skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HN is supposed to favour hacking software, hardware, and the ultimate in social and business hacking, disruptive startups. I would call that being biased.

Except when it's Apple and then people lose all sense of objectivity and perspective and support the locking down of platforms so that things are not hackable anymore. Example: http://blog.robrhyne.com/post/1015614125/google-voice-says-h...

And people envisage in grand terms about a Post-PC world with devices such as these which is very alarming given the potential for abuse(which is already happening). There is barely a protest but there is certainly a lot of fawning over the choice of chair in the latest Apple conference. :)

Anyone pointing out any fact that can be construed as critical to Apple is usually downvoted to obscurity.

The downvotes are even more reflective of the community because of the high karma threshold needed to downvote.

Regardless of the origin, the end result is still the same, the bias is harmful because it drowns out alternate views, and most of the people affected either leave or are forced to conform.(see the HN comment link in my comment in a parent post in this thread).
I was at ParisJS during your presentation. From what I saw it really looks promising. I have yet to try it but it seems like a great stuff.
Good work though.
- What innovation are we talking about in this case?

- They are suing, it doesn't mean they have succeeded. You can't start blaming libel law in the UK quite yet.
Absolutely, but it's not like this should be the moment when it suddenly becomes clear GoDaddy is a skeezy company run by scumbags.
Livejournal.com Subjected To DDoS Attack 2011 03 30
Yesterday, 2011 03 30, the blogging site http://www.livejournal.com came under a DDoS attack.

The following item is on their news community:-

http://news.livejournal.com/136828.html

"As many of you know, LiveJournal was the victim of a DDoS attack yesterday, resulting in several hours of downtime.

"We appreciate your patience as we work on resolving the remaining issues resulting from yesterday's attack."

A user of Livejournal myself, its enforced downtime did leave me somewhat perplexed. I am personally glad to see that it has recovered from its ordeal.
Is this a story on Hacker News about a comment thread on another story on Hacker News?
Ask HN: Anyone recommend BaseCampHQ alternatives?
I'm looking for a web-based project management suite that works well for software development projects. I just started using BaseCamp, and I'm really not impressed with the user interface. For example, I just added my to-do list, and I can't even view a description/comment without opening it up. Anyway, my point is, has anyone else found a better PM software?

I've been a fan of Fogbugz for a long time, but I have a team of 5, and can't afford $125/month unfortunately.
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to deliver Scene Kit framework for 3D apps
With regards the install, it said "Click here to upgrade" and I did that. Nothing happened.

With regards a different browser, that may yet be what I do.

With regards a reinstall, it's older hardware, so there's every chance a newer version won't run - I've had that happen before.

And I have tested the hardware quite thoroughly - it's fine. Flash breaking is something I'm seeing on several platforms, including my Windows laptop, where Chrome regularly says "Oh look! Flash Crash!" (or something).

I love programming, I just hate computers. I wish I could go back to embedded work. I enjoyed fitting TCP stacks onto new chips with 100 bytes of RAM.
The many definitions of open
GFI apologizes for false alarm on Samsung keyloggers
Most people generally aren't comfortable conflating certain flukes of genetics and social privileges with merit.

No one is doing this. I am defining "merit" to be the ability/willingness to write good code.

If the universe has decided to allocate merit (defined as above) to white/asian males, so be it. That doesn't mean that my definition of merit is flawed. It merely means that the universe has not behaved in the manner you wish it did.
Yes, they're a self-described IT tabloid. It can be entertaining but usually falls short.
That demo is such epic FAIL because it would've looked a million times better if they just had a TV-out.

Gosh... the colors so are washed out that you can see any of the amazing colors, hell you can't even read the buttons at times! I cringed at the sight of the reflection of the camera on the screen. *shrug

Come on Adobe... you can do better than this!
But where to transfer to? NameCheap? 1&1?
What the hell is going on in Denver?
Not sure if you read the article but Jacques specifically states there's a clear difference between a rich dude shooting the Elephant and a native Zimbabwean game warden doing it to protect his crops (which btw, there are many other ways of going about that than shooting it). The psychology behind the former doing it can be extremely powerful (and enraging) compared to the latter.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the elephant ends up dead either way. If the Zimbabwean government can monetize a practice that would otherwise cost them money (viz., protecting crops from elephants) and simultaneously a dude with excess money can get some recreational activity out of it, it seems like it's a win-win.

There obviously are some issues with this, e.g., if the government's only interest is moneymaking rather than proper wildlife husbandry, then they're incentivized short-term to sell the rights to kill every elephant around. But no one is going around complaining that there's insufficient evidence of proper husbandry here; rather, they're complaining because a big mammal that lots of us read about in storybooks as kids just got shot.

I'd be pissed if this were a case where they obviously baited the elephants or were just slaughtering the animals indiscriminately. This obviously isn't the case, though.
Why? Aren't there discernible differences in the openness of Android and iOS regarding the hardware, app stores and subscriptions?
It is indeed unusual that this paywall has quarks.
That and the "lots of people used it! really!"

I suspect the "junior product manager"'s name is Richard Bahr.
"The biggest joke is that the Businessweek article ends with a quote from Nokia CEO and former Microsoftie Stephen Elop saying that Android is no longer open and that's why he chose the more open Windows Phone 7. YIKES! Not good company, Mr. Gruber."

All good and well, but this is just guilt by association. Very bad way to end a fairly good article.
>Killing an Elephant that is clearly a pest

from the point of view of any super-human civilization, humans are clearly pests of the planet Earth, not an intelligent civilization to have contact with.
I'm not an ecologist and didn't claim to be one (I'm a computer scientist), and my comment wasn't about the benefits of elephant culling. As a last resort, yes it can sometimes be necessary, but there was no indication that it was necessary in this case. I'm opposed to lethal measures when there are other ways, and my point was that Bob Parsons could easily have paid for a relocation program had he wanted to, and won a lot of goodwill for himself and (perhaps more importantly) his brand in doing so. Instead, he's alienated a lot of potential customers, even from just this thread and the 178 current upvotes of the story's title.

Let's be realistic here -- this wasn't a planned "cull", this was a once-in-a-lifetime hunt for a rich guy.
It's not offensive to "vegetarians" – it's offensive to people who care about living beings.
The Inevitable Showdown Between Twitter and Twitter Apps (2009)
We have been using Project Turf for a month now and we like it so far. The user interface is sleek, you have unlimited users and unlimited storage and the prices are quite reasonable.
Previously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Remove clutter from Mac desktop, fast
I assume everyone posting on HN knows how to turn off cookies/spoof a referer, so I doubt Zac wants anything more than to play around with getting through the paywall - like codegolf for hackers.
I'm confused. From your original post: And to say that a person can only contribute to an open source project if they have equivalent freedom, time and indulgence from society as our very most privileged members, is to exclude a great number of people – I’d say 99% of people – who are capable and would be wonderful additions to our community.

This seems to postulate that OSS excludes 99% of people who are capable of contributing good code. However:

...freedom, time and indulgence...the freedom to pursue passion in life is often enabled by one's parents having enough money and stability. Time is mostly about leisure time. Having a job that supports work on open source is still not that common, so one is left with figuring out how to do this on your own time - and that depends on you actually having free time because you don't have kids, you only have one job, and you have the background knowledge (socially, tools-wise and background reading) necessary to participate.

Now you are discussing people who don't have the free time or knowledge to contribute good code. How would such people be a wonderful addition to a community devoted to writing good code?
I think it's the output. Also, the timing is relevant as the project documentation keeps talking about distributed compiling etc. I think that's how the sentence was meant: we can compile 1GB in 15 minutes (speed).
No, but it's like they've been digging themselves into a hole. Then they break throw to a seemingly bottomless pit, and decide it's a good idea to jump in to see how deep it is.
Good job keeping up your journalistic standards in your headlines, TC.
"Scare 'em and snare 'em."
I never really understood the concept of starting with "get". If you expect a lot of users to come visit your site and remember your name, it's best for them to remember the first 2-3 letters of your brand.

For example: if I remembered Basecamp from a couple weeks ago... I'd type it into my URL bar. Had it been getBasecamp.com instead of basecamphq.com... it may not have appeared as easily. For my startup, I even go as far as emphasizing the first two letters so that people remember them (this is easy as it's "UP").

When picking a name, I would suggest that the first 2-3 letters are not the same as another popular website. For example: I would not name something factmaster.com because facebook would popup instead.
Building a queue with two stacks
The FAQ on MassChallenge's website said $50-100k and that there's a $199 entry fee. I don't know if I'm mistaking programs but YC didn't charge me to apply.

http://www.masschallenge.org/faq#q1
So they dropped some rarely used functionality from PHP,... like serialization.

Excuse me, "rarely used"?? Drupal strongly depends on serialization, to store data structures in the database (or, as they call it, "the cache").

You cannot effectively run Drupal without serialization. So "The likes of Drupal, MediaWiki, and WordPress are now using HipHop." sounds like it cannot be true.
I'm guessing you don't understand the Godwin reference.
A Few Suggestions To Bring GitHub More Users And Money
jQuery 1.5.2 Released
This is a really good point. Being the only ones there decreases the YC companies' prominence, because unless people are specifically thinking, "I want to be an employee at a company backed by Y Combinator," they're probably not going to check there very often.
Good point for startups who have value to offer day one, but some startups do not add value until a certain level of activity is reached or a certain state of stability is reached, take Twitter for example.

However, I believe they have reached a point that it should start to charge. Those who see it as a value have spoken up about wanting and willing to pay.
> I think "mathematics is a mechanical process for solving
> problems without an intuitive grasp of their nature"
> is a very good definition, with which many professional
> mathematicians would agree.

I am astonished.

No professional mathematician of my acquaintance (and there are many, including three winners of the Fields medal) would agree with that. Every professional mathematician I know would say that mathematics is a creative subject requiring insight, intuition, rigorous logic and occasional luck.

Blindly turning handles just doesn't get results - the search space is way too big to chance across stuff regularly unless guided by some feel for what's going on. Listen to Wiles talk about his proof of FLT, or Gowers talk about the process of doing math.

I'm amazed that you make the claim you do, and am intrigued to know what there is in your background that has led you to that conclusion.

For reference, I'm a PhD in Pure Math, have an Erdos number of 2 (of the second type of 3), and regularly meet with groups of professional mathematicians. I don't tell you this to create a "Proof by Authority" argument, but to give you some background as to my personal experience.
The butcher at my grocery store wears a coat with the company name on it while he grounds up my hamburger.
There is an oversupply of humans and an undersupply of space. Killing a lone human male is no problem.

I find it sad that a lot of damage is done to the ecosystem and to other animals (which may not be as pretty as humans) because some groups (such as the UN) opposed human culling.

How long does it take for a tree to grow? How long for a beautiful Baobab? Do you know how quickly a human fucks up a tree? Humans are not an endangered specie –they are often a plague (due to limited natural predators, long life expectancy and the availability of water).

And unfortunately due to stupid laws (making hunting difficult and other requirements) it is very expensive for private game farms to have humans.

I fail to see how anyone opposes human culling can label himself as an ecologist.
DPlay: Computational and technological engagement with design
Great idea, some questions...

Can we have a vote on this?

How will this be enforced?

What's PG's take on this?
Device manufacturers get a cut of ad revenue? News to me, source?
Really? You think that's how it went down?

Isn't it more likely that he handed out the hats as a nice gesture to the locals, and he had no idea those same people would soon attack the dead carcass and start handing out its flesh?
Ask HN: Anyone down for Boston to SF startupbus or van?
I'm moving from Boston to the Bay area after I graduate this May. I'm considering flying or even driving. I think it'd be pretty fun if we could get a bunch of people together to do a cross country startup bus for those of us moving to the Bay area from Boston sometime in mid to late may. PM me if interested.
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to transfer the domain away from GoDaddy. It's to a registrar unknown to me but the instructions will work for any registrar, and the guide is new enough to use the current version of GoDaddy's craptastic UI:

http://support.tigertech.net/godaddy.com
FBI asks for Cryptanalyst help on murder case
I don't understand your point. You're just restating the hypocrisy that randallsquared pointed out.
rule.fm is a new entrant. I haven't ever used it but it looks pretty good. Worth checking out.
Twitters Restrictions Prompts New Open Source Project
Be Engineer #2 @ Mixpanel
Looks like it's already broken. Just get a red ! button.
Peter Gibbons, reporting in.
Useless *IS* a loaded word. Too bad.
From context, it is clear that he's talking about people who are vegetarians for moral reasons (as are most people when they say "vegetarians believe X," since obviously if you're not a vegetarian for ideological reasons, no ideology can be inferred from your vegetarianism).
If he wasn't in the software business, what venture would he ideally like to run?
Lumbergh's gonna have me come in on Saturday, I just know it.
I like feeling smart about the places I know about, and I think it actually could be really interesting to put the tips/insights/thoughts inspired by/etc type of information you have about a place at the front of a service. Excited for this to come to SF!
The problem is that that by acquiring large stores of content (e.g. Video, Books) and stopping other search engines from to indexing them properly, they are giving Google Search an unfair advantage.

If they aren't stopped from doing this they'll repeat the process for one content type after another, and the so-called search engine competition that keeps them honest will be killed completely.
I think they're referring to how APC serializes data structures internally, not the serialize() function. I might be wrong, but that's how I read it.

edit: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Unimplemented-Fu...

That's a list of unimplemented functions - unserialize_callback_func is unimplemented, but that's it wrt serialization functions.
> As such, I'm not surprised that he turned his personal hunting exhibition into a marketing expense.

Upvoted for this comment alone. In this context, the whole event makes a lot of sense.
The only way I can see to do it is constantly scraping HN's pages(unless there's an API?). On another note, having source code on your screen randomly shift and change large blocks of itself might be suspicious, defeating the purpose of this.
Support engineer @ Mixpanel
Good on Tesla for having the balls to stand up for what's right (and for their company).

Innovation requires courage. Especially in their industry.
I don't know if one can count the IM client as a tested-then-removed feature. It was shut down for "maintenance" or something and never brought back to life…
You have in effect given out an irrevocable license to your work. This isn't practically or legally the same as giving up ownership, though it's certainly ceding a sizable measure of control.
Miso API Developer Contest
Me too, but there are differing definitions of dirty.
GoDaddy had a positive brand before? I didn't realize there was anything left to damage.
Good point. However, in this case, the startup needed money and already had a fantastic product that saved small business owners a lot of time. They had customers that wanted to pay for premium access, yet they were content to just keep scrapping by because they were afraid what their community would think if they charged for their product and I found that line of thinking utterly ridiculous.
- I don't see any other shows like Top Gear on the air.

- They've got enough of a case to spend lawyer time on it, and they're confident enough to run a press release about it. If the test for libelous speech was tougher, then they would have done neither.
Doesn't every company have a Murder Division?
> Anyone who has had the misfortune of registering a domain with GoDaddy

Thanks god no. When I started publishing websites the webmaster forums were full with warnings about GoDaddy :)
Scores on IQ tests are highly heritable. Whether IQ is highly heritable depends on whether you define it as the result of the test or something that the tests are trying to measure.

A lot of tests tend to embed a ton of middle-upper-class cultural touchstones that you don't even realize are there until you find yourself explaining them to a test-taker who's never been camping or on a boat.

EDIT: The concept of "intelligence" that IQ purports to measure is probably highly heritable as well, of course. I'm just cautioning against drawing too many straight lines from test results, particularly on the topic of diversity and intelligence.
A news feed becomes a very interesting problem once you release it to the live server. I'm dealing with one for the last year, and enjoy reading about them whenever I can. Thanks for the article.

One problem for your approach would be handling of deletions. You should visit all the recipient feeds to delete the item, and it's not that uncommon.

Another one is handling comments, which is the real thing creating the buzz if you're providing the feed for the network effect. The article assumes a twitter like publishing if I got it right. In a Facebook like feed, you may want to include a couple of comments with the original item to display the action (first two is always displayed with the feed item, for examle)and async. load the rest. You may want to keep the exact number of comments to display something like "6 more comments", and this means updating all the copies with every comment.

There's also the problem of changing permissions, if you have one. In my case, a parenting social network, user can set feed permission to "family only" or "friends" or "my partner" etc. anytime, hence adding and deleting again to other user's feed in your case.
Doomed-yet-brilliant start-up that never quite grasped the basics of business
The anti-competitive behavior they're accused of is using their dominance in online-video to secure their dominance in search.

Bing can never compete effectively with Google if Google blocks them from properly indexing video.

By your Android analogy, the allegation is that YouTube is preventing you from searching properly using anything but Google Search.
Apple has been upfront from the get-go that their platform isn't open (they say that people who want to do things openly on iOS are free to make web apps; which I guess is nice, but sort of a brush-off).

I don't like the position Apple has taken. I agree that it's their prerogative to do so, and they argue that their position leads to a better product.

I've used several Android phones, and now an iPhone 4, and I think that they're right...and I hate that. I don't want them to be right, I want them to be proven wrong.

I think Android has absolutely worked to position themselves as a friend to "open" (with bullshit nebulously defined definitions of what "open" means). The entire content of that keynote is a gushing plea to friends of the open source movement (that you have an alternative to iOS).

And I think that Google's position of "open" since the launch of Android has been shitty (so yeah, I guess nothing has changed with the latest changes to Android), except that this yet another bullet point on the side against open.

Development on Android has always occurred in the dark, without feedback or input from the community at large. When a release is "ready", it's open-sourced, and then people are free to take the parts of Android which are included in that open release and do what they want with them. This is of course, long after Google's partners have had access to the source, so that they can prepare their phones for release.

I'd like for "open" to mean an open playground, where everyone is equal (and technology can compete on merits). Not where "everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others". But like Apple, Google is free to do this (I don't think they're in violation of any licenses with the way they release their code).

But I think it sucks, and I think it's crazy that I have to long for an actual "open" alternative to the supposedly "open" alternative to iOS.
Poll: Do you work for "the Man"?
NathanKP commented

I would imagine that a fairly large percentage
of the Hacker News community probably works for
themselves or as freelance contractors.

( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392346 )

What do you say HN? Are you:
employed at someone else's company
a freelance contractor
owner of your own company
employed by someone else AND have one or more things on the side
As the customer I can do business with whomever I want to for whatever reason.

There is no such thing as a valid concern. All my concerns are valid.
I think Smirnoff was saying the YC gets you $150k cash, because of Yuri Milner + SV Angel's blanket convertible note to all YC companies.
Related ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392590

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386692
From the article:

CEO of Wistia on customer acquisition:

Brendan and I started Wistia in June of 2006. We quit our jobs and went in fulltime. It took us almost one year to the day to get our first customer. It took us another year to get to 6 customers. It took us another year to reach 60 customers. This past summer, 1460 days after starting Wistia we crossed 350 customers