skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't like this solution. To fork and link to your own version of Rails just to get something like Array#sum is not sustainable. Yes, Bundler makes those first steps easy, but maintenance doesn't seem particularly fun after that (especially for a project as active as Rails).

Pull requests, if done right, are the real way to go. If the pull request isn't accepted (but the maintainer is an active one), maybe you should ask yourself why you need to implement this change in the first place. (Or why you need to implement it this way.)

That said, refinements (aka, monkey-patching without consequences) should show up soon and can solve this problem for anyone who upgrades to Ruby 2.
Building a tool that just enables further development of cliques seems not so great. Of course it's great for you, since you get to be in on all the cliques, one way or another, if not by membership, by having a birds-eye view of all the data. Personally cliques rub me the wrong way, not just because of jealousy, but also because open exchange with others outside your comfort zone leads to more opportunities.
"All communications are encrypted using HTTPS, so that your data can pass securely over the Internet". This means that data is "stored without" encryption.
Ask HN: Building a Better Audiobook Website/Community
Fellow Hackers:

I'm currently working on a new project in the realm of audiobooks to expand my business (American Consumer News, LLC). The site will have a heavy focus on content (best sellers lists, landing pages for audiobooks, reviews, a blog section), but I'd also like to have some social elements to the site (without it turning into a niche social network).

What we've got done so far can be seen at http://www.audiobooktopia.com/

The question that I'm wrestling with is what social features would be useful.

The ideas that I have so far are:
- The ability to create lists of audiobooks and share them with the world (I.E. "Matt's Top Five Lifestyle Business Books")
- The ability to write reviews of audiobooks and share them publicly.
- The ability to keep tracks of books that a user has read, would like to read, etc.

Are these features good/useful social features? Is there something else I should be doing in addition/in-place of these?
Yeah but the point wasn't that everything is going to hell, and it wasn't that you should listen to critical people, it's that there are certain criticisms that deserve attention and concern, yet these concepts are impossible to broach with some because it becomes an assault on their way of looking at the universe. You get into endless arguments. This can be confused easily with "everything is going to hell" especially for those who don't want to acknowledge any problems at all. It's grumpy-old-man-syndrome, the other side.

As I pointed out in another comment, this is a attribute of how groups of people relate to one another. Citing my personal view of things only served to frame up my suggestions in the manner I was talking about, which then caused exactly the response I mention.

I think it's a facile argument to say that this is an issue about criticism only. If only it were so simple.
Just downloaded it. Is there or can there be an option to keep the traffic inside my LAN, on the home side of my router? Seems a waste of my ISP bandwidth to stream from one room in my house to another.
"The 12-year-old taught himself calculus, algebra and geometry in two weeks, and can solve up to 200 numbers of Pi." and "Autistic boy,12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity."

Ignoring the bizarreness of some of those claims ("solving numbers" for "memorizing digits") and the irrelevance of others (IQ?) what's hellish is that there is no mention of what he actually thinks. The world is astonished that he has an opinion; no one cares what it is. Reporters make a big deal of having no idea what he's saying; that speaks poorly both of the reporter and the theoretician.

It'll be news when he polishes his thoughts and explains them to someone who is willing to try to understand. For now its a circus, and that's no good for anyone.
I think it would be cool if they had a feature to save the location I zoom in. Given the level of detail that a photo like this offers, I might find something I want to show to someone with just a link.
Lady Gaga y la celebración de sus 25 años
These articles may be insightful to you

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-arch...
http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch...

My two take aways are, generally you can make anything scale, cache like hell, and I personally don't see enough value in .NET to justify the licensing costs to roll it out initially or the long term.
We already have HN for that, though it's less exclusive and cliquey, and, dare I say it, less ageist than what you are suggesting.
Ditto for Brazil... In my case, most apps are not for sale in AppStore, for example (not even Angry Birds).
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I want to kill all Americans.
I'm Sabry Tozin nigga Muslim. I'm going to kill Americans.
I believe "Zuck" has already made his moral nature explicitly clear for any and all who wishes to review his life history, specially in context of "power, wealth" and "TheFacebook" ..

edit: your competing intelligence agency doctrine is built on a bunch of presumptions (elephants). Do we even fully understand the nature of real power on this planet and how it is organized and exercised? But even if you wish to assume this, the above observation of "Zuck" nature stands.
Lessons in Success and Failure from the Past Two Years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgZlpRdQlRI

I think there should be some exceptions.
Windows Phone to be no #2 in market share
The first two points seem like non-constructive scab picking that could apply to almost any project launched around here.

1. Glif, Wii, Flickr or Forrst are hardly any better. Unless they're generic words, names become valuable. "Y Combinator" itself is a pretty weird name for a business if you ignore the context of everything it has gone on to do and represent. "Fowndr" only sounds cheap now because it's new and doesn't have any history.

2. Why does it matter if the barrier is low? Any barrier that cuts down the useless 90% is fine. The term "founder" is self selecting anyway. I know at least 90% of my Twitter followers wouldn't self identify as "founders" and the 10% who do (whether they are or not) would still likely find such a community useful (assuming it takes off).

Your third point is more serious and this is an area where he'll need to do a lot of work. I'll certainly be trying to help Stu a little with his efforts because I see some value in what he's trying to do (from the "Forrst for founders" POV).
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Twitter Creator Jack Dorsey Returns to Guide the Flock
phpThumb finally deprecated in its own home
IP Access List
An Access List basically is used for controlling and managing the access of interesting and non-interesting traffic. These are the access controlling tools which are powerful enough for both to and fr
I think Amazon is going to be more tight with their platform than even Microsoft. (e.g. Carriers would not even be in the OS update path)

While many of the pieces will be available to any android device, I don't think carriers/OEMs are likely to partner too tightly with a company that aims to release its own first-party hardware.
My eight year old just started about a week ago and he seems to enjoy it. He's also pretty hesitant about watching the videos though. My 12 yr old daughter prefers alcumus on the artofproblemsolving website.
When will cloud storage grow up?
ACH if you don't want to get ripped up on transaction fees.
This would not go down so well in modern times (after Columbine)
Catching litter before it hits the floor!

Shooing cats off the table.

Preventing insects that can carry harmful diseases from entering sterile environments - tropical hospitals could be designed with a long entry hallway swarming with little bots designed to catch flies and mosquitos.
Because you are sending the byte-size of the key/value. So whatever there comes, it will be covered, you can just pass any possible binary string.
this is a problem we had at a large social network i used to work with. launching a directory of users primarily for google's consumption was something that was difficult to scale for our huge size of database.
The solution for us was node.js
this is a problem I had to solve at a large social network i used to work with. Launching a directory of users primarily for google's consumption was something that was difficult to scale for our huge size of database.
The working solution I implemented was using node.js and pre-sorted data in mysql
My two favorite features:

- Tabs are actually usable.

- With Sync, you can walk away from your desktop and have your tabs (and history/bookmarks/passwords) on your phone.

(Disclaimer: I work at Mozilla, but have nothing to do with mobile.)
HN is optimized towards links and news, despite the high quality Show HN and similar posts we get frequently. HN is also optimized toward a small content/big audience model which makes it hard to throw ideas around.

A site aiming to be the "Forrst for founders" would give entrepreneurs (budding or established) a space to throw around ideas, small screenshots, or bits of business knowledge that are just too "small" for HN.
I think we just have different definitions of "business plan".

My 2-10 hour and often single page 'business plans' involve diving head-first into the market and finding out who I'm going to sell to, how many there are of them, what competitors I have, what the ad rates are, etc. With this basic info I can take a grounded and unbiased look into the validity of the concept. You can have the best idea in the world, but if there isn't a market for it, there's not much point in pursuing it if your goals are financially driven. "Build it and they will come" and "Build something you'd want yourself" both aren't good enough reasons alone to sink any amount of time into an idea.
When an artist seems to want to tell you more about themselves than their work, the work is usually not all that interesting.
WebOb vs Werkzeug
Misleading headline. The professors at Princeton only acknowledged he's bright and charitably encouraged him to keep studying in the nicest terms possible. Already he's scored 15 points on the Crackpot Index which is not bad for 12 years old.
Oh the poor kid. No one measured Einstein's IQ. He looks to be up to about grade 12 maths -- still an accomplishment for someone so young. He claims to "debunk" the Big Bang theory, and now to be developing a new "relativity". I wish the media wouldn't do this to kids. Every single time I had an article written about me as a kid it contained gross inaccuracies. Half the time they couldn't even get the country I was in correct!
your page loads like it's from da Vinci's time.
Just to add to what juiceandjuice said: I get the impression you are arguing based off of the names of the various government agencies. This is silly; the names are historical. What's important is whether the agencies are organized properly to bring the people with the correct skills to bear on the particular investment problems. I have zero expertise in how large agencies should be organized, but I can assure you that the DOE has decades of experience funding all sorts of physics research. Moving funding jurisdiction to another agency would be an expensive shift with no obvious benefit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency vs 10% to 30%+ for solar cells (depending on technology/price).
Skip the TC bullshit and go to the source:
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/strahov-monastery-pan...
Get in the ring: US, Europe vow to bash out Internet personal privacy protection
Benchmark Capital's Stand: We Will Never Do a Seed or Late Stage Fund
The problem with the lisp community was not that it contained people like this and Erik Naggum, but that they were celebrated. We all have flaws, which is no shame, provided we know they're flaws.

Maybe lisp's expressivity confers an advantage, but like a smelly bum shouting alcoholic abuse at passersby with secret superpowers, you have to wonder if it's worth it. Some people think the greatest strength of homo sapiens is our intelligence - but history suggests that it is our ability to cooperate (to share insights, build on them and to specialize) that is our real talent - our collective intelligence. Lisp's community celebrates individual, non-collective intelligence; people re-implement work themselves rather than reuse others' work.

It's not just the "community" though, there are also technical factors: the purpose of much of Java's "ceremony" is to facilitate re-use, especially in larger projects. Lisp's prototyping strengths are reuse weaknesses - a natural trade-off.

I like esr's point that lisp gives you additional perspectives in other languages - though a mathematical approach, which lisp models in some ways, gives this more strongly IHMO.

EDIT I invite rebuttal of the specific points raised in this comment.
I think one of Nokia's problems might be an ego that is too big.
This kid lives only a few minutes from me. I'm surprised I hadn't heard about him earlier.
How 15 minutes saved me $1,000 in car insurance
Less powerful hardware does not seem like the best place for Firefox.
Or if you have a family...
Or, perhaps, http://www.360cities.net/gigapixel/strahov-library.html
Cloud Economics And The Customer Experience
Analysis: How MySQL.com and Sun.com got hacked.
Title: Analysis: How MySQL.com and Sun.com got hacked
Author: Woody Leonhard
Source: InfoWorld
Date Published: 28th March 2011

Excerpt:

'....There are lots of red faces at Oracle this morning, as two of its sites, MySQL.com and Sun.com, were pwned over the weekend by veteran Romanian extremely-dark-gray-hat hacker TinKode and sidekick Ne0h. The sites were the victims of an as-yet-unidentified "blind"
SQL injection technique -- the exact type of attack you'd think the devs and admins at MySQL would know how to protect against.
Apparently, you'd be wrong......'
An IQ score may not be a joke, but as my Psych 101 professor said, "What is IQ? It's a score on a test." What follows is my personal account. Take it or leave it.

When I was 11 years old and in the 7th grade, I was failing most of my classes. I was a big problem for teachers. I talked a lot and was generally distracted; also a distraction for other students. My teachers wanted to put me in the "STAR" program, which was for learning disabled students. My parents protested, demanding that I be thoroughly tested.

I spent a full week being evaluated by psychologists and special-needs specialists. A psychologist administered an IQ test, which came back over 170. If I recall correctly, the first score was 174. They re-administered the test with another psychologist resulting in a score of 169. My teachers smugly denied having thought I was dumb and fell back to the position that being in the STAR program would help solve my "focus" issues; despite any in appropriateness for my learning ability.

I barely made it through my first year of high school. I graduated with a 2.7 GPA. It wasn't because I couldn't solve the problems -- I liked learning the material and passed tests readily -- it was that I wouldn't do the work. Squandering ability is pretty stupid thing to do.

This isn't a "look how smart I am" post. Do I think I'm smart? It'd be disingenuous for me to say no, but if I look at the outcome of my life, I can say without any feeling of self-disrespect that having a "genius" IQ hasn't netted me much. This isn't to say I haven't achieved success. To the contrary, I'm the proud owner of a business that does a couple million dollars a year in revenue and solves some fun problems, but by the measure of the greats, I've done nothing.

So what does my IQ mean? It means I'm well suited to taking IQ tests. I wouldn't want to discourage this 12-yr old from pursuing his dreams, but I would caution against recognizing IQ as a universal predictor of greatness.
Firefox 4 vs. IE9: Launch Day Breakdown
The title of this post is misleading. This isn't about ending monkeypatching. This is about putting your monkeypatches in a fork.
> Amazon has always made a point of not building services on top of its Cloud offerings that directly compete with its users.

This doesn't strike me as true.

Amazon CloudWatch versus CloudKick
Amazon SimpleEmailService versus SendGrid
Amazon RDS versus FantomDB

Frankly, looking at AWS's evolution, it seems that one of their favorite methods of innovation is to watch for startups that are servicing a lot of AWS companies, then creating their own version of that product.
They are part of Bizspark program so they got free licenses. They don't even have much hardware.

Important part isn't caching. You can just create HTML copies off a page and serve them through a fast server, that is a very easy cache.

Difficult part is smart caching, cache getting updated when they need to be and persisted properly to the DB. These guys have nailed it in my opinion.

I often lookup these guys and optimize my own sites and have been following them since their beta phase.
It's only a problem when people confine themselves to their cliques. I'm in a few invite-only communities online but I don't define myself by my membership and I take part in so many other communities that I get the bigger picture and the "open exchange" you mention too. You really can have the best of both worlds.

Some things benefit from being slightly locked down. For example, I'm a member of a paid marketing and SEO forum where people share ideas, tips, and observations that often takes months to hit the blogs (or never at all). While anyone can join, merely having that "curtain" encourages people to say and share things that they don't want coming up in Google.
I remember reading a lot by John Carmack about network latency for when Quake went online. It seems like cloud based apps (especially games) could learn a lot from network game designers.
I look at it, and think about it every day! We've worked on it, and come along way since hitting the submit button. Just hoping for that interview!
It's also a great case study of a hybrid model, where .Net application servers are complemented with open source components such as Redis and HAProxy.
> Do you want a government bureaucrat deciding on how to allocate public education money?

We let govt decide where people can spend food-stamps and what they can buy.

Oh wait - we don't - there's not nearly the same level of govt control wrt food.
Ted Talks: Ralph Langner - Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
Keep in mind I have no idea how this magical code works. In fact I can't even find the pipe character on my keyboard right now (I am copy and pasting it!). But this seems to work:

@Pipe
def p(iterable, function, **kwargs):
return function(iterable, **kwargs)

In [3]: from pipe import *
In [4]: [1,2,3,4,5] | p(sum)
Out[4]: 15
The Supreme Court has declared that corporations have many of the same rights as individuals.

Assuming you are referring to Citizens United, that is not what the court decided.

The court decided that individuals have the right to both peaceably assembly and freedom of speech. In particular, it's not an XOR - the government can't say "because you have peaceably assembled (in corporate or other form), you can no longer speak freely."

Citizens United was solely about the right of individuals to speak, and to use their property (corporations) for speech, as well as the right of other individuals to hear all ideas.
Are any other young tech nerds (I'm the same age as the person in the article) a bit annoyed when people mention age?

I mean...half of the news I hear about greplin is about the founder being 19 years old. Who cares? Greplin is a cool service, it's not relevant that the founder is 19 and, honestly, if it were me I would be a little offended.

Same thing with this. Who cares that the person who donated money is 23? Why not just: "Kik founder donates $1 Million to support Waterloo student entrepreneurs"?

/pet peeve

This does sound like an awesome project though :). A bit like the "hacker hostel" I think ever geek dreams about at some point.

Good on Ted Livingston for supporting it.
Hackers hit PM, Senior Ministers in Oz
Libertarian city probably wouldn't have a petrol cars from the beginning, because with exhaust you aggress against others property and you should have a permit from all of them for polluting their property. And it's hard to get all that permits without a government, who forbid to sue the polluters in the name of progress :)
Uh, you understand that Shivers was joking, no?
Considering ShareTheAir108.com was registered by a member of YC funded Messageparty (Jarod Reyes)...

AND Messageparty tweeted that their launch was imminent an hour after Jarod Reyes started pumping the Rachel Sequoia video on tumblr and twitter (without mentioning he was running the ShareTheAir site...)

I'm putting my money on this being a brooklyn.makery.org production.
What I would like to see is a way to separate the the syntax of my code from the semantics of my code. Ideally, my code editor should be able to take the same piece of code and display it in a few different styles of syntax.

Then I could write my code in whatever syntax I want, and someone else could flip a switch and change it into their preferred style of syntax.

I am honestly kind of puzzled as to why the concept of MVC disappears as soon as we start writing coding tools. It seems that for any reasonable syntax that you can write a parser for; it should also be possible to write an emitter from an 'intermediate' syntax tree.
There are plenty of Android devices that have dual core CPUs with more RAM and storage than most netbooks. Just because we still call them "phones" for some reason doesn't mean they aren't pretty powerful.
This is something that cannot be sorted by the market without regulation. The problem is that most of the costs incurred by driving in a city centre are incurred by people other than the driver: the pollution, noise, risk of death to pedestrians, the vast amount of space required by roads & parking lots, the massive number of dollars required to build & maintain these roads, et cetera. The driver pays for none of that. If your driver paid a dollar or two per mile to cover these externalities, suddenly there would be very few drivers. With very few drivers, those massive streets suddenly become very valuable underused property and would quickly become repurposed.
I assume you'd want to do automatic bank withdrawal like my mortgage company does each month.
is this a weight loss thing .. or just for focus?
Exactly.

Initially they weren't using anything OSS but moved to HAProxy and Redis. They even help update HAProxy from time to time.

http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/2669915777/powered-by-redis-...
note to throwaway40m, your comments are showing up as dead. 99% won't be able to see them.
IPhone developers aren't playthings.
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#startupitalia won't wait for government support ...
If he makes himself, he'll be big. If he's pushed into the spotlight and commanded "make math!" by professors and societies, he'll never be more than a cool gem we found that makes some interesting patterns when the light hits it just right. I doubt the kid doesn't like the attention, but he has to be treated like a mathematician who may be credited by way of his accomplishments, not accomplished by way of his credit.
Am I missing something or is Amazon (Cloud Drive) not giving the ability to import songs purchased from Amazon prior to this date??
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