skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't start as Anonymous, started on Reddit[1] but seeded by AdBusters[2], a liberal "anti-consumerist" outfit. They're supposed to camp out on Wall St in New York for reasons that aren't really clear at all. It's basically every delusional Redditor on /r/politics slacktivism turned into reality.

They're supposed to be protesting something about banks, bailouts, corporate personhood, jobs, and other assorted /r/politics common whining points.They apparently weren't aware that very few of the evil big banks are actually on Wall Street and that the NYSE is just a vestige of history by now. The only thing that will happen is a lot of tourists will flock down and the street will get even more clogged than it is for traffic and some arrests. People try to protest here all the time. It's nothing new. Stick the word "Anonymous" on it though and for some reason people take it to be a big deal for some reason.

This is the coming together of the most extremist Chomsky acolytes and reactionary redditards all in one with some V for Vendetta masks. Huge parody potential except for the fact that they're doing it for themselves already. Quite hilarious.

edit: this sort of reminds me of the 2005 Greenpeace attempt[3] to stop open-air trading at the International Petroleum Exchange by flooding the floor of the exchange with loud buzzers and bells, but getting beaten back bloody literally to the curb by all the angry traders. This was right around Kyoto.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters

[3] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article515384.ece
The title link points to the wrong place. It should be: http://dangrover.com/2011/09/13/etude-acquired/

(13, not 11.)
Do they not offer any kind of bargains for such a huge purchase/company ? I'd think Amazon would work with Netflix to offer at least somewhat competitive prices. I am just talking out of my backside here, but it seems to me like they probably are getting a better deal then the average joe running an EC2 instance.
kickstarter responded to this. no evidence of fraud. the creator canceled the project.

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/15/when-kickstarter-goes-wro...
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Likely but by that time we probably wont care because we would be able to sign up for a car online, tell it how many occupants, have it pick us up automatically, join on to other vehicles to form car trains on the roads for optimal efficiency, join mesh networks with neighboring vehicles to organize traffic, never have to stop for signs/lights because cars would seemlessly inter-weave through intersections, all while everyone texts safely.
You can see the number of times an activity has been +1ed (assuming the activity is public and you can find your way to it in the first place), but you can't get any information on who +1ed it.
I think Netflix understands that the future is in streaming and not mailing out physical DVD's. Technology has advanced to a point where we can now watch movies in our flat screens with DVD like qualities from streaming. Mailing out DVD's are costly to the company. The change in price is designed to encourage streaming in my opinion. The more people sign up for the streaming service the more movies they can afford to upload for people to watch. In the long run I think this is a really good strategy. The price increase should have been a little lower though.
So... I gather that you are mostly (but violently) agreeing with me? I said there was a 3-way war between Silverlight, Flash, and web app. At the end, Steve Jobs made the call that they all suck and went with native app. He could have sticked with Flash or web (and that was the original plan), but he went ahead with native, a brilliant move in hindsight. Everyone went "what!", "how dare you!" and then "ooh, ahh", and the rest is history.
actually it should be close to nothing, encrypted data cannot be compressed as it is supposed to be uniformly random. If it can be compressed, the encryption algorithm is weak.

also on stage at tech crunch disrupt the founders were talking about the majority of the data be deduplicated
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If you use Chrome, you can try this out: http://sgplus.me/
Forgive my ignorance, but how is it possible to encrypt the video on the fly?

Doesn't the client software have to know how to decrypt it in order to view it? And once that's available, what's to prevent someone from grabbing that decrypted stream?
OK, that's probably true. Even on the EC2 pricing page, if you go over 1PB/mo the price is "contact us" https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ so I'm sure they're getting a better price than the "official" quote.
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I run a series of blogs and sites on the same instance. The micro-tier wouldn't even remotely cut it. With SoftLayer I get 4 GB of RAM and it's enough thanks to nginx and caching.
Prevel Framework (JS). Convenience in 5 Kb
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Hmm, to be honest, I did expect a little bit more after waiting for three(!) months now …

The hype seems to have settled. Now I hope that Google can come up with some more details to their API soon, so developers can start building interesting tools for this new ecosystem. If they wait another three months, I guess it will be too late.
Do Facebook Users Spend 15 Hours a Month on the Site on average?
I didn't get kicked out for excessive partying.
Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website
Dissecting suburbia
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Who to Believe? Dr. Oz? Or the FDA?
Did Netflix Jump From DVDs to Streaming Too Soon?
Arrington Talks New Blog (and How He Almost Stayed at AOL)
Turner is an "autonomous" subsidiary of Time Warner.
Just changed the date back to the wrong date so the original link works.
I love how subtle the changes in this were. Shows 37signals' great attention to detail, focus, and restraint. Fun idea for kids: organize the different screens into a book and make a "what changed in this picture" game.

Sidenote: One of my favorite features of the site is the "Happy Day" in the upper left hand corner. Best part of the video was seeing it appear out of thin air.
> Even with "circles", if the people in group B know you by the same name as the people in group A (say, work), you have no privacy at all

The communities that you mention exist IRL; do people use pseudonyms in real life in an attempt to protect their privacy? In my experience people nearly always go by their real name, even when they are doing things that they really wouldn't want their workplace to know about.

Why would someone contact your work to tell them that you were part of an unusual community? What would your work even say if a random person came and told them that? What you are describing sounds like it only applies if you are doing something so extreme and socially unacceptable that a random stranger who sees them on the street would think "I need to make sure this person doesn't get away with doing this".
You are correct. Web-based Silverlight application does not run on WP7. You can (rather easily in some cases) develop a WP7 app with the same codebase as a Silverlight app though.
I can see that it's sorted now, but I don't think I explained my intention well before. What I meant was the order should be something like:

- language

- sql

- webserver

- webframework

- sourcecontrol

...

- stuff most people don't use on their projects, like mapreduce and graph-store

Also, the tooltip definitions are helpful but it's not obvious that they are there. I only knew they were there because you said so here. :-)

Good luck!
And over time, they are going to end up with fewer and fewer target customers if they keep this up.
Hitting the windows key brings up the start screen. It's supposed to do that, kind of like how the iPhone always takes you to the first page of apps.

Task switching is done by swiping on from the left or hitting Win+Tab. I just tried it, Windows+Tab brings you right back in the control panel where you left.

It could probably be clearer, but the Windows button takes you to the Windows front page, it's not a toggle between desktop and metro.
I had a C64 as well and recall now that my friends with Apple IIs were all pretty well-off. This went completely over my head at the time.

Purely incidentally, my C64 floppy drive's case was cracked because the family acquaintance we got it from had found a broken drive second-hand, bought a new one at Toys R Us, swapped the internals and returned the one with bad guts to the store.
This is very, very cool. I've wanted something like this for a long time.

Running it, I'm having some issues loading pages that I think has something to do with caching static assets. Why not use an existing static file library?
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As with any new tech especially tech by a company that has shown a willingness to kill off under performing products. If it looks useful try it out, but don't depend on it. The good thing about Metro being standards based is if they drop support you can still keep working, but I would make sure I had a fully implemented fall back for any MS specific enhancements. You might not need them today but when win8 EOL comes around...
You also get the luxury of ignoring many of the native UI paradigms with games.
Note that you can add/edit text and you can link texts other than Chrome: http://william.hoza.us/text/?t=Hacker%20News
And you only need to recompile when the software can't run directly

You've come around to actually making my argument! :)

As I said, as long as I have my installer for .Net, the software I write for that platform will still work.
Please don't sign up, I want to have a life.
-Amir (co-starter of ServerCyde)
I wish they would have used ProtoVis with DataMarket's IE Shim

http://blog.datamarket.com/2011/06/22/protovis-support-inter...

Yes Protovis is no longer maintained, but here is a good post defending it:
http://blog.datamarket.com/2011/09/12/the-protovis-stays/

And used Socket.IO for comm (they might)

However, it is lovely, I am going try it out :)
It's just that she mentioned that his contact was just below her best friend. From there it's just one click to have access to years of correspondence. And it's particularly difficult to consider deleting contacts or calendar reminders for love ones who have passed, so this is presented to her on a regular basis (not just when she wants to remember him, like one would do with home movies/photographs/etc).

I don't think it's crippling, it just makes the process of moving on a little longer and more difficult.
"Bought by hard and soft dollars, disloyal, incompetent, and wasteful interests have usurped our nation’s civil and military power, spawning a host of threats to liberty and national security."

This. At least some people are trying to do something about it. What have you done lately for your country?
I don't really think it is about refusing to learn other tools. My opinion is about choice.

I work with C# 90% of the time. I also happen to use other languages fluently. I think is a matter of choice.(I also have to admit that there are some developers that just don't want to get out of the comfort zone, but I don't think ALL C3 developers should be judged this way).

For example, I have used Xamarin products for a some projects, and it makes a lot more sense for me, to use C# with Xamarin products than Objective-C. That is a language I have been avoiding for a long time. And the reasons are not the scope of this comment. On the Android side I am definitely using Java.

So cutting to the chase, I think that for a company to support C# without Microsoft involvement is not bad, and it doesn't mean that ALL developers are lazy or mediocre, it just means more choices for developers. Specially if you have big investments in Software developed on C# (either .Net or Mono).
If you dig through their website, it looks like the common theme is "get money out of government", which is a rather vague goal and doesn't explain much.

Assuming they mean political finance regulations, who objectively determines when the goals are met? What kind of specific regulations do they want? You can't find this information anywhere.

This is more of a symbolic protest than a redress of grievances. People who have no idea how to solve problems and want one person to solve them all because they're holding up traffic in New York.
The guy who wrote it is the author of d3, which might explain why they used d3. Plus, d3 is awesome.
I don't think ~3 months is enough to build a profitable business. I know a person who learnt programming and built a working program in 8 months or so. It was either an audio converter or id3 tag converter or something like that.

What I would do is get programming experience by building real, bigger programs and simultaneously try to get a job as a junior programmer at (preferably) small company with good programmers.
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This looks fantastic. From the short demo, nice UI for setting up charts, and the visualizations produced are quite nice as well.

The only downside to something like this (and Graphite, etc.) is that you can only visualize data that you store in Cube (if I understand correctly). That's great for things you sample yourself, but what if you want to compare something you sampled yourself with something from New Relic or another data source? Cube looks to go a step further than Graphite in allowing for easier custom visualizations, but data is still a one-size-fits-all thing. You can write an emitter/parser that grabs the data and stores it in Cube, but there's a huge amount of duplication (and essentially polling then).

I think a better architecture is to separate data storage/acquisition from visualization. Establish a set of standards for data interfaces that specify the output they provide, and build your visualization on top of that. Then, your interfaces can be API wrappers, mysql connections, a mongo-db based storage system, a redis-backed storage system, etc.
on the other hand if evernote had a captcha-looking name i 'd never have stumbled upon it.
No worries, even if app will disappear your link will be served by bit.ly.
If it were a meaningless place, there wouldn't be such a strong police response. From the linked Huffington Post article, trial run activists were arrested without cause and released without charges. Contrast that with another reported protest where folks camped outside City Hall for three weeks with minimal response.
This is a concept that interests me... where are you in Iowa? I'm in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I started on this Tuesday after work. Because of some great APIs that are available, it really came together quickly. Most of the credit goes to this one in particular:

http://api.ihackernews.com/

It's all JS/client-side templating. Ask any questions if you have them. It works great as a Shortcut app on the iPhone.

edit: Lots of requests for a back button -- I'll be sure to add that!
UPDATE: See grandchild.

1) http://developers.google.com/ is an internal server error.

2) I don't trust BrowserLab as not a single one of the browsers showed me https://developers.google.com/+/
Sure. But isn't that a Gen X problem?
It's time for low-latency; inventing the 1us Data Center
He's changed it =)

This is what it said originally: That means they would like to know if there are any problems where the answer cannot easily be found by a computer, but if someone says he has the answer, it is easy to use a computer to check if that answer is correct.
Absolutely. I watch out for those waves of red lights and adapt ahead of time. They're really dangerous around here if you're not watching out for them, actually. You can help a lot of people behind you avoid problems too if you slow a bit ahead of time, though idiots who blow past are always dangerous. Then again, it's a lot better not to have those morons behind you, so you still win in the end.
Inspiration can't trump genes, or biology. You need inspiration to work with your genes to produce positive action. If you hate your work, and hate working hard, inspiration won't work. It won't help you lose weight when you hate exercise, and hate eating healthy either.
They did: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87428 it got removed at some point, but there used to be a toolbar with various link elements, prev, next, alternate version, etc.
Looks great, I'll try it out. I've been using iHackernews.com for awhile and to my knowledge pretty much every other hacker news app out there uses their api as well. They had a problem where they were always having 502 errors when you clicked on comments for a post for awhile, but this seems to have been fixed in the last couple of weeks or something.
Google+ public posts down 41 percent? Doubtful
Didn't know the timeit module. However, the presented usage to time list reversing is ill: The timing is dominated by the list creation, which should go into setup. Then I'll get:

$ python -mtimeit -s'l=range(1000)' 'l[::-1]'
100000 loops, best of 3: 3.05 usec per loop
$ python -mtimeit -s'l=range(1000)' 'l.reverse()'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.535 usec per loop
$ python -mtimeit -s'l=range(1000)' 'a=reversed(l)'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.39 usec per loop

So, instead of reversing the list in place, creating a new, reversed list seems to be faster.
I suspect the site itself is targeted towards parents.
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Considering that many of the most talented Solaris hackers have left Oracle and now mostly work at other companies that depend on illumos, I strongly doubt that they can't write their own device drivers.

Joyent probably has fairly homogeneous racks of servers. They only need a few drivers for their entire system, and they have people capable of writing them. If they can port KVM from Linux to illumos, what makes you think they can't port or write a driver?
Conventions in Math- just to make the rules work or more?
[Self Promotion] Romanian Serial Killer murdered over 40,000 people.
I am not sure if we are allowed to share our own content, but I thought the HN crowd would appreciate the topic. Please let me know if this is acceptable behavior now and in the future. Thanks!
In case it's of any help to the author, it basically doesn't run on FireFox 3.6.22 on Ubuntu 10.4. Completely unusable - pegs a core at 100%, takes minutes to do anything. A mouse click makes it change, but you can't "play" at all.

Which is a shame - it looks like it might be very impressive.
I'm still on the fence as to whether this is acceptably ugly or unacceptably ugly, but it does make use of a python feature:

>>>
>>> class PrefixStr:
... def __init__(self, prefix):
... self.prefix = prefix
... def __getattr__(self, s):
... return self.prefix+s
...
>>>
>>> q = PrefixStr('xyz_')
>>>
>>> { q.height:11, q.width:7, q.depth:3 }
{'xyz_width': 7, 'xyz_depth': 3, 'xyz_height': 11}
>>>
Microsoft Outlaws Flash on Touch-Interface IE 10
Death marches and late nights take a lot out of you

Death marches seem to happen far less often (in my experience) when I'm releasing early and releasing often.

If the system automatically tests and ships out every incremental change multiple times daily, you don't have the crazy weeks before/after big releases as there are no big releases. Shipping new code is a normal part of every day and I get to go home to hang out with my kids on time.
Nice work. I work in mobile web and I applaud the simplicity and speed. That said, to really make it snappy, bind to 'touchstart' instead of 'click' --- or implement a 'tap' event.

Also, I might go a couple font sizes larger. It's readable, but small on my phone.

All in all though, it's pretty nice. It's a good example of what mobile web can do and showcases the power of client side development when you have an API to support it.
I'd love to know which Heroku db service(s) (shared or dedicated) you used and what the problems were, so we can fix them.
One thing we learned is picking a good name is something you should do from the start. We spent considerable time and energy replacing our earlier terrible name (TransFS) with one we like (FeeFighters). The process was pretty similar to Fog Creek's... we went through a huge exercise, met with branding firms, etc. At the end of the day it was an 12th hour "we need something" decision and now we love it. Who knows, we might have loved bidsquid and costhammer just as much...

More on that in this Mixergy interview: http://mixergy.com/sean-harper-feefighters-intervie/
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We get a $30 per-week allowance for "OH&S Health and Well-being" - It can be used for pretty much anything exercise related, gym, green fees, tennis court hire, it's a lot better than simply being forced to go to some particular gym. It's not a massive amount of money, but it certainly adds up
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Peoplehacking
Why hasn't someone designed a BUMPER STICKER publicizing Traffic Waves? Bumper stickers seem like the perfect medium for spreading the word to other drivers.

How would one explain the why and how of Traffic Waves in such a small space? And don't forget to include a shout-out to trafficwaves.org.

"I drive nice 'n' slow to avoid the stop 'n' go."

"I drive slow 'n' steady when traffic's getting heavy."

:)
I am IMMENSELY interested in the 6502 documentary. The 6502 (or actually 2A03 offshoot microprocessor which powered the NES) was the first chip I had ever programmed for while making NES game alterations ("rom hacks") to change game functionality. Learning about the 6502 and programming ASM on the 2A03 taught me how microprocessors work and was one of the most fun times I've ever had in my life. I will always have a special place in my heart for 6502-based chips :)

Can't wait.
People demonstrate in DC all the time. Everyone there is used to it and (perhaps more importantly) the police are pretty good at quelling things.

Obviously people demonstrate a lot in NYC too, but on a different scale.
If you have any ticket links or more information about your problems please let us know, inexplicably slow should never happen, especially with a dedicated db.
Making the search experience better for their users by utilizing a feature the website provides (full page view versus pagination) is not strong arming publishers. The websites already give that same experience option, Google is just attempting to make the web a smarter place. What's wrong with that?

They could be utilizing their search dominance to do a lot more harm than good. However, almost everything they do helps make the web better, even if it does push their bottom line. That's business.

Most businesses don't care about your loyalty to other brands. Why should they? Google, on the other hand, has made a lot of strides toward giving big brands benefits in the search results. I'm not sure whether this is good or bad, but saying they reward people who have no brand loyalty is untrue.