skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little confused. "We actually like this company..." So why did they do this? I'd think the thing to do after finding an exploit would be to notify who has it and give them a reasonable amount of time to correct the problem. I think I'm confused about what LulzSec is all about.
Cheap UK mobile network :)
Thanks. You just saved me cleaning up a big mess in the kitchen.
Page-flipping is obsolete. All these things you want, already exist in books, so stick with books, when your generation dies, the next won't care about those quaint things and they'll move forward with the new medium.
I've been hearing about "the paperless society" for probably 30 years. Have to I'm starting to become skeptical. I see the death of books as very much akin. Sure, it seems to make sense on paper, but ...
I don't think a bunch of hotshot crackers are prepared to play at the nation-state level.

It's all fun and games until someone decides it's just easier to kill you.
Yes. Below and added to the FAQ on Kickstarter.

20GB of storage ≈$2/mo
A 250KB photo served up 4,000 times ≈$.10/mo-- ten cents
A simpleDb database for a personal account is typically free

That would be about $2.10 per month if you get a lot of views on your photos and store 20GB.

There's virtually 0 cost outside of what you pay for your cloud services. If you host the software yourself the only bandwidth will be html markup and a few images for the site (not your photos). Everything else is offloaded to the cloud service provider (and is as cheap as you can get).

Hope that answers your question!
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A suggested "solution" is to post prices in USD but perform the transaction in BTC (based on the latest exchange rate) under the hood. This shifts the problem to the buyer, who doesn't know how much will be taken out of their wallet.
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Given that their way around the other machines was through storing SSH keys on the web server, it isn't going to help much here.
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Not just the header section, but individual titles on articles feel really scrunched.
Haha I love it. It feels like I've been transported back into the bbs era. They need to fix the whole text over picture, or lack there of thing though.
Those terms exist so smugmug can put the pictures on the website. Otherwise some jackass would come along, upload some photos, then sue them for copyright infringement. Note that they only sell the photos at Content Owner's direction.

Somewhat similar with facebook. If you write on someone's wall and delete your account, the wall post will stick around.
They are a bunch of script kiddies with no professional ethic whatsoever. They also try to get credit for things they haven't even done (e.g., bitcoin temporary crash). In short, ignoring them is the right way to go. HN sucks up to them instead and gives them exposure. Just sad, really.
The whole point of a business (especially restaurant) using Groupon is to gain a repeat customer base. To that end, it would make more sense to give better than normal service to the 'cheap' Grouponers.

For a restaurant, what will cause people to come back is quality & service - so if you are outlaying cash (via discounts) to gain customers, you would think you would go out of your way to gain a repeat customer.

Perhaps this is more of an education for the wait staff, and perhaps the restaurant owners should realize the people using a coupon may not tip well, and make up some of the difference for the wait staff - and emphasis the importance of converting them through service & quality to be repeat customers.

Otherwise - why would the owners do the Groupon at all?
Perhaps delta is the port. How do you scan for validity of an IP address?
Copywriting is hard.

Instead of :

"Your photos are your memories; you should never lose them. We store every photo you have ever taken. And we do it free."

How about:

"Your photos are your memories, don't lose them. Let us safeguard every photo you have ever taken completely free."

"Your photos are your memories, don't lose them. Let us safeguard your photos completely free."

"Your photos are your memories, don't lose them. Let us safeguard your memories completely free."
10% is considered an insult in California, and will be treated as such.

I accidentally left a 10% tip at Fisherman's Wharf (Early on in my california experience), and was approached by the Maitre D as I was departing, asking what was wrong.

If you can't afford to tip, best just not to eat there in the first place.
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There is good reason to not offer alternatives. There will be platform fragmentation, and end up being a worse experience for both developers and users. Devs probably need to publish on all stores to cover their bases, otherwise users need to know which store to buy from or have to search for an app in every single store.

Also, Apple has changed their subscriptions policy: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/09/apple-reverses-course-on...
Well said :)

Still, I observe a generation that doesn't buy media, at all. And CD stores closing, and bookstore chains going belly-up. It has to mean something.
Please tell me this is a very early iteration that wasn't meant for public consumption yet.
It's their namesake. Doing something "for the lulz" is a descendent of 4chan, meaning that you do something with no regard for who it affects or what your relationship with them is, purely for entertainment purposes.
> The only possibility of one knowing bubble sort is by hearing about it on algorithms classes,

That's simply not true. I know for a fact that for me personally the bubble sort was the most "intuitive" algorithm because when I was in elementary school we had a computer club, and we were given the task for figuring out how to sort a list. My implementation was a bubble-sort, and at the time I had absolutely no knowledge of sorting algorithms at all.

Obviously different people will find different things "intuitive".
but than the state actors in the act of that attempt uncloak themselves..which is what the CIA, MIA, etc want..
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Hey guys & girls,

Wanted to get some ideas on where you find contracting jobs that are remote and flexible. My co-founder and I have been working on our startup(s) for the past 2 years full-time. We've self funded up to now but we are at a point where we need to start generating income to support ourselves. Any recommendations, ideas, or leads would be greatly appreciated! (For some background info, our experience has been in building webapps in RoR, and my corporate background is Java, but I'd consider myself a generalist so I should be able to build "anything". This is me: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevintsoi)

Kevin
This is a bit confusing. I'm not sure how much of it is due to them dumbing down the physics for the reader and how much of it is due to them not understanding the physics of what they're doing.

For instance, measuring the acceleration of the snowboarder upon landing. Which part of the snowboarder? If it's measured at the actual board you'll get a very high number. By the time it's transmitted up through the binding, through the padded boot and into the boarder's foot it's less, because all these things have elasticity and they bend, lengthening the shock time and decreasing the instantaneous acceleration. Then it's less and less as it gets transmitted through the foot, knee and hip joints (these being the body's big shock absorbers) as well as the rest of the body (which is somewhat compressible) until, by the time it gets to your head, the actual instantaneous acceleration is much less.

This is why a snowboard jump which ends with you landing on your feet is harmless while a snowboard jump which ends with you landing on your head is very very painful.
I was using it for many years (since it's release, was using Elite before). It's really well-balanced keyboard, response is good, but not ideal, I developed a taste for switches, so now I'm on Kinesis.
Ditching the BIOS for EFI?
"They need to fix the whole text over picture, or lack there of thing though."

It's pretty deliberate though. Reminds me of a magazine.
Agreed re: community size and Usenet's inability to scale to it (see: http://www.studio-nibble.com/lazlo/images/wiredquote.jpg). My lament is strictly about the tools used to interact with that community.

Most web discussion boards are just GUI on top of a message store, and the reading/posting pieces of NNTP are a stable, standardized API for interacting with just such a message store. If every VBulletin instance also exposed an NNTP interface to its message content, I think it would be a huge step forward for discussion-board usability. (Well, once the NNTP-client world woke back up again. Are there even any actively-developed NNTP clients left that aren't focused on guzzling pirated media from the .binaries. groups?)
Broken on ipad.
50% of iPhones Brought to Genius Bar Have Never Been Synced
Really? I could've sworn you were in your twenties from this photo: http://reginald.braythwayt.com
I like how the header changes as you scroll down.
"Denzel Washington and Leonardo DiCaprio are fine actors, but you don't need an actor of their caliber or pay to make a decent movie."

Paying millions for DiCaprio isn't necessarily because of acting talent at this point. It's because of name recognition. If you think that $X in actor salary will get you $5X in box office net, you'll pay it.

From the moviegoer's standpoint, if you have seen movies with DiCaprio that you liked, you'll be more likely to see another movie with DiCaprio. Ergo, the "big name" strategy pays and continues to be used.
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Maybe it's because great developers end up in management positions... each day I write less and less code...
You'd be surprised how many people don't know ad-block exists. I'm not just talking about my 65 year old uncle, John, either. I can only speak from first hand experience, but a majority of my 20-something year old friends are in the dark too.

Only 1% of US internet-goers have it installed. The hard part will be educating the other 99%.
So, it's a sort of fluid-based, reversible encryption?
IIRC, That photo was taken at MeshU in Spring of 2008, so I would have been 45 or so.
Malice, Stupidity, or Egalite Irréfléchi?
The cynic view: they may have more time on their hands to was^C^C^Cspend on StackOverflow.
I chided the folks at Gandi for their "no bullshit" tagline, thinking it uncultured at best. They sent me a thoughtful response, saying that they'd weighed the possibility that it would be considered crude, but that it was a clear description of their corporate mission.
If TC actually rolls out this design, I think it will be as frowned upon as Gizmodos terrible redesign.
I think the real question is whether this is project-level (Ant, Maven) or integration/deployment-level (Jenkins, Hudson), or both. Having played around with Maven and Jenkins a lot over the last month or so, I really can't imagine how they'd improve much over them. Jenkins' interface could use a pretty hefty facelift, but functionality-wise they're both rock-solid.

Is this going to be a case of not-invented-here syndrome, or will it really up-end the build and deployment culture like git and mercurial did to subversion? I'm guessing something in between, but we'll see.
But wouldn't that also "dilute" the YC brand?
Either they're incompetent script-kiddies and the fault lies with the admins with unpatched servers, or they are competent and have access to, or have written undisclosed exploits. There is no middle ground, and unless you have some information that we do not, there's no reason to conclude that they are script kiddies. Being mischievous and being intelligent are not mutually exclusive.
>In short, ignoring them is the right way to go. HN sucks up to them instead and gives them exposure. Just sad, really.

It is a noteworthy news event when high profile sites are hacked, regardless of the perpetrators. There are a whole ton of people who use HN to follow tech news.
It would be helpful, since you're aggregating so much third-party code (not all of which you mention in your README), to include both a document outlining your own license (which appears to be MIT), as well as the respective licenses of all your dependencies, which are currently less than obvious.

For example, you stripped the README off the UIColor-DigitalColorMeter project, which includes their license (MIT). I was unable to find any license for the Ahmet Ardal code you incorporated.
I see. I wouldn't invest in that at $3 million.

The "let's put captions on pictures" fad surely can't last forever. It's still only five years since the first lolcat, and the super-meme here has acquired hundreds of mini-memes (lolcats, advice dog, courage wolf, yo dawg, FAIL, philoso-raptor,... and a serious bunch of crap that's probably hilarious to about six dozen people in the world). Anyway, it surely has to get old eventually... I can't imagine that my kids will still be captioning things.
MineCrunch :)
Good thing TechCrunch isn't worth reading anymore, or I'd actually be upset.
Done by Code and Theory, the same group that redesigned Engadget: http://www.codeandtheory.com/#/work/featured/Engadget-Redesi...

Given that TC is also an AOL property and the date on the most recent article is June 3rd, that would seem to suggest this is relatively recent.

But god damn is it ugly as sin.
The greater number of answered questions could either be because they are better at talking about programming as you say, or it could be that they just know more answers. It could also be that they have more time to answer questions, maybe because they have cushier jobs.
It doesn't include the hundreds of millions which have been cashed out -- there numbers would look even worse if they included those numbers.
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I know. My point is not so much about the possibility of front running, but about exchanges, and especially Mt. Gox, as the point of failure for bitcoin.

Let's face it, 99% of the excitement about bitcoin lately is not along the lines of "hey, this is a great use of peer-to-peer principles and a fascinating economic experiment with a decentralized currency". No, it is along the lines of "hey, this thing is making tons of money for people! fortunes out of next to nothing!". Take one look at the bitcoin forums.

A failure of a major exchange (and right now, there is exactly one major exchange) would damage the project severely. What's more, the focus on trading at exchanges is making the whole project look a lot less decentralized - yeah, the bitcoins themselves are peer-to-peer, but exchanges are sure not, and if what people really want to do is trade at exchanges, then that's what matters.
Isn't 4chan for hipsters just 4chan?
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Does it really matter? No RSS consumers here?
And it's down now. Did anybody snag a screenshot?
I had a similar situation with Living Social and a deal booked for English Tea in London. They had tables available right up until the point I said I had a coupon, they then told me they were fully booked, past the date of the voucher. Complained but only ever got 1 out of the 2 vouchers purchased (at £21 each) refunded.
Not sure why you're being voted down. Distribution channels don't just spring out of the ground overnight. Apple's promotion of iTunes and the App Store created a critical mass of users willing and able to spend money, while Apple maintains that by creating mechanisms to satisfy their demand for apps and content.
I think I expected the number to be in that range, It just seems large so I just didn't want to seem crazy. But that being the case, should I expect to be 1 of 65 in the next batch? 1 of 70? ;)
Ok. That was tricky. I'll ask it in a less loaded form. Should we expect 65 to 70 to be the cut off for the winter session?
From Groupon's S-1:

"To demonstrate the economics of our business model, we have compared the revenue and gross profit generated from the North American subscribers we acquired in the second quarter of 2010, which we refer to as our Q2 2010 cohort, to the online marketing expenses incurred to acquire such subscribers. The Q2 2010 cohort is illustrative of trends we have seen among our North American subscriber base. The Q2 2010 cohort included 3.7 million subscribers that we initially spent $18.0 million in online marketing to acquire in the second quarter of 2010. In that quarter, we generated $29.8 million in revenue and $12.8 million in gross profit from the sale of approximately 1.2 million Groupons to these subscribers. Through March 31, 2011, we generated an aggregate of $145.3 million in revenue and $61.7 million in gross profit from the sale of approximately 6.3 million Groupons to the Q2 2010 cohort. In summary, we spent $18.0 million in online marketing expense to acquire subscribers in the Q2 2010 cohort and generated $61.7 million in gross profit from this group of subscribers over four quarters."

They are seeing >3x profit on typical cohorts, so they decided to buy as many users as possible (which is smart).
It always annoys me when people throw around numbers like 14g and start comparing themselves to fighter jets. If you jump a few inches into the air and land on a hard surface with your knees locked, the momentary acceleration would be pretty impressive. That doesn't make you an F-15. Fighter jets can maintain those accelerations for seconds on end.
And just like that it's gone...
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Somebody should grab a screenshot who still has the page open. Looks like they might have taken it down...
Historically, it would seem like 30 is almost a "sweet spot" for language creation.

* Dennis Ritchie was 27 or 28 in 1969 when C got going.

* McCarthy was about 30 in 1958 for Lisp.

* Sussman was 28 and Steele was 21 in 1975 for Scheme.

* Alan Kay made Smalltalk between 28 and 31.

And while it used to be true that lots of game-changing mathematics was done early, I don't see much of that lately. A huge amount is done by junior faculty and postdocs, but that's usually late 20s and 30s.
"have kids? : move to an exec role"

Exactly - My point was that it is presumptuous (and irrelevant) to assume people leave development as they get older because they aren't very good at it. It's irrelevant because those people are, by definition, no longer developers.

A bias could come into play if you could prove:

Older developers who are (more/less) knowledgable are (more/less) likely to participate in Stack Overflow.

or

Younger developers who are (more/less) knowledgable are (less/more) likely to participate in Stack Overflow.

The latter proposition of bias is probably less likely since the sample size of younger developers is much larger.

I still think the conclusion is correct assuming the provided definitions:
For any random developer you would interview from Stack Overflow, they are more likely to be more knowledgable the older they are. If the population on Stack Overflow is representative of the general developer population, than that assumption also holds true to the general population.

Also, you highlight another interesting thing:
The average age a man in the US gets married is close to 28, right smack in the middle of that distribution.
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GRTTable?_bm=y&-geo...
We use a phone to measure the acceleration, which in general is either kept in the breast pocket or a pants pocket. In this case it's a pants pocket that is right above the knee.

You're right, your body works as a spring, and it attempts to transmit the full force over as long a period as possible. But you can see from the graph that this takes 60ms. The different in acceleration that you're talking about pretty minimal. Regardless of how good your knees and ankles are at absorbing shock, if you don't clear the tranny (part of the jump where it begins to slope down) you're effed.

More than anything, the point is that they're absorbing a ton of shock.
Why didn't anyone ask any questions?
I used to think younger developers were better, but with the experience of age, I now realize that older developers are better.

Honestly, though, I think programming is a "young man's game", partly because you are sharper, have more energy etc when young; but mostly because when everything is reinvented each decade, you are better off starting fresh, without being aware of other choices.

The exception is for higher-level tasks, such as marketing, managing people, strategic business decisions, and code architecture. Also, I would think, language/library/API/framework design. I hesitate a little, because many of these are based on the needs of current programmers, which the front-line troops know better because they are doing it (they are the users). However, for deeper insights, age has the benefit of seeing deeper patterns over decades, and over generations of usage. Most language designers seem to be older (but is that just because their languages are now old?)
I'm really glad that companies, developers, etc. are using reddit as a platform for discussion. The user base has some smart folks in it, and the commenting system is fantastic for holding large intelligible discussions.

For instance, in the submission for Facebook's development on the Android application, there was an entire thread with devices affected by a specific bug.

Google seems to use reddit's commenting system far better than their own "Google Moderator" (http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=7f3 p.s. does anyone know if any of these 3K+ questions were ever answered anywhere?)
that wasn't intended to diminish your personal value or expertise. I think there is a general concern that future YC batches will have less personal involvement from the people that made YC compelling.
If you pay these guys to do something, they will take your money, giggle to each other about it, and then poop on your front lawn while calling you gay.
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Once they get caught they are going away for a loooong time. Going after Sony following some political fighting I get, but this is just mean. Atleast reveal it privately to Bethesda to let them secure things up.
Iraq? Egypt (election this fall)?
http://i.imgur.com/Tyfmp.jpg
Maybe we need a site ( or a yelp feature ) where Groupon experiences are reviewed
For now. Something that happens every day probably won't remain newsworthy for long.
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I'm guessing the name of the company is "Relatively Prime"

Just sayin'
There's always #bitcoin-otc.
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In reference to your comment on discrimination.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

Reading my original post, I think you are right I should have qualified myself better. I was just really upset by the tone of the OP. IMO the reason why many older developers are worse than younger developers is because they THINK they are better than the younger developers. They don't have the hunger to improve themselves anymore, and so they don't.
Getting advice from these guys has always been a smart thing to do and YC startups have been doing it for years.

This just makes it easier, which is fantastic.
I don't get it. Surely the market for silver is enormous?
Alter that play button to be transparent, or resize it to half/quarter of its current size and move it to the bottom right corner.

It makes the video preview image completely useless.
I do not have stats to base this claim, but when I worked at my last job, I heard from an employee in another department that the normal lifespan for a software developer was 7 years, after which they have some sort of career change, be it management or logging.