skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But I suppose everyone thinks their youth was some sort of Golden Age."
From the point of view of the Postal Service, there is nothing to take into consideration. A zip code uniquely identifies a geographical area (for the purposes of mail delivery) and it does not matter if that area crosses municipal, city or county boundaries. When a zip code does cross boundaries, the Postal Service picks one city that it uses as the "Actual" name for that zip code--even though a bunch of addresses in that zip code clearly fall in a different city! This is the city name that gets returned if you do a lookup or address verification. The post office is well aware that other cities might lie in that geographic area and accepts those city names as well. For example, follow the link below and enter 28451.

http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown_zip.jsp

It is true that it might confuse the user if you auto-populate the city name, but I think that in practice it wouldn't be much of a problem. If you live in a split zip code and your city's name is not the Postal Service's "Actual" name, then you are probably already used to receiving lots of mail with that other city's name on it. For example: almost all bulk mail will use the "Actual" city name.
Not just GoDaddy--I've had similar experiences with half a dozen other shared hosting companies.

GoDaddy is one of the few that actually has free phone support, which is a lot nicer than an automated email and a response 48 hours later.
I think the examples here are poorly chosen - wouldn't it be more interesting to compare the relatively chromey iOS interface to Windows Phone 7 (rather than an archaic Logic plugin released in 2004)? If we're bringing up old audio software, why not bring up Ableton Live, which has been on the forefront of chromeless GUI design for nearly a decade?

Also, Android's Honeycomb interface shows us that "chromeless" doesn't necessarily equal "flat".
This depends on your timescale.

The fact is, if you're going to be poor or work a menial job there is no better time in history to be that way than now. The standard of living amongst even the poorest in the developed world is better than that of the richest just a century or two ago. Life expectancy, literacy, access to technology and financial freedom are unparalleled.

Does that mean the gap between rich and poor isn't widening? No it doesn't. But rather than focus on the disparity between the poor and the mega-rich, why not just examine the circumstances of the poor? Who really cares if there are more billionaires than ever (a function largely of inflation)?

What's more, society is far less classist than it has ever been. Throughout history you've had the aristocratic classes. If you weren't born to them, too bad (with very few exceptions). Now? Some of America's richest people were born to nothing (Gates, Page, Brin, Buffett, etc).

There are certainly advantages to being born to parents who are better off than poor: better access to education, the fact that the right choices made by parents tend to be repeated by their children and so on.

So maybe we should have less hand-wringing about how badly the poor have it in the developed world and look at a real problem like how badly the poor have it in the developing world where diseases than are for us either extinct or simply nuisances routinely kill and many can't even get access to clean drinking water.
If version numbers weren't useful for marketing, I'd suggest using a hash of the codebase as a true version identifier. It'd be a consistent umpteen alphanumerics long (no more squabbling over who has the biggest number) and could actually serve a technical purpose under the hood.
Honestly I hadn't thought about that. I assumed a single enumerator was the best but I really don't know much about how reads are scheduled. I do know that as of the 1.1 update I have planned, the scan rate is 10% faster the Grand Perspective and only a couple seconds faster then Daisy Disk.
Please, let's stop equating information with property.

Say you're a guy in a pub and you overhear some private company contractors talking about just learning that a group of terrorists is plotting to blow up the Empire State Building, and mentioning some things in detail. You decide to tell the FBI about the terrorists, while they might refuse to give up their information if the price isn't right.
No sushi. No TV. Few interesting books. I could go on.
Seconded. GoDaddy might be ok for domains or SSL, but that's about it.
No, that's an example of stealing an object. Stealing an object is fundamentally not the same as telling someone something, even if it's something you didn't want them to say. This is why your example induces an obvious ethical reaction, whereas the original example induces a much more complicated one.

The better example is, you found out where her long-lost cousin lived, some guy eavesdropped, and HE told her where said cousin lived, and she jumped into HIS arms and drove off into the sunset. You are not now without an object that you formerly owned; you just planned to exploit a scarcity of information that no longer exists, and you're mad about it.

You also feel cheated because you were the one that did all the work to find her cousin, and he got all the benefit. That doesn't make it the same as stealing a car.

But in this case, the information was actually of little value, but because there was a scarcity of information in the first place, the FBI would have been none the wiser.

The ethics of spreading information are complicated. Oversimplifying them by comparing them to the ethics of stealing physical objects is wrong and bad.
The only thing worse than this is imagining a world in which el-cheapo shared hosts did try to fix your webapps.
Was really looking forward to I/O. I hoped to get the chance to jump down when I moved out west.. Hard to believe that they can sell out a venue like this in 59 minutes.
That doesn't seem relevant though - you have to judge 2011 against 1973 based on the conditions of the time.

In 500 BC I wouldn't know about vaccines so I wouldn't miss them, but that doesn't change the fact that living in a world with vaccines is a hell of a lot nicer.
Clearly it just works for a lot of people. I really tire of the "if it doesn't work for me it shouldn't work for anyone" attitude.

These sorts of complaints are ridiculous. It's one thing to host some little family site on GoDaddy shared hosting, but for anything real...come on. You get what you pay for.
Beautiful Code has some really good chapters. I was leafing through my copy recently and realized the chapter on code readability is online, as well as the source code to DiffMerge, discussed in the chapter.

Direct link to chapter: http://www.perforce.com/beautifulcode/Code_in_Motion.pdf

Direct link to DiffMerge source: http://www.perforce.com/beautifulcode/diffMerge_code.html

I am personally a fan of 80-column lines, and there is a reasonable defense of it in the chapter:

Book and magazine text is composed in columns, usually in columns far narrower than the page. Why? Because narrowness reduces the back-and-forth scanning our eyes must do as we read—reading is easier when our eyes work less. Reading is also easier when what we’ve just read and what we’re about to read are both within our visual range. Research shows that as our eyes change focus from word to word, our brains can take cues from surrounding, unfocused shapes. The more our brains can glean “advance warning” from shapes within the visual periphery, the better they’re able to direct our eyes for maximum comprehension.

Research also seems to show that, when it comes to line lengths of text, there’s a difference between reading speed and reading comprehension. Longer lines can be read faster, but shorter lines are easier to comprehend.

Certainly we need code to be understandable when we read the source files directly. We also need the code to be understandable when we encounter it in diffs, merges, patches, debuggers, code inspections, compiler messages, and a variety of other contexts and tools. […]

When working on code that changes as often as DiffMerge (it has been changed 175 times since it was first written), programmers spend considerable time looking at it in diff and merge tools. What these tools have in common is that they restrict the horizontal view of source files, and they add a certain amount of clutter of their own. Code like DiffMerge’s is readable even in these conditions. In command-line diffs, its lines don’t wrap. In graphical diff tools, we don’t have to fiddle with the horizontal scroll bar to see the bulk of its lines, […]
I don't think HTML editing is a solved problem
I guess at this point version 9 looks OK. You have MSIE 9, Opera 10 etc and we've grown accustomed to those. It's up there at the same level and not particularly out of place.

Now look back: the public stable release of Chrome 1 was on 11 December 2008. That's roughly 5 up per year. In another year it will be 15 and then 20. After a while it will start looking silly (like it did with MS Office) and I don't think the question is if they will stop with this aggressive version-numbering, but when.

They now have beaten IE to the release of version 9, they will beat Opera for version 11. I'm guessing once they have beaten all the other browsers they will stop and get back to point-releases like everyone else.

But not until they are ahead of the curve and say "Your browser only goes to 9 or 10? My browser goes to version 11!". In lack of better words: Pointless or not, I'm guessing they want their browser to be the one which goes to 11, Spinaltap style.

The number is all a mind-trick and you have to be a fool not to see the game being played here.
Thanks for those. The dispute has an interesting source:

"In other words, Messrs Donohue and Levitt did not run the test they thought they had—an “inadvertent but serious computer programming error”, according to Messrs Foote and Goetz"
Keepstream applied for Launch 2.0, hoping to present! But if we don't get in we'd still like to be able to be there and have a table. The people that will be in attendance can't be beat, and we wouldn't want to miss being able to participate!

Keepstream is a social media curation tool that helps you collect tweets, Facebook posts, and website bookmarks, and organize them into shareable, embed-able collection pages. This is useful for bloggers, marketers, or just about anyone who wants to curate the chatter from a conference or event, a news headline, or a hashtag chat. But even simpler than that, you can use it to organize your Twitter favorites and retweets, making it easier to share them with your friends or look them up later.

We are finishing up some great new features that will hopefully be presented at Launch 2.0 - that will make curating and consuming curated content even easier.
Honest question: are they really easier to make?

I was using some hyperbole to get a discussion going, but unfortunately this item has dropped off the homepage.

What I meant: Making a basic prototype for a GUI app is perhaps easier in the browser, but IMHO the whole road[1] to a finished application is easier for an iOS app.

[1] front-end, back-end, payments, distribution, multiple browsers / OS problems
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How would you identify the person on the phone? Their voice clearly isn't enough. Caller ID can be spoofed. With another password? What happens when they forget that as well? I guess you could require a face to face meeting to reset that password. But by having two alternative passwords, you have increased the attack surface. The user is much more likely to write the second "emergency" password down I expect.

Also, what happens when your helpdesk's VoIP system gets hacked in the same way that the email system got hacked in this case?
I predict that Arrington will create another faux controversy (Angelgate, Engadget blogfight) with Huffington before TechCrunch's next major event. That's become his modus operandi. Lame, but seems quite effective in generating eyeballs.
Fair points, our thinking is that this service would be geared to men who don't want to put in the effort described above - the value add would be the convenience of not having to dig around asking for opinions, and not having to go to the store and shop.

We are planning to try offering Zappos-style return policy and watch how the economics work out.
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Just launched the first version of my site, an online Q&A platform for style related advice, built with RoR, called GoodToGoOut (www.goodtogoout.com), and I'm looking to contract/hire an engineer who's interested in the idea, preferably in NYC, to help with the concepting and development of some part of the product's next iteration.

As well, if you're simply interested in checking out the site and offering some feedback it'd be much appreciated. I'll get back to you ASAP with an invite code if you email me at emeka@goodtogoout.com.

Thanks!
I couldn't concur more; some students are just not mentally or emotionally prepared for school. Forcing them to attend is stressful for them and for the people around them. The ideal solution, to me, would be two-pronged:

1. Stop forcing people who don't want to go to school to be there.

2. Make it easy for people to change their minds and return to school later.

I think #2 is absolutely necessary if #1 is to be implemented. Appropriate programs would have to be available for older students to continue their education, and they'd have to be available on a subsidized basis.

My only concern about this whole line of thinking is the issue of parents forcing their children to leave school against their will and work instead. I haven't been able to come up with a convincing solution to that problem yet. I feel certain that the current system is undesirable, though.
Living in exactly this situation, I can concur that there's nothing confusing about it.

My zip code is shared with one actual city about 10 miles from my house and at least two unincorporated rural townships. You could put a completely wrong city (and I often get mail with the city listed as Minneapolis, which is about 45 miles away) and it would barely merit raising an eyebrow. My mail will still get here on time.
There is a second installment to this interview coming tomorrow on why Harjeet joined YC. The most interesting part for me was that when Yuri and Ron first said they wanted to invest in all YC startups, he thought they were joking. pg wasn't even in the meeting and was doing office hours. That's quite revealing and says a lot about YC's priorities I thought.
I'd rather be in the lowest 10% 100 years from now.
My admiration for this group just went up another big notch. Very well played.
Visual Website Optimizer: Bootstrapped, Profitable, and over 4,000 users
If you care about your domains, move away from GoDaddy. Try Moniker.com or Fabulous.com, both are top notch.
I think those qualities are just a few of the things in talented hackers that also make them naturally strong entrepreneurs too.

Tenacity, creativity, and a love for solving problems and building things...
The problem is that some students could do fine in a structured environment - but at the age of 13, would you have voluntarily chosen to go to school? I'd be sitting at home, learning to program and losing what little social development I had at school. :)
Awesome app. I've been looking for some small nfc hacking projects, and might look at getting this working properly with Oyster or something (provided I can get my hands on an updated DESfire one rather than my existing Mifare Classic).
this has been up for nearly a week, you guys need to stop complaining
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Spin3 released a Real Money Blackjack game for the Iphone not too long ago. (link in comments) It looks like it is only available for users in the UK and Ireland. I am willing to bet this will expand slowly throughout Europe and beyond How hard is it for a small entreprenuer to get in on this new market? I would like to get a hacker to make an app for other real money gambling games. Is it possible or would I have to spend thousands on permits, licenses, etc. I know setting up an actual casino is a nightmare with all the rules and regulations but I am not sure how it works online. Anyone know much about this subject? Thanks.
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Spoofing would be hiding the senders address, but something, either a hacked account or MITM attack, would need to happen to get the responses from the IT person.
I didn't downmod you, but it wouldn't work. It's a typical engineer's solution, you know? Sure, if you have 1 bad nut in a collection of 10 nuts, you just throw it away. But that's politically impossible with humans. The newspapers and the electorate would destroy anyone who tried it. At best you might be able to steer the no-goodnicks into the basement for "special" classes, but you could never, ever make your real intentions known, and so you could never have a genuinely effective system for filtering.

The old-style solution was much simpler: The principal beat the kid. The kid would go home, and father would beat him a second time. This also doesn't work for similar reasons.
Try flowing data's forums (http://flowingdata.com/). It's a very good site.
I use GD's DNS and domain management. I would _never_ consider hosting a site with them.
I started seeing really high disk latency - on the order of tens of seconds to create a file.

That's not disk latency. That's filesystem latency.

It's entirely possible that the disk latency was high, but you really should have measured it directly to rule out filesystem problems.
Here's an interesting document from the US Census Bureau:

http://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-097.pdf

In 1973, 628,000 families made less than $1000.00 per year. That's $.48 per hour for a 40-hour week. 8.1 million (14.1%) families made less that $5000 that year.

In 2011, annual unemployment benefits for an individual can reach about $20,000. In 1973, that amount would rank in the upper 18% of all family incomes.

Making $50,000+ in 1973 would rank in the top 1%.
You'd change your mind very fast as soon as you needed a dentist...
Rich in 1973, because people who were rich in 1973 are, by and large, even richer in 2011.
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I've never been too good at maths, but I'm not bad either. It sounds like heading in the CS direction, and trying exceptionally hard in maths will probably pay off the most in the end. Thanks!
Make attendance voluntary by abolishing truancy laws

I didn't downvote you, but I strongly disagree. I personally don't want to live in a society full of kids (did you see his percentages - up to 25%!!) that are considered unmanageable at age 12. If they are unmanageable at age 12, what do you think they are going to be at age 25? Angry, illiterate, jobless oh and yeah, still unmanageable. Or, in jail and unmanageable. Can you build enough jails for 25% of the population?

There are no easy answers to the problems of universal education, but let's not forget why it is there in the first place.
That's mostly security by obscurity, in which you're bound to get burned.
I've used Visual Website Optimizer for a few weeks now, and I'm loving it. It's no wonder they're doing so well. Software is easy-to-use, for coders and non-coders, and it sheds some light on A/B testing. Personally, I think their product may help make A/B testing more main stream.
you can't really say (although many have) that he's anti-christianity

He wrote a book called The Anti-Christian. What else can you say?
Looks like they aren't big fans of MVPs.
they're also a lot closer to dead.
holy cow, I was able to re-attach to my fuseaction session and complete the registration! Thanks the awesome tip, highly encourage others who were able to start the process to give it another shot.

Check your history for urls like,

https://www.google-io.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=reg.Conf&...
This is like the Fight Club of the internets!
That works for vaccines but what about smartphones? Do they really make the world a hell of a lot nicer, or are they just inextricably tied into our lifestyles?
So be will you, in 2031.
The back button was also the most jarring thing for me when I first got an android phone, from memory. The main irritation was when you hit back several times to "close" apps in a chain... until you got the browser, when suddenly it starts going back through your page history. Maddeningly inconsistent.

I do like the (otherwise) universality of it now though.
Why do Budget Airlines do it?
I'm (founder of Visual Website Optimizer) on HN. In case any one has any questions, comments, or suggestions please shoot!

(BTW: the number of users figure is closer to 5000 now!)
Data Durability Is Not An After-market Add-on; Announcing KillDashNine
I talked with several startups about Visual Website Optimizer and I heard this same sentiment repeatedly. Their app is really great to work with. I will be using it on all projects going forward.
Someone asked where these druggies moved after these photos were taken.

I just said there are still areas in New York City that can have these characters. I was responding to that specific question. It's not like you can't find druggies on the streets anywhere in NYC. Just because a lot of the city has cleaned itself up doesn't mean there isn't anywhere that's still in ruins.

An example: Some areas of The Bronx are still run-down, no?
Or a doctor.
You wouldn't miss things that you don't know exist.

I "miss" not having a heads-up display in my glasses or contacts or optic nerve, and not being able to prevent my body and mind from failing due to aging. I'd choose middle class in 2049 over rich in 2011 for the same reasons that I'd choose 2011 over 1973.
It's an interesting position, but may still leave you with the same problem. A fair proportion of the disruptive students actually want to be at school (since that's where everyone else is) -- so even if you make it voluntary you will still get students being disruptive. In the end you still come to the conclusion that you have to enforce the rules to make education effective. (Also, anyone who's ever watched a normally well-behaved classroom in the hands of an inexperienced substitute can believe that discipline makes a difference!)
Bush cancels Europe trip amid calls for his arrest
Oh, interesting. Thanks for that.

I only worked with GSM messages myself, so I don't know how it compares to CDMA. From what little I did see of CDMA I thought they would be fairly similar, but I guess theres more involved. GSM is a pretty versatile system, though.
Hacker exploits Zynga Poker for $85,000
This brings to mind a scene from Mad Men (taking place only in the 60's). Draper has gone AWOL to California, where he is screwing some rich teenager. She asks him: "Have you ever had Mexican food?" He hadn't.

Similarly, in the novel of Casino Royale, avocados are used to signify how exotic the casino is.

This only takes you back to the 60's.
When looking at the default homepage, it seems entirely taken over by vendor-based content. You have to click on on the tiny un-labeled icons in the header to access Gizmodo's content. What a sad state of affairs.
Although I find the anons a bit creepy, in this case hats off to them. I find this move to be more or less equivalent to Wikileaks, so it's impossible to defend one and vilify the other. I actually think that it's much better for our society than Wikileaks since it exposes the type of clueless people/agencies that FBI pays (our) money to.

BTW, I'm a member (since a true anon would never reveal this, that's how you know I'm not one of them).
no, just interested in the website and how it works. I'm doing a similar website (montrealtechwatch.com) so it's cool to see another hyperlocal tech-focused site

what I am interested in is how you got that staff of volunteers and contributors. Are they paid?
Rich in '73 -- I'd invent Smalltalk before Alan Kay did.
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