skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm hoping for air-to-air strike drones that hunt other drones, perhaps through echolocation. I'll gladly install some power outlets in my rafters for them to roost.
That's good to hear. But considering that only now is SSL considered to be "important", because of FireSheep, it would have been nice to have a major player like Google seriously consider/suggest/lead the dialog on solutions here, even if some of them are "hard" or unworkable. It's nice to have options, or know what the options are. Or even to say "there is no solution, create systems that don't mix protocols".

I mean, when I went back and summarized my experience at Velocity to the rest of my team, that this question was glossed over as it was led to some audible guffaws. Because we've all been dealing with users for years who don't know how to deal with the UX of this problem.
Seems awkward, especially given that this is not dashboard.ly (yes, I agree let's move on from my .ly domain saga)

I'd love to know more about your project though. I started working on a dashboard concept that took Panic's Dasboard type interface and let you plug in loads of accounts into it to get a nice dashboard.

Problem was that the total addressable size of the market didn't seem very big and thus not something that could be venture backed or expected to turn much of a profit.

Would love to compare notes.
Very similar here, but I still use XChat. Do you use anything on irssi to give you desktop notifications? I know it's a matter of taste (some people hate interruptions) but I really need alerts when I receive IMs or a coworker brett:'s me in work IRC. (And for that matter, why not ERC?)
How else do you prevent a pilot from smuggling in weapons etc and giving it to a (non-pilot) accomplice who flies on a different flight?

Am I missing something obvious here? Pilots' protest seems totally misplaced.
(link to relevant info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthokeratology)
You have to think about partitioning up front. In a sense, this is a prerequisite for our concurrency. So you're right.

What I meant was, inside of a stored procedure itself, you never have to think about concurrent access to the data you are modifing during the lifetime of the procedure. You own it. Period.

I wouldn't ever try to make the argument that this functionality is "free" and that VoltDB is a system without tradeoffs. It just seemed particularly relavent when the original article was making claims that serializable transaction semantics in SQL-RDBMSs were rare due to performance issues. I didn't mention NoSQL or Key-Value stores anywhere in my original comment.
Step one: Write a post titled "How to Make the Front Page of HN Without Even Trying". How could such a post not make it to the front page?
"... Since we're not sure about that aspect of the CC license yet either, we recently changed Wylio's search parameters to exclude the non-commercial CC licensed photos. ..."

Thanks Dan.

"... As you can probably guess, I'm on the Wylio team. Since we're not sure about that aspect of the CC license yet either, we recently changed Wylio's search parameters to exclude the non-commercial CC licensed photos. We are very concerned with doing things properly and want to make sure we're operating within both the letter and spirit of CC licenses and copyright law. Thanks for voicing your concerns, I hope this response is helpful! ..."

It is, you're going down the right path. Regs PR
That article was very informative.

I still don't fully understand what a VC has to gain by eliminating the founders?

So as long as the board is owned by non-founders, a sale can be forced even though the founders disagree and want to continue operating ... even if the sale will leave the founders with nothing? ... that seems so diabolical!
I'm not familiar with the Panic's Dashboard interface, but it sounds interesting.

My idea is painfully simple. A cross-platform dashboard (mobile, web, desktop), where you can store thoughts, ideas, and a little bit more. I don't want to go into too much detail as I prefer to keep things on lock-down before launch. I know, I know - every entrepreneur thinks everybody wants to steal his idea, and I try to tell myself otherwise, but better safe than sorry I guess.
I would agree. Also, the LINQ interface is the monadic interface with Bind / >>= renamed to SelectMany and return renamed to ToIdentity. You can use these directly or with syntax sugar, so i would suggest that they have already turned up in a language.

Anecdotally, I think microsoft flubbed the introduction by overemphasizing LINQ to SQL. This leaving a lot of developers I know thinking it was a one trick pony and never learning (for instance) LINQ over IEnumerable. Those who have since taken time to learn the non-SQL LINQ features do wonder how the lived without them.
SearchYC has some of these already; http://top.searchyc.com/
Dude, they're in school. Do you complain to their computer science teachers, because self-motivated students should be able to learn CS themselves? It may be true, but that doesn't mean that the teachers or students are doing something wrong!

As for the ability to learn on their own, perhaps they are spending their own time learning interesting things rather than learning shell scripting or how to use git.
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I once heard somebody -- maybe Guy Kawasaki-- say "Create more value than you capture.". This has become my guiding principle for marketing on the Internet. I strongly believe that if you consistently help people out directly, and/or write/contribute/share in a scalable fashion via OSS/blogging/etc, then they will be around for you when you need it. This isn't hippydippy fluff : specific mechanisms like link building for SEO tend to promote it, too.

That is also why I got in touch with these guys: they did something extraordinarily nice for an HNer, and I wanted to know if there was some way I could help them out.

FWIW I spend a lot of time helping people out for free and it has lead to more opportunities than I can even begin to describe. I have never regretted it. Try defaulting to Yes when asked for help -- it's easy (particularly when you are obscure), and you might like what happens.
I like the idea but I don't think the gay thing would work, I think it's more about the sexual orientation of the TSA agent.
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There's a trade-off to be made here and it can be compensated for by knowing really good people.
TJ Rodgers - High Technology Innovation: Free Markets or Government Subsidies?
GOD vs SCIENCE
Fighting fire with fire... burn, sheep, burn.
I wouldn't do LASIK because the technology is still improving - you don't want to go for it too early and not benefit from future improvements.

However if you embark on orthokeratology you have to wear the lenses at night or a little during the day to keep your eyes in shape... that means on-going spend and also the discomfort (they are not as comfortable to wear as soft lenses).

If you stop wearing the reshaping lenses your eyes will revert back to how they were.
It seems unlikely most users on the Internet could even parse your suggestion, much less execute it. That doesn't make them stupid, just not experts in the subject. Instead they rely on experts, like you, to make the right choices for them in these esoteric matters. While there are any number of ways you might solve this problem, HTTPS is the best available option since clients and servers already support it. As ericflo is pointing out, a small number of sites deploying HTTPS would go a long way to achieving the goal of a more secure Internet for all.
Thanks very much....I really need to get a tablet just for these types of books...
I was re-reading PG's Five Founders (http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html) and noticed that the TJ Rodgers link was stale. In any case, it might be good to have a new discussion about the man since there are many newbies.
Meet RockMelt, the Social Savvy Browser
Some people have no trouble working from home. They're more productive. Others need a separate place to go to so they can get into "work mode".

Money is also a factor. If you have funding and a few employees it probably makes sense to spend $2k/mo on an office.

If it's two co-founders bootstrapping it might not make sense for a while.
There could be an official detailed api.
Are there a pre-set number of board seats or can new seats be issued as new investors emerge?

How did Mark Zuckerberg maintain control of the board, whilst still receiving huge VC investments? So I imagine it something like, he owns majority of the board but not majority of the shares?
You have a point. Let me elaborate my thoughts on Flask a bit further.

Personally, my experience is that for rapid prototyping, there's nothing better than starting with the absolute minimum possible, and with a full-blown monolithic framework, the absolute minimum is, more often than not, too much.

I prefer starting a project with a couple of files, like fabfile.py and app.py, than starting a project with a bunch of directories and tons of blueprinted configuration files. It's hard to explain why, I just feel it's a lot easier for me to evolve an idea, from a small prototype to a finished product, with this approach. I guess the cognitive signal to noise ratio is just higher that way. I know many people share this feeling, otherwise Sinatra and all these Python microframeworks wouldn't be getting so much attention.

I think a good framework is like a good government, consistent, helpful, but with self-limiting interference. I think documentation is way more important than features. I'll take a well written web development patterns guide over a framework that does it all for me under the hood any day. The thing is that Flask tries to be both. Flask's documentation is absolutely fantastic. It is no surprise, of course, since it comes from the same guys who made the Sphinx documentation builder.

I like conventions. I just don't think they ought to be mandatory. I see Flask as a genome of web applications, with pre-defined solutions and information on how to accomplish a series of things, but my application itself doesn't have to be a grown organism from the beginning, it can start small, like an embryo, and slowly grow in size. Flask gives you enough flexibility to employ conventions but also do things differently, to invent your own way, when you feel that you need to.
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Clunky but serviceable.
Please have another look at the article and notice that they were throwing rocks in some cases, and caused the shutdown of a couple of buses due to damage, as well as throwing items at people not inside cars, including someone out with their child in a stroller.

From the article: "An older man in his late 60′s was driving along Gerritsen Avenue when his car was hit by eggs, when he exited the vehicle he was pelted by dozens of eggs, rocks were thrown, chucks of brick, and someone tossed a hammer."
Are engines for quad-engine planes designed and maintained as rigorously as engines designed for twin-engine planes? (I know there is ETOPS that dictates maintenance standards for twin-engine planes, but I am asking about the design process rather than day to day operation.)

Or is this just a bug to work out with a new aircraft and engine design? Or is it just random chance?

(Also, it's odd to blame Rolls-Royce for the failures, when the engines are both owned and maintained by Qantas in Singapore.)
Forgot to mention: Git and irssi.
Here's a picture. I should add what they do:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethank/5156591437/

I use the left screen for iTunes, Pivotal Tracker and a VNC console to a screen of "tops" running on all our servers. We call it the War Games Console.

Left screen is email and "communications/information" including NetNewsWire, some other feeds, etc.

Middle right is my primary display for browsers and coding.

Far right is where I keep rememberthemilk.com, Gabble (a Yammer client), Echofon (twitter client) and IM/Skype.

On my Ipad I usually have SkyGrid running, which is a realtime news client. My laptop on the left is just so I have it available.

The other thing about my home setup is the MacMini server controls our lighting and thermostat and other systems in the house. I designed the house infrastructure to be computer-like, including states and conditional actions.
You don't have to share the product. Share the genes. A lot more people are interested in software development done right than in whatever your first product was. You can find any number of examples of this: FogCreek, for example, is mostly a company built on the premise that developing software should not have to suck. Their core product (which supports that premise) is not necessarily interesting to all people, but everything they do rightly gets the halo effect because they spent a decade improving the lives of engineers by sharing what they have discovered to work about running a software company.

You could say similar things about 37Signals, Balsamiq, or a host of smaller companies that I look up to.
I posted my thoughts on FireShepherd to my blog here:
http://codebutler.com/firesheep-a-week-later-idiot-shepherds
seems like some sort of content farm: the ads, the automatic linking of the words "source code" to a bing search page for the phrase "source code", etc.
An arms race! I love it!

(But looking at the code, all this thing does is reimplement wget poorly. It sends an HTTP request to a hard-coded "random facebook server" with a confusingly-long Facebook cookie. That's it, that's all it does. Firesheep may have an input validation issue in the current version, but that is a correctness issue that will be fixed immediately. Then this thing does nothing.)
I wonder if there's a similar, cheap way to measure air quality? I live in Houston, where air quality is highly dependent on the movement of air with the tides. When the ocean air mass moves ashore, air quality improves, and when air is pulled from the land over the ocean, air quality tends to decrease. I'd like to build a ventilation system that maximizes air intake when the air quality is good. I wouldn't have to measure all pollutants. One or two would probably suffice. (NOX)?
This is a red flag to me. Does he have a history of making big investments? Do CEOs frequently sell stocks in such large volumes? I just have no idea.
where's the pun? I don't see it.
Why does this keep coming back? There are tax incentives to do with the sale. Ballmer isn't the only one doing this. This is not news anymore.
Here's the biggest problem with Rockmelt:

http://plixi.com/p/55680955

It assumes I have a singular window to the virtual world, and yet its social experience model of sidebars does not scale well when applied linearly to the way I consume information using browsers.

It's an immediate fail. I usually run maybe two dozen browser windows, each with tabs. The modality of that experience will not map on to how I should consume the social aspects of my online life.
Nature is Totally Gay.
An Accurate Depiction of the Scale of the Universe by Nikon
Many of you may be familiar with a recent flash-based model of the universe that wasn't exactly accurate.

I recently found one that's not only accurate, but informative.

Check it out.
There is always a debate over should a scientist believe in god. Science is just a feeble attempt to understand God.
Am I really the only person who has dubious feelings about this? I contribute my words to HN, where they can be seen in context and where they are viewed by the same community that I am interacting with. I don't contribute them for arbitrary other uses off the site.

Unless I have missed something, posters who submit their comments here do not automatically release them into the public domain. In fact, I have seen no legal statement anywhere about transfer of copyright as a condition of posting, so it's not clear that posters give anyone any rights at all, other than probably the operators of HN an implicit licence to publish them on the site and visitors to HN an implicit right to read them while browsing the site in the normal way. That would make downloading and sharing the entire HN database in this way an obvious infringement of the copyright of every poster here.

Sorry if this seems a bit OTT, but some of us watched many comments we contributed to the community in the Usenet days being appropriated by long-term Usenet archives that then republished them out of context, covered in advertising, with comments/ratings attached to them that aren't open to the rest of the Usenet community, etc. That is basically profit-making on the back of others' work without their knowledge or consent, and potentially at the expense of the community the poster originally wished to support, and I have a problem with that.
I don't think the actual HN "database" has that much info. You would need to reconstruct this from the complete server logs, along with application logs for PG's direct updates (assuming he doesn't use the web interface)
I agree with that: the cost of a few extra mirror disks is negligible compared to the amount of time one loses rebuilding a machine (OS + applications + configuration) from scratch.

Yet, all too often I come across people who don't want RAID1 because they can save $60 by not installing that second disk.
No kidding. What do you call a triple dupe?
A couple interesting recurring themes from
advice lists like these is that failure is ok, and that often times no one buys into a project that will later become successful. This is consistent with my experience as well. I've had probably 10 businesses fail. When I started the one that supports myself and my family no one was interested in helping, possibly in light of past failures. Many people passed on partnership opportunities. As a result I had to learn a lot of sys admin stuff and figure out how to promote my product alone. Six years later, I am the sole owner and employee. No dilution, I know how everything works and it pays for a comfortable life in Southeast Asia. (I am an American.) Launched a couple business since that one -- both failures. But all you really need is one good one to change your life.
I could be mistaken but I think that was added. I didn't see it the first time. I've learned to look for "via" links due to Engadget.

Has no one told them the importance of using contextual links rather than links like <a href="#">Click here</a> to download awesome-crap-0.0.1.zip. This is almost as annoying as when they have links that just link to a self-site-search for the term.

Ugh.
Well said Ethan. My browsing habits are very much the same. Several windows, each with related tabs. IE, one for "productivity" with gmail and work-related sites, another window for code-related stuff - usually some stackoverflow searches, et cetera. Don't want each to be cluttered by those two mini-sidebars. Perhaps replace the "blank new tab" page with some of that social stuff as an option.
You probably want to go back and reread his cap and trade paragraph again, because I think you've misinterpreted it.

Thus "Cap and trade" and all these other proposals [...] give governments dictatorial control over industry and people's lives....and they bring us closer to a global government.

ie. cap and trade == evil world government
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I don't care what he says about why he's doing it, I bet he steps down as CEO within the year.
Thanks for your question.

Our sites fall under the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions. The content is user-submitted and user-moderated. User submissions are also often protected under the Fair Use doctrine in the United States as sufficiently original derivative works.

http://corp.cheezburger.com/legal/

The Cheezburger Network sites generate revenue through advertising, virtual currency, and physical goods (lolmart.com)
xterm is 'so four years ago?' I don't remember a time when xterm was 'sexy' and I've running Linux since 2000.

I'd be interested in good resources on fvwm though. I know that you can do a lot to customize it, but whenever I tried looking into it, I never knew where to start. fvwm? fvwm95? fvwm-crystal? Are they forks? Add-ons on top of fvwm? Which are/aren't maintained anymore?
Word to the wise: When a software company with actual ability and some edge decides to move into your industry, if they are doing things right, your industry will be disrupted.

Music, books, movie rentals, mobile phones: these are just the most familiar consumer-facing examples. Anyone else have other examples?
There's not much point lamenting about how your words could be appropriated in ways that you don't like.

If you are worried about that then your only option is to refrain from participating in public forums.

Otherwise the golden rule of the internet applies: When it's out on the internet then it's out on the internet - and there's no taking back.
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It's pretty neat as well because it depicts the relative size of transistors and LSIs compared to bacteria and the like, which goes to show how far we've come technologically.
I understand how you feel, but if you don't want something on the internet...
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Totally different angle to mine, sounds interesting though.

Good luck
This is a problem we (GitHub) are facing in a big way right now

This also broke Bingo Card Creator something fierce when I rolled out SSL support. It was the reason I hadn't had it previously, and I knew it was going to be a problem going in, and I tested for it, and I still managed to hose two pages which were critical to my business for most of a week.

Figure on a 40~50% drop in conversion from a non-technical audience on IE if they get one of those popups, by the way. It is the worst possible place to be: not enough to trigger an automated "Oh cripes!" from the website, but big enough to murder business results.
I found this book at my university's library, and ended up spending most of the day reading it there. I liked it, and didn't know it was online, too.
Based on the front page example, it looks like the database doesn't contain the comment structure (ie, what comments go with what article, and which comments parent others)

Am I missing something?
You can detect particulate matter pretty easily: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_i...

I have also seen "odor sensors" on air filters. But your best bet is probably to suck air into your house through a good filter, like: http://www.air-n-water.com/product/healthproplus.html (which has a duct kit so you can put your intake outside). Then the air you are breathing is always clean.
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Ledger rocks. I really hope it's file format takes hold and Intuit goes under...
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