skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also an early API written for Node.js providing profile information and a user's posts as rss/atom/json (also available as npm package): https://github.com/fhemberger/googleplus-scraper

It's still read only, though – haven't seen anything writing back to G+ yet. All approaches to share/crosspost rely either on monitoring your public posts or sharing posts with a special bot user, which is linked to other services like twitter via oauth.
That's not good enough. That fact that it's accepted is a problem.
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We had that in mind :)
He wants to enumerate over the empty lists for first letters not used by posts too, apparently.
Free Techcrunch Disrupt Ticket
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I'm demoing my product at the Startup Alley pit September 12th, and have an extra ticket to give away to someone willing to help me set up the demo table, and lend their laptop+monitor to help with the demo for the day. In exchange, the volunteer will receive full-access tickets for TechCrunch Disrupt on the 12th and 13th in SF (http://disrupt.techcrunch.com/SF2011). The only obligation the volunteer will have is to help me set up my table and help me walk users through how the product works on the 12th. If interested, please reach me directly at roger@brid.ge, or call at 646-318-4011
Even something like coffee table books would be a nightmare to get all the rights lined up. Having users post content on an open website allows you to shrug off a lot of these problems compared to actually publishing it yourself. A lot of the content on Reddit consists in writing from people using throwaway accounts they'll never check again (i.e. /r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, etc.) or in "borrowing" images from pop culture or random strangers where it may be impossible to ever track down or secure the rights for (i.e. /r/vertical and /r/adviceanimals).

And there's nothing stopping someone other than Reddit from monetizing all that content the same way. If I wanted to, I could send private messages to hundreds of Redditors and get permission to include their comments in a self-help book gleaned from AskReddit comments, and Reddit would have absolutely no advantage over me in doing this, nor any way to stop me. As far as any content on Reddit goes, the story is the same way. Just as Hacker Weekly operates independent of YC and the people who run HN.

I think if you want to monetize Reddit, monetizing the audience isn't the only way. There's no reason Reddit can't, aside from having subreddits, sell paid hosting for completely separate, possibly private reddits that don't connect to Reddit itself.
Consistent exponential growth (which is what Reddit has been experiencing since launch, in 2005) always looks explosive once the base gets big enough.
> The remote features require a version of Vim with GUI features compiled in, but you don't have to run vim in GUI mode to use them.

You do have to have an X server available though; the client/server communication occurs via X.
Tutte Institute Comes Out of the Shadows
If your grandmother develops software she should be eager to learn more about it regardless of salary. I don't like the attitude that one should only learn and grow for the purpose of making more money.

If you don't want to learn and improve as a software developer, you shouldn't be anywhere near developing software in my opinion.
Another important aspect is reputation. When you build a strong business that provides value to people you'll gain a reputation for precisely that. And when you move on to another business that reputation will carry over. When you instead try to be a parasite on the system you cannot build a brand, you cannot afford to let a reputation follow you, and that comes at a pretty big cost to any business venture you do.
r/gaming, there aren't many natural industry fits

I wonder if then that speaks to interesting business opportunities? There appears then to be a misalignment between traditional industries and what people are actually interested in.
As I mentioned below, it's used to illustrate that Google works on cool stuff on a page called "Why Work at Google?".

But it's an interesting question: what kind of puzzle could use this as source data? How about something along the following lines: Construct a simple probabilistic program (or FSM, with probabilistically weighted transitions) which outputs variants in proportion to the misspellings in the file.
Thank you for succinctly expressing my own thoughts and anger on the matter.
Sure, but "they might start declining someday" can be said about literally any large web property. It's not something MORE true about Reddit.
Apple Iphone 5 Release Date Today 7th September 2011
Google for answers, patch stuff together from tutorials and apply for "engineering" jobs? Are you fucking kidding me. Do the world a favor and stop calling yourself an engineer. And do yourself a favor and "google" what engineering is and why reading blogs and tutorials doesn't make you one.
In my experience, I've gotten really poor responses from the Reddit admins almost every time. When I say poor I mean 'none'.

I don't think it's a function of them being bad or lazy, but being such a small team for such an enormous site. I can't imagine being the sole community manager for such a monster. You have to triage between "will answer tersely" and "will ignore". And unless it's a lawsuit or a fire about to burn down the server room, almost everybody seems to end up in "will ignore".
TinyPy - Minimalist implementation of Python in 64k lines of code
Regarding not voting in elections. I'm reading a book called 'Influence' where he talks about merely the act of writing something down influencing your future decisions, so by going out and voting for one person over another might very well have a deeper influence than it seems. He's now 'your' guy/gal at some level.
Mayfield Fund snags game investor Tim Chang as managing director
"Additional labor cost and complexity" seems like poor reasoning. The long term benefits would seemingly outweigh any short term savings in labor cost.
Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO
BackBEAT gives you a backstage pass to chat with musicians
Best data mining papers based on the KDD citation index
Designer’s block: A Q&A with Stephen Di Donato 
Illustrator and graphic designer, Stephen Di Donato, like many designers with an agency past, has an eclectic portfolio. Whether he’s constructing an app for designer/developer think-tank hub Forrst or orchestrating the corporate identity for New York based bike-rental company Velocity, Di Donato’s aptitude for accessible user experience keeps his designs down to Earth.
I know what you mean. It must be pretty hard.

I tried many times with no luck. Shame really, because @reddit.com could be deployed like really really fast.

I guess I'll give it another go perhaps. Maybe use a promoted ad to get their attention (and support Reddit in the process :) )
I do get an onswipe page on my iPad, but it seems to contain the blog, and it is basically readable.
Nice post :)

Anyone used http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/? Seems like a good starting point for someone wanting to get going without creating your own CSS classes.

Nice, clean design and code. Think it will be perfect for mockups and user flow design. Going to give it bash, will report back if anyone is interested.
Do they need more than one CEO?

Sounds like you should have said "they still have someone within who could do it!"
Who says developers can't be CEOs?

Zuckerberg, Gates, Page, ...
Spaceout (on a mac)
Agreed. I've been up to my armpits in other peoples' SH at times. It has a long list of defects which will come around and bite you.

I have taken the policy of moving any SH script I write to Perl (or Python) after it breaks about 45 lines (a page). I get good error checking, type checking, reliable escaping, and the ability to neatly abstract into modules.

So far, it hasn't hit me in the face yet. :-)
The Start Fund money gave us a bit of breathing room at the end of YC, meaning we didn't end up having to rush in to a deal we weren't happy with. From talking to other companies in our batch this seems to be one of the recurring advantages: you get a bit more time to put together your ideal round.
The best answer is "try it and see". You already managed to build a device that uses the Hall effect to measure the amount of current your TV is pulling, so hooking up a photoresistor to an ohm meter and taping it to your TV while you turn the lights on and off should not be too difficult :)

Also, electrical tape is black and blocks light pretty well, so slather enough of that on there and you should be good :) I guess you won't know whether or not your TV is on, in that case, but you can always add another LED that mimics the status of the TV's LED.

(According to Wikipedia, you can use an LED as a photodiode. So you may not even have to buy anything to try this idea out! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEDs_as_Photodiode_Light_Sensor... )

(Also, a hacked VGA cable may help xrandr report the TV power status. By default, VGA cables supply +5V to the DDC chip in the TV, so it can detect its presence even when off. Since you don't want this to happen, perhaps clipping that pin off will prevent the DDC information from being queried until the TV is turned on.)
Sure. There is no such thing as "unemployment" either. If you're willing to work for $1/month that is.

It's about market reality, not about greedy CEOs who try to screw the hard working developers.. If the best programmer you can hire is expected to produce $X worth of value, you can't just offer a salary of 2 x $X. How many programmers do you know who can produce something worth $1M+...every year?
It's worth noting that the Wayback Machine shows the Britney misspelling page existing almost unchanged since March 2002 (http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.google.com/jobs/...). The back link has varied a bit over the years.
Hmm, it's my blog, I'll take a look. I put OnSwipe on there to try it for a pretty mobile version. Maybe it isn't working...
I came here to basically say this. I'm not going back to cable. Between Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, etc there's no reason for me to revert to overpriced cable packages.
Google's Seoul offices raided by police
Twitter is well funded and big enough that there would be signs of collapse before it started to die. YouTube is owned by Google and has tons of advertising. I'm not worried about either of them.

Reddit is owned by a publishing company that's lost interest in keeping it around, it's not nearly as big as Twitter or YouTube yet, and it has one of the worst audiences imaginable for monetization. I wouldn't say it's dying per se, but they have to start thinking about how they're going to pay for all those new servers and all that new staff.
SF Port Authority Shuts Down Tech-Hub Pier 38
"shotgun IPO"
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Carol Bartz no longer Yahoo CEO
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As far as I understand, 2) isn't possible. Its a mess. Every country has different contracts and right holders for all this intelectual property.
The solution is obvious: CrunchFund buys back a majority stake in TC from AOL for $20 million.

AOL now owns TC indirectly, as Mike is the middle man.
"...exploiting college women by taking advantage of their financial need..."

Let's replace 'college women' with 'software engineers.' Where's the difference? You need money, you have a skill set, you trade your skills for money. Is that not exploitation?

How about at the "lower" end of the wage pool? Are employers not "exploiting" teenagers with "financial need" by paying the teens minimum wage?

Lest you reply "but ANYONE can have sex," allow me to suggest that you might not have the ability to offer me sex in a manner for which I am willing to pay. I don't get this taboo against paying for sex.

EDIT: I am aware that a thread on this topic appeared while I was typing. It happens.
No they don't, and even if they wanted to they can't without it causing further problem (because of startups being in stealth, the disclosure itself giving favourable coverage to the startup).

I wrote an article about it here:
http://blog.imranghory.org/michael-arringtons-unsolvable-con...
Way back when I was young and first learning shell scripting, I was taught not to use csh for scripting. Is that no longer true? Have the problems described here http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ been fixed in newer versions of csh, or in tcsh?
Mitnick's Tale Sheds Light on Social Tactics
Now, when I first saw this, I hypothesized that the number of mistakes would go down roughly with edit distance. Not exactly true, see for yourself:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao73DTH98IRgdC1...

I used a perl module (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Levenshtein/Levenshtein.pm) to calculate the edit distances.
It’s official: Car sharing reduces vehicle ownership
Conan O’Brien Puts TV Studio on Airbnb for $1 Per Night
America in Decline
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These Days?
Using grandfather's recipe for riches to disrupt philanthropy
The investors/founders who took so much off the table, in their previous rounds, should put most of it back in, if they're so confident.

For example, Mason cashed out about $28 million, and Lefkowsky about $382 million. Reinvesting most of that would speak louder than another 'quirky' bit of made-to-leak copywriting.
I didn't say they can't. But the guys you mentioned showed clear signs of wanting to lead right from the start. Zuckerberg and Gates in particular started off with big egos, big ambitions and a clear desire to spearhead a technological vision. Again, I don't know the Reddit team, but have you seen any of their developers taking any kind of leadship initiative?
Every time I stumble into a religion "vs" science debate, I tell the participants to look up this page (or at least this term). Falsifiability underlies the scientific method, and it's the element of 'Science' that's normally not appreciated or understood (at least by the kind of folk who have that argument.
Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO
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No, not for most drugs with a valid prescription. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_pharmacy
I'm personally not that bothered by the difference in tenses, but I can see how it requires a slight mental-context-switch between reading various commits. Some peoples' eyes are more attuned to syntax and grammatical inconsistencies--for them it would be a bigger distraction.

In my mind, it's on par with inconsistent whitespace in code indentation. Sometimes I notice these things more and find it hard to focus on other details, but most of the time I can glance over them.
Finally. Carol may have been a decent operations manager, but Yahoo needs a product driven leader. You can't cost cut your way to new users.
> a company like Johnson & Johnson isn't going to bother with r/parenting

This is false. My girlfriend works in social media at a Fortune 100 company. Just a few of their many products are geared toward babies and other things of interest to parents. She attends "mommy blogger" conferences, reaches out to people on Twitter and Facebook, and otherwise works with people who have a substantial audience in order to advertise with them.

Big companies are much more likely than small companies to even have such a role. They are very interested in promoting themselves and increasing their profits in any way possible. There's absolutely no reason they wouldn't be interested in something like r/parenting
Not holding hope that the next person will do much better. It sad considering how talent they still seem to have. Looking at the Yahoo UI people and the people behind hadoop. I'd like to see them push web applications more. They seem to have the people to build good web apps. They never did anything with Zimbra an awesome product and instead sold it to VMware. Those kinds of things are what they could I my view do well in.
Well, r/trees suggests an interesting business opportunity, but that's illegal. Lots of other subreddits (/r/mensrights, /r/politics, /r/worldnews, /r/atheism) are hotbeds of demagoguery and outrage, which may be good for political fundraising but little else. (It's possible to sell demagoguery and outrage--Rupert Murdoch and Arianna Huffington have taught us that much--but I don't know about selling it people who are already getting it for free.) And then of course, pictures of cats and formulaic jokes are another thing.
I utterly, completely, totally disagree with this post.

May I cite: http://www.scala-lang.org/node/10714

Kids can learn Scala. It isn't "hard", any more so than the syntax of any language is "hard". It's just another syntax to represent the logic you're looking for. The FP aspect of Scala, imho, actually makes it _easier_ to write this kind of logic.

I think Lift is way, way too heavy a framework. It seems like it's trying to be Scala's version of Struts, which I guess is admirable, but Struts is also way, way, way too heavy. Any time a web framework starts making you learn a brand new templating language, that sets off warning bells. I like the concept of snippets in markup, but I could honestly leave the whole render-logic-inside-class-attribute business.
I'm not talking about the modern military. I'm talking about the constraints under which humans evolved. I'm also simply looking at it from the assumption that all the players are rational actors, and the rational choice is to maximize chances of victory in warfare.

I think the modern world is much more complex, and the rational choice in general (possibly even in antiquity) is to avoid violence if at all possible and find mutually beneficial solutions to resource scarcity.
Yeah I would want Columbia to want me more. I have definitely considered self directed learning (and would much prefer to do that), but I think it is very important to have that piece of paper to get a job if I ever need to.
Wouldn't this allow someone to create a cheapo version of Cisco's Unity? (As in voicemails showing up in your Outlook inbox...for those that haven't been subjected to Unity.)
I completely agree with his assumption based on my PhD in Loveline.
I think the basic argument the writer was failing to make is that it seems a bit of a waste of an MIT education for a guy to make a prostitution website.

More disturbing was the site's creator trying to align his site with MIT's admittedly idealistic "mission statement" with the obtusely reductionistic argument that a business wouldnt have customers if it didnt "create value".

It would have been less disturbing if the creator was just like "yeah it's kind of fucked up and sure some of the girls are going to regret doing it but hey it makes me a lot of money and thats enough for me."

Maybe the more interesting debate is, had MIT known this individual was going to spend his education on running a prostitution website, should it have admitted him?
ha!

Arrington: I'm going to start raising a fund, with the Crunch name and telling investors they'll get privileged access to TechCrunch and covered companies.

Ariana: Pffth! GTFO!

Arrington: Editorial independence! Help, help, I'm being repressed!

This from the guy who's started thumbing his nose at AOL the day they bought his company. Even started a feud with Engadget accusing them of some underhanded BS that ended when AOL had Arrington's back and most of the Engadget team quit.

AOL keeps outdoing itself in its search for the most annoying new media personalities to bless with a cashout and one-way trip to oblivion (Calacanis, Huffington, Harrington). And they keep laughing all the way to the bank.
There were no other solutions for this functionality when I searched in beginning of 2011. XMPP is great, but IRC is ubiquitous. IRC is also very easy to implement plugins against.

The central authority of Dave is by design.

You are correct, mixing the should be deprecated in favor of : join unencrypted room && auth with dave && invite to secure room. But that feature is yet to be implemented.

Thank you for the feedback.
AOL have moved to ensure that TechCrunch maintains its editorial independence... from a venture fund.
To get Google's attention, they just need to patent the idea of a 50% off coupon.
The Laws of Reflection
I think the blogs comments regarding javascript are less true then that regarding shell as javascript is becoming a core language no longer only active in the web "glue language" domain.

In the web context within HTML it maybe but in terms of mobile development using tools such as titanium/appcelerator or developing things in node.js, this requires javascript not as just a glue language but as the core.

In terms of shell, yeh, I think it still applies cause to this day i havn't seen anyone write a fully blown program completely in shell (thought that could just be me).

What i noticed in all the places i have worked at, when the shell script/program starts to get to large its usually slowly migrated to perl or <insert persons fav scripting language here>.
Yahoo needs someone who can clearly articulate what Yahoo does. There is no "product" to draft behind, just a disjointed set of technologies which individually are great (as someone pointed out, YUI and Hadoop, etc), but holistically don't have any focus.

Google had the same problem, but they are now shedding this.
Reddit, Inc., will be owned by Advance Publications, which also owns Condé Nast, so it will be a corporate sibling of CN and more independent of it. Advance Publications owns other divisions in addition to CN, including a newspaper division that presumably does not is not influenced very much by the magazine folks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
3/4 of a billion educationally deprived early learners worldwide
people now understand the business model, knowing it is nothing just a bunch of sales rep selling coupons while ripping off small merchants. how many spa can you get a year?
All frameworks for reality float -- are not fixed foundations. If your reality is built on a good foundation, not sand, you may weather disturbances.

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I find bash to be more convenient in a few scenarios that basically fall into two major categories, which come into play whenever the script is simple enough that complex data structures (dicts, nested lists, etc) aren't very helpful.

The first is when there are key external tools that work better than the python libraries and invoking them with subprocess or os.system is more cumbersome than just using bash.

The second is when the implicit command-oriented nature of bash or syntax shortcuts makes for a much more succinct program. eg. 'do_thing && do_other_thing || fail'

I'll admit though, my threshold for switching to python is not particularly high.
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