skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Introducing a new image format won't "mess up" anything. And even if they were doing a stellar job with the video and audio tags, it would have no bearing on WebP.
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Ask HN: Your thoughts on Joomla 1.6?
The latest version of the Joomla! CMS has been out for months with many, exciting upgrades. Is it as good as it looks?

Wordpress just doesn't feel as rock solid in terms of extensibility. Drupal's administration seems over complex. Can Joomla! be the best option for the masses?
Here is an interesting article that talks a bit about what is accceptable.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/hostile-work-environment...
At the risk of sounding clueless, would someone tell me what my benefit of using GV is if I already have Sprint with the unlimited cell minutes?

I haven't really listed very intently to this whole thing, so I'm a little behind.

I know that before you could make calls using your GV number - can we now set our Sprint number as our GV number? If I set my Sprint number as my GV number, do I incur charges for using it?

Right now I'm only using GV for the voicemail feature, but would be interested in learning more.
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"Now points represent a "personal Everest". The motivation to post is pure."

Not as long as total karma scores remain visible to the world.
What about people who can't afford $600+ for software?

How would they learn?

Part of the reason I didn't start coding earlier in my life is (I started late high school) is because I didn't know about the free/ open source alternatives to the programs you had to pay for that were in all the books I had access to.
posting this, but seems like there is no new source other than the days old TechCrunch article
I use my Nook exclusively for out-of-copyright stuff. Great for long plane rides. If I want to read something specific I'll acquire it on paper, but if I just want to read something then I'm sure I can find something in the pre-early-20th-century archives of the English language.

Current kick: early PG Wodehouse.
Startup vs. Lifestyle Business (A Short Comparison from a Guy Who's Done Both)
How is this "intelligent" and not obvious, common sense before you roll out a bank?
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Firstly, Jack is at Twitter every day.

Secondly, we're not just focused on making money. There are many teams at Twitter working on many amazing things unrelated to a financial goal.
I think the lack of transparency right now is what prevents me from caring enough to use it. Compression along isn't enough of a win.
Its Time To Go Startup Style
well at least we're claiming to be the "united states of" america. those damned australians aren't even trying to be polite about it, claiming the entire continent themselves. those poor new zealanders can't even use the name of their continent to describe where they're from for fear people thinking they're from the country australia. instead they have to resort to being called the sheep fuckers of australia because that sounds better than being australian.
His main data point is that he only knows two people who have Kindles. This is the same as the fallacy of saying "How could that jackass possibly have been elected, I don't know anyone who voted for him!"

Guess what pal, you are part of a sub population that happens to not be interested in the Kindle. That's all.

A metric fuckton of people have Kindles, it has been the or one of the top selling products on Amazon for many months, a lot of people obviously have them in hand now.
But I thought BankSimple wasn't a bank, despite the confusing name.
Most of these services allow organizations buy copies. So then your Merry Andrew Reading Club LLC can perhaps transfer rights as needed when you pass on.
It's understandable that people enjoy sharing their passions and what works for them with the world, but pushing everyone else to do the same is wrong.

Different people want different things in life. And that's what makes the world such an interesting place.
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And isn't it troubling that people don't seem to be upset about that?

The fact that they're not presumably indicates that people don't lend their books to their friends all that often.

I mean, I have hundreds of books, and I've lent a couple of 'em to friends on a couple of occasions, but if I were physically incapable of doing so then I doubt it would have bothered me too much.

Paper books vs eBooks are just different products with different properties. You can read and lend paper books and use 'em as paperweights and sell 'em second hand... but you can't copy 'em, and you can't fit more than a few in your carry-on luggage. eBooks, on the other hand, you can carry around hundreds at a time, but you can't sell or lend 'em or use 'em as paperweights.
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I'm in a similar boat as well.

I obtained a GV account a few years ago, and have gave that number as my primary. As I have changed cell providers 3x, having GV made the changing providers seamless. Now, I'm on Sprint, and heard of the integration. I chose not to do it, realizing that the GV account registered as minutes on my contract.

What I'm waiting for is that GV turns on voip. I have a blackberry with unlimited data/txt, and hacked for tethering. Having the last bit of voip glue would free me from the telcos.
FWIW, this is a huge bummer and I'll probably be looking to figure out how to disable the integration (without the havoc that has happened to some trying the integration in the first place).

The bummer about this is that Google Voice really gets in your face about choosing Option 1 or 2. There really isn't a good way to say "No thanks".
please do not complain about complaints about downvoting, it does nothing to contribute to discourse, and litters up the site.
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Being the only species in the universe to be able to survive an extinction level event is a pretty impressive goal.

Even if we couldn't communicate at all, it would be mind-blowing to know that we have spread our species to other solar systems.

True immortality for the human race. That's an enticing destiny.
I really want to know what kind of support work is that.
How are they handling the fact that a human brain simply won't work if they don't have sensory input (eyes,ears,touch, ,...,BREATHING)
How SEO companies scale
I've always been curious how SEO companies manage to scale and automate?

Large SEO companies want to automate repetitive tasks, so they'll create software to scrape relevant sites along with emails, content fueled through API's to create massive websites for the sole purposes of creating own links, and automate processes such as publishing on article sites (ezine, articlezine, etc...).

I've read software like xRumer will even automate a conversation on forums, not sure to what extent though.
There is the issue of attracting venture capital if your core product is open source. It simply isn't there the way it is for proprietary startups.

On the other hand, selling services and hosting means an actual revenue stream. Strange world we live in.
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For anyone interested, you can actually make the startsWith and endsWith methods a lot faster by using strncasecmp or substr, like this:

https://github.com/Nycto/Round-Eights/blob/master/src/functi...

It could be a micro-optimization, but I find myself using these methods quite and it's a simple tweak to make.
From afar, I think you made the best decision. BackType is probably one of the few companies in the valley tackling hard tech.
Point taken. The next time people try to misattribute subtexts to my tweets to drum up drama, I will try to stay out if the way. Even if that drama might have a negative effect on my career and relationships, I will remain silent.
looks like you've got some competition -> http://gamesforcats.com/
Ask HN: What are the best blogs to read on how to run a business?
If this is a redundant question, I apologize. I am looking to learn as much as possible and I know there are some great blogs out there that I may be missing.
OT: What do names highlighted green mean?
Let me guess, you are non-technical?
An SEO company that starts automating more than they don't has given up on SEO and turned to spam-for-hire. So I think you're asking the wrong question.
The string slicing would have been a lot more efficient had PHP accepted my patch to add this into the PHP core functions :) --> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54387

In general though we just use these around the code base for general use, and efficiency isn't a concern.
Something that blew my mind the first time I worked with IP lawyers (I've been induced to file a bunch of patents): you can patent extensions of other people's ideas; for instance, even though someone else came up with tiered FEC multicast file transfer protocols, you can patent the application of that idea to some problem, like, tiered FEC file transfer of mailing list messages.

I've never filed a patent like that ("Nice idea you got there! Shame if I came up with a bunch of other ideas based on it!"), but I guess it's obvious when you think about it.
I think historically it WAS more secure. See Pogue's write up from 2003:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/technology/circuits/18POGU...

As time has gone on MS has made strides in the default shipping copies of Windows. SP3, Vista, WP7. I'm not sure if they're better the same or worse today compared to OSX (or linux) but I'd agree historically Windows was a total mess -- we'd have entire days of downtime to viruses as they took over the company. haven't seen one of those in years though.
The real money is in targeted advertising — you could pitch ads based upon the keywords of the tweetstream. The trouble is that next to Facebook Twitter hasn't really worked at this. On facebook within 24 hours I can be running an ad campaign with highly sophisticated tools on a budget of $25. If I only have $25 Twitter doesn't seem to care that I exist, in fact they only start to care if you've got $60k a year to invest in ads: http://business.twitter.com/advertise/start
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The rapture is really coming
I love StartsWith, EndsWith and also Contains in C#. Contains especially feels so nice to use compared to IndexOf all the time.
"I wanted to start a business doing something I enjoy that let me live a great life now."

I wish we as a valley entrepreneur culture valued this more.

I quit my fulltime job at a startup recently, with the goal of starting my own company. I spent a bunch of time having fairly in depth conversations with potential cofounders. Really sharp people, many of which who had solid, well validated business ideas with significant investor interest.

But I couldn't fully commit. In the end, I realized it was because deep in my heart, I wanted to have a great life now, not at some unspecified (and uncertain) point way in the future. So I decided to focus on building a business that generates solid cash flow and which doesn't require a 60 hour workweek for me to maintain, once I get it up and running.

The process of going around and explaining my decision to everyone who I had been talking with awkward. If you liken the process of finding a cofounder to dating leading up to marriage, then the process of "breaking up" was akin to going around to all of the girls you're dating and telling them you're gay. "We're both attracted to different things", and, "I respect your lifestyle choice" were common phrases:) People were supportive in a "That's nice for you, I'm glad you're following your heart, but I would never choose that" sort of way.

It's a shame that the valley culture is so focused on big, home run hit businesses. We're now in an era of entrepreneurship where very solid cashflow businesses can be created with very little capital, and significantly lower risk than a big homerun hit business. Yet, as a community, we treat them like the uncle whose lifestyle everyone accepts but no one wants to talk about. A lot of the advising, incubators, and accepted best practices all center around taking funding and growing as big as possible as quickly as possible, above all else.

If any "lifestyle" entrepreneurs want to grab a cup of coffee sometime and swap advice and/or encouragement, drop me a line - my contact info is in my profile.
What the fuck are you talking about? No he doesn't. He hasn't cursed once in the whole thread, even though it's attempt to turn a story about Banksimple issuing cards into a conversation about the drama of his departure from the company.

Jiminy. There are people coming off as jerks on this thread. Dave isn't one of them. I might be, but if so, I'm far from the only one.

This intense urge to turn every goddam thread into some soap opera --- no, I got that wrong, some lucha libre backstory --- is one of our worst habits, and the people who give a shit about HN discussions need to start calling it out.

This topic you want to talk about is none of your fucking business.
I don't think anyone wants pharmaceutical drugs not be be tested. The issue is whether consumers should be free to choose who does their drug testing or whether government should take away that choice and force everyone to test drugs with the FDA. The FDA is a government monopoly and not answerable in court if it screws up. I think the public would be better off if testing were done by entities without these characteristics.
The kindle DRM is pointless and an idiot tax ;). All it takes is one visit to library.nu or similar sight and all books are free, and pdfs.
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Might not be so temporary!
There's also the alternative of working for someone else's lifestyle business.........
Blogs these days seem to be so over focused on linkbaiting articles that are shallow — if you're really serious I'd suggest to read books instead. As to what books you should read depends on what you want to learn and what type of business you want to build.
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Don't advertise at all, just announced it through Twitter. Only have the 1 free one and 1 paid bundle for now, but working on more.
Don't do anything for it, don't even have it linked off my main personal site & blog cause I keep forgetting :)
This is, quite simply, incredible (from the article):

"[...] hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude."
There might be good work going on there, but, us users, see little progress in the last few years. Facebook is only two years older than twitter and, in addition to a basic status feed has added an amazing amount of functionality: photos, groups, apps, a very powerful ad system, etc. All the while, it's had a very high uptime and reliability.
May be slightly off-topic, but I feel a little pain behind my eyes whenever I see the hack-around-namespaces function naming (e.g tt_whatever, for "ThumbTack" presumably).

Surely a singleton class would be a nicer way to do this (or just leave the "tt_" off, why is it necessary, you're not overriding core functions)?
Apress, too.
"BankSimple: Personal banking from a company that respects you."

That's not a bank?
Will privacy and security be critical differentiators in cloud computing?
It's none of your business why Dave quit/was fired.
I really thought I was imagining a decline, but I have to agree. For the first time I've actually toyed with the idea of killing my HN rss feed. I still find the lack of points very annoying, for all the million+1 reasons already given.

I downloaded and installed this.
Have you ever heard of Milgram's experiment? People will actually torture each other if commanded by a higher authority, much less not share a book :)
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Agreed. We have been through that argument a hundred times: a high score means the comment is a must-read. Period.

Why anyone wants to hide useful information is beyond me.
He's politely giving you all the information that it is prudent and professional for him to reveal.

Allow me to put it bluntly: my reasons for leaving BankSimple are my business. I have no interest, reason, or obligation to tell you more than I have.
I remember reading a similar article about Linus Torvalds (saying no to the inclusion of much code in the Linux kernel codebase). The gist of the article was that he spends much more time rejecting new code than he spends actually coding. I can't seem to find the article now though...
Getting screwed out of rent by my non-ebooks
Is it just me or does it seem sort of odd that they don't mention the FDIC anywhere on the page (whether they will be insured) You can't advertise that you will be FDIC insured?
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Nice, a liability lightning rod.
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What does "technical" or "non-technical" have to do with his point? I am on the technical side of it, and have come to the conclusion that when I do start my own business it will be geared at having the life I want the whole time, not at some point off in the future. That is an entirely reasonable position to take.
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Reminds me of this quote by the sculptor Rodin: "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
This thing is so damn useful for creating iOS mockups which can be rendered anywhere. Killer use case, IMO.
From the FAQ:

So, what’s the deal... are you really a bank?

We are not a bank. We work with partner banks (soon to be announced) to provide FDIC insured products. What this means for you is that your money is safely insured with our partners. Our wholesale partners provide the financial products, we provide the customer service and experience.
We cross-sell NextProof to people when they sign-up for a BIG Folio site. We also rank well for some search terms that wedding photographers use. We run ad campaigns on occasion–AdWords and industry forums work well, FB ads don't.

I blog infrequently but mostly about Rails or iOS stuff. I don't blog much about startups/business. Only a few people do it well IMO and I'd rather spend my free time with my family–not blogging.
Can you elaborate? As a one-liner, that sounds both ridiculous and belittling.
In JavaScript I always use:

String.prototype.startsWith = function(s) {
return this.substring(0,s.length)===s;
};
String.prototype.endsWith = function(s) {
return this.substring(this.length-s.length)===s;
};
"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done.”
> How many people are boycotting the Kindle because the lending feature is broken?

I won't be buying one until they remove the DRM.
That was sarcasm, right?
As another owner of this card, I have to note that Schwab is no longer "subsidizing" this card, and has completely been disassociated from it. I believe the reason was that they weren't making any money off of it, but my memory is a bit foggy now.

It is now serviced by FIA Services, no longer available to new customers, and of course terms and conditions are subject to change. So far, nothing has changed, but still, the point is that this card was and is an anomaly.
+1 to this.

Among my first comments to HN was a single word: "Yes."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533506

It has 34 points.

Albeit witty and appropriate in context, I think we can agree it's highly overrated. Meanwhile some of my much longer (and I think better) posts sit with only 1 point.
It's not in the version of screen that ships with OSX. The macports version of screen supposedly supports vertical splits with the +vertical_split variant, but that didn't work for me last time I tried. And that's how I discovered tmux.
If X was less than 10, you may have had a point. But a 39.8% decrease in size is substantial.

So, yes, it does really matter
Haha! I got voted down for talking smack about myself! Someone loves me!
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tip: try different combinations of options (sl -la, sl -DF, ...)
We actually had a debate in our engineering dept about how we wanted to handle functions like this, and in the end decided on tt_function_name() in the global function space.

We decided against putting them in explicit namespaces, because we felt these were convenience functions and they should be convenient to use. We felt the convenience of:

if (tt_str_startswith($url, 'https://)) {
}

over something like:

if (tt/global/string/starts_with($url, 'https://)) {
}

was worth the lack of organization. We have <10 of these types of global functions in our code base and we are very careful about adding new ones. All other classes and functions are either in a namespace or class context.

We went with the tt_ prefix because we wanted to cover our bases and really explicitly ensure we never will collide with a PHP function, and we felt it isn't too unwieldy.

As for using a singleton class, since 5.3 we prefer to use namespaces instead.
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Agree completely.

If you think about it, "harder to consume quickly," as annoying as it is, is exactly what was needed to fix "the decline of HN." It helps filter out the linkporn because the people who participate are the ones who stay to enjoy the whole experience.

I'm finally finding more links on the front page that lead to lengthy articles I actually want to bookmark on instapaper and read later.
I did not author the article.

I am technical and I realize that I want to better my non-technical skills. It really is all about relationships. You can't get meet someone and talk business the first time you meet, just get the contact info to follow up. You can't woo them on the first date.

Like many people here, HN has inspired me to actually do side projects with people. Yes making money is nice, especially when it is not from coder of fortune mercenary consulting but from product. Like many people here, I have a day job but get a lot from my side projects (The term startup is so meaningless). Having a day job lets us explore possibilities, without giving up some comfort
Hehe, great interview. I liked this part:

"Waren die Inseln in Tiny Wings eine bewusste Designentscheidung?"

"Gibt es unbewusste Designentscheidungen?"
Even that bogs things down in the context of a bulletpoint on a big poster with a four word sentence about macs not getting viruses.
> I don't believe that you, specifically, are responsible for all of the confusion about the GPL, but I believe that enough people making false statements about the scope and power of the GPL can add up to real problems for users and developers

People make incorrect statements about the scope and power of GPL because it is the most complex of the free/open licenses, and it is not well drafted. Even Stallman has made incorrect statements about the scope and power of GPL on occasion (mainly be forgetting that if a proposed use of some GPL software would not be a copyright violation absent a license, then GPL does not apply to that proposed use). If he can't get it right all the time, it's not reasonable to expect people who weren't intimately involved in its design and drafting to do so.
What's wrong with a github account?

It doesn't support Mercurial. I use BitBucket, on which private repositories are free (and I don't have to use git, which is a plus).

Supporting only github means I can't use it. Unfortunate, because their stuff looks cool.
I apologize for my glib comment. Originally, I was on your side and felt the derail was unwarranted given the original context. Perhaps advice we can both benefit from is that the lesser said the better.