skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd have assumed gross to mean "after Apple's cut" (since Pixelmator Team doesn't ever see any of that revenue — their payment from Apple (thus, their entire income) is only for the remaining 70%) whereas net would be gross minus taxes and their other expenses. But I totally don't know.
Michael,

To claim that this project is The End of Facebook is really bold. I know, you need all the attention you can get but sometimes, it's better to take a step back and be realistic about.
Use it and have a look at how the community works. You'll find the intricacies in its product design interesting.
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Never applied because I'm not an algorithm machine. I'm not the kind of programmer they're looking for, or at least their recruitment process looks for. No big deal.
The kicker with SES is that you don't have to use it as an API, and you can easily integrate it with Postfix or Sendmail.

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/...
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I'm sad for Yahoo.

A lot of people criticize Google for having false starts. Yahoo is the counter example to that - an example of what happens when a technology company fails to make bold bets. They seem to have tried to make safe bets on their cash cow continuing forever and in technology that's just suicide. Even Microsoft is smart enough not to do that.
You may want to read the article a little more closely. I'm hardly declaring Appleseed a Facebook killer.

If anything, I'm debunking the way tech journalists are clamoring for "the end of Facebook."
You're right, if you have a lot of code already committed to the SendGrid API then it makes sense that the saving would have to be large to warrant developer time, but at some number of emails/month you reach a tipping point.

For new apps it's an easier decision.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this project develop. It has the potential to spawn a whole host of "webby" editing components..

As Rasmus aluded, in-browser editors aren't really tractable right now, but if everything about Kod but the runtime is written in JS, you could imagine all sorts of interesting browser ports or hosted options down the road.
But if you put them down in cruise control then chances are you also won't stop to imagine some violence either..

If you're capable of remembering to imagine violence, you're also capable to put them in the same place every time.
That would kind of defeat the fun of it, wouldn't it?
The bitstream converted to their ASCII value is ".zncf anug erggro fv abpno". When reversed and ROT-13ed, it is:

"Bacon is better than spam."
I can totally see how this is a win-win for both parties. Hadn't thought of that.
I marked myself as both applied and rejected, and applied an hired. When I was an undergrad I was rejected for a summer internship. Bummer. Then in grad school I was trying to go for a specific internship along with a professor I knew, and it didn't work out for silly reasons, but my recruiter asked if I wanted to apply for a full-time job. On a whim I did, then went through months of interviews. I got an offer and quit school to take it.
Congrats to the folks at Hipmunk. I've always really liked the simplicity of this idea for travel search.

I do wonder, however, how long they'll be able to continue to link directly to the airlines. I'm assuming (and this may be an overly broad generalization) that as they build out features for users this will naturally force them to create interstitial's between the carrier's website and their own. I seem to recall that Kayak was very similar in terms of its relationship with carriers when they initially started. But as they built out more functionality they created more for the user to do on their site distracting them away from the carrier site.

So although TechCrunch thinks it interesting that American isn't cutting out Hipmunk is this really going to be true in the long run?
I'd argue in this sense, Windows won: it was never bested by Linux on the desktop, even though it is now largely irrelevant.

And what made it irrelevant? The web, a collection of open standards and protocols.
I don't think DHH is the kind of guy who "coasted or just ran the rat race", but he's said before that he never really got into programming until he was in his twenties. He famously went on to create Rails, and become a partner at 37signals.

I think what you're asking the community for here is permission to be awesome. Sure, Gates and Zuckerberg are the kind of guys that were super-smart and super-successful early in life, and they're often talked about as models for success. However that doesn't mean that if you haven't changed the world by the time you're 21, you're somehow destined to die bitter and alone on a scrapheap of broken dreams.
> too bad it doesn't support vim or emacs bindings/integration in some way.

Well the bindings could probably be added[0], it's OSS and probably rather small still.

Emacs integration on the other hand, that would be rather harder.

[0] actually, since it uses standard Cocoa (text) controls it already has some Emacs-type bindings (C-a, C-e, C-f, C-b, C-k, C-p, C-n, ...) and you can define more (or redefine existing stuff) via DefaultKeyBinding.dict, just about any NSResponder action message (and there are quite a bunch of them) should be available for binding [1] And it even allows you to bind multiple actions to a single keystroke or to bind key sequences (à la Emacs's C-x C-s)

[1] http://xahlee.org/emacs/osx_keybinding.html
Or you see no new stuff at all (if you don't have enough contacts/topics) while there are lots of interesting things going on in the other parts of quora that you have almost no way of finding out about without heavy searching.

This pretty much made me stop using quora.
I actually don't have HTTPS on autho.me on purpose to make sure nobody uses it for anything serious. When I get serious about it it'll be SSL encased properly.

This also lets you dump the protocol and watch what I'm doing so that you can make sure the SRP is not sending your password and information.

And I need to get back to working on that.
Ask Justin.TV: Your job post has an inconsistency.
Posting this here as I found it impossible to find anyone's actual email at justin.tv:

For challenge 2 on your job post, your examples are listed as follows:

3 becomes 3
1 + 1 becomes (+ 1 1)
2 * 5 + 1 becomes (+ 1 (* 2 5))
2 * ( 5 + 1 ) becomes (* (+ 1 5) 2)
3 * x + ( 9 + y ) / 4 becomes (+ (* 3 x) (/ (+ 9 y) 4))

Do you care about the order of the operands in the resulting prefix string? Functionally, it doesn't matter, obviously, but your last example sets up the prefix string in a left-to-right operand order, whereas the previous examples set up the string in a right-to-left operand order.

Just curious before I submit a solution. :)
Yeah, maybe. I was thinking in terms of how PayPal works, but your way makes sense too.
I did Landmark's entire program (the two weekend courses plus a weekly, multi-month program). I got something out of it, too, but to be honest, it's not cheap - and there's really nothing there beyond what you you'll find in a decent pop-psych book. In the end, I became extremely uncomfortable with the increasing pressure to enroll friends and family, and chose not to continue with it.
Not yet, would be my advice. Let other pioneers get the arrows in their backs...

How much would you really save, assuming for your use case that Amazon is a lot cheaper, by waiting for 90 days? After all, you have to re-write and test your code to use the SES API anyways (maybe; or you can use their special script).
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It can be arbitrarily more subtle than that.

http://www.amazon.com/This-Not-Game-Walter-Williams/dp/03160...
Nine times out of ten a targeted intrusion like this will have been the result of a spearphishing attack - malicious pdf, malicious link etc sent directly to a small chosen set of people.

I'm not personally familiar with how a high traffic fan page like this is managed, but I guess a fair number of people have access to it to delete spam, forward on interesting messages etc. It seems to me that a lot of those people might have the technical ability to post a new message - they may just be constrained by policy. So that's perhaps dozens of potential unsophisticated targets - interns, junior PR staffers. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
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lol, perhaps we can downgrade to Cuban Class Cigars?
If you haven't finished it before, here's the old thread about it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2107523
Maybe I'm just getting old (I'm 29) but I'd found the zipline and the go-karts to be too much.

I'm all for chill-axing over a round of Halo on the XBox360 between intense periods of work to de-stress and wind down, but I'd just be distracted no end by people zooming around the office on karts and ziplines.

A lot of the folks working in the background didn't seem 'go kart' types but instead were working away on $50 Ikea desks and chairs. Personally, I'd invest more into my staff than my toys.

(also thought it was quite telling that someone went to the quiet room [described as 'where you go to get some important work done'] to play a computer game.)
I know this probably isn't the right place to ask, but since job posts aren't discussable and justin.tv makes it damn near impossible to find an email address, I figured it was worth a shot.
Nice, just found Kod yesterday while browsing around Github and gave it a try. Really like the dark syntax highlighting, looks very pleasing. I seem to have a font-rendering issue though, the text looks kinda blurry.
>When aliased at 12px, Comic Sans is more readable than Garamond.

It's also bigger. Why not increase the Garamond size until it fits the same amount of text in the box?

I could believe that comic sans is still more readable, but this doesn't seem a fair comparison.

(For that matter, what does "12px" even mean, when one font seems to be larger than the other in both x and y directions?)
Yes, I think we're agreeing, but, to clarify, I meant that it's not websites in general (as in, the technology) that sucks, but particular websites (most of them) which haven't correctly implemented mobile-friendly versions.

We are agreeing, though, yes.
Has human physiology completely changed in the last thirteen months? Does 2009 food have absolutely nothing in common with 2011 food?

2009 is hardly ancient history.
Oh, no, I don't need checkboxes (I realise it would make development hard). I only need a justification under each permission to see if the app has a good reason to want to read my texts, but I'm quite happy denying it as a whole.
Yeah this probably should be indicated
That's why I always connect the ethernet before plugging in any USB peripherals.
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Agreed. I just tried instapaper based on this statement. I use delicious for saving things for reference and tagging them, mostly as an alternative to bookmarking, particularly for saving obscure stuff that I don't want cluttering my bookmarks and I may never return to, but I really want to be able to find again if I have to. Instapaper looks cool, but doesn't seem like a replacement for that at all.
They're accounting for gender, age, education, and physical activity, but are they also taking into account things like free time and stress level and salary? If I need shove junk food into my face between my day job and my night job, of course I'll be more depressed than if my butler (or non-working spouse) makes me a parsnip soup after my 10-4 shift.
I think so, for financial reasons. AA cut themselves out to cut costs. Orbitz and other similar services were (from what I heard) overcharging AA for referral costs. Naturally, I think Hipmunk and AA simply have a deal that won't really hurt AA.
The social business model http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3XQ3BTd4o
I signed up and posted about a website that I have created http://microangels.in . Lets see if someone gives me any feedback

While I was entering the idea details there is a mouse over that says supports markdown, I am not familiar with markdown and I looked up Wikipedia and entered the format suggested there but the comment does not actually create a link, so some help on that input box will be useful.
I agree; I see the two services as complementary. I use Instapaper to keep track of writings that I intend to read. I use Delicious (and/or Pinboard) to file away URLs that I intend to refer to. (Secondarily, I use Delicious/Pinboard to share links with the minority of my friends who also use the service.)

What really bums me out is when an app that I like integrates support for one service but not the other.
Not all things should be done faster :P
His point still stands somewhat. Windows won by maintaining control of the OS market, though the OS market became less directly relevant due to the fact that the web became the dominant force in commercial computing.
No screenshots, no video. Just documentation. Not worth looking deeper.
If you choose the return date earlier than the departure date, the error message you get

"we don't support trips to the past yet"

humor is always nice :)
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I think the central difference here is the divide between form and function. Neither one is design. Instead, design is a kind of blend of the two.

Google sees design as purely functional with a strong usability focus. As a result they make joyless products that work really well.

Apple sees the emotional and aesthetic side of design really clearly. Just don't use your iPhone as an alarm clock, or try to teach your parents to use Genius playlists on a click wheel iPod.
If you want to do incoming handling as well as outbound, you won't be able to use SES for now. SendGrid has a great incoming parse API: thttp://wiki.sendgrid.com/doku.php?id=parse_api
What if Visual Studio had Achievements?
I think a large part of his point is that most software support's "the SendGrid API" by default, since it's SMTP. Ever for news apps that reduces the number of libraries easily available.
Does anyone in hacker news actually use yoga? Im curious but I need more info.
Next-gen iPhone, iPad expected to get Near Field Communications
i like stackoverflow
I used their service 2 weeks ago... a breeze to find the least agonizing trip. I'd pay $50 more if the schedule was more pleasing to me.
Sure. But for the power user, for the full-time developer, there's no point in going for something like Kod. Learning vim or emacs is actually not that hard.

As Rasmus points out in this blog post, he's aiming for a different crowd: people for whom programming is a secondary activity.
Well you have to love Amazon's focus on KISS (keep it simple, stupid) -- heck it's even called the _Simple_ Email Service!
I can only imagine the number of (illustrious) tech companies that would have tried to dress this up like a revolution in computing.
You're suggesting that a criminal would put valuable illegal merchandise in the hands of a stranger and trust that he'll carry out nefarious schemes for a reward valued less than a Foursquare badge? Interesting.

The paper trail doesn't help after the fact, naturally -- it's merely a passable indicator that I'm not secretly signing my life to the Mafia up front.
Shykes comment is better than the article. since about mid 2000s sys admins, regardless of what their job titles are, have become infrastructure engineers. learn the vmware Api, the red hat satellite api, some databases, write some socket apps for monitoring, learn some charting. I'm actually a developer now, but the demands of infrastructure engineering is how I got there.
Possibly, but you still need to background process the email sending for most apps even if you are sending via SMTP, and at that point an API call isn't too much to add, IMO.
> I applied to Google and got rejected.

Consider re-applying? Maybe follow up specifically with each of the people who recommended you, asking for what you could do to bolster your chances?

It sounds like you've got a real legit shot, so if you want it and you're willing to do the massive persistence thing, maybe it'd work out?
This is just my subjective opinion, but that seems a bit overvalued to me. I have no doubt that hipmunk will be successful, but after raising that amount, the amount of success they must see is going to have to be pretty large. If they had not raised that amount, a 10 mill exit would be great. But if you raise 7 and exit for 10, it doesn't look very impressive.

I hope they gain the technological or businesses assets to make them worth tens of millions, it seems like that is what would guarantee such a large raise.
I guess that's why they push you so aggressively to pick up contacts and topics - some of the stuff they do there is really clever, like inviting your friends to suggest topics for you if you don't have any yet.
If my memory serves me _right_, I saw a Dell POS (Point of Sale) system a couple of days ago that had an integrated Intel videocard which offered only VGA and DP outputs. If you wanted a (legacy) DVI output you had to buy an extra ATI card that had DVI output.

Also a couple of new laptops offer DP output and combined with the advantages that others have already mentioned, I think that it has a future and it will replace DVI, but not HDMI.
Funny how history doesn't really repeat itself, but it does speak in rhyme.

This is how paypal started out. You'd run a paypal app on your Palm Pilot (remember those?) and you'd use it to pay people electronically device-to-device, "beaming" cash over the infrared port.
Google never even bothered to show up while I was at Tech... I'm at Facebook now - come join us!
I was going to mumble something about correlation != causation, but I decided to track down the paper first (http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/195/5/408). The authors didn't explicitly decide that diet caused depression, but they did note that the data seems to invalidate the idea that depression caused bad diets.
Remove the space between ] and (
After 2 years development - FINALLY  RentPost.com
After nearly 2 years of development, in private beta for a year, we have finally launched our service for online property management software! Landlords and property managers can manage all their units, tenants, work orders, finances including rent collection from tenants within their own portal.

Check it out! I welcome any and all feedback!
The concept of const actually comes from C++, and was back-ported to C.

I see how const_iterator can be a stumbling block, but I'd like to hear your reason for why it doesn't work well. It is different than iterator, since const_iterator accesses const values (by convention).
From a current Yahoo!, "social" will kill the company. It's such a big initiative but no one understands what it means. The company is sacrificing their successful products by trying to make them "social".

Just recently I noticed that the main page in Yahoo! Mail included a Facebook style update feed. Just one of many examples.
One phrase summary of startup books. Awesome.
Probably get better intel too.
I applied and they suspended the hiring for the position indefinitely (after calling my references). That's after I spent 8 hours of my time interviewing there. This was pre-IPO
hey - did you read at all ?

screenshots: http://www.graylog2.org/about/screenshots

release notes: http://www.graylog2.org/whatsnew/release/0-9-4
Pixelmator reports $1 million haul from Mac App Store in just 20 days
A programming contest for web devs with over $40k in cash and prizes
Emailed jobs@ on a whim, and got a response:

"Ah, the point is that it is acceptable to reorder the arguments as long as it reduces to the same semantic meaning in the end. Order is not important."
Is that background from Groupon?

http://assets1.grouponcdn.com/images/groupon/landing_pages/b...
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Follow Tunisia's uprising via various Twitter feeds live.
My bad, wasn't clear where on the site. I take it back, pretty slick software.
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Humorous, yes. But it might actually be good as a learning tool, especially for beginners. Having a popup that says you earned the achievement of "Spaghetti code" might make the user delve into why that might be a bad thing. Could be useful.
What position was that for?
Does this headline mean Stack Overflow is actually killing Quora, ending its very existence? Fine.

If it only means Stack Overflow is succeeding, am I the only one tired of this figure of speech?
That's assuming the author and the submitter are the same person.
This is amazing. I'm going to write a Jira plugin for achievements in bug tracking.
That's what coins are good for.
Incorrect, but I wouldn't expect you to understand the complexity of the business without being inside it.

1. We had inhouse people, people at home and people working in Manila (on data, like fast facts--not full- on writing) of articles and that worked well. In fact, you can almost make the at home and in the office model work if you keep the costs down to $10 an hour/$10 a page. To have folks in the office you would have to do it as $400-500 a week and no benefits and no chef (which kind of sucks), so work from home wins this model (as it did on Demand Media, Weblogs Inc, etc).

2. Mahalo is 40 months old now, which means we have better SEO, better ability to move folks around the site and a better ability to know which pages make money and don't. So, we can make 3x as much now per page as we did back then (or more). So, we've learned a lot.

3. Video is VERY different than writing articles. I won't get into the metrics, but you can't compare it to articles. also, the traffic to each is very different.

So, Mahalo will continue to grow and folks will continue to misunderstand how it works... and that's just fine. We're not here to explain how to run a business to folks who don't know how to. We're here to build an amazing place where people can "learn anything" and to get a return for our investors.

We are the 160th largest site in the USA now.... and if you counted our video traffic to our domain traffic we would be in the top 100 (maybe #75). Quantcast doesn't do this (grrrrr).

Next year we will be in the top 100, then top 50 and then in the top 25.

at that point you'll write a long post and explain to me how i don't know what I'm doing, and i will write a long post back to you explaining how business works..... again! :-)
Well, we have zero interest in selling for $10 million.
Agreed. I guess it doesn't really matter if my site is a few points behind. Timestamp strategy makes sense too. Thanks!

I like the look of http://api.ihackernews.com/ and so will poll this rather than scrape - thanks for the tip hardik988 and for all the other comments too.
I agree they need some work on clarity.
Inflation? No problem ... if you avoid food
Do you have any idea about the future of these products?
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With the McDonalds restaurants in Europe getting NFC for payment processing, this might actually work this time around. I have my doubts, yes, but with Apple behind it the technology might get a push as being a trendy thing socially.
I would think that you would lose them on 'mobile phone' instead.