skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the fairfax area as well. We should def have something for NOVA seeing how traffic sucks going into DC
I went to http://riskref.com and I think I found the right site (based on your description of it).

However, after looking at the site I found the description of the service a little vague. I'm not entirely sure if "life-changing disasters" refers to things like earthquakes/tornadoes, stolen identities, or perhaps car accidents?

I basically didn't understand what you are trying to do, and all I see is an e-mail entry form which I'm hesitant to fill-in (because I don't know what I'm signing up for).
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Me too :( If you haven't already, checkout The Haiku Project http://haiku-os.org/ (inspired by BeOS).
Indeed.

My suggestion would be to create a landing page for HN readers, and then link to that. Put something attractive (but accurate!) as your title, and submit a link to the landing page. There you can solicit opinions and suggestions, ask for comments, explain your reasoning, etc.

That would also be much more readable than a large slab of darkish grey on lighter grey.

Just my thoughts - I don't speak for the management, and have a tendency to strong opinions, unsupported by facts.
HT: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2705185
There are still lots of contemporary indie games and films.
http://www.getlamp.com/
Gold rush - A bitcoin mining trojan
Building a physical CPU load meter
Can anyone defend Pi on grounds other than that's the way it's always been, or introducing a new constant is hard?
Ooh, including target disk mode, nice.
The number of comments supporting Dropbox in this thread astonish me. It seems like people think that such "engineering" mistakes are acceptable in the software/web industry. But let me ask you: What if a construction engineer made a little mistake (humans err right?) when building that bridge? Maybe nothing happens but believe me he will get sued and no one here would object.

Sure, in the latter example people could get killed, but a big security error with Dropbox could also lead to serious personal damage (personal health documents published, business confidentiality breached, etc, etc).

It seems like people don't understand that building a "structure" in the software world should be the same as building a "structure" in the real world. Would you not sue the safe company that produced a safe that just opened by itself the day you were robbed (leading to theft of personal important documents, money, jewelry). Would you not sue the produced of an over-heating oven that leads to your house burning down?

Why do people assume that it is acceptable to make mistakes in the software world, but not in the "physical" world? Maybe this points towards some kind of basic problem with the software/web business model. Maybe all these free/premium product are really too cheap (and can be so cheap because they are inadequately produced). Maybe we need to accept that these ship-quickly products are not really acceptable, that there really needs to be considerable investment into such products (and thus increasing prices)...

Note: I do understand that nobody would accept a 50/50 % chance-of-breaking bridge, but may very well accept a 50/50 % chance-of-being-breached "Dropbox". But then don't advertise differently.
http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/foreword/#the-status-of-python-3
Already submitted by New Scientist hosting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2705080
This is a great addition! I'll have to start experimenting with moving off of SQL to Mongo.
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If its a framework does it take a little longer to setup/get used to? If so is the learning curve worth it?
Whoa! Stop the horses! I understand that Europe is moving to a mono-state, but we still have very separate jurisdictions in the USA. She sued in CALIFORNIA by finding some class-action lawyer junkie. That suit would have been thrown out in the other 49 states because she is suing on laws/grounds that simply don't exist there. On top of that, the suit may go nowhere in California too, because she didn't suffer any damages ... her account wasn't compromised. She just heard that other accounts were. That's a joke.
From a photography point of view I can see both sides of the argument, even though the article says it's not just a pixelation filter to me it's not modified enough to see any artistic effort. On the other hand, I don't really see the damage done to the photographer so many years after taking the picture.

However, my first thought was "that's the Kind of Blue cover" not "that's the famous photo of Miles Davis". Kind of Blue is one of the greatest records of all times so if anyone should get compensated it's Columbia or Miles' estate. I just checked my vinyl version of the record and the photographer isn't even mentioned.

No doubt it's a great photo but without Miles it would be just a photo of a guy with a trumpet and none of this would have happened.
You can skip on first reading to get an overview of where the author wants to take you, but don't expect it will clear up later on its own. Read and re-read. Fill in all the little gaps, especially when a sentence begins with "Clearly" or "As we can easily see".
Very interesting... I typically would think you should not use a product that a founder/developer does not believe in
It's not necessarily a matter of them being cheap, good developers are hard to find, and the only people who can tell the difference are/were good developers themselves.

This is doubly true with security. There is no cosmetic or usability difference between a secure application and a nightmare that leads to thousands of leaked passwords. So companies that don't already have a good group of developers are screwed when hiring, and companies that don't consider their existing team's decision as the most important factor when hiring are asking for trouble.
> If my doctor was leaking my medical records left and right to advertisers around town, I would sue him... at some point leaking my online identity has to have some sort of repercussions behind it besides me getting online and being openly angry on the internet.

What would you do ? sue them? The EULA you have accepted usually forbids it, or limits the amount of damages you can claim to a few bucks. I am not a lawyer, but i doubt such an EULA would be declared void in court.
And your evidence is...?

I leave what I think are pretty high quality comments on some blogs. You know how many click-throughs Google Analytics puts them at? A bare handful. I get more visitors from a random external link on an obscure article in the German Wikipedia.
Lucky then, that nobody told you you could just type 'i' too. ;-)
While it may be a bit pretentious to quote oneself, I'll go ahead and do just that from another post similar to this topic:

"When I come across some academic mathematics paper, even if I'm somewhat familiar with the field, I generally find other things far more interesting, like the coffee stain on the floor. Effectively reading a mathematics paper requires a print out (not just of the paper itself but also many of the papers cited) and a pencil to work through some of the definitions and take notes for yourself, and maintaining laser-like focus for a sustained period of time."

I think that capture the gist of that article. Basically, it can be an exhausting and draining affair, especially for someone with my cognitive capacity.
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Awesome documentary on the history of interactive fiction - big focus on the early days up through infocom (actually, I just realized I never finished watching it!)
Look at this proof of Fermat's Little Theorem [0], can you spot the indirect bit of the proof?

By the way, when you construct a proof you almost always have some leeway in how big your indirect section are. E.g. variant A: Assume X, do bits Y, Z, then contradiction. Variant B: Do bits Y', Z', assume X, then contradiction. In the second variant Y' and Z' could be useful on their own, and might be easier to understand without the inversion. For that reason, I often try to keep the contra-factual parts of the proof as small as possible. Though as with writing any code, clear writing trumps general rules.

[0] http://primes.utm.edu/notes/proofs/FermatsLittleTheorem.html
Hacker/founder-only co-living space in NYC being organized
Thanks! Since I've never done this before, I was wondering how important it is that the lawfirm be in San Francisco?
Interesting - so would this not have worked for my Ubuntu ami instance or my Ubuntu home machine?
Michael Cote at redmonk has brought this up a few times this year. Most recently, <http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2011/06/24/ide-as-a-service...;

Truthfully, I don't know that it's going to kill conventional editor or editing habits (and by the time it does, I suspect that web-based IDEs will look significantly less like today's web-apps than they do today) and more that this technology will find a niche in code review, or version control interfaces, or something like that, but it's a nifty idea.
Why I ditched the press release… and what I do instead
>I worry that rapidly improving the web's ability to deploy applications will make it less suitable for reading and writing.

Will make it? It already has. The web as we know it is a fucking unfettered mess. We've just been jamming applications into a document format so hard for so long we're used to it. You are right though, its going to get a lot worse.

We need a new platform. We're probably not going to get one, the "web" is just going to expand to engulf every bit of functionality a new platform would have, but bring along over two decades worth of evolutionary cruft. I've resolved to just stay out of the way, not fight the inevitable.
Flask has more features, more and better documentation, a bigger community and ecosystem as well as more developers behind it.

Furthermore Bottle does magic that is frowned upon by some people.
That appears to have been a primary source for this article.
Corporate Branding Vs Small Business (Entrepreneurial) Branding
Sure, but that's no reason for him to update stale content he has no use for for free. Of course the site is a loss leader for the guy's consulting services.
It's far more like a turbine than a Wankel.
I can't make a fair comparison as far as learning curve, but if you're new to scraping Scrapy might in theory be easier. You get a bunch of tools built-in that you don't have to come up with yourself, and you get a pre-defined way of doing things. However, last time I checked the example project in the docs was a little lacking and there's not many good external examples either.

I personally really like having the structure of a framework. It lets me churn out simple project from boilerplate very quickly, and it helps keep larger projects organized.
Too bad it wasn't MG.
You think Fortune 500 companies don't hire complete idiots too? They just have 5 extra people for every 1 developer to double check whether or not the developer did something stupid, test the site for obvious vulns, etc.
I like to think that promoting what you currently use gains more traction for what you use in terms of; community, documentation, features, demand, etc.

Applies to all languages and software.

But yeah, the immaturity with using fallacies (especially ad hominem) to argue puts me off and it doesn't help with the general community votes for it.

Some links for those who wish to know how to debate like an intellectual:

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/taxonomy.html

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy
I'm more curious about whether or not the founders felt Fanvibe's business model was a successful one. Did they feel they reached an optimal product/market fit? Or was there potentially more to give?

I've been doing research in the space(s) of sports & gaming, particularly in-game predictions, which I think can be super compelling in the right context. While I wasn't that enthralled with other aspects of the product, I.E. checking in to games (why, when I can just use a location-based service?), trash talking with other fans (can do that via social media, along with team-centric blogs/forums) etc, it seemed like Fanvibe was ahead of the curve with this in-game prediction element; at least from a non-gambling perspective.

Just curious what their thoughts were on this.
How is this different than http://cloud9ide.com/ ? Cloud9 seems to be much more mature and feature rich as well.
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Soon, Everyone can be X-Men's Professor X
Bottle is pretty much standalone. Flask requires Jinja2 just to function, for instance.

Bottle runs on Python 2.5+ and on Python 3.x.
...why do you feel bad about HN just for exposing terrible security practice? Hopefully startups get shocked enough by it to tighten up their privacy policies.
I worked with the Be guys when they were bought by Palm. Never in my career have I experienced such an obsession with solving problems no one has. To me its kind of sad so much obviously raw talent wasted on such frivolous effort.
Amazon Starts an Ad Network, Powered by Your Data
Pokki Brings Mobile-Style Apps To Desktop PCs
Interesting that Kip Thorne wanted a year of porn and Hawking wanted four years of political satire, although the whole thing was obviously a joke.
TechCrunch's take on it: "You know you’re in a bubble when… tech journalists join startups" . I had to laugh.

PS: know any good patent attorneys in SF area who can work with individuals? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2704364
Well, saying "I love mercurial" without some mention of why you aren't using git, which is more popular, will seem like an incomplete argument. Not using what most others are using has drawbacks, so some justification is needed. But it is true that spending too much time promoting something in terms of its competition can weaken the argument. A tough road for the underdog; try explaining why you are excited about android tablets without mentioning the ipad 2 :)

FWIW I love hg and android.
That won't make a lick of difference. Any statement of the form 'X is great, because ...' or 'I like X, because ...' will be interpreted by a bunch of people as 'He means Y, which I love, is not great and is lesser than X. Otherwise, he would be using Y. He must obviously think it sucks, which shows what an idiot he is'. And the stage is set.

People can't help themselves. They want to defend their choices, even when their choices aren't under scrutiny. They will follow up with a fallacy or two and they start arguing from positions that are so ludicrous that even with the best initial intentions you forget to point out the fallacies they must obviously have committed to arrive at their starting point and just start refuting them. That way, they suck you in.

Only if there are sufficiently many people in a community resistant to this kind of trolling, pointing it out to each other and refraining from feeding the trolls, only then can sensible discussion come about. But it's hard not to get sucked in. It reminds me of David Foster Wallace's speech about being aware of the water that you are in: it's hard work and requires an amount of self-awareness that can be exhausting.
This is very simple. If you're using Chrome Browser, ChromeOS, or Google Toolbar, then google is using their pagerank tech ... or essentially sending the url you type into the browser to their servers for ranking purposes. If you can access it freely on the net, assume it is already indexed, even if there are no links to it.
I like how almost every paragraph includes a reference to Apple products.
The tale from a phone pishing attempt
We didn't lose anything -- interactive fiction games are still being produced, and you can play them on your android or iphone these days, too. http://ifarchive.org/ and http://xyzzyawards.org/ are good places to start.
Previously submitted, flagged dead:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2704322

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana,
The Life of Reason (1905-1906)
Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense

(Copied from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana)

ADDED IN EDIT:

OK, since I'm getting downvotes for this (as I write it's at -1) perhaps I'd better expand on it to explain my reasoning.

Firstly, this item is a repeat submission. It was submitted earlier, and so there is some earier "discussion" to reference. I thought it would be of value to point that out.

I especially thought it would be of value since it that discussion seems to highlight some concerns about the item in question. Rather than simply repeat them here, I thought it better to point to it over there.

The quotation was intended to point out a problem with items like this getting flagged. Several times in the past I've seen items get flagged dead, only to be submitted repeatedly, then flagged dead each time. Deleting the items by having them flagged dead just means that the same thing is submitted over and over again, and hence came to mind the given quotation. Paraphrased:

If you delete things, you can't learn from them, leading to the potential for repeating the same errors over and over.

I thought people would find that interesting, relevant, and potentially a useful tidbit.

So downvote me if you will, but at least understand that my intention was to add value.
Somehow, I think this wouldn't be the case. Otherwise, doctors would be throwing EULA agreements left and right, and saving millions on malpractice insurance fees.
"does magic that is frowned upon by some people."

Can you elaborate?
OK, couldn't wait. require doesn't seem to work but that's as expected since they don't know what I might load.

moby documentation: http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/dyoo/moby.plt/3...

World: http://world.cs.brown.edu/1/htdw-v1.pdf

I'm playing now. Will post some code when I have it working.
A company I worked for had a clever script that automatically put all content on the server into a Google sitemap.
I'm pretty sure smoking rates dropped in France too. It's just that they were always pretty high. So no global correlation there.
How (not) to sell your iOS app
I'm sorry I wasn't more clear, but your interpretation is what I meant. Per your rule of thumb, seeing \tau should suggest that it has to do with circles or polar coordinates, and the square root points to how to get the polar coordinates.
I appreciate that you're trying to help, but this is another example that underscores my point. This is software that you install on a server, run, then manually upload the results to a server.

Blogger was a website where you could type text into a box and hit "go", thus publishing a Slashdot-proof static website via FTP.

For you and me, I'll grant that there's not much of a difference there. Imagine a hosted version of Jekyll, with an option to enter a FTP host/user/pass to automatically upload posts, and you'd have a rough approximation of the service that I'm describing (and which would still be a good idea for somebody to build as a paid product).
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> FWIW I love hg and android.

You didn't explain why.
The need to be "right" applies to most people. It's why we have fashion, MTV (or whatever the kids are watching these days!) and so on. It's also why it's important to reach that critical mass where you no longer need to convince people to use your stuff: once you're there the rest will convince themselves.
I'm mostly wondering if their usernames and passwords are strictly ascii, or if they're using another alphabet.
Unfortunately, I cannot write this off as another "mistake". If I didn't have employees I talk to on Facebook, this would be the point at which I would delete my account.

Facebook had its chance to redeem itself in my eyes. The attempted Google slander was a tipping point for me, but hearing that my fellow developers are having their apps shut down and their data deleted finally did it for me. I wouldn't have cared if they had just deactivated the app. If it was clear that KDE was leaking its API credentials, I would have done the same thing. But deleting user data is unacceptable.

Yes, you shouldn't rely on Facebook for image storage. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't worry about your data being randomly deleted.
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Does this page kill the chrome tab for anyone else?
Flattr mine @ http://soundcloud.com/gcappellotto/heartbeat
this is for writing scheme and compiling to js for running client-side. Cloud9ide seems to be an ide for writing directly in js or php/ruby etc.
I would describe it more carefully. Bottle's advantage that it's self contained and in a single file, however bottle's design also hides away the application object from you which makes it quite hard to have more than one of them. It is possible with the stacked object thing and I think they changed it even to make it possible to do what Flask did, but when Flask started at least there was a design difference there.

By now I really would like to see them merge, but Bottle wants to stick to the design idea of just having one file which Flask will never be able to do because of the dependencies.
How about something similar to HIPAA?

I worry, though, that it would end up making things more difficult for developers while not improving things for the end users - much like the European/Dutch cookie law.
Opera 11.50 released
I miss these games.
You can store money on Facebook?
I understand that Facebook had a reason to disable API access, but pulling all photos is unacceptable, like I said below. They should have been reviewed manually and cleared out. Blaming users because an application is insecure is like blaming someone for using a faulty power tool: you don't know when it's going to fail as much as they do.

But of course, this is 2011 and we can't rely on a real person being there at all anymore. Companies are lazy and just "flip the switch" without consideration for users. :(

Also, I never knew you lurked HN, saurik! ;P
A great front end to the archive is http://ifdb.tads.org.
I still remember bicycling over to the "L" building on Auburn's campus to play ADVENT and DND and DUNGEON on their PDP-11 (or whatever model of minicomputer it was at the time). Thanks to the OP for sharing this article. Now I have to will myself to do some actual work today instead of playing old IF games online.
Not using what most others are using has drawbacks, so some justification is needed.

This is only true in the open source world and then only in one corner of it. Subversion is still, by far, the most used version control system in the enterprise.

And why should someone have to argue why they aren't using git? If he loves Mercurial, great! He doesn't have to explain why he doesn't use every other version control system in existence.
Any reasons why they should merge if they are so different?
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Could Apple's MusicMatch Be A Tool To Identify Infringers?
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Its a necessary evil if you want free content. Btw, click rates are much lower, about 0.05% for a content site.

People also come across thousands of ads that they ignore every day in billboards, shopping windows etc. That's not a legitimate reason to rule out advertising as a revenue option. (On the other hand, claiming that the majority of people find them useful is a bit of a stretch)