skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd really like to have an alternative to news.yc, personally. As a bootstrapper-type that's not so interested in the YC program, news.yc rarely offers the type of community that I'd most want to be involved in.

I don't dislike news.yc, but there's definitely room for competition here.
This completely misses the point. Corporate IT doesn't want a Michaelangelo--they don't even particularly expect to be the envy of every startup out there. They just want to get shit done. It doesn't have to be spectacular shit, but the people working there generally harbor no illusions--they aren't offering stock options, and the people they hire generally don't care about the problem domain. They want to get shit accomplished given these constraints, not chip the perfect webapp out of a solid block of (fucking) granite.
I heartily agree with the main premise that Fukushima should be held up as a success story of the nuclear energy sector. However I found the whole local production vs grid section is a bit weak, certainly there are merits to both and each solution alone is not the answer.
There are a few outfits working on the resource intensive encoding problem. The only one that comes to mind at the moment is zencoder.com but I'm sure there are others out there if you look.

http://zencoder.com/
100,000 people pressure Apple to shut down 'Gay Cure' app
Thanks for the offer - I will.
If potential mentors are passionate about what they do, then they derive value just from sharing it with others.
Yeah, military schools on scientific/technological subjects can be very disappointing. Not all of them, obviously, but computer science topics get distilled down to be accessible to the bottom 20% of attendees. Having spent over a decade in the Marines, I learned not to get excited about anything like that... unless the schools were taught by civilians.
software should do what users expect it to do, not what developers think it should do.
What beautifiers do you use for HN, Reddit, and Google Reader? I only have one for Google Reader (Helvetireader).

Also, does anyone have a Firefox port of this?
Oh wow, I just realized that Chris Putnam is the same guy who used to post on the Something Awful forums back in 2003-2004 or so.

I remember him getting trolled out of there after showing any kind of ambition beyond posting on the forums. Same thing happened to the guy who started Imageshack (originally an image host for the SA forums), Eli Hodapp (who later became one of the main TouchArcade writers), and probably some others I don't remember.

Well dang, good for him!
Sorry, this refers to Josh Abrams, co-founder of Tutorspree. Got distracted talking to people at the event and neglected the context. Will add to the story.

More trivia: two co-founders of two separate companies in the bath have the same name and went Dartmouth a year apart. (Not mentioning the name as one was OTR.)
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I run a large meetup (SVNewTech), and agree with a lot of the points this article makes. I've tried to apply the email marketing concepts to my startups, and have seen others do so, as well (Convore & Quora come to mind).

One interesting aspect of Meetup's email strategy that the author doesn't mention (because it's only tangentially related): Meetup.com doesn't give organizers access to their community members' email addresses. The only way for the organizer to contact the community is through Meetup - this creates lock-in to the service (and much frustration). It's probably a wise business policy for Meetup, but becomes a point of contention for the organizers of larger groups.

On a related note, Meetup seems to succeed in spite of itself. They recent released sweeping changes to the design & functionality of the site without notifying organizers, resulting it this epic thread of discontent: http://www.meetup.com/boards/thread/10376961/0/

I think there's a great opportunity to create a service like Meetup that addresses some of these downfalls. If anyone is interested in building something like that, let me know: joe (AT) svnewtech [DOT] com
An Insight into the traffic on Pen.io
for all the downvoters, it's pretty undeniable that as far as security is concerned, it was amateur hour at phpfog.
75% of the kernel is written by corporate employees.

And that implies what about the kernel?
It works without problems on WinXP, there is no difference; throughout the beta-versions Firefox incrementally used some minor tweaks of Chrome (for instance, where the link-bar on mouse-hover or the status-information on loading the web-page was displayed). Sad to hear that it does not work on all OSs -- for me it is one of the most important improvements.
I haven't run into that problem yet. If I consistently had to deal with that, I think my approach would be two have two password keys. A strong and a weak one.
Or congress will carve out an exception say that copyright doesn't apply to books when used in search, and that search engines and archives can display X amount of the work per search, and an official orphaned works list can be maintained by the LOC and when a work is orphaned it enters the public domain.

Copyright, and IP in general, is a farce and full of weird exceptions and rules.
As much as I don't think one can be cured from homosexuality nor that is a disease, I don't think it should be Apple's responsibility to decide on moral issues (although they have an history of doing so). Morality is people's individual responsibility, not companies, not governments.
Why do you require 0% error?
I've always thought Wikipedia looked great.
Go is common enough that it is untrademarkable. Zippy? Not so much, hence the name change.
I am sure whatever capacity or technical problems they're experiencing are being exacerbated by millions and millions of emails from angry assholes wondering why the hell their $8 a month isn't buying them immediate and perpetual access to a catalog of human creativity and knowledge that would have brought even the most advanced intellectual from 1980 to his knees, weeping tears of joy at the wond'rous advances man has made.

"Surely," he would say between sobs, "surely if man can accomplish this with something as relatively trivial as movies, a hundred years hence will see us spreading our race to the stars."

Unfortunately all most people know or give a damn about is that they shove $8 into the magic box on their desk and it shits American Pie movies. Pan-galactic empire will have to wait, I guess. TV's busted!
I wonder if Netflix folks will follow up with a new blog post explaining what happened. Was the problem with a new code released to production or was it an AWS/infrastructure outside their control.
And how would you suggest printing the calendar for the year 8?
What I find most disturbing about this whole situation is the way in which these teenagers are handling themselves, especially after the fact. The continued denial of responsibility and half-hearted mea culpa, coupled with the monetary damage to those businesses who had been running on PHPFog, leads me to sincerely desire that these teenagers face a penalty of some magnitude, not just a slap on the wrist.

Maybe then they'll stop with the half-assed apologies and recognize that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things.
You're saying there's too many?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My-P4LssMsI

It seemed appropriate.
Free those Radicals
Readable Hacker News is slightly buggy, but a definite improvement: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jnnojalnifmaekkfkn...

Reddit, it turns out I used to have one installed but I forgot to reinstall it when I got a new computer and they added "thread lines" (so you could see indentation levels) which I used to add via extension.

I used Google Reader Fresh Air: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cpdbjfkhmkcigkfddp... until a few days ago, when I got the updated toolbar for Google Reader, and it broke my extension. I've not had the time to update it yet.
How many of those 600M monthly active users are fake accounts created by webcam and dating site spammers, and mafia wars addicts?
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What's with all the extra whitespace? If I wanted a smaller content area, I would resize the browser.
I bet most contributors to php are corporate employees too
Personally, I'm a fan of some of his post-hoc justification:

"Following this, I took a hold of their Twitter account and posted a couple of bits to draw attention to the fact. This did two things. One, it showed people the system was insecure, but on the other hand people always subconsciously root for the underdog; I drew attention to the company and the product. I know a number of people have actually registered (or intend to register, registration is closed) for phpFog since the incident thanks to the attention drawn to it by myself."
I checked Twitter for 'netflix down' at 6.30pm EDT after restarting my home router (thinking it could be DNS/routing issues). It has been down since.
I use Stylish for HN (A Dark Hacker News) and reddit (The Dark Reddit).
@Software devs: How are modules implemented in softwares that you create? Are dlopen()s sufficient or are there issues?
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That's certainly a vulnerability, though a pretty small one. Most huge credential compromises that result in other accounts being hijacked are done programmatically: It's not like the script that's checking if your gawker password matches your gmail password will try permutations after first attempt.

I really like your mechanism for secure passwords. Though it's definitely more time intensive.

1Password has been praised highly by a couple coworkers and I've been meaning to try it -- the problem is, you should still have strong passwords for individual services even if you're strong them in a single repository like 1Password. I think my formula is decent, though by no means totally secure.
I dont know about Paris dude. I was there last year (just on a holiday) and I actually found people nice. I was truly expecting people snickering "haw haw haws" at foreigners :D May be they just felt too sorry for me to make fun of me?
Sure, but on the other hand they have been terrible communicating what is going on. Not really a good example for a service with millions of users. Most people are usually forgiving when you give them some reasons.
Sorry, what? You don't think customers have a right to be annoyed when the service they pay for is unavailable?

I'm sure there are a lot of Netflix customers that fall somewhere between the range of not caring right now and the huge extreme you describe.

Not sure what your point here is.
Towards a simple recommendation engine
Very funny but, alas, not true. Similar to a famous prank described in snopes: http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp.
On the contrary, they knew of security vulnerabilities and intentionally left them unpatched, then blamed it on chance and timing when they got owned because of it.

Avoid phpfog if at all possible, in my opinion.
People seem to have a hard time understanding that freedom of expression goes both ways.

Whether or not you agree with the stance the makers of this app take they have the right to express it, just as gay rights activists can express their side of the coin.
That's exactly what I thought of.

DRYP - Don't repeat your passwords.
Freedom of expression does not exist in Apple's app store. That has consistently been my takeaway from previous discussions on this topic, at least.
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That's all the backstory you need.

And this comes from who...?
The non-article UI elements fade back when they are moused-over.
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Model View Controller: History, theory and usage
I understand that people want access to information, but what Google is trying to do is completely against copyright law. Copyright, as the name says, is a right given to someone over a property (an intellectual property). You cannot remove that right by just advertising that you should opt out if you don't want that to happen. The debate has to be much bigger than this, and if necessary copyright law needs to be changed so that other uses are possible by anyone (not just Google).
TumblrThemr: Making Tumblr theme development a little less head-desky
My daughter is streaming Netflix through our Blu-Ray player just fine ...
Any pointers to good Node.js code in CoffeScript?
I would prefer that people spell words in my game that are actually words and not abuses of the system. I expect users to be challenging one another so I'd imagine that they wouldn't take too kindly towards one person getting an unnecessary (and unexpected) advantage.
The E-Word
I know, they acted as if they could get away with it by apologising. However, whatever you think of PHPFog, a lot of people have invested everything they have in that project, and it could have (and still could have) done irreperable damage to their reputation and investment. Big companies can tank this crap but attacking a new startup is like punching a child.
1) The story is not complete yet.

2) Things other than a simple count of short-term fatalies matter.

How about we do a deal: stop deciding whether Fukishima is a good or bad thing at least until it's completely under control. We've already had the darkly amusing round where the pro-nuclear have said "See, perfectly safe, no nuclear explosion" and then there was one.

Wait for the chapter to be finished before claiming win or loss.
Apple is free to limit freedom of speech in their app store however they want and they have done so in the past.
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The FSF brought up some real concerns about Google having a lockhold on the intellectual property rights of all these materials (though they never convinced me why a Company like Microsoft, or Yahoo couldn't just negotiate the same deal with the Authors Guild and AAP).

The idea of this being okay under an "Opt-In" basis is idiotic. The entire rationale behind the "Opt-Out" approach was _the only people who cared_ would be the ones most capable and likely to opt out. The 99% of abandoned or orphaned works that have nobody to speak to, or nobody to find - would automatically return to the public domain where they belong.

For those Naysayers - how do you propose we prevent losing all those orphaned works to decay, and, just as importantly, make them accessible to the entire world - that's what Google was offering. In an ideal world, we'd have a sane copyright system which would terminate author's copyrights after some reasonable period of time unless they (or their estate) renewed their copy rights. That way, give an author, say, 20 years of exclusive rights, renewable for up to 40 more years (in 20 year increments) or 20 after their death, whichever is longer.

In that world - You could copy all the books, and, when the ISBN indicated it's copyright was expired - it would become searchable.

That _certainly_ will inspire authors to create new works - An author creating a material would be guaranteed income for them and their estate for a minimum of 60 years (presuming they die the very next day), or potentially more than 100 years - but, at the same time, means that works return to the public domain once nobody cares, creating a richer creative commons.

The problem with _this_ world is that copyrights continue for insane periods of time because a few content owners (of the hundreds of thousands who have created content) - have successfully lobbied for stretching out the copyright windows on ALL WORKS - not just the ones that people care about and are extracting economic value from, without thinking of the negative impacts on the creative commons. Thanks Disney. (Ironically one who very effectively mines the creative commons for their own works)

Remember, the purpose of copyrights and patents is not to create some monopolistic/locked-in intellectual property blackhole, rather, in the United States at least, it is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Emphasis on "promote the progress" and "securing for limited time"

Hopefully today's decision was a not big step backwards - in an ideal world, this settlement is modified such that it's available to all content archivers/searchers, such that they will have access to the same terms as Google, and we'll be able to truly "Promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts."
The problem is copyright, and intellectual property in general, it should not exist. Property is based on scarcity, IP actually restricts what one may do with their actual physical property.
MacRuby is currently listed as a Private Framework in Lion. If it stays that way through release, submitting MacRuby applications will require you to bundle MacRuby with your application, or else risk being rejected by Apple at the Mac App Store.
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The problem is they've irrevocably assigned themselves that responsibility. Google does no curation of the Android Store, therefore they have no responsibility for its contents. Apple, by putting every app through an approval process, has taken on complete responsibility for the App Store's contents.

That being said, despite the occasional screwup (and having been the recipient of an unfair app rejection myself), I think the App Store is a better place overall because of the curation.
If you want Reddit, you go to Reddit. Why must HN become one?

I can't keep up with Reddit. Too much noise. Good you have time to. HN currently give ~80-100 RSS items daily to me which is good enough to keep me from surfing all day, and still keep up with latest tech news.
In the future, he may no longer have them

Helps to finish reading my comment...
As a datapoint, they do for mine (budgeting software, https://www.pearbudget.com/). $4.95 / month, or $49.50 / year.
So why are there no porn apps on the app store?
It would arguably be a violation of Apple's rights to force them to sell something on the App Store, except where rejecting it would be anticompetitive behavior. Nobody's stopping the 'Gay Cure' folks from doing it as a web application instead.
I've done this. I set up a survey on SurveyMonkey and then created a series of tasks on MT to send people to it.

I paid about USD$0.05 per survey and spent something like $30 or $40 (I don't recall exactly). I got thousands of people taking the survey, they were from all over the world, all different demographics, and the information was solid -- i.e., people didn't just type "jfalksdfjkjhgkj" to try to steal the money.

One thing to be aware of: since this will be an international audience, their English reading skills will be at various levels. Make sure your directions / questions are very clear and simple.
There's a relatively simple way to settle the right mix of local or centralised generation. Let people pay for whichever they prefer.
Amazon cloud raining again?
If you really only need this for a couple of days it might be a good idea to rent, but if you'd like some real hardware you can get 24 cores and 64GB of RAM for less than $3000. If you need to test regularly it might be worth it just to buy the hardware.
I'll bet I could gather up a million people in America who would sign off their right to freedom of speech for a free Apple product and some free apps. I'm glad this country is not run by the majority.

Our freedom of expression is worth a million times more than stopping a few people pushing some evil religious agenda. 50 years from now, these nutbars will still be with us, voicing new inflammatory messages. The solution is not to silence them, but to educate everyone so the inflammatory message has no effect.
Are all you guys dumb. Soon Mac Os X lion will come out and it will have many features that iOS has even now it has the Mac app store a duhh
The story isn't complete, but already it's being used by critics of nuclear to prove that nuclear is unsafe.

Fatalities is an objective, verifiable measure of safety.

If you want to compare apples to apples, you might look at fatalities attributable (including statistical estimates) per TWh since the introduction of nuclear power. Watt for watt and year for year nuclear has been safer to date than coal, oil, gas, hydro, solar, wind and biomass.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-ener...
I concur -- I've been watching Season 2 of Friday Night Lights pretty much all day long today.
Research based Computer Science Thesis
There are many IT related topics which students can consider when assigned the writing of a computer science thesis. Whatever topic selected, students need to ensure that they provide thorough research based information.
I see that your actual business model is 'templates + talking heads = a nice video,' and that the examples you cite are things like wedding tributes, or little opinion pieces. This is an attractive idea, because it's true that there is a lot of demand for this sort of thing, and most of it is pretty generic. It has potential.

But...'movie studio as a service' is a terrifying prospect, because there are a ton of people out there with scripts and a ton of people out there with cameras, and a tagline like that is guaranteed to attract the very worst of both groups. Same thing with the domain name - 'cine' puts people's brains into art mode, and when people are disappointed they often blame their tools. This is the sort of hump that besets products like MovieStorm and XtraNormal.

I am overstating it a bit to give you the pessimistic angle, but after about a decade of working in indie film and video doing everything from narrative to commercials, it's very hard to work around the inevitable quality problems in the post pipeline - the worse the input material, the less realistic the expectations of the customers about the ability to 'fix it in post' may be. The people who can shoot quality video don't really need a product like this, and the people who really need a product like that may be the trickiest customers to deal with. There's an industry joke to the effect that if the sound is no good, people will say there was something wrong with the lighting; the ability to manage expectations is going to be key to how the public receives it.
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