skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just an update, I requested SES production access 4 hours ago and just received notification that I was approved.

Maybe they ramped up support to handle the launch day? Or maybe it's because I've been an AWS user for years, or maybe because I've been using $1000/m worth of AWS services for a month, and the SES account was for the same website hosted on my AWS.

Update: switched all my web servers to use SES via Postfix. So far so good! Setting it up over postfix took ~10 minutes including installing the perl libs needed
StackOverflow is a good example (IMHO) of OpenID login done right. It's so easy to sign up for a StackOverflow account, and I don't have to remember or write down yet another fucking password!

IMHO, one of the things they do correctly is that the user doesn't have to remember an OpenID url in most cases, just click on the logo for which of your likely ID providers (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.) that you want to use. What could possibly be easier or friendlier for the end user?
Thanks for a considered response.

May I offer you a complimentary ticket to the LAUNCH Conference as a thank you? Feb. 23/24th in San Francisco. Ping me at jason@launch.is and i will arrange.

it's going to be a killer event (see www.launch.is for details... 40 companies launching killer products over two days!).
From Test::Unit & Shoulda To MiniTest::Spec & MiniShoulda
Wattvision (YC W09): Catching the Power Company's Mistakes
This should be code-named Hawaii Five-O .
The length of the article is in part due to how in-depth he goes, and in part due to how customised he wanted it. Realistically you could get a Jekyll site setup in ~10 minutes.

As to comments, on my Jekyll blog I opted not to bother with comments, but yeah, Disqus (or equivilent) is probably the best option. A possible second option would be to tell Apache to run all the .html files through PHP, and use PHP to add in a database-driven comments system. Sure, it won't be as fast as HTML-only, but it will still cut down the load time by not using any database queries for the rest of the site.
I suspect you believe markets are close to efficient. If you don't, you are either investing large fractions of your wealth in a strategy that you believe will beat the market, or you are irrationally throwing your money away. Which is it?

The NP completeness of efficient markets has been known for quite a while.

http://dpennock.com/papers/pennock-ijcai-workshop-2001-np-ma...

It wasn't so long ago that some jerks at Princeton wrote a paper along the same lines, completely ignored all the existing literature to make their paper appear more novel, and got a lot of publicity for themselves (hint: prediction markets are unsexy, CDO's are sexy).
Thank you for a great insight.

Would love to have your intelligence at the @LAUNCH conference. please ping me jason@launch.is and i will arrange.
cynical
Creating a legacy compatibility layer, so that you can rewrite each component or area piece by piece is definitely the way to go. That's how I've been reworking Appleseed into a component-based MVC, and it's worked really well. People still can use the legacy code, they don't have to wait in the dark while things get rewritten.
While I agree with your points, I think it is possible there are trading strategies that are defined by needing a certain amount of upfront capital (say $1 million). So, you might know it is a winning strategy after a couple of renters use it successfully, but need to rent it out until you have enough money to use it yourself.
Every bank I've ever had done this.
Hey, thanks for the precision, i didn't know you could box numbers in pyjs, i wonder how i missed that when i read the source. What is the typical performance hit from doing that ?
"How Steve Jobs gets things done" will definitely get more readers anyday than "A marketing attempt for our book The Talent Masters"
Thanks for that post, I didn't know Qwerly, that might come handy.

I wonder how DuckDuckGo decides which API to query. Gabriel, could you shed some light on this?
I think the big issue here is that if you own the content, and the other person is making money off that content without your consent, that's a problem (as in potential liability). One way around that is to make absolutely no revenue from it -- some publishers may not care. I don't know that would solve any problem, but do know that's worked for others (and in fact it's rumored -- or maybe even confirmed -- that that's the reason Google doesn't run ads on Google news, and for the most part they're not even using the full story)
The title made me think "really, another one?", turns out it was definitely well worth writing (and, indeed, reading).

Interestingly, Jekyll does give you, at least if you are the right kind of person, a sense of satisfaction that seems to make a lot of people, myself included, want to write about the fact that they're using it (albeit not normally in as much detail).

And that same sense of satisfaction comes whenever writing a post or editing the site - or even when reading a blog like this. I guess it's just one of those things that's really easy to fall in love with.
Haven't used it, but not sure why most would when there are already tools like this built in to most online brokerages. Most of the trading advice I have seen goes in two places, mass market appeal such as this, or obscure and sometimes secretive forums.
This vapour marketing campaign feels like it is being steered by committee. Every single decision seems to be the outcome of a negotiation between various factions in marketing, corporate sales, consumer products, engineering, and so on, right down to the OS being a placeholder and the name being MIA.

This is anything but an Apple product.
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Jekyll is great, and it's great to be able to have your writing as nice old text files that you can grep and you'll be able to read 20 years from now. I've been using it for quite a while to blog from org-mode, another great piece of software, and I'm not looking back. If you want to go that way you might be interested in the emacs module I wrote to make it easy, org-jekyll: http://juanreyero.com/open/org-jekyll/
Apache Solr: Oh the Possibilities
A short intro to the search utility, Apache Solr, followed by a ton of examples for how its being used. For your inspiration.
Wait... troubled? I use Postmark...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkdYrAQJu6g

Age 95, and still full of energy (as is his wife, in her 80s).
I wrote a blog post[1] last week about a better solution for handling auth. The tldr version is that our user agents need to be doing a better job of managing authorization and multiple accounts for us. I posted it here on HN[2], but didn't get much traction on a Friday afternoon.

[1]: http://blog.theamazingrando.com/the-road-to-better-authoriza...
[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2128966
Time: the unseen global variable
I can't help but wonder how much of that 35% is the kind of 'beef' you'd cut with knife and fork and how much is bovine tissue extruded from joints, etc.

See "Advanced Food Recovery"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_meat_recovery

Also, their 'Fire' sauce isn't very spicy.
Use HMAC and not plain hashes.
The World is His Gameboard
The author quotes long division as an outmoded skill. So let's all use our IPhones instead, insuring that the genius of arithmetical computation and algorithmic thinking, which took generations of scholars to discover, will be abandoned for a black box from your favorite vendor. That way, only scribes (ie. mathematicians) will know what's going on underneath the hood, just like the old days. Hey, I've never used regression analysis either (same argument) so why bother with math at all.
Generally we have some kind of entity detection, be it a list or some regex or something more fuzzy. For example, check out the WolframAlpha stuff: http://weinbergalpha.com/
How exactly NOT installing windows is a manufacturing challenge?
Why? We use Sendgrid where I work and they're great. Probably quite a bit more expensive though. We pay over $100 a month just to send email.
I've seen some aggressive stuff out of Excite, as well (although I only know a few people who use them).

One other reason someone might hit "Report Spam" rather than unsubscribe: your unsubscribe page requires an account login (rather than unique hash) to unsub. If I can't remember that login, and I'm exasperated by the company already, I'll hit the Report Spam button just b/c it's so much easier.

Email unsubscribes that are behind login screens are the devil.
by using browser history leaking...you can!
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/

This will be plugged in future browsers though...its already blocked in chrome
This could be possible if web browsers (not just web sites) were aware of the standard and participated in the UI flow. Mozilla Labs prototyped something along these lines (not targeted for inclusion in Firefox 4, but possibly for the next release):

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/account-manager-coming-to-f...
Their brand is that they manufacture the best gaming PCs in the world. But if one only pays attention to branding and not realities, you end up thinking Chevy's are indestructible rocks and that Sprite quenches thirst and gives you the power to play sports.

And in case you missed it, GP mentioned Scan as an alternative. I'll add Falcon Northwest.
I'm Comic Sans
It was killed by a moderator (it has 10 points).
SIW - Everything you want to know about your computer
Entrepreneurship Video Trailer (Drew Houston, Aaron Patzer and more)
Isn't this kind of what Blogspot does? I'm not very firm on the background, but generally when I go to post a comment on a Blogspot/Blooger site, I'm given a choice of either my Google account or OpenID, with openID being a choice of several favicons (Yahoo, Google again, etc).
Or dropbox...
We never stopped crawling; we just scaled it back for specific purposes, mainly now for spam detection and zero-click info. For the foreseeable future this status quo works well because we can concentrate on our value-ads.
There is no way the server would know the mac address of the client unless the browser stores and shares that information. This is not how currently implemented networking protocols work.
But whether the industry is shrinking, or sales are down, is not really the question. That is really what the industries themselves care about. The important thing is whether we, the public, have sufficient production, which is a somewhat different thing.

And various measures show production has not fallen, in fact it has risen, significantly. One example: http://www.unifr.ch/controlling/seminar/2009-2010/oberholzer... . And does it seem like we have less music, films, books now? It seems quite the opposite to me. If we are currently living through 'the worst case scenario' and an industry 'a fraction of its previous size', we seem to be doing pretty damn well.
Agreed that it's not the best solution, but it is what every bank (at least here in the UK, and from the sounds of it, in America too) does.

As to storing the PIN in plaintext, that's not even the bank's decision, a single bank can't decide to go against the entire chip+pin system.

Side question: AFAIK, chip+pin is far less common in America than in UK/Europe, with many people still using magnetic+signiture. Am I out of date, or is this still the case?
Are there advantages of DisplayPort over HDMI? Or do you just want to use Apple branded monitors without an adapter? My naive outsider's thought works be that rather than adding an additional output to all video cards, that it would be better if monitor manufacturers would settle on a single standard.
Comic sans is popular because it is unpretentious, disarming, casual, and playful - it looks a bit childish, messy, and handwritten. It's interesting to read why designers don't like it, but they are completely wrong to "hate" it or advocate that people stop using it. Were comic sans "properly" designed, it would likely look overly clean and pretentious, the opposite of the effect people use it for.
Can't help but link to an old favourite picture of mine, seems appropriate.

http://www.corincole.com/misc/random_pics/comicsans.jpg

edit: in case it's ambiguous, 'mine' refers to it being my favourite, not my photo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amandla_(power)

(for the interested)
Disney Interactive Sees Significant Layoffs, Up To Half Of 700 Employees
CNN has insightful news now?
Agreed. Awesomeness.
Amazon is $0.10 per 1 thousand emails.

Sendgrid is $0.00045 at the highest tier which is $0.45 for 1 thousand.

That means Amazon is much cheaper even at Sendgrid's highest tier, further, it's much cheaper at the lowest tiers as well.
That's the premise of a hedge fund. A strategy generating 9% alpha, but which requires $1 million in fixed costs to manage (office space, salary, market data), might require $30-100 million in operating capital.

It's hard to see how those economics would apply to collective2.com.
On the other hand, because of the utility-based charges, you can run tests for a week or two if you'd like.

Also, it sounds like what you're looking for is basically a calculator on top of the service -- are there really no decent calculators online?

I think Elastic Beanstalk is intended to reduce much of this complexity, as well. Want your app to just scale? clicks on EBeanstalk.
Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and commenting)
> What "law" would this be breaking?

What about copyright legislation? As a rule of thumb you should assume that you are forbidden to do anything with other peoples content that isn't explicitly allowed.
Too much on the home page. Pick the top four features which you feel will appeal to your target market and feature those solely on the front page, with a 'more detail' type link so those who are interested can find out more.

You need more than a copywriter, you also need a more modern design. It's rather dated in a funny sort of way. Take a look at some of your rivals to get an idea of what modern looks like. (freshbooks.com)?

Modern web application sites focus intensively on helping the user make up their mind within seconds as to whether to continue investigating your service, which is why the Take a Tour button, and Try it Now options are so prominent on most web app sites.

It's not that you're doing it wrong, it's just that you're giving yourself an uphill battle to attract and sign potential customers.

Hope that helps for a starter. :)
StackOverflow is a good example (IMHO) of OpenID login done right.

The problem is that StackOverflow is also about the only example of OpenID done right, or done at all...

Yes, there are a few others. But at least in my internet usage I hardly ever run into one. I can't remember having used my OpenID for any site other than SO in the past couple years.
Ubuntu based opensouce webcam multitouch system
You can thank the new iMovie templates for the style :-)
US Secret Service taps video game, 3D technology for advanced security training
Actually white label doesn't quite describe it correctly, as white label is normally just that - a relabelling.

Typically, in addition to releasing it as a different brand for the same services, pricing might be altered, customer service would be seperate, different marketing, and so on. It's not a term designed for creating a new service that happens to use AWS underneath it.

(Depending on how much the "simplification of the services" changes the AWS offering, maybe I'm being pedantic, but maybe not. Dropbox, for example, is not a white label solution, it's a completely seperate example, even if it 100% uses AWS services.)
Microsoft Embracing Open Source Drupal 7 CM System
Dr Suzanne Gudakunst Top Secret Car Secret ebook
Nice! Crowdsourcing national intelligence, now there's a way to reduce the deficit. ;)
How to Build Agile SEO Tools Using Google Spreadsheets
Media rich State of the Union to stream visual aids, quick stats to support TV.
Man, I regret not spending more time on the quality of the code at IMVU. I'm not a big fan of rewriting from scratch, but we've basically scaled a prototype into a crazy successful business, and it's had some nontrivial effects. For example, product owners now believe that you may as well timebox all refactoring, because you can never get it all. I wrote about the hidden costs of dirty code a while back: http://chadaustin.me/2008/10/10-pitfalls-of-dirty-code/

In general I'd prefer to refactor, but you need to
_explicitly_ adopt that cultural shift early on.
I had a lot of fun playing "Stop The International" - an ARG developed for the movie The International. We were sent through a bunch of missions in Central Park and had to find leads, solve puzzles and then obtain a hidden stash (which had a CD with content, a bunch of foreign cash and a bunch of papers). The three of us that attended split the cash, and I still have the two-dollar bill with a big red sticker saying "This is blood money", as well as the CD of "classified" documents. I think I might have to join in on this game...

Here is a recap video of our NY mission (with pictures of me included that were taken by their "spy") : http://www.stoptheinternational.com/recapvid.aspx?id=3

And here is a recap I posted right after our little outing: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27014&...

And the files from the CD:

http://www.trendinteractive.com/stoptheinternational/NYCX-0....

http://www.trendinteractive.com/stoptheinternational/NYCX-1....

http://www.trendinteractive.com/stoptheinternational/NYCX-2....

http://www.trendinteractive.com/stoptheinternational/NYCX-3....

http://www.trendinteractive.com/stoptheinternational/NYCX-4....
Interesting. I never thought of it as "liberated office", I thought of it as "without charge office / free office" and I despise the name LibreOffice.

Hey. Why don't they call it LibertyOffice? That would be awesome.
Google Analytics Referrer Spam
Is there a website/app/service that will ask you what features you want of a font and it will show you recommendations?
Modes of Writing
This is a major plot point in Charles Stross's Halting State.

(I'm also obligated to mention he also posts on HN as cstross. Bonus points)
The 99% of the population who is less internet savvy than you.
U.S. Postal Service set to close 2,000 post offices
No ... people don't find it pleasing.

They select it because when you fire up Microsoft word, you generally have limited Font options ... and its the only font that looks remotely interesting compared to Arial, Times New Roman, Georgia, Wingdings et al.

If you swapped out those starting fonts with other more interesting ones, Comic Sans use would plummet overnight.
On the other hand, if you're looking for open source drivers, I've had better experiences with the ATI (radeon/hd) drivers than the ones for Nvidia (nouveau).
Thanks for the clarification I'll be sure to pivot my comment to reflect what the audience wants!
Even 'later' there can be valid reasons to rewrite. I don't like blanket statements on complicated issues, the real answer here is 'it depends', and it depends on a lot of factors. There are good rewrites and there are bad ones, and it's not always clear-cut what the best decision is. If it isn't broken don't fix it seems to be a good rule, it makes you err on the side of caution.

The fact is the plenty of times rewriting is not the answer, but for instance, refactoring consistently and aggressively over a longer period of time can have just the same effect without most of the downsides.

An all-or-nothing hail Mary rewrite where some poor sob has to turn the switch on D day is typically a recipe for failure but that's not the only option on the menu.
Why are you billing me for something that is free?

Can't really respond to that, though as a paying customer, and someone who knows many people who've used the free tier, I would imagine it was a mistake on your end, although maybe they should have been more clear on Ts&Cs or something. Hard to say without knowing more.

or any of the other "cloud" providers

Google are (in)famous for that problem, AWS I can't honestly say I have any experience with it. But don't just assume it's because they are "cloud" providers. Actually, it's because they are huge companies that, thanks to the (usual) efficiency of their products, can pretty much get away with it.

You say you use Linode and Slicehost, their services are the same as Amazon's EC2, yet you presumably know that their support is pretty great.

I've been testing PHPfog recently and their support, even in beta while I've been paying nothing to use them, has been excellent.

Examples go on and on... it's about the specific companies, not the type of service.
Interesting, thanks!

One suggestion: I would move the note You can test regexp using DuckDuckGo further to the top. IMHO that's a killer feature!
Didn't try out the software mentioned in the post myself, but at first glance it seems the guest blogger has ironically created a desktop search tool for warez
First they say no buzzwords, then

"Steve Jobs's natural talent is to imagine not only what consumers want now but also what they will want in the future -- and pay a premium price for. He searches for discontinuities in the external landscape. He figures out trajectories of new opportunities" [...] (etc. etc. etc.)

This is a bunch of HR/marketing crap that doesn't offer any practical advice. If you want to reveal how Steve Jobs works, the least you must do is interview people who have worked closely with him. And then tell us something new, interesting, and applicable!
What I get from buying a "Linux machine" isn't just avoiding purchasing a Windows license. (Those tend to be paid for by all the software bundling, anyway)

What I get is a computer that is tested on Linux and thus is known to have well-supported hardware.

I've had plenty of computers that "work" in Linux, but some of the smaller details (suspend/resume, advanced functions of the audio hardware, etc) would either not work, or would only work after considerable effort.
A pin number, entered through a mouseclick keyboard (with randomized key order) is an interesting anti-keylogger measure I've found so far.
HMAC's verify the integrity of a message; they don't have any use in this setting.
I think the small font size may be a factor too. Some of the 'yuk' factor of Comic Sans comes from seeing it too many times in poster sizes, usually in a range of colours too, with the large size accentuating the poor letter spacing demonstrated in the article.

Served up small, Comic Sans doesn't have quite the same feel of awfulness.
It seems unlikely that he would have "run out of stories" if people were still paying him to come up with more. I mean, he's been coming up with stories for decades and he runs out just then?
Topsy introduces real-time search widgets for publishers
Paul Graham wants me to think he is mad
That's great. What's your algorithm for deciding which zero-click info to display when there seem to be multiple options?

For example, I notice that http://duckduckgo.com/?q=fathers+day+2011 doesn't show a WolframAlpha result, but an Amazon result for me.
Kubrick's films before 2001 (Spartacus, Paths of Glory, etc) tended to tell the story with words and pictures. From 2001 on, with the notable exception of Barry Lyndon, he seemed to become obsessed with imagery, or as you say, creating visual poems (and even Barry Lyndon with its simple plot was a visual powerhouse), but I'm afraid his storytelling became secondary.

For those of you who haven't read Clarke's book 2001, you should consider putting it on your list. As garyrob has implied, it's very different from the movie - very concrete - and yet, possibly as a result, almost more hallucinogenic than the film could ever be.
He's saying that explanations produce a net gain in enjoyment since they add another dimension to an experience without affecting the ability to enjoy it in an unexplained fashion.
So the worlds biggest advertiser knows that it's the same you on stackoverflow, linkedin and 'very small penis porn com"

Hmm nice !