skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent comments, mnemonik. Thanks a lot.

* Performance is no doubt an issue (as you can see from everybody else's comments ;-) Will fix that asap.

* Good point about not having to re-enter name & email when writing a letter after you've just created the album. Will fix.

* Attaching links/videos is an option for a future version.

* More important than that is to support multiple time zones, so you don't have to guess what time it is in NYC! :-)

Thanks a lot for such a detailed review.
Probably the best analogy you could make
This guy has set back the whole course to the very beginning, because now everything needs to be rewritten.

So? As someone who is not a student there, I could also read the labs and post my take on the code. Information wants to be free.

Anyway, my advice would have been to take down the code when asked. Wait a week (until grades are published), then put the code back up. By that time, everyone will have forgotten. (People are very, very lazy.)

I'm further bothered by the fact that he's a senior-to-be and hasn't done anything substantial yet. Where's the kernel, 1337 freedom of information defender?

I don't think undergrads ever do anything substantial (as part of their official coursework, that is). So I would not fault this guy for that, that is a problem with the system in general.
IO Speedup, More Dramatic Still (Parrot VM)
mutoxen.com
I like sound of the 'bitsboltsandvolts' ones but don't have specific ideas to develop it.
Here are my domains I would let go for any reasonable offer...

AndyApp.cm
AndyApps.com
AndyDev.com
AhayStack.com (think mahalo)
AGoodProblem.com

(like having too many sales, not enough inventory)

FastRapid.com (dev company?)
HelpStopJunkmail.com (info site)
LogicRandom.com ( a little logic + random = genius?)
MobRally.com - (mobile social networking)
SEOdeft.com

I saw some awesome domains listed here, good luck all finding their own little domain in the wild world.
"How fast can evolution occur?" doesn't seem like a meaningful question. If evolution is defined as a significant change in a population's gene distribution, it can occur in an arbitrarily short period of time.
Some tagging sites are using it, Zigtag for example. What is the relationship between Common Tag and tagging? Or are they unrelated?
So you draw an imaginary line around the parts of your application that have simple security requirements, make recommendations about the stuff inside the lines, ignore the stuff outside the lines, and berate the technologies that deal with the stuff outside the lines.

Just so we're clear.
If anyone is interested in real-time client-server communication without throwing away your favorite framework. Orbited may be a good fit for you. Sockets in javascript. Check it out:

http://orbited.org/
space pit sounds like a name for a pinball table, I like it :)
50 Websites to follow if you’re into Web Design
Professors can fail students at any point between starting the class and graduation. Piss one off bad enough and he'll change your grade.

True on the lazy part though.

At the risk of being that guy, at _my_ school, many undergrad CS majors write an honest-to-god ground up Kernel. So, from scratch to able to boot on x86 hardware and run multiple different programs and everything. Arguably substantial.
actually played this card even further once with billboards of bush http://www.bigredwire.com/images/photos/bush_sign.gif and a quote we put in his mouth. some newspapers balked but nary a word from w. everyone else loved it.
I have bringbacktheblinktag.com

If anyone wants to mount a campaign to bring back the much maligned html tag then let me know!
This is a very hard problem and I remain skeptical of this project. For instance, a test phrase I ran through the online demo:

"lol this will never work you stupid wankers get a real job"

Result?

"Not likely to be stupid."
How does someone's solution to a problem make the problem obsolete?

I have a friend who was an art student. Every major assignment was put into a public portfolio for future employers (etc.) to look at. This is considered standard for the field. It's also possible that someone else could look at her portfolio, copy her assignment, and turn it in as their own. Despite that, it's still her right to share her creative work with the world.

As programming is just as creative as design, I don't see why programmers should be held to some other standard. We need jobs out of college too, and we are also proud of our work and want to show the world.

If this makes the professor's life harder... well, that's so sad that I'm going to cry.
Poll: Who is your host?
I tried to list most major options, but if I miss any, let me know and I'll add it.
Liquidweb
ThePlanet
MediaTemple
Hostgator
Host my own stuff/Collocation
Shared Hosting
The comments below the post are more insightful than the OP.
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If you're using this as only a slice of your app stack, instead of the whole stack, it's easy to build a failover to AJAX. The same way you have Javascript degrade gracefully to HTML, you could have the Flash degrade gracefully to AJAX.
I like the new ketchup bottles. They've never clogged for me, and they rest upside down so you're never trying to get ketchup from the bottom of the bottle.

The rest of the article is right on, though.
codeshout.com
nerdi.us
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Anyone who aids and abets this sort of thing -- criminalizing the quite natural urges of those growing into adulthood -- should go to prison themselves.

The perils of living in a puritanical country....
IANAL, but the thinking behind it, if not generally known, is definitely a trade secret. Using or disclosing that information to another party is trade secret infringement.

If (as an employee of that bike company) you developed a way to make the bike 20% lighter that wasn't readily discernible, you can't leave and start a competing company using that idea. The law around trade secret misappropriation is such a minefield that most companies separate the reverse engineering team from the implementation team (ie. clean room design).
failfund.com/org/net
corrupt.me
If the idea that we should all get identified on the internet takes foot (and I seriously doubt it will), my guess is that we will see an almost immediate fragmentation of the internet.

If you look at wifi maps of any major metropolitan area, they're almost all completely covered with signal these days. A mesh system could be brought up very quickly, with some point-to-point communication to get beyond metro areas. Once that happens I'm sure there will have to be some people who will end up having to tunnel to a "Free-speech zone", but many Chinese citizens are already doing that today to circumvent the Great Firewall. The infrastructure is already in place to escape any attempts at censorship or forced identification now.

Of course, what I'm suggesting is ridiculous... but not quite as ridiculous as recommending we all get on board and verify who we are for every site we visit and every comment we leave.
In the early days, I heard that with the Intuit product, they would go home with the early buyers of the product and write down every annoyance, small or large, that users had with the product. I can't help but think that led to building better products and increased market share.

If this is in fact the case, it is a little counter to how many things are built, presuming that 1) everything can be automated and 2) a developer eating his own dogfood while using the app may not be quite enough resolution for how well it works for grandma. Working with actual paying retail customers, in person, does not sound like it is the culture of Microsoft.
I was going to create a site that made fun of the fact that John McCain looked like Saul Tigh, so I have a bunch of domains like: saultigh2008, tigh2008, electsaul, etc.
There's this place near us that sells $6 large pizzas. So by that metric, we are also pizza profitable. Can't afford the supreme, though! ;)

Congrats, gents!
They didn't kill the product, just the retail shrink-wrapped sales channel. They said that there were not enough changes left to make which would warrant another major version.

http://www.hunterstrat.com/news/microsoft-money-plus-skips-2...
is that the apple approach?
idoh.net

idoh.org

andperse.com

ballerinc.com

openappled.com

vimpressive.com

wikkey.com

They all have some idea for a site behind them, just haven't gotten around to it.
betterword.com, was that going to be a thesaurus site, or a word-fight site?
isolobal.com
manwench.com
odvious.com
twickster.com

I had ideas for all, just hit me up if you want to hear any of it :)
Or use www.twitter.com/domaintrade. I'll set up a "bot" for it.
Is it Rails?
remote fingerprinting service for potential rails applications. enter url + check.
i bet people would forget that middle o all the time.
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Marine Corps & The Peace Corps
I'm with you on CTR mode: it's a uniquely dangerous recommendation to anyone who needs to be soliciting recommendations in the first place. If you're encrypting a file, then the obvious, elegant thing to do is to use position in the file as your counter. But then the moment you encrypt two files using the same key, you're screwed: you've just committed the equivalent of reusing a one-time pad. I feel like ever mentioning CTR mode to a novice without bringing this up is like inviting a guest into your house and forgetting to mention that you've rigged the door handle to explode if you turn it in the wrong direction.
I guess you're right. Everything would just become automated if only given enough time.
One thing they seem to do that is different is a less than 20$/month low end. Maybe that will help with impulse, "hey I'd love a slice to mess with" purchases.
I have "wow! A looks like B, haha" problem alot. Thankfully I dont ever buy domain names though.
Well, when it comes to talking about actually designing the site, I don't know if anybody else really has anything worthwhile to say.
I bought it to set up a PopUrls/Alltop style site for space/astronomy related news. Actually, I might well end up doing that, especially since I could now throw Twitter feeds on to it too..
It appears there may actually be enough interest here if you did set up a site :)
Seriously, Colin? You're talking about people that don't know to use AES-256 instead of Blowfish, but do know enough to homebrew instead of using a library?

CCM and EAX aren't obscure. AE crypto has been in 3 of the last 4 designs I've had to review. The fourth prompted a recent blog post of mine.
I was thinking like a trade school. But thanks for the suggestions
buyitwhen.com

I've had this idea that when you see things you don't want to pay new price for, you can look them up, enter the price you'd prefer to pay, and get a notification when a merchant hits that price point - best for technology and gadgets where the price tends to fall over a predictable curve.

But I've been too lazy to build it out. I'm reconsidering after seeing the other day it gets 400 monthly uniques just for existing.
OK let's take a step back and examine the core issue here: are minors capable enough of making sound decisions to be held legally liable for the outcomes?

If they are, then they should also be allowed to "sext" similar peers. If not they are not capable of making such decisions, then they should not be arrested for receiving such messages.

To say that teenagers are both culpable and incapable of sound reasoning is not a consistent position. But then, are we really trying to be sensible?
I do this with Python also, but yeah, the compiled/installed dependencies can be problematic. Especially if you have multiple platforms to support (Windows, OSX, Linux).
I like the idea, but the design has a couple of flaws:

- The heading text is hard to read (perhaps choose a different font?)

- The button's rollover states aren't preloaded, makes it a bit awkward. Preload them, or better use CSS sprites

- The PNG buttons aren't blending properly with the content's background image

- The tour's screenshot thumbnails should be small images, not large images resized with HTML. End result is that each one is ~200K. Easy to fix and would make the page load a lot quicker

Its a really nice idea though - I think people would love to get a collection of letters from friends on their birthday, anniversary, etc. Keep going!
Thanks for the suggestions. "a failed startup is the best way to build your network." Love it
I have tons of video-related and training related domains. If anyone's interested, pop me a line at my.name@g[mail.com
Am I the only one wondering if this graduate student has been a graduate student for all 10 years of the study? That is pretty brutal.
He is great but Apple can't be the only company that has a focus on design and innovation.

I'm quite tired of this as well. Lost in the mix are companies like Braun, BMW, Philips, and P&G. Their products are often just as well designed, if not more for the fact that they create things outside of consumer electronics.

Apple has some of the best advertising and branding in the world, and subsequently has a cult-like following. But I doubt many of its "fanboys" recognize the letters TBWA.
are you talking about ones through meetup.com or events like the ones hosted through mixergy.com?

ya and there arent a lot of hands on people here...especially where I live...britney spears just moved in, and we got the kardashians and denise richards reality shows...
A lot of folks seem to believe that this fundamentally screws over the professor. If it does, he's an idiot, and I speak as someone intimately involved with all this before.

There are basically three kinds of CS assignments. The first is the moral equivalent of algebra problems, where you change the parameters every year if you care. These were boring to give, boring to solve, but very easy to grade.

The second is "write an implementation of X" for X ranging over things like binary trees, etc. In these cases there is one correct answer that the TA is looking for and it is already in the book. No creativity is necessary. Simple copy/paste detection will catch obvious cheaters, and anybody who modifies this guy's code enough to be non-obvious has just performed as much work, if not more, than was needed to do the assignment in the first place.

The third assignment requires creativity, and here if two students solve the problem in the same way you can usually be sure they colluded. Most of these can be trivially changed, but they're a bitch to grade (although my favorite problems on both sides of the aisle, they're very time consuming) and so are not favored by lazy profs.
Customize Safari to have a start.io button instead of a home button
I like your idea, but whats the point of knowing James reads HN and is close to me if I cant contact him? Are you integrating a messenger or something? What do you see a loyal user doing on the site?
they're just jealous they're not getting any sext :|
I sleep with an alarm clock during the week, but I haven't heard it in years. I literally always wake up within a minute or two of it going off. Though I'm afraid if I don't set it, I will sleep through the time I need to be up. Anyone else experience this?
deletetheinternet.com - that's fn' cool

edit: maybe pop a message over to Iran
Oh wow, I'd love to snag this if I could. I've got a project in dev with this written all over it.
I'm actually not anti-CTR mode; my recommendation (use EAX mode) has basically the same problem --- EAX is just CTR + OMAC.

You're right that stream ciphers blow up more spectacularly than block encryption does. You have to be sure not to re-use anything (counters, nonces, keys, etc). If "don't overfill a buffer" is an easy prescription that cost industry $4+bn USD, it's hard to imagine how unlikely it is people can avoid screwing up "don't reuse anything".

On the other hand, differentiatable errors cause spectacular problems with block encryption. See: the "bad padding" error message that decrypts entire AES blocks a byte at a time.
used these zshrc files to get started

linux: http://stuff.mit.edu/~jdong/misc/zshrc
os x: http://stuff.mit.edu/~jdong/misc/zshrc-osx-blackonwhite
Of the companies you list, Braun seems to me the only one that reaches Apple's standard.

There are lots of companies that produce great design. Artemide, Knoll, Bang & Olufsen, and so on. But these are a lot smaller than Apple. It's not easy to find a company with revenues as big as Apple's that does design so well.
The actual issue is parallelising it appropriately -- realistically the best you can do (with this approach) is hoist computation into a worker (which i'm working on) and you get hit by data transfer costs at that point as workers do not allow any form of data sharing between threads.

I'm not sure if there is any way to feasibly improve threading of computation in a non-shared-state threading model.
Uh, yeah, except the funny thing about exponential curves is that at small scales they look a hell of a lot like sigmoid curves.
Advice on how to develop your "cocktail pitch" to investors
Sure, you can contact me at my hackernews username @ gmail.com
:D Can you have it point to arora-browser.org?
It is only true for 3G. ^_^
Big thumbs up to the starter of this thread, by the way. I've already given away three domains in the last two hours..
I have to agree with froo, if this was a fake conversation it would have gone a lot smoother and Scotty would have had a few more one-liners.
Um, no it isn't impossible at all. It's called statistics and all sorts of government organizations collect a bunch of them. While it is impossible to finely estimate, it is nothing like impossible to come up with pretty good estimates.

And for what it's worth, industrial output has fallen at a pace faster than during the beginning of the Great Depression. That we haven't seen similar knockon effects (30% unemployment?) is most likely due to government stimulus ala Keynes. Now it is fair to claim that the economy has more services and less goods, so the GD isn't a perfect comparison, but it is pretty good.

See, eg,
(industrial output)
http://voxeu.org/files/image/eichengreen_update_fig1.gif

(world trade -- more important now than then)
http://voxeu.org/files/image/eichengreen_update_fig3.gif

(industrial output, 4 big europeans)
http://voxeu.org/files/image/biigeuro.gif

Source: http://voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3421
tweatir.com

tweetcore.com/net/org/mobi/info (have a half developed twitter app to go with it if someone wants to buy and take over)

dormvoice.com

hub9.com/org/net/mobi/info

bsgfan.com

unusuallysized.com
No, we just don't like our kids thinking about and having sex. It makes as feel as though the casual absolute control we have over them is slipping.
Embarrassing. Thanks --I've fixed it.
This is a Bad Idea. You're mixing up more structure with the content. This reduces the usefulness of the tags because you and I may not agree on the tags.

What is needed are overlays that sit on top of the content. This way, you can specify tags for whatever sections you want, and I can do the same while the content remains untouched. The advantage is you can share your overlays with your friends, or you could even setup a centralized service that aggregates the overlays and uses the most common sets of tags.
it's impossible to gauge the effects of any policy decision ever if it is applied universally. The only way to determine the effect of a policy is to apply it specifically to smaller groups and try to tease the effect out while controlling for various other factors. In a situation like a global economic meltdown, you simply don't have time to study the efficacy of the policy.

It's damn near impossible, but it has been done. The books "Super Crunchers" and "Freakonomics" have discussions of how and when it's been done successfully
You can unless you've signed something that prohibits you from doing so. There's no default assumption of non-disclosure or non-competition when you're taking on a project for a company as a consultant, even if you are required to transfer copyright; most will force you to sign something to that effect, but if they don't, or they don't do it right, you're free to do whatever the hell you want with the information in your head.

A lot of these agreements teeter on the edge of enforceability, as well, and if you aren't forced to sign a non-compete it's going to be tough in most cases for a company to prove that a clean-room reimplementation violates the non-disclosure agreement unless you really are relying on information; however, I'd suggest that you consult a lawyer before wading into these waters, and 99% of the time it's not even close to worth the trouble. You're a lot more at risk from a lawsuit (even if you win) than the company is, and you shouldn't be burning most bridges anyhow.
Horrible idea, just horrible. I hate how everyone tries to force useful ideas into HTML/XML or HTTP. You know you can create new filetypes, structures and protocols for your ideas if they don't fit nicely into the current ones??
Thanks qeorge. Yes, indeed, lots of work needed on the front-end design.
I hate it when people delete their comments after a reply has been posted.
Atul Gawande on Health Care Costs
He is also the author of the book, 'Better: a Surgeon's Notes on Performance' a very remarkable book on becoming better.
Good comments re:spam bots.

BTW, the creator can write something personal, both for the recipient, and for the friends who come to write their letters. It's a customization option in the album admin page.

Thanks a lot.
He is also the author of the book, 'Better: a Surgeon's Notes on Performance' a very remarkable book on becoming better.
"It really has very little to do with technology," said Cape, who is now CEO of Cozi, a Seattle-based start-up. "What Intuit and Scott Cook were so formidable at was consumer marketing. He treated marketing Intuit very much the same way as one would treat marketing a bar of soap or bottle of shampoo. He made Quicken a household name. He spent outrageous dollars to get there."

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Microsoft products have always had more to do with marketing than technology. He's just upset that someone beat him at his own game.

"In many ways, Money was the precursor to Microsoft's "software plus services" strategy, in which the company posits that desktop software won't be replaced by online options, but will rather lead to hybrid products."

It's only a matter of time before online options replace desktop software, and everyone knows it, even Microsoft. Problem is that they can't admit it yet or they kill their cash cow prematurely.

"Managing your family logistics and your family calendar is about as fun as managing your personal finances," Cape said. "It's not exciting. What we've done at Cozi, which is very much like what we tried very hard to do on Money, is to take that mundane, ho-hum experience and not only make it fun but also make it beautiful."

People have been trying to do this for 30 years and it's never worked. Why? Because optional consumer activities (like familty logistics and family calendar) are easier to do with pencil and paper or, better yet, not at all. Even though many of us spend much more time in front of a computer, many of us still don't, and certainly not enough to use a "family app". OTOH, a smart phone app...
I don't want to pry, but could you describe your general level of fitness to us?

One day I'm going to try a polyphasic schedule "just because" but I wonder how it would be when getting lots of exercise.
And yet this is a field that has a Nobel set aside for it whereas mathematics is treated like a stepchild.
Why The iPhone App Store Is Bad News For Google
Nope, I'm just very aware of it. I greatly enjoy sleeping for 14 hours on days I let myself - so it's not really something I want to cure. I adopted the schedule because it's very difficult to lead an active and social life alongside a full time employment appointment all the while sleeping that much.