skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looked great until I got to certification. At this point I think they've just re-invented X.509 and added browser/Javascript integration.

Why not have a new way of using X.509 in the browser? I'm not talking about client side SSL certificates as they are at the moment. I mean that on login to your mail provider the browser will automatically generate a keypair and get a certificate either from your mail provider or from a third party which has verified that you own the email address in the traditional way. This certificate will contain a Subject of mail=me@example.com, Issuer of either CN=example.com or CN=trustedverifier.com. Then the browser can just present that certificate as normal to destination.com, and perhaps only on request (so the user can choose whether to "log in" or not). If the issuer matches my email address domain then destination.com will fetch the public certificate of example.com to verify. If the issuer matches trustedverifier.com then destination.com will already know whether it wants to trust it or not and have the public key if it does.

This does seem to be what the article describes, only the article has more optional elements and re-invents some of the cryptosystem rather than re-using X.509.
Because relative units are a painful and time consuming to deal with, thus counter-productive. How wide is the element that is 20em wide, that is contained by an element that is 20em wide? Yes, that is a trick question (it depends on the browser, and the css of other elements on the page). How wide is an element that is 200px wide that is contained by an element that is 200px wide? The answer is straightforward - 200px. In terms of CSS these days, 1px != 1 screen pixel.
It's pretty hard to be a Google+ user at this point and not be considered "active" - unless you disregard signing up as activity. I suppose you could argue a lot of people are signing up and not using the service at all, but my anecdotal observation is entirely the opposite of that. The people who sign up are embracing it in a big way.
Arguably the network vastly increases the chances that we will connect to the right individuals by disseminating information quickly and broadly.

All "collective knowledge" exists in someone's brain somewhere, just like your gmail messages exist on three hard disks in three servers scattered somewhere among the millions.

Hivemind? No. Individual mind, plugged into the hive, as a participant? Yes.
Revenue is a bad way to compare these companies, Apple is selling $1000 iphones and $2000+ laptops, which have a fairly high production cost. Whereas the margin on a PPC click would be massive.
It's called eventual consistency :)
Ok but this isn't my biggest peeve with recruiters.

My biggest peeve is when they ask me to refer them potential candidates - either specifically ("can you intro me to <person x>") or generally ("do you know anyone that would fit <role>?").

Trouble is that if they are successful with the hire that could be worth $25k+ (25% of salary a good annual salary).

Sorry, but to ask me to do that without offering to split the fee with me is to make a chump out of me. No one has ever handed me $25k on a plate.
Wow -- this really stuck a chord with me. My startup's product is a CMS. Before we build the CMS, we built the API:

http://www.gethifi.com/blog/first-we-built-an-api-then-we-bu...

That said, I didn't buy everything he said. We've built a farily agnostic API, very much like he described. That said, it's not Mongo, it's not MySQL and it's not CouchDB. It's impossible to build something that is 100% free from constraint and trade-offs.

Blog Engine CMSs are restrictive because they are Blog Engines! You can see that his system has its restrictions too as he enters a pixel based headline size in the demo video.
I'm saying that Techstars has only had 5 years to refine itself. HBS has had over 100. I would think by that definition alone HBS should be churning out better results!
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http://www.thanksno.com/, which inspired this service, is intriguing. "I can't bring myself to tell you, so I'll use this webpage to tell you instead"? I'm not saying it does not make sense, just that it's a bit funny when you think of it.
Great app man, you deserve heaven, and by heaven i mean endless happiness while you are alive
This is the new +1
I am shocked. What kind of pojects are those? Does anyone believe that students were waiting for this "internet" thing to share source?
It's also easy to design a site to load fast without ads or widgets. Redesign TC's site to load fast with the same ads and functionality, and I'll be more impressed.
Facebook only reports 30-day active user numbers.
another i found on hn way back, bit.ly/ijXuHY
There wasn't really a very clear timeline but you appear to have confused things somewhat.

The parents noticed the rash and swelling on the Sunday and so were in the paediatricians office that same day. If the [emergency] paediatrician gives a clear diagnosis in person would you really say "hang on a minute Google's SERPs say I should call 911". You're standing there with the doctor, you don't need to call for one.

The next day [Monday] it seems the mother sent images to her family doctor. The test to confirm the diagnosis came back false and one of the images sent to the doctor was incidentally posted on Facebook. A friend, mother of a Kawasaki disease sufferer, and a relative who specialised in cardiology both offered the diagnosis that pushed the mother to go to seek emergency medical aid for the second time.

She doesn't say what her family doctor's reaction to the second diagnosis was nor interestingly does it appear that the paediatrician she sought counsel from offer an alternate diagnosis when tests came back negative (though this info could just be missing).
There are significant changes that I wouldn't normally have expected in a point release.

To your point, the community has rushed to support many of these changes so it's unlikely to be a big deal.
> sounds like not that rare. Or is it rare just because doctor couldn't diagnose it?

The highest incidence of Kawasaki Disease is in Japan, at 0.175% (175 cases per 100,000 children younger than five). In the UK, it's around 0.008%, though may be on the rise. In the USA, it's between 0.009% and 0.019%, according to the CDC. That's certainly fairly rare, and it doesn't surprise me that it wasn't the first thing the doctor thought - if you read the article to the end, you'll notice that he said that "[he] was actually just thinking it could be Kawasaki disease," after she called him from the hospital. As another person mentioned, he was maybe a a few hours behind the social network in his diagnosis.
The title is descriptive of the story, succinct, without dramatisation or hyperbole. What would you have it read instead?
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Beisdes analyzing properties of the commit graph, which doesn't seem to be a common task, what about them is so useful that they need to be stored in commit headers now? For instance, what day-to-day operations do they actually make faster? At first, it sounded like it might be for easier navigability (e.g. expanding git-rev-parse) but I don't see that in this description.
Yes, I thought about comparing profit but actually I think revenue is more interesting because it represents to some extent the company's "weight", or spending power. Apple may spend a lot to manufacture their devices, but that spend also represents part of their huge influence in the computing landscape. It accounts for things like retail stores and massive advertising budgets which are enormously important. Sure if you only look at revenue then you over-estimate their influence but you equally under-estimate their influence if you only look at profit.
This is one of those ideas that could help support a small startup of two guys living on air mattresses. But doesn't this run into some kind of copyright issue?
Everyone missed the part where I found myself contributing to several open-source projects, naturally.

Here's an example: we use this gem called "analytical". Its configuration didn't support test vs. dev vs. production. I could have hacked on top of it - it would have added some gross code to my project. Instead I changed the original - turned out to be less code overall and didn't pollute anything in my work project. My pull request (https://github.com/jkrall/analytical/pull/17) still hasn't been accepted, but we use the fork.

I just think that the reason you're not contributing to OS is not time, it's that you choose to design within the box.
ahem, you mean AOL's content. there is a cube in Dulles with the light on tonight with a C&D on the monitor.
Why call it a "generation number" and not "depth"?
I am quite surprised that teaching customer/public communication is not something that is part of the YC experience by now. We've seen time and time again the lack of thought in YC companies public communication such as the job postings here and general updates regarding things such as progress, changes or feedback(Dropbox comes to mind). Hipness is one thing, tact is quite different.
While its great to include some technical things, it is better to cover a slew of business related stuff that many should know but don't.
Thanks for the feedback, I think you've given better feedback than any of my blog commenters or blog-comment-via-new-blog-post responders.
OK, what about popurls[1], alltop[2] and the like?

1. http://popurls.com/
2. http://alltop.com
By the way, if anybody has any suggestions for improvements, I'm all ears. I mean, not in a literal sense, but you know.
Minor smackdown from this thread here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/1771...
I have to agree....I've met Steve a number of times at various Ruby events around Sydney....he's pretty damm good at his job!
>"Eyes swelled shut" and you still talking to your Facebook friends?

She was mailing images to her family doctor whilst awaiting test results and had already been given a diagnosis and treatment. The mother was clearly questioning the diagnosis. The use of one of the images that she'd sent to the doctor was incidental, a progress report for family and friends. She probably didn't want to use the phone for fear of missing the doctor's call but still wanted to let people (her mother is mentioned) updated.

Could you say how you feel the article is sensationalised?
Sounds reasonable, but this is how you feel. Personally I like to see the Ruby on Rails tutorial code in someone's GitHub.
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Ask HN: How to optimize press coverage?
tentatively set to be profiled in Mashable's 'Spark of Genius' feature tomorrow for http://GoRankem.com

putting together a checklist for the team:
-tweet, fb share, google +1 & stumbleupon from the article
-include a mention in gmail status
-mention in google+ circles
-pass along to reddit

what are some other ways to keep the momentum from a writeup spreading as far as possible? thanks in advance!

-adam
I was wondering how they got along without generation numbers for so long. It was by comparing timestamps and those are unreliable because systems can be misconfigured. How they are going to handle legacy repos with that problem I still don't get. I am guessing that history is f'd.
I hope Nicolai also has some amazing blog posts on his blog too.
I don't think you're quite being fair. I've certainly used FB to check on someone who was ill without having to call them directly; not out of boredom but out of concern. Also simply not being involved in complex mental activity doesn't make one bored.
http://blog.lab49.com/archives/3011
"For some people it takes incentives other than knowledge to perform the act of learning."

That there is the reason why I'm happy about it. At least it's for a good cause. Making reading news more fun for a large fraction of people isn't a bad idea...
It's ironic that this is on the front page at the same time as Linus's proposal to change to commit object format, in which he claims that the lack of generation numbers is Git's "only real design flaw" [1]. Okay, maybe he's only talking about the plumbing, but if it needs long guides like this to understand one command, I think maybe that would constitute a design flaw.

I like Git, I really do. This article helped me like it more. There has to be a way to get the benefit of that object model without all the grief at the interface.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2765844
What I like about git is that it stores only the minimum amount of information, and this makes it easy to explain. A commit hash is a hash of canonical information, not of derived information.

It seems really ugly to store derived information in a commit (specifically, that the hash would be altered by it).

It seems that Jeff has said the same thing, but Linus disagrees. Vocally.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg161336.html
Think they're using "generation" here in the context of number of parents (yes, "depth" would work fine as well, but is a more general term)
Doesn't mention if it handles nested zips, and if it can visualize files with jar/war extensions (which are just zip files).
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Analogy.
If you can make the various components of software design relatable to components of a familiar machine, like a car for example, where your programs are described as the engine, transmission, axles, tires, windshield, paint, and so on, you will have clearly explained the role of the software in the big picture, which is far more valuable than its technical specifics- in a more intuitive way. (at least to someone that has only cursory interest in the back-end aspects of program components.)
Just a thought.
I don't have any experience with it but for the sake of conversation what about Microsoft's Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/. Seems like that should be a good platform to run a .Net app off of.
Those don't republish content, they post headlines and links to the original sources.
I agree with you. It seems like the basic concepts are neat and clean, but that the interface to it, and the vocabulary, is counter-intuitive. The article really gives me the impression that git-reset can be used to do several vaguely related things, with an inadequate terminology (--soft, --mixed, --hard?).

Besides, it doesn't help that the first commands you learn about git (like git add, git commit -a, etc.) actually hide most of the complexity in a treacherous way (especially since they do not advertise the existence of the index).

It's probably possible to learn git efficiently by approaching it as something abstract, not as that stuff you want to be quickly productive with. Sadly, you probably can't realize that unless you already wasted your time on the misleading tutorials.
I've never seen a place like SciPlus in your link.

However, can I drag you back to my initial bleatings - the point being that it is a rich persons gift to their child to allow them free rein in such a hardware project.

Yes we have lots of craft materials that we've acquired over the years, no we don't have $30 to spend on "random crap". But this precious little to do with where we started ...
There's no speed limit (2009)
You're welcome. And thanks for being much more civil than I probably deserved, considering that I started my comment with "Ugh" and went straight into a comparison with slash-fic. :)

On an unrelated note, your blog logo doesn't work for me. It shows up broken. Just FYI.
Something like DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM).
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The fact is it takes a long time to decide how safe something is, especially on the roads.

For each month this technology's market deployment is delayed, there's a 9/11 of American deaths in car accidents. Even if Google went ahead with maximally-unsafe public beta tests and killed a hundred people, that would still probably cause an enormous net savings of lives.
The whole process sucks. We are trying to hire for our small startup and we have a few different recruiters. They seem to just send us random bodies off LinkedIn - nobody particularly stellar, much less demanding of the 25% annual salary as commission. It's unreal.

Someone needs to reinvent this market.
Perhaps because "Generation" continues the Parent/Child allegorical language.
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I'm interested in setting something up in Toronto. Anyone else interested?
Yep, that's the one. Thanks!
Not at expert in this area, but its interesting stuff.
Obviously, its nothing like the headline of 'computers learns to play by reading manual'. Sounds more like 'manual provides context hints to help guide search'.

I'm not sure the baseline AI of civ is that hard to beat, so its hard to evaluate how good the headline stat of 78% is? Anyone?

The other thing that gives me pause, is that they performed their rollouts against the other AI player. That seems kind of unfair - might be concerned they might be specialising to beat the build in AI, rather than to play the game.

Finally, did they perform their rollouts during a training phase of their model, and then use just the fitted model during evaluation play, or did they continue to use the rollouts during evaluation? I presume it was the former, but I only skimmed the paper, and couldnt find it explicitly?
Exactly, I think most users of LastPass or 1Password had the same thoughts.

The question I do have: why would I use this over something like LastPass which already has plugins for every browser and device most people will ever care about?
Zooko's triangle[1] in action:

A BrowserID (like an email address) is memorable and secure, but not decentralized (it's centralized in DNS).

A cryptographic key is decentralized and secure, but not memorable.

Systems that are memorable and decentralized, but not secure, don't address these use cases at all.

(And then there's Namecoin[2], which is a fascinating development, but not likely to see broad adoption in the near future.)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zookos_triangle
[2]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Namecoin
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>Could you say how you feel the article is sensationalised?

May be in reality situation on the second day was not as obvious as described in the article, but from the article it's clear that treatment was not working, and new measures were required. If on the second day of taking antibiotics situation is getting worse, at least for me it's the indication to go to the hospital.
I agree this policy of OpenLeaks is a bit dubious. The project the Chaos Computer Club are working on is called 'GlobalLeaks'. I cannot determine if it is going to be respectable.

EDIT: Just saw that OpenLeaks are going to be at the conference. GlobalLeaks is a group attempting to create open source leaking platform. It might be that 'OpenLeaks' = 'GlobalLeaks'
This is just another web based open sign-in. Why did they tie this to email, of all things?

My immediate thought was that a browser-based ID implementation would let you keep secure credential on the computer, saved by the browser, up to and including pics, profile, etc. In other words, take social credentials native.
Apple puts up a lot of foreign language movie trailers. People who view the page a lot and don't enjoy foreign language films might skip them. This might account for some of the results.
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We usually host a hack night every second thursday in Toronto, and we're going to move it to Sunday for this. If you're interested in attending (or could host people on Saturday), you're more than welcome - http://www.meetup.com/torontoruby/events/25743841/
These badges encourage people to click on articles, not necessarily to learn anything from them. Maybe they will still learn, but maybe it will encourage them to skim (even) more.

You can sometimes obtain very unexpected results if you provide an incentive for something which is almost (but not quite) the thing that you want to favor.
Absolutely love the SMS feature.

I think what some people forget is that there are only about 500K iphone apps in the app store (about the same for Android? not sure on that), and the store is barely three years old. Over the next few years I bet that number is going to explode, providing a huge opportunity for a service like app.net.
This is a good idea for a business! Custom site design of that quality can easily run someone a couple grand.

Feature request: room for iPad screenshots!
Its cool..a good demo of how the same content looks readable in different UX , neat!
Motorola is currently being sued by Microsoft.
>I would think by that definition alone HBS should be churning out better results!

Is HBS designed to produce tech startups though? HBS is probably closer to their desired results by virtue of "refinement" of it's aims and processes, yes. However unless those aims include "creating more tech startups" I don't see how their longevity is especially relevant.
totally agreed, you can't underestimate the importance of an alumni network and lessons from past years - advantages that make HBS v. TS a meaningless comparison in terms of success output.
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"The more they can get you to read articles the more it benefits them."

While it is an interesting idea, it seems more likely that the badges will just encourage people to click on random links in order to game the system and level up, rather than actually spending time and reading. Google needs to find a way to encourage depth and not breadth.
In meatspace conversation I had Eliezer make the prediction concrete in scope and give it a number.

From one year after the date of the parent comment Eliezer expects that Google+ will not appear on Hacker News (except as a mistake, an obituary, an "It failed, I told you so!", etc). The probability Eliezer assigned to his prediction being correct: 55%.

I asked for the number with the intent of betting against him. At that figure I am not quite comfortable staking money. That is, I am not sufficiently confident that google+ has a significantly more than 45% chance of taking off. (Because I think that 45% chance of still being significant in a year is a good place to be, given the potential payoffs!)
The GP was pointing out that out of the small (relative to the number of college dropouts) group of Harvard MBA grads, there have been quite a few tech startups.

You are right that any such correlation doesn't imply causality - maybe the MBA and startup success were both caused by a prior drive.

But its an encouraging sign; that Apple and Microsoft were started by dropouts doesn't really change that.
Our cars are probably less efficient on average too, with all the SUVs. You've got miles/year and $/gallon, but not miles/gallon. You need all three to compare. I'd be interested in what you come up with.

For what it's worth, my commute is one mile and I drive a Mini, so I can't use the commute cost to justify my own salary...
What operations would be sped up by having generation numbers?

I see Jeff King's message that they would make certain bounding traversals faster, but when do bounding traversals need to be computed when I'm using git day-to-day?
Is this just to encourage people to stay logged-in/cookies on?
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2 things:

#1
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/international/usgas_pri...

"The United States has always fought to keep gas prices low,"

_fought_, as in, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, etc...

#2
Taxes