skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, let's have some stats? I mean, does a paid for provider go down more or less? What about loosing data? I'm not so sure Gmail comes out that bad
Thanks. I hope you dont take my query the wrong way, I was just concerned that how well your efforts are tied with (potential) rewards. Good to know they are tied well enough.
I'm not a fan of Hover though I have all my domains registered with them right now. They store your password in cleartext and their website is downright bizarre - it wants to be iGoogle, I guess.

They're less obnoxious than GoDaddy but that's not saying much.
Gilt Groupe's charlie_sheen_service (codeconf lightning talk)
Wait, what?

ssh is simple.

I suspect that the typical person needing to SSH into a box is already someone who knows how to operate in UNIX. Otherwise, you're using the wrong protocol.
Even in your preferred case, you're typing your passwords into a closed source browser on a closed source OS. You have to trust someone at some point.

Panic also seems to be a quite reputable company. They've been in the Mac software business for a long time.
Work Doesn't Drive Creativity. Creativity Drives Work
Algae biofuels could significantly reduce oil imports
You can trust them to respect it about as much as you can trust them to respect the opposing proposition, which is their "opt out cookie." The point is that it puts the onus on them.

The EFF explains this much better: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/what-does-track-do-not...

This isn't to make anyone untrackable. This is to make a far more consumer-friendly opt-out mechanism among those that are participating voluntarily.

If it becomes legislation, which is what is being debated, then it is somewhat like a DMCA for users. If an advertising company tries to circumvent it, they are acting illegally. This isn't a silver bullet for privacy, but it is really powerful.
Does anyone have good experience comparing Handlebars to jQuery's semi-official template plugin sponsored by MS?
A better question: is THE UNIVERSE lisp?
I thought I was pretty clear that I don't know what "threefold increase" should mean. Sounds like "an increase of three times normal," that's normal (x) plus three times more (3x). so x+3x seems like a reasonable definition.

Like I implied, human language is ambiguous.
myself also.. definitely would recommend for simplicity and cleanliness of interface. I've been steadily moving all my domains from gandi to iwantmyname for a while now... they also have all the tlds
They could call it "Free Blowjobs," all it would end up doing is pushing people towards Firefox and Chrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_equity
Has working with this type of schedule made any sort of negative impact on your social life? I'm kinda settling into a similar routine with my work hours slowly creeping up, and I'm afraid that some relationships might suffer in the long haul.
> The mouse-oriented design that won in the market (introduced with Mac, adopted by Windows) ended up avoiding the keyboard in favour of much more complicated mouse action gestures such as double-clicking, drag'n'drop, right-click menus.

Nit picking here, but right-click was obviously not introduced with the single button Mac mouse. And the awful double-click gesture was made necessary because of this single button mouse, the original Apple sin.
You are right, sashthebash wants exactly what GCal provides for the most part. (For what ever reason going to settings on my paid version of GAFYD doesn't support changing the 4 day view from anything other than yesterday, today, + two days, but I don't disbelieve that you have a version that has such a feature available to you).

I wasn't being clear in my response that I was talking about what the author of the linked article actually has a much better design [1] in mind for a 'bigger than today, less than a week' view. I think it would be nice if GCal picked that up, I can understand that its providence might make that impossible.

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/25553417@N00/4971755231
I use GoDaddy for all of my domains and I don't understand what all of the complaints are about. I may host 40ish domains through them, and I've never had a problem with price, support or control over any of my domains.

These days it seems like leaving GoDaddy is the cool thing to do. If a company's marketing tactics or a CEO's out-of-office actions put you off, then that's one thing, but as for the product itself and how well it performs: GoDaddy performs as well as anything else I've seen for what I consider a fair price.

(Their hosting, however, is a totally different story…)
Most of the non-computer savvy people I know don't call it internet explorer, or even the web. They call it "Google".
Did Zipcar Get Swindled on Its Massive IPO?
More than 40 hours of video uploaded to youtube every second of every day. A good portion of it is people just sitting in their bedroom talking about all the stupid shit they just bought at Target. And if they could record and upload in one easy step, that's a huge market right there.
I did a GWU in Palo Alto last week and it was a cool experience. The group of people was interesting - it included YC alums, VC's, and engineers and designers of all kinds, but most importantly everyone was welcoming and genuinely interested in meeting new people.
I wonder what the practical consequences are for the decision maker(s) who wasted $650M corporate funds buying then dumping Flip?
ITT: pedantry over the words "clean, crisp, and cheerful."
How do you perform backups through Google Hosted Apps for your organization of 25? 250? 2500? +n?
This is dubious; the whole "higher education vs. entrepreneurship" discourse is a false dichotomy. What has happened is that capitalism has degraded most peoples' perceptions of the goals of higher education: they think it is meant to give them skills for a job or something. Higher education is meant to transform the student's ability to think, such that they can contribute truly new knowledge to society. This often involves less than spectacular monetary compensation for long and painful hours.

The tension between the job training mission imposed by a capitalist society and the more traditional humanist "transformational" mission has watered down the educational system.

As someone who chose education for the sake of education with my eyes wide open and not expecting much in the way of dollars afterward, I applaud the decisions of entrepreneurs to recognize the mission confusion of colleges and simply leave.

Institutions should be like UNIX programs: they should do one thing and do it well. I think that it would be in everyone's best interest to pull job training right out of colleges and use the YC model.
It's kind of funny that such a succinct explanation of Twitter's core problem could lead to a tl;dr situation.
Of course, simplistic mirroring solutions will have these problems.
However, the right mirroring solution for syncing information (documents, presentations, etc.), should provide auditing, providence of created documents, and rewind for all actions.
Rotten Tomatoes didn't have an API before? Oh.
I think the main difference is that with Flip Live, you would be able to broadcast a public live feed to a large audience. So basically more like Ustream (one to many) than Skype (one to one). And normally, Ustream users show a live feed from a single fixed webcam, while this would have added an aspect of mobility.
Maybe because the Mainstream Support End Date for Vista is 4/10/2012
Another amazing algorithm (or data structure really) is the pairing heap. I just wrote this down, so it's possible that it's not correct, but here he goes:

data Heap k v = Empty | Heap k v [Heap k v]
merge Empty h = h
merge (Heap k1 v hs) h@(Heap k2 _ _) | k1 <= k2 = Heap k1 v (h:hs)
merge a b = merge b a
extractmin (Heap k v hs) = (v, foldr merge Empty hs)
insert h k v = merge h (Heap k v [])

These 6 lines of code provide a heap data structure with amortized logarithmic time for extractmin and constant time insertion and merging (!).
What about java development?
Yeah, well, the University of Maryland hates you too.

But, good article.
The best argument I have seen in favor of Scheme being something other than a Lisp is by E. Naggum:

"In the Algol family, the symbol table is a compiler construction. In the Lisp family, the symbol table is a run-time resource. In this sense, Scheme is a member of the Algol family and not a member of the Lisp family."

(http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3225240324630811@naggum....)
Personally, I'd want it at the neighborhood level. Though there may not be enough data within a reasonable timeframe at that level, it can at least be reasonably compared to a broader index for the city.

I don't think you get much at the zip code level that you wouldn't get at the Metro level.

The probability of a second reduction is also too simple. It makes no account for the market turning positive. That's precisely the error in modelling that failed us on the upswing: the assumption that present trends will continue.
It's interesting how entitled people feel from $10-15.

I'm just glad Toady (of Dwarf Fortress) doesn't have to deal with this kind of behaviour.
Becky Rusher Running for President (funny, but she's serious!)
Ask HN: Need feedback on my idea to improve long, threaded discussions
A reddit discussion with thousands of comments:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gpvqg/is_anyone_else_mad_that_people_are_using/

My attempt at trying to improve discoverability and readability:

http://threadit.blazingrails.com/discussions/7
Just Googled around and found http://www.backupify.com/ or maybe something like http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/google-docs-backup

Has anyone tried those products?
Nginx - why you should be running it instead of, or at least in front of Apache
Forget about live, I'd buy a flip that had the ability to automatically upload its videos whenever it's in a hotspot and save to card when it isn't.
I'd love to know why the op was downvoted. I've only had experience with Dreamhost and they've always been good, but then again, I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be looking for. So any explanation would really come in handy.
If those 500+ rooms are all included, that's only about $140 per night. Not free, but one hell of a (hacking) conference destination.
Ironically, it is what he thinks it is.
IMO English language gets in the way a lot here.

Teaching my then 4yo the decimal system I dropped in some binary, in a similar way to this class - except for him we called it "robot language". He knew it from watching a few (PG!) episodes of Futurama. Hey, if Bender talks it then it's cool and that's enough to spark some interest.

I try to get him to interpret 12 as "one ten and two ones" or "one ten and two more" and say then they we just call it 12. In the same way 1100 in robot language is "one 8, one 4 and 0 twos and 0 ones".

When I'm president of the world number-names are up for reform!
It sounds interesting, but I'm curious what being the Chipotle of registrars actually means?
From the article:
"The elegant Flipboard–which McCue recently told me in an onstage interview at the South by Southwest conference in Austin had zero revenues thus far"
Running a Modern Startup on PHP
I'm impressed by the UI, at least on video. It looks responsive and fluid, and the bezel gestures seem to work well. Not an easy feat!
Arrington Rants about not getting a phone
At that point, you may as well stay in a 700-suite hotel for your $100.
Technically minded Android users develop good software (like ConnectBot) for themselves, and then share it with the like minded community for free as in beer and free as in freedom.
While that is nice, couldn't (and isn't) this possible on any smart phone with 3G/4G and a video camera?
"And unlike contributions to your university’s general fund – when you invest in Y Combinator you get a return"

Interesting concept. Why aren't there schools who teach a specific job, which don't take money, but instead take a percentage of salary from the students for some fixed time? That way they have incentive to be good teachers.
Yes, but they didnt have to spend $200 on a new device to do it - they just used the camera built into their $400 laptop
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I was able to quickly and painlessly update my MX records for all the domains I have with them to my Google Apps setup. I recently noticed that Google Apps even setup a custom how-to page for NFSN users: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=54719
…or from "verified" accounts.

If you go this route, I guess you'd probably want to let @replies and DMs remain free (or give them a much higher cap).
I agree. FlipLive did infact do this (not automatic), albeit with some drawbacks that I cannot discuss in public. Even with those drawbacks, I think this was probably the most compelling use case for the average person.
Very interesting. I'm curious as to how you would get into this grad school as a single founder?

It was easy for me to get into grad school (I'm there now), but without a co-founder, I feel as though it would be very difficult to get into YCombinator, and I'll most likely meet my future co-founder here at grad school.
Because Stanford can charge a huge tuition and still get incredible endowments from alumn.
Sorry, trouble unregistering services with Boxcar. He'd turn off notifications, but they'd keep on coming.
Planning For "Day 2"
Let's get an HN super-meetup going. If everybody pitches in $100 it won't take too many members to rent out Liechtenstein for an all-HN users weekend!
Yeah mailbank became netidentity.
My thoughts, based on a few startups I've observed among my friends: once a startup gets to 2-3 full-time founders, the probability that it will fail because people aren't working hard enough goes near zero. The company might fail for other reasons, but once you have 2 or 3 dedicated, full-time founders, "lack of effort" is not even on the list of the top 20 things that can kill it. Occasionally, an individual person might drop below acceptable effort levels-- that person usually leaves for a more stable job in a month or two. It just doesn't make sense to work for a startup if you're going to put in a half-hearted effort, so the less committed people usually leave before they become a problem.

What I said above is untrue for some 1-person startups that are effectively abandoned, and for startups where people stay in their day jobs and therefore really aren't able to contribute enough to get the thing off the ground. But when you have 2 to 4 people working full-time on a startup, there are still a lot of things that can kill it (bad product, poor team dynamics, bad investor relations, just plain bad luck) but a lack of aggregate effort is very, very low on the list.

What seems to be far more common are hours- or sacrifice-related squabbles, and these can utterly break a company. Let's say two founders are working 80 hours per week and one is working 50, but they're all about equally valuable and productive. What happens if, when it's time to split equity, the third founder gets a smaller share? Possible fight. Or worse yet, what if he ends up with lower status within the company and is treated more like an employee, because he didn't "pull enough weight"? This is where fatal fractures happen. Nothing goes wrong because there wasn't enough effort, and nobody put in such a low level of effort as to cause problems, but the perception of unequal sacrifice and dedication has spawned a very nasty conflict that is destined, at some point in the future, to create a fight that could damage (or ruin) the company.

People tend to think of rules surrounding office hours and vacation allotments as exploitative in nature. They can be, but they're also there, in an odd way, to protect people against certain kinds of social dysfunction. Working from home, for example, is great when you have a good working culture, because people can work more productively and are happier. If the environment's dysfunctional, to have people working from home is going to make it a lot worse, because of the distrust that it will breed. In a dysfunctional work environment, it becomes important (until you've made your exit) to be cautious and show up at "normal" times, because the perception of working hard becomes more important than actually working hard.
Funny it doesn't seem that long ago (okay, ten years ago) Henry Blodget was on the other side of the fence.
I've not read it personally but i've seen recommendations for: Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 2nd Edition by Nicholas C. Zakas and published by Wrox.
for some of my searches, 80% of the stuff is spam. Would like the flagged spam to be moved to the bottom.

Many posts show up every single day. Would like the duplicates to be prevented.

If it worked more like HN that would be great.
HTML5 video player with Flash fallback
I don't see what's so tragic about the death of a consumer device that don't really sell.
They aren't a registrar. They are a reseller for a registrar located in India. Don't confuse resellers with registrars.
I did a grub during the interviews for the Winter 2011 batch and it was really helpful meeting the alumni but more importantly, the other interviewees.
What's with the emo articles? Grow up.
CloudFoundry Open Source
That's some good trolling there. Here's an idea: take your ignorance and go read a book, stop posting comments on the internet.
The humanist tradition of education is rich kids hanging out with scholars. That's how universities got started: rich kids, hanging out in fashionable cities, paying scholars a small fee to attend private seminars. "Lecturers" were people paid to read a book aloud to a large group. And so on.

The "capitalist" idea of education is actually a demotic idea of education: that the non rich kid can also attend the same scholars and get their money back some day. That model is well-entrenched because most kids attending are middle class.

Rich kids can still get an education for its own sake, if they want it.
Sounds nice ... but if it costs one developer $4000 a month just to take care of bills/rent/food and it costs the other $1000 then that is hardly fair. You are penalizing one developer based on the cost of living of the city they happen to be in.
This is precisely the reason why I don't use Google Docs for any mission-critical documents. Store them in Dropbox or some other shared, automatically-backed-up system where you can easily retrieve a copy from somewhere.

Always have redundancy too. We keep most of our files in Dropbox. But we all use Time Machine too. We also use version control for a lot of our work.

This might seem like overkill, but each has a specific use and purpose with the added bonus of providing us with backup redundancy.
really can't advice you without knowing more about your data/service..

value is very subjective, what amazon would pay for pennies might be dimes to others and what others would pay for dimes could be pennies or worthless to amazon.
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bouldair/sets/72157626498695232...
Must be a slow news day and he got bored & made up a reason to rant and spam the internet with more stuff no one really cares about.
haha - it wasn't all bad. Just nothing, i repeat nothing like my experience with YC.
Thank you for the heads up on the technical aspects of integration. Will take a peek at the JS.
Or, gym memberships?

I'm paying nearly 70 bucks a month for a membership I haven't used in over three months! (Mostly job related - 18 hour days leave very little room for the gym...)

I would love if the gym could check my activity and say, "Hi j79, we notice you haven't been her for a while. Your account will be suspended until your next check in..." But, realistically, I know that won't happen any time soon.

I keep telling myself once this project is released, I'll be hitting the gym, so no need to call anyone.

Basically comes down to me being lazy (in more ways than one...)
I think equally as important (but not more important) as the people you're studying with, are the people who are advising you. After all, I was always told to pick a grad school by the quality of the advisors you'd get to work with, not by the school's overall reputation. A really good grad school advisor teaches you not just the theory, but the "practical side" of theory - introducing you to their peers, explaining how grants get written and funded, walking you through paper writing and otherwise showing you how the sausage of research is actually made.

Of course, YC has plenty to offer in the advising department - that said, I think the distinction is worth noting. Why? Because I think there will be more quality advisors shaken out of the woodwork by YC-like programs - particularly in different cities where perfectly talented mentors have built their fortunes and families and have no desire to move from. Just like not everyone has to go to Harvard to become a great grad student, people won't have to go to YC to have great start-up mentoring. And that's a good thing; our economy needs more than one "startup grad school". I'm excited not just about YC, but about the trend YC has kicked off - the number of great people attracted to other YC-like programs across the country is going to skyrocket, sooner rather than later. This will help the economy grow overall - and help shield the tech industry when the bubble that is "expensive academic credentialing as job qualification" pops.
Insufferable much?
The article stated: "and it can cause an hours-long DNS outage if it’s not done perfectly.".

The only case where there would be any dns outage is if the registrar is handling the dns. If the registrar isn't doing the dns there is zero dns outage. Part of the transfer process is that the old dns automatically gets carried over.

(I am an ICANN Accredited registrar one of the first..)

I think what people have to understand is that all registrars pay the same price for domains. Whether you are godaddy or the smallest. (The other costs are fixed). So I think it is obvious that you aren't going to have "price quality speed" all from the same place. Additionally registrars charging no money are either making money elsewhere or they are going to go out of business or using domains as a loss leader.
What happens when an air traffic controller is asleep?
It's a "too good to check" story, I'm afraid:

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/07/04/rent-a-state/

Or rather, "rent a country!" sounds sexier than "rent a few hotels!"
Sub-prime mortgages - even in the billions - were not enough to cause total financial implosion. However, CDO's (the value of which exceeded, I believe, $45 trillion), most certainly could.

So yes, yes, a hundred times yes. Fraudulently-rated CDOs were the heart and soul of the Crash. That, and extreme regulatory capture (which is something else that people who can't even afford home payments are unlikely to buy).
Whoops! Context lost when I posted that. What I was saying was .. I was a programmer on Star from 82-89. I went straight from college to Xerox - and it was like working in a time machine. Network based file and print servers, email, directory services, mouse, GUI, etc etc. All on machines that had at most 1.5 megabytes of memory.
How to Remove a Windows Computer Virus
Bob Hair Cuts,Bob Hairstyles,Short Hair Styles
The Bob hair cut is one of those classics hairstyles that seem to never go out of trend. No matter what the current fashion goes, it is always there.
Win2K was probably one of the best versions of Windows, if not the best.
"Today’s registrars compete on price. nameptr.com’s goal will not be to compete on price, but on the user’s experience."

This won't work. You either have to charge more than people will be willing to pay or sell them things they need (or don't need). You can't make money doing what you are doing.

(Written by an actual ICANN Acredited regitrar..)
In this world of airplanes and shipping services, there's no non-medical non-legal reason why you're stuck in any particular expensive city. Choosing to live in a big expensive city is an expense choice that you make, just like buying a premium brand.