skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this a step closer to Greenspuns Tenth Rule?

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp"

(bar the environment/scope issue it avoids that is)
That's the standard lightbox convention for a left-click. The grandparent was talking about a middle-click.

There is an established convention for middle-clicking a lightbox thumbnail (open the larger image in a new tab), which posterous apparently breaks.
A Collision of Creativity and Cash at Disney/Pixar
I did manage to get to your github and the first thing that struck me was that your project is GPL. Could you guys consider something else? It's viral, and not everyone can license their projects under that. Maybe LGPL?

What is the scenario where this framework being GPL is a problem? And how would LGPL fix it? Is there something to link against?
It very much looks like they are already integrated with Google+ so I'm not sure how reliant they will be long term.
iyafai2 (invite needed please)
I wonder how AOL feels about the acquisition these days? I've talked with a lot of people recently who feel that the "tech blogging" space is ripe for disruption ...
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I think the issue is that it's a web tool and you're trying to make an app. Port it to phones, you'll get a lot of people buying it for 99c.
Whether rumor mongering is designed to have a chilling effect or not is nearly irrelevant as to whether or not it happens. Further, while I value others' personal opinions of him, looking at the data of the Caterina Fake article and the GroupMe comments it's hard not to come to the conclusion of the chilling effect being designed.

Even beyond that, it's more than just venting anger. The rumor mongering in the Caterina article is just plain being an ass.
IMO, the true test of a man's character is not how he behaves with his friends and peers, but how he behaves towards those with less power. Arrington's behavior makes me wonder.
Come on, Silicon Valley people. Let's stop pretending.

The only thing that matters is how much money Pincus made, the rest is irrelevant, you're supposed to know that.
Well, if you had your interestes aligned to Hitler's, I am sure he would seem a nice guy too. Apparently he was very loving to his dog.

We tend to see people's worst side when they are feeling uncomfortable. I can't see how he's "coverage" of Catarina Fake makes him an OK guy. It's like the wife beating husband who's great when on a good mood.
Until and unless I see clear signs of Mozilla behaving at Google's behest, I'm not going to worry.

Google wants strong competition in spaces where they don't make money (in fact this is how all well-run corporations operate)... so throwing some pocket change at one of their "competitors" in the browser space is very good for their business (it keeps other competitors like Microsoft busy).

Google even mentioned (I remember this from 2003 or so) they want competition in their profitable areas (search) since being a monopoly is a) soul-damaging and b) invites government regulation.
Right, but this doesn't make the search space 2^64 times larger, or anything of the sort. Once you've assigned a unique salt to every password, you're not getting any further benefits from salting. This is what the Mt. Gox owner doesn't seem to get, with his "triple-salting".

The NIST application involves generating keys from passwords, which you might do a gigantic number of times for every password to get unique sessions and so on. They're not talking about password storage. And even then, 128 bits seems like a huge overkill, which was included just because it's cheap, so why not. I don't mind 128-bit salts, but let's not promote that as some "ultra-secure" feature, which it isn't.
And thanks for your thanks - and also such great advice! :-D

A lifetime payment is the solution, with an appropriate price bump of course.

I'm now hearing comments like yours a lot, I think I might give this a try this weekend.

You should have allowed them to keep using the service for free.

You know what, you are totally right. I hadn't thought of it that way, and if I do something similar in future, I'll take the same point of view.

Do contact the users, ask them why they are leaving.

I'm right now figuring out a nice email with a "don't worry, this is the only email you'll ever receive from me" bit in it, to send to the relevant users. I think I'm being silly by not having contacted previous users about this.

Thanks once again for the awesome advice!
Ok, I laughed out loud, its Mike Arrington's Hollywood moment perhaps.

Vanessa is complaining that Mike Arrington is mean. Seriously? I could not help but think I was reading something from the Hollywood Reporter rather than something technical. You don't like Techcrunch? Fine. Why the ad hominem on MA? That sounds like something a bit more personal but its not technology news.
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I don't use them either (since they don't support CNAMEing your own domain to them like MyOpenID), but it was just an example, there are more, and you can even install your own.
Steve, when you say that you mirror 3rd party apps, does that mean you don't install anything from PyPI (like South)?
Port it to phones, you'll get a lot of people buying it for 99c.

Such a blindingly obvious idea, and it never even occurred to me. Thanks, I'm going to investigate this ASAP!
My favorites are TechZing and Mixergy.
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How does one switch back to the old view?
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Middle click should never ever do fucking anything other than open the link in a new background tab.
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would love one
Yeah, if they start requiring the cards for delivering the taxes online I think we'll have millions of PCs with readers in a year or two.
Can I add to this that I really don't like Chrome's tab handling in comparison? I'll regularly have 10+ tabs per window open. Firefox? No problem, they scroll and there's a pop-down menu to let me see what they all are at a glance. Chrome does neither of these, squashing my tab bar into unreadable oblivion.

I'd also rate Firefox's bookmark and history functions as in another league compared to Chrome's rather basic offering, but neither of them are dealbreakers for me. Large tab group handling is, and Chrome just doesn't do it.
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This is not a secure system. It is completely broken. The hash simply becomes the password when you do this. All an attacker needs to do is replay the hash and they're in. The "plaintext" is irrelevant, because an attacker doesn't need it.

Also, if you're storing the unsalted hash in your DB, your security is doubly broken. Someone who accesses your DB can more easily brute force the passwords (it looks like you're using a single salt rather than a per-user salt), and your scheme is vulnerable to rainbow attacks as well.
Zynga is PRINTING MONEY. Breakdown of how they got to IPO (infographic)
In the realm of UI a few 'nit-picky' css issues are the difference between joy-of-use and customer frustration.

Luckily there's an escape hatch in this case: Cog Menu -> "Use Classic Look"
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Lame poorly written piece without clear argument or even any remotely convincing substantiation for its disconnected assertions.
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Zuck won't end it, at least until their IPO, as Zynga is a drug that keeps folks coming back to Facebook.

If there are signs that Facebook is concocting their own game-crack, then yes, Zynga better worry.
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What's the right direction?
by contrast I've had exactly one interaction with Arrington and he tried to bully me. http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=1552#comment-88361
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The comments to this can almost be titled "Strategies for Effective Leadership". Whether I agree with all of them or not the discussion is quite thought-provoking and makes me wonder what lessons can be learned to apply at my current company.
4 million strong Alureon P2P botnet "practically indestructible"
Out of curiosity, why did you decide to make it a separate service from TweetingMachine? It seems like a natural extension of it. That being said, since you have both tools, I would consider approaching it in one of two ways.

First: give InboxCleaner away for free and use it to get registered users for TweetingMachine. I imagine if a user signs up and is happy with one tool you provide, they would be more inclined to pay $20/mo for another related tool. This seems like a great opportunity for some A/B testing as well.

Second: add InboxCleaner as a paid add-on for TweetingMachine. Your customers are paying $20/mo for the basic service, so you know they aren't afraid to pull out their wallets. Offer them a monthly inbox cleaning for an extra $1/mo. What's the difference between $20 and $21 when they're already paying you?

Also, your name might be inhibiting some initial click-throughs to your site. When I hear InboxCleaner, I immediately think email. Maybe this is because I'm not a heavy Twitter user, but it's something to think about.

One feature that might up the ante is email reminders to clean their inbox every 6 months or every year. It's something people will do probably rarely, which means they're likely to forget the name of the tool they used to do it or forget to do it altogether. You might offer a friendly reminder to do Spring cleaning on their inbox.

Anyway, I've really enjoyed reading your posts. They're some of the most practical real world case studies I've come across, as opposed to the "I'm making $2000 a week and only working 4 hours" drivel that's out there. Not that I wouldn't like to make $2000 in 4 hours a week.
Show HN: Facebook fanbase charts
Shows you how the number of Facebook "share activity" of a URL grows (the count is like + share + comment; example -> http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.tripadvisor.com).

More than 100,000 websites are tracked daily. We can add more on request.
Couldn't you get the same thing by searching Google News?
And on the numbers side EA and Act/Blizz brought in $8 Billion in revenue combined.
I do not know if this is due to some plugin I installed but my Vim 7.3 has the exact same feature.
What is CAM tabl
CAM table is the content addressable memory table which refers to the dynamic form of content and this is used with the help of the Ethernet switch. The CAM table is used with the operations of the Et
Google's new redesigns eliminate the separation between different areas of the window, and replace it with white space, while generally increasing white space through the design.

Overall you can see fewer things, and lacking anything to stop your eyes, the various areas of the screen blend into each other. It's much more WORK to use the calendar and Gmail with the new theme. The new Gmail "Dense" theme is less compact than the old Gmail.

Basically, any time your design is using ultra-light grey lines/text for anything, you've gone wrong. CONTRAST. It's important.
Hey, let's be careful. At this rate it may actually become real currency.
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I believe starting with Fx5 the updater will now automatically apply updates as Chrome does.
This is always a tough question from corporations. Best is to know a little about the range the specific company is offering for entry level jobs. You'll not see much variation on that.

If you have to come up with a number and justify it, you can always quote from the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition [1].

[1] http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm
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Oh, I'm aware it's not a heaven.

Or, you know, anarchy. Current lack of a permanent winner does not imply that no one is playing the game.

I'm not sure that anarchism can be as stable as government, but I think it's certainly possible. In any case, history doesn't appear to show that there's any system which is stable in the long term -- the Roman Republic didn't remain one. Considering only longevity and stability, monarchy may be the standout government type.
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How so? Why should companies be forbidden to purchase property as a group? How is the objective (licensing some patents) illegal?

Also, how exactly does one 'open source' a patent? Patents are not modifiable after the application is submitted, and as soon as they are granted the document is viewable by all. As far as I know Google does not license their patents for free, so why would they buy a bunch of patents just to license them for free?

Regarding Google and open source, you'd be hard pressed to find a line of open source code from Google for anything that makes them money.
Unfortunately there's no way to downvote articles, so I usually just click the flag link under TC headlines.
The market for casual games is potentially much, much larger than the market for games like WoW. WoW targets college students and young adults who identify as gamers. Farmville targets middle-aged housewives. There are many more of the latter than the former, and they control many more dollars in spending decisions.
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Dutch Justice Ministry seeks to kill Internet Anonymity
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Sure that's probably true. As a boss I let one of my developers convince me to let him use Groovy in a small feature of one of our products. It worked pretty well for that, but everyone agreed that it wasn't worth going any further due to poor run time performance.
there is zero snark in that post - just the s1 summarized
Why is C++ So Fast?
It's ironic that they're IPOing before Facebook...
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> ATS is brilliant, but how many devs could tell you anything about it?

Might that be why the benchmarks game tells devs about ATS?
She is definitely using this attack to get attention for her own company. At least we now know that her PR firm will not be able to feature you on techcrunch.
The new Gmail Preview(dense) Theme is just too light for my eyes. On my 27" screens I have to squint to see which mails are read vs unread.
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Is space exploration over?
that post is about the filing being a rumor. what happen an hour ago when this news broke was that the s1 was filed
> Its Microsoft

The test262 suite was actually published by the ECMA international standards body, although Microsoft did contribute their tests.

The direct link to the suite is http://test262.ecmascript.org/

And the announcement from ECMA international is at http://www.ecma-international.org/news/PressReleases/PR_ISOI...
Anarchists are a natural offset to those who wish themselves unfettered power.

May they both never get what they want.
Devil's Advocate: There already is a face to face interaction, though; right before you get into the checkpoint, when they check your ID and ticket. Adding an extra 30 seconds on to have a bit more interaction wouldn't slow things down much - in a crowded airport, it often takes more than 30 seconds to get past there anyways, and in an empty airport where things are already going quickly an extra 30 seconds won't matter much.
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why would zuck end something that he gets 30% of?
Statcounter has tended to estimate Chrome's share higher than other sources.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum...]
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You can choose to turn off the new look by clicking the gear icon and choosing Use the classic look (you can turn it back on by going to the gear icon and choosing Try the new look).

from http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=...):
The TFG has really no control over the country, not even in the capital. So Somalia, or at least the TFG, is pretty much an anarchist state (or non-state).

On the other hand, Somalia is doing poorly compared to developed nations, but better than a lot of countries with (corrupt) Government and police in Africa. At least in Somalia/TFG they aren't powerful enough to do any harm. E.g. they have the fastest and cheaper cell phone and Internet providers in Africa.