skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a horrifying, timeless moment, I thought you were serious. I thought you were some kind of Paul Carr-level social media twat, and that you genuinely thought that a Chinese restaurant spamming you via facebook rather than via paper was a legitimate advance in technology.

Then I looked at your other comments, and realized that I had just been trolled so hard that it had more in common with a religious experience than ordinary, mortal satire. My vision went gray. I saw angels beckoning me to a bright white place. There was harp music, reasonably priced German beer, etc etc.

You are really amazingly good at this. If someone isn't already paying you to dick with people on the internet, they should be.
It takes so long for Adobe to load etc., Then once it loads you have to zoom out, scroll between pages instead of clicking between them, etc. The trend of viewing pdfs in scribd is a good one from my perspective.
I added this article that John Gruber at Daring Fireball had linked to analyzing the rock and hard place iOS developers are in with this patent claim:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546140

(Disclosure: I'm one of them and potentially in violation.)
Conspiracy of the masses
hey, this looks interesting, merits more attention
you always find the most interesting stuff on kicstarter
“Art is not traditionally an open-source practice,” Mr. Watz, who is represented by the DAM gallery in Berlin, noted dryly at the open house.

Well, some art is. Music scores. Pretty much all literature. "Open source" at least to the extent that people can (modulo local laws) make copies for friends, given performances and readings, etc.

But I get his point. There is much art tied to specific physical objects. It's an interesting fetishization. Also profitable. Duchamp declares this or that found object to be art, but while there may be any number of essentially identical objects none of them are granted that magical glow of "art".

Artificial scarcity <-> Art-official scarcity.
I'm sure that America's innovation exists beyond Silicon Valley.
I've assumed that the goal was to intentionally add a degree of friction to the comment process. As readers, we're now forced to at least scan for content, rather than a number. This has actually benefited my experience in 3 ways:

- I actually am able to digest the content from all of the comments, simply because I'm forced to devote a few moments more to them than before, rather than jumping to the "Top Votes"

-I post less, simply because I've already seen my opinion argued in the less prominent comments. I've noticed that since comment volume is down, this must be the same for others as well. This just decreases the overall noise in the comments themselves

- There's less votebait comments now that the comment number has become downplayed. Many of the "Top Voted" comments were intentionally written to garner votes, rather than to encourage group discussion and knowledge.

I'm personally for this switch, and I'd even argue that removing post scores would be a step in the right direction as well, based on my opinion of the comment score removal.
I don't think anyone's talking about allowing ineptitude at either the basic or advanced level of licensing. My uncle is a 60-something plumber who primarily performs minor residential repairs. Every year, he has to go to continuing education on building code changes. He hasn't done new construction work in years, and most of the building codes have to do with commercial structures anyway. He would gladly forgo his ability to work on new construction and large structures if it meant that he didn't have to attend such extensive training sessions. Surely, one could learn a subset of all plumbing/electrical/etc. knowledge and still be competent for a subset of all work in the genre.
$1,500 there feels like $150,000 here. It's like people from Japan who come here and say "US is so cheap, a high end meal is just $50 or max $100, I can eat facy 5 times a week!" I tell them that would change once you start earning in US dollars, thats when the equation will adjust itself and you will realize output is a function of input.
> The people you want to hire are not looking for jobs.

This is so true, and why it's so important to be involved in the local tech scene if you're trying to hire technical people. The really talented and productive people are probably already in a very comfortable and rewarding place (lets face it, they've got options), and may actually be avoiding recruiters (I know a lot of people who are). But if you can click with them in a settings like a local tech meetup or lunch with a mutual group of friends and coworkers, they may actually listen to you when you try to convince them to leave the good thing they've got for your (presumed) greener pastures.
What other nation in the world offers a better approach?
This isn't really a good or a bad thing, its just a reflection of how that country's resources fit into the global economy.

Yes and no. The fact is that some people are dumb. Half the population has a two-digit IQ. As we transition from an economy full of easy jobs (guy who puts things together on a construction line) to hard jobs (guy in charge of a hundred robots which put things together on a construction line) we run out of things which these sorts of people can actually do.
to be able to do things like SpaceX one need to have starting capital. While i'm also disgusted by it (mainly i guess because i haven't been able to utilize it :), this meaningless innovation is the fastest track to make such starting capital. What i'm surprized about is why so few SpaceX around. A lot of people have made the enough money to start work on cancer cure and the likes. May be at this level of money, one just don't care anymore. Well, the more is my respect to Musk.
Is there really a working model? The 'film' looks like CG superimposed on a live background.
Google & Facebook Prove Big Brands are Sleazy.
> Perhaps a solution would be to stratify the definition of "plumber"

It already has been. The really skilled people are called pipefitters and hate being called plumbers. Most industrial work is done by pipefitters, and plumbers do residential/commercial work.
Great list. It confirms a lot of my findings over the last few months.

Side note: I wish the Rails team would take more of the Django approach and build some of these features into the core.
Every CEO has no idea what they're doing the first time they're a CEO. Most don't know it. Many won't know it even after the been a CEO for years.

If I was applying for a job at svpply, I'd be happy that CEO knows what he doesn't know: it's much better then someone thinking they know everything and not having a clue.
He's not just advocating deception, he's advocating that if you deceive anyone, be sure to first deceive yourself.
Legality of immigration aside, illegal employment is always a factor in the labor market. I'm glad you don't blame the migrant workers for it.
Actually we do "everything email":

Detailed searchable mail logs: we actually tell you what happens to every single one of your messages - nobody else is that brave!

Incoming email push - and our parsing/cleanup of incoming traffic is pretty impressive - if it's time to self-promote, it's now. And our incoming email handling if flexible: we do routing/forwarding, similar to Rails/Django routes.

Storing/hosting your email traffic and giving POP3/IMAP access to it - nothing stops you from giving each user of your app their own email address. Some customers do that very, very creatively.

Piping it through some battle-tested Mixpanel-powered analytics doesn't hurt too: some companies charge an arm and a leg just for that one feature.

Mailgun is not about merely pushing mail, we're more of an "sexy programmable ESP" :) We're just a bunch of oddballs who thought that running an ESP business would be fun!
Facebook, well I agree is meaningful.

But n th Facebook app/game, photosharing, UX/Design nonsensical blogging platform is surely isnt innovation.

The issue is that while Wealth might be a non zero sum game, talent is a zero sum game.
More people making crap apps mean lesser people working on meaningful innovation in Healthcare, Energy and Computing.

And this sad trend is started by YC/TC and the likes.
Actually all traditional VC firms such as KPCB do fund real innovative companies, e.g. BloomBox
Perhaps union management is concerned that, if there were too few plumbers, the union would no longer be deemed necessary by its members? Also, are union pension plans fully-funded, or do they rely upon contributions from current members? I have no idea.
Follow the imdb link: it's humor, you know.
Dropbox Lied to Users about Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges
Show HN: Archivist, stream live concerts to your iPhone
May as well just finish it off with "everyone who uses a smartphone for any purpose anywhere." They'll get there. They're just testing to see just how far they can push it.

Even the trolls are starting to shake their heads in disbelief when they discover just how far the absurdity can be taken. But why say no to free money?
This article is geographically myopic. If you're in Palo Alto, you think that all the smart kids are trying to make yet another Color. If you're in New York, you think that all of the best STEM grads are trying to get into the financial industry. Both viewpoints don't capture the big picture of "American innovation."
While his expulsion is completely expected, arresting him? Really?
This epitomizes the problem with fresh-out-of-school "founders" who view their startup as some sort of a post-grad experience. The guy mentally still is in a high school, but is supposed to be a responsible adult running a company. Every businessman has challenges running their business, but not every challenge is something that has to be known publicly. Business is supposed to be ran from the quiet office, not from the confessional booth.

If I would be an investor in this guy's company, I'd be really pissed off.
Google, almost definitely, because the RIAA wants us to pay for every possible slightly different way to use music, while Google would just help you make your music conveniently available everywhere.

Given that, I wonder if Google couldn't hit them where it hurts and start giving some artists non-exploitative contracts. You know, not playing the game where they refuse to release your last album until you sign up for a contract extension, or all those other little tricks they have that are practically industry standards.

If they started threatening the RIAA in terms of music production & marketing as well as distribution, the big RIAA labels could be made irrelevant.
The linked Chicago Tribune report

http://triblocal.com/oak-park-river-forest/2011/05/10/studen...

hardly provides any more detail. What is the basis for the disorderly conduct charge?

AFTER EDIT: Thanks for the helpful comments. It sounds like the kid in question might be able to get the charges dismissed, with help from a competent constitutional lawyer.
Nah. 500k investment for a product as great as Svpply is fine. And Ben has loads of vision, he created the site!
So, instead of cracking down drug dealers and gangs they decide to arrest a minor for making a list of how hot/ugly the girls are at his school? Glad to see the police force there is hard at work.
If I'd be investor, I'd prefer my CEO tell the truth in my face, not in the blog post for the rest of the world to see.
Depends on where you live - here in NYC there's things like Makeville where you can take classes, would assume there are similar in most urban centers.

If there aren't any, it's the same as learning programming - pick a small project and look for how-tos (like this breadbox, for example: http://www.am-wood.com/nov97/bread.html) and have at it. Work your way up to more complicated things once you've got some skills and tools under your belt.
So, when are they going to arrest the makers of America's Next Top Model?
What's a 'no-shop'?
Rails 3.1 JavaScript templating with Sprockets
Heh. That was quite funny, the way you put it.

Seriously though, the chap who figures out controlled nuclear fusion will quite likely work out of a physics lab in a University both of which are funded by the ad dollars I you & the rest of humanity spend on facebook.
I use this in the morning right after I wake up. Not even joking. It is amazing to just play a live concert over Airplay, especially since it filters down to bands in my ipod library.
Bitcoin. The international bankers won’t like it, but gamers might.
Wouldn't they need to pass some kind of legislation to make such an exception?
HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet
We use and love Postmarkapp (http://www.postmarkapp.com). They have an awesome interface, and SMTP relaying is reliable, and nice reports. MailGun seems to go further than Postmarkapp though, in that they doing inbound automatons.
To be fair, the RIAA & co. is working night and day to weaken the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions and to extend the MGM v. Grokster case's ruling about inducement as far as possible.

I'm sure that Google did a proper legal analysis to stay within the bounds of the law, but there are people out there working hard to change the law.
Give Us Your Huddled Masses of Engineers
I'm not super impressed by Amazon's cloud drive so far, but I immediately signed up for the 50GB/$50 a year plan and am now using it at work.

So far my experience is mixed, but I hope there will be enough early adopters to encourage them (and Google) to take a stand against the RIAA insistence on new payoffs whenever users wish to do something with items they already own.

When Apple's offering appears I'll have to see what it offers, but if it involves licensees or smallprint (only songs purchased via iTunes etc) there's virtually zero chance that I'll sign up, for exactly the same reason.
They don't really compare because the majority of Blogger blogs were still readable. Editors just couldn't create new posts. Often when Tumblr goes down you can't even read it.
They should have gave to those who were selected despite of non-random. Cmon they must be freaking depressed now!
It might be interesting to determine what IS consistent about your use of periods like that. Is it purely random or does it depend on context?
I'm a long time AS fan. While there are many rails crud/scaffold/admin plugins, and I have analysed them all, none beats the power, customisability and featurefullness of AS.

The only thing that holds it back is the learning curve, wich is strange, because behind it is just plain rails philosophy: controller methods + views with a tasty DSL to plug them together.

A big thanks to Volker for his huge work on pushing it to rails3 compatibility.

The current rails3 branch (Volker's) it very stable.

What remains to be done to make it even more awesome is:

* use nested_attributes_for and clean the custom nested attrs logic

* clean security layer witch at the moment uses gobals (and can only be used in shared nothing deploy)

* request local configuration copy to make it more runtimeasible, at the moment it uses a class var (global-ish) that, for some customisations, needs to be altered per request, and that again leads to only-shared-nothing-deploy

* ActiveModel API so Mongoid can join the fun too

* a child gem that bundles AS to make a fully featured admin interface, competing with rails_admin & friends.
I'm a happy SendGrid customer, but I'll definitely give you guys a look. Thanks for the details.
I don't think it's really necessary to use true quantum randomness. A good-enough-for-government-work definition of a random drawing is that every applicant has an equal chance (to N decimal places) of being chosen at the time they submit their application.

For this, pseudorandom is good enough. Sure, it's completely deterministic which applications will get chosen once you've chosen your algorithm and seed. But how do you choose your seed? Probably from the clock at the time you run the program. And what determines the precise time you run the program? Why, a bunch of neural signals going around in the head of the dude whose job it is to press "enter" on the greencard lottery program.

There are some purposes for which random is better than pseudorandom, this ain't one of 'em.
But MSFT still has a 1.6% stake in Facebook, don't they? OK, so they may want to write it off should the Skype gamble pay off. I still have a feeling they will totally mess it up, though.
> Why does IP get such special protections?

A lot of expensive lobbyists.
24in60.com, sorry.
For those interested, here's a nice intro that offers some insight into that question.

http://www.johndcook.com/Beautiful_Testing_ch10.pdf
lanyrd.com to find conferences coming up...
I don't like to do everything myself. I'm actually very inclined to outsource stuff like this.

It doesn't sound very interesting for sending email. The receiving part is more interesting.

Still, it doesn't seem like it would save me enough time to warrant implementing your API, dealing with yet-another-service, and paying.

I don't mean to be too negative. One of my favorite kinds of businesses is taking something every company already does and "productizing" it.

Maybe I'll get tired of dealing with it myself and sign up. Either way, good luck!
> Would you rather this CEO put on an I-know-what-I'm-doing face, and imply that he's got this all under control?

Up front in my office or up front in a public blog? I certainly wouldn't want him scaring off potential deals with over-the-top candor.

> Dishonesty is dishonesty no matter how you cut it.

This is a ridiculous assertion. If you walk around saying every true thing that comes into your mind at best you'll be treated like you have Tourette's, and at worst you'll be a complete pariah. Honesty and integrity tend to fall in the "know it when you see it" camp for most people, but the criteria are far from black and white.
Yea, the illusion that celebrities are perfect needs to die. It dates back to the days of "legacy" PR which was based on controlling the meesage. Welcome to the PR 2.0 age (one name for it).
I like reading these types of blogs, but I find that most people end up quitting after a few weeks. I have about 4-5 on my RSS feeder that posted <10 times then went dead.
Show HN : Interesting Words
>What is the basis for the disorderly conduct charge?

absence of any other vaguely formulated charge that could have been stretched enough to cover this case. I mean, if the ranking list was factually incorrect, they would bring a libel.
Most serious innovation happens behind the scenes and out of the public's eye. Among other reasons, most of the public (the laypeople) do not understand the actual innovation concepts and technologies, so even if time was spent marketing it, it'd still end up as...

internet = tubes
SES is extremely easy. Unless you actually care about deliverability. Deliverability on the modern internet is hard. SES does not handle this. If Mailgun handles deliverability well, that alone is worth the price. Making it programmable is awesome.
I second the Prosody recommendation. I'm in the process of migrating my Jabber server to it, and it's quite slick.
Cool project! Does anybody know a similar library for Ruby? It's kind of a shame that Ruby really loses out to Python in this space
America, early 1900.
The product is great. All is else is secondary. For christ's sake the guy has Zach Klein on speed dial, they'll figure things out.

As as Svpply user, this only makes me want to root for them more. But to be fair, if I were a Svpply employee, my confidence in his vision of the company might waver a tiny bit.
Has been misused. They already falsely accused a great many sites of being associated with pedophilia in one of their domain seizures. And now they want to expand that program.
When the contestants are entered against their will and described using racial slurs?

The charge in this case was unreasonable, but on the other hand so was the kid's behaviour. If a TV show did pick on fifty random women from the street and start pointing out the flaws in their appearances then people would be rightfully upset about that too...
Here's hoping this price stays this high for at least a month. That'll give me enough time to pay off my shiny new graphcis card
existence of drug dealers and gangs supports and promotes the police force and power increase. Getting habit of freely expressing your non conformist opinions is a path to subversion of existing power (dis)balance.
I like those ideas a lot. I hadn't thought about it in enough detail to come up with similar ones, but that's exactly what I was hoping for.

The problem, of course, is that it's hard to find a metric for "close enough" that works for every program. Perhaps it's easier if you're compiling from a high-level language than from C.
Wrong. He got his 850k followers thanks to being on the twitter suggested user list. He hasn't moved at all since the list changed - have a look and see. He is also an investor in Twitter.
Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice
That can't be true. The guy who publishes scientific papers on the trajectory of penguin excrement and gets to talk about it at TED couldn't be involved in this kind of shit, could he?
In Illinois it is, apparently, incredibly vague:

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=07...

a) A person commits disorderly conduct when he knowingly:
(1) Does any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace
I like interesting words ...

Clicking on the word reveals it's meaning ... and a reload gets another word.

I'm currently working on harvesting various corpora and on different measures of "interesting".

I might add commenting on specific words and submission of words soon.
App Engine talks from Google IO 2011
What are the odds that a police officer's daughter was on the list?
Hypotheses: Tacobell is real beef
I've got to assume that the headline is wrong; it's not the Facebook page that got him into trouble, but that he passed his list around while at school.

I think there's no question that comments on a Facebook page are protected speech.
Offensive and illegal are distinct concepts. Being offensive isn't against the law - if it were, there are plenty of racial supremacists who are far higher priority arrests than some kid playing Facemash.
Jaysonelliot I so get where you are coming from and I respect it, I really hate how sometimes we don't do a good job explaining where we are coming from and I did that here, I dont want to get business from this I was just referring to the issue at hand that this stuff needs to be looked at from a business sense not just saying here is "social media" I really respect your thoughts and please know if you knew me better you would know I am not coming from that direction at all!
High schooler challenges Bachmann to debate on U.S. Constitution