skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was thin, but the one gem that you don't hear very often is to approach being an employee as a way to learn how to successfully run a business, rather than a way to get a paycheck. Sound advice for entrepreneurs who, for whatever reason, can't yet take the plunge.
Aren't Microsoft tax payers themselves?
Pedophiles don't tend to be the sharpest tools in the shed so I'm guessing dictionary words do the trick 90% of the time.

You know, users in general don't tend to do very well at picking passwords. The great success story of educating users on password strength is that, after years of telling people to use both numbers and letters, the most popular password went from being "password" to "password1".

Not to mention that it's probably unwise to assume that criminals of any sort "don't tend to be the sharpest tools in the shed". Maybe it's true, maybe not, but underestimating an adversary's competence is asking for trouble.
Augmented Reality Virtual Keyboard using HTML 5
SourceCow answers the biggest question we've all asked ourselves- why is that person following me?

I sort of doubt this is, in fact, the biggest question for most people. Or even most people among those on Twitter, who are a small fraction of the total population. Or even those users of Twitter who have fallen within its reality distortion field and think that their follower count means anything, since the reality distortion field suggests that the count is important rather than the individual followers.

Your startup requires that X perform an operation which is expensive in terms of time, effort, and perceived risk (installing a plugin and then commenting) without receiving value so that Y can receive value. That is a virtually perfect recipe for not gaining traction.

Very nice design, though.
The PyPy JIT is currently less than perfectly optimized for memory usage, and there are a few leaks related to it. However, without the JIT PyPy has a better memory footprint than CPython, so it's likely that the situation will improve markedly.
1) Right now I'm running Firefox locally in X11. If there is a code execution vulnerability in JPEG parsing, for example, the shellcode could just install a signed repo package with a root vulnerability. This potentially means the next Firefox vulnerability is remote root on FC12.

2) You don't have to be at the console to inject code to install arbitrary packages, but you do for mounting a drive.

3) There are good ideas behind policykit and packagekit, but the introduction was mishandled. No mention was made in the initial release notes of this new feature, and one could argue that the default policy isn't the best idea. However, having the ability to define more finely-grained policies should get two thumbs up.
OkCupid isn't a representative sample, either. Even more, you have to take into account the site mechanics: a mutual 4 or 5 star rating results in a "match event", but any other combination doesn't. So rating someone 1-3 is equivalent ("I don't want to talk to them") as is 4-5, and men and women's responses to this mechanic may influence their ratings in differing ways.
I have had Google reps disappear (say 'I will call you back in 20m,' then not answer emails, phone calls etc. for days) on accounts many time bigger then that.
As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh.

The female rating is particular interesting. Are only ugly men on OKCupid (myself included)? Or do men look worse in pictures than women? After all, remove the makeup, carefully selected attire, and fancy hair, and you have your average male. Even photogenic men don't look as good as their photogenic counterparts, in my opinion.
Yes, I remember that version. Too bad I have neither an Arduino controller nor the time to mess around with a project like that.
Ask HN: Rate my site.
Trying out a Retry decorator in Python
So that's why my PC opened all those TCP connections when I typed in 'ammonium nitrate'.
James Tenney's Wake performed by William Winant Percussion Group
Obviously there's some marketing speeel in there but I do think in general folks wanna know why they're being followed.

I mean lets just go over to search here...

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=why+do+people+follow+me

There's some ammo right there to back up a concept like this. Will it save lives and make oodles, maybe not but could it fill in some blanks sure!

There's little value in lists and far more effort.
This part made me chuckle a bit:

What other systems don't have, however, is adaptability. Condon said that, unlike its fellow next-generation gaming machines, the PS3 lets users install Linux, a free, open-source operating system.

[...]

Unfortunately for ICE, the new slim-PS3 won't suffice.

"The newer PS3s have been restricted, locked down, so you can't put Linux on them," Condon said.

Oh dear, the slashdot thread practically writes itself...
Duplicate - extensive discussion on this recent thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=944978)
Sad but then again just about every book seems to make it onto the New York Times best-seller list.

Oh, right, I've been spending too much time in airports.
Fellow HN readers, please review my college-based website. I've been working on it in my spare time. Forgive me if it doesn't look that great, but I am the sole programmer/designer for the site so I can't just focus in one thing. For the most part the basic functionality is there. All feedback is appreciated, thanks in advance!
Interesting that it uses class-based inheritance in JavaScript. I wonder what this would look like, if it were done with prototypes.
"Ruby Metaprogramming PDF Beta Book".discount(21.00, 0.40)
String.send('define_method', :discount, lambda{ |args| "#{self} = $#{(args.first(1.0-args.last))} (#{args.last*100}% off)" })
String.send('define_method', :discount, lambda{ |*args| "#{self} = $#{(args.first*(1.0-args.last))} (#{args.last*100}% off)" })
".... Listen to the increase in rhythmic density caused by the longer and longer snare drum rolls till they circle around from﻿ left to right before beginning to overlap. When they fully overlap the process ends and the players hit simultaneously."

The youtube comment is helpful in trying to figure out what is going on here.
"I’ll try to keep things to the point that nothing more than a general understanding of Haskell, Parsec, and the basic concepts of LLVM are required."

ok, I'll be back in 4 days.
Gotta love the iPhone fanboys who downvotted me.
I question the numbers. (Well, the female ones anyway.) I had a plentyoffish account a few years ago, and the image ratings averaged around 3.5 out of 10 for both men and women. I know that the hotornot guys had the same problem, and admitted to fudging everything upwards.
I went to the psy and their telling me I have ADD symptoms and are depressed to.

Her approach is to treat the depression first then the ADD. I'm frustrated since Is now going to take longer to treat my focus and everything related to the ADD.

Any thoughts on this treating depression first than the ADD?
Nice post, nothing really new there, but this caught my eye from the comments:

Despite this, some in the Lean camp are still trying to pretend that we can use an industrial metaphor to produce software. Why? Because just like in the 1960's that's what the Management classes want to hear :)

I wonder if that's really true...
With quite a few Augmented Reality iPhone apps currently in development, along with creative new approaches such as this use of HTML 5 video, I see Augmented Reality as a frontier with a great deal of space for startups to flourish.
As a designer I tried to ask myself the first few thoughts I had when I land on the page. The bar on the top that has all the logos initially feels like advertising space. Perhaps you might consider putting that underneath the search bar. Also add a little more emphasis to the search bar itself would help draw the eye. Perhaps something as simple as a border around it.

Those are just my initial thoughts. Your choice in graphics is very sleek, and the over feel is very clean. I feel with a few simple changes you can push your bounce rate lower though practical design.
Actually, this presentation has been around for a while. I remember reading this around 2005.

Not exactly 1998, but still :P

(http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.marshallbrain.com/mi...)
I can vouch for Programming Clojure too. If you're interested in Clojure, then its an amazingly good book and worth owning.
I can't even tell what the site is for without looking at the top of my window and then I still don't really get it.
Does working at home make you more productive? Yes (with data)!
With 9/11 in recent memory, it becomes clear that "don't let people defend themselves because someone might get hurt" is a weak argument at best.

Oh, and the scene in "Snakes on a Plane" where half the plane gets sucked out because of a few bullet holes is quite false.

The legalities work the same way they would on the ground.
"Why do people follow" to me does not indicate the presence of a real market for a software product, but a medical product to deal with paranoid narcissistic delusions of grandeur.

Twitter, the next Pfizer acquisition?
1) When I clicked in the 'Title, author or ISBN' box the text didn't go away. That's annoying. I'm using FF 3.5 by the way.

2) I didn't know what the site was for at first glance. The banner with the University logos... is it an ad? Are those logos special for some reason? I didn't really know.

3) I typed 'Artificial Intelligence' into the search box and clicked Find. It told me I wasn't logged in. On second glance it looks like it found 0 results and the 'not logged in' thing was tangential. If that's the case you should emphasize one over the other.
Yeah, I had to ponder your #1 there for a moment, but I think you're right. It is true that the local user is virtually by definition in possession of root capabilities (whether they know it or not), but that doesn't mean their user account is; the user account !=== the user from a security point of view.

I think you've nailed why this is a bad idea. I manage my machines the same way; sure, I'm "root" and I tend to "su" around a lot, but I'm careful about what I do as root vs. what I do as my "main" user vs. what I may do as a throwaway user with virtually no privs (some Wine stuff gets run this way, for instance). Just because I-the-human am root all the time doesn't mean I want all my accounts to be root.
It didn't have any math textbooks I would want. Also in Safari the search field "ISBN..etc" text didn't go away upon clicking.
I can't search unless I log in? Sorry but I'm not the type of person to sign up for a site just to do a search. I would use Google instead.

Try to go login free if you can.

(Edit: This was a misunderstanding due to the way Bulldog Byte handles search terms for which there are no results.)

In addition, just looking over the site I'm noticing numerous small glitches like buttons being cut off (up at the top of the "Learn More" page "Get in Touch" is cut off short in the latest version of Safari), and lack of space between a period at the end of a sentence and the first word of the next sentence. (Also on the same page.)

These are small things but they make a huge difference in the presentation and overall feel of your site.

I'd say that you have a little bit more work to do. Keep up the good work though.
Except this is what bugs me about that huge fedora-dev thread: all the proposed attacks seem to begin by assuming the attacker is already in a position where they don't need this to own you.

And it's really hard to read that thread without getting the impression that a lot of people are trying to take the security model and use cases of their companies' production servers and apply them to personal desktop systems.
> approach being an employee as a way to learn how to successfully run a business

Or as is so often the case (and also a valuable learning experience) how to unsuccessfully run a business.
FTA:

> Speaking of comparisons, the publisher’s portion of sales on this book has grossed them around $453,839.68. I don’t have any hard figures on the publisher’s net, so I can’t give you the bottom line there. If I had to make a guess, I’d say they probably netted around $250K on this one.
It's suppose to help college students find textbooks within their own school. For example at my campus I see many times on bulletin boards students selling their textbooks. It's a great thing, but visibility is limited. By posting on the site, other students can search and get in touch. They can just meet up on campus and exchange the textbook.
Thanks

Personally, I'm becoming convinced of two things:

1) Sci-Fi AR is much, much closer than people think. Obviously iPhone/Androids apps are a good first step, but Minority Report style UI's within 2 years wouldn't surprise me.

2) AR is going to be HUGE. I think there is a distinct possibility that AR could be bigger than the web. It feels odd saying that.

The one thing holding it back is the lack of the AR equivalent of HTML/HTTP. At the moment everything is proprietary. Hopefully, HTML5+Extensions (eg http://www.w3.org/2009/05/DeviceAPICharter) will get there soon.
I made $2300 over the course of two months a few years back using Comission Junction through PPC arbitrage. I found the entire industry to be really spammy and full of scams (not so much CJ but ShareASale, AzoogleAds, Clickbank, etc)

1. Sign-up for CJ/Azoogle/etc
2. Digitalpoint.com for YAHOO/MSN/GOOGLE credit vouchers $200 in ads for $20.
3. PPC account (Google not reccomend for newbiews)
4. www.sherpastore.com/ to accquire matieral to read internet marketing case studies, understand landing pages, call to actions, etc.
5. html/css/design skills to create your own landing pages, crazyegg.com to understand user clicks.

Ultimatley its more work for less money than you would make at even a retail job.. but if you are serious I am sure you can come up with innovative ways to drive user to your links and maybe even sign-up for trials or products. I made the bulk of my earnings from Rhapsody sign-ups using obscure music genres on MSN. While the money seems okay -- you're likely to lose quite a bit while discovering a niche -- that is if this even works anymore -- I know google was starting their own affiliate network and i see information for arbitrage being advertised by gurus on CNBC at 3AM.
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You can search while not logged in, you just can't see the students contact information. Try doing a search for "math." And Thanks!
Reminds me of self winding rolex watches.
Right now there are only 41 books posted, so it is most likely that the book you're searching will not be found. This will hopefully change once more people start using the site.
Ah, I see the source of my confusion. I searched for a specific book:

"Blink Malcolm Gladwell"

Bulldog Byte didn't find any results, yet it didn't tell me that there were no results. Instead it just showed the "You're Not Logged In" message, so I assumed that meant that I had to login to view the search results.

You might want to add a message such as "No results found! Want to try again?"
okcupid is doing science. I wonder what academic will pick up this data and extract evolutionary biology conclusions from it.
While I doubt you could accumulate the statistics, I'd bet that the carrying of 4700+ dollars correlates very well with participation in the drug trade. Depositing 10k into a US bank earns you a free investigation, even if not face-to-face.
Hmmm... it should have said "Found 0 Results" right above where you see "You're Not Logged In." I'll try adding more emphasis on the next release.
"sethgodin donates 100% of this page's earnings to charity. You can do it too..."

Just follow the link.
Condé Nast Prepares Tablet Magazines for Apple Device and Others
Not really surprised about the female curve. They say attraction for males is 85% physical and 15% personality, and for women the reverse. Not sure on the accuracy of those numbers, but the general principle is probably true. And since you get no inkling of personality from a picture, it isn't shocking.

What I'd really like to see is if they listed the guys to one group of women as just photos, then to another given select bits of data, what would happen then. I suspect you'd see strong correlations, especially if income were there.
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Microsoft Plans to Open C#, Visual Basic Compilers
"And there's no way to kill review and retain that trust."

I don't think most users trust the app store because they know every app has been vetted. I think they trust it mainly because we haven't seen large number of users getting burned - and not because Apple is vetting each app but rather because it is in the developer's interest not to burn their customers.
I see it now that you mentioned it. The problem is that it is so small compared with that big yellow "Not Logged In" box. The yellow color grabs all the attention such that at first glance I don't even see that small text above.

I would suggest that you make the text at least 20-30 pixels high and put the message below the "Not Logged In" box. That will make it much more obvious.
I need something cool or useful on the first page or I am gone. (Still not sure what it does)
Wouldn't it make more sense to list those items rather than making a user search for something to find its not there? I'm not talking about listing everything, but like bugs said it's hard to figure out what the point of the site is. Anyway, this is meant only as an observation. Carry on!
That sounds far from simple and totally ineffective. Finding a way to make $1 that scales to that extent is non-trivial, in fact it is probably harder than opening a successful restaurant.

Hiring people is out unless it could be repeated quickly (they charge an hourly rate that you have to fade) and if that's true, the minute you show someone how to do it they'll cut you out. Unless there is a barrier to entry, which generally means cost, in which case you probably already have a million dollars.
Protect a user from himself.

I manage IT for an accounting firm and I got a few ubuntu machines - they know how to use Synaptic (and know I need to give the password). However, it is highly unlikely any of them know how to drop to single-user mode and do "stuff".

One of the things that companies like about Linux - is that it can be reasonably locked down against people who typically click attachments in mails, etc. ... not against hackers.

I think this is the beginning of a new era of Linux viruses.
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Have you been able to do it? Not necessarily achieving 1M, but at least a 5 figure return over one year.
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I don't want you to have to explain that to me though I want the site to explain that to me when I visit it.
I felt that this was a well-written article but the ending feels like a pathetic stab at.... humor?

Despite having so many PS3s at their disposal, both Skinner and Davenport said agents have resisted the temptation to play video games on the consoles.
most guys shoot from the hip when it comes to pictures, women prep the crap out of it.

Hell I know a girl who used photoshop to tweak a photo she used as a profile picture on facebook
Kudos to you for being able to remember an "8 by 8" password like that. I would just rely on a password key chain.
Perfect advanced programming language for the productive industrial developer
Ok, I'm going to go out and say it: There is an absurd amount of pressure on women in this society to be perfect.

Now, I'm not going to refute the fact that I wouldn't message the most-attractive women as well. But if the knee-jerk reaction of a woman is to reject the message from the most-attractive men or to harshly rate decently looking guys, there are outside factors affecting the female perspective of appearance, especially if the same isn't true for men.
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NSA tries to help with practically every project. I remember in Bruce Schneiner's "Applied Cryptography" he talked about how the NSA worked on various encryption algorithms in use including the DES tables.

Nobody was quite sure what the NSA did to the tables, but when they came back they were different. Naturally, there is speculation that they built in backdoors. (These days it is an obsolete argument anyway as DES has already been broken by brute force because of its short key length.)
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I like the idea a whole lot. I heart markets and marketplaces.

- The point of the system should be crystal on first view.

- I don't get the name at all.

- I'd pick a specific uni or set of universities to bootstrap and learn from before going big across all schools.

- I'd scrape the universities for required books somehow so I could know about books, even if I didn't have them available.

- I'd allow searching by class (details in the previous step)

- Facebook login?
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Quick recommendation on a way to make money, with this. If your site doesn't return a result for a book, why not query amazon or half.com and link to a listing on their site getting the potential affiliate fee.
Thank you for posting that link to previous HN discussion. They mention Scrapy http://scrapy.org/ and I looked at it. I liked the fact that it is Python based and the tutorial is very good. They even have a shell to test HPath Selectors. Now I have a better understanding of the process. Of course, it is not like filling a form as the case with 80legs, but I am having fun working through the tutorial. I also ran a couple of small jobs with 80legs but I am unable to see the results. I guess 80legs would be good for huge projects. In any case, I will try to work with both. Thanks again.

Another discussion about scrapy http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411733
Ask HN: Why not log into web sites via email without any password?
That's the process currently used for changing your password.

But why bother with a password at all? To make it convenient, you could have the browser automate the procedure for logging in via email.
Nuts! Facebook won't let us profit from advertisers that defraud our users. No worries, that's a fair play. We'll just clean up our act and move on... unless someone has a better idea
Your firefox exploit could also just wait until you type in your root password and sniff it then. But since the most interesting passwords a desktop user types are typed into the browser, and the exploit is already in the browser, I wonder just what it is you think your firefox exploit needs root to accomish.
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I'm trying to understand what you're asking.

Are you proposing that browsers get more involved in a user's activities on the internet? That a browser should remember a [email address|username] for various websites... and that alone would be sufficient for the user?
Work on your word choice.

This sounds pretty blah:
"We're a college based community networking together for a common goal."

Also you might want to reread the rest of the text on your about page and elsewhere; try to make it more concise and clear. Also make the column of text less wide (and thus more readable).

Also, don't dilute your purpose too soon; focus on one major thing, books for example. Your about page suggested you are going in multiple directions at once. Do one thing and do it well.