skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am grateful to Bill Gates because for his dream of computer in every home I am typing this on a cheap laptop from a third world country. If Steve Jobs vision of state of the art and stylish but pricey devices ruled I would not be in this position.
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Twitter is Using HTTPS/SSL Now
Is Linux a repeatable phenomenon? Is there a college student today whose hobby OS can snowball into such a dominant technology? If Linux started in 2011, I wonder what design decisions would have Linus made differently.

The Innovator's Dilemma suggests that a disruptive technology replace a dominant standard by working bottom-up: specialize in a corner of the market that is too small or unprofitable to be of interest to the dominant player, then add "cheap but good enough" features.

The economics of Linux might bend some of the Innovator's Dilemma assumptions, but it does seem like Linux is losing its focus as it tries to support servers and desktops and embedded devices. Perhaps a smaller, less capable kernel could capture some super-low-end devices (like cheap mobile devices or home automation).
>"I was humbled at a job interview yesterday almost to the point of a beat-down"

Sounds like a workplace to avoid - either because it is part of the corporate culture or they didn't bother reading your CV (malice or incompetence take your pick).
This problem is easy to solve. Downvote bad comments and bring in active moderators whose job is to message users that show a pattern of writing bad comments and help them do better. If the user doesn't improve over time, ban. There must be a hundred competent people who would be willing to assume this position.
SANS Announces the Release of a Major Update to the 20 Critical Controls
JQuery Overtakes Flash on World's Top Websites
appendTo, the company dedicated to jQuery, the world’s most popular JavaScript Library, released data today showing that the percentage of websites that have jQuery deployed has officially surpassed the percentage of websites that have Adobe Flash deployed.
Interview w/ 'Airbnb-in-the-hood' host being harassed by Chicago police
I am, but I guess I don't find it so scary.
Jake, congratulations for the idea and the execution. Sometimes the simplest idea is the one that changes the world. By the way, is there any reason why I can't connect from Spain? It is stuck on the "connecting" screen :(
Here's a quick and dirty single page HTML version as a stopgap:
http://danielchoi.com/software/thoughtbot-playbook.html
There are quite a few solutions like this already. Warsaw/Polend has that in some trams and in Subway. I also something like this in Hamburg...
With the problem in front of me, I would not think doing the last one on paper would speed up things. On
paper, it would feel like

Load X
Triple
Store Temp
Load Temp
Load Y
Add

I would optimize that store/load away. If, on the other hand, someone told me the problem, I probably would not remember Y by the time I needed it (seven plus or minus two is about two, apparently)
I use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-policies/ It has privacy, terms of use, spam, DMCA, etc..
Not attending. Big waste of time and money. I don't want to spend that much money for airfare, a ticket to the conference, and hotel/food fees just to watch Zuckerberg reveal something I won't use and to talk to developers for help I can get on Stack Overflow for free.
I found the HP 49g+ to stand out far above the TI-89.
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Why Tim Cook Is the Best Choice to Run Apple
Awesome idea! I just got node.js installed so I'll keep this one bookmarked
I did a lot of work with LDAP half a year ago, and the concept of ldap.js was the first thing that sprung to mind as a way to make the whole experience more developer-friendly. Only I was too lazy too actually go ahead and build it... kudos to Mark Cavage for pulling this off :-)

There's just something very wrong about having to use 90s database technology solely because people like (or are stuck with) the associated protocol.
Steve Jobs preps for an early TV appearance
What if everyone let his (or her) CISSP lapse?
Should terms of Phase 2 be disclosed to users before a Bcorp transition?
CouchSurfing.org officially B Corporation...OK.

Funding round of 7.6m$ from some people expecting to have them back automagically multiplied...OK.

People possibly reducing their donations [for a for profit org starts to sound like donating to google, and people tend not to] , the current only income of CS...OK.

Announcement of no ads on the website...OK.

Just one big question about the model...where the heck will CS collect money from? Sounds like a bunch of underpant gnomes conquered the CS SF headquarters: the 3m users better start to firmly lock their bedrooms' windows and drawers at night...

But I guess that in order to raise 7.6m you need a draft of a Buisness Plan...

So...bottom line: it is my opinion the Casey Fenton & Co.'s strategy of keeping on not disclosing - or being cumbersomely vague about - their Phase 2 to Couchsurfers - CS's only VCs until these 7.6m - is a poor way of doing, hope it won't drag this whole fermenting community down at a much faster pace it took to come to this point.

Cheers,

Mahesh
I agree with what you say, oddly enough. Perhaps my beef is actually with all the amateur philosophers who insist on a unique, canonical ontology, rather than the fact of the matter, that there are always multiple ontologies to choose from. So they argue about things like square and rectangle re subtyping, but there is more than one way to validly slice the pie, so the argument is pointless.
me too, it was a strange time where i think /. was the only place that was taking bursts seriously in hosting
Wait, RealNetworks is still around? Really?
Cheap golf
I'm the co-founder of Masterbranch.com. Thanks for sending out the link.

We would love to heard any feedback you guys have and also what do you expect from a site like Masterbranch.
What if HN displays the sum of the users' karma that voted up and down? What if we could see who voted?
> My take is, flag these topics off the site.

I'd like to do this. I tried doing it a while ago on the new tab. I spent 20 minutes each day flagging off topic posts.

I didn't mind doing this as it was my way of making the community better.

Sadly the flag link seems to have gone away:(
HN members' opinions of themselves are inflated and entertaining. I really enjoy the stream of sometimes-interesting links posted on the front page. I also get a kick out of the navel-gazing, the smug self-congratulations, the herding, the tempests in various teapots, while kettles are black.
The content contributors think the site is about them, while it is really about maintaining a halo effect for a startup incubator.
I'm not sure I care about the voters per se but perhaps about the filtering ability that one gets by taking extra note of recognised voters. I think that I'd prefer to be able to, say, give a bonus to votes by people who I've also upvoted ... the more I think about it the more I'm thinking how good slashdot's voting system is, OK I wouldn't adopt it wholesale but it's vastly superior to what we have here now I think.

Is there any reason I can't have something vote numbers and vote inflation whilst others have only flagging with no vote scores?
Haskell abstracts things at an even higher level than most programming languages. For example, the infamous monads are a way of abstracting out the details of how 'effectful' computations (i.e. computations that do something other than simply taking arguments and returning values) should work. Monads model effects like exceptions, mutable state, input/output, nondeterminism, and so forth, and by abstracting them into the same pattern, it allows you to write functions that work with any effect in the same way. For example, if I have a list of operations which have effects and all have the same result type, I can sequence them together using the sequence function, so for IO:

sequence [putStrLn "foo", putStrLn "bar", putStrLn "baz"]

will print those three strings on their own lines. However, I can use the same function for Haskell's equivalent of null:

sequence [Just 3, Just 8, Just 5] -- results in Just [3, 8, 5]
sequence [Just 3, Nothing, Just 5] -- results in Nothing, because Nothing is
-- propagated if it occurs

or for nondeterminism

sequence [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]] -- results in every possible list whose first
-- element is drawn from the first list, whose
-- second element is drawn from the second
-- list, and whose third element is drawn from
-- the third list.

or for any other effect that Haskell has. A lot of learning Haskell has to do with looking at the abstractions Haskell offers (monads are only one; you also get things like arrows, functors, applicative functors, &c) and understand how you can phrase your problems in terms of them and consequently use Haskell's abstractly written functions to your favor. A great practical example here is parsing; parser combinators can be expressed as monads or as applicative functors, both of which make your parsing code very small and quite natural to read. For example, the following is a function to parse strings like "(552,864)" using the Parsec parser combinator library:

parseDigit = oneOf ['0'..'9']
parseInt = many parseDigit
parsePairOfInts = do
string "("
p1 <- parseInt
string ","
p2 <- parseInt
string ")"
return (p1, p2)
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Micro braids are considered a casual style by many people who are considering a new look. For formal events, most people are under the impression that they can not make formal hairstyles with micro braids, because of the accidental appearance of the style.
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Node.js Can Even Help You Lose Weight
I think you're spot-on. This has to be a part of it. Whatever its issues, the visible point system was a way for readers to interact with the site in a way that produced a response for all to see. Whether this encouraged herd behavior or changed the shape of discussions in an unfavorable way is another issue.

Comment-dimming notwithstanding, that feedback has been removed. There's a class of reader whose desire for a kind of interactivity is no longer satisfied by the voting system; for them, pile-on voting has been replaced by pile-on posting (albeit often in the more thoughtful HN style). Which in turn begets more such posts, and thus a more polarized conversational shape.
Steve Jobs as Apple’s CEO: a retrospective in products
Working on http://gopollgo.com -- would love any and all feedback!
I was really expecting there to be a twist like the "friend" was actually Bill Gates. Imagining that, it made the "friend's" response even more humorous.
> "Hopefully that will help Microsoft see that's a good strategy for making customers happy, that the barbarians won't tear down the walls of Xbox and turn it into some chaotic wasteland."

When Microsoft relaxed the XBox Live rules for Activision and EA, both of those companies wasted no time in adding aggravation for their customers and removing functionality. So while Valve may behave themselves, opening the door altogether would almost certainly be a net negative for gamers.

I'd much rather Microsoft create an XBL standard for microtransactions, cross-platform chat and cloud saves.
Yes, requiring MS Word 2003 really fills me with a sense of the cutting edge
I'm tempted to start a microblog for stupid job postings, starting with this one:<p>http://hightechpros.com/viewJob.php?jobid=1707<p>The leader in wireless sensor networking is seeking a Software Engineer. Company's products combine sophisticated networking software ... Experience with Petabyte scale mass storage of data using NoSQL technologies: Hadoop, Cassandra, etc. - ...<p>To apply for this position please put in the subject "Job ID # 1707". Also, please send an MS Word 2003 or earlier version of your resume as the later versions are incompatible with our software.
I wonder how he feels about getting stuck with the "CmdrTaco" handle. :)
Bummer...no French (yet)

This sounds stupidly superficial, but the page is configured (apparently) in such a way that sharing it on FB gets you a blank for title/descriptor/image...YEah, I know, superficial. But I wanted my friends to know about it and you know what they say about click-through rate for articles w/images...
>Only works for top-level threads, though. A bad response to a highly rated OP will continue to hang out near the top of the page.

Yeah, this is why I wish HN had collapsible comments (like Reddit, or even Slashdot). In that way, you could simply collapse irrelevant comments and ignore them. Having comments that can't be collapsed makes this much more difficult, as even a comment that's been downvoted into oblivion still takes up space and forces you to scroll more in order to get to the stuff that you are interested in.
Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch
6 productivity tips from positive psychologist Kim Perkins
How about https instead of http?
The most surprising part of this story is that RealNetworks is still in business. What a horrible piece of software, on the server and the client side.
Steve Jobs reportedly worked on campus for his final day as CEO
Should terms of Phase 2 be disclosed to users before a Bcorp transition?
CouchSurfing.org officially B Corporation...OK.<p>Funding round of 7.6m$ from some people expecting to have them back automagically multiplied...OK.<p>People possibly reducing their donations [for a for profit org starts to sound like donating to google, and people tend not to] , the current only income of CS...OK.<p>Announcement of no ads on the website...OK.<p>Just one big question about the model...where the heck will CS collect money from? Sounds like a bunch of underpant gnomes conquered the CS SF headquarters: the 3m users better start to firmly lock their bedrooms' windows and drawers at night...<p>But I guess that in order to raise 7.6m you need a draft of a Buisness Plan...<p>So...bottom line: it is my opinion the Casey Fenton & Co.'s strategy of keeping on not disclosing - or being cumbersomely vague about - their Phase 2 to Couchsurfers - CS's only VCs until these 7.6m - is a poor way of doing, hope it won't drag this whole fermenting community down at a much faster pace it took to come to this point.<p>Cheers,<p>Mahesh
Would be cool to A/B test the comment scores. All HN readers would see identical frontpage. Half of HN readers would see comment threads with scores. Other half of readers would see comment threads without scores. After a day or so the most active/interesting threads would be compared. How did threads with comment scores evolve vs. threads without comment scores?

The results could be interesting. My opinion is that comment scores should be absent (like the current state). I think they lead to snow-balling effects. Lazy readers just go with the group's opinion instead of forming their own.
And you can modify comment scores by moderation reason, to boost e.g. informative comments while hiding e.g. funny ones, if you want to read a more serious discussion.
I remember "luggable". There was an April fool's section in BYTE in the late 80's advertising a line of hand luggage made to look like portable computers. The text said something about the size being painfully realistic and not fitting under an airplane seat.
Aha, in the beginning as we grow our user base, we're scheduling sessions--three times per day now. You'll see the session times announced in your local time to the left of the video screen.

Just log on during the next session, which is at 9 PM in Spain. Just to make sure, would you mind shooting me an email at jake@verbling.com from the email account you signed up with? That way, I can take a look to make sure everything's the way it should be.

And thanks for the kind words!
Using a beefy headline like this (crushes!) and having a typo in the subtitle 'pacakge' somehow immediately turns me away..

Gives me a yellow press / tabloid feeling?
This sounds totally reasonable since you've thought it through, and you can always get an LLC before you do any kind of business that would change that calculation.

I just want to advocate for the stance that, if you're not sure, you should err on the side of having limited liability. Your business is probably going to fold, and when it does, it's probably going to have liabilities.
Except if you scratch your itch on dotCloud, you can't run it on your own laptop like you can with Cloud Foundry Micro or on other services that might have a better interface like AppFog. That's the problem with contributing to a closed source project.
> For me one of the more convincing arguments that article puts forward is that Haskell only has unary functions

It's not specific to Haskell, you can trivially argue that all languages with functions have only unary functions but most languages use tuples as the function's sole parameter.

Haskell even lets you switch a function between the two systems via `curry` and `uncurry`.
Because L.A. wasn't quite superficial enough
wish they would call them like ldap.node instead ;o
So basically implement a system like Slashdot?

I think that the vaccine HN had was size. Just like a modern republic vs. ancient Athens, HN has grown to the point where the obvious answer just doesn't seem to work. I think that Slashdot has already had to deal with these growing pains, and HN(and reddit) chose to ignore /.'s problems and pick the obvious solution. Unfortunately the behavior of mobs/tribalism tears this choice down.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, BART has excellent (and accurate!) real-time schedules and APIs:

http://m.bart.gov/

http://www.bart.gov/schedules/developers/
it took me a fair while to figure out that this article is about multiple programming languages.
My first thought, too.
I have just blogged about this article at FounderandFriends.com.

Here is the text from it.

Steve Jobs, is someone I admire hugely. Yes, he has numerous personality floors but his obsession to follow his heart in all things in his life is extremely admirable. Watching his Stanford Commencement speech too many times in a job I didn’t enjoy led me to quit as a Derivatives Trader and sent me on my current path, back to the startup world I left many years ago. He has literally changed my life.

Steve’s obsession has led him to become a product perfectionist. And is why Apple is now the second most valuable company in the world. Almost every product that comes from Apple is spectacularly awesome. And Vic’s post illustrates the depths of Steve’s obsession. I have heard similar stories about Jack Dorsey at Square, tweaking spacing on receipts because he felt they were not beautiful enough.

In Vic’s post the comments are full of ‘the devil is in the details’ quotes of admiration for Jobs’ obsession. But the question for us is, ‘Should we as startup entrepreneurs have the same obsession with the details of our products?’.

My answer is that, unfortunately, we can’t. And I really mean it when I say unfortunately. I am a perfectionist myself in a lot of ways. When I do something I pour my heart and soul into it. I want it to be the best I can make it. I become obsessed and it is constantly in my mind. I go to bed and wakeup thinking about it. My girlfriend recently pointed out that 70% of our conversation is about SayMama. All the SayMama animations, transitions and buttons movements, design, logo and user flows have all been laboriously thought through and refined. The amount of energy myself and the team have spent on details has been immense.

The problem is that we misplaced our passion. We are currently pivoting the business, or rather accelerating it to where we wanted it to be in a year or so from now. This means that we will be putting most of our energy into a new product. All the details we crafted in saymama.com don’t matter.

Obsession is not the problem, the problem is where we focus the obsession. For us startups, the obsession should be placed in finding product/market fit and gaining traction. And in finding our product champions who will help spread the word. A higher level of abstraction of obsession. Not the details but the broader product.

Obsession with the details of a logo are only gifted to those who have viable product that serves a users need. Those like Steve and Jack who already have a viable business. Personally I can’t wait for this day, but until then all my energy will go into defining where SayMama and our subsequent product fit into the world of real time video communications.

We are still guided by the same compass, ‘to take real world human interaction and replicate it online’. But the obsession is not on the product details. It is on creating something that solves users’ problems in a way that no one else does.
"Man bites dinosaur" journalism.
great resource here!
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And you're running this all on 1970s technology. And the problem is?

Look at the bright side: At least it isn't an Oracle product.
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No, it just seems to have a redirect from plan_ahead to plan_ahead#dashboard that breaks the back button (at least on Firefox 3.6.20, Linux).

(I'm not sure what the original commenter's platform is though.)
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10 Unusual Things You Didn't Know About Steve Jobs
Wait, has anyone ever seen cmdrtaco and Steve Jobs in the same place? Maybe they're the same person! :)
The notion of a^n definitely belongs to group theory, whether you call that n an exponent or an annihilator or a period is a matter of some contention. See:
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/44393/notation-exponent-of...
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/32116/exponent-of-a-group
>>> MrMan 14 minutes ago | link | parent | flag

HN members' opinions of themselves are inflated and entertaining. I really enjoy the stream of sometimes-interesting links posted on the front page. I also get a kick out of the navel-gazing, the smug self-congratulations, the herding, the tempests in various teapots, while kettles are black. The content contributors think the site is about them, while it is really about maintaining a halo effect for a startup incubator. <<<

I don't mean to be condescending, but you do know that you just proved his point, right?
Facebook Changes Photo Tag Feature
Why Every System Should Have an App Marketplace
How awful is enflock? (NB: Very)
Which limiting yourself to a set of must-read users and not consuming all of HN might not be a replacement for that vaccine, but it sure helps keep the plague rats at bay.
Saying that you can't understate its importance may be understating its importance.
wrong title? or wrong link?
Even though it's completely hypocritical I wholeheartedly join you in your LLC cheerleading. Fast, easy, not expensive.

What I've found by far the hardest as a one-person business is finding a lawyer and an accountant. It's hard to know where to start looking, and there's so much startup money sloshing around that it crowds out smaller fish like me.
Tim Cook to Employees: "Apple is Not Going to Change"
F8 Developers Conference 2011
Writing a computer program which embodies a mathematical
concept is teaching the most retarded entity that is
capable of more than just arithmetic.

I have to agree with this. Solving a problem - this isn't even limited to just math - with a computer program often means to generalize it. Generalization requires understanding. Thus, if you manage to generalize something, you have understood it.