skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mifare-cracking presentation at 23C3 (Chaos Communication Congress, in Berlin) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825150
A great example that demonstrates Equity != Control, and a nice change to horror stories where founders keep majority equity in a funding deal, but unwillingly give away control.

It's not the easiest thing to achieve, but Gary Hirshberg proved it's possible if you come to the negotiating table the right way.
Immediate deletion is hard. Retention policy is easy. At my company after 90 days the the backups are blown away. I presume Amazon S3 will take time to age out the data after I'm through with it, but they too will eventually delete it.
Analytics: if GA tells you everything that happens on your site, then you're good to go. I'd want to know # of thumbs up, thumbs down, fast forwards, facebook shares, or any other activity, broken down by user, song, artist, label, geography, browser, time of day, day of week, and where you found the initial song. Why? It's going to help you understand your users, and more importantly, it's the info that people who want to advertise on your site might want.

Feedback: This is just me, but I'm too lazy to copy your email address, switch programs/tabs/whatver, paste, type, and send. Give me a form. Click-type-click. Plenty of people might just want to say 'hell yeah' without giving their email address. You can't buy something like that, and it's the kind of thing that will keep you rolling.

I'm listening now. This is great. If you want a quick brain dump on online ads I'll send you my email address.
I understand why you think adobe is betting against open standards and against consumers, but why do you think that this move is doing that?

I'm just wild-ass guessing, as usual.

My impression is that Omniture's unique strength is in Flash video analytics, in particular. But I may be wrong about that. I don't know much about them, actually.

The graphic Adobe provided led me to believe that they view this as fitting analytics into Adobe's existing content workflow, which includes Flash/Flex/Air/whatever, and not a lot of standards-based approaches to the web (they work with standards, too, but it always seems an after-thought and an also-ran technology). So, if they envision this as a way to further lock companies into the Adobe web deployment silo, which is what it seems like to me, then I think it's a bad move...because it's betting against open standards and consumer freedoms winning in the end, and I always consider that a suckers bet.

Can you elaborate? Stock is at a relative low. Omniture's revenue is about 1/6 of sale price (they are not profitable, but they are growing).

They're a service business, as you noted, and a service business that isn't profitable (but growing) seems like the old, "We're losing money on every sale, but we'll make it up in volume!", philosophy. If growth doesn't result in increased efficiency, as it rarely does to a significant degree, in a service-based business, it seems like growth isn't a useful metric.

I wouldn't think this would be a good fit for Adobe because their value to the market is product-based, and this gives them a (currently money-losing) service-focused business to manage.

But, as I said, I have no idea what I'm talking about. I just choked a bit on the 1.8 billion number for a company that I can't imagine being worth that much (and it is entirely plausible that I'm showing a lack of imagination).
Have you been in a school in the last 15 years?

Separating kids into different sorts of classes would be tracking, which in most places is considered an unspeakable horror.

What he's arguing against is what happens after you 'train' teachers on this pedagogy -- they parrot it directly to their students. Common behaviors include: constantly narrating their actions - 'and now for the visual learners' and drilling identity into the students - 'Don't worry, you're a kinesthetic learner.

Your average education student has no poker face -- they can't apply a pedagogy without rubbing it in.
Not really analytics... but userfly is killer: http://userfly.com
Ak HN: Founders vs. team members in YC application
The YC FAQ says that there can be at most one founder who stays home. What about team-members/advisors who are not founders, and are not being budgeted to receive YC funds? We are considering taking on a team member who we don't consider a founder.
Ha!

No I meant, I have him calling people & asking questions (& putting it into a spreadsheet) - Crowdflower can handle this, right?
Astronomers Plan Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves
My problem with the "different learning styles" theory is that it is quite disempowering. There aren't many "aural" ways to understand quantum mechanics. I am concerned that "accomodating different learning styles" is really just about dog tricks to meet classroom objectives, rather than giving kids the tools they need to enable them to exceed expectations (most won't, but some will).
Astro Boy Gets the Hollywood-Blockbuster Treatment
Where is the grave-yard of dead gods? (H.L Mencken, 1922)
GitHub: Ref Names in URLs
There are a lot of great products in the Adobe stable -- Photoshop defined an industry, InDesign has redefined one, PDF revolutionised a lot of things (storming barricades put up by Postscript, which is also an Adobe product). The problem is that Adobe's dreadful stewardship means they all go to bloatware shit in the end.

Flash may have been a great product, but it certainly isn't anymore. And its ubiquity simply shows the popularity of things people have done with it -- video being the big driver -- and doesn't prove that it is "great", any more than the number of Windows seats prove its greatness.

The Flash runtime on the Mac is so poor that even their Flash PR-blogger suggests you get a flashblocker (there are also rumours that ClickToFlash was originally an inside job -- thanks for taking pity on us!) to deal with it. All the while he protests that Adobe doesn't need to do anything to improve it to deal with the challenges of HTML 5, because only "minority" browser vendors care about that, and IE will always be king. He'd better hope so.
That's a bit vague. Has anyone run the stats on the incidence of cross-tribal sex? And where would they get the data?
Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook
Blockbuster to close as many as 960 stores
I've had the opportunity to hear Gary in person, and he's a tremendous speaker. You feel as if he's talking only to you. Pay attention, he love what he does, as any entrepreneur should
Echo Server in Eventlet (http://eventlet.net/):

from eventlet import api

def handle_socket(address):
sock, ip = address
while True:
sock.send(sock.recv(1))

api.tcp_server(api.tcp_listener(('0.0.0.0', 6000)), handle_socket)
Windows 7 Upgrade Mess Is Depressing
The Difference Between Waterfall,Iterative Waterfall,Scrum and Lean
There must be a cheap way of automating the adding of milk... Some kind of really slow pump.
In some cases this is impossible. I work for a company that uses a lot of internal applications that depend on old IE. Asking them to switch to Firefox is like asking them to shoot themselves in the head. A sad reality.
That seems like an amazing tool. Unfortunately, the screencast is awful. I want to see a demo of how REPORTING works, I don't need to see capturing. And I don't understand why screencasts creators don't read from a script! There's no excuse for mumbling or an "uhhm...[pause]..." especially in the first few seconds - why not just start over?
you're assuming that the companies won't reassess when the situation recovers. that's why I specifically said 'band-aid' as in a temporary measure.

and when the benefit reductions are in lieu of lay-offs, morale shouldn't be affected. people should be far-sighted enough to realize that everyone has to scale back.

if the companies don't readjust later then it goes without saying (or so I thought...) that they will lose employees.

the bottom line is that there is good sense in it.
I always have concerns for these type of projects. They almost seemed forced to balance the style of the original, to suit the nostalgic audience, with the demands of the modern movie-goer.

Usually, they fall flat somewhere in the middle. Why not focus on one (the nostalgic audience probably doesn't value the payments to Jackson, Cage, Sutherland and Theron; spend less, increase ROI), or the other (new, schmick robot boy movie unrestricted by accuracy to a 60's anime)?
I would love a quick brain dump on online ads. My email address is info@hiphopgoblin but if you would prefer I can email you first once you give me your address
IIRC, github's pastebin (gist.github.com) creates new repositories for fresh pastes.
The question is which provides greater value to you while it lasts.
I couldn't disagree more. Facebook did several incredible things.
So what is the basic hack you RFID hackers?
Why does it need to be verified?

Well, why does anyone care in the first place?
Rupert Murdoch Sees Ad Improvement
It's not proportional -- it's just understandable within the general characteristics of a hacker mindset. So, too, are other licensing styles.
Well, to be fair I don't know how you could make it truly authentic at the scale without some sort of lithography.
I don't know about public schools, but homeschoolers find the concept very useful. I have two 2e kids (gifted and learning disabled) and accommodating for their learning styles has been helpful for getting past weak areas. However, it is also true that some things are best taught in a particular format. For me, I am not good at absorbing things aurally. If I'm tired, please don't try to read something aloud to me. Hand me the flippin book so I can look! I won't follow it and I won't retain it if you try to use my weakest pathway when I am already not at my best. Visual-spatial approaches are generally better for me.

The schools manage to muck up lots of things by bureaucratizing them. That doesn't mean it's a completely useless concept.
I think it's hilarious that Jobs and Woz were all into phreaking and giving Ma Bell a headache back before they started Apple. Now the next generation is essentially pulling a similar move with them. I can't help but think this sort of thing makes Woz smile a bit. I doubt Jobs finds it amusing at all though.
According to the Farrelly brothers, dumberer is a word, so I guess we can include biggerer as well ;)
Topcoder also assesses skill level through competition. The main difference I see is that Trollim is about one-on-one competition.
Well, if they are not allowed to take on riskier ventures, then I was say that it's most likely that they didn't due to regulation rather than due to a more conservative stance on risk. That said, even if they simply weren't allowed to take on that risk, it's an interesting take on what could have played out had they been unregulated.
Jsm, you might be happy to know, but any Windows system with IE can go back to IE6. I just found IETester recently, and it's been an awesome pack to test compatibility with IE5.5 - IE8!

Check it out here: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

(I was mainly asking DrJokepu.)
I really like Willingham's take on this. I should note for the record that I refer to different ways of thinking about math when I teach my math classes (prealgebra and contest problem-solving for young elementary students), but I also assure my students that they can learn new ways of thinking from me and from one another, and end up with a larger toolkit for solving problems than they had before they started the class. I've always thought that learning styles are LEARNABLE, and that most actual human learners don't fit into one Procrustean bed or another consisting of just one learning style.

An example of a mathematics textbook series that appeals to multiple problem-solving approaches is the Singapore Primary Mathematics series

http://www.singaporemath.com/Primary_Mathematics_US_Ed_s/39....

and another is the Miquon Math series.

http://www.keypress.com/x6252.xml

Both encourage learners to look at problems from a variety of points of view.
Does anyone know what languages are supported by the text-to-speech engine? I found a list of locales in the release notes. Would that be them?
Me, too.

The ones on the right appear as a blur of color.

Anti-aliased fonts always, similarly, look color-smudged to me, so I make sure to turn off that "feature" completely, whenever I can.

I suspect that, unlike some replies have implied, this isn't a defect in visual acuity (which could be the case, since the one eye I didn't bother to have laser surgery on is far from normally shaped), but, rather, an increase in sensor resolution. Might we have more cones? Perhaps our cones are distributed differently? Do we saccade [if you'll pardon the verbing] at a different frequency and/or to a different extent?

If my dominant eye can focus the image (unassisted now, with spectacles pre-surgery), I tend to prefer smaller font sizes, even on a tight pitch like a 17" 1920x1200. I still wish Apple would come out with a 15" laptop with 1200 vertical pixels.
This is called "tortuous interference". Your friend can meticulous call the guy out, getting the details correct, but you shouldn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
Google launches fast flip
You could say that giving up 6% for $25k is a bad deal, that it values the business at less than $500k

Sounds like one hell of a seed-deal to me. At least mine was much worse than that, I'd be curious to hear about others.

The barrier to YC for me personally was the whole relocation to the USA. I understand the reasons for that but can't see myself getting productive work done under such a drastic environmental change. If it wasn't for that I'd have been all over them - 25k for 6% is absolutely a no-brainer in the bootstrap phase.
Open Source Is Really About Documentation – Twisted vs. Tornado
Perhaps the fundamental thing to do is to not pay the final 50% until mutually agreed-upon criteria were met.

And for something like this there clearly needs to be a periodic code inspection, or specific guidelines such as anti-sql injection and the like.

Blacklisting this fellow wouldn't necessarily do the job. The hard thing is that you often don't really know if someone is any good unless you work with them, which makes this very hard.
Same here. Would you mind adding alumni support & status? I'd like to register but I just graduated.
Modularization is independent of programming discipline; you can have modules in procedural programming, OOP, FP, etc.

I didn't argue that OOP is exciting, just that it is not a conspiracy perpetrated by a business elite to reduce the productivity of the average programmer.

And appeal to authority won't work on me, sorry. FWIW, I think pg goes too far in his rant - I think he mistakes a certain strand of Java enterprise development in large corporations for all business OOP.

The programming languages I use most often outside of C - Delphi (I maintain the compiler, written in C) and C# - both support closures, and of course C supports textual macros. As a compiler engineer I'm not oblivious to the fact that code is data and vice versa: turning code into data, and data into code is my meat and potatoes, as is symbolic manipulation of code trees (I implemented Delphi's closure support). But there's a downside to treating all the world as a list, and building all your structures out of conses: lack of documentation, encapsulation, machine checking. These things matter when you're trying to build an economy of software modules in a closed source world.

In my own past in business development, I even used call/cc for certain web client / server dialog scenarios, using a DSL especially built for GUI data binding and events over an AJAX protocol. Assuming that all, or even the majority, of business developers are inefficient bumblers performing make-work is foolish, insulting and extremely myopic.
Not really. Maybe on a basic level. But something like Twitter being centralized is less important to most people. Twitter is rather simple in concept and (at least a basic implementation) could be made as a project for an undergraduate CS course.

Something that provided a decentralized Facebook/MySpace network would be more useful/important. As long as it was easy enough to deploy, people wouldn't necessarily need to get their own hosting option for it to work... but on the other hand it could open up a market for hosting that caters to people that just want to run that web-software package.
If isEllipseAtAngle(someAngle): boolean were a method, a Circle type could return true for every angle.
Discussions from over a year ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294831

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294455
That's true, but we are not counting Gists in these Repository stats.
Maybe after World War 3 the new global government will search through the 25 year old database and exterminate all past and present believers of <some religion>.

(Yes, I know, plain text emails to hotmail/gmail recipients would probably be just as bad as plain text private messaging on facebook. Protecting privacy is so bothersome that my efforts are pretty token. But I do try... because I don't comprehend the ramifications of releasing so much information.)
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An absolute waste of time that is only here because of the strong level of Microsoft hate in this community.

The so called "Upgrade Mess" has three components.

First, rather than forcing everyone to go through the pain of reformatting to upgrade, if you own a particular current edition of Windows that has all the system files necessary to support upgrading to a corresponding Windows 7 version you will be able to do a straightforward upgrade that won't require a reformat.

In the linked to article it links to a simplified chart suggestion (http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/windows-upgrade-chart-eb-remake-fin...) (compare original: http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/windows-upgrade...) that looks nicer, but misses Vista Starter edition and might make it less obvious that you can't upgrade to 32-bit/64-bit for people that jump straight to the row for the edition they have. Either way, allowing users to upgrade without a format where possible isn't exactly a mess.

Second, the article claims prices have not been announced yet. Why this would be a "mess" is unclear, but the claim itself is incorrect anyway. See http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Windows-Windows-7/categ....

Third, upgrades are only for upgrading (shock!). Like all previous versions, if you want to upgrade you will need an existing operating system install to upgrade from.

Oh, and it ends with a free plug for Laplink - awesome calibre journalism.
This has been a long time coming - actually the majority of blockbuster stores in my area have been closed for a couple of years - but Redbox keeps popping up. I think blockbuster will struggle with the kiosks since Redbox is already entrenched just as they've struggled competing with Netflix. I recently read an article (might have found it on HN) where the CEO of Redbox thinks the market for rental kiosks is limited to the next few years. He see's competition from the Internet and on-demand devices eventually taking over. But he said he was making a killing in the mean time.
Every Man Should Be Able to Save His Own Life
Mifare Classic RFID hacking (slides & video)
Video also available on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcas...
I will have to disagree with you. Their biggest technological achievement was the Facebook app platform.

While this was indeed an "incredible" thing, the question is, did this help make Facebook what it is today, or even attract a sizable audience?

The answer is most resoundingly no. Facebook was already very popular by the time most of these unique things were made, and in the case of Facebook apps, it even put off some users who were annoyed by its spammy nature.
Decentralized doesn't mean client-side. Think about it this way: What if Twitter wasn't a centralized company, but a standard protocol for software running on servers to communicate with each other?

Each user would run their own 'microblog' on a server somewhere. When someone 'followed' them, they would end up subscribing to an RSS/Atom but in a way that was more similar to rssCloud or PubSubHubBub (i.e. the user1 wants to follow user2 so user1's software registers a 'callback url' with user2's microblog; now when user2 publishes, an update is pushed out to user1's microblog software)

Users wouldn't even necessarily have to fool around with 'hosting packages.' This opens up a market for companies to provide 'targeted hosting' (hosting of a particular software package) or to create their own software package that conforms to the basic tenets of the protocol while adding things onto the interface (like games/advertisements/quizzes/etc). So the 'average user' wouldn't necessarily have to get their hands 'dirty' trying to figure out the difference between Shared Hosting and a VPS.

You can have servers in a decentralized setup. The whole point is that there isn't a single point of failure (in this case Twitter or Facebook). Not only that, people could (presumably) have better access/ownership of their own data and be able to back it up in case of disaster (in which case they could restore everything back to normal or migrate to a different server/service).
I use the same thing I did to quit smoking. Sort of an OCD-like 'As Good As It Gets' technique.

Step 1. Whenever I feel the 'urge' to read e.g. HN, I close my eyes and quit my browser. Then I breathe slowly and deeply three times, holding it for about 5 secs.

Usually that does it, I regain my senses and go back to work. If it doesn't work:

Step 2. I have to stare at my screen and say, out loud, "I'm the man. I'm getting shit done. I'm King fking Kong." I try to do a victorious or chest-beating gesture as well. Usually I get a little mini-dopamine rush, and then off I go.

I rarely get to step 3. But if the first two steps don't work

Step 3. I'm not allowed to do any work for the next 120 minutes, at all. I can do whatever I want, but nothing useful or productive.

That last one is nuclear. Think about it - if every time you look at that HN toolbar button, you know you're going to lose 2 minimum hours ... would you click it?

It also helps to have free time later to enjoy HN at one's leisure (something that is obviously not the case with smoking..)
This is the second piece of FUD from this site in the last 24 hours (the other being the horribly uninformed CodePlex Foundation article). Flagged.
I try and live life a bit happier, under the assumptions that most things won't go wrong and the things that do go wrong will be recoverable.
That's not even that much... (2.5 million I mean).
Oh they will eventually cut much more than that.
Prototypes is trying out possible new core features. Apps are non-essential functionality.
Did Lehman fail because Buffet doesn't use voicemail?
Because it's really good. So is their software. So we take the tech but jailbreak out of the attitude.
only here because of the strong level of Microsoft hate in this community

As I write, it has all of three upvotes. Are those three people the community you're talking about?
When are they going to put bluetooth stack in the sdk? That would be finally something really better then the iphone.
The point isn't "if Facebook goes down I can't access Facebook." The point is "if Facebook goes down everyone on Facebook can't access Facebook."

If social-networking was a series of web-software packages running on servers (whether self-maintained or managed by a 3rd party -- something like what Wordpress/LiveJournal/Blogger are to blogs) that communicated with each other, then if my social-networking node goes down I obviously can't access it. But other people's nodes are still accessible by me and by them. It's just my node that has dropped out of the network (granted it's possible that your node dropping off of the network could also take your permissions with it -- i.e. you would only have access to public content until your node was back up).