skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entities other than governments can censor. Government censorship is the worse type, but others are also bad.

It's completely the mentality of a lynch mob when you say "go get em boys, they did something we dislike" without stopping to say "Wait, should what they do be allowed? Could banning this have repercussions for other cases? Do I have the full story or just a filtered side of it".

The lynch mob is about the attempted boycott and press pressuring the press to pressure Apple to censor the app.
Follow what's interesting to you and hopefully that will lead you to a passion.
I was genuinely amazed that pantone didn't own the domain.
Upvoted for hard data. Strange, though, that out of the most valuable 10 domain names, I don't recognize any as being at the top of their industry. I wonder if they got their money's worth.

At least it's a fungible asset unlikely to depreciate. You'd have to do extraordinarily awful as a business to significantly lower the value of your domain name.
When Steve Jobs put former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on blast
That's basically what PayPal did.
Spotify box by Jordi Parra — Rasmus Andersson
yet hear virtually nothing about Diaspora or Status.Net being used in similar ways to impact the lives of millions of people.

It's because all this software isn't done yet, is severely underfunded, undermanned, outnumbered and outgunned by the proprietary systems.

That isn't stopping any of us from pushing forward, but when the runaway success of our crowd (Diaspora) raised only $200k, to expect that we can immediately compete with the likes of Facebook or Twitter is simply unrealistic. I know we're all doing our best, most of us are volunteers with little to no funding, and we're up against some of the top engineers in the world with billions in venture capital.

But we're all still plugging away. Open source is nothing if not tenacious.
All of a sudden color.me is worth a million bucks.
I would love to see performance info for a site running redis on top of FusionIO hardware.
> No, it's not, by definition. Instead of finding out how stuff works, this particular philosophy prescribes just deciding how it should work and then believing this arbitrary decision to accurately reflect the nature of the universe.

Okay, this is actually just you projecting your beliefs onto what spirituality means. It is not by definition in any sense of the word.

> It's inappropriate to tag cosmic processes with a concept that should be reserved for intelligent life forms.

How do you know the universe is not an intelligent life form?

> It's this fallacy which brought us a movement that explores "alternate theories" in biology class. Religion is not science. "Making stuff up" that is unsupportable by evidence is not science.

Sigh When did I say it was? I explained clearly the difference between science and other forms of making stuff up, and you talked right past it. It is as if you believe human beings are incapable of thinking in both scientific and unscientific ways.

> Rejecting the whole stack of evidence and the hypotheses that came out of those observations in favor of something untestable and arbitrary does not seem like a viable strategy to understand the nature of the universe.

Who's rejecting anything? Science does not tell us whether there is a god or not.

> You call it atheistic hubris, I call it the growing impatience of rational people in the face of a world governed by fairy tales.

That's not what I call atheistic hubris. What I call atheistic hubris is that the lack of recognizable evidence of higher consciousness is evidence that there is no higher consciousness. The reason it is so hubristic is because we no idea what said evidence would look like. Declaring this one way or the other is not scientific, it is instead I believe, a psychological need to have a firm order in one's knowledge of the universe. I stand as evidence that this is not a pre-requisite for a true and healthy relationship with science.

> I don't think our meatsacks are profane puppets in the service of an unseen force that floods the universe with artificial meaning. Instead I believe our "meatsacks" are marvelous, awesome machines and they gave rise to a form of consciousness that is unparalleled on this planet.

Why do you say puppet? Trying to pigeonhole spiritual belief into some kind of biblical metaphor is exactly the attitude I'm fighting against. I'm not saying that your mind is not governed by chemical processes playing themselves out; I'm saying that even if that's 100% true (which is a very difficult truth to verify when you get down to the nuances), it doesn't mean there isn't something else going on on another level. Perhaps the universe is conscious and you are just one small part of that, or perhaps there are parallel dimensions that get the information from our universe in some read-only fashion. My point is not to arrive at the objective truth (how often do you arrive an objective unchanging truth in your interpersonal life?), but rather to leave myself open to bigger questions even if they remain unanswerable in any scientific capacity for the rest of time.
How could I begin to find what I'm interested in?
> it's difficult to detect an invalid result from combining or comparing signed and unsigned ints

Isn't this why you should compile with all warnings on?
Definitely, my original point was that the information they released (or lack thereof with regards to the technical aspect) made for an article lacking in depth and not something I would generally want to see on hn.

Hopefully once damage control is complete, we'll learn more.
The Story Behind a Floating Soccer Pitch in Thailand
Working link to the hilarious slideshow, anyone?
Sequoia did not give them 41 million.
I'll be happy to sponsor 1 month of your cost (i.e. $50) against suitable mention (once or twice a week, in any form and style) of either one or both of our recent by-products:

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My Mom always told me a glass of milk would help me sleep better. It isn't scientific, but if I'm stressed out and have a glass of milk before bed I'll relax more and sleep better.

One legged standing could be just a good! I'll definitely try it out.
Example of the difference between ruby and java
Am I the only one who's first thought that came to mind when reading up on Color was the Sonar SuperComputer App in Batman: The Dark Knight? I don't mean this to be silly but the concept seems very similar in terms of data and perspective joined with location. If it reaches any type of criticality they'd have an absurd amount of visual data around location and time. That could've piqued Sequoia's interest.
New Photo-Sharing App Color Has No Shades of Privacy
You seriously don't know what you like to do?
It's not really a result of anyone being fooled. It's rational economic behavior to get in on a bubble which is why bubbles get bigger. The people that get screwed are the ones that dont get out at the right time.
I am so happy I was a whitewater rafting guide in college before I ever became a tech guy. The interests that I learned there have stayed with me ever since regardless of how financially successful I become. Get a job doing something random that sounds fun.
I've been hearing that about Twitter for years now, and I'm still waiting.
There is a bubble in people calling a tech bubble, surely this cannot last!
Take a vacation. Be frugal with your money and you should never have to work again if you can live on 30k a year.
"But just as the human body didn’t evolve to deal well with today’s easy access to abundant fat and sugars, and will crave an extra cheeseburger when it shouldn’t, the human mind, apparently, didn’t evolve to deal with excess money, and will desire more long after wealth has become a burden rather than a comfort."
What a cool concept. I love it. Make one for rdio and I'm sold.
How Much Money Should You Request For Your Startup
Being anti-hacker is pretty standard for just about any technology company these days - Motorola and HTC lock down their Android phones and prevent you from installing custom ROMs. Apple is an obvious culprit. It is in fact downright rare for a company to make their products hacker-friendly.

So being hacker-hostile has been a default state for a good long while, and the truly open alternatives are few and far between (OpenMoko? What a joke), and TBH there's a certain amount of closedness I can live with.

There's a difference between that and suing the hackers though. There's even a difference between that and defaming them and draggin them through the mud. This is new.
I would assume this person comes from academia with a title like that, so I checked out her about page because of your comment. I found that she is a CS prof on sabbatical.
The Pragmatism of Free Software Idealism
Where did the color.xxx post at the top of the home page go?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364128

Dead?
Thats somewhat silly as mp3's can be attack vectors, though I don't know if this is a problem in the wild.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/GMs-OnStar-Ford-Sync-MP3-B...

I tend to run clam-av on file servers and mail gateways for the obvious reasons. I like the software, it works quite well. I'm going to have to look into the mp3 block though, this just seems like a bad idea.
I think you may have confused me with another poster regarding "rule the world money".

I did link to an opinion piece from the Journal that suggests that the Fed is exporting unrest to MENA via inflationary monetary policy. Whether this is intentional or accidental is hard to determine, but it would make a certain amount of sense if it was on purpose. None the less, I didn't write the piece nor is it my theory.

Note that the marketwatch article is a direct reprint from the Wall Street Journal (which I noted). The WSJ version is behind their paywall.

You seem to suggest that I hold a lot of fringe conspiracy views, yet the theories you take issue with come from the Journal editorial pages. Does that mean you hold the WSJ to be a fringe conspiracy paper?
It seems crazy, but I've never properly considered it! I wanted think about every possibility, rather than just straightaway going for something I think I like.
>freedom from money is not a monotonically increasing function of one's allotment

This is linked IMO to the studies mentioned in this video, which find that motivation and drive at work are similarly not a monotonically increasing function of pay, but in fact there is an optimal pay rate beyond which drive begins to decrease.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Why were blogs replaced by Facebook and Twitter? Because you get more comments on Facebook and Twitter. It has nothing to do with funding.
bitcoin is just p2p paypal
Try lots of different things.
> And what is wrong with
> ifconfig eth0 up|down?

Nothing, as long as it's working for you (your Linux distribution probably patched some of the remaining ifconfig problems themselves). You likely won't have a problem until you want to use network features that were implemented after 2001.
Wow, sexist much?

I've met Hillary a couple times now. She's a woman. She's also quite brilliant. Check out the umbrella she invented:

http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/4/20/to-end-the-cheap-umbrell...
You may find this useful:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob_plain;f=contrib/...

It can tell you if your working directory is dirty, if you've got staged changes, what branch/tag you're on, and of course does completion also.
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Unknown Geniuses Behind 10 Of The Most Useful Inventions
I think we are being awfully hard on this guy just because he attempted to quantify this stuff about his life. If someone shared offhand that standing on one leg helped them sleep better in a Hacker News comment, I can't imagine anyone responding that their methodology was "close to nonsense" or that their experience "proved nothing".

Let's be realistic. The vast majority of evidence we use to update our beliefs is not of scientific caliber. (Just imagine how crippled a reasoner someone would be if they never changed their mind about anything unless they saw scientific evidence that indicated they should. Pivoting a startup would be very difficult, for instance.) There is a continuum of evidence quality, and we should reward, not punish, this guy for collecting higher-quality evidence even if he didn't get all the way to "scientific".
Yep, very handy. After finding a match, you can hit C-r again to find earlier matches.
Learn to play an instrument. I've always found that to be a rewarding waste of time.
1-2 years ago I had the exact same thing with a PHP bug (I know, PHP bugs... shocking!), specifically with mysqli. It would crash on LONGTEXT columns. Not reliably. Different people reported it in different forms over 2-3 years previous. all of them getting automated responses ("Please provide...") followed by ("Closed due to no activity for 7 days...") with the odd dismissive comment by a committer.

It's an incredibly frustrating experience.
Help Us Build a $300 House
Go read the relevant Quora thread http://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-http-bit-ly-links-i...
kind of a duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2365125
They must be investing in the team!
Thanks for the repost on this!
> if I'm 150' from someone, why not just walk over to them, snap a group photo, and post it to my Twitter/Facebook/Whatever

What if you're all at a concert taking pictures of the band and crowd? Or you're at the beach and many people are taking pictures of the same beautiful sunset? You now have access to multiple photos without having had to coordinate with the strangers around you.

It actually seems like a somewhat compelling tool for capturing events.

> Currently, there are 143 one & two-star reviews in the App Store. There are 49 four & five-star reviews.

My guess is a lot of angry geeks, since they're all who know about it so far.
Biochip Does Blood Sample Analysis
Nearly everyone who chases positional goods in a global context is bound to end up depressed. When you're in the habit of evaluating your wealth in comparison to people who are wealthier than you, two overarching considerations necessarily define your value:

* You're not wealthy enough; and

* There's always someone wealthier than you. [1]

[1] Caveat: In principle, someone has to be the wealthiest in the world, which means the other ~7,000,000,000 people are not.
Taking Stock of JRuby Web Servers
I used to be into R/C everything. Nitro cars, planes, helicopters. I can't imagine what would happen to my expensive toy if the app crashed while I was flying something and it took me a few seconds to get it back up... I would definitely use the buddy-box input.
Looks like it was knowingly done: http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/some-read...
Thats right, having the actual game would break the magic of something you can't have and it's epic
link not working for me. :-(

Edit: sort of works.

Also, this is a joke deck, not a real deck.
Ask HN: What is ur biggest frustration with implementing customer development?
Why do people keep coming up with new open source applications to compete with Twitter (and a lesser extent Facebook)? The way to disrupt these isn't with an application -- it's with a protocol.
Not Since Google* Have We Seen This...

... Google Wave, that is

http://paradoxdgn.com/junk/avatars/trollface.jpg
Trolls (2008)
The way the money is made, and whether something must be done to sustain it, has an impact. If you're an executive in a traditional corporation, you're end up having to keep an absurd lifestyle because you're a professional social climber and, the minute you retire from the shenanigans, your earned income drops dramatically. If you made your money in a lump-sum acquisition, or have a high salary because of talent and skills rather than social advantage (it's rare, but it does happen) you're in more of a position to enjoy your money.

At the upper tier of wealth you have people who aren't social climbers per se but are really competitive. Next down, you have most of the social climbers trying to turn their money into status (which begets more money).
I think, if anything, it's a lesson to entrepreneurs to be open when such things happen. Be honest. Be up front. Be frank. Be proactive.

The temptation will often to be hide this kind of thing, claiming it's irrelevant (which typically just means it's embarrassing).

Also, I'm glad to see this isn't another incident where a vulnerability reveals a site is storing passwords in plaintext (like Gizmodo). Seriously, why do people do this?
Oh, no doubt. But they handle it pretty well.
How to tell if it's a bubble
It was going to be 14, then it became 16 + 25 = 41.
What evidence do you have that blogs were replaced by Facebook and Twitter (and not simply augmented by them)?
I found it an interesting read, perhaps a cautionary tale. I suspect that if you are an entrepreneur 'to get rich' and you succeed and find you are depressed all the time because you don't know who your friends are, some (possibly material) portion of your new found wealth will go toward counseling.

I had the non-unique experience of being a multi-millionaire for 2 weeks in the summer of 1999. Which is to say that on paper, in terms of options and restricted stock, and stock which was currently owned but embargoed (due to my companies acquisition) was 'worth' millions.

I really had to sit back and think hard about what that meant, would I retire in 4 years?, keep working ? join a venture firm? The stock went from $120/share to $0.83/share before I could sell any of it so I never had to actually answer those questions but I found that how I felt when I was 'rich' was different than how I thought I would feel. I don't know if that is a common experience or not.

I find the idea that someone wouldn't really feel financially secure unless they had $1b in the bank sad. But I looked at what Google paid for Eric Schmidt's 'security detail' and I realized that at some point you become a 'soft target' for people who would acquire money through violence or extortion. I would hope to avoid becoming one of those targets. I've heard that if you are ever in danger of acquiring too much wealth you can 'fix' that by buying an airline. (with props to Sir Richard Branson)
That's great. Congratulations!

Read this book. It has all the answers for someone in your situation. Seriously. http://www.amazon.com/Most-P-G-Wodehouse/dp/0743203585
I played DNF at PAX. The graphics are a bit dated, but goddamn is it fun. In an era where every shooter has to be hyper-realistic and penned by Tom Clancy himself, Duke is kind of a breath of fresh air.
How do you feel about handing over all the in-progress sales to the account rep, so he can get some easy wins? I'm in a market with a 2 year sales cycle (there are shortcuts to make it 3-6 months), and there are leads/pilots in various stages. Do you get reduced commission for those, or none, or full?
The secret is these were not all cash sales.

Many times it's an "equivalent stock swap" which is bogus.

They publish large numbers for the publicity, old trick.

With "color" they probably had to pay cash, so it's a real sale.
We are building a tool for customer development & need your feedback.
This is funny. Here's my version:

"while the items on the left apply to us, the items on the right apply to you"
I have doubts about their long-term value. People enter actual urls less and less, eventually I can see the browsers ditching them completely (from the presentation layer), and then you might struggle to find anyone paying millions for .coms. Likewise the marketability of a 'dotcom' brand might fade like tech terms often do (remember when everyone used to boast about having 'CD-ROMs').
I'd wager that 90%+ of the time, people fix "comparison between signed and unsigned values" warnings by casting one side of the expression.

But if you really want to eliminate the potential for a bug from this warning, you have to go back through and tweak/check the values you're testing, all the way back to their source, fixing signedness along the way. At this point you may as well have settled on a default to begin with.

The real pain comes when you have to interface with external code. Even in the standard library, you'll find size_t (eg fread(3)) and ssize_t (eg read(2)). You're going to have a mismatch with one or the other.
i'd take a virtual boyfriend as long as he can deliver
Cool app. Bookmarked because I'm thinking of switching. @pdenya on twitter for now.
If your astrophysics is done with the same attention to detail as your criticism of startup personnel titles, then I can see why you want to use a fake name!
Wow, 8,000 uniques a day. Those were the days. Now we get over 90,000.
You're welcome. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Happy to say, "I know my startup's one thing". Now, just have to stay laser focused on it.
This was already top of HN with 304 points or something crazy like that and was killed off.

Not sure why, unless it's because google docs is dying trying to serve this up.
The help.autocorrect git-config variable allows it:

Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing will be executed. If the value of this option is negative, the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed. This is the default.

I think the alias system is better though.
If you take a look at the man pages for all of those commands you'll see they explicitly mention that your working tree will be affected. They are written explicitly to do that. 'git reset' can be called with '--mixed' or '--keep' which might be more along the lines of what you're looking for. If you're ever unsure about the result of a given command make a copy of your current working tree before applying it. I like git because it explicitly doesn't hold your hand through things like this. It expects you to know what you're about to do.
The key is to stick to it and avoid all distractions.
if that $3.5b saved them, I wonder what this other $9b was for http://www.businessinsider.com/the-9-billion-check-to-rescue...
Isn't suicide still illegal in most states?
Are you in a rush?
upvoted for source link

but the great thing about benchmarks is there are so many to choose from

http://arewefastyet.com/

I couldn't live without my Firefox extensions and I don't care for Chrome layout. I won't be using Chrome anytime soon but we all have to thank Mozilla and Google for finally embarrassing Microsoft into modernizing IE to something remotely respectable. Even Opera's game is at an all time high, Opera 11.5 will have OpenGL acceleration.
How about sending SMS and making phone calls from any workflow?
Starting a PhD ?
Use gitk to understand git
Mine is simple: time & scheduling, due to working a day-job. Yes, I can meet people before work, after work, or over lunch, and - thankfully - my day job is pretty accommodating... but nonetheless, it's an impediment to setting up face-to-face meetings with potential customers.
Work on it how? Acquiring root locally is easy because local exploits are a dime a dozen, and once you have local access you can simply piggyback on valid authentication:

alias sudo="sudo and do something evil instead"

Once an attacker has local access, you've lost. It's a short leap from there to root. What's more, by requiring that users supply passwords to use sudo, you're practically guaranteeing that they will reuse passwords that thy use elsewhere, exposing your network to further compromise should those passwords be acquired from a compromised server.
Why Microsoft Is Losing This Browser War
Mis-read the title as 'Duke Nukem Gets Forever Delayed'
The PayPal link at the end, however, seems not a joke.
And I can see the "joke" deck being followed up with a real site.

How much $$$ _have_ they acquired?
That doesn't sound boring or sleazy to me.
But despite that it's a joke deck, it fits with everything I've seen about them so far.