skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it a lot. Content that I want and nice, uncluttered design. RSS subscribed.
It's also a lot easier to compose and edit text a text comment on the fly than a video comment.
It's a shame we don't have more sophisticated authentication systems for the web yet. I don't believe any tweaking of password authentication is going to make it safer or easier. The weak link is always the human choosing, remembering, and entering the password. If we ever want to make the web more secure we'll need something that is a mixture of smarter software complimented by hardware (RFID, public keys stored on USB sticks, RSA key generators, SmartCards, etc)
Wow! I wonder though how they account for over fitting of the data. Is it a real solution or a statistical anomaly? I ask because it seems that the progress over the last year(s) has been small increments within the 9-10% range.
The importance of an idea
What's more important? The idea or the execution?
Thanks a lot. I really hope everyone that would typically submit a post like this one (review my site) on HN submits their launch to launchly!
That's true. I understand that angle of it. I just think Microsoft should be asking themselves what can we do to improve the experience of 90% of our users instead of spending all our time worrying about how to improve the amount of money we make from the 10% of our most profitable users which is, I think, what all this jargon adds up to. It seems like with Windows 7 they have taken the 90% approach more so than in recent years which is certainly a good thing.
Some Professors Losing Their Twitter Jitters
Frankly, this fear just sounds too much like "Oh no, I'd hate to see anything tinge my precious baby!"

What's wrong with there being poorly written code in your favorite language? Unless these Lispers also do web development, they likely won't come in contact with the hypothetical bad Lisp-on-web code. So why should they care? Also, how is the good code drowned out? Assuming that the screening process for a job picks out good PHP developers, it isn't that hard for one to find good PHP code in the form of frameworks and libraries.
Try before you buy http://thepiratebay.org/search/p90x/0/7/0
I only hire people I know I can pay, and when I have the money to pay them. And if that money dries up then their employment ends as well.

I don't think it's unreasonable for employees to have some claim on the assets of their employer in certain circumstances. It certainly isn't psychotic. Although it might be psychotic to hire people, use their labor to buy yourself a house, then fold the company and claim your assets are beyond reproach.
I'll forgive you guys for modding this up, as the article is quite poorly written - the author uses the terms "high glycemic index" and "high carb" interchangeably, when they are in fact vastly different.

High carb: food that contains a lot of carbs, saying nothing about the effect on blood sugar.

High glycemic index: carbs that cause blood sugar spikes.

High glycemic load: the (very bad) combination of the above 2 factors.

In other words, it's possible for one food with the exact same amount of carbs as another to have a much lower glycemic index.

High-carb is NOT the killer. High GI carbs are. Low GI carbs are good for you. That is the point of the article.
(or (with? you lisp) (against? you lisp))

I'm kidding.
Your Inner Control Circuits: rewire your brain to avoid procrastination and fear
that's because the thing was useless, since the user had to go the extra mile to launch their widget.
Don’t hand in a Garbage Paper, send a Corrupted File Instead
This is an interesting twist on the "dog ate my homework".
Ah, well, that makes sense I suppose. Thanks for the clarification.
Man, I created a Python GUI with WXWindows, and it was anything but rapid development. I used a RAD to learn the ropes, but once I did, it was faster to hand code the windows.
Schneier on Security: The Problem with Password Masking
I've talked about this on the other duplicate post but honestly how often do you want that? You can always just open a text editor type it in that (or the address bar, whatever) and then copy and paste it.
I just received infinite intensity in the mail today actually, going to try it out for a few months instead of my normal weights routine.

Makes a lot more sense than the somewhat randomness of crossfit to me.
Cute idea, but I wouldn't pay to use something like this. You can just open up whatever file in a texteditor and delete some header info or even some strings randomly, you have a corrupted file.

Besides, by handing in fake homework, you are just cheating yourself of education.
I didn't say something awesome meant a business. Think of all the generations of baseball fans before us. Games were only seen live, then heard on the radio, then on TV, then on the internet, then on TV in HD and now finally every pitch of every game is tracked and available in an XML feed. This is the future that baseballs geeks of all times have wished for.
The author does indeed describe what is "wrong", but perhaps not explicitly.
The teams who created the solutions own them, but they're obligated to license them to Netflix. It doesn't have to be an exclusive license though. Quite generous on Netflix's part if you ask me.
Machines that can outwit the smartest brains
Ask HN: Can we monetize Twitter with DMs? Review PubliciTweet
We are in a beta period with PubliciTweet - http://publicitweet.com. The goal is to enable leveraging Twitter for marketing purposes. One key feature offered is the ability to send direct messages to all of your followers and track the success of the campaign both overall and per follower.

We're aware that mass DMs are a spammers paradise. How can we target it more towards legitimate users (companies, musicians, etc)?

What are your thoughts on the possibility of monetizing it by charging for using the service?
There has been a lot of hubbub about Nielsen's comments lately, but it isn't the first time I've seen this. http://letsfreckle.com/blog/2008/12/calamity-howlers/ describes why the freckle team decided to show the password. I think that it depends on the web app; if your customers are the type that would look at this as a security risk, then mask the password. Just realize that password masking really isn't protecting passwords.
Finally a rational comment!

Nutrition is one of the areas where normally rational people (such as the typical HN reader) go totally off the deep end and rely on superstition, hearsay, herd mentality, group think, and whimsy. In general, most people (including people who are otherwise quite rational) do exactly what advertisers and corporate sponsors want when it comes to nutrition.

There was a huge bombshell study a few years ago, documented in the book "The China Study" on the western diet (by a guy from Cornell). It should have made headlines. People should have thrown their meat and dairy into the garbage immediately... but nothing happened.

Instead, ostensibly "health conscious" people convince themselves that there are "good fats" and ask themselves if they are getting enough protein.

Most Americans are overweight and will end up with obesity, type II diabetes, heart disease, or colon cancer. Most vegetarians are overweight, pallid, and sick-looking (b/c they eat so much "good fat" -- more fat than McDonalds aficionados eat!).

What it means for a human to eat optimally is well known and has been backed up by rigorous scientific research... why hasn't it made headlines? Because in this case it's too much work to think critically... it's not easy going against the grain of an entire society built upon destructive mythology with the nutrition establishment telling us to eat according to a harmful food pyramid, etc.

So the whole "nutrition" industry is focused on convincing people that health is obtained by consuming or avoiding magic ingredients like "Omega 3s" or "turmeric" or "trans fats" or "mono unsaturated fats" or "whole grains" or "protein". All of this is at best minimally correlated or patently false.

What's the difficult truth that nobody wants to hear? Animal protein causes disease. That means no meat, fish, milk, etc. The optimal human diet is plant based and should contain 80% carbs (as much of this unrefined as possible), 10% protein, and 10% fat). Fresh fruit has a few percent fat already, so very little extra fat is needed, even if it's so-called "good fat".

If you're skeptical, read The China Study and then raid your fridge and cure your future cancer immediately :)

notes:

1) humans can survive on lots of things including meats, cardboard, etc. b/c we evolved to survive in extreme conditions/habitats. That does not mean that all things we can digest are optimal for health. Also, it is trivial for any modern human to obtain sufficient calories only from optimal foods.

2) link to book (well worth the $10, read the reviews on Amazon):

http://www.amazon.com/China-Study-Comprehensive-Nutrition-Im...
Just out of curiosity, why aren't we using certificates for authentication instead of passwords by now? They can't possibly be worse overall, can they?
Because people who don't want to pay for apps have no problems paying AT&T for extra bandwidth usage?
I think the work this guy is doing to make programming more accessible for kids is just as refreshing as his odd ball sense of humour. He does remarkable work.
Actually, I found the words "individual" and "non-bulk" more interesting than "non-commercial", but, then again, I never know what these legalese words are supposed to actually mean; each of the sites you link, for example, seem to make bulk, non-individual use of the data.
you should add a way to track your workout progress. Pretty much digitize the workout progress sheet.

i.e. let users create fields(i.e. wide grip pull ups) and track their input for each category week from week
I'm also worried about this. I believe that Netflix has a separate data set, not used in the previous reports of mean squared error, which validates the $ prize. I also believe that the teams have been use the Netflix-reported squared errors from standard test data to combine their estimates. If so, in a month we're going to learn that the Prize has not actually been won yet.
Then maybe that's the solution. A browser in ssl mode hides the password by default, while unencrypted connections get the visibly "unencrypted" password. Would then also keep most people from using thier best passwords on unsecure sites.
The True Story of True Ventures
Low cost biotech means ordinary folk can fund significant early stage research
Since the current teams were using the squared error ratings on the standard test data (not this new test data) to combine their old algorithms, it's quite possible that in one month we will learn that the prize has not yet been won. As I understand the rules, anyway.
Ask HN:  What do you think of a "law advisor" that goes through your email?
This would be a tool that you would install locally on your computer that would go through your email pointing out various laws that you should know about.

These laws may come from many countries (e.g., if your emails concern business involving many countries).
Nokia N97 Themes : Matrix Theme
Chile earthquake on 25/06/2009
I think this might make a useful service where a lawyer charges $X per word of an email to look over and knows your general situation. I don't know how useful a software tool can be, but then again I don't know much about this.
If it's the book I remember, I believe WPF is in Chapter 9.
The article says the standard rate is $20-40, but Hulu is raking in $60.
Correct - but tecnically all food causes a blood sugar "spike" - it's the rate of change, and potentially area under the curve that counts.

We know the body treats glucose in the bloodstream like a poison in the sense that it tries it's damnedest to get it out. Interesting articles:

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14045678.php

http://darwinstable.wordpress.com/tag/glucose/
It's vague, but that's par for the course with pro sports. Note that when you watch a sporting event these days they warn you that even describing the game without expressed written consent can violate copyright.
> Not only that, but gay guys can't even tell who else they could potentially date and who would be offended by them asking!

Uh... the same is true for straight guys (and for women). The odds might be better, but not every woman wants to date a man, and not every woman (regardless of orientation) is open to being hit on at a particular moment.
Having read In Defense of food I would like to point out he does a vary poor job of defending his argument. The human body is one of the most complex systems on the planet suggesting we "Eat food, real food not to much mostly plants." is not particularly useful information. Nutritionist's have known for a long time that a pure corn diet is bad for you. What he is really attacking is the public perception of nutrition information which is far from the cutting edge of science. When NASA looks at nutrition they go far beyond the sound bite science and do a good job of supporting people in peek physical condition.

The real problem is just eating one type of cheep food, with a long shelf life, that's easy to prepare, is bad for you in excess. But people already know that and it's not going to sell a book.
Has anyone found a good book or site that has a definitive diet for a non-overweight, non-diabetic person who just wants to make sure they're eating healthy? Every book I've found seems to address some sort of problem vs. talking about being in a long term "maintenance" mode.
But Seesmic isn't dead. They've successfully pivoted, I'd say. They're growing on top of a hugely successful pair of platforms: facebook & twitter. The money they've spent in the last 6 months has certainly been better spent than all the rest, but you have to give them some credit for taking the bold move to change direction.
Instead of focusing on cutting back on "bad" foods, think about eating more good foods. The bad stuff will fall by the wayside naturally.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=676260
Several Facts about Google and HTTPS
I wonder how long sites like turnitin.com will take to respond to this, if it becomes widespread.

If I were a professor (I've said this too many times-- maybe it's time for a career change) I'd seriously freak out if a student pulled this crap. The first of the pain he'd be feeling would be the 0 he got on the paper/powerpoint.

My other problem with this is the turnaround time on their custom orders. Who gets themselves into this situation with 12 hours to spare?
VB wrote up my side project (wordsmyte.com)
The World is Flat 3.0
Several reasons. First, that's only useful for a single browser (or if the OS can manage the cert, a single computer or maybe domain account). Using certs, there's no easy way to login from your friend's house, or from the internet cafe.

Second, it would have to be supported at the browser level well enough to be at least as easy as password usage, which is hard, since password usage is super-easy, as long as you choose a weak one (and people avoid sites that enforce good passwords, if they can). I'm using Safari, and I can't find anything about client-side certificates in the prefs. I know IE and Firefox support them fairly well, as I've used them for intranet sites in the past, but I don't think it's easy. Basically, the first time a site demanded a cert, the browser would have to walk someone through generating one, and it's hard to see how that could be made easy enough for people to sit through it.

Third, any cert that has a password to unlock is going to be at least as difficult for the user as just using a password, and any cert which doesn't require a password will be vulnerable to being stolen by trojans, etc.

You can get all the good things about using a cert by just making your site SSL-only and using a cookie, and this also avoids some of the bad things (inconvenience), but not all (vulnerability to trojans).
Libtask: a Coroutine Library for C and Unix
Ever check your email on a friend's laptop?
Yeah, this is a very useful plugin. Highly recommended for all jquery developers.

I especially like being able to "jquerify" pages as I like to use jquery for ad-hoc data-mining of pages. It's easy to write up little scripts to pull out information I need.
Surprisingly Schneier agrees with Nielsen: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the_problem_wi...
Execution in the right direction needs vision. Original question from TechCrunch is stoo-pid. It's like asking if you want the car with tyres or an engine.
Perhaps professors should just stop accepting "the computer ate my homework" as an excuse to extend a deadline.
I think there's only one suitable name these days for your child: John (or Jennifer) Smith. Or whatever Wolfram says is best for hiding amongst the chaff.

Sure, it's a shame they won't carry the family name, but they'll thank you in 20 years.
Your primary language is English, so when you look at the ad, you see it in English.

When a native German looks at it, it's in German.
German people think that only English-speaking people beat their wives?
As others have pointed out, this has zero to do with JSON, this is a browser XSS vulnerability.
An important step would be moving outside of the American market.

Currently, major content producers sign deals with local TV stations in non-USA areas of the world. There is no reason Hulu can't stream to other areas, so at some point it may become easier or cheaper for Hulu to operate in a region instead of the local TV station?
The only reason JSON script injection is a problem is because nitwits don't use a library that parses the JSON code first to verify that it's 100% pure JSON. Crocker's JSON library fully verifies pure JSON-ness before eval-ing the string (which is technically an unnecessary step).

Furthermore, why should we worry about changing JSON? It's not amazingly difficult to construct a parser for some custom document format like this, after all. I use a subset of Ruby as a data interchange format because of the ability to use arbitrary values as hash keys, and the ability to have symbols that are distinct from strings. The parser for it is maybe 80 lines at most, and doesn't rely on Ruby internals to handle it. Because Ruby also doesn't have a Date/Time literal notation, I have a way of denoting that (datetime(...)) which the parser also handles.

There's no reason people should be talking about this, it's a non-issue. It's never too late to change JSON, or to even do something completely different that better suits your needs. Just write the parser for it!

And if the issue is "OMG interoperability! :(", it's not terribly diffuclt to provide your developers with the JavaScript lib to handle the parsing.
This is a superb point. I recall the first time I went to a museum and saw pencil "studies" of famous works of art... it really brings the whole process of art down to earth and you realize it's a simple, creative but iterative process, much like software engineering.
Yet many people are vegan for years, and practice violin for 6 hours a day for years. As far as I can tell, there is not one documented case where someone who has maintained polyphasic sleep for more than six months or so?
Ask HN: Performance hit for jQuery Download?
I'm using JQuery for the first time on a new site. I love it, but I had some worries.

I really want my site to be snappy, but it seems that downloading JQuery, even when minified, can cause a decent performance hit.

Is this worry justified? If so, is there anything I can do? Can something like GWT do the same basic stuff that JQuery does (and thus reap the performance benefits from less code to DL)?

Also, if this is a problem, and since I see a lot of sites using jQuery these days, why can't the browsers bundle the framework in their browser so the user doesn't have to download it each HTTP hit (of course, using the bundled framework would be optional)?

Thank you.
Article ends with "After all, isn't it time the sport embraced reality?"

Yes, I agree. Its time we all embraced reality and started using our brains rather than rationalizing outdated "traditions".

Another aspect of reality we should embrace: very significant percentages of "news" articles are actually deceptive propaganda pieces.

Probably about 80 or 90% of status quo in every domain has been proven incorrect numerous times and yet is defended and reproduced over and over by masses of unthinking talking apes.
If this becomes widespread, someone will just write a file validity checker. If the file is corrupted, the site won't accept it.
Lessons learned in 30 years of programming
We have had this problem within Europe for a long time, but the European Union have acctually started taking care of the problem. Now there is a maximum fee on sms and voice calls when roaming within the union. About $0.50 to call another country and $0.20 to recive a call. From march 2010 the operator must provide a limiting function on data roaming, which cuts you off when you reach a certain amount.
I didn't notice any blaming. I thought he was just saying that the market wasn't as big as he'd hoped.

Many successful startups originate in founders trying to solve a problem they themselves had. This may be a case where they did that, but it turned out there weren't enough other people like them.
Even easier, have the students hand in the paper on actual....paper. Hard to corrupt that.
> but they're obligated to license them to Netflix

Technically they are obliged to license them only if they are about to receive the prize.
Whatever gets him more attention. Yeah, nobody shoulder surfs. But when someone writes a research paper about sniffing keystrokes with lasers, or screen radiation, or whatever, he's happy to write that up as important news. Lasers: yes. Cameras: not so much. Got it.
Re: Showering.

I have this tragedy-of-the-commons thing going on with the other tenants in the building. The water is "included" in the rent and so I sometimes shower 3, 4 times a day for the hell of it. I've seriously considered heating the place by running the shower nonstop in winter, but someone would probably catch on.

Right out of college, dirt poor, I had a place alone, and would turn the water heater on 45 minutes before I'd shower, then turn it off again.
I'll vote for part of the language. Something this widespread isn't a meme.

As an English dick, I'm fine with "Fail". It's simple and to-the-point. Much better than "Fmylife" or similar flippant things.
Naturally, the man is hitting the woman.

http://www.metafilter.com/82659/Domestic-Violence-Women-Abus...
use google's ajax libraries. they do everything for you, including caching them properly.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/
I felt like I was reading something from "The Onion". On the one hand, they are drawing up schematics of the nob and it's placement, along with boroscope inspection of the damage. On the other hand they reference using Loctite as a vital part of the install process.
Let google host it for you: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

Using Google's version also means that it will only be cached once between all the sites that use it. This is similar to what you're talking about with bundling it in the browser,
Reality is, if you go to a game, you aren't going to be sitting at the optimum viewing angle.
Read about them back in 05 and thought the tech was pretty cool. Glad they finally went into production. I for one am getting some. http://zubbles.com/