skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cofounders that have known each other longer split up all the time, mostly because their relationship was never tested in that way.

We are actively working on building a relationship that can survive the startup process and if not, we're trying to find that out sooner rather than later. I guess we'll just have to do our best to explain that in the application/video.
They named it after an individual? How odd. It's like Facebook being called Zuckbook.
No worries. I was just curious. :)
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they aren't prohibiting new clients

If you ask me, that's actually worse. Why such ambiguity? It is pretty apparent Twitter is no fan of clients because of revenue reasons. They will do all of us a service by clearly acknowledging that and simply banning apps of specific nature.

It would sting, sure, but I'd respect a company openly stating financial realities versus a company giving developers a runaround.
I never guessed there would be pirate VC, I suppose money follows any profit.
So here's why I'm upvoting it: because I feel it is important and worthwhile to underscore the role of good engineering in human safety.
If you ignore subtle nuances (idea, team, fit, equity, blah, blah), hiring is mostly about the money.

Pay $0 --> Nobody will work for you.

Pay $60k --> OK few people interested

Pay $200k --> Suddenly a lot of devs want to give up their idea and work for you.

Pay $1M --> Small, mid-size CTOs

Pay $10B --> Steve Jobs?

The things you mentioned "solid idea, traction, technical myself, and profitability" are about 1% of the deal. 99% is what the employee gets in his or her first paycheck.

(This has been my personal experience, so far. I'm in the Bay Area too)
It was bound to happen ... and about time, hopefully it gives someone enough inspiration to come up with something to compete against twitter.

I want to see someone give twitter a run for their money. They're sloppy.
The statement comes from experience, extended stuff is bad just bad for you. jQuery and others are dropping the use of hasOwnProperty. So if you extend stuff and include one of these libs, they will break. The devs just don't care anymore. Also, there are people who are even more against it that really say NEVER EVER extend them, not even for the sake of backwards compatability.

Also, my guide isn't even need the controversity of some of the statements that Crockford has made ;) In the end it's all advice, I'm not forcing you to write code this way.

In fact, I like it when people question the stuff I write, the worst thing that can happen is that people pick one book/guide whatever and just follow it 100% without ever thinking on their own.
Seems more like this fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

You can work as hard/smart as someone who achieved independent wealth and if, after ten years, you're not independently wealthy someone can say "well, you didn't truly work hard/smart". An objective definition of what hard/smart is would lead to a testable hypothesis.
Whole idea is that with opaque random number token requires having some database of valid tokens while this design does not. All data that this scheme exposes (user id, cookie creation time) as plaintext are probably going to be exposed anyway by normal operation of application or in metadata of said cookie. Timestamp is protected by the HMAC (which may not be entirely clear from my previous description).

And yes, the random number does not do anything significant and is probably useless. My reasoning was that it makes the structure of plain-text data slightly less evident from the cookie contents.
I don't think that Twitter Inc. likes any 3rd party Twitter apps anymore cause these don't let them show their Dickbar and whatever will come to the official apps.

You know what I think? There is ONE solution to pass this problem: Integrate such things into the API so EVERY client has to show the Dickbar. This sounds like the logical next level.

As bad as it sounds I think they have some good points about that cause, you know, they want to make some money and integrate some annoying stuff to the official apps. 3rd party apps don't have these kind of annoying things and that means they don't earn a PENNY from those "assholes" BUT they are earning money from their apps which uses the Twitter API.

I know this sounds crazy but I think that's exactly what Twitter is thinking about. They want people to use their official Apps BUT if they use other Apps these MUST HAVE the Dickbar (or whatever) too so Twitter earns money.

Lets see in which direction this will go BUT I have to admit that this "letter" to developers is fucking sharp.
We have a newer version of the website in the works, but it's getting delayed to my new job. I hardly have anytime at the moment to work with Yi Jiang on the style since I spend 5 hours a day sitting in a train. But that will change as soon as I manage to move.
So in thinking about this more - it seems that using a fiber relay system is less than ideal - and instead what we may want is a series of tubes with mirrors. Tubes and mirrors with joints that allow articulation of the tube system.

Further, based on the description of the plane-mounted anti-missle laser system, which uses a telescoping system to focus the beam - it would seem that we could incorporate the telescoping functions into our articulated tube,

It should be a trivial exercise to combine multiple beams via prisms and mirrors, at east a solveable problem.

So - we will need the exoskeleton I mentioned in my other post as we will need the rigidity of the system to mount our series of tubes to.

Interestingly, the .mil article refers to KW class lasers - rather than MW class.

I think some testing needs to be done with shooting this DIY laser through a telescope as well.
That is, Twitter is planning to monetize by making their product worse, and they don't want anyone offering a service on the level of what Twitter used to offer.

IMO if they have to add some inconveniences to their product to make some dough, I have no problem with that. They have a company to run and sometimes you have to make hard decisions.

I just wish they were more upfront about it than their present passive-aggressive demeanor.
This article is a great intro to higher level uses for Excel. Thanks for writing it!
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The reason not to expose plaintext in a cookie is not simply that it discloses things, but that it creates opportunities for bugs on the serverside.

Virtually everybody reading this thread would be far better served by `head /dev/random | openssl sha1` than by any other scheme.
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Did anyone suggest how long you could stay in the top 100, if you paid? It would be fun to do an ROI analysis.
Xoom off to a rocky start after slow sales
A correct implementation of A* might look simple, and indeed it's not the most complicated algorithm out there, but I wouldn't dismiss it until you've read and understand the proof of its optimality.
According to our data, 90% of active Twitter users use official Twitter apps on a monthly basis.

I notice the omission of the words only or even mostly. I'm curious about the raw percentage of tweets from official/non-official apps.. and the percentage of users who use official applications say, 90+ % of the time.
With all due respect, I think you are right, opine here: http://shh.sh
In Portugal, Fon partnered with Zon (an ISP operation of the major cable TV provider). A couple of years ago, the cable-modem/wireless-router combo boxes, mostly Netgear hardware, had an option to turn on the Fon service, which was off by default.

That must have been not working very well. So, around August 2010, they updated the firmware in the routers, including those already deployed, to turn on the Fon option by default. Plenty of access points now available ...

(Details: although it uses the same radio and bandwidth, the public Fon access point uses a different IP; it requires a password which anyone who provides Fon access in his wireless router can have by registering with fon.com)
> I'd rather be alive than have a couple more percentage points of economic growth every year.

That seems rather disingenuous to me. The real question is: would you pay more up front to reduce the risk of a catastrophe?

When the government mandates, you don't get to answer. It's a downside.
Katamari Hack.
And SecretSocial: http://shh.sh
> UI in HTML5/javascript/SVG

I really hope this won't happen anytime soon.

While everything's possible, HTML+CSS is a really horrible choice for UI description, and the whole webapp stuf is a kludge. Webapps are only done this way because there's no other choice.

Developers are running away to more higher-level abstractions, which provide things that are completely missing in bare HTML+CSS. For example, there are so-called layout managers, which are at the core of every sane widget toolkit, but in HTML world, are only emulated with plugins like jQuery.UI.Layout (or implemented it pure HTML+CSS by re-inventing lots of boilerplate code).

Cappuccino and SproutCore have a very good reason behind them.
In my opinion, there is no such thing as an MVC web application, if you are really serious about the term meaning something and not just being a pretty paint color to put on your framework. MVC has nowhere for a client/server to go, and that's the sort of detail that shouldn't be glossed over.

"Something like" MVC is certainly possible, but MVC directly is pretty much confined to something without a client/server in it, or a cloud, and also is pretty tightly coupled to Object Orientation, too.

I think it's better just to go with "separation of concerns" and "don't repeat yourself", and pretty much whatever comes out of the end of a design based on those things will be better than trying to jam MVC in a priori. Maybe it'll even be MVC, if that's what fits, but MVC isn't specially good, it's just one point of a myriad of points on the good-DRY/SoC frontier.
Interesting that it caught fire during one sxsw and then poisoned itself during another one.
Radiation leak reported at Japanese nuclear plant, 10km evacuation radius
Is it true that you will stop developing the desktop app? Web is good but Desktop client is better!
See also http://www.crypto.com/blog/copywrongs
i guess that's what investors call 'feature' as opposing to a standalone product - turns out that many of these clients funded by them are features of twitter
You dodged the hard questions and are using language again that doesn't mean much of anything.

Are you opposed to all taxes? If not, then you believe in some violent aggression? Do you believe in protecting peoples rights with violent aggression? Will you use the force of government to prevent someone from dumping toxins into a river? How do libertarians deal with things like water rights? Borders? Can a mexican freely come across the border and get a job? I.e. is labor as free as capital?

I still have no idea what libertarianism is from your explanation.
What do you think of my new landing page?
That's a shame, because I am still in the market for a good Android client. Guess there won't be one, ever.
>all present themselves as basic infrastructure services, with an implied expectation

you seems to take a mental image created in your head by marketing for a contract fine print.

>Ethically speaking, all services should be doing due diligence when reassigning usernames.

Ethically thinking God shouldn't have created the human race, at least he shouldn't have released such a buggy early alpha version.
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We have been contacted by these people who sell access to the 'Top' list.

Zero 'organic' is overstating it, but there definitely is a reason that there are terrible apps in the top paid lists.
Are identi.ca and status.net distributed? Their website doesn't make it obvious what it's all about.
There are two cases. The first case is if your comment deserved a downvote. In that case, yes, one downvote on one comment makes it difficult to adapt. But if the behavior that caused the downvote appears in other posts, those will get downvoted, and you should be able to discern a pattern in what is not appreciated.

The second case is if your post did not deserve a downvote. This happens, particularly as our community grows. Some people downvote comments merely because they disagree with what the person said. We don't want it to happen, we (the community) try to correct for it when it does, but it does happen. And in large threads, such posts can get "stuck" at the bottom in a place where no one sees to correct it. In that case, don't worry about it. It happens to everyone.

How do you know which case it was? Keep posting and you'll be able to find out.
They are doing exactly that - if you read a little further it becomes clear. (example "harrowing evacuation": http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/3/11/troops-dispatche... )

Not to mention their tagline: "Working for a world free from nuclear power and nuclear weapons"
I'm not familiar with powerpivot - is that a new feature in Excel2010? Have a good link to share?
Right. A company providing a free service is probably looking to monetize your data, which is definitely a con job. Clearly you are being robbed by not monetizing your personal information directly.
He should enjoy the money while he's still breathing, which won't last as long as he thinks it will.
Yeah I don't get the letter at all, if she genuinely believes everything she wrote then why approach Twitter to take the name in the first place.
Actually, that's still the point though. If you are building a library to be used in a variety of contexts, with no prior knowledge of the environment, it's probably not a good idea to extend native prototypes.

If however, you are building a site or web app (like the majority of Javascript developers, I would assume), then the benefits of extending prototypes within your app can provide great advantages and keep your code much cleaner.

So again, I am not saying don't extend, and I am not saying extend, I am simply saying, that I agree that one should err on the side of caution and asses the situation for which they are coding for and make a decision regarding those circumstances. Simply saying a best practice is to 'never' do it to me is quite short sighted and is not properly educating new developers on how to write good Javascript.

For the record, I have often extended natives within my applications, and have never once had a conflict.
Background info: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/11/socialmessaging/
> supporting your junior high science fair project Twitter client

What are the support costs? I would think you publish the API and it's up to the client to manage it from there.
Situation is somewhat ambiguous, understandable given the confusion and circumstances. Commentator in Japan expressed '90% confidence', however.

http://yokosonews.com/live English audio live, mainly translation of...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tbstv live japanese tv

Ustream pages have annoying 30 second advert on load.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/index.html English, but slow to update

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/index-e.htm... Power company hourly bulletins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219 some live material, updates a bit erratic at the moment.
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Btw, I'm not your target demographic, but I have to say you have a nice useful app. Kudos all around.
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While it's unfortunate that they're setting the precedent of discouraging certain uses of their API, it's also understandable. They're right to want their product to stay consistent and avoid fragmentation.

The irony of it is that they acquired their official client.
"When you're betting on a platform you don't own, the house always wins."

Except when it doesn't.

It's not a zero-sum game-- the house winning doesn't mean that the bettor loses. Zynga, Rovio, and FourSquare are all pretty fat on platforms they don't own.
Again, it's not 'bad for you'. You don't NOT use a hammer because it doesn't work well with screws. It works great on nails, so again, context is everything. Supplying best practices that include the words 'always' or 'never', often fall quite short and don't serve people well.
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If you see answers on Stack Overflow that are simply noise, like "it won't get approved for the app store", please flag them.

To some extent a "don't do it that way" answer is acceptable, but it's better if if also answers the question as written. See: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a...
I did not get that vibe at all, but perhaps that's because I've been following raganwald as a blogger and a poster on HN for years. He's definitely the kind of guy I'd like sit down and have a beer with.
This has existed for quite some time now and is called identi.ca

I've used identi.ca almost as long as twitter, and my preferred client Twidroyd on the Android supports both of them (thanks to the fact that identi.ca has an option to use an API made to emulate the twitter-API).

I highly prefer identi.ca to twitter, and the only thing keeping me on the twitter-network at all is the fact that most of the people I follow only are on twitter, and for some strange reason it's very hard to convince people to change, even though, in my opinion, identi.ca is superior.

I really hope they soon manage to get a twitter-pull up and running (they have been talking about that for a long time now). If they managed that I would convert fully to identi.ca.

Edit: Got to update my browser more often... Sorry bingaman
i personally like the nissan.com fight (10+ years).
I expect that is why they are indexed - they aren't exactly going to link to their private key from another page.
Hello fellow HNers:

We built Profile.io as part of StartupBus.

It is currently private beta but I have invites.

You can create an account using this link:

http://profile.io/invite/HACKERNEWS

Site is pretty barebones but we will be adding more features and fixing bugs in the next few days.

Hopefully, we'll be selected as finalists for StartupBus and get to demo it on Monday at SxSW.

Thanks!
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It should be much easier for cell phones, since the underlying physical medium is a broadcast medium. It takes significant engineering effort to get rid of this capability.
Probably goes down by r^2

However earthquakes may be "flat", in which case it's by r (i.e. r^1). It's probably somewhere in between those.
are their hotspots in Japan 802.11n?

Most of them probably aren't. Fonera only has one product that supports 802.11n http://wiki.fon.com/wiki/Fonera_2.0n
Correction: 3km evacuation radius (TEPCO bulletin [1]), 10km radius residents urged to remain indoors (NHK).

Evacuation has been instructed by the national government to the local residents within 3 km radius of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Measurement of radioactive material (Iodine, etc.) by monitoring car indicates increasing value compared to normal level. One of the monitoring posts is also indicating higher than normal level. We will continue monitoring discharge of radioactive material from exhaust stack and
discharge canal, etc.

We have decided to implement measures to reduce the pressure of the reactor containment vessel for those units that cannot confirm certain level of water injection by the Reactor Core Isolation Cooling System, in order to fully secure safety.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031210-e....
Both reactors at the plant have been damaged, and officials say they have "lost control" of the pressure, according to Reuters.[1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-nuclear-plant-2011-...

EDIT: this is the latest update from business insider
I have to plug my console wrapper which takes care of problems like these :)

https://github.com/amadeus/dbg
My take (dannyr and I built this) -- this is like an "about.me" but for developers. You add your GitHub account, add your programming languages, etc. And (my favorite) you add all the projects you are building -- for example when you add an Android app, it automatically links to the Android Market, pulls in the app icon, etc.

This is meant for developers to have a decent place to showcase their geek. (And the domain is cool, no?)

Thanks, love you all!

Brian and Danny @ SXSW

PS: This app was built on StartBus -- the entire site was made on a moving bus from SF->Austin :)
Well, there are emulators out there.

On the other hand, if you don't mind things being fast as well as simple, there are dead-simple hobby OSes out there for exactly this sort of tinkering: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088617

I do remember the fun of PEEKing and POKEing with my TRS-80...
I suppose it could happen but prone? Especially a guyed tower should not fall down even if shaken.
Well that's lovely and all. Give us software of the quality/completeness of mathematica and we'll consider it.
I was wondering about this. What kind of coolant are they sending? Don't nuclear plants just use water?
People have been talking about this for years now, since the early grumblings of Twitter performance problems. There was no mass migration then, and I doubt we'll see one anytime soon. There's no viable alternative to Twitter at this point like Facebook was for Myspace refugees.
Relating to Haml/Sass, you may have heard of the ruby gem StaticMatic. It's a great tool that lets you use Haml/Sass to building quick, static prototypes.

In fact, I loved the concept so much that I began improving upon it myself[1], adding support for CoffeeScript and Amazon S3. For anyone who might find it useful, any testing or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[1] https://github.com/mindeavor/staticmatic2
I'd contest that it would only matter if you're the same as everyone else if it's contrary to your goal(s). What is your goal? For most it would be to get users to purchase something (aka, make money).

There's the other upside that if your website isn't radically different from others, a lot of your users will already know how to use it. There could be a lot to gain with a lot of your visitors knowing how to extract information from it.

I guess the only real way to know is by testing!
'150 micro sievert per hour in control room' - not so bad as I feared, as long as it's not rising.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20110312-OYT1T00153.h... via google translate.
After many years of Rails (and other frameworks), I know now that I NEED to review the code of plugins written by folks smarter than you or I. I don't count the times I had to remove plugins from my application.

I use Warden and saw there was a rememberable strategy in Devise that I could use.

I also read I can secure the cookies to be only send over SSL. I was hoping some further explanations on that since Devise doesn't seem to do it.