skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Great news (and thanks)! However, please s/wrote/written/

EDIT: I see they fixed the copy.
I love that 10 years after Microsoft rolled out IE in an attempt to use the browser to disintermediate and control the user's experience, we now have Chrome and Silk and advertisting and everyone is racing to own the browser again.
Good overview of the problem. Nowadays the romantic image of the Yakuza who doesn't bother innocent people seems to be loosing a bit of credibility though. Maybe people will start to realize that human trafficking actually involves innocent people.
They may not care about what the user thinks of the OS, but if they do many of these devices, they are going to want a unified OS they control. They built a custom Linux for each Kindle, and now a heavily-modified Android? It's great stuff, but there's a lot to be saved if they can bring it all into the same code base.
TL;DR: About the same as in Northern Europe.
Google’s Schmidt Says Acquisition of Motorola Won’t ‘Screw Up’ Android
I would imagine that Facebook's phone would be a much bigger nightmare.
I think it's kind of a standard disclaimer. Notice they got the most important part right: independent review by experts.

Even people that do security well need to engage in security theater.
This is awesome but I'd rather pay $13 and have him split it with asciicasts
Exactly.

If Facebook wastes their time and resources building and supporting a full-fledged BROWSER, they would be out of their mind. A Toolbar makes perfect sense.

The same way there's a new phone out there with a Facebook button right on the front. They are an add-on.

Building a browser is not just about adding neat social features. People use their browser to do everything - Facebook related or not, and when things happen OFF of Facebook, Facebook doesn't care - not in the same capacity as Google anyway. But if they build a browser, then they open a whole new can of worms.
Yeah, I'm going to assume the technology change was not what improved things, but the engineers who were working on the problem.

At the end of the day, People solve problems, not technology. Someone with sufficient skill could probably rewrite the lions share of the environment in Perl, had they been given the task and enough resources.

It's all about your engineers, and the resources you give them!
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http://mats.hackerhub.org/

Great work by the way :)
It would be everyone's worst nightmare - a nice shot across the bow of the open web.
And a lot of people still do. It's a rather 'Enterprise-y' and database-centric view of the world, but a lot of people (wrongly IMO) think that way.
Ask HN: What kind of single founder does YC accept?
I am working on my YC application, but I was wondering if I should even expect to have any chance at getting accepted at YC.

I have experience of building high quality products that had early adopters' attention (was covered on various top tech news sites multiple times), and I bet I have the best answer for "case where you hacked a non-computer system to your advantage". Also I gave up everything to work on the startup, so I am pretty committed. (No going back to school and stuff)

BUT. I'm a single founder. Trust me, I really want to get a co-founder, but I know it's extremely important to find someone who I know will work out well with, so I can't just get a co-founder quickly for YC application.

I am informed that it's almost impossible to get into Ycombinator if you're a single founder. But I also know a few got in. How did those few single founder companies get in?

I really want to get into YC, and I'm doing my best to fill out the application, but it would be more encouraging to know that there's even a chance. Please help. Thanks.
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While the envisioned scenario would be a blow to Google, it would require so many outlandish developments that this is basically impossible. For one, Facebook would have to create a search engine, something that they have shown no interest in (they seem happy to farm that out to Bing for now), much less any capability. More importantly, people would have to use the Facebook browser. The author really overestimating how much people like Facebook. The example of iPhone and iPad apps' popularity aren't proof people love Facebook products (not to mention there is no iPad app), they like accessing Facebook. They like talking to their friends. If you pay attention to most people, they hate new Facebook products. I hear constant bitching about the apps, the interface, etc. The value proposition of a Facebook browser would be basically annoying the user at all times while all other browsers could do the same exact thing in a separate tab. Chrome didn't become popular because of tight Google integration, it became popular because it was faster. I don't see why a browser that just gives me Facebook updates would be any more popular than Rockmelt or Flock.

And, of course, Google isn't stupid. Google+ is a fairly competent attempt to head off even this out there future.
Show HN: Export your data from Twitter/Facebook/Gowalla/Google+ as JSON
Thanks for that note about kids holding things close up. I had never thought that better flexibility of their lens might be the reason.
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Co-founder of Siri explains Assistant
It's more like a broker's fee, but goes to the landlord. It isn't returned when you move out.
That would be the easiest route probably. There's a big difference between "Facebook's Browser" and "A Facebook Toolbar for Firefox". You can't really do a toolbar for Chrome (just one icon per plugin).
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This is pure speculation. They aren't actually making a browser.. "Not yet"
Sounds cool, I like the idea of write once post many. Where the blog post will be on your site, and your facebook, G+, etc. Blog navigation would be an issue on the subscribing sites, also save for javascript you have platforms and languages to contend with (frontpage, vs RoR, vs PHP, vs Perl, etc.) Handle images, sound and other embedded media?

If it is easy to use, handles just about everything, and can be fed everywhere, there's a market, I know people would like something they can do all their social posting from one spot, and if it can be added to any site, that would go for web developers, as they could set up a news/blog section no problem. How are you going to do revenue? subscription, advertising?
I think it would be interesting to read about his involvement with the rackets. You could interview him to jog his memory and ask him to write about it. Also I know reddit's IAMA subreddit loves topics like these.
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"As Facebook becomes the social platform of the internet, a custom browser is the next logical step."

You'll need to explain that, because I don't think it's a logical step at all. The remainder of the article presents some benefits, but mentioning those does not make for a clear argument for why facebook should attempt to compete with their own browser.
As a daily Bitbucket user, I appreciate their efforts. But unfortunately I don't see improvement on navigation. It's quite painful to browse source code via web. If I just want to quickly look at someone's repository, I will make a lot of browsing, and it's just way too slow.

Compare it to Github's slick UI: https://github.com/blog/760-the-tree-slider

But I am optimistic Bitbucket will change it for the better.
You know, I actually expected that the opposite would happen: GitHub would start offering Mercurial hosting.

Because Git isn't what attracts most people to GitHub. It's the sheer fact that GitHub is frickin' HUGE and has lots of people who will show up, fork your project, and send you a pull request. I love Bitbucket, but honestly if GitHub added Mercurial support I would probably move all the way to GitHub because of the size of the community.

GitHub is already pretty firmly entrenched in the Git community. I will say, however, that Bitbucket has one primary advantage over GitHub: Unlimited private repositories, with the cost being based on how many collaborators you have. If Bitbucket really promotes this angle, I could see a lot of small development teams moving to Bitbucket, and possibly taking their talent with them. So, if Bitbucket really pushes the "unlimited private repositories" angle, then they could begin taking back market share from GitHub.
Looking at battery use statistics in my phone:

Voice calls - 33%
Android System - 13%
Maps - 12%
Display - 11%
Dialer - 11%
Youtube - 10%
Cell standby - 7%
Phone idle - 4%
Camera - 3%

The display does not seem to be particularly bad.
I am too. How much have I billed my clients for things I learned off Railscasts? Plenty.
Judging from this post I'm expecting a similar one titled "My co-founders/managers are dicks..." that links to this thread.
Key money is a kind of "tip" albeit a big tip -in the way of several month's worth or rent. It's separate form a deposit -which is also necessary. Foreigners can be asked for more key money than locals. Key money is negotiable --newer properties may not require key money, also vacant properties may forgo key money.
Isn't that what RockMelt is trying to be? I know it isn't developed by Facebook, but with integrations like notifications, friends, chat, etc, it basically is the Facebook browser.
There's one thing left to do: Write a better tool than chef or puppet and do it in Python. That or you know - use the correct tool for the job and be done with it.
If you're looking for a full service solution, there's FastSpring for downloadable products and SaaSy for SaaS services. The biggest advantage over others is the quality of customer service.
You are talking about parallelism. Concurrency is demonstrated just fine by the example, as it is being executed on a web server on every request.
He's abrasive, true, but often has a point. See e.g. "The Blocking Consumer" part in "The Case Against Queues" (http://teddziuba.com/2011/02/the-case-against-queues.html) and "Stupid Unix Tricks: Workflow Control with GNU Make" (http://teddziuba.com/2011/02/stupid-unix-tricks-workflow-con...).
The only reason I went with Bitbucket over Github for my own source control was the availability of free private repositories that Github charges for. Now I've got the best of both source control solutions!
This is really good news.

The greatest strength they have over Github right now is unlimited private git repositories (github only allows 1 private repo for free accounts), free of charge.
I recently had that same epiphany. For fun, I decided to re-implement a simple chat server I wrote a while back in Erlang. I found that everything clicked - the type system worked with me instead of against me, and I was able to create prototypes as quickly as I could think of them. But, it took two years of thinking about Haskell before I could synthesize code in it. (code here: https://github.com/dmansen/haskell-chat)
> Theoretically we could get some back when we move out, but based on our Tokyo experience I don't really believe we will.

That makes it sound more like a deposit that slimy landlords will find an excuse to not refund ("Ooh, look! A scratch in the shiny floor!")?
I just did exactly this...Ryan is a great asset to the ruby/rails community and I am happy to support his continued involvement.
Bitbucket (a popular mercurial hosting site) has added git support.

Has any popular git hosting site added mercurial support?

This shows which DVCS is winning.
OP specifically says he does not favor large ships.
I once had to track user actions in a pretty active online game - I configured the Apache servers to pipe their logs to a Perl script. The Perl script was parsing the requests, then pushing that data to a buffer (i.e. an array).

Then when the buffer reached 5000 requests, it would push the data in PosgreSQL using a COPY FROM STDIN. On committing the transaction, we also specified synchronous_commit == off

As far as DB tables go, each day a new table was created with a timestamp in its name, then a cron script would take care of tables older than one week, aggregating data and getting rid of junk.

This setup was handling tens of thousands of writes per second without a sweat on a pretty modest server. Of course, it's less than what Redis can do, but then again I trust PostgreSQL more than I trust Redis.
Not all dampers can be that clever
This seems like an ongoing debate, I remember similar discussions between Java developers and DBAs before the rise of RoR. The answer back then was to migrate business logic into business logic servers, with application servers talking to the business logic serves over a queue. Architectures like that allow organizations to have heterogenous application architectures: One company had .NET for internal apps and Java for customer-facing web systems.

Everything talked happily to a business logic server written in Java, and that server talked to a couple of different databases and some legacy systems, one of which was written in MUMPs.
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This is great news, very exciting for people who need a nice place to stash all their private git repos but didn't want to upgrade their GitHub plans for not-that-important projects. Very interesting that they've decided to compete directly too.

I wonder if/how GitHub will respond. I strongly prefer their UI and already have a paid plan, but I find myself shuffling repos within the confines of that plan rather than stomaching the (admittedly not very big) upgrade cost since many of the projects aren't super important. I understand why they do it, but I just don't like that they place an arbitrary restriction on the number of private repos.
Free unlimited private repos for up to 5 users; with competition like that maybe we'll see github improve it's pricing.
For me it's usually intensive focus on something, be it complicated problem or just routine work. I don't feel headache while being within the activity, but after I stop and try to take some rest, my head nearly exploding, and the only way out is vomiting.
The Nokia 1100 has an LCD screen indeed, but it is black and white, without much luminosity.
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They do support HG in a way. See http://hg-git.github.com/
I couldn't get through the whole article. I tried, but it was too long-winded and the author still seems like he has an inflated sense of self-grandiosity.

However, the resultant comments here on HN have been superb, and my hope is that many people share their own stories.
Control is part of it, but it's also due to the fact that it is hard to implement features to work in a heterogeneous environment. The temptation is to dev and test a fully deployed environment, when really you should test probable configurations with several pieces either missing or performing badly.
I think what I wrote the last time this came up on HN still applies:

"Amazon's already invested a lot in the Android platform with the Amazon Appstore and all the other assorted Amazon Android apps. Considering that migrating to WebOS would require Amazon to:

(a) actually obtain the rights to WebOS (whereas with Android they can just fork a version from git),

(b) retool all their existing app infrastructure to support WebOS, and

(c) promote WebOS to developers when probably the only WebOS device that would be available to them would be the new Kindle and the fire-saled Touchpads,

I don't really see them moving to WebOS, or away from Android in general, anytime soon."
I'm pretty sure Github don't allow any private repos on free accounts (at least I can't create any).
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This slip up does not make me confident that the author of this article has done their homework.
Flagged. This is article is entirely fabricated.
"Now, this is not because I lay down the Carrier first, my board generation algorithm assigns all of the boards at once, and just weeds out invalid ones, this is a real entropic effect."
Show HN: Thread.ly - a news reading and sharing app (feedback appreciated)
I built this app because I really enjoyed "Pulse" but I felt it lacked a few things.
I wanted a web-based version, I wanted my news articles grouped together by topic, and I wanted an easy way to share with other people.

It is early in the site's life, so somethings are missing, including the critical mobile app.
If you have any feedback to give, it would be appreciated!
> Can you imagine them marketing a 660cc car in the USA? I'd love to have one but it will never happen.

Sounds like a "smart" to me. According to Wikipedia you can buy one in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_%28automobile%29
I imported one for $50 and have had it for 4 years. It's only passable as a phone to be honest as the old eink display used could only show a few types of characters (no uppercase letters!). I'd be very interested in a new eink display phone but my standards for acceptable UI has been raised by modern smartphones.
> Oracle must be miffed: they built the first relational database

No way. What about System R? And there were probably others of which I am unaware. Many of the now-standard RDBMS implementation techniques were pioneered in System R. This paper has a good overview: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/SystemR.pdf
It takes less time to configure an HBase cluster than a single Oracle server under Linux, and even then you can just create a single HBase image to deploy in hundreds of servers.
He does not mention where he lives. Do you get that reasonably affordable 70m2 anywhere within commuting distance for people who don't work from home? Food and eating out tends to be cheaper in the sticks too.
The title of this submission is quite misleading. This article is speculating that Facebook will make a web browser, not that Facebook is making a web browser.

It is also not clear that a Facebook web browser would be an overnight success, as this article presumes. I'd say the opposite in fact. There has been enough big, old fashioned media interest in Facebook's privacy slip ups, that any Facebook browser would be negatively talked about in the press.
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I don't know why he wrote that. Key money is not returned.
Good for Ryan, this is a great way for him to monetize an already awesome service.
Traditionally, when folks from the country moved to the city, they would bring 礼金 (money in return for a kindness - n.b. It is what you call paying someone to tutor you, too) to show thanks for their landlord taking them under e landlord's wing socially. In modern Japan this doesn't really happen, but traditions are durable. Prevailing norms differ by area, but it can be anywhere from nothing to, most commonly, 1 to 3 month's rent, and it is compulsory. You never receive 礼金 back. Most apartments also charge a security deposit, generally one month's rent. Custom in Japan favors the landlord heavily with regards to security deposits, for example in accepting debits against it to return the apartment to pristine condition (such as buying new tatami), so most people wouldn't expect to receive it back either. e.g. I got charged a $350 "cleaning fee" after paying for my own cleaners to make it absolutely sparkle. Their employee apologized but said it was standard practice.
An hourly gig which requires one to five hours a week is Chinese water torture - just enough to be a pain in the ass, not enough to make any real money.

And considering it's being done at less than market rate - all it really amounts to is 1-5 hours of being pissed off on the cheap.

Seriously, with that little work, how often do you really need to meet face to face?

And while I understand the economics of moonlighting for a startup, it's a two way street and an unwillingness to take time off from your day job for a meeting over lunch suggests some lack of commitment on your part - i.e. you aren't willing to burn a few hours of leave from your day job, but are willing to ask the programmer to invest more time at below market rate around your convenience.

BTW, unless one person retains a controlling interest, if you are going to provide equity, 3-5% will give a third person equal control of the company to the two founders.
I think we're all here saying the same thing!

Railscasts are amazing - I always felt I should be paying something for them
I also noticed the odd phrasing. I'm not sure if the overlap was intentional or not, but the other phrasing is so strong this headline immediately felt wrong to me. I believe it's originally from Tolkien, in The Lord of The Rings:

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/All_that_is_g...

Interestingly, the sentiment seems to share similarities with the article.
My laptops resolution is 1920x1080 which makes HN text look almost microscopical, and I spend reading HN 1/3 of my day. I think from this day on I will ctrl++ :) Thanks for advice!
Probably outsourced it to a company that doesn't care.
US-only billing arrghhh
The ecosystem for Haskell is improving rapidly. My startup built a computer vision application on top of easyVision and with the intention of rewriting it in ObjC. Instead we are working with the Haskell community to target the mobile platform. A year ago that would have been a dicey bet.

About our Haskell experience: Yes, the learning curve seems steep, but mainly because of the things you have to unlearn (OMG no for-loops!). However, functions are the most modular things ever invented. That translates into an uncanny ability to add features quickly. A sophisticated type system catches many errors at compile time.
1) eat a healthy breakfast

2) sleep at least 7-8 hours a day

3) exercise
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What a bullshit article. Complete with photoshop mockups. Might as well be another rumor about the "next" iPad killer or how it would be cool if Vimeo built refrigerators with built-in video screens. I would certainly not even consider using or downloading a FB browser. Last thing I need is to be constantly Zuckerberged.
No, it's because it's a vasoconstrictor. As a person who is both a caffeine addict and a past sufferer of angina pectoralis, I can testify that the headaches caused by caffeine withdrawal and the headaches caused by nitroclycerine (a vasodilator) are one and the same.

Vasodilation is not necessarily chemically induced, but it is a common-enough proximate cause of headaches (and some other forms of pain) that using a mild vasoconstrictor in addition to an analgesic is more likely to make a general-purpose pain reliever work effectively.
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I agree -- I have too many repos I'd like to keep private to host them on github, but would love to if I could.

I'm currently paying for a prgmr instance just to run gitolite (https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite) so I could have a private place to store remotes for my repos. I'm planning to move to bitbucket immediately.