skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must say I'm not enjoying Foundation and Empire as much as the original Foundation. Foundation had me pausing every few pages to think, but I found the second book lacking in those viewpoint-altering ideas. Anyway, I'm only halfway through the second one. I hope it gets better towards the end.
Oversee (monikers parent company) is not godaddy or enom. At least, not yet...
November Rocked: Photos
The new FTC privacy report is certainly worth discussion, but this hit piece smells like a submarine. Had anyone ever heard of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, subtly brought into the article about half way through?
http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Champions-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegu...
given the recent (valid) criticisms of this work, I find it amazing that NASA and the lead author (Felisa Wolfe-Simon) keep feeding the general media by pushing this result as a major scientific breakthrough... without publicly addressing any of these concerns

here's another piece that was submitted to HN earlier today:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972124
Patients getting infected because somebody didn't wash their hands is an abomination, we can agree on that.

This thread was originally about decision-making power being shifted from doctors (M.D.s) to insurance companies, administrators, regulators, laywers, and even patients themselves. Your first comment suggested that this is a good thing because those same M.D.s kill 1/3 of all Americans (and as a corollary, the other parties involved plus the other healthcare providers that outnumber M.D.s many-to-one kill nobody).

I think it's pretty suspect that the linked page cherry-picks its numbers, rather than trying to assemble them all from a single source which has taken some care not to double-count. Granted, such a source may not exist, but essentially the death toll for each cause X is taken from a paper which is trying to make a big deal out of X.

The fact that those numbers sound fishy is orthogonal to the fact that I don't think they would be any better if the power to make treatment decisions is taken from those best equipped to make it.

And all of that is orthogonal to the fact that the linked page does not even attempt to show this, so it doesn't really seem to support the point you were making with that citation.
The best way to learn a language/framework/skill is to build something with it. A blog can be straightforward, personal, and interesting to work on. Building your own blog is a great way to advance your skills, particularly when you're new to the technology you're building it with.

My current blog is static content generated with Clojure. My previous blog was generated with Python. It's good to have something you can tinker with in your free time. Get out there and work on something. There's nothing wrong with building your own blog. "Productivity" be damned.
Come up with a project that you want to program and then develop it in python.
I just found out, Julian was searching for Mirror servers ever since 2001

http://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100320888124997&w=...
Intel strong-arm tactics in Russia Leaked
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No, Last.fm Profile (in Facebook).
EDragon
Hope they are talking any car? 3yrs to be eligible then 4yrs payment. So 7yrs relationship for a car :). Some play the game really well.
You're definitely a talented guy. I don't believe in luck.

It would be time well spent for everyone who wants to be successful to take a page out of your book.
The Groupon Model
There is all this hype about Groupon and social buying. Why aren’t advertising platforms doing this instead of buying platforms that do this?<p>Currently, the advertising platforms such as google adwords, facebook advertising, adbrite, buysellads.com, etc are all based on models that support “the highest paid advertiser will have the best placement.” I know when I search, I want the best deals to show up - not who paid the most to give me the potentially worst deal for me. Opinions?
No, I think changing the DNS before it expires should be normal. Changing the DNS to a tacky parked page is often the only thing that gets peoples' attention, including highly competent people. I think if DNS changed 30 days before N years after the registration date, it would get people to extend the registration before the official expiry date. The date that DNS changes would be a date that the domain owner would get warned about.

Having a window after the official expiration date that few people know isn't elegant to me. Also in the vast majority of cases, if it's valuable to keep a domain 11 months after registering it, it's valuable to keep it longer.
AOL-Yahoo merger?
That app, if it produces work comparable to the $150 outsourced slicing services, will make a mint. Email me and I will find you beta customers -- my SEO buddies would eat it up.
Alternatively: be a good Jedi and write your own Lisp.
So just when everyone is thinking of going home they boost the moral & make you stay longer :)
But its great it works both ways!
Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on ... (by Julian Assange)
After Shogun I read a bunch of his books. The only one that stood out for me was Rat King.
Maybe there should be a running list of where Assange has contributed to because all of these posts are superfluous and don't really have much substance.
I'm sorry, but every time I hear the name Jason Calacanis, I'm reminded of this sordid episode: http://pastebin.com/u7vddNg0
To correct Jason, I think our near zero turnover has been closer to 8-9 months long. But it's certainly improved significantly over when I started at Mahalo about a year and a half ago. I would attribute that to Jason's hiring of smart people, recognizing those with skills in areas he may be weak in, and putting them in positions where they can do something about it.

I'd say this is far from evil.
"The Big Book of Concepts" by Gregory Murphy.

Killed off completely any remaining hope I had that artificial intelligence would be achieved via formal logical methods.

This was probably a good thing: can't say I didn't have some idea that it was coming but I didn't see the headlights until I read the book!8-)
Anybody who works in the industry has heard of them -- they're the IAB in IAB standard ad sizes, etc.

What do you mean by submarine?
I run a modest little blogging network (http://ozblogistan.com.au) and I disagree. Blogs are quite dynamic. My users want, inter alia:

* Comments on stories that appear seconds after posting

* Latest-comment lists (this one is a performance nightmare for anything other than the simplest cases)

* Navigability by category, author, tag, date

* Twitter integration

And so on and so forth.

There are, basically, two platonic models of web applications. The first is the compiled, the second is the dynamic. Compiled web applications perform all computations in advance and reduce to static resources. Dynamic web applications perform all page rendering on-the-fly and only a small subset of a page is static (JS, CSS and images, mostly).

Naturally, most apps fall in between on the continuum. For example, Movable Type used to have a simplistic compilation scheme that would rebuild large portions of the site due to small changes. For a while one of the selling points of Wordpress was that it updated instantly. But that too came at a price, and now on any busy site using it, Wordpress is usually chaperoned by a bodyguard of caching systems.

My personal thinking is that the sweet spot will be in managing changes to a site through queueing and selective compilation. This is what we have in practice, but I want to move the key queue from GET -> cache -> app -> db to being POST -> db -> app -> cache.
Why does this have anything to do with HTML5 -- isn't it up to the UA to determine how best to accept form input? Specifying in the form that a particular field is a "voice recognition" field seems to be encoding presentation details in what should be structure.

I can understand that it's important to mark a particular form field as more "important" than others (and thus more likely that a user would like to use their voice to input text to it), but wouldn't this be better served by semantic markup declaring the field as a "primary" field or some such?
What is God really like by Craig Groeshell or Alien Encounters by Chuck Missler
Wow. If your goal is to butcher display advertising, this is how you do it. Retargeting, demographic targeting, and predictive targeting would all be gone -- you'd be left with top shelf inventory sold by salespeople, and remnant inventory at remnant prices. Because every other type of ad tech is really about better calculating the value and hence price of so-called remnant inventory. The same tech is applied to top shelf, but it's not as critical.

On the other hand, this would be an enormous gift to fb -- they'd be the only company standing with demo targeting, because they know your demos since you told them, no history tracking or prediction involved. Similarly an enormous gift to G because I'd bet their adwords / adsense still work pretty well in the absence of any history tracking. Though performance might degrade over time if you can't even tie eg search terms back to downstream conversions -- it's unclear just how far a no tracking proviso goes.

I do think many publishers would be forced to require visitors to allow tracking or pay money. And it would certainly be strange to see the US with more stringent privacy requirements than the EU.

Honestly, if people are concerned with this today, they should disable 3rd party cookies.

Worth noting, this would also be an enormous gift to TV and cable -- if you look at the ratio of ad spend to time, it's enormously skewed in favor of cable/tv at the expense of online. The massive influx of dollars to online advertising is just those ratios rebalancing themselves and people figuring out how to do online advertising properly.

edit:

for tools: my opinions are mine and mine alone. They were neither vetted nor approved by any employer; past, present, or future.

edit2:

I work at an advertising company you've heard of. I'd rather not say the name here not because it's a secret but because I'd rather it not be easily googleable by people who want to make my thoughts out to be representative of anyone else.
Could any crypto guru's take a guess at how strong this claim is?

protected with an unbreakable 256-bit encryption key
NFL FABRIC OUT OF STOCK
Hertz To Offer Electric Vehicles By The Hour
If your stated purpose in developing your own blog was as a demonstration of your skills (or practice) and not solely the need for a blog, then writing your own makes perfect sense.
Well I did ask in my last sentence, and you haven't answered. I didn't then but I have now gone to your projects; I see reocities, the ww/webcam thing and your blog. I don't see anything like bluehost or linode provisioning domains to users. The reason for the slight snark at the start of my message I suppose is that it's hard to find a domain and yet in every thread like this you get a few people confessing to hoarding hundreds or even thousands. Sorry for being sceptical, and curious, about what you could possible need 50k domains for: you'll have to spell it out for me or ignore me I suppose.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973907
Nuclear scientist killed in Tehran was Iran's top Stuxnet expert
I got: The page you requested was not found.
Doctor punja
Doctor punja will give you specific recovery instructions but usually you will be asked to rest for the first week. You may be asked to keep your head elevated for several days, and to use cold compresses to reduce swelling and bruising.
Terrible security flaw in Apple's Mobile Safari
I just use Tumblr because network effects can't be replicated with code.
I did this partly because for my needs it was much easier, at least compared to the other options I tried. I have something more like a "collection of essays" than a "blog" per se, and I don't like presenting them purely in blog format, except for the most recent few posts (for regular readers). It was actually easier to write about 100 lines of Perl than it was to track down the right combination of Wordpress plugins and configuration options to do what I wanted.
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Article supplied by industry group or PR firm, passed off as original reporting.

edit: Compare it to this article in the new york times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/business/media/02privacy.h..., three days earlier, which contains the FTC perspective, as well as comments from Google and Mozilla (and a note that Apple declined to comment).
My girlfriend convinced me that even if you have nothing you think worth writing about to say, SOMEONE will find it interesting. Try it out. :-)
unbelievable--if i renew my domain with one day to spare every year without any mistake or delay in payment, you believe my websites should be interrupted! for what, besides being on time?
We started in an old mansion, and offered a washer and dryer free at work.

amazing results.
Lightspeed Venture Partners: 2011 Consumer Internet Predictions
That's funny. Only this morning it suddenly dawned on me that such a resource didn't seem to exist. I imagine the taxonomy could be made a little less wide, though. Great start.
Absolutely great series- my first real sci-fi series ever in middle school. I don't think I fully grasped its depth though- gonna have to reread.
This seems to me to be a problem with TLD based names. They all have different policies for this stuff. I once had to recover a .SE name due to a situation just like this. I had planned to re-register a name, but fell within a strange situation where my domain was still mine, but outside of a 60 day window when I could actually renew the domain. This was all in advance of the actual expiration date. Because of this, the domain lapsed and I had to have the registrar recover the domain manually.
I'm a developer at Mahalo, and still have time to sing in operas, organize an a cappella group, blog, read, date, play ultimate frisbee, workout 4-5 times/week, code on some personal programming projects, and generally enjoy life. Most of the talk of 80 weeks is way over-hyped. Some times are certainly trying during a push, but it's by no means absurd.

Personally, I love all of the opportunities to hang out with other team members. We spend our working hours together, getting to know each other outside of work means that I get to work with my friends all day. It's awesome. You make a good point about that sort of thing become less enticing as you get older. We have a young team though, so it works out for the most part.

That said though, we have people on the team who never come to any of the outside events, and I wouldn't say that they are treated any differently. Everyone's free to make their own choices in this matter. At the end of the day, if they enjoy the work and we all get along, no one cares what you do when you go home.
"The Four Steps To The Epiphany" - Steve Blank.

Because it opened my eyes to a whole new world in terms of understanding customer development and the "market definition" side of things. And, coming from a background as a hacker, not a sales/biz-dev guy, that's exactly what I needed.
Am I the only person that read a) and thought "who cares?" I've been an entrepreneur for almost 2 decades, and none of that stuff really mattered to me. Give me crap food, old clothes, beat up equipment, and an exciting project to work on and I'll be fine. Yeah, Swedish masseuses would be nice, but I don't understand how that can make up for a tough work environment. People are motivated by what they're working on, not the stuff around the edges that dresses it up.
I did this once. Before the word "blog" was coined. Before there was a MySQL (there was mSQL, but it was terrible.) I ended up having to write my own datastore. (Damn kids, get off my lawn?)
The biggest thing I think for a php developer is understanding the MVC concept behind frameworks (and most well designed software). Php is often quick and dirty scripts, and that doesn't translate very well.
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It does, just older articles don't show number of comments (probably after a post is out of the servers memory).

Go on the front page and click a users name, go to submissions and you'll see the comment number on the submission that is on the front page.
iphonehn
Yes, it seems to be working very successfully. The tour of the new features that appears after one's profile is upgraded was great too. Here's hoping they follow this model for future features.
This also implies that Facebook grills their engineers to the point where engineers would get exhausted so easily. Executing huge features with small teams is very great for the company, but does that necessarily mean it's a great place to work? For instance, recently graduated people would be very suitable for Facebook because they are young and single (as in not married). However, people with families would less likely to work for Facebook.
Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
The Dawn of Like-vertising
A Few Great SEO Extensions for Chrome
Frankly, the second was the weakest of the three.
I would love it if the iPad met my needs, but I find extended reading difficult on backlit LCDs.
You are also severely over estimating the ability of most academics to produce a good, publication ready, PDF. If you're publishing in a journal, there is a set look and feel that must be applied. No matter how good the work is, someone still has to apply the right layouts.

In computer science these days, there are very few journals that do any of this for you. The standard, even for expensive, non-open-access Springer journals, is to require the authors to submit camera-ready PDFs. Maybe that isn't ideal, but the closed-access journals mostly aren't any more full-service than the open-access journals on that front, so it's not clear what the money is buying us as authors. All the publishers provide are Word and LaTeX templates, some formatting instructions, and loud complaints if you get anything wrong.

The only major journals in my area I can think of that do significant in-house professional layout are the IEEE's "magazine-style" journals targeted at a mixed academic/professional audience (they go for a full-color, glossy-magazine look). The IEEE journals that don't fall into that category require authors to submit camera-ready PDFs, though.
What a great comment. So little historical knowledge circulates online.
Network outage effects?
Well put. It's embarrassing, but it's the sort of thing that is bound to happen when you scale so fast so leanly. I'm sure they'll come out of this with a number of improvements and be much the stronger for it. And if they don't, then that tells a different story (but it's one I don't expect to hear).

Different type of growing pain, but this reminded me of when Foursquare forgot to renew their domain back in March (http://tcrn.ch/gk73zQ).
"A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553381...

GRRM manages to create an alternate world that feels real, where characters have flaws, nothing is black and white, and the good guys don't always (or even frequently) win. By far the best book (and series) I've ever read.
Comcast DNS outage: IL, IN, MI, MN
For your own good. If dhh can delay renewing rubyrails.com until the domain gets cut off, many of us can forget to renew our much less important names!
I applied for the Questions beta months ago, but didn't hear anything back. I have the non-Twitter-style publisher including a link to post a question, however it doesn't actually work. Quite strange.
There are two ways business can raise money on ProFounder, either through a Private Raise or a Public Raise. Private Raises do involve entrepreneurs offering securities (based around sharing a % of revenues), while Public Raises involve sharing revenues as well, but with the actual financial gain (above and beyond the original investment amount) going to a nonprofit. So, yes, investors can make "actual investments" on the site! More here:
http://www.profounder.com/about/how_it_works
The algorithm has to be seeded with a secret (Stream ciphers work this way). You can't get around having to have Chome own a secret, and it's really hard to protect a secret when you're in a hostile environment (e.g. the user's PC). This is part of what makes DRM really hard.
Would a 45K servers co-location facility meet your requirements?

Or a couple of domain re-sellers that sell domains as part of their hosting package? (that use Moniker as their 'upstream').

> that it's hard to find a domain

I've never had that problem. You mean that you find it hard to find 'single word' or 'perfect descriptions' of common ideas, and that's true, but I'm fairly sure that you can find plenty of good domain names for exactly $8.

The value of a domain is directly proportional to the amount of time that you put in to it. Usually the people that complain about there not being any 'free' domains are really complaining that they can't get the domains they want. Not realizing perhaps that if the person currently holding their desired domain would not be holding it surely someone else would.

There are all kinds of arguments for/against holding a large number of domains, my own criterion has always been that if my idea isn't worth the $8/year fee for a domain then I should not even bother to write it out. If you come by 6 weeks later and have the same idea, and through sheer coincidence decide on the same name then you will have to be just a little bit more creative, but we all agree the value is in the execution, not in the domain name.

Google.com was worth $8 when they got it first, and at that time the same complaint was often heard.

It's like the DNS variation on the HN/Reddit theme, and I figure as long as the DNS is the prevalent method of locating hosts this will continue to be the case.

In a few years time all the 6 letter domains will be gone, etc. But there are an awful lot of possibilities there, 300M+, someone did some work to prove just how likely it is that some pronounceable domain is gone:

http://semmyfun.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-is-probability-tha...

For 7 letters (which is really quite short) that does not look all that bad to me.
My original point was that Facebook should allow me to export my contacts, at least the info they chose to share with me.
A space woman? http://blotbot.co/#da1c1268
Werewolf: How a parlour game became a tech phenomenon
Nobody has said it yet?

Equity.
Google Maps API adds Marker animations and Max zoom service
The 7 Types of Groupon Buyers
I love the idea of unladenfollow.com
A classic pivot. They used BugMeNot's audience and reach to slingshot RetailMeNot into a huge site.

You would be forgiven for having written them off from where they started with BugMeNot. You look at that site and say, "How in the world can you monetize that traffic?!" I mean, Reddit users may be a tough audience, but at least most of them registered!

But they had good resources and obviously had the resourcefulness. Resourcefulness and resources. What else could you need?
>What do you need for verification? Do you want to talk to my surgeon?

I think that's the opposite of what people want: it's a matter of authentication -- how do we know the person that put up the website is forwarding the money to the real John Draper? Most people would trust you, if they could verify it's really you. You could put a link to this fundraiser on your website or myspace, or make a youtube video saying it's a real fundraiser, and that would be enough to convince people. How it is now isn't enough to convince people that the money really is going to you.
Likewise. Noble House was a good read, but Shogun was much better.
If you or someone you know is affected, the tl;dr is: add to your DNS servers the entries 208.67.222.222 and/or 208.67.220.220, which hook you in to OpenDNS. Actual IP-based traffic seems to be doing ok.