skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the problem isn't so much OnSwipe so much as WordPress itself? Once upon a time what made WordPress cool was its simplicity — easy to install, easy to run, easy to add stuff to, etc. These days I cringe at the thought of doing an upgrade — it's as if they lost focus once they got into the hosting biz. Why make a great product when you can sell VIP service instead? It feels like everything I hated about Movable Type back in the day.

Maybe OnSwipe is a sign that there's room to replace WordPress in the marketplace?
My Gmail account recently was compromised due to the MtGox intrusion, as I had completely gotten lax with my password security practices (I noticed because I was no longer able to log in to my Google account). The worst thing about it is I knew better. I had 4 different passwords that I would use for different types of sites, and it just so happened that my MtGox and Gmail passwords were the same.

Thanks to my backup email account and 1password's ability to search accounts by password, I was able to restore access and change every account password I had gotten lazy about, before any damage was done. Turn on 2-factor authentication for my Gmail and Google Apps accounts, and now I can finally feel secure with only 2 passwords I have to memorize (Gmail and 1Password).
It's a bit weird. I don't see the score for your post, but see it for a parent one.
They're both owned by Conde Nast - it makes sense that they're trying to cross-pollinate their audiences.
This is a completely useless comment.

Also, I will abandon this HN account in 12 hours.... again.
I'm sure this is true if you have a blanket mindset of "all corporations are evil" but you're doing a Branson a disservice - he's one of the few progressive modern CEO's around.

Check out the "Employees First" section here - http://www.hrh.ch/whoiswho/bransonr/br_page4.html
Are you sure? The millionaire rubber dog crap inventor just died and gave everything he had to malaria vaccines.

My point isn't that all dollars spent are equal, but that the world is so complicated that it is not easy to make a snap judgement about where the next big difference will come from.
If you printed out the hardcopy one-time codes like they instruct, you can immediately log in with that as soon as you realize the phone has been lost and remove the Android device from your account so that it can no longer generate the 2-factor codes.

You also can't change your Google Account password from your phone and once you enable 2-factor auth, your Android phone's sync/email/etc uses an application specific password to authenticate so your master password isn't used on the device anymore. You can also kill that application specific password from your web-based profile settings and while it doesn't "wipe" the phone, it halts further syncs.
This would be very unusable for me. It would be a giant step backwards, even from 5.0.

- I need full names. I don't care about avatars
- Those group icons are very ugly
- This just looks like a giant mess (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41766815@N00/5866118912/)
I would agree that people like miracles and notice them. However miracles are by their very nature the exception, not the norm. Science works by quantifying what is the norm through carefully controlled studies. The reason that alternative treatments are fiercely dismissed by many physicians is because they know, on account of said science, that they should not be the first course of action. Empirically, they work far too infrequently. Until an alternative treatment can demonstrate that it works for a statistically significant sample size it should not be recommended as the first course of action. However, if it does prove to be a viable treatment in a statistically significant study, it becomes part of mainstream medicine, not an "alternative" therapy.
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I forwarded this to a italian startuppers group

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_163895500288173

Enjoy your stay!
Our point is that there is not really a problem with shortage...
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Sure but you only need to authenticate a browser once every 30 days (assuming you allow the cookie to stick around). Assuming that you are only accessing your account from a few (preferably only one or two) trusted machines, it's really not that much of an imposition.

Now, if you are checking your account from random PC's at internet cafes all over Europe, and making yourself vulnerable to keylogger attacks, you are pretty much screwed anyway. Even if you use two-factor authentication, and remember to clear out the cookie before you leave, an attacker can still steal the cookie and use it to take over your account (or at least steal all sorts of secrets from your gmail account).

Two-factor authentication will definitely help, but it doesn't protect you against carelessness.
YOu're characterising value differently. I think the point being made is that the practical value of the articles is usually negligible - few who read them will get anything out of them. They're successful only because they game the existing system - essentially parasitic articles.
I prefer having virtual desktops with customizable keyboard shortcuts to multiple monitors.
Completely overlooked your comment, sorry. On the off chance you read this:

Firstly, I do not own an iPhone or iPad. I own a second-gen iPod Nano, so, for all intents and purposes, I don't own anything using the latest versions of iOS. I do, however, own an HTC Desire HD.

No, the dig at reliability wasn't intentional - I've had stability issues with my Android, but I know that Blackberries aren't perfect either. No first-hand experience with iOS, so I won't comment.

And as for developing, no, I'm not a mobile developer. My comment about "shiny" was just referring to the fact that the user interface is very slick and polished, with lots of visual chrome. This isn't a bad thing, actually, and I quite like both the iOS and Android UIs (Android a bit more, hence why I own one).

My comment was simply regarding the fact that many older or less technologically-apt people don't like said "visual chrome", and prefer the more straightforward, functional feel of the BlackBerry - and this from personal experience.
Institutions are not strictly rational. It's not hard to find cases where people have been payed 6+ months without actually doing anything other than showing up and reading a book.
There are already people in that business... the question the blog entry posed was how successful they've been in squatting on all the good domains.
You have no idea of what you speak. It's all good because I will be gone from HN in under 12 hours
I'm unfamiliar with python and supervisord, but is supervisord able to manage the status of gunicorn and its child processes without explicitly being given the gunicorn pid? I've been investigating doing the same in Rails (I'll likely use bluepill) and I'd like to understand how this is done in the python ecosystem.
This is the way people with kids do it. :)
If I had to guess, I would say that the idea behind this is to force the clueless user that doesn't know anything about the internet to write the https:// when he is given a link that starts that way. Since there is no guaranty whatsoever that a website will redirect you to a secure connection without the user asking for it.

I'm not saying it makes perfect sense, just that I wouldn't be surprised if that's the idea behind it.
Governments don't have money for infrastructure any more because, since the '60s, they have been spending this money on social programs.
No, unfortunately not. On-Ramp's wireless technology is optimized for a large number of slow uplinks, e.g. sensor networks with little or no data flowing in the other direction.
Let's see... the "fail fast" meme was pushed out by the "pivot" meme, and we're likely to start seeing more of the "persevere at all costs - see, I did it, so you should never ever ever give up ever!" meme soon.

The only constant I see is "change the meme every so often".
That's hard to analyse, however web traffic follows a power law distribution, http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/adamicglot....
So, outside the top 100k sites in terms of traffic you could expect it's either parked or idle domains.
Wikipedia is a sap on human understanding. You may pretend that is important, but it is not.
It is a study we would like to do. The plan is to select a random sample of domains for each length and query a source, e.g., Alexa, show a confidence interval by length for domain traffic.

The stats hypothesis would be to test whether length can be used as a predictor of traffic.
I know my parents would have paid quite a bit for something like that when they were still raising kids. They talked about it every time there was a disagreement about who said what.
Go fuck yourself. You do not know.
Human beings aren't a good source of biofuels.
Is this true of Apple desktops as well? Or is Apple buddy-buddy enough with their hardware vendors that they get around this by receiving special treatment?
It sounds like they're basically just basing it on the same Webkit fork as Apple and Chrome with a few features disabled...
We needed to fax a form to them though. Travelling to the nineties was the hardest part of setting it up.
Whether poll results are convincing is subjective. A US jury, for example, convinces only with a unanimous vote.
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I've noticed that voting patterns on my comments have radically changed since the no-points change. Far less piling on of up and downvotes, and at least to me, seems to far better reflect the additive discussion value of my comments.

I'd be interested to see have the average points have changed for HN celebrity types like patio11.
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anyway, I find that the best domain names have to be catchy, not necessarily an English word. For example Google, Greplin, and many others
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"the UK's best-selling Sunday read, The News of the World"

God that's a depressing thought.
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This is nearly a year old and has been posted here before
Is this primarily a talent acquisition?
> It must be

While it's almost the exact opposite of [0-9]{4,6}, it's extremely annoying too.

This is fairly secure for usual website password, but the requirements would throw this away:

$ openssl rand -base64 9
TjB3tbYOo1wz

Okay, it's fine when you generate a random password for each site (then store it somewhere), but if you're generating password from some one-side function from a site URI, then you have a problem.
I like the "Book Trading" idea. I would have brought my copy of "Founder Stories" by Jessica. Being in Richmond, I wish I could come down to DC.

By the way, if you live in and around Richmond, reply back to this so that we can put something similar together in Richmond.
There sorta kinda is, unofficially:

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

That said, I am starting to lean towards believing that the best scenario for getting answers to this kind of question, is to post the question on Quora, then link to the Quora question here for the "HN perspective" (substitute StackOverflow or whatever for Quora as appropriate).
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An oldie but goodie, but still worth a bump. If only more networks were c-limited!
I was taken aback by the 13 character length, I wonder how many of those are parked, what the average length is for the top 100,1000, 10000 sites according to Alexa/Google/Etc. I suspect there there is a nice split between the parked longer names and the shorter actually used as a website names.
i read it one week ago, and well ... it's in no way any different from the thousanda other books of journalists writing about a tech company.

i would love to read a book from an (ex-)google (no, i won't call them xooglers....) coder/hacker/dev about google, i want the gory details about the history of go, their biggest server f*ck ups
, the strangest 20% projects that no manager ever "got", ...

"in the plex" is just another history of google, said that, it was better than the other two books i read about the same topic and which i don't even remember by name anymore....
5 years of bad ideas
Idea Market?
Is there a product that exists to helps people exchange ideas, ie people sell or buy ideas?
Never ever give up pivoting from fast failure to faster failure! Or something...
Google search bar is truly the command line of the Internet.
A friend-of-a-friend said, upon receiving pat # 4,956,809 ("Method for canonical ordering of binary data for portable operating systems") said "I can't believe they gave it to me." 1982, though, so this one is no longer a concern.

There's nothing more I can add except outrage.
OnSwipe is only on WordPress.com, not WordPress, and WP.com is only one hosting service.
Interest poit of view of the authors intent. But the hell with that, we're hackers. Does it work?
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Supervisor is responsible for starting the gunicorn process, so it knows the PID when it starts it. Gunicorn controls its own PID file, but supervisor can send it process signals.

Here's my sample Supervisord conf file for gunicorn:

[program:gunicorn]
directory=/home/sclay/newsblur
command=gunicorn_django -c config/gunicorn_conf.py
user=sclay
autostart=true
autorestart=true
#redirect_stderr=True
priority=991
stopsignal=HUP

Hope that helps.
Instead of promoting Appsterdam with vague stories about how awesome Amsterdam is, I like to see more concrete and specific information. I understand that its just starting up, but this would be nice to have in the (near) future.

Like:

- Average cost of living is X

- Developers can earn X-Z salary

- Tax burden for companies is X

- You can find apartments in the range of X-Y at site Z

- X companies joined this initiative and are hiring

- There are weekly meetups at Bar X,Y,Z at time A

- Successful companies in Amsterdam include X,Y,Z they are all hanging out at location A
If you know the commit you know what lines of code it is. You're significantly narrowed down the code that is responsible.
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In my humble opinion the Global Situation roughly is:

-> 80 % Survival mode, Struggling to meet ends (The so-called 3rd World, mostly)

-> 15 % Semi-Ok, Hired hands in private and governmental institutions of various size (in-debted wage slaves, mostly)

-> 5 % Ok, successful business owners, top managers, political leaders, rich and super-rich (various business sizes, amounts, market caps, etc... imagine any metric indicating financial and social success)

If this picture is mostly right => Perhaps, the really useless work isn't something which is rightly measured as the global number of humans busy with it.
Is this some kind of HN meltdown? What is your deal?
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What about the language barrier? Is English prominent enough in Amsterdam to easily get through everyday interactions or would you need to learn an entirely new language in order to truly enjoy the city?
Aye, but that is what creates the "distance from tower" problem of getting poor signal quality due to normal attenuation over distance and the larger number potential shadow/interference causing things between the tower and you.

There are a number of places where trains skip around at a goodly speed in what is probably a packed area by way of phone cells, so there will sometimes be a significant number of cell-to-cell hand-offs. Having said that, as I grew up (well, more-or-less) before mobile phones were common I'm still slightly impressed that the whole cell hand-over thing works at all mid-call at 80+mph so maybe they are not much of an issue unless the destination cell is already saturated at the time.
If I recall correctly, Opera, Chrome and Safari use the exact same standard for extensions, so porting would take about ten minutes to do all three. I ported a Greasemonkey extension to Opera in about five minutes.

It's basically Firefox and then everything else.
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I take it you highly approve of the Eater's Manifesto :)

(still need to read it)
Must be a nice experience for orphans who don't know their mother's birthday.
This blog post was based on a project that I did that required python 2.6.6, you could use python 2.7 if all of your dependencies support it.
You can survive with English in Amsterdam and the Netherlands as well. Children learn english from the age of 9-10, TV programs are typically not dubbed so the odds are that you can have conversations in English with everyone you encounter.
Different techniques apply when labor is expensive vs cheap. A different solution would be appropriate in India.
the reviewer obviosuly doesnt know the market then as i would say not only is FreeAgent a competitor, but it wins hands down: http://www.freeagentcentral.com/
I'd agree, but isn't it somewhat unrealistic to expect companies to operate altruistically in a market where you have to dumb down writing in order to maximize profit on a large scale?

I wouldn't want to operate a business the way AOL does or the way Demand Media does, but if there is such a huge area of Google and search engines available for gaming, it's going to be gamed. There is too much incentive for some entity not to step in and profit.
Yes, to the point that learning Dutch on the fly is hard because nobody will try to speak it with you when they are so good with English.
Even if you try to learn dutch, you won't easily find people who want to speak it too you, tbh. (at least that's my experience after a few years)
ycombinator - 11
facebook - 8
Wikipedia - 9
googleusercontent.com - 21

Shorter domains definitely make sense, but probably not a good predictor in itself though they have aesthetic value.
And you seem to be forgetting the basics of being a human.
Amsterdam is absolutely english friendly. I have been living here for more than one year and I still don't know dutch. I know people who have been living here for years without learning the local language.

Everybody everywhere speaks english: shops, public transport, you name it. Even children, since the TV shows are in english with subtitles. Movies at the cinema are not dubbed and have subtitles as well.
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I've never lived in Amsterdam, but I have spent time there as a tourist (and not in the Center, where you expect people to interact with tourists all day long). Everyone spoke excellent English, even older and crustier looking Dutch whose English was obviously rusty.

The only time I needed to use any of the Dutch I had learned before coming was with some immigrants for whom English would be their third language.
well, NL is pretty expensive to live in if you're earning USD; the tax burden is high if you're used to the US (though there's some offset because that tax includes what would be private medical insurance in the US); and people are forever grumbling about how hard it is to find places to live in Amsterdam. So maybe there's a reason for that.

The meeting on 6th July in their event planner is labelled as 'weekly' though that would mean there should be one in a couple days too (?)
hm I just looked at the wikipedia page quoting extreme temperatures up to 50°C but the challenge in the desert definitely is the huge fluctuation - considering it can go down as far as −40°C for Gobi.

Overall, this sounds like another point for thick, heavy tents (or in terms of the urban jungle: thick brick walls here in Europe keep wonderfully cool in summer and warm in winter.)

But I can also see how the a/c is probably one thing they do for keeping morale up... so this might not only be a thermic/physical problem.
And $20B isn't?
We are definitely going to provide all this info, just give us some time. Thank you for the feedback.
I think you and the grandparent are addressing different concerns. You're concerned with the act of walking or biking itself - such as its safety. He's concerned with having things to walk to.
What do you mean by "Apple desktops"? Apple has full control over its hardware components so I doubt this is a problem.
Cross Country trains (what was Virgin's bit of the rail franchises) are worse for this than anything else on the UK rail network. I'm told it is due to a combination of the materials in the construction of the carriage frame, and the anti-glare layer in the windows. If you are at the end of a carriage, signal strength/reliability seems to jump a bit when you are sat at a station and the doors are open.

Other trains don't seem nearly as bad. I'm not sure how much of that is due to different construction or (in the case of other modern(ish) rolling stock) anything like the repeaters you mention (though as all the franchise owners are cheap-arses I very much doubt that tech has been paid for by any of them!).
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Do you have a good source explaining PBKDF2 and perhaps comparing it with bcrypt in the context of securing web apps?
"I have heard that when done with the book, I still won't be able to program in Python."

Be careful about whose advice you take. There are a lot of programmers out there who are so far down the road to perfecting their craft that they can't see where they started.

For a mature programmer, using powerful tools will aid them in expressing their complex ideas quickly. As a beginner, you'll experience a ton of "ah ha!" moments where an idea will come to you in code, rather than in abstract. It will start simple with data structures like dicts and will progress toward object-oriented structures.

To say you won't be able to program when you finish LPTHW is to say that a 5th grader can't write. They're not going to write "The Great Gatsby", but they can write.
I wonder if so many people struggle with basic economics because of how hard it is to price things as a seller?

I've seen people go anywhere from 'Well, I have a standard x% markup' to 'that should be worth (outrageous number)!'

In reality, as the article shows, there are many, many factors to determining a price for something you are selling.

I've also had people try to buy things from me as a person (as opposed to a business) and tell me I'm asking an unreasonable amount for it. ... Yeah, because it's worth just slightly less than that to me. That's the point where I tip and decide I'd rather have the money than the thing.
As well they should. De facto standards, in this case Windows, are no less real than de jure ones.

It sucks and it's unfair, but if you want compatibility, you target what exists.
I would be content with a robot visiting the moons of Saturn, if my consciousness can be uploaded to the robot.
I wouldn't say completely useless (note: I'm obviously biased here) - I was making a point about the ICANN announcement and its relationship to web property in the form of available URLs.

Edit: ICANN - see below.
Here are a few that I've come across over the last year or so:
http://manvsdebt.com/
http://twitter.com/sperrazzo
http://almostfearless.com/about/
http://locationindependent.com/
now I've made two comments on this thread which make amsterdam sound kinda negative; so now I feel that I have to say that, no no amsterdam is a cool place to live ;)