possible way that DHS would trust some outsourced security to do their job. This means that every "pre screen" supplier is doomed to fail.

>More generally, how do you feel about the idea of iterating on a model that has previously failed for someone else?

In general, if I think I can prove to myself that I could do a better job (execute it better, if you will), then I would not have a problem with it. I'm more concerned that I'm using intuition instead of real numbers.
I saw that. It sort of struck me as a company learning from their mistakes. I still think extrapolating a bait and switch doom and gloom catastrophe is a bit much :)
Do you feel even a little bad about celebrating this guy's bad faith?
That's not a headscratcher. Get into their heads and ask yourself, "Why would I write/report on these guys?" I can think of one HUGE reason why you wouldn't-- because it's a better source of news with a bunch of links to stories from OTHER news entities. You don't see people reporting on Google News except to say how evil and unfair they are. Not many news outlets do the "hey look, it's a great new way to get news!" stories on Google News.

If you want legitimacy, I'd do this. Create a "submit this" widget for your site and promote it to the news folks using your site. Add a "Leading Chicago News Outlets" block somewhere on your site (prominently for now, you can fade it away later) and say you'll give people who install that widget placement in that block. Send any "partner" site who installs the widget a weekly report of the traffic you're sending them.

Then, when you talk with advertisers, call these people your "news partners" and describe the widget relationship. It'll seem pretty legit. Toss in a anchor link to your site within the widget code (outside of any javascript) with the right anchor text ("Chicago News") and you'll rank #1 for the search phrase chicago news before you know it (bonus!).
I do not want to see the front page littered with stories of this type.

And I don't want to see every discussion thread littered with people complaining that they don't find the submission relevant to their interests. If you find it inappropriate, flag it. Complaining just turns everything into stupid and wasteful meta-arguments like this one.
> Musk says they're on track to be profitable in months.

How many startup CEOs say anything else?

...and how many of them turn out to be correct?
On one hand, this is an insult to personal liberty and an example of how deathless, uncaring corporations will consume until all is destroyed.

On the other hand, this might be only way to stop people from cycling through their ringtones at full volume on the bus.

I'm torn.
I don't think carrying things makes them tools.
Big iPhone 3GS numbers come from pre-existing Apple addicts
disclosure: Josh Klein is a friend of mine from grad school (ITP)

Joshua Klein's crow-training project's validity is a point of contention. The original NYTimes article was poorly researched and much was assumed/embellished through no fault of Klein. The correction the Times semi-recently published made it out to be Klein's fault, though he attempted to contact and correct the Times, to no avail. Poor journalism and self-interested/important journalists are the suck.
Agreed. I don't see where this guy even gets off criticizing her. I'd wager that she is there regularly helping out which is better than most people. If you don't ever say something even a little stupid then maybe you can get off saying something but if he's like the rest of us and says stupid things all the time I'm not sure he has a leg to stand on here.
I also had submitted a note regarding the difference between them a while ago ... http://socialapp.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/facebook-status-an...
The main issue here is how far one should trace for the cause. If youtube can be blamed for bad videos, why not the company that manufactured camcorders, why not the ISP, why not the power company for enabling people to watch it?

If there is anyone to be blamed, it has to be the person who uploaded the video and no one else.
In the same vein, I have an account and follow people, but I check it about once a week. I just haven't found a way to extract valuable information from it. I love what Rands (http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/09/11/the_twitter...) says about it, but if I don't have a lot of followers, it can't be as useful to me. It's like you have to invest time in gaining followers first, then you can query them for information.
Stackoverflow seems like the perfect place to be asking these getting started questions. As people say, once you have something, bloggers will probably be more responsive.
Old hat. The reverse is actually more interesting! The representation of the brain is reflected in body parts. People think about the brain as being the seat of neuroplasticity but your limbs are actually learning patterns, as are your ears, your eyes. Anywhere there are neurons there is learning and memory. This means that 1. sometimes reaction is faster than transmission to and from the brain could allow for and 2. often input is filtered and enhanced before it gets to the brain based on previous experience.

While it's cool to think that we "become one" with our tools, until they can also form a part of this distributed memory grid they will always feel subtly wrong, clumsy, and foreign.
> I don't see where this guy even gets off criticizing her.

Because she says "y'all", which indicates that she is a southerner, and thus a Republican, and thus is not NEARLY as good a person as the commenter, who is a decent respectable Democrat.

That's the level of discourse that you get at Salon.

I no more want to see left-wing Salon crap here at HN than I want to see right-wing screeds from Little Green Footballs.

Totally NON hacker related.
Good to see some promotion from the government for a change.
Most of my friends don't use Twitter. To them, Facebook is good enough. They want to broadcast status updates to their friends; their friends are on facebook; thus Twitter is redundant to them.

EDIT: Incidentally, I think that if Twitter had arrived before Facebook, it would have garnered a lot more attention from my age group.
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I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Most startup capital goes to companies that aren't profitable.
You're assuming that whether the reported totals matched the votes is the only relevant point.

It is not the responsibility of critics to show that an election was fraudulent. It is the responsibility of a government to convince the populace that the election was legitimate. If a large portion of Iran thinks that the election was fraudulent, that's a good enough reason to support their efforts to replace that government.

Al Gore should have gotten his Nobel for preserving the republic by letting the 2000 election die in an orderly fashion rather than for his climate scaremongering.
don't ever give out the serial number of anything you own. it's too easy for a scam artist to report that it was stolen, and now you have to answer to the police and prove you own it.
> This isn't an editorial-driven magazine or online newspaper.

So what? Your stated goal "a front page that represents everything you should read right now to know what's cool and relevant in Chicago." is direct competition for every general-purpose news outlet in Chicago.

They don't think "he has no editors" or "he's not calling it a newspaper". They see "he's trying to be the place people go to find out what's cool and relevant" because that's what they're doing.

You're competition.
The best way to get this feedback, imho (and it worked for me) is to start contributing to an active open source project you use.

Specifically, contribute to one you use, not one you think is cool or would be fun to hack on. If you have to ask "what would be something useful I could work on?" on the mailing list, you're doing it wrong. Look at your use and start implementing something that is missing, awkward, or doesn't work well.

Submit patches with explanations of why you did it the way you did. Assuming it isn't a totally anti-social project, you will get feedback and advice. The key thing is that you are coming to the folks offering something useful to their baby rather than begging ;-)
Any references to "generations" are flawed and only serve as an easy way for journalists to make sweeping generalizations. Generation Y doesn't have anything to say in regards to Twitter or anything else.
at least we know that money is going to a company that is actually building cars that will run when the oil runs out.
Just remark that your presence is not required/useful/necessary for discussion about [the irrelevant subject under discussion] and leave.
As a "Generation Y" member that does use Twitter, I feel like my reasons should be given. Facebook is for many of my good friends, while Twitter I use to connect with a more technology-centric crowd. While a few of my good friends that aren't very tech oriented use twitter, most don't, which leads to twitter stream to be filled with more stuff that I find more interesting than my Facebook stream.
Yes, that's absolutely true.

mynameishere, i believe is an American, and the reference he's making sounds very American.

So in the context of the original post, the Matthew Shepard Act is not relevant. The details of hate crime legislation, and it's application is universal enough to be relevant.