skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He graphs the number of bitcoins over time, which is basically meaningless. If he were to graph the number of transactions, the number of users, or the total value of all bitcoins, he'd get an exponential curve upwards much like the twitter curve.
we're on it, coming soon!
w00t 40 servers - 100% node.js? So you've got one of the largest node installations out there, right?
$3000 from ads on Iconfinder.com
I'm not hating, merely pointing out that $1000 profit is not unheard of for someone just getting started.
SAAS company, 2 people, no funding. $6k/month after paying the support person. completely passive income, e.g. i don't check email any more.
Although not as featureful as pv, try hitting CTRL+t under OS X or any of the BSDs during a long running process. It provides status of the current running process without having to prefix the command with pv. I blogged about this a while back: http://jz.posterous.com/bsd-tip-of-the-day-ctrl-t
In college I sold all my essays (and random articles) on Associated Content, and I would buy my dorm buddies papers from them and then put them on Associated Content too.

To this day, with completely bad articles frozen in time, I still make about $15-20 a month for doing nothing for years. AC got bought by yahoo, so now I get paid by Yahoo - forever, for nothing but page views while they host it.
Have we really lost any freedoms?

Not per se. But it is withdrawal of extra freedoms/features that electronic media and the internet provide e.g. nearly-free copying and distribution and random access.

There are many possible (and legal) applications that are made impossible, even for the buyer of a book. Think e.g. of corpus linguistics, applications for automatic annotation of phrases, etc.

The media companies are trying to turn what is new and provides enormous potential benefits to the population into what is old, because it is easier to stay with old business methods than to reinvent yourself.
Twitter and users sued over UK injunction breaches
What apps are they?
With respect to the performance of Clarium, I am reminded of a quote: Markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Look, I love the law as much as my fellow citizen but this is ridiculous. If you don't like the restrictions placed on you by Amazon, don't obey them! Just break the DRM and give your books to whoever you please. Until Amazon actually manages to track and prosecute people who do this, which doesn't exactly seem likely, you haven't lost anything at all.

You are a human with free will. You can choose to do whatever you think is ethical and rational. If you think it's ethical to give books to other people, and you aren't going to suffer for it, then why aren't you doing it? I think it's really weird that we can sit here on Hacker News and talk about these arbitrary restrictions that Amazon has made as if they are actually restricting something. They are restrictions in name only.
Strange that a site by google and for mobile app developers hardly works at all in android's browser...
That's impressive. 1984 wasn't the Soviets, it's the US.
You'll note that I stated explicitly that I'm not following standard paleo. I gave the following as one of the resources I like: http://www.archevore.com/get-started/ (formerly panu.com, for Paleo Nu).
I make a few thousand a month from http://www.w3counter.com (freemium) and http://www.w3roi.com (no free plan).

The sites have similar revenue despite the freemium one having over 1000 times more total users.
I'll point to the music industry for prior art: Originally, the CD you purchased was your to enjoy in perpetuity unless you chose to resell it. Current 'state of the art' is either:

A. Purchase a streaming 'membership' where you only have the right to personally stream music from a remote server

B. Purchase encrypted, non-transferrable 'tracks' which will become unplayable when the company supplying them stops running their servers.

There are still avenues (Amazon mp3) which do not take this approach (DRM), but you still cannot legally resell the goods you purchased.
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Seems like an overreaction, imho. This is likely a case of poor Privacy Policy writing and general ineptitude, rather than deliberate evil.

From their feature list:
"Easy to use : when a video is detected, the download button becomes clickable." - i.e. our plugin sends all URLs to us for analysis, we respond telling the plugin whether to activate the button

"Integrated Traffic Rank indicator for all the sites you visit." - i.e. we need a way of measuring unique visits to everything

Still, interesting, and good on this guy for bringing it into the public eye.
This is entirely IT's fault, though. Why did they allow a rogue server on to the production farm in the first place? Why did the idiot have access to them?

While the blame should still be entirely on the idiot, it's still IT's job to make sure that the production environment is secure and functioning. They should have as much control of the environment as possible to ensure that they can ensure that. If they are unable to do that, then they are simply not doing their job right, and should be pushing management for more resources or training.
China Economic 'Facade' Starts to Show Cracks
The one rule I've never broken is this - don't work on bad code.
There's tons of really shitty code in "enterprise software" type places - IBs, banks & such. Its not too hard to get a 6-figure job at these places, but then the real fun begins. If you get assigned to work on a trading system that nobody wants to touch because its super-brittle, you should run for your life; unless
a. you have an immigrant visa issue, or
b. you badly need the money.
Some of my colleagues in IBs fell into both those buckets :(
So they simply stayed put.

Other than IBs, I've also worked at 2 startups - very clean code, and very fun code as well - like a homegrown 3D API in Java to draw & rotate the globe & locate your city on it - way back in 1996, when Java was 1 year old & had no 2D API even! The best even Sun could do at that time was this tumbling duke animation on netscape ( http://bit.ly/jnZFwz), and this startup headed by 2 smart computer graphics experts from MIT rewrote their graphics engine in Java to rotate a whole geographically-accurate globe in netscape!

Nowadays you see a protovis demo ( http://bit.ly/imMuSE ) & think, Hey, I can think of a dozen places where the data could be modelled that way. Why don't they ? Cause they're "Big Companies". So they'll stick to tables with links to more tables that link to even more tables! If you think about it, a portfolio of derivatives who underlying maps to a cross-correlated matrix is essentially a force-directed graph whose vertices are growing & shrinking as they trade throughout the day. If you think the vertex is about to pop, sell it! Instead, "Big Companies" will hire tons of analysts who will simply stare at tabular Excel screens of rows & columns & red/green alert button like you're back in the 1970s. There are startups doing really cool stuff with trading & visualization, but they don't take off - simply because of inertia & retraining of existing traders to stare at graphs instead of tabular rows & columns :)
Maybe 10 years from now...
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that studies and/or those who do them are not very trustworthy? I have watched studies conclusively prove that eating chicken eggs will:

kill you sooner, make you live longer, have no measurable effect, cure cancer, cause cancer, and defeat communisms (joke)

Similar cycles for other types of food. Similar cycles various types of activity.

Having watched this for so long, am I really going to suddenly believe that carbs are evil, that I should found a new moral system (and a new diet) on the latest studies which, in my experience are going to be shown wrong in a few years anyway. Or should I just go ahead an eat the way I've observed the people who live to be old eat?

Related: look up the story of the boy who cried wolf.
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Wood floors are beautiful
They have that distinctive feel, and they are sturdy, and they are warm and they last forever!
You're right. My initial reading was the closure closed over extra objects (which would be a leak so long as the DOM node is live), but I think the OP is worried about the DOM node leaking.
Unemployed, educated and indebted: More Millennials seeking work outside U.S.
Better conditional classnames for hack-free CSS
People plan to work into their 70s or later
I make ~$2,000 a month with an iPad game for cats. My co-founder and I were working on a "more serious" game and it was taking a long time. We needed a quick win, so I agreed to do it if we spent less than 4 weeks on it.

We completed the game from idea to app store in 3.5 weeks and it is now, by far, our most popular game. * face palm *

EDIT: We split the revenue 50/50, so the revenue (after apple's cut) on this game is around $4k/mo.
I wonder why it is so easy to take down these sites, as I am under the impression that Anonymous consists mostly of script kiddies. Are these attacks DDoS? That shouldn't be too hard to arrange if you're with enough people + perhaps some unemployed botnets.
Vertical splitting, server/client architecture (shared process), non-crap codebase if you want to dig into it, BSD licensed instead of GPL. I also have no charset/encoding issues with tmux and it doesn't eat my scrollback.

I'm sure the latter points can be remedied by config file settings for screen, but it's nice to use software that just works once in a while.
I think its best for both app developers and web developers and more importantly users if they settled on a single set of idioms, the web is an application platform.
If you have Omnigraffle, you could try this:

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/413
I'd like to see some proof of that. Or in the words of Wikipedia, 'Citation Needed'
Working with git? These aliases will save you even *more* hours
Is it because you're US based?
Considering all the abuses that giant media companies visit on us daily with attacks on "pirates", bittorrent, etc. maybe you should be providing us with concrete proof that there this is no such plan in the works.
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but absolutely none of that requires a unique identifier, which is where this article focuses most of it's gripe.
I'm a little unclear why you are referencing patent law.

Anyhow, it seems strange that you feel like you have a right to something produced by someone else. I'm not sure they should be able to make laws making circumvention illegal. But, aren't you complaining because you can't access someone else's work in a manner that you think is convenient?

The whole "our rights are being squashed because I can't share my ebook with you" argument reeks a little too much of entitlement for me to get behind it.
Congratulations, I'm curious what is the level of the graphic design/overall presentation of the finished product? Without revealing it.

> -I don't openly connect myself to my apps, mostly because they are a little embarrassing. Maybe I'll write a blog post tell-all.

I know some prominent iOS developers who have a throwaway LLC where they test stuff. There is no shame in making what the market wants. Remember the ideal customer for most iOS apps are teenagers with their parent's credit card. Most of them are willing to drop $1 to look cool(er) to their friends. It's all about making someone look interesting or cool. Or momentary, interruptible entertainment. Not about business productivity.
It's definitely a stretch to say we all run into these issues, but you'd be surprised how many beginner and intermediate-level developers don't know about this issue precisely because they've been insulated from it by frameworks.

There are plenty of situations where developers can find themselves dealing with insane JavaScript implementations and irresponsible JavaScript frameworks. While the article doesn't explain exactly what the issue is and which browsers it affects (leading me to believe the author himself doesn't truly understand these memory leaks), the recommendation given is a sound one.
I have a similar thing in my .gitconfig:

[alias]
rm-a = "!git ls-files -z --deleted | xargs -0 git rm"
A 93-year-old underwear model?
I'd say "people in Europe" is way too general, I'm sure there are regions such as the UK where obesity is as bad as the US.

I've dealt with vendors from southern France and Western Italy and when they come here they are shocked at portion sizes and how much pop people drink, it's all anyone drinks. Even I see the difference from many years go portions are huge even people are huge, it's hard to find clothing that isn't over-sized and baggy.

Claiming corn syrup is bad meanwhile people drink it morning, noon and night seems to indicate it's equally the fault of a culture that is comfortable with eating so much crap but seeing it as normal then blaming it for their problems.

At work we have a pop machine which up until a few years ago due a provincial law could only dispense glass bottles, all carbonated beverages had to be in a glass container. The glass bottles were about 315ml, then the law changed (because people wanted cans) and the next day the pop machines was stocked with the modern plastic bottle but they were nearly 600ml. The fridge at work was full of half bottles of pop because people couldn't drink their 600ml beverages in one sitting but gradually over the next month or two people adjusted and now drink the entire 600ml in one sitting almost double. HFCS or not who is to blame for that? The person drinking it.
I don't know anybody that doesn't at least express regret over the fact that books on their Kindle can't be shared, and I know more than one family that shares one giant account for all their purchases as a workaround. It's definitely not something people are completely happy with, although they're not as up in arms as I'd like...
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Wikileaks releases All Secret US Cables related to Pakistan
...or airports...?
Lending your kindle is like lending ALL of your books. When I lend book A, I can still read book B. That's why I stick to dead trees for the time being.
Yes, but for a startup you don't want to settle. The point is that it's still better to have a kickass one in the same room.
First, I would leave Twitter out of the calculation, not because I don't think they solve a real need, but because I think it actually solves many for different types of people[0].

Beyond that, most companies are solving a real need:

- Can't find anything worth finding on the Internet? Google.

- Need a way to commoditize software for users? Microsoft.

- Need to use a car on occasion in a big city? Zipcar

- Have a spare room or need somewhere to crash? AirBnB

Yes, you can get lucky by throwing darts and seeing what sticks, but much better to have a known problem to solve (and known by more than the founders ;).

[0] Alternatively, they may just be lucky or a hype filled machine. Or, they might understand the market in an Apple-like way and are driving it. We may never know, because it could be the latter, but poor decision making at some point make it look like the former.
In fact, I've just emailed him telling him that. Gotta throw these people the occasional bone.
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Check out Sensible TableView from http://www.sensiblecocoa.com/ - they make UITableView customization really easy now. They weren't ready until 2.0 so we rolled our own but wow...
> How many people are boycotting the Kindle because the lending feature is broken?

Yesterday Amazon announced they're selling more titles on Kindle than hardback and paperback put together.

> How fast would I get sued if I made a magical piece of software that allowed people to lend digital music purchases to their friends in some hypothetical way exactly analogous to lending them a physical CD (i.e., only one copy ever exists)?

What does this have to do with me asking you for some evidence that people were more accepting of the fact that they can't lend books out?

> How fast is the RIAA lawyering up over Amazon et al offering services where I can store my music in their cloud and stream it to myself?

Again, not sure what this has to do with you saying people accept that it's reasonable to not lend out books.

I think we understand different things by "evidence" - you're positing hypotheticals.

[updated to add missing not in my penultimate sentence]
Brian Kennish, who is mentioned in the story, is the author of disconnect. He helped the WSJ do the research, here is the original article:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870428150457632...

for some reason the Y! version trimmed some parts of the story
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I stopped reading after this:

> I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train

Everything after this is guaranteed to be bullshit.
Without addressing whose fault it is, let's just say that in the last ten years one hundred thousand different people have worked for Bank of Not Canada. They run the spectrum from "Could give talks at Black Hat" to "Could possibly be allowed to put on a hat without killing themselves, if carefully supervised at all stages of haberdashery."

All it takes is one guy screwing up one decision on his worst day six years ago.
There really aren't that many good resources out there. That being said, here's some of the better ones to get you started:

http://365psd.com/day/234/

http://365psd.com/day/2-16/

http://365psd.com/day/64/

http://365psd.com/day/308/

http://365psd.com/day/249/

http://365psd.com/day/iphone-music-player/

http://365psd.com/day/91/

http://365psd.com/day/70/
Just a reminder - you can always stick your Kindle in a photocopier. Works quite well!
Tongue-in-check submission as it mimics this post, currently at 70 points and on the front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567123

Which, IMO, are pretty basic aliases. Definitely good, but not front-page-of-HN good.

Anyway, if the title worked for him... :-)
It seems like the "Integrated Traffic Rank indicator" could, if they wanted to distinguish uniqueness by users rather than unique IPs.

Not that it's a good idea.
do a 'whois' on ant.com. I thought it interesting.
<nit>
$ man alias
No manual entry for alias
$ man bash

ALIASES
Aliases allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used as the first word of a simple command.
</nit>

alias is not a standalone, it's part of the shell (in bash at least).
I'd like to see real evidence of that. Every entrepreneur I've met treated the business like a child. I've never seen one walk away bored (too be clear, I'm talking in anecdotes, which may be wrong, but you'll have to convince me with real evidence).
"Not per se. But it is withdrawal of extra freedoms/features that electronic media and the internet provide e.g. nearly-free copying and distribution and random access."

This just means that these attributes (sharing, copying, etc.) are not something inherent to the medium. While I agree that these restrictions can prevent cool features from being enabled, it's a stretch for me to believe I'm entitled to those features.

It also sounds like you're projecting a little onto the media companies with your last paragraph. Isn't it just as reasonable that they are clinging to old business methods because the new ones may cause their non-existence? In that sense, they are acting in rational self preservation.
In this scenario, the server doesn't start out as rogue. It was an existing production machine, then superseded by an upgrade to a new set of production hardware. You have to understand that in companies the size of "Bank of Canada", everybody is terrified of upsetting production functionality in the slightest. In almost every corporate upgrade, the old machine gets left there "just in case". And this is probably rightly so playing the probabilities of the outcomes; the small fraction of superseded machines that come back into service is still much larger than the fraction that get subverted into blackhattery.

"Why did the idiot have access to them"? He's not presumed to be an idiot or bozo. He's trusted as an employee. Corps generally don't have the time or manpower or profitability incentive to spy on every action of their own personnel. You only know if somebody is a clown after the fact.

"IT's job to make sure that the production environment is secure and functioning" -- IT isn't some mythical infallible entity. IT comprises human beings too, who can make mistakes or look the other way for expediency or even themselves don a black hat.
Getting a free ride doesn't have to be all that complicated. In the course of consulting work with a number of different transit agencies I accidentally found a way to get free rides on those systems with a $20 investment.
It's a mistake to hire a Gen Y
Lack of work ethic. Demanding and impatient. Those are a few of the words used to describe Generation Y who are now in the workforce.
> "I'm going to do my best to live without being a consumer of gasoline, just as I did in Chicago."

Try doing this in north-eastern Montana.

(Or, better yet, don't. You'll die.)
As noted in the comments of the article:

"This article is not new but was first published in 'The Australian' in July 2008. [Evans] has never published a peer-reviewed paper on climate change and, up until 2008, has only published one paper in 1987 on a totally unrelated subject. From 1999 to 2006 Evans consulted to the Australian Greenhouse Office designing a carbon accounting system that is used by the Australian Government to calculate its land-use carbon accounts for the Kyoto Protocol. While Evans says that he "knows a heck of a lot about modeling and computers," he states clearly that he is "not a climate modeler." Evans has published an article for the Alabama-based Ludwig von Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank: Evans also published a background briefing document for the Australian chapter of the Lavoisier Group, a global warming "skeptic" organization with close ties to the mining industry."

So take that however you like.
http://ridewithgps.com is signing up around $4k a month of recurring (yearly and monthly) users. Exciting to see what happens when we start promoting our premium services, and, excited to see the yearly people get rebilled starting in 10 months...
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My web games portal http://fstr.net earns about $5 per month. I put in a couple of hours a week looking through the games list and picking a few to become 'features'

If I put hours in I can do better - If I submit links to gaming sites it can earn a few dollars a day :)

I couldn't figure out how to scale the traffic, so I've left it on autopilot while I try building other sites. I have a blog that earns about the same and am working on a new idea now that I hope will be 'the one'

My overall goal is to build an autopilot site (or portfolio of sites) that earns ~$90/day. Then ... become a sci fi author.

(LOL ... damn you Tim Ferris! I wasn't miserable in my work-a-day life until I read your damned book - two years later I'm still trying to achieve those dreams of freedom!)
Typing on the command line is not like typing in a code file: it's perhaps the least forgiving environment for typos, and tiny mistakes can have huge consequences. A good typist can re-type the correct text after the command finishes--maybe a moment too late. A good coder takes pains to avoid the mistake in the first place.
What makes it all that much more complicated is that diet is, in fact, the best way to lose weight. Losing weight through exercise is incredibly hard and unrewarding (and often unsuccessful), but to keep the weight off after losing it, exercise is essential.
Vertical splitting screen has. Software architecture, perceived code quality, and BSD license are not features.

I'm glad that there is competition in this space, but you tmux evangelists need to realize that there is a lot of work that needs to be done before tmux is really "an amazing improvement to screen."