skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of counting down to the event.

"I'll be a billion seconds old next Friday night! Come to the party and be there when the second arrives!"
Google Docs Stumbles, Goes Down
Yahoo’s Options
For anyone who doesn't know this already, running the nightly builds of Firefox is ridiculously easy. Just visit this page.

http://nightly.mozilla.org/

On OS X, I have the stable Firefox.app and bleeding edge Nightly.app installed side-by-side, and never have any problems.
Windows 8 to support Hyper-V
One of my favorite quotes by David Packard is: "Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department."

I like it so much that I placed it at the beginning of the chapter on promotion in my upcoming book.
I'll call bull sh/t on the whole test.

I'd hazard a guess that learning a new language that is dynamic is easier than learning one that is static. Reason being dynamic languages are more forgiving to the new user.

For this reason they are also easier to prototype with, having productivity boosts at the start of a project. You don't need to plan as much.

Where as static typed languages are more slower and require more structure at the start, but the productivity boosts come later on when you have to support and alter the thing.

Plus if you now your language well you are probably going to be quite fast, if you don't you'll probably be quite slow. And a decent framework will get a most languages flying anyway. When I started programming it would takes a months work to get a project unto a level which is just turnkey these days.

IMO stick to the language you enjoy and don't buy into hype and people with agendas.
What is Counterparties? (financial news, curated by Felix Salmon)
Those machines still cost money to make, and run...
Carol Bartz was not fired because she is fat, rude and vulgar (although she is) - no, she just pissed off the wrong dude: Jack Ma.
The talk on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxk8b9rSKOo
Right on about food. Isn't that another fear, global food scarcities, green revolution not keeping up, fields poisoned by industrial fertilizers... Let's get used to having less, unless we get back on the farm.
Minor correction: the slides had the max number of hosts receiving a deployment at 30,000, not 3,000.
> reliable escaping

One thing that I'm surprised about is that there is a severe lack of easy shell escaping of strings in more modern scripting languages. There should just be a printf symbol/modifier for it. I should be able to:

sprintf("command %S %S", "blah blah blah", "blah -blah")

to get

command blah\ blah\ blah blah\ \-blah

Also, take a look at: https://github.com/bsandrow/python-shellshock

Let me know if you can think of anything that is painful to do in Python, but easy to do on the shell.
this is great, I hope mainline riak gets support like this soon, for backends that support.
Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source software of the year
I can tell you one thing, the answer is NOT increasing tuition and cutting financial aid. 100% certain increasing tuition and cutting student financial aid is the wrong answer.
I disagree. Setting aside the problem of global top level domains, which I think are a bad idea, tagging adult sites via domain names greatly facilitates filtering as compared to meta tags.

Meta tags are an application level concept and so they have to be implemented at that level via browsers or HTTP proxies, or deep packet inspection.

DNS based filtering can be done more simply via network layer devices without having to look at the application level content. So DNS filters would work even if the website content was encrypted, for example.

From an administrative point of view it is much easier to control and manage network infrastructure than it is to control individual browsers or application level gateways.
No thanks, I think I will wait for another couple of years until the next fan-boy tool comes along.
So its a social media twist on IRC?

Take the concept of IRC chatrooms and simply make a topic and chat around that topic (chat/share media)?

I see that you use "Starbucks" in the image on your site, the only thing that would be interesting is if the "starbucks" space were to be also visited by Starbucks who would post a QR code for free/discounts into that space. Go into the space, redeem the QR code from that vendor at starbucks.

Otherwise, I can think of absolutely ZERO reason why I, or anyone, would make a chat room about starbucks. Unless we were bitching about starbucks.
Really like this - huge range of possible applications.

One question though: what, if anything, does ifttt do to detect/prevent infinite loops? If I create a task to copy new photos added to flickr to instragram, and another task to copy new photos added to instagram to flickr, what happens?
She can sue for trademark infringement via normal channels (courts) for both of those, even if she has not registered marthastewart.xxx.
"If I miss a shot, so what?"
I just found a regular rental room in Haight. Here for 3 months. Hope you found something! Reply at raj@recruiterbox.com.
Hacking Christmas lights
Another interesting use would be to create channels based on places you go frequently with friends, like a particular club. You/your friends post events into that space channel - such as "We will be here on friday night" and it gives you alerts when an event is posted. Then you can post your status/replies about that event at that place into that channel. After the event is over, the comments get rolled up under that event so they dont clutter the space for the next event.
This is a (lengthy) summary-cum-reaction-to-cum-review of the book by Douglas Rushkoff.

A good related read is Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget: http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/030738...
I was more referring to the 'free' C$20 offer. Requires SMS.
Just to clarify, the "deployment every 11.6 seconds" refers to all prod deployments, including internal applications and services. This doesn't mean that a deployment to the retail website (and dependent services) is done every 11.6 seconds, just that some production deployment is done at Amazon every 11.6 seconds.

disclaimer: I work for Amazon, and used to work in the presenter's org.
Rasmus gave a talk yesterday and I asked if they were switching to github. He said they'd likely switch to git (it's now happening, apparently), but not github because it can't do ACLs and the PHP project has thousands of people who need commit access to various places.
A vote for Moniker from me as well, having settled for them 3 years ago, after a few years with 1and1 and some with Godaddy and having tried various other registrars.

I use their control panel once every couple of months and although it doesn't have the "pretty" element to it, it's quite an easy and intuitive tool to work with and I even dare say it, is the most functional domain management tool I've seen.

At a glance you can see which domain is locked, private, auto-renewed, etc and changing any of this is just a matter of selecting a couple of domains from the list and applying the action you want in a batch.

For example, you want to transfer 5 domains away:
1- go to the domains manager
2- from the list, check each domain you wish to transfer away
3- click on the Transfer Domains Out action
4- simply follow the flow and provide the extra info where required.

You could be done in less than a minute.
Google plotted to give Motorola early advantage over other Android licensees
I was excited to set up SMS notification for lots of things, but it took ifttt 26 minutes to notify me of an email. Hmmm. Any particular reason for the latency?
I've been using ifttt to:

* Scour Craigslist for an apartment in San Francisco

* Put indeed.com job searches for "UI Design San Francisco" into Evernote

* Monitor airline fares for the cheapest time to buy a one-way ticket from BOS to SFO

* Text me when the temperature in zip code 94103 rises above 68 to remind myself to get out and enjoy my new city.

THANKS IFTTT! I couldn't have done it without you!
> IMO, treat it as any other income source

You mean treat it like salary? It wouldn't matter. People with that much cap gains would leave investments where they are and take out low-interest loans against it. That's what they do today. Actually, lots of middle class people do (or have done) the same thing with HELOCs. Rather than selling their house for a profit (and paying cap gains), buying a cheaper house, and using the profit to upgrade the cheaper house, they took out a loan against their equity.

> why on earth should I pay MORE so people making 100 times what I do get a discount.

You imply a causal relationship where none exists.
> "means that they're the only govt institution that isn't a timebomb of future obligations"

This was the spirit in which the requirement was enacted. I completely agree with the idea. My problem with this line of reasoning is this:

Why fund the estimated lifetime costs of health care that will not be provided for maybe 40 or so years into the future? Why not fund a moving window of ten or twenty years of obligations instead?

There is a huge opportunity cost associated with stashing such a large amount of money away for this purpose rather than using it for current operating expenses.

> "Yes, current projections say that they're overpaid, but these projections have a way of going horribly wrong."

Indeed, projecting costs for the next half-century is a dangerous thing to do. This is why I question the rationality of handicapping the USPS with the responsibility for funding far-future liabilities based on those projections.

Even if you ignore the opportunity costs of this fund, the inflexibility of the rule as well as the fact that it puts so much faith in projections makes it a highly suspect decision.
Why SSH into a VM? With Virtualbox I have a folder shared out that I can use like a regular folder and edit with whatever editor on my Host. Or you could turn on SMB shares and use those.

Or I could run a lightweight X environment (or even gnome it really doesn't need much to run) and just edit there.

Everyone seems to be on the "OMG Vim/Emacs are so awesome, TextMate is so yesterday" part of the every going cycle anyway. Might as well use them on the guest OS as well.
> But there are some things which make poverty more tolerable. Wal-Mart for one. I’d moved to Louisville with not even a fork or a spoon. Wal-Mart sells all that — hamper, dishes, utensils, dish rack, sheets, telephones, you name it — for prices so incredibly low that I was genuinely grateful. I thought about Wal-Mart’s union busting, its abused work staff of geriatrics and economically desperate wage slaves, its stocks of Third World products which in turn further destroyed America’s manufacturing, its aesthetic Sovietization of America… and then I thought about my own shitty fiscal situation. Conclusion: “Fuck ‘em.”

http://exiledonline.com/elite-versus-elitny/
> Why pay 3/4 of the population to work 40 hours a week when we could pay all of them to work 30 (then 20, then 10)?

Because that's not how it works. Let's say a company has a full time programmer at 150K/year. They can probably hire 7 to 10 workers for that much, but why would they - they have a website to build, and these guys, even collectively, can't help.
Yeah, I agree with wtetzner, I've been using STM in Scala via both ScalaSTM and Akka for almost 2 years now. It's incredibly easy to use and I use it far more than any of the other concurrency controls out there. I've written a blog entry about how to use STM in Scala and some pitfalls to avoid: http://outputstream.io/dear-scalasphere-why-arent-we-talking...
Google inches closer to patent showdown with�Apple
i hope they'll follow the trend and move it to github!
another vote up for the large scale. It emphasizes the simplicity and I never mind bigger for ui tasks, it's always easier to use.
I like this, but it's sometimes victim to Google's capricious Market compatibility algorithm.

Also, try an in-house wiki. It lacks window dressing, but it's a pretty solid tool for collaboration.
Scientists precisely locate black hole using the material it ejects
This (and a few other less-than-elegant operations) were all handled as part of this:

https://github.com/basho/riak_core/commit/c4b80137998359f0db...
Yahoo Japan has always provided a nice comparison to Yahoo itself.

While Yang and co. stood by while Google became everyone's homepage in the US, Yahoo Japan remained the #1 portal in Japan by moving aggressively and continually making the site more useful to their members -- auctions, banking, broadband, personals, etc. All that while at the same time strengthening the brand with the naming rights, universal billboards and of course the sign up girls.
Right, because the kernel patches are emailed and never pushed to a public location. In essence, the "committers" of the kernel are the only ones who do rebases (either explicitly or implicitly).

Frankly, git was not designed for a lot of the use cases it's finding itself in. Medium sized agile teams (5-10 devs) with multiple people mucking around in the same files will be removing bullets from their feet repeatedly for a few weeks when first switching.... OR they will have an incomprensible tangle of branches and merge commits that no person will ever be able to figure out.
exactly, they want to keep their karma system. But a github mirror is not unlikely.

Oh, and that's the reason why the mail states that they'll now figure out how to move php-src to git.
Maternity girdle
All the upsell checkboxes are defaulted off. I don't understand what the problem is clicking through a couple of pages without checking anything. I've done it dozens of times with no problems.
Nintendo Sued Over Wii and Wii U Patents in Texas Court
Is there anyone not simultaneously suing and getting sued over patents? It's like a war zone where each company tries hard to screw over every other company in their space. Then they go collaborate on Web standards. If these were people instead of businesses you'd have to assume they had mental illnesses.
Yahoo was always a technology company trying to be a media company, when being a media company is no longer respectable. At a time when there is so much opportunity, why isn't Yahoo even wading into mobile or social?

A CEO's job isn't only to focus on core competencies if the core business is losing lustre. A CEO's job is to look for new markets, and build up the competencies.
Site must be busy. Taking forever for me to get registered.
> But they are as welcome as ads on TV are.

You say that as if TV adverts are a failure. TV Advertising spend in the US alone last year was $50bn, that's more than the entire global online ad spend.

While I think Facebook has far more relevance based upon demographic targeting than TV, no-one's disputing that it doesn't have the intent matching that search advertising has (although if they allowed advertiser to target based upon status updates they could significantly close the gap). But that doesn't matter, it has a huge number of ad impressions and even at much lower CPM than search advertising they can still make a fortune.

> I suspect a huge portion of that comes from virtual goods.

Unlikely. Several third party companies have analyzed Facebook ads (based upon pricing which is public and sampling to measure ad fill rate, and surveying big agencies who buy ads direct) and general estimates for last year were that Facebook probably made in the region of $1.5-$2bn from advertising. So if that $1.6bn figure is accurate it seems likely that >90% will be from ads.

I'm not just arguing this as a bystander, I'm arguing this as someone who's bought over 25 million ad impressions on Facebook this year, because my cost per conversion on Facebook is less than my cost on Google (I still buy ads on both though).
After all, it seems Google bought Motorola for patents and attacking Apple and co'. I know, Google is not directly suing Apple, but the act of giving those patents to HTC constitutes to suing Apple.
Very nice, just created my first service. It's like pipes for the everyday man!
because github is one of the most visible and most visited source hosting sites?
Lol meta humour on wannabe poetry
You are using value in a nonstandard way. Value and price are only loosely coupled. I get enormous value from things that are free (Python, Firefox, etc).

Also, I pay for things I could have gotten for free all the time. Sometimes this is to reward or encourage the person providing it and then it is called a tip or gratuitity (or sometimes donation, though that evokes charity in my mind rather than voluntary payment for something provided). Sometimes it is because paying for it is just more convenient than going out of my way to get the free version.

[Edit: Slight rewording for clarity]
I think exceptional customer support is one of the most critical and yet most overlooked aspects of running a startup. It's how you turn customers into fans, and fans is often the difference between winning and losing.

Through our previous app (http://fivesecondtest.com) and our current (http://bugherd.com) I've always tried to go above and beyond. Every time we have an unhappy customer I go so far above and beyond to help them that I more often than not turn a hater into a fan. Turning a negative support request into a positive Tweet shout out is a major win for me.

I can't count the number of times we've resolved a customer complaint and had them the very next day start paying us money. Yesterday we found a customer complaint in the "spam" folder from 3 weeks ago, we responded, apologised and let the customer know that we're changing to Zendesk as a result. Today they signed up to our top tier plan. THAT is a customer support win.

Today someone responded to our "how are you finding Bugherd?" email saying they hadn't had time to try out the app, so we extended their trial without them even asking. We do this all the time. It costs us nothing, and may win a paying customer.

We'll offer refunds to users who we can't help, we'll give discounts when our plans don't suit, we'll give away free months when a customer is waiting for a feature we haven't built yet. Anything to ensure that customer becomes a fan. Even if it turns out they leave us, we want to ensure they leave happily.
Some suggestions in these Quora threads:

http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-feedback-plugin-that-I-can-u...

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-website-feedback-widge...

Or, a couple of jQuery examples (there are probably others):

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/imfeedback

http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/08/jquery-animated-feedbac...
It totally worked. I have to wait 60 days before transferring it out, but I don't mind that at all.

Thank you!
I think he has a great point that the value a person creates is not easily compensated in an information economy. Right now the information economy makes up less than 5% of the total in the U.S.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9632169/EconomicCensus2007.html

from

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFEconFacts?_event=&#...

So advertising for the other sectors in the economy works well to support most of the information sector right now. What happens as those other sectors become more automated though? The smaller and smaller amount of people in charge of those sectors will become disproportionately compensated for the value they create. This is already happening in Wall Street for example. So we're going to need to find some way to compensate people for their digital contributions to things like open source, online communities like this, and other informational public goods or we'll be left relying on the government and/or super rich to distribute the abundance of wealth. Neither of which sound very appealing to me.
Searching for the roots of Anonymous
Making Collaboration Work
Google Offers continues on path to nationwide domination
It'd be nice to see the end of commoditized patent holding. E.g. Only the creators of a technology can benefit from the patent process. The "proxied from a third party to sue a second party" without any original innovation is a pathetic puppet show.

Create or die.
I certainly wasn't!

Oh...
Yes, the problem was not necessarily using a Bloom filter, but that it was too small. However, 1.0 is smarter about which vnodes it sends list-keys requests to and thus obviates the need for the Bloom filter (at least for that operation).
It's difficult to consider this an attack while, previously, Apple sued HTC.

Honestly, I don't know who started it, but this doesn't benefit anyone. Well, maybe some lawyers...
There's no date on this document. For all we know that document is from a year ago and this doesn't say anything other than that Google picked some handset maker and carrier as an example -- hardly the smoking gun some people are making it out to be.
Google: Make source code available after innovation is complete
Working with a Team of Developers
I think Parse is the best thing that has came to me this year as an iOS developer. The learning curve to use it is very low, it's very easy to use the native iOS SDK if you're familiar with objective-C.
What treffer said. It'll be like the old days of sourceforge, just better and simpler. I love how easy it is to commit to projects on github. Also love the idea of a centralized place to follow all your favorite projects. If linux can be on github i would think php could as well.
Well, like The New York Post. What do you expect from CNN!?!
Runner's Diet and Nutrition
I do all the support for Tiki-Toki (http://www.tiki-toki.com) at present and, to my surprise (I am quite a grumpy person), I quite enjoy it.

It really helps you get to know your own software and pinpoint areas where people are struggling and usability improvements are needed. Plus, you learn what new features people want.
could-- more likely, I think that it won't. What's Facebook do? It helps you connect, and reconnect with friends and family -- what's that have to do with buying and selling goods? Why do I need to watch shows on Facebook, and not somewhere else?
"Plotted"?! why make it sound so nefarious? they choose an OEM and release the code after the first device hits market.

Florian Mueller is spinning this as news and people are echoing him unthinkingly. There is nothing new here nor is it any sort of foul play just the spins of interested parties.
Yeah, totally agreed. I met one of the principles of DNSimple at MagicRuby earlier this year. Definitely worth giving these guys $3 a month for the amount of time they save me. The time their configuration templates for Heroku and Tumblr have saved me much more in time than I'll ever pay in subscription fees. They also make it super easy to get SSL certificates.
~80% of Americans Underestimate The Scientific Consensus of Global Warming
I still don't get your point. It's the most visited source hosting site, no doubt about that, so...?

On the subject of the topic, I'm getting tired of this git euforia. The linked message says zero about the reason beyond a simple direct voting. So, for no reason they decided to have a voting and ignore the reasons why people vote whatever they did? Sounds like a pretty useless voting for me.
Well, except if you want to be popular and use all the tools the cool kids use these days, I guess that's a valid reason. Something tells me that there will be less 'I'm too cool to say positive things about PHP' kind of threads in HN.
Thank you! How are you getting the airline fares? Feeds, I imagine, but from where? Lots of people asking how to do that.
Ex-Yahoo CEO will walk away with millions
Holy shit, he read my mind. We're just wrapping up our yc application for http://inboxissues.com - a browser extension that is a bridge between customer support emails and the github issue tracker. We've been calling it rapportive for support, but it also goes the other direction: commit a fix to a feature or bug? notify customers when the feature ships.

Apologies for the landing page, we just finalized the idea on Saturday and we're feverishly working on updating the site with more info!