skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gem like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."

Quoted from Randy Komisar's "The Monk and the Riddle"
Simply reverse the situation, if two white guys would have been in that building when the police arrived would the situation have turned out the way it did ? If not then race was a factor, either on the part of the police or by mr. Gates himself.

Crowley seems dodgy and Gates seems a bit too eager to blow this up using it as a platform. I don't have much respect for either attitude.

After all the police was checking up to see if Gates wasn't about to lose a part of his property. Once you start asking police for their badge numbers you are effectively escalating the confrontation, which puts you in the drivers seat. You then also should take part responsibility for the consequences of that.

This whole thing has been blown way out of proportion.
Cool, but still vulnerable to attack by someone who can record video (or with really good memory). Even though the visualization is taken from a relatively small set of three-colour triplets, an attacker who has seen the visualization for every prefix of the password has enough information to figure out the password in linear time.
It seems to rely on jQuery, so a Firefox plugin, greasemonkey script, or Opera userjs would need to bundle or src jQuery. Whether or not that is okay I will leave on the table for debate and discussion. :)
IBM to acquire SPSS for $1.2B
I'm interested in an editor that works the way I like with minimal customization required. Notepad++ is like that. Emacs isn't.
“Be so good they can’t ignore you." - Steve Martin
If someone is already shoulder surfing, wouldn't it be easier to look at the hands and keyboard than at the colour bars and asterisks?
I don't see the utility of this compared to simply showing 'passwords are identical / not yet identical' live. Perhaps I'm missing something.

OK, so a user makes a mistake, and they notice their n characters in the first field and their n characters in the second field generate different colors.

How does this help them determine which of the two fields has what they intended to enter?

Also since the user types each field at a separate time, how does the character-by-character hashing help? What utility to the user is there from, having typed 'password' into the first field which shows brown and blue, knowing that typing 'p' in the second field made the second field green?
"Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you...Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question..Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use".

From "The Teachings of Don Juan"
This is pretty, but non-reversible it isn't. The colors update with every keystroke, making it easy to determine letter by letter, which keys are being pressed. This is a significant hole in many situations (screencasts, recorded presentations, or anywhere someone can point a camera at your screen).

Simple fix: Wait for 300ms of keyboard inactivity before computing the colors. This way you only get the colors when the person is done typing, eliminating the possibility of key by key color analysis.
Good luck, guys! This is an interesting market to be in.

It's also nice to see a lot of interesting database related companies coming out of Stony Brook -- I think one of the founders of tokutek is from Stony Brook as well.
Some close ones: "same", "differentgreens".
Grats guys! Really love your product =P
"multicoloured" :-)

Not to just be a smart-ass, I tried a few others, but couldn't find any that worked well.
" Sorry to ruin your story/anecdote" ..not at all. I am aware of the johnnie walker whiskey ad. But story that "pj" wrote about his experience in the library meant more than the ad tagline 'keep walking' - in my opinion. I didn't mention about the tagline coincidence - to avoid diluting the meaning.

It's akin to the "just do it", which we always see all around, but i see it as an ad, not a motivation.
This isn't advice insomuch as it's a warning. Advice implies that the OP is recommending some course of action.
There could be a little animation or delay before showing the final "hash". Only the colors for the complete password are important.

And if somebody can take video of the screen they could take video of the keyboard too, no?
Hells yes. Kittens!
They will call this... year zero!

Even after reading TFA I have no idea how important this is.
I was thinking more of the case where someone thinks "how much information about my password could three patches of colour reveal?" and logs into their account during a recorded presentation.
They don't have a "war on drugs", either.

Here in Taiwan, there are some very strict drug laws on the books, and yet weed and club drugs are pretty common, as they are in Singapore. Unlike the US, though, enforcement of drug laws isn't a high priority. There are people in jail for drug selling and production, but very few for casual use.
No comparison.
Eclipse is a great integrated development environment: a relatively static (though extensible) application for writing applications.

Emacs is a lifestyle. Embrace it.
Here is why he is wrong

1. You won't be your own boss.
Yes, your customers will tell you what they want, but ultimately YOU decide the direction of your product/company. In this sense, you most certainly are your own boss.

2. You won't like your personal life.
Unless you are passionate about what your business, and you love what you are building. Also, this is empirically and anecdotally wrong.

3. You won't succeed.
Every startup fails for one reason: the founders quit before they build something people like. There is no other reason for failure (esp. in the case of software). I will defend this point separately, if need be.

4. You'll hate the problems.
By definition, problems are problematic. But the problems you are trying to solve in YOUR business will be a lot more engaging than the trivial problems you are working on in a large company.

5. You'll be a jerk.

I don't even know how to respond to this one. Have you ever worked in a big office? Go to passiveaggressivenotes.com -- I bet that 99% of the content on that site comes from cubicle-style offices.

6. You'll hate your lifestyle.

Empirically wrong. It's a challenging lifestyle, but whether you hate it or not depends more on your personality type than on the lifestyle itself.

7. Again, you'll fail.
c.f. 3
That kind of integration error is very easy to make, and the attention spent on it by in taking the extra care to avoid it probably really adds up, when aggregated over everyone who uses this kind of tool. e.g.
I noticed today that ant does the same thing: it will output a literal "${filename}" if filename isn't defined.

In this specific case, Mailchimp could check for non-existent fields.

It would be even better to have a way for the fieldname to be automatically modified when you changed its name elsewhere... but because the naming is itself used to define the binding, there's no way to do this automatically (unless all the components were in a giant all-seeing IDE that automatically refactored all related components, wherever they be).

BTW: What I got from this story was that it's OK to screw up - I think productivity can soar if we don't spend endless attention checking things because we live in terror of making a mistake.
All of the icons we use are under an open license[1,2]. If you do find any specific copyright violations, we’ll certainly remove them.

[1] http://www.iconfinder.net/icondetails/6166/128/

[2] http://www.iconfinder.net/icondetails/8722/128/
Michael Bender (one of our professors) is a co-founder of Tokutek, and several SBU grad students work there.

They are doing some _really_ cool stuff!
That's not really the first, but it is not that great either.

The dubious honour of being the first currency to be available in such enormous bills is held by the Hungarian pengő.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_pengő
Congrats guys! Looking forward to a great partnership.
Home server is only reliable if you have static ip and a stable line. Otherwise it's more of a pain than a cure.
I do have some mission critical businesses run through ADSL (4Mbit down/1Mbit up) in Turkey. Some of them have been running over a year now.

But I had some googlebot problems. For a while googlebot could not reach my sitemaps without any reason.

Also my applications are download intensive. The only one that is upload intensive never had critical audience and is some kind of abandoned. If it had any more audience would it matter if it's a home server, i don't know.
but of course you could use LOAD"*",8,1; to load the first PRG from the disc... or my favourite command:
LOAD"USAGI",8 :P
congrats! amazing that there's so much less negativity on TC comments recently...
Marriage-Maker Claims Are Tied in Knots
> as long as Apple don't make most of them, I'm not worried.

Exactly.
Interesting, and for the most part sounds feasible.

But for me, I'd rather check my Inbox than Twitter.

And I'd rather people emailed me than called me, since most of the time they'd get a voicemail which I would have to pay to retrieve, and then I'd call them and it wouldn't be convenient, and then ...

And while some things (think long discussions) are done better verbally than by email, there's a lot of other things (like Reports from clients, or my global office) for which email is the only alternative to actual mail (since, and again this is for me, the chances of any of them diving into Google Docs or Wikis in the next 3 years is negligible).
KPCB-funded EEStor promises ultracapacitor to power electric cars by 2010
I do not have time to read the code. But if the colors are generated using one way hash, this would be great to have on every site. Using of colors can be replaced by showing the hash in plain text. Everybody would remember their password colors, and typos in password would be history.
Coming soon, Google Spelunking Cam
I'm tired of seeing "free" icon sites where the icons are only "free" if you do something obscene like post ads for the icon site on your page. If anyone knows of any actual free as in BSD / ASF licensed or similarly licensed icons then that would interest me.
The icons are almost exact clones of Apple's -- the differences are so minor that I didn't notice them when actually looking at the applications in my dock. The Xcode icon, for instance, appears identical barring the reversal of the hammer.

[edit]

The Xcode icon you linked to comes from a user-uploaded KDE Icon Theme:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Dark-Glass+reviewed...

If you download the actual theme set, you'll find that the copyright ownership is unknown: "99% of this set is GPL now and what's not is most likely creative commons (a tiny number of the mime types may be proprietary). PLEASE abide by the licence rules, if you use icons from this set please research and credit the appropriate people. I have been given permission to release other peoples art work under the GPL so respect the licence." (from the README)

The original icon theme may be found here: http://www.mentalrey.it/project.html

As noted by mikejs below, Apple actually uses the same icon you're using. Digging a bit, it appears it's the icon Apple used for Xcode in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (Xcode 2.5):
http://www.command-tab.com/images/photoshop/tiger_icons/prev...

Xcode 3.0 actually introduced the right-facing hammer:

http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/Ob...
I've been using the dbus support with the CVS snapshot for a while now - it's nice.

So far I've only been using it to control workrave and to bring up compilation messages with the system notification handler for long running compiles. Still, I've been liking it a lot.
I guess I'm old fashioned. I like e-mail. I like having everything collected together in one spot. I like being able to make one set of filtering/sorting rules. I like being able to segment my communication into work & personal e-mail addresses. It seems to me this strategy simply pushes stuff around to new places. I can't imagine dealing with Twitter, increased telephone call volume, more IMs, etc actually makes things easier but it's a personal choice. Probably depends a lot on what type of people are contacting you and what exactly they want.
if your script doesn't need to be platform-gotcha aware, you can always rewrite it in pure js.
I work a lot with people in different timezones, email is nicely asynchronous and that is why I think it will be with me for a long long time.

I got rid of IM though, that was simply too much of a distraction, so much 'stream of consciousness' because of the too-low barrier that it becomes overwhelming. Email has just the right barrier of entry to me, it is relatively cheap for me to check and a lot of work on the part of the sender. If I'm not interested the cost is near 0, if I'm interested it can go quite far.

Also, for anybody in bussiness for themselves not checking email is a limiting move imo, snappy response to email is very much appreciated by customers and collaborators alike.
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There are people in jail for drug selling and production, but very few for casual use.

The U.S. is the same way: http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/demand/speakout/10so.htm
"The Michigan Department of Corrections just finished a study of their inmate population. They discovered that out of 47,000 inmates, only 15 people were incarcerated on first-time drug possession charges."
Apple seems to use the exact variant of the icon that these guys are using on some parts of their site as well, see http://www.apple.com/ca/science/whymac/righttool.html
startpinkendgreen

Still trying to find one for all three colours. (This is fun! :P)
"wildblueyonder" produces a blue bar on the far right.

"wild blue yonder" produces two blue bars on the left.
Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Of Customers
Basically, if this thing is for real, it's the most important invention since the transistor. It completely replaces batteries in every application with better performance in almost every dimension at lower size, weight, and cost.

It's quite likely that the EEStor guys are fraudsters or crackpots, but it's fun just to think about the possibilities such a device would unlock. Cheap electric cars! Phones that charge in 10 seconds! Rechargeable batteries that never need replacing!
I wasn't sure about posting this... flag away if you don't think it's appropriate. I thought it was pretty funny though:-)
As others have noted, this is not "non-reversible", at least in the current incarnation. Part of the problem is that if you type an 'a' you always get the same three color triplet.

It seems to me that the simplest fix would be to add something like a seed value to the input or the triplet colors and then randomly generate the seed each time the page is loaded. At that point someone replaying or recording the colors would have no idea what seed would have been generated, but as long as both fields use the same seed the color triplet would be identical for both.
Except, he hasn't ditched email at all.

6. A few types of emails will get through for now. My filters allow emails for advertisers, interviews, refunds, and people who want to hire me, to get through to my inbox [...] I’m working on automating these processes via the web

Even if he 'automates processes via the web' that's still having to spend time to read, process, and deal with text content sent by others. Rather than ditch email, he seems to have put forward a plan for receiving less of it.
Agreed — I don't understand how this is much help. Furthermore, it was confusing to me until I understood what it was doing, and — when I did — I similarly thought, 'Why isn't it just telling me when the passwords match?'

Your average user is going to be completely perplexed by this and have no idea what it's even for. I would argue that this is far less usable for the average user than the old-fashioned implementation of clicking 'Submit', doing a non-AJAX round-trip, and then displaying a message that the passwords don't match.
Hmm, can someone tell me why I should pay for this vs.
~$50 webcam + < $9/mo for electricity (quote for a plug-in wall pc is $5/mo for electricity) that comes with motion detection capture? Here, I have full access to the video and analyze it if needed after 2 weeks or years?
There's a difference between editing text files and editing text. In the former, all you need is some mechanism to type, delete, and move text. In the latter, you want to work with the contents itself in a huge number of ways.

There's no such things as an editor that works the way you like unless you only have very basic text editing needs. This is where people generally resort to Notepad or Word.

In the other case you really want a good editor that fits both your fingers and thinking, and that's where you had better write the editor yourself. It is at this stage when many people have figured out that starting with Emacs is the easiest path.
As you hold shares of a small closely held corporation, you'll probably have a tough time selling your shares to anyone other than the principal shareholder or the corporation (and they may not be willing to buy). In addition, your right to sell your shares to a third party may be restricted, as has been noted above. If the business folds, you may be able to claim a capital loss to the extent of your basis in the shares. I'm not certain of this, however. Best to consult an accountant. Good luck!
Ask HN: Club Membership software - anyone here sell this?
I've done some Google searches and can't seem to find anything good- I'm hoping someone here might sell something or know of someone who does. (Ideally something that can handle UK banking issues, like direct debits.)

The current system was written in 1992 (!!) and is some DOS-based-text on top of some sort of SQL database. It's been stretched as far as it could, but we need something modern.

The club needs to keep track of ~3000+ people at different levels (and costs) of membership. There are several other fees for "add-ons" that we would need to define and easily add to peoples' bills. Here are some additional details:

ESSENTIAL
Billing
Multiple payment frequencies & methods
Simple reporting (e.g. debtors, membership by category etc)

NICE TO HAVE
Ability to send mail and email direct from system (e.g. interface with MS Outlook)
Direct interface with accounting system eg Sage
Direct interface with online banking (although possibly done via accounting system)
Direct processing of direct debits
Online credit card payment
Ability for members to maintain their membership online (e.g. apply to change membership category, correct your own address online)

The best that we've found so far is Wild Apricot (http://www.wildapricot.com/), but would appreciate any suggestions or pointers. (We don't want to have something custom-built.)
apt-get install motion

And a bit of hacking should get you something similar, if very possibly not quite as polished.

Of course, their target market is people who don't want to do any hacking - and there are a ton of those people, so something simple and convenient might do well.

Edit

From their comments above, it looks like it's a little bit more complicated than just capture on motion detect. I think they need a killer demo, as they really need to point out how they're better.
The redesign last year has made me looking for other options already. I've been meaning to switch to http://pinboard.in/, the only problem being its far worse tag suggestions compared to del.icio.us's (because of a smaller sample to draw suggestions from).
Depends on your idea of fun. If your idea of fun is doing intensive research (e.g. hacking) then you'll build experience in stuff you wouldn't have had the opportunity to fit in between the brainfry of 9-yuck hours. I've had this experience, and the landing was superb - when I returned to work I had skills that I wouldn't have had if I'd just bounced from one job to another. Things that made me better able to 'hit the high notes'.
Does delicious generate revenue for yahoo? I can't see how it can be, but maybe I'm missing something.
Justin.tv is spamming HackerNews
I count 3 job ads from this company on the homepage now. Worse, for some reason there is no "comments" link on those items, so they can't be flagged.

They also all have the same number of upvotes, which strikes one as a bit eerie.

What's the story?
YC-funded companies get special privileges with job postings on HN.
New process to extend Moore's law?
Silicon With Afterburners: New Process Could Be Boon To Electronics Manufacturer
Any reason why it wouldn't?
Twitter also allows more ability to get distracted than the averages persons email inbox. At least with email everything is directed at you.
>I think there's a core of super dedicated people that keep geographically disparate projects alive and working well.

There's generally a core of super dedicated people that keep any project alive and working well.
So he's giving up one inbox (email) for another (twitter)?

It's going to be an interesting experiment because people are not really expected to reply back to every message on Twitter, so will people get ticked off if Leo doesn't reply to tweets?

If Leo had instead responded only to really important emails and not every single email, would he have achieved the same results?

I hope Leo posts an update on the same two months from now, would like to see if he has indeed got rid of inboxes (irrespective of whether it is email or twitter)
I cannot think of something more Big-Brother-like that every other person wearing a 360° camera helmet. Given enough of those, you can visit every place on earth virtually with live data, including everyone in that location. Hooray...
How do you know Apple isn't the one copying it from somewhere else?
HighlightCam works when there's continuous motion. Even at a busy party, the algorithm would pick out when people talked in front of the camera or some guy fell off a table. Think of it as smart time-lapse, rather than just a collection of motion-heavy segments.

Oh yeah, and we also take audio into account.
IMO Yahoo was never a search company anyway. It was a directory of sites and is better positioned like the article says as a media company. It tried to buy it's way into the search technology market (overture, altavista, inktomi, et al) but they didn't know how to manage and integrate the disparate technologies into one holistic search experience. Yahoo is terrible at managing search technology. Period.

It is about time Yahoo stopped pretending to be a search company. Concentrate on growing and monetizing the new media properties they have and they could be very successful. In fact it's the only sane play at this point.
That was my thought too. Why would I import somebody's 3rd party library to save myself typing document.getElementById once on this page?

I'm sure jquery has its advantages for some things. Silly little javascript tricks like this don't seem to me like they qualify.
There's also the ultra complicated open source solution zoneminder.