skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oops. That's an ambiguity of English and a lack of careful specificity on my part. I meant "your actions" as in one's actions.

If I were from the US I agree that it would get irritating real fast if that was how I was treated while I went about my business - I'm not sure whether that was failed attempt of yours to turn the tables on me or a strange attempt at engendering empathy and garnering support.

I shall repeat because you appear to have missed it: there would be less opportunity to for you to get tired of hearing people calling out Israeli policies if Israeli policies changed, maybe that is where energy should be diverted to maybe just maybe?

Anyway, let's not stray too far from the real real news here, Egypt! The very real possibility of a genuine democracy on Israel's doorstep. That would be awesome, I'm sure we can all agree on that.
Git Hacking: A Social Layer for GitHub
I guess there’s be a blog post coming up soonish, but for me the big deal is integration of a templating language. We experimented with the MS-written templating plugin that’s now been integrated and it seems pretty good.
A startup competition -- for 12-year-old girls
no, it does not :)
Pof has to store passwords in plaintext, sine they include it intentionally in a weekly email reminding you to login.. Yes. I know.

At any rate, anyone who has actually used pof can tell its been hacked together by substandard developers. No polish, a bizarre ui, and just general weirdness. This is the kind of shodiness I'd expect.
Jury Says it's Okay to Record the TSA
But how many browsers actually send the Origin header currently? I just checked Firefox and Chrome and neither sent it on a <script> or XHR request.
Says who?

Revoo[1] claims that top-end android phones are now as-or-more popular than the iPhone 4.

[1] http://blog.reevoo.com/2011/01/android-overtakes-iphone-in-u...
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Cheers, Jacques. We never knew each other but I always appreciated your insights. All the best!
Price is the elephant in the room here; NoSQL exists because people aren't willing to pay for real databases. Building yet another expensive (i.e. > $0) database that doesn't even work in the cloud won't help the Web 2.0 crowd.
how to sort good from bad credit...So one way to disrupt banks would be to put these resources in the hands of an individual.

This has already occurred. It's called a "credit report" and is available even to individuals (my landlord, for example).
I wish I could double-upvote that, swombat. It was a heartfelt message of sadness, and also a plug for your website.

I can't imagine a better way to send off Jacques. True HN spirit.

(And for those of you who think I'm being snarky, I am not. HN is about trying things out to help people. It is fitting that, when presented with a problem, we should share the things we have been working on to help folks with that problem. Outstanding job. I only wish I had something to offer along these lines.)
Demystifying the language of VC term sheets
Jacques, I'm sad to see you go. I myself remember telling my girlfriend that I was going to quit after 2k karma, and then I was going to quit once I made it to /leaders... and here I am, posting a comment.

Maybe someday I'll have the same degree of self-control you do.
Yea, Sandy Bridge is the first 32nm quad-core with integrated graphics.
The complexity of the platform is cumbersome.

In first place you need a special purpose terminal (the Keyboard essentially) because you need special functions, that are only found on that keyboard.

Second the usability of the thing. It's just appalling. To search a quote you need to know codes similar to the names of x86 CPU register (not jocking... you want to search by topic? TNI <Go key>. Want to view some equity analysis? Hit <Equity key> NN <Go key>). The interface is confusing, cluttered, horrible to navigate through, and concept of "back" is skittish at best.

For the privilege of a steep learning curve, horrible design, proprietary formats, little integration with outside tools (except for Excel) and a horrible looking keyboard, you pay 1500$ a month.

They are, however, the best source for Data in the market. Stocks, futures, fixed income, you name it, they have a price quote for it.

So yes, it's a good market for disruption. But (there is always a "but"): it's not a easy market to get in, and bloomberg as a very good choke on the Banks. The other competitor is Reuters. And IMO, it's easier to disrupt B2C companies. B2B reminds me of the "Nobody ever got fired for buying MS". Well, no trader desk director ever got fired for buying Bloomberg.
Does anybody know how Maxima compares to Sage?

http://sagemath.org/

I got the impression that Maxima isn't being maintained very actively. Last release was 2009, apparently, but there may be more to that story.
And how would the site owner know if it's Chris or not who published the data?
In Defense of PyPI
Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without
Android tablets were up to 22% of the market last quarter... on what? Galaxy Tab? That's an absolutely incredible number with really no great product on the market.

Unless Apple has a trick up their sleeve for iPad2, Q2-Q4 of 2011 will likely split 75/25 for Android in the tablet space.

For all the grief I give Google, their dev model around Chrome and Android have been lessons to the industry. Why is no one paying attention?
The one we had working was at the Argonne national laboratory. Perhaps you're correct about that law, but it didn't apply to government research programs.
Freshbooks + SkyLedger
That's not happening in this release - that's just an official jQuery plugin that we released and maintain separately.
Rails is just Ruby. It's not the most complicated language to learn, and you don't need to know much about computers to START developing in ruby or Rails.

See? This has nothing to do with platforms, and everything to do with realizing your strengths and weaknesses, and improving your platform when hundreds, thousands, or even millions of users trust you with their data. You can't just chalk this up to POF being on a platform you think is somehow inferior to your platform of choice.
I thought the terms of the App Store and the GPL were incompatible...
Thanks everyone! The full blog post and release notes will be coming later this afternoon (EST).
"I also ride giraffes that belong to other people."

Naturally. Otherwise your nic would be RiderOfGiraffe.
To be fair, Android is really just a better implementation of the Symbian model (which was/is also crazy successful).
Quite possibly. Is that a large sacrifice?

I spend way less time playing games, now that I make them.

EDIT> There's this real-time strategy game called Life. The achievements are really cool. Problem is, it's actually hard, since it hasn't been engineered to stroke your cortex.
It definitely isn't set via <script>. I know it's sent when you make an XHR request via jQuery, so I assume you can set it as a custom header if you're rolling your own XHR.
Submitted lots of times. Here's one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2159550

It appears http://searchyc.com is broken, otherwise I'd give you several more examples. The search link at the bottom of the page is crap, SearchYC was brilliant, but it appears to have been broken for a few days now. 8-(

ADDED IN EDIT: For completeness, I think I've found two more:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157322

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156163
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I don't agree. By the sounds of it, this person left Google, and is trying to convince herself and others it was the best move.

"You left Google, to do what??"

"You're crazy."

Not offering a shoulder to cry on is not mean.
While this is true, there's a reason that the mean isn't always used in descriptive statistics: outliers can easily skew this. I've had a few multi-hundred-point submissions, for example, and while 64karma/day is nothing to sneeze at, you'd just need one or two really solid comments or a good submission per day.

Then again, considering the way I'm phrasing this, maybe it's more of a sign of my own addiction rather than something a reasonable person would say...
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I'm not surprised PlentyOfFish was hacked in the least. I signed up at one point and the password entry form wasn't even obscured. That was my first red flag. So I made sure to use a throwaway password.

But it got worse. Every few days, POF started sending me newsletters with my password in plaintext! "in case you forgot, your password is:...." in addition to whatever else the newetter said. So I knew they were storing passwords in plaintext.

Couple those things with the complete unusability of the site…well I deleted my account (which is unsurprisingly difficult to do as well).
Not if you use HTML5's new state management. But I thought GitHub did. I've never had problems with AJAX history navigation but I know that Firefox users complain about it all the time due to how WebKit handles javascript instant redirectts.
Sorry for being a sap, but those lyrics at the end+that note almost made me cry. Best of luck Tom, I'm rooting for you.
Spending millions on engineer time to avoid buying a real database is not good finance either. At least with this approach you can start with the (free) MySQL and only pay once you're sure your idea has traction.
This is my big problem with this whole class of analysis. It keeps coming back to the Mac example and not the more relevant iPod. The conference call gave a hint, Apple is spending $3B to prepay for supply of some new components. Which Android manufacturer can do that? Samsung probably has the best chance since they source a lot of components themselves (heck, they build some for Apple).

The current Android tablets are not significantly cheaper than the iPad (especially considering the smaller screens). Apple with the iPod started at a high rate and kept moving the price point down to make life very difficult for competitors. If Apple keeps the current iPad and makes it the new entry model at a lower price point (much like the iPhone), then the problems for other manufactures will be increased.

At this point, I really think HP will surprise a lot of people, but I don't seen the Android tablets (or Blackberry with its bizarre connectivity requirements) being major competitors until they resolve their pricing issues.
In truth it shouldn't be news, because it is simply one man's (one user's) opinion. The reality is that Scoble is a tour de force of the tech world: the man has a power with his words to change the course of how startups can gain (or lose) fame/funding/etc. In the case of Quora, they have the accolades to withstand the storm a bit better than most startups.

I think the message here is that even a prominent tech figure can be quelled if he breaks the rules. I think an underlying message here is that the power of the people still rules supreme - what this community can take away from this exchange in Scoble v Quora is that the power of the people still win, so if you can build a compelling piece of software that appeases your customers, even if the critics don't like your product, you can basically give them the finger and tell them "xx customers couldn't disagree more!"

Remember that he may be a juggernaut, but the bigger they are the harder they fall, and to not let one man's negative comments on what you work on deter you from your course.
its relatively new. not all sites that do this are going to have made that jump. github might. other sites that have problems definitely don't.

its also still totally possible to screw up html5's state management.
This is more of a meta question/comment, but so far in my entire professional programming career (10+ years), I've never been interviewed in a way that required any programming tests or proof of ability. Instead I've always been hired by reputation or referrals and thus skipped past such things. Is that common or unusual?
Confronting the Rant: Why We Need Object-Oriented Programming
It's not perfect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media#Bandwidth_throttli...

But it's a good way of solving some of the challenges. But more and more people will start hitting that throttling soon, as people start using LoveFilm streaming, etc.
RequireJS also has it's own compiler.
Simple Deployment using Git (or Mercurial) and DropBox
"Apple simply cannot compete in these markets: its business model is based on charging a premium price for a premium product."

Apple purchases in large volume which allows it to have lower component pricing than almost all other manufacturers. That's why you haven't seen an Android based iPod touch-like device. That's why you haven't seen anybody do a tablet comparable to iPad in terms of hardware at the $499 pice point.

Apple's iPod is an integrated platform--arguably with less hardware variety--and it has 76% market share. Why hasn't this platform ceded control to Android yet, or "open" options? It isn't for lack of variety or other choices. Putting aside superior user interface, nobody can do a cheaper iPod. Let's see it.

If we're talking about a market for unlocked mobile, sub-$500 devices, then Apple hasn't been beaten in the last decade.
Skype are now calling it a "bug".
Wow, thanks Jacques! I'm not convinced I've ever done something worth being thanked for, but I definitely appreciate it a lot!

Closing down TS was tough (and I squandered a few thousand dollars putting it off), but in the end I'm really glad that particular weight is off my back. Now I just need to get Swaptitude to be more of a weight, and we'll be set ;)

Thanks for the submission and the kind words.
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Agreed - please change the blue, its very hard to see
I know that the terms of the iTunes App Store are incompatible with the GPL. Not sure about the Mac App store though.
Mail in electronic format may be dispatched to "info" at said domain.

Although if your feedback is on the rather poor landing page, you should wait until the new one is up ;)
I'm a CS senior due to graduate in June (from a state school). This year, I have interned at two companies already (September to Jan, Jan to Present, etc). I can tell you that the career fairs suck at getting you good internships. I simply searched craigslist and/or monster.com for internships that interest me. I suggest you don't depend on your school fair and go out there and just apply.

Good luck.
"I don't ask this problem, because I'm dying to know the 12th digit of the fibonacci sequence. I already know that's 144."

That was certainly news to me. Who would have thought that the 12th _digit_ of the Fibonacci sequence is 144.
Have you written about this somewhere? It's an intriguing idea that I'd like to read about. Did you go so far as to explore the technical issues? I recently got into UAVs because of http://diydrones.com/ and their ArduCopter http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/
There are lots of programmers out there who do a fine job, they are just clueless about security.

For companies that have programmers that work great, but aren't security experts, it's time to hire security experts.

Suggesting that all the work the programmers did is worthless because they aren't security experts is seeing the world as black and white. It's gray my friend.
These folks disagree with you. There are many more behind them.

http://gigaom.com/cloud/clustrix-lifts-the-curtain-on-early-...

And plenty of folks use MySQL (and PogreSQL to a much lesser extent). You just can't scale those.
I think a lot you folks will find this bit important;

"The Small Business Administration is also expected to
announce today that investments of $2 billion will be
used to match investments made by the private sector
in startups over the next five years."

I would think any future update on this will be announced at http://www.sba.gov/
FidoNet over WiFi nodes that only activate intermittently on a varying schedule would be very hard for the authorities to track down. Just use a strong stream cipher to produce the schedule.
According to Skype's reply ( see Beom Soo Park's new post on https://jira.skype.com/browse/SCM-721 ) they are "working on the issue and will be fixed in future updates."
Saying 'ASP.NET is VB' is sort of like saying "General Motors is a Buick Skylark." It just doesn't make any sense. ASP.NET is a framework for developing web applications. You can use any number of supported languages - C#, VB.NET, J#, Ruby, Python, F#, etc. I can only assume that he conflated the late 90s scripting combo of ASP/VBscript with ASP.NET.

It's obviously possible to write terrible code in any language, with the aid of any framework. It sounds like POF did just that.
The problem now is that with all this noise, POF is certainly going to be hacked. Others will want to follow Chris path.

POF founder habilities are going to be tested in the media arena and in the technical arena at the same time. Also lets see how he manages the customers & the legal side. Hard!
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I despise people who prognosticate with certainty. (I was going to say "love" but sarcasm is cheap. So I'll go with honesty.)

First of all, who cares? More Hyundais sell than Ferraris. Obviously Hyundai is better. Hyundai wins!

Second, let's see how Android does in the US after the Verizon launch -- if Android does as well relative to Apple on Verizon as it has done on AT&T well, that would be sad for Android, wouldn't it? (I'd _guess_ things will be less one-sided on both carriers -- but I wouldn't claim certainty.)

I'd love for Android to "win" in the sense of becoming as good or better than iOS and sustaining the lead, but if Apple gets eaten alive by competitors, all the "victors" will do is race to the bottom on price, quality, and user satisfaction.
It should be noted that it not only gets you going with Rails, but also instills some great practices from the beginning - like test driven development. Get started and you'll have your own little twitter deployed in just a couple of days! ;-)
My advice is: If Egypt is anything to go by, use the same tech as the government.

While all other internet connected devices started to go down - the Blackberries stayed up.
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I'm assuming that your idea has to be pretty darn good for someone to be able to take a 1 sentence description and turn it into a business better than you
This may come out as selfish, but what about the rest of us? What if all the high-karma uber-commenters leave? I think you guys have a responsibility to the community to at least dedicate a little time to HN. Please, please don't stop contributing altogether.
I use all addictive web services primarily on my iPhone:

* Facebook

* Quora

* Twitter

* Hacker News

The interface is slightly more awkward - but not annoying - and I generally check my iPhone when doing something that is inefficient (eg: making tea) so I don't feel bad about using web services there.

I find its made a big difference to my productivity.
Sucks to see you go, you've been one of the better posters on here(if not the best). But I know exactly where you are coming from...HN is just a huge time sink and really hurts your productivity...something new and interesting shows up every hour, so you don't have time to actually get things done.

The best way I found was to eliminate HN from any bookmarks and navigation bars. When you have to type stuff in to get here, you really cut down on your visits.

I think HN itself is a net positive overall since you get to learn a lot of what's happening out there without checking 30 websites for news. The problem are the comments. You check to see what people are saying, then come back and see if there were any new ones or if someone responded to a comment you found interesting.

What pg should do is add a productivity option that doesn't show the comments link. That way you still get the stories, but aren't distracted by the discussion.

A quick and dirty version of this would be to set
.subtext { display: none;}
What about a BBS for dial-up?
Winning a benchmark against MongoDB on a non-trivial workload is a little bit like winning the special olympics.

I'd be more curious to see how Clustrix performs against Cassandra, Riak or HBase in their respective domains. Those seem to be the more serious contenders when it comes to "Big Data".
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Editors, not edits.
Being first mover into a market is no guarantee of success. Likewise, and more importantly, not being first in your market is not the primary critical factor in successfully pursuing an idea.

Rio built flash based mp3 back in the late 90's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300 ). What's the default brand name for mp3 players now? Definitely not Rio's!
Unless I had more than one. Which I don't.
Weather balloons?