skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a weird validation error from your form. Apparently the text field isn't supposed to accept multi-line fields?

I'm curious about the site and if it will offer any benefits over my own personal site.

Cheers
I was going for a bit of satire ..
How exactly is this different from flavors.me?

forrst.me also has more traction, and they are both formidable competitors, so I'd love some great selling points.

What would make your service very, very interesting is to focus entirely on creating a presentable mix of a personal homepage and a resumé - GitHub, Stack Overflow, Codelesson badges(!), and such. LinkedIn isn't that interesting in many regards, and it'd be great if you found the key to a good resumé and used that to build your foundation on.

forrst.me is more of a social web discoverability tool, while flavors.me creates easy-to-make web presences.
I'm sure there are plenty of ACM members on this site. How difficult would it be to elect a council that will pursue a more open policy?

Personally, I let my ACM membership lapse after finishing college (and seeing the corresponding rate hike) since it seems clear that the ACM is not acting in the best interests of its members.
>shoving promoted trends down our throats.

And are they also "shoving" an extremely popular, free service with ongoing development "down your throat?" I am a fan of free software etc. (even set up a diaspora account... lol), but I don't understand how people expect businesses such as twitter to run forever without a viable revenue stream.

Of course, they shouldn't kill the goose that laid the golden egg, but after a while you have to wonder if these eggs aren't just tin someone took a can of spray paint to! What "gold"? Tons of users are nice insofar as they lead to money. Users are not an end in themselves.

Sorry for the rant but please, people, stop acting like twitter owes you something. (My comments are vis-a-vis users, I do think what they are doing to developers is not right, from a courtesy point of view.)
Show HN: SQL Server 2005 TCP Protocol Hack
Unrelated: look who we're sitting next to :)
http://i.imgur.com/RNSK5.jpg

(Angry birds just got $45m yesterday!)
Asahi Shimbun has the most detailed English-language report so far: http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201103110812.html
Please stop spamming other threads with your product.
yeah. you need an id at least (e.g. stackoverflow.com/user/1234)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 517, in __call__
handler.post(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/profileioweb/1.348935554744823342/main.py", line 60, in post
app = Application(email=self.request.get('email'),desc=self.request.get('desc'))
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 815, in __init__
prop.__set__(self, value)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 544, in __set__
value = self.validate(value)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 2437, in validate
raise BadValueError('Property %s is not multi-line' % self.name)
BadValueError: Property desc is not multi-line

:D
Status.net is the Free software that power Identi.ca - Identi.ca is the showcase instance of Status.net and the biggest to date... But there are many others : http://status.net/wiki/Sites - And you can deploy your own !
If Twitter wants cool apps, it better get around to building/supporting/documenting the @anywhere-to-oauth bridge, something Facebook (js-api to oauth) has had for a long, long time.
Shots of the Aftermath of the Japan Tsunami and Earthquake
If you email moderation@quora.com and ask for "the Full Blake Ross"[1], they will delete all your questions from the site and replace all references to your username with "User".

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=full%20Blake%...
I suppose you could always redirect to 127.0.0.1. Maybe even go for a port that's likely to be open on a statistically random compromised system, like 135 (Windows DCOM, can't close it to localhost without breaking like half the system).

Edit: I just tried this in IE on my Win box; the connection even stayed open for a good long time! Firefox blocked it, though, which is probably good.
Modern engineering rocks.
Freedom is killer feature.
There's additional confusion in Django, since what Rails calls "controllers" are called "view" functions in Django.
I answered a question on StackExchange yesterday, and once I had Googled and read through some threads and dug up some answers with links to post, I noticed the question had been edited by a moderator.

Looking at the history, I saw that this neat and tidy question was originally a sloppy mess. Suddenly I felt cheated - here I was answering someone who had asked a sensible well written question ... except they hadn't.

I had a similar realisation that I wasn't answering to help someone, but to help future search engine results, which is less endearing.
We are using StringProperty. We need to use TextProperty.

We are going to try to fix this soon.
Wow - you're keeping an eye on us.
How Search Will Affect Programming Language Design
Here's a screenshot after a minute or so: http://cl.ly/1J0V1R2h1r2H2N3y401Y

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.127 Safari/534.16
I think the biggest material difficulty this will present Twitter is in hiring engineering talent.

I used to get the feel that they wanted to let the ecosystem develop naturally so it could realize it's full potential. That "build great stuff and we'll win" mentality. Now it feels like they've got a "strategy" that they're executing. Without that light touch it just doesn't seem as fun a place to work.
you could just try: http://shh.sh ... no sign-up needed for that! Just Twitter! Enjoy!
It's not requiring fire walls. It is allowing their use as a method of code compliance - Trust me, the ability to use fire walls to create separate buildings provides enormous economic savings to developers and owners every day.
I think the key thing here is 'what are we betting on?'. The analogy to Facebook doesn't work, as the developers have bet on different things. The apps that Twitter are calling out are ones that are trying to replace Twitter itself as a consumption device for end-users. Can you name one major Facebook app that does that? I can't. When Facebook saw a good pure social innovation in an app, they didn't hesitate to copy it. However apps that have built on top of Facebook to add value in different ways have been actively supported by Facebook for years. Twitter themselves in the announcement make this distinction - do something different than just trying to replace us for end users (e.g. a business management tool, a cool data analysis tool) and we'll support you; otherwise get lost.

I don't really think this is hostility - I think it makes sense for Twitter and for developers; people who've just been trying to replace Twitter themselves were always fighting a losing battle.
Very interesting!
I wonder how long the adoption will take.
I feel it's worth pointing out that this paraphrases poorly researched and anecdotally supported arguments from Malcolm Gladwell.
The 12 States of America
IOS Coding Summer Camp for first yr undergrads in Belfast
Or you can, as I did, sign up once for a free NYTimes account like 5+ years ago, and then never have to think about it again.
Albert Einstein: Why Socialism? (1949)
> then the benefits of extending prototypes within your app can provide great advantages and keep your code much cleaner.

The assumption here is that you're never going to use any 3rd party code. Sure, a lot of libraries are forgiving of extended natives, but certainly not all JavaScript code is (especially code written before the hasOwnProperty method existed).

> For the record, I have often extended natives within my applications, and have never once had a conflict.

I have as well, it seems like a much more common practice in the past than now. I did, however, have conflicts with code (a date popup script, for example) that also extended natives. Now neither my own code, nor later versions of that exact script, extend natives anymore. I don't think the advantages are really all that great to warrant messing with them.
Though I agree with you on that even Quora did not get social Q/A thing right it feels like making stunts about deleting accounts is catching on.
"Favorite cloud provider?" God, can we at least not make it easy for people to stereotype us? The only non-silly answer is "water vapour".
ok, you can't produce inexpensive hardware,
ok, you can't do software,
it is all understandable deficiencies ...

but why couldn't you make rounded corners of the tablet a little bit more pointy (ie. of a lesser radius) so it wouldn't look like a thick black pancake with small screen in the center where my butter piece usually is?

I'm not a fun of Apple, i'm just embarrassed that the whole world couldn't produce anything even close comparable.
I think the bigger issue is that your tracebacks are publicly visible.
Ok, but you have to be careful about "better solutions".

I am not a nuclear engineer but passively cooled nukes are only solving one rare problem. A power generating station has a lot of moving parts, I'm sure there are other risks that passive cooling doesn't solve. Other trade offs in efficiency and total output may eat up any safety advantage. You haven't helped anyone if your reactor is twice as safe but you have to build twice as many.

This is akin to seeing one engine fire because a radiator failed, then demanding that all vehicles should be air cooled for safety.
>Three of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor's six units shut down because of the earthquake, while operations at the other two were out due to "regular inspection," the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said in a news release Saturday.

I always wondered what happened to the sixth replicant.
Please be aware that there is a lot of scare-mongering and "worst-case" scenarios being reported in the press. (Enviros don't want to waste a crisis for their anti-science agenda).

It would not be unusual for there to be radiation released during an emergency reactor shutdown (scram) with equipment damage due to the earthquake. It does not necessarily imply core damage or melt down. The primary coolant system of a BWR is radioactive due to neutron activation but that type of radioactivity is short lived, emergency release during over pressure may have been necessary to maintain the integrity of the cooling system. If the reactors are shutdown the situation is fairly stable and the operators have numerous options (and time) to deal with the equipment failure and insure the core is adequately cooled of residual heat. I am waiting for more info as not enough details are getting out at this point...

N.B. I used to design BWR feedwater control systems. AMA
Vacation Home Rental Service HomeAway Files For $230 Million IPO
When he eventually does make the switch, it will be awesome. And unlike DNF, he ships games.
I wonder how the algorithm would be affected by weave mazes. http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/3/4/maze-generation-weave-m...
Rdio announces an API at SXSW
Google Online Security Blog: MHTML vulnerability under active exploitation
good luck, sir!
Court Rules Against Privacy in Battle Over Twitter Records
Thanks for the bug report! We fixed the issue.
This is a little similar to my new app/startup:

http://www.mightycv.com

Mighty CV is a little more free form and geared towards producing a hacker centric traditional style résumé and so not quite the same as profile.io.

Just signed up for a beta account at profile.io and it looks promising. Perhaps we could provide integration to each others services.
>There's no viable alternative to Twitter at this point like Facebook was for Myspace refugees.

well, if one didn't put him/herself into Myspace in the first place, the one wouldn't need to seek refuge.
Great point, thanks.

Did I mention we made this entire site on a BUS RIDE? :)
> It would not surprise me to discover that the optimization that is best for the species as a whole and the optimization that makes me the happiest are two completely different things.

That is absolutely so--thus the need for a complex http://singinst.org/upload/CEV.html, rather than a simple one which just averages everyone's utility functions together.
The operator is saying they've "lost control of the ability to control pressure in some of the reactors". The cooling systems of three reactors at another plant are "malfunctioning".

How do we read that?
pissing off your core constituency so you can hopefully make money is not the same as actually making money.

So, after all this ranting about Twitter's change - what do you suggest they do to "actually make money?" Isn't that the end-game for every company? Is twitter even close to justifying their private valuations with revenue? I haven't seen anything from you that suggests an alternative approach that actually makes them more money, other than "don't do that."

You also previously mentioned that twitter has a rare golden gift of leveraging a critical mass of enthusiastic users.

My thoughts about that? Show me the money! So far, they aren't doing that.
It would be hard to make their case if they didn't point to nuclear accidents, but I consider timing and tone to poor in this instance.

Normally, I'd agree with the second half of their tagline. Nuclear weapons are terrible things, but any tiny bit of support is withdrawn with articles like this one.
>since its very hard to monetize other peoples clients

Google API key seems to be at least one way to do it.
I hope you don't plan on keeping the current URL for the developer listing, as humorous as it is:

http://profile.io/developers/developers/developers/developer...
For people who consider FOSS a killer feature.
>I'm not sure I follow you. How is reputation supposed to pay the bills? If the newspaper/site can't sell ads anymore, how do they make money?

there are all sorts of ways to earn money from reputation, some being more shady than others.

One path is the public broadcasting model. accept donations from people who support the work you do, and the low cost of distribution becomes an advantage rather than a disadvantage. (would this be sustainable without the government support that NPR gets? I don't know. I'm given to understand that we may find out shortly.)

Is there a conservative equivalent of NPR?

There are all sorts of other ways you can transform reputation in to money. For corporations, the line between buying advertising and giving to charity is quite blurry; there are all sorts of underexploited opportunities along those lines. Sure, people block banner ads, but the 'paid for by corporation X' link or announcement? I think that can create real credibility and real goodwill. My company has spent more money supporting things I want to be associated with than on banner ads because I think it's a more effective way to advertise.
I thought the same thing, and then I posted :D
Overnight success only took 8 years - Angry Birds
> When the government mandates, you don't get to answer. It's a downside.

It's also an upside, as it avoids a social trap[1]. If companies can choose what they want, those that spend less will have a short-term advantage over those that spend more. If the government mandates a certain level of quality, then there's no competitive advantage to cutting corners (assuming the regulations are well enforced).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_trap
Great read and I think it's spot-on. It reminds me of this excellent essay by Charlie Munger (Buffett's partner in BRK), "The Art of Stockpicking": http://www.grahamanddoddsville.net/wordpress/Files/Gurus/Cha...

In there, he stresses the need for having multiple models in your head, or different mental frameworks that coalesce to form a unique perspective in your field.
Biggest impact I've found which is not directly discussed in the OP: A great package repository (e.g. CPAN) can outweigh quirks in language design (e.g. Perl spaghetti code).

It seems to me that TeX did the best job of winning at both -- over three decades, at that!
In my experience, every amazing unique idea I've had has:

1) Been created to some degree before, and
2) Been thought about by other people 100x more.
using pure black as the text color is a mistake

Why is this?
I think it depends on how aggressive you want to be about spam fighting. The marginal cost of running delicious is not high for Yahoo (especially now that they fired the entire dev team), but you need someone to go in there and tidy up after the spammers.
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An $800 device competing with a $500 one, with bizarre wi-fi usage rules and weird purchasing paths for consumers didn't do well? This is my complete and utter lack of surprise.
> Yes, it just seems apparent to me that the underlying point of the article and the discussion around it appears to be about competing ideas of libertarian vs. interventionist market principles.

You see what you want to see, even when it's not there. It's not very objective to assume there's a political agenda behind everything.
Comparing viewing a piano player and getting his autograph to learning from a book is not fair at all. It is a straw man constructed to ridicule all autodidacts.
>...so I'd love some great selling points.

They built it while riding the bus, what more could one ask for?
Why doesn't the site say what startup corresponds to each link?
Apparently there's someone called "<script>alert(1)</script>". Please sanitize this person's name before displaying it. Thank you.
Neat idea. Minor nits:

- Would be nice if custom background images tiled

- Not clear whether to enter usernames or URLs for accounts

- "Add an Technology" typo

- No cancel buttons on the forms

- Popup forms feel a little sluggish to open. Any way to have their HTML preloaded?

- List of tech, etc could use some typography/color to make it more readable
Great post! Check out this video of a research project at Stanford that integrates web search into an IDE:
http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/paper.php?id=138
It seems that someone has inserted javascript code in their profile. That page is full of javascript message boxes saying "xss1", "xss2" etc.
I would say it's technically correct. They have lost primary and backup power to the pumps. This means they really don't have the ability to do much about the pressure right now. The reactor is basically running uncontrolled. They've been scrammed but it takes a long time to stop the reaction. They still have emergency options available like venting the primary coolant loop if the pressure gets too close the limits of the reactor. There is still plenty of time before the reactors go critical.
It's a testament to the quality of the reactor's design that it can survive a richter 9 earthquake.

In similar circumstances there would be immeasurable environmental damage caused by a burning coal mine or sunken offshore oil platform.
The "management" of prestige is a problem not a solution. It leads academics to non-optimal and even immoral decisions.
Because statusnet is a software, not a service, it doesn't really play by the same rules. You can have one site running it that appeals to more niche demographics (like techies and nerds) and one that has more broad appeal.
There are only a few places on earth where you can get a 9 earthquake. Seattle is one, but CA is not., probably an 8ish is about the worst. The internet infrastructure is relatively immune to earthquakes, by weight mostly cables and UPS's and it's quite widely distributed. In spite of appearances earthquake damage can be quite localized. I lived about a dozen miles noth of Loma Prieta and suffered no damage. SF and Oakland were another 30 miles to the north.

The internet was designed to survive all kinds of damage. Larger companies usually have multiple data centers and colos so they can continue operations.

When the big one hits SF, I will probably have to walk a dozen miles to my car. Then I drive home 200 miles south, plug in to the Internet, and see what I just went through.

EDIT: I expect to survive because of tough CA building codes and decades of seismic retrofits. My homes survived two 6.5-7.0 earthquakes, because one of the first things I did after moving in was to make sure of the basics, like foundation ties and reinforced cripple walls.
I can send you an invite to Sparkmuse if you'd like to talk about it there. Hit me up if you'd like, email is in profile.

Ask yourself who you'd sell this product/service to and try to track those people down. This isn't development, this is marketing, and it's not always easy. And yes, sometimes emailing people out of the blue works well too. If you can find someone involved in your market, such as a blogger, they might be able to provide excellent advice (just be sure to be helpful in return).
JDate files patent lawsuit vs. Zoosk, OkCupid, 2RedBeans over secret admiring
That's actually not my opinion at all, but I don't know how to state my opinion any more clearly than I already have.
I would agree with you if not for the last 2 paragraphs. Combine the quote I referenced above with "it's good and healthy and productive for us to like to play computer games".

Its just a reckless way to say 'we all waste time..' - not without making the distinction of the need for self-discipline and noting that there are some people that are very prone to addiction. I have an extended family member who's life outside of games has been completely destroyed by a sustained addiction to video games. He has stated repeatedly that he would rather be dead than give up gaming.

This is a real problem for a percentage of the population, and that percentage is increasing as video games are being engineered to be more and more addictive.
Because the videos generally don't have that information.
>> I find it odd that there was no mention of working on multiple platforms as an advantage of using OpenGL.

> Because it's really not much of an advantage. Seriously.

> When it comes to a AAA game the big three sellers are Xbox, PS3, and PC, in roughly that order.

That is true. But, AAA games are not all of gaming. In fact, they are decreasing in importance - look at the rise of the Wii and Zynga as just two big examples.

Gaming is growing, and moving from hardcore gamers with AAA games to more casual gamers that use a greater variety of devices. Mobile phones and tablets in particular are becoming very important, as is the web.

DirectX is simply not relevant to any major phone or tablet platform, nor is it relevant to the web. iOS and Android use OpenGL, and the web uses WebGL (which is basically OpenGL ES in JavaScript).

OpenGL, by simply being everywhere that matters, will win the fight.

(Of course major game engines use abstraction layers anyhow - no one chooses just DirectX or just OpenGL.)
New TEPCO bulletin just confirms expansion of evacuation zone to 10km around Daiichii and Daini plants (ie #1 and #2). No other news, which is the closest thing to good news.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031211-e....
"natural" selection. Replace natural with market, lucky, or whatever floats you're world view.

The fact is a set, X, (lets say 10) of things (games in this case) that are good enough to make it "big". For a combination of reasons the nature of which aren't important (possibly different each time, possibly random) one of them makes it. Then everyone tries to figure out why and copy them.

They are solving wrong problem/chasing wrong tail.

Instead make as many games as you can, serial startup as many companies, ask out as many girls, etc. The larger percentage of the set X are "yours" the larger chance you have of being right place / right time.

If you look (as here) you will find the vast majority of massive success is preceded by many "failures" and/or small success.