skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, fixing up the front page some is certainly high on the list of things to do. I actually really liked the article about the HighriseHq.com restyling, but fear that a really fancy design like that is indeed a bit out of my reach, so maybe a theme like one of those is a better bet.

In terms of payments, one of the very convenient things about LiberWriter is that since people want to publish on Amazon, I use Amazon Payments without having to worry much about which system(s) to use.

They have to get that far to see that, though, and yeah, better design would help that. It's encouraging that it's making money even without that, though.
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My comment is a commentary on the ridiculousness of your post. I found it dimwitted and short sighted. When has censorship ever solved anything. Shocker humor is lost on someone from the UK. If you said it was in bad taste, I might agree, but that's not really the point. You suggest censorship in a country founded on democratic ideals... about a topic related to an event... in a country you're not from.
I suspect a voting ring?
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I am a fan of simple privacy policies, but the Facebook popup is not a privacy policy; it's an access policy. It tells you what Facebook data an application gets access to. It does not tell you what the app does with that information.
Yet another FPGA vs CPU paper that doesn't compare with GPU's as well.
Frankly, that worked fine for years but recently HN has been going to shit. Being more conscientious as a community about encouraging intellectually stimulating discussion and discouraging demagoguery and sentimentality is something worth talking about.
The "-" key isn't even lukewarm which seems odd to me given what little I know about lisp.
Chobani has plain yogurt, as well.
Around here (Small college town area, middle of farmland), all the grocery stores have a gourmet cheese section. A "made in America" gourmet cheese is not going to be an instant-win unless it offers additional value.
Possibly the "localvore" approach might add some warm fuzzies to the value, but I am dubious.

(Of course, if it can be sold cheaper by being made in America, that's a great selling point!)

I see that market as pretty occupied right now.
Chobani got an old factory that Kraft was letting go. Tesla got the GM NUMMI factory for pennies on the dollar, too.

It would do these large companies well to hand old factories over to internal skunk-works teams to tinker first.
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can someone give me more details about it??
A reference to http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/03/24/freight-train-that-is-an...
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It may be useful when you get to the point where your company is in the gray area between 'startup' and 'mature company.'
>> Google also released an estimate that an average search uses 0.3 watt-hours of electricity, a figure that may be difficult for many people to understand intuitively. But when multiplied by Google’s estimate of more than a billion searches a day, the figure yields a somewhat surprising result: approximately 12.5 million watts of Google’s 260 million watt total can be accounted for by searches, the company’s bread-and-butter service
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I teach middle school programming/computer classes. I cannot wait to get my hands on one of these. Right now it's cheap enough that I can tell the parents to buy one for their kids without a problem, and out of pocket it for those few of my students whose parents won't be able to afford it.

Then I can finally not have to deal with the full lockdown the school has on their PC lab.
Some people say the U.S. has a sue-happy society. Others say that we don't; that the whole sue-happy idea is an invention of large companies that want tort reform.

Yesterday I observed that companies still sell products in that hard-to-open plastic packaging that has injured a lot of people. That this packaging is still common indicates to me that we do not in fact live in a sue-happy society.
That would require cannibalizing your own products, the definition of the innovator's dilema.
1. It's not censorship if the community here were to decide that it wanted to have no 9/11 stories. Censorship is government driven. This is far from censorship. It's a discussion.

2. You suggest that my opinion of 9/11 is invalid because I am not American. You object to 'censorship' but are happy with excluding opinion based on national origin. Odd.
I can't imagine even a lowly temp warrants being fired over the phone. It's just common decency. If there are security or legal concerns then film it and have a lawyer and security guard there. But doing it over the phone doesn't make Yahoo! look good, not that much of anything does anymore.

Additionally, why wasn't this one of those "resign or we'll get rid of you" situations? That's how I've seen it worked at companies I've worked at in the past. Doing it over the phone seems purposefully spiteful.
Your point is right, not a privacy policy if considered strictly, but still valuable for the conversation I think :)
They don't need large profit margins, but they should try to have enough for an office and staff.
Our goal was to make it work for anyone with diabetes. Most apps target Type 2 diabetics who use diet primarily and really don't work well for insulin users (and even worse for insulin pump users).

You can configure D Sharp to handle oral medications, insulin via pump or pen needle/syringe, etc plus the general logbook functions for blood glucose, blood pressure, weight, diet, etc.

I think the most unique feature is that if you are taking insulin, D Sharp can calculate the insulin dose required to cover the carbs in a meal. It will even track your active insulin and adjust to avoid "stacking" multiple administrations, etc. In this way it provides a lot of the features of an insulin pump and makes them available to someone who is just using a pen needle.
While it's cool to see people replacing Dropbox with OS alternatives, this only seems to capture a fragment of Dropbox's functionality.

How, for instance, does it deal with conflicts where files have been changed on two machines independently prior to sync? Dropbox is (somewhat) clever about it, and renames the conflicted versions - and IIRC you can resolve the conflicts manually. At least both files are available on both machines - not sure how this situation is dealt with by lipsync.

Dropbox push-updates are immediate. Lipsync relies on a cron job to kick off a receiving file sync.

Dropbox will sync directly between clients on a LAN - great for when teams are sometimes working in an office, and sometimes at home.

Dropbox maintains revision history - does this?

Dropbox has a web interface, mobile apps, etc...

I realize that Rome wasn't built in a day, but until at least the first two points are addressed, this isn't much of a replacement.
Wasn't the whole point that low interest rates trump compound interest?
For what it's worth, I agree with him, and I've barely left the United States in my whole life.

HN isn't a country founded on democratic ideals, it's a social news site intended for intellectually stimulating discussion. It's not intended for political demagoguery or sentimentality, which is what 99% of stories about 9/11 are going to be.
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Generally, when you need to educate your customers, you are in for a long (and likely unsuccessful) haul. If you are "educating", your customers aren't really feeling a pain.

(Note: there are exceptions to every rule.)
You know, I come to hacker news and sometimes tech crunch to read about trends in tech, programming, hacking, and the like. For some time now, TC has read more like a soap opera. Between stories of being snubbed for a scoop by founders, to tangles with Arianna Huffington, I cant take them seriously at all. Get over yourselves people...
Companies that large already have dedicated tinker factories. In GM's case, they have tinker ... reservations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Proving_Grounds
Of course there's also the missing shortcut keys. For example, Java projects using an IDE would probably have crtl-space be the most frequently pressed keys (autocomplete).
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My semi-amateurish opinion is that as a non-registered securities dealer with all accounts having margin capabilities the (near 100%) likelihood of your Rails app exploitably broken is not the key source of risk to your business.
Yep. Sounds interesting but seems like it's meta-comments only at this stage.

If anyone happens to load this elusive "View Source Spoof" page, please leave a nice detailed description for the rest of us.

Our minds can draw the pictures :)
Zagat's reviews are based on consumer surveys, not paid reviewers. They were doing user generated content long before anyone called it that. Their full name is actually Zagat Survey, LLC.
More info: http://www.zagat.com/about-us/how-we-survey
Can you explain your margin fees somewhere on the site?

Thanks!
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Where abouts in London are you? You might like to take a look at Hubbub (www.hubbub.co.uk). Depending on where you are the most you're going to pay for delivery at the moment is £3.50, which includes same day deliveries, and we deliver from proper food shops, rather then a soulless warehouse filled by the lowest bidder ;)
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Interesting response. Are you suggesting that the Soviet Union was unaware that the Mujahadeen was getting weapons and training from the U.S., or that the United States didn't know where North Korea got their MiG-15s and who was flying them? I suppose that may have been true for a time, but it's not like the jig was up as soon as intelligence reports revealed the truth.

The real benefit of the proxy wars was that the level of indirection was believed to make an all-out nuclear conflict less likely, and that large chunks of the general population could be kept in the dark, unable to wrap their heads around "why we're over there".
It's always been confusing to me why Google couldn't come up with a better ratings and review system for local businesses. Google Maps is great on the web and mobile, and they've got millions of users. But still Yelp beats them with reviews, and Yelp isn't that great anyway. But Google buying Zagat means that they're getting more serious about the space.
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I had no idea about what Zagat was until just now. My feelings are that it's unlikely I would pay them to give me ratings. I can figure out what is tasty on my own.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm really hoping you do. But I've been bit too many times before by vaporware, so until you actually ship, I'm going to continue saying 'IF'.
Have you ever tasted unsweetened yogurt? Try it and you'll understand- especially the Greek kind.

Really, I'm not kidding. It's a major acquired taste, that 99% of America has not acquired.
What creative things can you do with monitoring services?
What creative things have people done or can think of doing with a monitoring service, in addition to monitoring their main sites and servers?

Here were my eight initial thoughts, but I'm very curious what other people come up with. http://blog.nodeping.com/2011/09/08/eight-things-you-could-do-with-checks-on-1000-targets/
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Google internal document: "Do not develop (Android) in the open"
The idea of free music is non-existent in the minds of most people. Pretty much all our musical "culture history" is those who were commercially successful (history of the winners). In Germany pretty much all you hear on the radio is music industry.

I think people would not even know how to handle it if eg the Beatles recordings would suddenly be free. They would probably still buy CDs in the stores.
It's far more interesting to know what kind of level [1] the decoder supports. I'd guess it tops out at 4, though one might have hoped for full 1080p60 playback.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Levels
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There is zero chance that someone who believes they are getting security out of hosting on Heroku and using Rails (because it has force_ssl and protect_from_forgery) is going to build a secure trading application.

I admire the ambition and for this stage of his career he's obviously cleared the bar, but it's also good for him to learn that in the real world security isn't graded on a curve, and people with more time and experience than him have failed to secure Rails apps.
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This seems like a very poor idea if you are trying to pull off something on the order of Chobani.

The United States already produces over twice the amount of cheese of any other country. It seems to me that you are not from Wisconsin and I would guess not from any of the states where cheese is big. Try going to a supermarket in Vermont or New York...the market for imported cheeses would be quite small.
A chain here is Western Massachusetts does this:

http://www.bigy.com/bigy2go/

It works pretty well and we use it a few times a month. The problem we have is that shopping online is like ordering at a closed stack library - browsing the aisles in person lets you see deals for similar items.
* What justifies the laws that compelled my parents to send me to a place they knew (at some level) was hurting me?*

Benign paternalism which says "X% of students really dislike the experience of attending school. The average case for dropouts is 'totally $&$#ed.' We'll institutionalize them now because it is a darn sight cheaper than institutionalizing them later, permanently."
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I would recommend http://projectwonderful.com if your site is entertainment/game oriented. They are super cheap to advertise through.
From my vague understanding of the history, Mozilla code goes all the way to Netscape. I think Netscape did a giant rewrite, so it probably doesn't go back further.

Technically, firefox is the browser front-end to the Mozilla codebase, and Thunderbird is another front-end of the same product. I think what used to be called the Mozilla suite is now seamonkey. So I think it all comes from the Netscape release.

Certainly, whenever I touch the build system, the copyright notices are from 1998, say Netscape and mention jwz. Example: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/configure.in
The nutritional content of Greek yogurt is definitely behind some of the craze. But those nutritional benefits aren't unique to Chobani; they're something that all of the Greek yogurts share. Chobani has somehow managed to grow faster than the rest of the sector. For instance, Chobani has crushed Fage, the incumbent market leader. Fage grew 58% last year... which sounds good. But in the Greek yogurt business if you're not growing 100%, you're not even maintaining your market share. Chobani grew 258% last year.
Wow. Thank you for the insight, as someone who is working on getting funding for my business.
oh, c'mon he has a point there...
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Am I the only one in 2011 who just isn't interested in an ebook? I have a Kindle - can't really bond with it. I have an iPad - can't bond with it either for books or long reading sessions.

I would buy the printed copy of this and read it but I won't buy the ebook. I just like printed books better.
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My parents would always meet with the principal before the school year started, to discuss who would be teaching my sister and me. They even got my sister transferred to a different teacher mid-year at one point, because she couldn't make it work with the teacher she had (I had had the same teacher myself incidentally; it wasn't that the teacher was bad, but that different teachers work better for different students).

I can't speak for everywhere, of course, but my parents absolutely had a choice as to who would teach their children.
I imagine this comes from the fact that:
1. ObjC is only used on Apple's platforms (and the less popular GNUStep).
2. You'll have to use Xcode to write for these platforms (less popular alternatives don't add up here).
3. Xcode automatically inserts 7 lines of comments with // at the top of every file. Two files per class, 28 /'s per class.
Hardly at all. It was probably posted by mistake.
Longtime readers of TC may be saying "there is no way Arrington was calling all the shots the past few years."

Bottomline: TechCrunch was many, many times better when Arrington was callign all the shots. It was apparent. The posts were better. The companies he was writing about were more interesting.

In the past few years, that quality went downt he drain almost in parallel to him writing less. Mike's own posts became a small fraction of TC.

There was little evidence of Mike in the TechCrunch of the past few years.
Possibly because it tastes good?

That is my reason for eating it.
You should know that when you write comments like this, you communicate two (bad) things:

(i) You don't know enough about appsec to be communicating things about the trustworthiness of your application.

(ii) Any feedback you're given about the threats your application faces is just going to get added to your list of "security challenges" you are aware of or have tried to address, which implies that anything anyone does to help you with your security is just going to be used to mislead others. No thanks!

I'm thrilled at the idea of a 17 year old building applications that need serious security countermeasures and would generally love to help. But not when the stakes are "other people's money".

You should pick a different project. For a variety of reasons. How about take your Bitcoin exchange and do (another) play-money exchange, like for a prediction market?
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People should check out Strongspace (https://www.strongspace.com/)

Combined with their OS X app it makes a reasonably compelling alternative for mac users.

http://blog.strongspace.com/announcing-strongspace-app-for-t...
I eat it regularly because I like yogurt and it tastes better than any other yogurts I know of. And it's healthy.
Is that you Siegler?
I think its an interesting approach setting up physical storefronts. Has this been thought about as a "drive-thru" add-on for existing grocery stores managed by the ernie's software? I think the number one use case is the quick trip – I need milk, eggs, bread etc. on my way home for breakfast tomorrow. I think this is really neat and I wish you complete success.
There's no point - the SoC is not available to the general public. You cannot build this board, you can only buy it.
I thought that to, until I saw the note saying Paul Graham wrote it. Arc is noticeably terse, and avoids the use of - key wherever possible.
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This approach seems to overlook the bigger picture which is that Dropbox makes sure it doesn't lose your data. Aside from that the web interface and dealing with conflicts is an important issue. Just imitating the syncing is not going to cut it, and if you're not outsourcing the storage it rather defeats the purpose of not having to worry about the data anymore.
Congratulations.

Do you mind sharing some numbers or maybe explain what you mean by profitable (ramen? nice-living? about-to-hire?)
In that case force labels to revert 100% of the rights back to the original creators after 25 years. We will see how much those so called "artist rights lobbyist" work for that one.
E was definitely awesome. Made the article
The broken by design thing is something that's always bothered me. I posted a draft of our company's Privacy Policy to github a while back as an experiment.

https://github.com/wetalky/privacy-policy/blob/master/POLICY...

We're trying to be completely open with updates to this document, and we welcome outside commits. We intend to do the same with our ToS.

I'm not sure anyone has tried this before, so I'm really excited to see where this experiment goes.
> you're looking at developer preferences for spacing
> and operators

Not really. For example, in languages that use $ (e.g. Perl, PHP) to denote a variable, that's not developer preference. I'm actually surprised that there aren't more operators being used in Ruby. Though I'm not a Ruby programmer, it does not look as devoid of punctuation characters as the heatmap suggests.
Yelp's unique value and innovation has been in finding ways to psychologically reward users for submitting reviews.

They work hard to make the user feel like they kick ass at reviewing places. More recently, they also work hard at crooked schemes to blackmail hard-working business owners if you believe those reports, which I certainly don't. But they started with finding every way to make their review writers feel valued.

These days, people who seek to engage users like Yelp has done for years do it in the name of "gamification". It should be done just to give people proper feedback for having written a 500-word review for no money.
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I completely agree. For most of the life of google they have claimed that they are NOT a content company. It's a conflict of interest when a search engine has their own content to push.
The problem is Google is now too big and too much of a lawsuit target to get away with aggregating other people's data any more. Web Search is the ultimate aggregation of other people's content, and it's a good thing it's already invented because it would never get off the ground today. Crawling other people's content? Lawsuit. Linking? Lawsuit. Cache? Lawsuit. Allowing searches on trademarked terms? Lawsuit. Snippets in the result page? So many lawsuits! Using user click/query data for Suggest and/or ranking? Outcry in the EU. FTC launches investigations; DOJ sues. Congress steps in; Google forced to back down.
But isn't it a mistake to call it "benign paternalism"? It wasn't benign to me. Children, even though they aren't capable of fending for themselves apart from their parents, are still people. Isn't the entire point to do what's best for each child? Isn't it commonly understood that we're all different in positive ways, and that this is something to celebrate, rather than to blithely crush?
I imagine so. Also keep in mind that Google just lost a big court case that forced them to take reviews of restaurants, etc. off of their search results if they come from sites like Yelp.
Sorry, of course it is. I wasn't thinking straight.
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Not to mention that it is beautifully designed and very intuitive, making it very accessible for almost any dumb-dumb (like me!)
Whenever I got in trouble, my father promised to bring hell and the wrath of a thousand demons once he got me home. It made the teachers happy and brought little smirks to their faces. But he made his own decisions and rarely was I punished.