skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would I provide a service for free when I could do it for cash

The article is not saying you should, its saying that open source the code you are selling, it might not hurt sales at all, in fact it may improve them, I work for a software vendor (couchbase) where a lot of customers wouldnt even consider using a product that was not open source, but are still willing to pay.

> We are talking about software, not food or clothing. Digital goods are not physical goods so the comparison is irrelevant.

it is not irrelevant, freelance web developers have not lost their jobs because of the billions(+) of html/css/js code that is out there, they are paying for the process in which you came up with that code, then they give it to everyone for free, as all websites do.

> That is purely conjecture.

I think the burden of proof is on you here, open source is the base in which pretty much everything has been built, including this website, the web server it sits on, the programming language it was written in, the operating system that runs on, and more than likely the browser you are viewing it in.
I couldn't have said it better myself.

I also only invest in a city with outstanding economic fundamentals. I could invest in more depressed areas and have higher cash flow but the risk is not worth it to me.
This is a nice list; I haven't heard of most of these before. I was wondering, due to all the recent press about bitcoin, if there are any competing currencies for bitcoin, and this article helps answer that question. However, all of the resources listed seem to solve different problems than bitcoin. Several of them enable the user to create their own currency rather than provide a single new one. None of the systems/protocols/programs listed have all of the following features that bitcoin has:

1) Decentralized and solves the double-spending problem without a central server

2) Automatic and controlled production of new coins

3) The rules are governed by the software running on a majority of the computing power, and thus the rules can change if the majority of the software changes

So bitcoin is unique, but there these other tools may be complementary to bitcoin.
Is it possible to animate the sun on an arcing path using keyframes?
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I would love to hear more about this as well. How do you advertise? Do you just have the one free tutorial and the two paid tutorials (also sold as a bundle), or do you have others that I'm not seeing?
UK citizen here.

Yeah, I'm pretty outraged by it. I mean, we don't have true freedom of expression/speech/reporting over here (hence super injunctions), but it's still crazy how various rich people - mainly overpaid footballers - are having affairs and then bullying their way through the courts to protect their 'privacy'/overexcited lebido..

Plus we've now got the ridiculous situation whereby the person who cheated (in this case, Ryan Giggs..) is protected, whilst the person they cheated with (in this case, Imogen Thomas) is seeing their name dragged through the dirt. It's bizzare to say the least.

Thankfully this hopefully won't be as much of an issue in the future however, since a report was released today (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13465286) and the general consensus is that injuctions have been awarded too often and in the future they shouldn't be used (as much) for these purposes.

Still, it's pretty annoying that rich adulterers are being legally protected..
We just released this, and are looking for feedback. Here are the providers currently supported (only 5 of 10 support the geo-targeted testing): Route 53, Dyn, Cotendo, UltraDNS, EasyDNS, DNS Made Easy, Rackspace Cloud DNS (not Anycast), LoadDNS, DNS.com, SoftLayer
How many domains were you managing to achieve this?

Also, how did you monetize, ads or affiliates?
Evolution of Devops survey from Puppet Labs ...
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That explanation works until you see crap that categorically would have been voted to -8 and beyond in the old days. Crap like this in particular: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534082
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The submitted site is interesting. I will not go to the trouble of contributing any scores I am aware of to the database, however. Here in this thread, we are once again in metadiscussion about whether or not it was a good idea for HN to experiment with not showing users the comment karma scores of other users, a change that happened not long ago. When pg wrote his post "Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?" just 47 days ago,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

he wrote, "The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted."

That's still the key issue. In the view of the site founder, who has had a registered account here for 1684 days, many of the high-scoring comments carried a false signal of quality, likely to mislead users about which comments are factually accurate or helpful to the community. If some change of voting rules or comment karma visibility brings about higher scores for good comments, and lower scores for mean, dumb, or other bad comments, that is helpful to all readers of HN.

Feel free to review the site guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

and the site welcome message

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

for guidance on what is desired here and thus guidance on how to vote. I defer to the site founder on all issues of site governance. I have found HN largely to be a worthwhile website for my 914 days as a registered user, and my interest is mostly to make sure that the site founder and the members of his volunteer editor ("curator") team

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

continue to enjoy the site and find it useful for themselves. They are doing a good job, and I want them to have incentive to keep up the good work. On my part, I have been able to find good comments more readily since the comment karma scores were hidden than I was before.
What exactly is "Watson-like technology"?

According to IBM, Watson "understands words and sentences rather than the formatted data computers normally process". What does this even mean? I haven't heard anything about the software, except that it's written in Java.

Anyone have any details?
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They're the kind of inaccessible, hard-to-update, ploddingly-paced, opaque sort of web front end I had to wean myself off of half a decade ago, ...

Indeed. They have a very David Siegel Creating Killer Websites feel to them.
I've noticed that myself. Asking a question got me a 10+ point score on a comment that would have previously garnered only 2-3 points tops.

I don't really bother to vote that much anymore; I realized that I had previously only upvoted good comments that had low scores.
How do you acquire NextProof users? 5-10 hours a week is great for a website that generates 5 figures a month. I would love to hear more about this - do you blog?
Tab-completion on my zsh setup still works. I'm not sure why.
I was talking about before that with the old Switch/Solo junk that went on. I did a spell working for an e-commerce outfit and integrating with the merchant banks was an absolute nightmare.
No one will give a screwey - we'll all be fucked up on eLSD then...
IBM now worth more than Microsoft
First, this is not a loss of freedom. You are free not to buy products, and people are free to write and distribute their work without compensation. Thanks to technology, publishers and distributers are now only relevant for works where the author wants to be paid. Otherwise they would just push a PDF onto their website and you can share it all you want.

Second, if consumers could buy books at 10% of the price on the condition that they not loan them to others, this is not a loss of freedom. It's a good deal.

Third, when you purchase a book, electronic or not, you are not purchasing the global distribution rights for the book. If that's what you want, it's available for a price I'm sure.

Fourth, I feel far more free to access books and information than I did before ebooks. My mother can loan me a book across the country without Fedex. For $10 (less than the price of Fedex'ing that book) I can permanently own a copy of that or nearly any book instantly, anywhere, anytime. I can carry all my books around with me all of the time. I call that freedom.

Fifth, let's not forget Amazon's library program! (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/...)

This paranoia is completely unfounded and melodramatic. Take off your tin hats!
I was actually thinking about skipping that and reading straight off the screen bus using a logic analyer :)
This is like talking about 2 people... that are actually in the room... listening... standing next to you.
I'm from Tyler. There's not really a "city center". There is a downtown area, which is where Google drops you, but the surrounding area is mixed; some of it is fairly nice, and some of it is a bit run down (as you say). The downtown area mostly hosts legal stuff—courts, lawyers' offices, city government, etc.

South Tyler is generally considered to be somewhat nicer than the downtown area (which is further north). For instance, one of the nicer neighborhoods in Tyler is Holytree, which is off of Grande near its intersection with South Broadway. There are also some nice areas around the southern parts of Paluxy, which runs roughly parallel to Broadway. A lot of the nicer areas, though, are not actually within Tyler itself, but in the surrounding suburbs.
tiny mistakes can have huge consequences

Yes, that's why we are not discussing the creation of easily typed aliases for "rm -rf". That would be bad.

Instead we are discussing aliases for a bunch of fairly innocent Git commands, most of which are reversible in case of catastrophic accident.

I admit that I do have a four-character abbreviation for "git reset --hard". Maybe that will burn me one day, though I rarely pile up so many uncommitted changes that I have much at risk. Or maybe I'll make that shortcut a little longer.
I make about $1000 a month from Whiteboard Capture Pro and more than that from consulting. Plus I have a day job.
I've been learning SML via this book, http://www.amazon.com/Elements-ML-Programming-ML97-2nd/dp/01...

Quite good and filled with the kind of exercises that help the language really sink in. Also the OS X installation process for SML/NJ has recently become quite simple.

One big difference between OCaml and SML is that ocamlopt makes it dead simple to create executables for a wide variety of platforms, and that is not so easy w/ SML/NJ.
German police seize Pirate Party servers, looking at Anon's toolkit
I agree with your sentiment about support. If I sold you a product under the premise that it provides the functionality you paid for, and it doesn't, then I will fix the product so that it does. Free of charge.

If you (as the producer of the product) choose to provide a product for free, that is totally up to you if you are going to provide support for free or for a fee.

If you (as a consumer of a product) choose to download a free product, you should not have any expectation about the level of support you are going to receive. Depends totally on the vendor. If the product doesn't meet your needs, then you need to find an alternative product or develop your own product.

If the product were open source, you could improve the product on your own. But again, totally up to you on whether or not that's how you want to spend your time. Personally, I'd much rather go find a superior product than spend my limited time trying to clean up someoneelse's code.

You need to be more explicit about freedom- what you mean as you have written it, is freedom to tinker and modify. The lack of that type of freedom has absolutely nothing to do with cooperation and trust.
Sometimes there are aliases for bash built-ins that will take you to the manpage. For me, 'man alias' brings up:

BASH_BUILTINS(1)

Though, I'm using zsh which may be layering something in there.
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I'm still not sold on pair programming, but one of the benefits is that you actually get to see how much time you can waste mistyping "git stauts" three times.

Of course, it's not "git merge" or "git status" or "git log" you want to alias, necessarily--it's "git merge --no-ff", "git status -sb", or "git log --oneline --decorate".
Yes, that is an excellent point. Although, in a lot of cases, photocopying a book requires significant labor, with much lower guarantee of quality and I've rarely seen people making a business out of photocopying novels. For technical books, on the other hand, things get much more complicated. I understand prices are higher because circulation is typically much lower.

However, that leads me to another question: Must we always look at analogies from the past and work with them? The beauty of new technologies is that they're better than the old ones we had. It might take a lot more work, but it is much better to look at things afresh rather than falling back on old structures and status quo. The reason IP is so contentious is precisely because of this. We do not have anything to fall back on and must device probably completely new and arbitrary rules. Clearly it is in the publishers best interest to stick to status quo as much as possible and try to find analogies to old models so that it might be easier to justify a system in place that guarantees a revenue stream. But for the consumer, it is not obvious why this must be the case. In fact, the whole notion of publisher itself was a solution to a problem that technology has now (seemingly) solved.
Ok, one good counter-point below: You can't loan an individual book (other than through the Amazon program) using a Kindle.

Folks, this is not an Orwellian conspiracy, but rather a limitation of matter and energy which is a consequence of the tradeoffs we make when we decide to use an ereader and put all our books in one device.
Wow, this is seriously awesome. Gorgeous design and the admin panel is incredibly easy to use.
As a programmer who tore my right distal radial biceps tendon and had surgery to repair it, I approve this message.
Dear PG, please bring back the vote counts and vote-based sorting. If you want to give the option, make it a per-user setting to disable.

My recent approach to having to weed through ALL comments to find the interesting ones has been to completely avoid reading them and switch to different channels of obtaining information (blogs, apps, reddit, etc.)
It is flattering to be under such scrutiny. I feel as if the slightest motion of my fingertips could send startups spinning into chaos. Would my medical records and long-form birth certificate be of any use? My cancer history might change how you want to invest your money.
Is he saying that there's something inherent to Mac OS that makes malware harder?

No, he's saying that everytime there is a virus/trojan/rootkit/malware found in the wild that targets MacOS X there is a chorus of articles in the tech media essentially proclaiming that the end is nigh for safe computing on the Mac.

There is malware/etc that targets Macs. There will always be malware that targets Mac. I doubt Gruber doesn't believe this. However the existence of particular piece of malicious software is not the same as a widespread practice that will bring down the platform as is seemingly presumed by the various tech articles that talk about Mac malware.
I found your comment useful -- I previously had no idea what sort of party the Pirate party was, and you provided a vivid picture of what kind of fringe they are on. The story would have a different color if they were as mainstream as the Green or Libertarian parties in the US.
And here's a big list: http://blog.huchunhao.com/current-and-upcoming-cloud-platfor...

Thread complete.
Assembla has been working great for us, and it's free. Currently we have 20+ repositories hosted there, both git and svn, all free. Not saying it's better than Github, but so far, we haven't felt a need to use github, since there's a good free solution that fits our needs.

So as much as I like everything else about Pagoda, if they're forcing us to go github route with no alternatives, I won't be checking it out.
What kinds of topics would be on there that aren't relevant/welcomed on HN? If it's startup related it's pretty much on-topic for HN.

Even so, there probably is room for a community dedicated to startup marketing and sales. It will probably end up being a lot of the same people that are already on HN though.
Sure, that's one advantage, but it doesn't seem like a decisive one, really.

I must have missed his arguments re market share. I've only ever seen him post the historically periodic articles about how people have always been saying it's about to happen. What are his actual arguments?

If anything, I feel like Mac OS X will potentially be more vulnerable. To make the anatomical analogy, Windows has always had a lot of exposure to malware, and as a result there's a fairly robust anti-malware ecosystem, like anti-bodies in an immune system. OS X, on the other hand, hasn't. It's evolved in the absence of many attacks, and has a proportionally weaker immune system.

Ok, I'm not sure I buy that completely, but the market share argument seems like a straightforward one.
Remember the time when Technorati was hot just like blogging
Tip: Try not to make decisions about your product based on what's available or what the competition is doing. Its one mistake I've observed from two of the three startups I've spent time supporting.
> I think the burden of proof is on you here, open source is the base in which pretty much everything has been built, including this website, the web server it sits on, the programming language it was written in, the operating system that runs on, and more than likely the browser you are viewing it in.

The claim was about the software engineering profession not just the web-based sector.
Same group that runs this Magento (PHP) extension shop: http://www.tinybrick.com/

Also recalled a tweet awhile back, here it is: http://twitter.com/#!/PagodaBox/status/60133469107388416
I'll second the advice of building something that displays your skills. Another option would be to use your testing experience and look for a position building an automated test suite. Once you've proven yourself and gained some experience you'll probably get an opportunity to take on other projects. Are you looking to get hired in a startup or anywhere? There are employers that hire less experienced programmers regularly - usually larger companies. With a year or two of experience there you should then be in a position to get a job wherever else you like.
For those who want to learn how to write their own UNIX tools, and specifically, how to write tools that work well with other UNIX tools, such as the shell and friends, this article may help -
Developing a Linux command-line utility:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-clutil/
- No folders, archiving.

- Labels

- Killer search

- Fast interface
Chase has an iPhone app that lets you scan checks.

Only for small amounts. If the check is for a large amount (over $750? I'm not sure exactly what the limit is), the app will refuse to let you scan it in and tell you to go to a branch instead.
Why? The license commercial software uses gives you no rights to do much of anything, yet nobody thinks Adobe owns photos edited in Photoshop. Why should granting more rights change that? It makes no sense to me.

Edit: And GPL already calls out what is covered. Source code. It's incredibly clear.
It seems that a lot of companies want at least a year or two experience...i have seen some junior developer positions require 5 years.
Agreed. Of the ones I listed, it's the only one that stands a chance of sounding plausible. It helps that the discussion about DRM usually refers to it by its initialism.
Is the name Hype not admission enough?
Some of the attributes of BitCoin are viewed by some as flawed (e.g. fixed maximum number of BitCoins), so it's not surprising that other systems differ.
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You can drag stuff with the handles.
Sounds absolutely perfect! Well done.

Do you enjoy the community? Could you keep running it indefinitely?
> , it's pretty annoying that rich adulterers
> are being legally protected..

They have the best laws that money can buy...
Is this supposed to be a joke? I don't get it.
All you need to do is throw 'why kindle' into a search engine. Or look for a bit into what it is; the main feature is the e-ink screen, and that is not by coincidence.
Wasn't it shut down by the F.B.I.? It be instructive to see if something similar can happen to a crypto-currency. Maybe it is not directly relevant, but still useful to keep around in the wiki.
Gmail is the first email client that allowed me to focus on communication and not worry about how to catalog stuff, in order to find it later.

The concept of archive, fast search and threading are something I wouldn't want to be without anymore.
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No, I don't think so. Why? A client simply doesn't make me money. Would you pay for an email client?
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In general, you can't trust self-reported data, especially not data reported to social acquaintances. Not only do people underreport how much they eat (it's the norm, even for people who aren't overweight), they don't do a good job of measuring their weight and reporting weight loss or weight gain. People really do say and believe that they've gained five pounds in two days, or lost ten pounds in a week, when it's clear they are just measuring fluctuations that have nothing to do with muscle or body fat.
Hmmm... It took quite a few years to build up decent traffic. At first I just asked friends to submit some questions (like http://isitnormal.com/story/-1/) and I seeded some myself. I posted the link on various forums and submitted it to "cool site of the day" type stuff. The concept has always resonated with people and I managed to get a few semi-decent sites to link to it early on.

New content started to slowly trickle in. Eventually search engines found the existing content. That search traffic led to more submissions. Rinse, repeat.

Most of the traffic comes from search now. Apparently people search for "is it normal that I ____" or "is it normal to ____" a lot. I didn't really anticipate this when I started the site in late 2004, but I guess I got a bit lucky with the name in that regard. However, if I had to do it all over again I'd probably pick a subject matter that's easier to monetize. iPods and cars instead of fetishes and phobias.
This is the first time I've tried using CSS3 animations and I managed to do it: http://jsfiddle.net/cmCfP/
Looks like it's part of busybox.
I agree that one instance of malware doesn't necessarily mean anything, but growing market share does. And what the ars article points out that's really pernicious is Apple's response to the issue, which is not a good sign for how they might deal with the growth of malware as a reaction to growing market share. Especially in light of Apple's marketing re security of Mac OS.

And Gruber doesn't seem to be making an argument in this post. He agrees with the reporting but quibbles with a tertiary, almost irrelevant graph.
Hipmunk is a cool startup, but if you want cheap airfares, http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ is the best kept secret on the internet. Since itasoftware (now part of google), sells a flight search service, they don't advertise their search engine and purposefully keep it ugly.
I'll upvote that one :-)

Also we wrote a whole lot of the "behind the scenes" code for libguestfs in OCaml as well. You won't "see it" necessarily because what it does is to generate hundreds of thousands of lines of boilerplate C code.

http://libguestfs.org/