skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salesforce are an innovative company with a below average speed of infrastructure and above average prices targeted at the enterprise. Customer support is obviously one area where they can add value, but you'll pay for what you get,

It's a good post from Heroku though - they've addressed some of the key concerns such as stating they'll remain on EC2 and retain a lot of autonomy.
There is. I used that for several years. However I don't anymore because if you work alone or small groups I strongly suggest to use a regular gmail/google account and forward your @domain.com email there instead of using the gmail/app.

Otherwise you will be always be running an outdated version of all gmail services and there is no real benefit really in having gmail handling your MX.
Medical-Sector Companies Arm Sales Forces With Apple IPads
Nothing is stopping you from just going to www.newyorktimes.com in the browser of your choosing.

HTML5 is still very much the wild west. Browser specific versions of a site have been common ever since there was more than one browser.

Unless you want everyone to just code their UI to the lowest common denominator, in which case, the whole web would look like geocities circa 1998.
Hmm read/write web browser/editor? So Web 0.1 was Web 2.0
They stated numerous times during the announcement that these apps will work on all modern browsers, the web store is there to help discovery and monetization.

The Chrome label on this NYT app is merely promotional as they were launch partners.
Does it feel like google is moving further away from this with time?

It's common that I get search results that don't contain the keywords I searched for. The results will also contain the keywords but in different parts of the page, so short phrases like hacker news will match pages with "hacker" in the first paragraph and "news" somewhere else on the page. Google used to recognize a hyphen as meaning "only return results where these two words are joined by a space or puncuation", now it ignores the hyphen and you have to enclose the phrase in quotes to get that behavior.

Even more interesting than a simple full-text search would be a regular-expression full-text search of the internet.

In either case, I'm happy to hear IndexTank is trying to fix this.
You allow me to put a screenshot of the design
on this page; ($5 extra if you don't)

You could reword that clause so your clients feel they're getting something valuable for their $5.

Please note that I post all designs to my public
portfolio and this website. If you need the design
to stay secret, it only costs $5 more

Or you could invert your pricing. So you start off as "designfor20bucks" and offer a $5 discount if you can add the image to your public portfolio and post it on the site. People generally feel better about getting a deal than getting hit with extra costs unexpectedly.
I'm really interested in this, and I'm confused as to why people are voting you up. You provided an answer with absolutely no evidence to support what you said and people find the answer either, a) Helpful or b) Interesting.

Can you explain how it isn't their choice? Mastercard, VISA and American Express turn down applicants ALL the time, so doesn't this go against what you are saying here?
Iphone_dev team confirms untethered jailbreak of iOS 4.2.1 before christmas
If by something you mean "act", well, they do, it just has no legal effect.

On the other hand, they do have the power to declare organizations terrorists. This is 8 USC 1182, thanks to the patriot act.

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/list/
The agent provocateur is hardly an unknown or last-resort tactic for any modern government: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fbi-plant-b...
I really, really do not want to go through thousands of tags to decide which ones I like or dislike.
Are founders exploiting a tax loophole?
I think it was a coup, actually.
Downvoted because of throwaway account, not that you care. But I think that points out a silly game that you're playing:

1. Karma is almost meaningless. No one cares what your karma is, and there's effectively no reason that you should care either, yet

2. you seem to rely on your karma score in order to validate yourself in some way, so

3. you create a throwaway account to absorb the negative karma of your controversial comments, even though

4. your throwaway account is still you, so the account's score is still a reflection on you, and yet

5. you somehow convince yourself that your throwaway account's karma "doesn't count" in terms of your self validation, thus

6. your philosophy regarding karma is inconsistent, and you might as well adopt a new philosophy.

Just be yourself and contribute from a single account when you have something worthwhile to say, karma be damned. There's no reason to create throwaway accounts or care much about what your "score" on HN is.
Yeah, they'd be better off having the base station transparently forward the HTTP requests (not the same as a proxy; a browser has to know it's talking to a proxy).
I think the phrase you are looking for is "grand slam."
Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a design store, you see designfor15bucks.com sittin' there, there's designfor14bucks.com right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?

Ted: I would go for the 14.

Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. designfor14bucks.com. And we guarantee just as good a design as the designfor15bucks.com folk.

Ted: You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that?

Hitchhiker: If you're not happy with the first 14 bucks of design, we're gonna send you the extra dollar of design free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B".

Ted: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with designfor13bucks.com. Then you're in trouble, huh?
Peter Thiel's challenge to Silicon Valley's wealthy
Link broken ?
http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do-advanced

The article link is wrong. The problem of sticking "Advanced" on the end of a URL. :)

Can a mod edit it, please?
Why would robots do all of our work when they could just have us do it for them?
Ask HN: Should Diplomats Be Allowed Private Communication?
Diplomacy without secure interchange would be extremely difficult, if not impossible. Does WikiLeaks imply there should be no confidential communiques?
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> [..] registered in the UK.

Actually, it's registered in the Isle of Man, which is a self-governing island that is not technically part of the UK.
'just added the EFF link on my site.
"Maybe you did mean these two words in the same way that others here inquire about a linked list or the Riemann hypothesis; with a genuine desire to be explained and to know; topics that in these circles would be considered 'Worthy' of knowing, I feel."

More likely he was pointing out to bobf, the user whose post to which he was replying, that participation in pop-culture is entirely voluntary. I think to assume that he was passing judgment on Justin Bieber fans out of some 'pseudo-intellectual snobbery' is just a little bit presumptuous.
This is what my travel blogging site looked like during our server migration a couple weeks back:

http://www.blogabond.com/maintenance.html

I like this sort of informal notice a lot more than the corporate boilerplate you tend to see most of the time.
Dennis Crowley Sort Of Confirms They Turned Down A $140M Acquisition Offer
Or could, say, Saw IV be terrorism if it had a political message?

How could a movie sneak up on a population and play itself to them?

But -- playing a terrorist beheading to a bunch of captives at a local theater could, as long as it caused harm and was purposed to interfere with the democratic process.

Terrorism and WL, although they are not the same (remember I am saying they are not the same), are both "meta" attacks. They don't attack the people, per se, they seek to destroy or change the system of governance the people use to make decisions. This is why the argument that only 2K people were killed while more people die in roadway accidents on 9-11 makes no sense. You don't count up the bodies from one attack or the other. It doesn't work like that. It's not a kinetic fight, or even a fight for land. It's a systemic fight.
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There was a false telemetry reading.
...but given the widely-accepted computational theory of mind, humans are artificial intelligences too.
This American Life: Last Man Standing
I've heard there's a push to get rid of that tag, I wonder if they're purposefully holding off on implementing it.
Broken link here too

Can we have another one or the message's title?
I don't know if it's just me, but the link appears to be broken.

> We're sorry, but we were unable to find the topic you were looking for. Perhaps the URL you clicked on is out of date or broken?
Exactly. Not only that, but it will make them seem even less sympathetic in the eyes of the general public.
I'm guessing it's broken only for people who have upgraded to the new Google Groups.
Github is biased as well, but towards Ruby and web developers rather than Java, and (somewhat) toward small / personal projects.
Who has the power to decide over dilution? Can you decide that you don't want your part diluted, and the rest can't do anything about that?
You can get a 'horrible' logo for five bucks: http://www.horriblelogos.com
As psd file - so I would have to spend another few hundred $ to get a legal Photoshop to watch it?
I wasn't even born yet.
Yes, and it kicked off the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Not slashing tires or road blockades.
Coups don't just happen overnight.
August 1991: WWW goes live; Linux Kernel announced; USSR collapsed; SNES English release; Terminator 2 was in the cinemas and Smells Like Teen Spirit had its radio début. What a month
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rLTkCRa...

Screencap: http://i.imgur.com/nkBnu.png
Wanted to share a beautiful episode of This American Life (1hr, audio), which I think is very relevant to this community, especially Act II. Tackles perseverance, failure and drive.
Agreed. There are lots of these language surveys. You can find aggregates through http://langpop.com/

For example, PHP is highest on Craigslist's job ads. Javascript wins on Delicious's bookmarks. As someone mentions in another comment here, Ruby takes the top spot on GitHub.

These language surveys indicate more about the community a particular site has than anything else.

p.s. The TIOBE index is another aggregation: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Really good advice here, problem is, it'd require changing of the domain name. :P
I wonder what they're using? I'd guess at Lucene / Solr.
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I wish I could. I looked with the inspector for -webkit-* trickery in the CSS and didn't see any on the element.

Antialiasing is still on. The pixels go through shades of gray at the edges, it is just the subpixel that is off.
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I grew up in india and live in US for the past 10 years and visit india often. I am amused by all this doom doctors... Trust me, US is the best country in the world and has a lot of long term advantages (like natural resources, relatively strong capitalistic system, stable political system, great universities, a big entrepreneurial population, open to immigration etc etc). There are a lot of problems in china and india which media don't talk about.

I agree US has a lot of short term issues like deficit etc. But its all manageable. If i go by the deficit commissions report just reforming the tax system and increasing the retirement age by 2 years will wipe out the deficit.
I currently design new products for an established company. When I finish a product, there's a trained staff of production, sales and support people that make the product successful. (Just speculating but) it's quite possible that the Heroku folks think they can't grow as fast without some additional business infrastructure. If this accelerates their trajectory, then they'll quickly get some distance between themselves and the zoo of other (not as slick) app hosting platforms. Just having someone else to take care of the legal side of HR so that you can go back to product development, while at the same time putting enough in the bank to live on the beach forever, may have looked attractive. Lots of possibilities, but a billion dollar cash-out is not the only way to make yourself happy in life.
That is not what the article is saying at all.

His main point is that you need to practice the things that you know are going to trip you up in an interview. Do some preparation. Don't wing it.
It doesn't help WikiLeaks and it's not supposed to. What you're seeing is a group of people who looked at MasterCard's decisions, and reacted to prove them wrong.

MC thought that preventing money from going to some people who move information around was a smart business decision. Anonymous replied with, <<No, trying to prevent the free flow of information is a bad business decision.>>

They do this, presumably, with the idea that next time MC will think twice before doing their part in silencing the flow of information.

This is all irrelevant to WikiLeaks. They have nothing to do with this at all, except that their particular case provides Anon with a clear example to set for MC.
That's a good point. There is a lot of software that can often fill the role of Photoshop in a startup: Opacity.app, Acorn, Paint.net, and so on.
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The probability that there will be a bubble in some sector at some time in the future approaches 1.0

The probability that it has already started to inflate is supposed to be a lot less, but in the last decade and a half, it seems there have been a lot of bubbles in various parts of the economy.
Well from a user point of view, there are apparently very different opinions on the topic. I'm personnally very glad to have the separate Ubuntu and ServerFault sites.

From a SEO point of view, having separate domains with high density of topic-related keywords works great, as far as I can tell :)
I'll be interested to see if Mastercard's stock takes a dive as a result of this. Not that I don't expect it to recover quickly of course. But it does make me wonder who first suggested 'operation payback', and what exactly their motives were...
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Where can I find these?
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I agree with Buffett's comments; i was lucky to get to meet Buffett in Omaha while in business school and his insights and analysis of the American economy were quite profound. Reading Berkshire's annual report should be required reading for anyone in business.
When MasterCard does millions of dollars a day worth of online transactions, which can be halted by LOIC, then yes, blame them.

LOIC is really, really basic, and anon has never really gathered any respectable amount of bandwidth. Most small botnets put them to shame.

What I suspect, however, is that actual botherders are using these raids as cover. They can still DDoS the target, but 4chan takes the blame. The recent addition of "hivemind" functionality to LOIC, which slaves the user's computer to an irc feed that controls targeting and firing, seems like the perfect opportunity for a botherder to set their botnet to take orders from same.
Maybe, although I find that hard to read into it. From here on it's just a 'he said she said' or interpretation thing, I guess.

Anyway I'm just posting to point out that that last paragraph with the 'pseudo-intellectual snobbery' was a sneer at myself, and not at Jacques; to point out that these things are relative and that I'm not above it. Just sayin' to make it clear - like I said before, I can't presume to be able to pass judgment on Jacques as a person from a few HN posts.
Do you think a payment provider owes their users exactly as much loyalty as big are the fees they have collected from them?

Because this is what your comment suggests, and that's a rather unprincipled statement in my book, whatever your principles are. For example, if Paypal acted by this statement, they would allow payment for porn as long as it was profitable for them.
I don't think they're gonna do it unless they give up DRM on their books. If third parties are allowed to write reader apps, then it would be almost impossible for Amazon to enforce DRM on its users.
The Heroku model is not ideal for commercial apps, it's good for very small apps, but if you scale up it's not cost effective at all. Things that would take a half-hour to setup with puppet on amazon become add-ons that you have to pay large ongoing fees for. Instead of investing in building out infrastructure optimized for your application where you have options on how to grow, you're shoe-horned into a one-size fits all model, that starts out cheap, but has a built-in premium which becomes more and more painful the larger you grow. We host our app on Engine Yard AppCloud which is considerably more open in that they give you access to the cloud "metal" but even there the clock is ticking to where it just makes more sense to hire a full-time systems engineer and build it out ourselves.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the value proposition of a highly tuned blackbox Rails stack, and there is certainly no faster way to get up and running. So it may become the place to be for early stage startups and prototypes. But the particular model that Heroku has is sort of like the Drupal of infrastructure: it's an amazing platform that has everything you need out of the box, but which also comes with a lot of baggage that can easily become an albatross when you are really trying to dial in a growing app.
Public demonstrations in Europe these days are generally well-behaved. Probably the main motivation for taking to the streets is to ensure that the government at least acknowledges an issue rather than simply ignoring as was case in the past.

The anarchist groups active today are a little less troubling than groups like the Red Army Faction, Red Brigades and the Irish Republican Army that were a feature of the 1970's and 1980's.

The real danger of mob rule might come from unscrupulous politicians making capital from social tensions. The recent series of expulsions of Romany from France and Italy were certainly a very troubling reminder of Europe's recent history.
It's not just you
The problem isn't the ambiguity of "first" or "original", but "cloud". As "cloud" is basically defined to whatever the marketing department has started labeling as "cloud" that week, "original cloud ..." can be similarly shoehorned.
Or you could spend $3 by going to a local internet cafe (or Kinkos or whatever) and downloading the free 30-day trial vesion (Assuming they don't already have a copy there)
Ask HN:  No such thing as bad publicity?
A new site has become an overnight success at my school recently, called RateBU.com.

It's basically a clone of FaceMash from The Social Network, where you vote which BU girl is hotter. The founder, an undergrad here, is getting a bunch of press, mostly negative, with his name mentioned in each article.

Is there really no such thing as bad publicity?

I considered making a clone myself after seeing the movie, but decided I didn't want to be known as that guy. Was that the right move in the long run?
That is just shifting the blame. If you use a product for marketing, you are marketing. Yes, in general, "using a service" does not mean you are in that business. But if you ask your users to take part in this service or tool you are using, you are now providing that service.

Chairs in your office for your customers? You have taken on the responsibilities of being a host.

We can debate indirect services, such as electricity to run a website, and I would say that that line of discussion is pointless. I rely on my electric company, but my customers rely on my website, and the customers blame me, not the provider I chose to host this feature, not the electric company that provides power to the web services provider.

Remember that the customer does not care about your problems. They care about theirs, and they see you as their cause.
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The difference might not be as huge, Round Robin was not invented for nothing. Just that the online world has more opportunity for anonymous sabotage.
With the slight twist that if we didn't have all this secrecy going on we might not have engaged in the kind of behavior that made people decide it was worth forfeiting their very lives to strike at us.
In case of Vala I think that required modifications are pretty well limited to underlying runtime library (gobject) and do not touch compiler too much. But on the other hand they will be quite invasive across whole Gtk/Gnome platform.
Here is the text of the link:

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Followup-To: poster
From: ti...@nxoc01.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee)
Date: 20 Aug 91 01:54:41 GMT
Local: Mon, Aug 19 1991 9:54 pm
Subject: WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext app available

The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release in source and binary form from info.cern.ch.

WorldWideWeb is a hypertext browser/editor which allows one to read information from local files and remote servers. It allows hypertext links to be made and traversed, and also remote indexes to be interrogated for lists of useful documents. Local files may be edited, and links made from areas of text to other files, remote files, remote indexes, remote index searches, internet news groups and articles. All these sources of information are presented in a consistent way to the reader. For example, an index search returns a hypertext document with pointers to documents matching the query. Internet news articles are displayed with hypertext links to other referenced articles and groups.

The code is not strictly public domain: it is copyright CERN (see copyright notice is in the .tar), but is free to collaborating institutes.

Also available is a portable line mode browser which allows hypertext to be browsed by anyone with a dumb ascii terminal emulator. Hypertext may be made public by putting on an anonymous FTP server, or by using a HTTP daemon. A skeleton HTTP daemon is also available in source form. A server may be written to make other existing data readable by WWW browsers. Files are

/pub/WWWNeXTStepEditor_0.12.tar.Z NeXT application + sources
/pub/WWWLineMode_0.11.tar.Z Portable Line Mode Browser
/pub/WWWDaemon_0.1.tar.Z Simple server

Basic documentation is enclosed. Details about our project and about hypertext in general are available in hypertext form on our servers, as are lists of known bugs and features.

This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access. We are currently using WWW for user support at CERN. We would be very interested in comments from anyone trying WWW, and especially those making other data available, as part of a truly world-wide web.

Tim BL
___________________________________________________________________________
Tim Berners-Lee ti...@info.cern.ch
World Wide Web project Tel: +41(22)767 3755
CERN Fax: +41(22)767 7155
1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
A bunch of "script kiddies" can make any website unavailable for some period of time.

edit: The only difference is in how fast you manage to recover.