skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not as trivial in the .com.au space if you're doing everything by the book becuase you must register the domain to a particular ABN or ACN (business or company number). Can register it to one entity and try to later transfer it, but not sure how annoying that is. Even one form is enough of a roadblock for me sometimes so I just register all mine to a single ACN.
Quite. Hating Java is a religious issue at HN.
A "working prototype" of a bog-standard nVidia/Intel computer in a glorified case? I don't think this is rocket science here.
I didn't really want to derail this into a conversation about boobs; the takeaway should have been that, while certain physical attributes are more or less appealing to most people, the particulars matter a lot less than the attractiveness of the person as a whole.
I just tried, it does have the ability to route DNS requests through the tunnel.

Out of curiosity, is it theoretically possible to route other kinds of traffic over this, e.g. UDP, ICMP(ping)? Thanks.
I saw it mentioned here already, but the idea of a "Name your Price" option would be really cool. Just like how Bandcamp does it. I'm always more motivated to support artists that chose this option.
Let me reframe the question. How long would it take for one experienced developer to write the code for an app like Yelp. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year?
Yes, it IS fantastic. Terms are defined and then different possible series of actions are all explained verbally and accompanied by a tidy flow chart, gradually building in complexity.

This is a great reference. It is definitely a good alternative for those who can't afford Git's one-day $500+ user training.
Anybody have a price on this?
I hate rhetorical questions. Just say what you want to say. Most people won't react to them like me, but they won't expend the effort to parse them and understand your point either.

I'm not going to fact check every story I read. When I actually do something that requires choosing a platform I may look at the shootout. Or I may just try a few little programs myself.

You may think I'm being unfair, or moronic. But I suspect most people are like me. Even you, when you don't notice. PR feeds on the interested-but-uninvolved.

I find this thread tragic. People could have seen the shootout's side, but now most of them will remain uninformed because the herd passed through while you were asking rhetorical questions. It's the shootout's loss.
First look at the future of application deployment on Windows 8: AppX
How do I know that, when I pay, I am actually getting what I am paying for?
How do you handle chargebacks etc..
So your point is that women prefer hair because being bald is a social stigma, being an analogous process to the stigmatization of preferring small breasts?

I wouldn't put it that way. Some thoughts, since you kind of asked:

The main analogy I was making was that just as men who prefer smaller breasts don't necessarily go crowing about it, women who prefer baldness may also keep their mouths shut.

As for an actual reason to not prefer baldness, see my other remark in this thread about how "looks" are indicators of health: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2409000

As for preferring older men: I think women prefer older men because they make better mates for a variety of reasons. Yes, for some women the financial success of an older man has a lot of appeal. But I really think it's a lot more complicated than that.

My recollection is that male pattern baldness is associated with hormonal stuff. So for some women I can see that being a reason to be drawn to it -- if it looks like the "genetic"/hormonal variety and not some indicator he's just not healthy.
maybe a smart MVP ;-)
Sure it's possible (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers). I don't know why they haven't done it yet.
I know Fox has a big habit of using the European (specifically the UK) market as a test ground for products.

Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Firefly; I bought them all on release. If they'd have come out 6 months late, rather than (usually) a few months early, then I'd have likely pirated them as I wouldn't have waited that long for DVD quality as the UK was atrocious at that time for decent reruns and no DVRs.
Where the Future Comes to Rehearse (It's Education Agenda)
I think social and virtual goods are probably a wider cause for change but then the line between MMO and them is pretty blurry (if it even exists) anyway.

Success is another catalyst ... Tapulous's Tap Tap Revenge probably had horrible code until it turned out they were going to be working with it for a long time.
These were my thoughts too. I don't see how that law (§ 506. Criminal offenses) defines an infringement?
Cool, I guess one aspect of your best one here would be that it's more interesting the the equally easy to read logo. The other 2 cartoon images are probably hard to get at a glance at the small size you see the ad images at.

It's interesting because the limited campaign I have dealt with before used a logo and tagline type display, probably not the best.
I think the boob analogy was interesting, so why not talk about it.

But to bring this back together: my main hypothesis really comes down to the point that "hair" trumps "no hair" if all other factors are eliminated. Sure some people may look awesome without hair, and most men can make up for this and other shortcomings in many ways.

I agree, the whole person counts. But I assert that even an attractive and successful bald man would be more desirable if he had hair. And for the not so attractive and successful, the difference of having hair can be the whole bowl of wax.
Aptly named blog. Its interesting to watch the notion of 'cloud' get debated, monetized, and marketed. It used to be called 'liquid IT' or 'grid' but basically it is/was a way to reduce operational expense.

The basic feature of disassociating OS/System/Infrastructure management from application management is a reasonable 'best practice' goal these days, and with applications built on top of a standardized infrastructure (think LAMP or its follow-ons) the benefits are very real.

Of course if you just want to run a dozen machines you're not really talking about 'cloud' now are you?
It isn't empty, it is farmland. Space to live is low on the list of scarce resources that will cap population growth.
Indeed. Friends of mine report downloading and watching dvdrips of movies that still have to arrive to the cinemas here in brazil. Sometimes the distribution channels go crazy for some odd reason, and you find things like sunshine cleaning (from 2008) premiering in brazil in 2011.
AR is patio11's new project: http://appointmentreminder.org
Facebook For iPhone Gets Event Check-Ins, Maps, And Unfriending
Etsy has John Allspaw, the guy who scaled Flickr. The man breathes scaling. He wrote the book on it! I realize he's an ops guy, but when you've got someone like him working for you, I'd say you've got a good chance of success.

http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/john-allspaw-joins-the...
I read too many uneasy references to modern "communication" and "the web" that give me cause for concern about the future of the email utility, here.

Is this soft language hinting toward chasing the "nobody under thirty uses email" tail? I may be reading too much into the post, but the use of any word other than "email" whenever possible is unsettling.

Comments about the pending Firefox 5 already threaten my browsing experience with a dump of "social" that I simply don't wish to have, so it seems feasible that this could be a direction Thunderbird is following, too.

Personally, I want more innovative email functionality. Things that my feeble brain couldn't even conceive of until someone else puts it in front of my face. I could really do without having the client crammed full of Facebook messaging hooks and twitter and FourSquare and other things popular amount the self-indulgent attention-whore population.

Edit: Okay, the page went away for a bit and when it was back up, it was edited to include a few more comments and a bunch of links to things like F1 and Raindrop, which seems to shed some light on where their heads are at.

Am I just being old and grumpy or do others feel it's reasonable to want a light utility that performs one function superbly? Granted, Thunderbird is more than a simple email client, but those things it currently includes benefit the email experience (such as the very useful indexing and search improvements). Do I just need to be five years younger to grasp how incredibly necessary it is to have Twitter and Facebook and URL sharing services in my email client (or all the social stuff Firefox 5 may be looking to include in the browser)?

As long as these things remain extensions that you can add by choice to either Firefox or Thunderbird, it of course isn't a problem. Choices and options are a great thing. The more I hear, the more I suspect much of this will be slowly embedded over time as part of the finished product. And the more activity I see focused on these things, the more I have to wonder if there is actually a demand among the user base for this or if it's just throwing throwing things at the wall to see what sticks and hope something gives an edge over the competition?

I guess the best comparison I can make is the swarming of the market with media button keyboards. Remember how IBM mechanical keyboards were just fine? Extremely good, in fact? And then someone got the bright idea that we needed a button on the keyboard to load a home page for us. And load our email for us. And set the volume for us. And shut down our computer for us. And bring up a Google search page for us. I've never used the buttons. I've never known someone who does. Never actually seen someone use one in front of me. Ever. But they're on every keyboard. Even today. You have to go out of your way to even find a standard keyboard without all the garbage on it.

Is that what all this social crap is going to be? Sticking a bunch of superfluous limbs onto your creature in the Will Wright Spore Character Creator, just for kicks?
Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1313083
Walking On A Dream: Thiel Fellowship Interview
Insightful article.

My first job was working on an "AAA" game for several years and I never had a single code review or wrote a single test.

Progress was slow, but everything worked by the time it had to be delivered. I think slotting in to that lack of discipline and perpetuating it was quite harmful to my continuing mindset.
profits from hedge funds aren't actually infinitely scaleable.. By taking on new investments, they increase their risk of strategies giving them less returns
Did you even read the post? It's about scaling the business not scaling the technology.
Hey, this also applies to minecraft. As a walk down the halls at my school, I hear people talking about what they have build, or the cave they escaped. It's talk-aboutable. Not to mention the joy of pure creation.
What happens is you essentially get "infinite bufferbloat." When there's no packet loss, you end up absolutely filling the transmit buffers at the entry points to the tunnels. The result, as other people have mentioned, is extremely poor interactive performance when you're simultaneously transferring large files.

TCP-over-TCP not "broken" in the sense that the sessions will randomly drop or your kernel will crash or anything. It's just that doing it correctly is much better.

Mind you, given the prevalence of bufferbloat (mostly caused by misdesigned routers/DSL/cablemodems) nowadays, interactive performance already largely sucks when you're transferring large files. So you might not even notice a difference.

Bufferbloat makes me sad :(
http://appush.com ?
Radiolab and Erik Davis' Expanding Mind. More recently I've started to listen to Magic Newswire.
Gangs and cupcakes:  violence and sugar go well together
All I learned is that the author of this article is insane and should give up on having a job.
Designing a Freelancer’s Business Cards (for yourself)
NYT: Google Executive Says Goodbye as Page Says Hello
This is really Facebook's answer to Color's Implicit Social Graph. Through "Events" and the ability to "Tag Friends With you", Facebook has just taken its first step in to solving the implicit social graph problem, trying to find out who you hang out with. And they have taken a very low tech approach to doing so, instead of using 20 to 40 of your phone's built in sensors, they simply ask their users to tell FB who they are at the event with.

FB Events will be in the hands of tens of millions on day one, and thats a huge chasm to cross for Color. Though Color's way of figuring out one's implicit social graph is way cooler (and creepier) though. Any thoughts?
we use vistaprint, primarily because the UI makes it easier to design shirts. You should test out the quality of shirts on a short run first.

If you keep an item in your cart, they will send you a coupon. If you buy a small amount, they will send you a coupon that you can use on a bigger order.
Yes. My point isn't that Allspaw can add servers and whatnot, but that he's a VP at the company. At some point, you stop thinking about computers and start thinking about how the business grows, and I think that he can help in that regard.
It's nice to see what's probably seen as a bit obvious by a lot of us who are more intimate with technology being pushed into the general public discourse. Much needed in order to move forward, and good on Canada to publish this!
The Waller Flexible Gunnery Trainer
I'm surprised by how much difference add-ons can make.

Here's to hoping this will inspire some changes for the better.
What's the policy (and the actual enforcement) on using copyrightten content as your picture? I'm not surprised Twilight imagery converts better than a company logo, but it seems a little sketchy.
FYI: The author is a member here: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jaltucher
I found Techcrunch on there a half dozen times, all paid subscriptions. Was only alerted to it when somebody asked 'hey why don't you make your Kindle edition free or cheaper than $5 a month' and I said 'we don't have a kindle edition'.
I think part (far from all!) of the issue is that you (and parent) are not using the right abstraction: The response body shouldn't be a string; it should be a stream:

write_quot(response,"this < should be safe >");

Not perfect (you still need to deal with allocating temporaries if you want to inspect the contents before sending to the client), but: it (a) matches what's actually going on under the hood, (b) makes the simple cases safe, (c) provides a decent interface for safely extending the available formatters. (They would write their output to the stream, then free all temporary resources themselves before returning.)

(Further, I've had enough influence from statically-typed-land that I'd personally want to create tainted wrapper structs so that the compiler helps prevent user data from being passed to an unquoted write... but that's just me.)
I will not comment on wether one should rely on .ly domains, but I wanted to point out it is STILL POSSIBLE to order and update the nameservers of .LY domains.

I did so by emailing lydomains@libyanspider.com
Clickable: http://www.updatesitenow.com/
You know the answer. I work with about 25 ceos in various small businesses. I have not once seen or heard of a person changing their behavior when put on a performance plan.

People are always too slow to fire, but once they do, not once have I seen someone who regretted it. In fact most wish they had done it sooner.

Your gut is screaming that he is not a good fit.
Apple Wins Reversal of $625.5 Million Mirror Worlds Patent Infringement Verdict
An Asus Eee Keyboard has no Cherry switches, so, this is probably better built. And yes - nostalgia has something o do with buying this instead of the Asus or any other probably cheaper small PC.

So, how much would you pay for a computer unable to run Windows that can emulate a C64? Chances are, not much.
Any inexpensive and small form-factor recommendations for hardware for pfSense?
Social Network for the Tragically Apathetic
Thanks for the reply, Agreed, I suppose it makes a lot more sense to buy a domain like this in such a way. I'm not sure if they are selling them at the moment but it's interesting.
Do you see this changing?
This is definitely the case here in Australia.

Apparently Australia has one of the highest TV piracy rates in the world due to the fact that TV networks here would wait a very long time (6 months or even more) between a show airing in the US and when they would show it here.
Its slowly getting better here in that networks are doing "fast-tracked" shows that air a couple of days after the initial airing in the US, but this still only tends to happen for shows that are new and anticipated, and doesnt happen for older shows. I honestly cant understand the slowness, but there must be some reason.
Google's 'Gmail Motion' Prank Now a Reality [Video]
Hmm... yeah, after about a half hour clicking the buttons, I don't think that I'll use your app more then once.

It really is a nice way to cull my followers. I'm trying really hard to keep my Twitter account topical and interesting. However, spending the time to go through each and every user more then once doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
It's of course tempting for storytellers to make their characters one-dimensional. In this case the makers of the movie decided to portray a singularly good and humanitarian Gandhi. Usually we see purely good or purely bad characters and know they are good or bad because the movie tells us. We usually don't know why characters are bad, other than the fact that they're fighting against the main character, so they must be.

The problem is this makes for boring characters. I love it when I see more complex characters and their motivations. I know that's not exactly the Gandhi the movie makers wanted to portray, but maybe it would have made for a better story.
I would also add that you are not being overly intense and he is not being overly relaxed. Both styles can work but probably not together because it is the heart of the culture of your company. Do you guys have a buy-sell agreement in place?
Software development and the myth of progress
Well, we just released Titanium Studio... with debugging. How's that for moving things forward? And sample projects and code are included, with a ton of new features coming in the full release later this quarter.

We have about 2,500 apps being built per month now. This number is increasing by about 50% month over month. In total, we have over 15,000 apps in the various app stores. That puts us as #1 go-to mobile development platform behind Apple and Google. Seriously.

Obviously, we'd love it if everyone was successful, but we're 50 people and running flat out. And that last round of $9M in funding? It's gone to QA, to acquiring Aptana, to adding 5 engineers in the past 6 weeks on Android, to quadrupling the amount of content out there (have you checked out our latest guides? They're awesome! http://wiki.appcelerator.org/display/guides/Home). There's a ton in there... and most have been written by the community!

Look, I'm not saying that we're perfect. We have LOTS to do. But we're a platform company that's listening intensely to developer needs on a very frequent basis and making big investments in the areas that need the most help.

So, yeah, Q&A needs a forum. Our API needs more parity, we certainly need to be more responsive to the 100 or so questions coming at us every day. But c'mon, if you're going to build a real native app in no time, a platform that has 3,600 methods and processes in use by 130,000 active app developers must have something going for it don't you think? Try Wunderlist. Try GetGlue. Try ScoutMob. These are all top apps written on Titanium with small dev teams. None of these apps were built with a support subscription, btw. Stick with it and you'll see just how much can be done with the platform.

Give us another shot with Titanium Studio and the other cool stuff that comes out this quarter. We'd love to see you back as a Titanium fan...
I cannot recommend http://progressofdesign.com/ enough. I've ordered from them 3 times and couldn't be happier. Cheaper prices than most other places I've used in the past and great quality. I wanted to print a larger than average design and they accommodated me for only a small bump in price when other companies said they couldn't even do it.
If he's looking to bring Google back to its startup roots, ending 20% time probably shouldn't be on his list.
Where can I get large datasets open to the public?
Would it be too hard to add non TCP traffic tunneling? This already supports DNS traffic through the tunnel but I wonder it is feasible to tunnel all kinds of traffic (UDP and ICMP mostly) through it?
A couple of years ago, I also embarked on a mad project to create a web framework in C. I wrote a scandalous and regrettable blog post about it which got on Hacker News and I have since taken down. You can find what remains of the unfinished project here: https://github.com/joelmichael/memereap
Success is a good point.

I suppose there can be many reasons for the code to live longer.

Managing legacy code can be great for encouraging automated testing!
I don't see a problem with it. If you use twitter, then you clearly don't have a problem living your life in the open and the price of being an attention whore is getting attention. For those of us who don't need to play-by-play our every thought and action in 140 character narration throughout the day to our imagined hoards of clingy worshippers, it won't be a problem. We likely don't use twitter or we don't use the same identity as we do elsewhere. I mean, as much as I'd kind of like to have all of my identities tied together, I don't like the potential problems that may draw. Therefore, I use a different identity at HN than I do at Slashdot which is different than on LinkedIn which is different than on Amazon, which is different than on Steam, which is different than on XBOX Live.

Yeah, people like you and I are still open to having any anonymity data-mined out of us through aggregate manipulation -- but at least it's a simple layer of abstraction.

In the meantime, if someone can get rich using the wealth of public information that every vapid college girl posting a thousand twitpics a night from her cell at the club puts up online, then more power to them.
I would pay that price because there was no alternative and MANY people recommended it to me.

But those same conditions would apply to an e-book version.

Do you suspect that the publisher is making an "unfair" profit?

Suppose I write a book that takes considerable effort but has an audience of maybe hundred people in the world, but those hundred would derive real value from it.

Pricing it at $30.00 would be economic suicide. To make it worth my time and effort I may have to charge $100 or $500. Or more.

I tend to bristle at the some of the prices of purely digital goods, but one way to look at it is in terms of value obtained by the reader, not value (or cost) expended by the author.

The argument that something deserves a high prices because of how much time and effort went into it is the same fallacy that leads people to say "hard work should be rewarded." Lots of things are hard to do but have no real value, and value should drive reward.
Why is it a terrible idea? Why doesn't it feel like he's going to succeed?
Expanding on that if there is a limited # you could choose to list # left to create a sense of urgency or keep it hidden and mysterious. Good luck!
Using games to improve government
Ahh, good point I should be more clear on this.

Since RocketSendIt itself is hosted on Amazon's EC2 servers you get 2,000 emails per month using your own Amazon AWS account. If you were to implement your own solution using your own (non EC2) servers you wouldn't get the free 2,000 emails.