skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying, once again, to learn Emacs, but I've made more progress so far in this attempt than any attempts past. I submit as evidence the fact that just a few minutes ago I subconsciously tried pressing Ctrl+V to scroll down a web page.
Hey, at least the buttons didn't say "Submit," right?
What an odd thing for a career advisor to tell a 16 year-old.
I'm a bit of an anomaly as I greatly prefer reading ebooks to regular books. Even more anomalous, I prefer reading them on my phone to reading them on a Kindle.

I read around 40 ebooks last year. To me the big wins with ebooks are: the immediacy of purchasing, the backlit screen and the fact I'm no longer burdened by having to house and store a bunch of dead trees.

I know that a few studies have found reading an ebook is slower than reading paper, but anecdotally I'd swear that I read 10-25% faster.

The only media that I still buy consistently on paper are graphic novels, but if I could get a decent digital comic reader for the Mac I'd drop those as well.
Awesome article!

I liked the emphasis on going off-tutorial and learning how to get help elsewhere when necessary. That's one of the most useful skills you can have in the real world. I think, for startups especially, being able to quickly grok new technologies and piece them together quickly is hugely valuable.
|All of which isn't to say that we can't afford to do more to help the unfortunate in our country

Are you saying it's impossible to help the poor in US? I'm not sure, but I completely think that's a cop-out and that we very easily could. The fact that the top 20% have 85% of the wealth should be all the proof we need. Imagine if the top 20% only have say 60% or even 40%? It would be very easy to imagine a world were the minimum wage were higher ie a living wage and where healthcare is available to all. Go to Germany for instance, they make ~15 euros an hour at Wal-Mart, get 2 months paid vacation, and have free healthcare. To say this is impossible in the US is absolutely just false. It just takes political will.
Request for Referee: QT Bug Report QTBUG-14664
After a recent article in Linux Journal, I tried using qdbusviewer to drive Rhythmbox and learn about DBUS. When I tried to skip to a given spot in the currently playing song, it did not work and no error message was displayed. I went to IIRC for help and it developed that if you used d-feet rather than qdbusviewer, it worked. Also, if you ran dbus-monitor you could see that qdbusviewer was setting up the call improperly and not reporting the subsequent error. Wanting to be a good Open Source citizen, I wrote a bug report thinking that Nokia would both be grateful for having the problem brought to their attention and willing to investigate and try to fix the problem. It didn't turn out that way. What seemed to happen, from my point of view, is that the bug report got slammed into the "Need More Info" state every time it hit the maintenance engineer's in-box with no attempt to investigate the problem from a technical prospective. It even reached the point where (and I honestly don't think I am exaggerating here) the "missing information" could not have been more than a few feet or few minutes away from the maintenance engineer. Nokia does not provide a means whereby one can request more senior review of a bug report "resolution". So, I would like some people with experience in this sort of thing to take a look and render an opinion regarding whether or not the bug report contained a reasonable level of detail and whether or not the maintenance engineer could have "taken it from there" with a reasonable expectation of resolving the issue with a fix.

I thank you in advance.

http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-14664?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
haha yeah, sorry.
1. Seek excitement.

2. Don't be afraid to try new things, they're easier than you think.

Those two sentences seem to be the entirety of the book (I've read 20% so far). The rest are just anecdotes and stories that illustrate this, but there's nothing else I can recall right now.
This. As jf says below, "host is determined by the name of the owner of the netblock that the IP address of the A record for that domain is in..."

You can't point an A record at App Engine.
About those big-box bookstores... Barnes and Noble is doing just fine.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/barnes-nobl...
Inventables is the innovator's hardware store.
On Google Finance, some links (that I haven't studied in details) seemed to say that indeed Borders had a lot of debt.

"As Borders Group Inc. asks publishers for leniency on paying bills, the bookstore chain has been in discussions with restructuring advisers about ways to rework its debt-heavy balance sheet"

http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2011/01/07/the-daily-docket-...
As social networks get bigger, you keep adding more and more connections to the point where that set you've created doesn't matter / mean anything anymore.
Interesting that this app was apparently accepted. I wonder if any other non-Objective C based apps are in there? Does anyone know (as the article hints) whether any MacRuby apps are in the app store yet?
Maybe the problem with Borders isn't books — it's value.

Borders is Walmart with inky paper. It offers little more than what you could get online at a fraction of the cost.

Shopping at locally owned book stores in Boston & Cambridge adds value to my life because they have unique cultures & offer unique experiences. (Has anyone here been to the basement of Brookline Booksmith or the tiny room in Rodney's Books on Mass Ave?)

Bookstores are as important to Boston as jogging along the Esplanade, chilling in the Common, coffee shops and bars.
I'll take the bet, though it ultimately proves nothing.

Just because you learn whatever proper technique is needed (if any) for vertical jump and can kind of emulate it the same day does not mean you've realized long term gains. It only means you've memorized some technical points. Will you actually internalize those techniques? If you were randomly tested later would you still have those gains?

Not only that, it also has nothing to do with my point --

The vertical leap parts of the book aren't him telling people to learn proper technique; They are based around strength gains. And I stand by my point that he didn't "bulk up" in the morning and then jump higher that afternoon, as the book would imply.
i...fail to see anything funny here...
Negative Option (Collecting a credit card at free-trial signup time)
Shazam for video
Point your phone's camera to the TV and search!
Is anyone else annoyed at PayWithATweet.com being called a "business model"? This feels more like the eyeballs-as-valuation strategy of the DotCom era, and equally flawed. The fact that you can get someone (or a whole bunch of them) to tweet about your product does not mean they will (ever) pay for something.
|Please stop repeating propaganda.

You're the one spewing the same old "blame the poor!" propaganda. Go look at the dishwasher at your favorite restaurant and ask him what other jobs he does. He probably has a second and possibly a third job.

You just can't conceive of another person's reality other than your own.

It's not propaganda and the 80% of poor you're referring to are mostly children and women (raising children), and the rest are drug addicts and mentally ill people who have virtually no safety nets. Get a clue.
facebook growth went something like this:

college --> high school --> young adults --> everyone

Trendy stuff generally follows the same cascade, more or less, where you don't see college students emulating the dress habits of the elderly.

facebook's biggest potential for failure is in not capturing the next generation of young users. The young users pick up some other social network, everyone else follows suit, and facebook withers, slowly starting to resemble an '85 buick.
If I can resurrect my PS3 and run *nix natively on it with graphics and full blown access to the co-processors I'd buy a second one for gaming.

The main problem is the memory limitations of 256MB+256MB but with careful configuration it can be just OK.

I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up making the PS3 ubiquitous leaving all the other consoles behind. Even in spite of the poor higher management coming from old media (the ones pissing off traditional developers, forcing Blu-Ray and that insane rootkit.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stringer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
50,000 Hacked iTunes Accounts For Sale
A quick note to those python devs out there who have to wrap SOAP APIs and haven't discovered it yet, https://fedorahosted.org/suds/ is a very clean and pythonic SOAP client library.

It's developed by a man named Jeff Ortel (on behalf of Red Hat, I believe), and it kicks the pants off of SOAPpy/ZSI/wsdl2py or whatever else you're using. You're welcome.
Which mobile platform is the largest in five years?
Straw man prediction: In five years, there will be an installed base of 1bn iOS devices and 3bn Android devices. Total revenue for the two platforms will be similar and combined, these two platforms will be 2/3rds of the installed base.
I really think he doesn't know what he's talking about. Let's look at his qualifications. He's a professor of "Media Studies" at the New School. I think he's going to be taking everything with a lot of lit crit palavering.

Myspace to Facebook is a shallow analogy. If we would like to make an analogy with that analogy it would be like comparing Yahoo and Google. Facebook has far exceeded the market penetration of MySpace. Facebook has one of the best engineering teams around while MySpace attempted to some sort of media company (failing miserably at that). Facebook has a fairly credible revenue stream while we are never sure if MySpace every developed that.
Kind of wrecks the joke nature of the story by linking it as 'The "Dolt" button', don't you think?
Yeah, we saw a lot of that happen with the Abio.
They can simply check the date it was signed:
if (dateSigned() < 1293775200) {
// Verify with old PubKey
} else {
// Use new PubKey
}
What is the big deal here?
By higher end I mean their T and W lines.They tend to be about $500 - $2000 more than their other lines.
I haven't read the entire documentation/proposal yet, but this seems to be a very good foray into asynchronous programming for Python programmers. I'll have to give it more attention later, and not just for the Datastore stuff.
But. Submit has different meanings. I really don't know how she ever connected a submit form button to submit in the sense of a man dominating a woman. People are strange.
What I find really interesting is that despite the fact that nothing in this story indicates that things have gotten in any way worse for people - to the contrary, it appears that at every step except the last, people are perfectly happy with what technology is doing for them - almost every one of the comments on that blog is about what a scary horrible vision of the future it is, and dear God! someone do something to make sure it doesn't happen.

It makes perfect sense for people to be frightened when a story is about how we screwed up the future by arrogantly pushing the limits of technology, Skynet and all that.

But there's no war here, no famine, there's not even a computer enslaving us or keeping us as pets. Just chips in people's heads helping them do what they want.

Oh, the horror...?
Nope, because there isn't an Ah Ha! moment at the end where you start laughing. However the story does remain informative.

Edit: To whoever decided that I required downvoting, please familiarize yourself with the voting etiquette here.

Just because I disagree with the guy being upvoted doesn't mean I'm being a jerk. I was quite amicable, actually.
- Dive deep into Django

- Get into mobile development

- Start a company
Ask HN: Starting a consultancy - is this a good idea?
I'm a freelance Ruby on Rails developer located in New York City, and the number of interested clients has become increasingly large - large enough that I'm very interested in hiring a few consultants of my own to do the cookie-cutter business logic and CSS/HTML work that I'd rather not do. Does anyone have experience doing this? Positive/Negative? Is it a lot of management overhead, and in the end is the extra throughput worth the stress of managing subcontractors?
Agreed. My next app will be HTML5 and on the cloud. In other words I'll make it pretty and it'll live on a server rather than at the office.
I agree that popularity of social networks is faddish, and that Facebook will follow that rise and fall pattern, however...

I think that an open, distributed social networking protocol is a game changer. If there exists the ability to move between social networks while maintaining your social graph, that makes the way that social networks rise and fall very different than when sites hold your social graph hostage if you try to leave.
Would I be right in thinking that you were expecting a more general approach to finding an idea for them than you got? I thought they were quite harsh for something that could, for all they know, be as much a learning exercise as a business venture. I'd've grabbed 'em too, if I'd come across them :)
Most of the teenagers I know have Facebook accounts. Facebook might lose the high school class of 2018, but they already have the class of 2014 sewn up.
My personal experience is exactly that. My parents, a grandparent, nieces, nephews, coworkers, bosses, college friends, and everyone in between are now in my network. My status updates are now a megaphone to everyone I've ever had any relationship with and more frighteningly, anyone I ever will have a relationship with in the future.

This kind of assemblage is perfect for weddings and funerals, and that's it. For daily living, it's just too much. If my Facebook friends all went to a building every day to hang out, I wouldn't go there. And I don't find myself using FB nearly as much now as I once did for this very reason. There's too many things to consider when posting even the simplest thing (will I offend my second aunt, will some future boss not like this political view, what if I run for political office in my 50s and find out I friended someone who ended up doing x, etc., etc.)
>"Vaccines are generally not very profitable

The contracted cost to the US CDC for MMRII is $1.86/dose (at which Merck is profiting) and $5.01/dose on the open market at an even greater profit.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/cdc-vac-price-list....

Having been around since the 1970's development costs have long since been recovered. In addition with the recommendation of a second dose the number of doses delivered per year has almost certainly increased.

The contracted cost to the US CDC for Proquad (MMRV) is $8.57/dose (at which Merck is undoubtedly making a profit) and Merck charges $13.93/dose on the open market (additional 62% margin).
Interesting. Akai's famous MPC series of sampler/sequencers use the term "DO IT" in this way. I wonder if its of the same origin.
There are still ways around this, easiest being to issue a redirect back to HTTP versions of the site when a HTTPS is requested - together with other tweaks it can still be made to fool a regular user - see http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/

Another possible process would be to issue a self signed certificate when a session is being requested - obviously the user would be notified of the certificate issue, but depending on the level of knowledge of the end user, they may just accept the faked certificate. See http://crypto.stanford.edu/ssl-mitm/
It's a decent approach, though in most cases like that an sslstrip type of attack would still fool a majority. A certificate based VPN may be the most practical client only defense.

Engineering wise this is really a problem to solve at the local LAN, employing individual vlans or other techniques to strictly segment traffic on top of encryption, or simply implementing port based network access control via 802.1x.
This is pretty useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Canadian_and_Amer...

I did read an article in either Mother Jones or the Economist a while back about this but I couldn't find it (after googling for a few minutes). Also, Canada has national healthcare and in many ways better access to opportunities such as college, it also has a higher standard of living.
Comparing Google with Facebook. I was using google since it was pretty unknown, I think it is still, after all these years, a good tool for searching. I will never use facebook, I think local solutions for meeting people will emerge soon and they will be much more appealing and useful.

Facebook only can exists if it can find a way to be a local tool.
And, are we informed now? Can we make more intelligent decisions based on these data? It doesn't have to be a peer reviewed article but ~100 sales for one dev in one day doesn't tell me anything.
we are never sure if MySpace every developed that.

Myspace revenues are estimated at $385 million. Facebook's are estimated at $1.6 billion.

That puts myspace revenues at 24% of Facebook's.

Myspace has 66m users. Facebook has 500m users.

That puts Myspace's userbase at 13% of Facebook's.

In actuality, that means Myspace has found a way to generate more revenue on a per-user basis than Facebook. I'd say that's pretty credible.
You think? I'm more liberal in my friending policy than most (I think - at least that's my perception), but, still, I've met in person >85% of the people I'm friends with on FB.

I could see that being true for me regarding something like Twitter, though... there, if something new came along ("SuperTwitter") that replaced it, I'd be able to take the 10% that I really like (the 10% I'd know by name) and follow them on that new network.
I see so many people compare facebook to (late '90s) AOL these days. But the two never had much in common with each other.
I think if facebook continues to bring out innovative ways/products/features that connect people with each other it will continue to be successful. Will it one day fade away? Probably. As do most huge dotcoms. But some even stay relevant for well over a decade (ebay, match, expedia, google). Most of them get a bit smaller and cruise along.
Indie game developers - breaking ramen profitability
Penn Center for Bioethics: The Vaccine Industry - An Overview
It continues to be hard for me to envision what that would really look like in practice. I don't mean from a network typology standpoint; I mean how would it look in my browser?
I think at this point it's pretty clear that they are finally going to announce the Verizon iPhone. Gizmodo seems pretty confident, since they were not invited.

http://gizmodo.com/5727934/the-verizon-iphone-will-be-announ...

What is odd, is that without Macworld, without even holding an event, Apple stole CES' thunder anyway. For most people not in Las Vegas, the Mac App Store was the news of the week, and the Verizon iPhone would be next week's.
You lost me with the video.
I guess "MySQL is not ACID-compliant", http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7091415/ is not relevant anymore?
I got my Facebook account in 2005 when I was a college freshman. At first it was amazing, then they opened it up to high schoolers which was okay, but not really what I wanted from Facebook. Then they added things like the Friend Feed which bombarded you with "Your friend [name you know] just added [someone you don't know or care about}." Which was okay, but then they opened the gates and suddenly all your coworkers and anyone you've ever talked to for more than 3 minutes is now adding you.

I think for me, the longer I've had my Facebook, the less useful it has gotten and the less time I've actually spent on it. It's like talking in a room with everyone you've ever met listening in. It's unnatural. I think Facebook's market will eventually fragment-- LinkedIn being the first chink in FB's armor, I imagine the next will be a college exclusive network like how Facebook got started.
"He replied, "I'm not a dolt, why is the software calling me a dolt?" "

Where it not already spoiled, that would be the punch line.
Securitization was encourage by govt action. The monopoly on bond rating was also govt action. The bond insurance that was used to turn risky assets into safe ones that banks could hold to meet their capital requirements was yet another govt creation. (Govt wanted regulated institutions to hold such securities to increase the demand and thus stimulate the supply.)

Govt also "encourage" banks to make housing loans that they wouldn't have made otherwise by making such loans a condition of doing other things.

And then there's "encouraging" banks to hold fannie and freddie stock by giving it special treatment for the purposes of capital reserve. That pretty much guaranteed that any problems at fannie and freddie would poison the banking sector.

And let's not forget that fannie and freddie were lying about the loans in their portfolio and in the market in general. Everyone was doing their risk analysis based on fannie and freddie's numbers, which were wrong.

Then there's the small matter that fannie and freddie set a govt guaranteed price level.

The housing market is subject to govt action at so many points that it's absurd to argue that govt action is not responsible.

As far as parties go, I didn't mention Dems or the GOP.

If I had, I'd have pointed out that dems were more active in this, but that repubs were happy to help "encourage" home ownership.
Here is my Appleseed friends list:

http://developer.appleseedproject.org/profile/michael.chisar...

Keep in mind, this is beta software in active development, so you'll notice a few bugs here and there (and the live server is missing a major update I'm running locally).
Would you care to elaborate? I'm just getting to grips with Google Apps and would be interested in what experiences others have had with it.
facebook beginning in college can be explained because its creator was in college at that time, and is natural to expand in your habitat. Sometime young people copy old habits of old people, so I don't see any trend.

The power for expansion is in the marketing, very creative people selling water vapour (in Spain people now smoke water vapour since the prohibition to smoke in public places).
I'm surprised not to see more alternatives to GoDaddy for registrars (say, NameCheap.) GoDaddy interface and upselling are simply infuriating and I've always thought of it as a "Wal-Mart for domains/etc," not something a tech-savvy startup would use.
Did you laugh at that? You asked me directly if I think I spoiled a joke and I don't believe I did, because it did not make me laugh.
Your profile and buddy list on AOL were probably pretty similar to your Facebook friends. I think they have a lot in common.
Eh, that is the tempting storyline, but honestly CES seems to be getting its fair share of coverage. That is, a good 75% of the major outlets[1]. Apple is getting decent and oversized coverage as always, but I wouldn't say any thunder has been purloined.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html

http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-tech-technology.html

http://www.engadget.com/
That doesn't close the hole because I can sign my homebrew or resign my pirated material with an older date. They would have to whitelist all previous content and issue a new key in hardware somehow.
Here's my only suggestion: rename it "Whac-A-Kitten". Drop the "k", throw in a couple of hyphens.

Might not be enough for the most vigorous of offense-takers (nothing ever will be in this arena), but it at least partially mitigates that visual symbol "whack". And is a more direct reference to its progenitor, anyway. It 'feels' more like a carnival game to me than "WhackAKitty" does.

Edit: maybe also change "Kitten" to "Kitty"? I'm not sure why that sounds a bit more palatable to me - maybe because "kitten" only ever means a juvenile cat whereas "kitty" can mean several other things? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty