skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that people don't always check to see if a site is secure before putting in their login credentials and so if someone does a main-in-the-middle on their bank website, they might not notice that it isn't HTTPS.

I'd suggest that there's another good defense (not that I think this proposal is bad). Right now, everyone turns off that "warn me before sending insecure data over the internet" warning because it would be annoying as all hell. Every form you tried to submit would give you a warning. First, I'd change it to only warn about sending a password field over an insecure connection. That's really what most people are worried about. Second, because we all have non SSL sites with passwords, allow for an exceptions list - continue warning me about sending insecure passwords, except for this site which I realize is insecure, but don't care.

That way the browser is warning people about insecurely sending the information they want being sent secure. It provides them with a convenient exceptions list for places that don't use SSL and the user deems is fine for that exception.
July 30, 1898: The first car ad
With Twitter’s repositioning as “real-time search”, and search becoming a two-dog race, both Google and MS must be salivating to buy Twitter. I wouldn’t be surprised if either of them laid down 1+ Billion to get ahead under these circumstances.
Here:

Safari4: 1.931 seconds
Chrome: 3.2 seconds
Firefox3.5: Rainbow spinner, 'unresponsive script" dialog, took about 20 seconds.
Opera9.64: 19 seconds, didn't actually show tiger at the end :/

Not sure what's up with firefox, or opera. Safari is definitely winning the speed wars for me. Just needs to catch up with firebug a little more.
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Of Spiders and Scrapers: Decomposing Web Pages 101
Perhaps where I work costs are out of control (likely), but health care and benefits run closer to 35% of salary
Remember China's military segways? http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/07/chinese-police/

I hate to admit it, but pg is right. Even in a cooler design, in black, and wearing SWAT gear with machine guns etc, they still makes them look like dorks.

Maybe... if segways had become wildly popular, we wouldn't think so? Fashions do change perceptions (consider the 70's). But in this present reality, I think pg is right.
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Hot IT Skills: Certified and Non-Certified IT Skills in Demand
Hmm... from the News on the new release:

Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon.
Use the NeXTSTEP port, described above.

A NeXTSTEP port, a.k.a. "Cocoa support".

And, meanwhile, the Carbon Emacs guy reports that he doesn't plan to release an Emacs 23 version of Carbon Emacs in 2009:

http://groups.google.com/group/carbon-emacs/browse_thread/th...

Perhaps the time has finally come to try rolling my own emacs from source. That will require a Great Package Hunt in the short term, but once you've got emacs set up you've really got emacs set up. It's not like it changes every weekend.
I think the best way to learn this is to get into a framework and start hacking with it. Go through the tutorials and re-develop what was done in them. Then develop a small appliaction just for you. Maybe it could catalogue movies if your a collector, or document your exercises etc. Just something that would be useful and a learning experience.

Then do the same thing with Javascript. Look at some tutorials. Re-develop them. Experiment with cool animations, ajax requests, things like that.

The frameworks I recommend are Kohana (www.kohanaphp.com) and CodeIgniter(www.codeigniter.com) for PHP.

And like most other people, I LOVE jQuery. (www.jquery). Feel free to email me (its in my profile) if you have any questions. I'd be glad to help.

You definitely WILL be surprised at how fast you can pick these frameworks up.
That's surprising. Taking your data outside of the EU can lead to all sorts of Data Protection Act complications.
I'm not sure what he expected tho' - that anyone who works there can just log into the mail server and update the mailing list?
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Everything you need to use your GPSMAP 276C when your in your vehicle is contained. This includes a portable friction mount that holds the unit securely in place, even on contoured dashes. The adjustable automotive mount has a bracket that swivels and tilts for optimum viewing. Bracket is hardwired to 12-volt adapter cable and speaker so you can charge and operate your GPSMAP 276C while driving and get amplified voice commands with adjustable volume.
Did VoloMedia invent Podcasting?
Hacker News clone for Singapore
Not just in Paris--here in the fairly unremarkable town of St. Petersburg, FL, they have Segway guided tours.
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User concerns over twitter OAuth. Ideas anyone?
So our newly launched app (demandspot.com) lets users sign-in using twitter OAuth (sign-in with twitter button prominently displayed).
However, this isn't well understood and it seems like people are concerned of "giving us their twitter password".
Does anyone have experience with this issue, or ideas on how we should explain the process and try and alleviate user concerns?
Our target audience is twitter-using real estate agents, so keep in mind that this isn't the most tech-savvy population.
If you need to hire fast, there are ways to get the group to be effective quickly. If you normally work on long projects, it could take a long time before everyone gets a chance to interact, debate, reach conclusions and pull together to deliver. So, why not get everyone together and run a mini-project over a few days - a sharp, intense, end-to-end experience which really forces people together to debate, conclude and deliver. That can really accelerate the group's transition from forming/storming into norming/performing.
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"Usually I spend it reading all sorts of ebooks and papers and trying to learn new skills."

I suggest you switch gears and spend your free-time coding :-).

Pick some technology you think you want (you can change your mind later) and start doing side projects in it. Do up your personal home page. Make a google maps mashup. Some stuff to familiarize yourself with the technology.

There have already been lots of good suggestions on which technologies to use. Try a couple different ones.
Podcasting never was an 'invention', it's just a bunch of media files that you can download. A catchy name does not make something an invention. It's just coining a term.
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I really like Eric Ries definition of a startup:

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/05/lean-start...

If I was to add anything to it, it would be something about 'ability to scale'.
Binary Cake is probably a viable resource for the OP, so I'm unsure as to why you were modded down. Can anyone comment on the quality of these casts? They'd be good to point people at in the future if they are worth the money, especially if the founders are news.yc people :)
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Only if coverage doesn't matter. Verizon has very good coverage, T-Mobile not so much.
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The Cranky Cynic:

"Oh, I'm so sorry Mr. Godin, I'll see if I can get Frank to fix that". After which, of course, nothing is done anyway, but at least Mr. Godin feels like they care.
The fanny pack enjoys some islets of popularity; for example, fixie-riding hipsters and ccw fans. I'd be surprised if they caught on among comedy/UFC fans, but it could happen.
So this guy is a marketer. His posts are no longer than 500 words. So he sits on his computer for 20 minutes has a rant and he gets on the front page of hacker news. Has he said anything?

Oh I just work here, he sounds like a 10 year old kid having a rant about his friend.

Let me refute him. I used to work in a call centre. Some people there were pretty irresponsible, like not taking someone off the list when asked. I just did my job and got paid, so if someone wanted to be taken off the list and not be called I was glad to do it. So, I am me, I am not my company, I am an individual, and I take responsibility for my own actions, not the companies action, unless I am the CEO.

Now, what can be done about these marketers?
I like this bit:

So Perry reported over 500 chiropractors to them,
alleging they had made claims without adequate
evidence. The GCC rejected his letter, saying it
only takes individual complaints. A pile of
individual complaint letters were instantly
generated and delivered to their door.
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Aquamacs mate.
What kind of "third wheels" have you used when creating software?
The China Bubble's Coming -- But Not the One You Think
One exit few have considered is for the PRC (China) to adopt dollars as their external currency. It would seem to strengthen their faith in the dollar while actually not changing the fact the central government still controls the exchange rate into and (crucially) out of yuan.

No I don't think it is likely as it would seem like an abrogation of national sovereignty. But it would probably work long enough for the PRC to sell a significant number of dollars.

Just thinking outside the bamboo box here.
Not to mention that creating a brain with the three laws ingrained would be an order of magnitude more difficult than creating a brain in the first place.
Big companies are generally intolerant of bad behavior - if it's brought up. But in the absence of anybody shacking leaves to see, "why did Mr. Godin have a bad experience?" things just continue apace.
"I want to code the site using PHP and a bit of Java-script, but my skills with these are not exactly up to the job yet."

You must understand that you need to learn 2 separate things and you need to learn them well.

For javascript on the client you need nothing other than the browser you already have and the Rhino book:

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan...

Learn what's in this book! Go through all the exercises and tutorials. Build something. You can augment the book with tutorials you find on-line (ex. Webmonkey). Then you can View Source on any web page and understand what they did (and what they did wrong).

On the server you will have to find any common LAMP stack and load in onto your machine. The execises and tutorials for php, MySQL, and apache should be enough, although you can find more almost anywhere. Build something! Now that you already know javascript, you can include that in the pages you build as required.

Only after you have a solid understanding of the basics of these 2 technologies should you consider a framework. This can be tricky. If you adopt a framework too soon, you may run into a problem for which you don't understand enough about what's going on under the hood because you never learned it. If you adopt a framework too late, you'll be hand coding everything and will never get done.

Most importantly: you can only learn any of this by doing. Time consuming doing. Books and resources any necessary but hardly sufficient.

Do not fall into the trap of only learning at the surface and expecting to find someone else to do the coding. This does not work for a small software start-up. You must dig deep and learn well.

Thanks for finally posting. I hope you came to the right place. Get to work and keep us posted.
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Hm, if monkeys are better suited for human environments than humans, why don't we look like monkeys? There must be some advantage to human proportions?
The best I can think of is the employee he's talking to calling over to the responsible dept noting the complaint (possibly with the customer on the phone), leaving a follow-up email, noting that as an issue with their own manager in whatever reporting they can do, and telling the customer "I'm very sorry sir. I don't have direct access to that myself, but I'll do my best to get ahold of the people who do, and to make sure that our management knows of the problem. Would you like me to follow-up with you on Wednesday?"

That said, I wasn't thinking so much of the situation he posed as the message he came away with. You don't get to be Apple by having a bunch of people in your organization taking shots at other parts of the organization. Of course the question now is do you still get to be Apple with the way they run the App Store.
That's still a description of a toy not something that will change the way we build cities.
1) You should definitely create a passphrase for your private key (you should only be asked to unlock it once due to ssh-agent). Otherwise if someone gets hold of your private key they can login to any machine you have set up an authorized_keys entry on.

2) use ssh-copy-id to install your public key on a remote (and fix up the permissions on ~/.ssh etc. which for me is the #1 case of key based login not working).
This article is somewhat out of date. Modern OpenSSH distro's include 'ssh-copy-id', a single command to transfer, and append one's key to the remote list ofauthenores keys.

So:

Step 1:

ssh-genkey

Step 2:

ssh-copy-id user@host

Done.
On the one hand I agree, on the other hand most people only work to earn money. They don't consider themselves to be part of a huge, cool machine and they don't see it as their sole reason of existence to enhance their employers public image.

The real question would be how to make one's employees care about the company. It's not trivial to set up a system where every employee can affect every other's employee's actions - you don't want to encourage blame shifting and mobbing, after all.
"Over the years, I’ve likely scraped tens of Web sites. In fact, in 2005, I scraped the entirety of the then-current Linux Magazine site to port its content to a new content management system."

Society does not benefit by allowing these people such freedom. So, shouldn't this guy be prosecuted and sent to jail?
Would it be possible to have Paul's essays auto added here, and a link here from the essay? Would mak it feel more like what it is, his comment section.
I connect to remote machines several times in a typical workday, and this helps to save a bit of time. Furthermore, it allows some non-obvious behaviour, like closing the connection as soon as I did what I wanted. This avoids leaving a ssh session open in which you may erroneusly type a command intended for your local machine. An "svn up" on the wrong machine car ruin your day.
Also, check http://123emprender.com for a spanish community about hacking/entrepreneurship
Isn't that a bit of a security issue? One machine in the network hacked, they are all gone? Then again, hacker's could just install keyloggers if they get hold of one machine. But it would be a bit more effort.
He has been doing it since 1991, and spent 10 years working at RedHat.
The best resource is a PARTNER.

Get a buddy, don't do it alone, mate.
If you want to do it right, I think you should learn a couple of things.

Learn PHP first. You don't have to become a guru at it, yet. Go through tutorials, buy a book or two, experiment. Try doing something small that you think you'd need to do for your project.

Once you're at least somewhat comfortable about using PHP, start looking into PHP web frameworks. There're MANY. Pick one. At this point it doesn't really matter which one it is. They all have similar concepts. If you learn one, it's much easier for you to learn the other ones afterwards.

You didn't say whether you'd be coding from scratch or using open source (or commercial) products/platforms/libraries. Typically these days, unless your idea is VERY unique, people tend to assemble rather than code. What that means that you pick products/platforms/libraries that do what they do best, then "glue" them together with your custom code. I'm not sure whether that applies to your idea, but I would assume so. If so, look around for products/platforms/libraries that provide most of what you want and are "battle tested", and extensible (if that's what you need). Play around with them, figure out how to use them, and if they don't work for you, take what works in them and re-implement the rest.

As for JavaScript...jQuery is VERY popular. There are others, but that does seem to be emerging as a defacto standard of sorts. Still, learn the basics of JavaScript first (if you don't know it already).

You also didn't mention what your background and expertise in databases is. You're gonna need some sort of database for this thing, almost certainly. If you don't know SQL, you need to learn that, too.

Once you actually start building your idea, be open minded (and smart about designing it) about replacing any part of the application stack, if after you become familiar with the parts you find out they really aren't that great for what you're trying to achieve.
Or a middle ground: "I'm sorry Mr. Godin, I don't know if there's anything I can do to take care of that for you but I'll do what I can."

Merely acknowledging the problem, taking some responsiblity even by association changes the tone of the interaction. Especially considering they're asking him for a favor.
I made this mistake for about a year. Ordered/downloaded tons of books, read published papers, etc. I learned a fair bit, but honestly you don't really learn until you start doing. Your return per hour spent coding is on average far higher than your return from books and papers. You shouldn't stop reading, it just has to be limited.
Much discussion already from the earlier submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=730755
There's a difference being unable and powerless to do something and coming across as if you just don't care. Saying that you're just doing your job and not attempting (or even pretending) to do something about it it comes across as the latter and a major turnoff to both your customers and business partners.

In this case it sounds like this company was asking Godin for a favor - sure you could call it a rant, but it's also pretty fair given that it's not like he went to them, they went to him (which would make the attitude especially galling).

When you start saying stuff like 'it's not my department' when you're asking for a favor from someone else, it's also saying that you have little to no pride about the company that you work for and I think that's his point. If you care so little, life's short. Why wouldn't you find somewhere better to work (or better yet, start your own business that you can be proud of)?
At least 123emprender.com took some liberties with the design. Sigint.sg took the design along with the functionality.
Huh? The guy wrote this article for the same magazine he scraped articles from back in 2005 so I'm assuming he has, at the very least, some sort of affiliation with them. It sounds like it was part of a data migration strategy rather than theft.
I think the new url filter should check to see if www. got stripped from or added to an earlier submission that would save a lot of duplication.
"Journalism Isn’t Dead. Just The Old Business Part Of It."

This is a huge assumption. I disagree with it. I say that journalism is dead. Let me explain...

Turn on any television. Do it 3 or 4 times per day. Surf around the dial 2 or 3 times. I defy anyone to find anything resembling journalism.

Sit down for brunch on Sunday with 3 or 4 Sunday newspapers. Go through all of them for 3 to 4 hours. Learn anything new? I didn't think so.

I bring up these 2 examples because they are my experience over the last 5 years. Television and print journalism are conflicts in terms. They are dead. There's little difference between most newspapers and supermarket tabloids. Heraldo from 10 years ago looks more professional than anything on TV.

Where does that leave us? With the internet. Yes, there's plenty of great writing on-line, but it's buried among all the rest of the crap. Anyone can say anything and they usually do. Readers here know how to separate the wheat from the chaff, but mom and dad and Aunt Millie don't, so they're not getting the news anymore. Most people aren't.

I admire OP's experiment of rescuing the business of journalism. I just wish someone would think of an experiment to rescue the profession of journalism first.
Heh, when I used to cold call for some crappy call centre they told us NEVER to take the names off the database.

However I could see the damage this caused so I deleted from the db whenever I could see that further calling the said individual would result in "rage".
I have seen the win32 subsystem source (legitimately through shared source - I used to work for the British Ministry of Defence). It's very clean and tidy and not full of junk like that believe it or not.

The reason it still works is that they thought about it properly to start with. There have been very few extensions. The main one being adjusting pointer sizes (which are hidden behind a typedef like LPSTR anyway so that is irrelevent).

And for the record I take anything Joel says with a pinch of salt. The guy is a trendy blog mouth piece.
One claim Techcrunch makes that I'd disagree with is that the best reporters are responsible for most page views.

Looking at the "most read articles" list, there may be one or two news articles in it at a given time, but there are usually a few snarky op-eds (Dowd or Krugman) and at least a few human interest stories.

The standard for many of the non hard news stories seems to be to weave a story one quote at a time. So, for example, a story about the economic downturn might quote one person who lost a job saying "things have been really hard for the past few months" and then draw some grand conclusions without any quotes from legitimate experts, etc.

This is fine when it's a story about some human interest topic, but I imagine any serious journalist would never even want to write such articles.

The problem for traditional news organizations is that those are the articles people want, not some arcane investigative story.

For an example of this, compare "Most Read" to "Most Blogged" articles. The bloggers are typically focusing on the real news at any given time (a small handful of stories) and are less interested in the popular stuff (which is what they themselves are competing with)...

This is also why most papers run so many AP stories -- doing real journalism is much harder than just whipping up a quick story with a few loose quotes, etc.
Sunday papers and TV are not exactly the right examples to search for real journalism.

Try the Times, the Scotsman and the Washington post.

that is journalism. And it's not quite dead but I fail to see how they're going to support their reporters, the current businessmodel is failing fast and they don't seem to have any really good plans on replacing it.
If you've actually ever used Emacs before don't use Aquamacs, or else you're going to end up reconfiguring everything all over again because the Aquamacs developers don't seem to like to stick the standards and conventions.

Random things are wonky and way out of place. Like their variation of how buffers and frames work is ridiculous.

Build the Nextstep version, Emacs.app and things will actually work the way they're supposed to without having to reconfigure everything again.
Google Pulls Apple from Search Results ;-)
Your university library might have a lot of books on these.

You've got to be careful here. The vast majority of books on Javascript are terrible and will actually make you a worse programmer if you follow them. Better to stick with Javascript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan, Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford, and maybe Pro Javascript Techniques by John Resig, especially if you decide to use jQuery.
Wow guys, this is why I love this community. I'm taking note of all of this, going to print it out and put it on my wall when the comment activity stops so I can always just look at it for that little bit of inspiration to keep going.
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