skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zen and the Art of the Internet 1992 
Brendan Kehoe 1970-2011
http://www.thepost.ie/technology/brendan-kehoe-an-appreciation-57591.html
I agree that we're not moving to a world with only wearable/smartphone computers — why would we? Why would we not want tablets or laptops any more? And why would we want our devices to depend on each other (like a tablet or laptop that draws its processing power from one's wearable computer)? We'll continue to have devices in a variety of form factors (meeting a variety of human interface needs), but our data will be synced up via the cloud.
I was wondering what caused my cpu fan to spin up then I noticed the page background.

co;dr = cpu overheated; didn't read
Bayesian justice
Brendan Kehoe 1970-2011
http://www.thepost.ie/technology/brendan-kehoe-an-appreciati...
I don't get why I'm expected to care about whether local or federal employees take an interest in the event. The state criminal court system isn't warm and fuzzy either.
What I got out of this post...

This is one of the worst ways to display images I've ever seen. What a mess!
This looks super nice. One thing I've found that really speeds up deploys using git (inspired by github's deploy process[1]), is having your production copies of your app just be a clone of the git repo. To deploy new code the commands that get run are just:

$ git fetch origin

$ git reset --hard origin/<production branch>

A rollback is just:

$ git reset --hard HEAD^

Fetching pulls down the new code, without replacing your production code just yet. Then git reset --hard is a super fast way to point the production server's working copy at the current head of the origin/<production branch>. Saves you the time of having to upload an archive of your entire app the server everytime. However, it also gets complicated if you want to rollback more than one deploy. I've been looking into maybe auto-tagging each deploy and using the tags for rollbacks.

Also, for uploading assets to S3 checkout s3cmd. It has a really nice sync command, that's basically like rsync for s3 --only uploads files that have changed.

[1] https://github.com/blog/470-deployment-script-spring-cleanin...
Thanks for checking it out! Huge fan of Domainr.
How exactly does it make for a better social network?

Blizzard tried, awhile back, to enforce the real name restriction to their bulletin boards, to disastrous effect. Developers were outed and harassed, and the general consensus was that having real names wouldn't affect the trolls in any meaningful way.

I forsee a lot of John/Jane Smith's on Google+ in the coming years.
But is that really what people want? I don't want my phone being tied up being a CPU. I want to be able to pick it up (without unhooking any wires) at any time and make a phone call, walk around, etc. Or check Twitter on it while I'm working on my big screen. Just because it'll have enough processing power/storage capacity to be my "computer" doesn't mean I'd want it to - I still want both form factors.
Actually, from the material in the charging document, Swartz's actions do go a ways towards demonstrating intent. He's clearly aware that JSTOR and MIT don't want him doing what he's doing, and devises an escalating series of tactics to evade their countermeasures. "Intent" is largely expressed in words like "purposefulness".
He said "way to ignore the physical break-in" and I'm pointing out that federal prosecutors (almost) always ignore physical break-ins. It's not a federal crime.
Unnecessary... but not meaningless. It changes the cadence of the title in a way that doesn't alter the denotation, but does shift some connotations a bit.

EDIT: Oops, somehow I misread apostrophe as comma.
It's not the best place for certain types of content creation, definitely. Especially those that require a keyboard or a large screen.
u can expect from india
Why Good Products Fail and What You Can Do About It
I am speaking from personal experience, nothing more. I've played pickup on many occasions with lower middle class black men.

Also interesting to note: in my experience, in a mixed race group (e.g., in grad school), the smack talk will be toned down. The lone black guy will tone it down to fit in, just as I amp it up when I'm the lone white guy.

Lastly, please note: I'm not trying to portray trash talk as anything other than a harmless cultural practice which outsiders can be intolerant of.
Doomed?

Seriously, new companies that don't have something substantively different about them don't have good odds. In brick-and-motar that "something different" might just be geographic location (e.g. a car mechanic in a town that doesn't have one), but in the online world, you usually need something more.

The "somethings different" can be only slight changes to the models (better customer service, better support for language X, etc.), but they're always different in some way.

"Startup" can imply something radically different, but it doesn't have to, and in any case, even companies that _try_ to stick to an existing business model rarely do, and the plans always change and adjust as you go along, it doesn't matter what kind of business you're in.
If you're looking for book suggestions, I'd recommend "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests" by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce. It's pretty pragmatic, and the treatment of the subject is pretty thought-provoking (at least, I thought so when I read it).

The examples are all Java, but the accompanying website (http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/) has links to reimplementations in several other languages.
This brings up an interesting possibility. What's stopping us from engineering these towers on to buildings once the technology is proven?
Twitter Hashtags Top Influencers: New Visual Tool (Beta), Today on hashtagify.me
Thanks for the s3cmd suggestion, we'll be sure to check it out before next weeks post.
Twitter is still the wrong context for me. If your app releases a new feature, I'm most interested in hearing about it when I'm looking at your app. Seeing it sandwiched between a tweet about a new iPad advertisement and a tweet about the latest lay-offs from RIM is not going to get my attention.

Email still rules and there are some email aspects to Intercom - it's something we're watching closely and hoping to get a great understanding of.
So basically the Motorola Atrix?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G
For those not familiar, 140byt.es is a collaborative code-golfing challenge in JavaScript. The objective is to fit as much punch as possible into 140 bytes, and there has been some impressive work from the community.

Examples include 140-byte versions of

* client-side app helpers: router, jsonp, and templates
* DOM helpers: selectors, swap, and walk
* parsers: Base64, roman numerals, URLs, brainfuck
* math: isPrimeNumber and solveAlgebraicEquation

et cetera. You really have to see some of these entries to believe them. I've learned a lot about JavaScript in the process.
Electronic Health Record Management
Electronic health record management is the process of managing patient records or computerized records, and is a concept defined as an organized collection of electronic health information about patients.
The presence of this post couldn't possibly be the result of the reference made in this comment, eight hours earlier?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2800996

Please, all, enough with the needless repetition that fills the newsfeed with redundancy.
How the Bursting of the Consumer Bubble Continues to Hold the Economy Back
I take your point, but I'd like to point out that it's a side track. It gives the impression that you don't want to talk about whether a crime happened, and instead focus on the purported injustice of federal involvement. Well, what's unjust about that? That the DoJ and federal court system is more severe than Massachusetts?
EDIT- WHY IS THIS STATEMENT DOWNVOTED? REALLY?

There are huge flaws in the art as it is practiced today.
They aren't finding what they're looking for because it IS NOT THERE.
Go to the following site, and understand the gap between the fantastic but invented idea-chasers that are currently en vogue, and the scientists that are taking measurements and fitting the results to known phenomena.

This will change your view of modern science forever, and I humbly assert that it should.

http://www.electric-cosmos.org/indexOLD.htm
A Network for Wild Experimentation
What the hell was he doing with 100k SIM cards?
Somewhat OT: I have been lately toying with the idea of removing a part of the cluster logic from the DB, and moving it the client's drivers instead. Basically, it would work something like this:

You have 3 database nodes. Your application requests write access. The DB driver opens an event loop and tries to connect to all three at once. As soon as it has two live connections, it starts a distributed transaction (I know, these are unreliable, but bear with me, and assume that they work for now. This is the same thing as used on the server anyways). The application completes the work, and it is committed to two servers, which is the majority. The third server will replicate the changes as soon as it is able, verifying that the majority of the servers agree that this is in fact a valid changeset.

I think that this approach, combined with a good locking system (e.g.: the client would declare all locks upfront), could result in a robust system. It also makes it easy to change where your system lies on the CAP triangle: just tune your driver to require a connection to all servers, not just the majority to make the system lean more towards consistency, and make downed nodes that are recovering refuse any connections until they are caught up.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Yes, multiple form factors will exist. As you say in your other comment, there are different use cases -- you don't want to read a book on a display the size of a wristwatch, for example :)

I mean, it's impossible to say what we'll be doing in a few years, let alone 10 or 20, but if we still spend a lot of time moving around and interacting with the physical universe then I think smartphones will beat out tablets. You might have a tablet at home or at the office, but I suspect it will just be a dumb display. Admittedly you wouldn't want to use a Thunderbolt cable in that case -- you'd want a wireless solution of some kind.

There are wireless solutions that support extension of the PCIe bus, though, like the upcoming WiGig thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Gigabit_Alliance
Ask HN:What is stooping us from only using Tablets?
Every use for a computer these days can be found as a webapp or Tablet app, What is stoping us from only using iPads, GalaxyTabs and Other tablets?
He [Vic] says that he is trying to make sure a positive tone gets set here. Like when a restaurant doesn't allow people who aren't wearing shirts to enter.
He says it isn't about real names. He says he isn't using his legal name here. He says, instead, it is about having common names and removing people who spell their names in weird ways, like using upside-down characters, or who are using obviously fake names, like "god" or worse.

There are a few problems with this as implemented in Google+. (Correct me if I'm misinformed, I haven't been able to keep on top of all the new news.)

EDIT: I made some wrong assumptions, particularly about how your Google accounts are tied together, see Matt's reply below.

1) The rules are apparently not being made clear. If I see "no shirt, no shoes, no service" on the entrance I know exactly what that means. When you sign up for Google+ I'm pretty sure it doesn't say "Upside down characters and offensive names will lead to all your Google accounts getting irreversibly banned." Maybe there's some language buried in the TOS. That's not good enough.

2) Google is changing the rules (or enforcement of the rules) late in the game. If someone has had a Gmail account for 5 years using a pseudonym and Google just now decides to lock them out of it when they try to sign up for Google+, that is Google's fault. At least warn them of the offense before banning or prevent them from using Google+ while still allowing access to their Gmail.

3) No recourse. I know Gmail is a free service, but people still use it for registering on financial websites and priceless family correspondence. It is tied to someone's identity. Google needs to have a well defined and timely path of recourse for people who get banned for minor offenses. Directing all customer support requests to /dev/null is not acceptable.
You know that all the public universities already do this right? The books, including salaries are 100% public in many states for (at least for the state universities). Why do you think they are so much cheaper than the companies and Private PIs that do get grants? (BTW that thing you wish for exists: look at SWRI for example). The only requirement to get grants is the ability to convince the grantors that you can do the work more effectively than the other applicants.
"When confronted by observations that cast doubt on the validity of their theories, astrophysicists have circled their wagons and conjured up pseudo-scientific invisible entities such as neutron stars, weakly interacting massive particles, strange energy, and black holes. When confronted by solid evidence such as Halton Arp's photographs that contradict the Big Bang Theory, their response is to refuse him access to any major telescope in the U.S."

Uh huh.
Facebook sides with Tilera in the server architecture debate
Read/Write Messages from MBOX File Format & Load/Save VCARD Files 
Aspose.Network for Java is a Non-Graphical Java component that enables Java applications to read and write Microsoft Outlook documents without utilizing Microsoft Outlook. It enables developers to create new MSG file from scratch, update an existing MSG file, read Outlook MSG file & get it's properties like subject, body, recipients in to, cc and bcc, Adding or removing attachment, sender information & MAPI properties. Aspose.Network for Java can be used with Web as well as Desktop Application.
That would be called a franchise. Other repeatable business models generally aren't scalable, or are by necessity local... so they're destined to be small businesses.
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Simple shell script version:

domainr() { curl -s domai.nr/api/json/search?q=$1 | tr '{' '\n' | grep register | awk ' { print $2 "-" $12 } ' | sed 's/[^0-9a-z\.\-]/ /g'; }
The Startup Toolkit - based on survey of 600 startups
Don't forget the furriners.
Well on the surface nothing, however login credentials can be stolen easily. Focus is on "easily". Sure keys maybe hijacked but the problem becomes non trivial and I am all for making burglars jump through a monkey bar before they even get to the door.
John Regehr has comments on when this should or shouldn't be used: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/383
Are you legitimately trying to clear up any confusion? I am perhaps just being cynical but it did not read that way to me...
Samsung's smartphone sales may have surpassed Apple in Q2
Wouldn't it be nice if the Thunderbolt Display had an optical drive? Lack of an optical drive is one of the few things that makes me nervous about going the MacBook air route anytime soon.
The article is suggesting that they at least initially did not see a way to monetize it. The topic article is not faulty in the way you suggest.
LinkedIn introduces a simple, new way for job seekers
Correction: Aaron Swartz v Some Powerful Politicians or People Who Are Afraid Of What Playing With This Data May Reveal.
Lucky?

If you change the definition from "find" to "find and prove" it holds quite nicely (but doesn't sound as good). This works on the theory that there are no applicable, proven, scalable, repeatable business models. (Due to the presence of established competition)

Models proven to be un-scalable and or un-repeatable is trivially possible.

Models which are scalable and repeatable but un-proven can exist, the company will be executing the business model and in that they will be demonstrating the viability of it assuming the company will lives long enough that this is possible. (Good ideas can still fail if they hit an early setback and don't recover)

If the model is proven to be scalable and repeatable then there has to be someone who proved it to be so (And given the quality of the business model and its lack of glaring flaws they will still be around). With this in mind the original proving company is first to market and likely has a huge advantage, so unless the original product is markedly worse than the new one the model is not scalable and repeatable due to competition (contradiction)
Wow, thanks for taking the time to give that detailed feedback.

They all seem like good valid points that need to be addressed if I decide to take this further, which I think I am going to do.

Thanks again
To be honest, Swartz is independently wealthy so he won't have to worry about the felony impacting his ability to work for a living.

In his post-liquidity-event career as an activist, a felony conviction will serve nicely as a bona-fide.

So the only real downside for Swartz in this is that he spends time in jail, which as you say is quite unlikely.
Just short specific information about each team. Pro baseball is my biggest money-maker, I guess because there are more games during the week and day games, when people are at their computers to search and possibly spend money. College football is second place. Pro football is surprisingly weak in comparison. Hockey made a little during the playoffs, but NBA and even college basketball playoffs aren't even a blip on my traffic.
In World of Warcraft's case, most of the people on your "Friends" list are just other characters you've played with, whereas with Google+, your "Friends" are usually people you actually know by name and face. I think it's understandable why Blizzard's community would be more concerned about revealing personal information than Google+'s.
Paypal to cut off funds for sites IFPI doesn't like, without judicial oversight
At the risk of talking about the actual topic at hand instead of diving off into minutia about putting SSH on your phone, I'm not sure what this gets you, from a paranoia point of view. Assuming the idea is that you want 100% coverage of your server, this might marginally increase your odds, but not really all that much. Times when you aren't available to administer your server are likely to correlate highly with the times when your buddy isn't available. And what if you'd never gotten the SMS in the first place because you were entirely out of service?

One person simply can't cover a server 100%, adding a "buddy" doesn't help much. Either you need a full-on netops operation, or you need to be able to deal with not having 100%.
It might continue to generate during the night, but I would be very surprised if its nighttime capacity was even a quarter what it generated during the day. Also, the glass will need to be cleaned periodically.
Franchise to me implies licensing branding and/or materials from a franchiser, and while that certainly covers one case, it is not all-inclusive of possible answers to the question.
Once you eat your cake, you no longer have it. Hence, you can't have your cake and eat it.
That fact makes me cringe.
You're absolutely right, I did miss that line when I read the original article.
Are there advantages over storing data in HDF? I've been working with a few hundred gigabytes of financial data this summer and I'm finding that python's data-oriented libraries (h5py, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, scikits.learn) cover my needs.
Grammar offender captured! (: http://pluralizeit.com
One wouldn't want to downplay the badness of having a felony record. For instance, Swartz may imagine one day running for office, or being a key person in a political campaign. Or needing to work directly with institutional investors.
Thank you for your reply!

Actually it will be a hybrid community that aims to teach/guide brazilians programmers in how to found a startup, how to get funding and other interesting topics.
Don't be harshing his buzz.
In tech, there is no "Too big to fail"
Dirty Little Secrets about Testing
Finally, USPS.com got nice look'n'feel
I am particularly interested in the software implementation. I am a Mechanical Engineer, involved with high rise construction. Looking to disrupt Building Management Systems.
At work, so I can't look up the references, but this isn't in relation to the friends list, this is in relation to their official forums. Their original proposal, prior to being shot down by the players, was that every post had a person's real name attached to it in an effort to "improve the community".
Would you use it regularly, and if so, for what? For the offhand driver installs, you can always use Mac disk sharing.
I went to look but it was a couple of days ago, and that's hundreds of messages down the list in my Mentions tab on Twitter. And with 140 chars, I'm basically scanning for grunts and snorts. But I can do you better. Here's a list of all my links for the last few months. Some of those go to GP articles. Those are the ones people are complaining about.

http://static.scripting.com/myReallySimple/linkblog.html

Looks like all you have to do is search for plus.google.com in that list. :-)
And Dutch.
I highly mislike word docs for resumes. It provides an implicit assumption that I use MS Word; which is false. I also don't much like the way they look when they're printed.

PDF is at least a fairly open standard and allows proper formatting with all (reasonable) viewers. If you do use a PDF/doc, make sure you spend a little bit of time working on the formatting of the thing. Or just download a LaTeX template..

Plaintext works fine for reading on a screen, but anything done on paper needs some semblance of typography to it.

Generally speaking I keep a copy of my resume in .tex and .txt format, with appropriate tweaks to each to make it look nice.
That would basically make it an iMac... :D
But consider, would you really need one? I thought the same thing when I explored purchasing the new 13" Air, until I realized that the last time I needed to put a DVD in my computer was 2008 and it adds way more everyday weight than it gives everyday use.
I can't decide if that shows whether these guys would be good or bad entrepreneurs. This kind of insane persistence in pursuit of what you believe in is sometimes a good sign for starting a business. On the other hand, they have made some very poor choices in that pursuit, and they've demonstrated that money is far more important to them than it is to the entrepreneurs that I admire.

Independent of that, they're exercising a non-trivial chilling effect on startups at the earliest stages, so I hate 'em for that, and I am deeply suspicious of the class angle - these guys are sons of wealth, I can't imagine they've ever known serious privation in their lives, and they're trying to squeeze still more money from someone who, much as I dislike him, earned it by working his ass off.

If I were a Randian, I'd be the kind of Randian who believes that the wealthy are the real parasites, for exactly reasons like this.
That's a great point. Specifically, it initially seems like it would be a bad idea to have an automated system repair code that humans will need to maintain. However, I've looked at some of the examples of fixes this project has created and many of them are relatively small, and perhaps handing them to humans for code review, cleanup and "humanizing" might be a valid way to go.
As a tangent, isn't it scary that you can effectively piss off entities such as the DoJ and they can hold a grudge against you?

Or from the article:

> Attorney Jerry Cohen, a Boston IP lawyer, suggests this aggressive use of criminal charges rather than civil charges is part of a trend in government prosecution of such cases, like taking “a sledgehammer to drive a thumb tack… It’s intended to terrorize the person who’s indicted and others who might be thinking of the same thing.“

Is it even legally okay to publicly make an example of someone like that?