skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 Interesting... Steve indeed influenced hundreds of thousands of techies
How do we know the code isn't already posting to an HTTPS url?
I'm always suspicious of people who put conveying their emotional reaction to a story above getting the facts across. You see it on reddit all the time, and submitters hide behind the very justification you just gave. In the end, it lowers overall quality.

Good journalism is about more than simply truth. It's about professionalism and the appearance of such. Similarly, on HN I don't want to be browbeaten by people's moral judgements on any given issue. Give me the facts and I'll make my own judgements.

I happen to agree that the USG's actions against Wikileaks supporters are, if not extralegal, then certainly not in keeping with the ideals the US justice system is based on. That does not, however, mean that having headlines like that improves my experience on HN.
At the very least it can be said that they have one commonality, they feel their voice is unheard in society. On top of that the narrative seems to be that opportunity is not available to all, as it is those better off, regardless of how they got there.
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It's a good article. Beware though:

lsof +L1 shows you all open files that have a link count less than 1,
often indicative of a cracker trying to hide something

On OS X, lsof +L1 returns tons of files, this is normal.
What is Hall.com going to be about, and how much did the domain name cost you:
Apple's answer to the future and GOOGLE? Doesn't Google have a really good natural language processor already?
Crafting Git Commits
Depends on where you are in your career. Straight out of college I wouldn't recommend going to most big companies... you'll learn bad habits and not be pushed to do your best work. Join a startup.
China FiT Policy: 14 GW PV Project Pipeline
Steve Jobs, Retail and Publishing Innovator - People - Media - WWD.com
But isn't that the point? Lots of people aren't unhappy with the world right now, and, wouldn't you know it, they mostly seem to be the people who have the power to change things.
You sound like someone I would want to work for.
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I agree. As a Brit my generally phrase is "It's not bad" which translates to: 'Its Okay".

I get the impression they think I've just spat in their faces. :)
Great question! We'll be releasing another story in the next few days as we open our doors to the world. Right now we are in private beta with 28k people in line for a hallpass.
Okay, maybe OWS stands for nothing.

But recognize that there is a populist frustration with the way America is going. It's no coincidence that Obama's election, Election 2010 (Tea Party), and OWN (2011) all intertie heavily with populism. There is a rising level of frustration.
I see no evidence at all the "plutocrats" are panicking. "Rolling their eyes with the rest of us" is probably closer to the truth. So far these protests are a media creation, of which Krugman's effort is a part.
Takes me back to my days reading comp.lang.c.
> So this movement stands for nothing.

I read your comment, shrugged, then read the op-Ed. When I got back, I found myself scratching my head as to whether you'd even bothered reading it.

The thread of common anger among the protesters is the notion that banks took risk, enjoyed protection by tax payers and then, once resuscitated by the people, bought politicians to prevent regulation that would prevent future indiscretions.

I don't need to have philosophical agreement with my neighbor for us to be joined in outrage when the guy across the street gets mugged while we're watching. These guys have a legitimate beef. I'm not going to quibble about whether their proposed solutions are in agreement.
Agree... I have never met or even seen Steve live, but he left a deep impression on me
What I don't get is why ampere is a fundamental unit while coulomb isn't. I mean, it seems more natural to think of amperes and coulombs per second rather than to define coulombs as the amount of charged carried by a 1 amp current in 1 second.
A couple years ago my company had something that was breaking because W3C finally started denying these requests. Whatever broke was some braindead XML thing as you say. The lame hack, which I believe is still in place, was to put w3.org in the hosts file and serve the file locally.
No, I'm talking about the verifier [1]. In particular: "There are no operand stack overflows or underflows." That requires abstract interpretation.

And every performant Java interpreter is required to convert the stack machine to vregs in order to perform register allocation. That requires abstract interpretation too.

[1]: http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/Security.doc3.html
I read, some years ago, that Maria Agnesi is up for beatification. This is the first step in the process to becoming canonized a saint. I even saw an address in Italy to which one could write in order to get more information. Can't find it now.
The key word in your reply is "posted". The evidence that China is lying through their teeth isn't exactly hard to come by. I'll believe they're a shining economic star whose brilliant management of the debt crisis has allowed them to escape unscathed if they can survive the next three or four years without a major crisis, caused by dodgy numbers, poor lending practices, and amazingly bad mismanagement of resources, the evidence of which is staring anybody in the face who isn't so besotted by an ideology in which China must be better than the US that they have been rendered incapable of seeing it.

Ah, how we fail to learn from history. It isn't as if we don't have decades of experience pointing out how "Communist government" and "gamed economic numbers" go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Remember how the USSR was a raging economic lion that was going to "bury us" through their amazingly productive economic practices and we were doomed, doomed, doomed before their mighty centralized economic might, until it was revealed that they were basically a third-world country with nukes and a credulous Western cheerleading squad? Maybe not, maybe you're too young, but I'd suggest spending some time with that chunk of history. It has a lot to say about China today. Way more than the credulous cheerleading squad would like to admit.
I can see one upside of founders taking cash early; their treatment of the early employees foreshadows how they will treat them when the actual equity event happens.

Otherwise, an early employee would have to wait/work years longer for the actual equity event (if it ever comes) to find out how they will be treated.
I've used GWT. It's no cure all, but it has its place and time. It's too early to judge Dart.
Re: the domain name, beside hard work, we reached a fair deal thanks to some investor & legal advice. I'd be happy to share in another post if you're interested? Let me know...
Having all communication in a region pass through a single third party server is such a big design flaw! If only other companies made decent qwerty keyed phones, picking a successor to my Blackberry wouldn't be so hard.
Congrats to friend.ly team
I think they were paying a flat amount for an up to X million subscribers, not a per subscriber fee. Then they got close to the cap and needed to remove the people from the cap that weren't really using it, but the contract counted everyone that had access. It's pretty much the same thing though.
It says "no."
Remind HN: Y Combinator application deadline is today, 8pm PST
Musician still is my main ambition, web development is just a means to an end for me.

If I didn't have web development, I'm pretty sure I'd be a mechanic, I love working on cars :)
I'm converting the individual PNGs to GIMP pattern files, in case you don't want to download all of them in a single Photoshop pattern file: https://github.com/dbb/subtle-patterns-gimp
Have you read this? - http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html

You seem to fail the PG test for "What is your company going to make?".

"A suite of tools that make software development and team workflows more efficient."

One test of whether you're explaining your idea effectively is to ask how close the reader is to reproducing it. After reading that sentence I'm no closer than I was before, so its content is effectively zero.
Phonegap allows you to embed a standard HTML5 web site/page/app into a native "shell", for running on iPhone/Android and submitting to the app-stores. It also includes some advanced APIs for device access. The app you interact with is actually a web-view control.

Mouin is a set of vendor-specific CSS extensions you can add to your regular, online HTML content, and the Mouin client app can read these and create native iPhone/Android/BB/J2ME OS UI controls. The UX will be more native, while content is distributed as a regular web page.

Sorry if the explanation is complex, mobile is a really complex space right now. Actually, PhoneGap and Mouin are similar in allowing web devs and designers to create native mobile apps. How they allow it and the resulting apps are radically different in every aspect.
Steve Jobs, Kraftwerk, and the Curse of Beautiful Technology
Interesting - a debugging challenge in a language where every truly difficult to debug problem is hidden behind performance hungry language features. :)

Although I wish I cared enough about Python to know it well enough to have a crack. :P
In an earlier life, I lived in the Dallas area. Moving to be near work sounds great, but it would not have been practical.

- I lived there for nine years. My average tenure was 18 months for each employer: Laid-off, right-sized, down-sized. Finding a new house for each new employer would have been costly.

- One employer was way the heck out by the airport. There were no houses within biking distance. Or not ones I could afford.

- Another employer had me relocate to a new client every few months. I saw a fair bit of the metro-mess that way.

- The last employer turned out to be the best: closed the office in Texas and relocated me to Wisconsin. My house is two miles away from the office. I still need a car: biking to work in the winter is just crazy.

'The plural of data is not anecdote' but .. sometimes you gotta just get a place to live and live with a commute that you know is going to change no matter what.
If JS can be evolved, why has it taken over a decade, and still nothing much of substance? I think Javascript is much like Java, it is too hampered by concerns of remaining compatible with existing legacy semantics. Whenever you see a language where the only thing they can add is "syntactic sugar" it means they are unwilling to consider functionality that would break the underlying legacy VM assumptions, and that means, ultimately, their evolution is "boxed in" by these concerns.

Java basically is at a dead end because changing the JVM is hard.
Ask HN: Review my startup - free organic traffic for mvps, betas and startups.
The Beta Network is a free cross promotion network whose aim is to provide a way to organically increase your traffic and (validated) learning, by means of automatically interlinking your beta landing page or Minimum Viable Product website to others in the same ecosystem of yours.

It works like this:

1)You create your ad ( or partnership, as i prefer ) through our very simple form and you submit it.

2)Embed the js code in your webpage and choose where you want the ad to appear.

3)In 24 hours your ad will be approved ( the network is non exclusive, and unless your content is really crappy or obscene your ad won' t be rejected ).

4)Every time a visitor clicks on the link inside an ad displayed on your website you earn a credit from the website the link was pointing to ( it owes you a click ).

5)Since you are the creditor and the other website is the debtor, the network promotes your ad until you get a click back.

The idea is fairly simple and i was inspired by the awesome work made by the guys at Applifier, a cross promotion network for mobile and social games. What we want to build is a way for people (especially developers and wannabe entrepreneurs) to immediately take advantage of the ecosystem in which they are operating even if they are located in a place where the startup community is not present in the territory, getting initial exposure for their early stage products so that they can get validated learning and customer insight.
I like to think of it as a way of "automating partnerships", partnership meaning that i promote you since i know you' ll promote me and we will both benefit from this.
It’s especially geared towards mvps and beta pages, since it’ s not always easy for them to reach decent ( or even minimum ) traffic and this leads to a lack of information, which is the worst thing that could happen to a freshly started company. Our mantra is “alone we fall, united we stand”.

Following the Lean Startup methodology ( awesome book, by the way ) I decided to release a MVP early, without it being perfect or anything near perfection.

What is important for us at this stage of development is learning and getting constructive feedback. You can find the network at http://betainsight.com

Thanks a lot for the attention and the aforementioned feedback.
I think you're illustrating a universal constant through your examples.

The political spectrum isn't really a spectrum or a line. It's a circle. There is always a point where right meets left, where people agree on the solution, but disagree on the problem that necessitates that solution.

That wonderful point is where the lunatics from either side meet, shake hands, and agree that everything must be destroyed and you have to start over. Of course, once they actually achieve that solution, they'll be at each other's throats again, since they never agreed on what the original problem was. Revolutionary Politics 101.
What is interesting to me is how quickly this narrative infected the media. The only think reported about OWS is clashes with the Police, or the lack of clear message.

The narrative "OWS has no message" was started by media pundits. It's unfortunate they all decided on that exact narrative at almost the same time.

The conspiracy theorist in me, combined with an intense cynicism, wonders if the corporate parents of the media weren't the originators of this idea, but I'll leave that up to the reader to speculate.
Indeed - this also indicates files that have deletion pending. A UNIX greybeard warned me about this as I was exploring the getdirentries() syscall.
I like Krugman, but a Krugman editorial is the epitome of the sort of topic HN should avoid, imho.
A brief review of OWS a few days ago said that Adbusters actually kicked it off.
As far as I can tell, this criticism "but they have no coherent demands" is mostly an invented media talking point. It is the successor to the first attempt, "these people are inarticulate clowns", which was too clumsy to work.

Since when is a popular protest movement required to come up with a detailed policy paper? This isn't the Brookings Institute. What we see is exactly what you'd expect: a diverse group, overlapping agendas, a few common themes. It's not like those themes are hard to identify (viz., large banks were rewarded for wrecking the economy, the political process has been corrupted by money, most people are stagnating or suffering economically).

It's not hard to see what market-oriented types and anti-corporate types have in common here. They're both opposed to socialism for oligarchs.
How do/did you convince other employees/partners to join you in this venture....Just having the faith is not good enough right?
Submissions like this have no value. Posting this code just to laugh at how ignorant the programmer seems petty to me. Also, this code is so blatantly bad, it almost seems fake.
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A startup can get HALL.com but netflix goes with qwikster?
The shrill tone in American politics has always irritated me. Be it economic policy or going to war, it seems terribly easy to choke off a sensible argument by calling it 'unamerican'. Maybe controversy and argument should be resuscitated as American values... Clearly having had a sensible argument over, say, the Irak war, no matter the outcome, would not seem so ridiculous now. The way I remember it, this was pretty much impossible in the media.
Congrats man! Glad you persisted with the submissions and made it fly.
I also ANACM, however I can guarantee you that it is impossible for any gear to break or bend under those conditions (the first model year for the Ford Focus was 1998).
Well any iOS app you purchase can be installed on all of your iOS devices.

UNLESS, this is about how you can ONLY buy stuff from Apple's App Store and then I can understand the point being made. But jailbroken iPhone users are such a small percentage (as are rooted Android phone users) so I'm looking at this from the average consumers' perspective.

If they buy 100 apps on their Android device they are then leery about switching to iOS because they lose all those apps and vice-versa.
> iPhones where historically really expensive devices.

No. Smartphones are historically really expensive devices. Year before the iPhone was released, I had a Eseries Nokia phone, it was something like 500€ out of carriers (and few carriers had it, Eseries are enterprise/corporate phones), unsubsidized Nseries phones ("comsumer" smartphones, usually with a 10key and more multimedia features instead of the full qwerty keyboard of Eseries) were the same price.

When the original iPhone was released, it was not expensive, it was unsubsidized.
Firefox brand toolkit
The challenge is to add cool engaging realtime functionality to an app using Pusher. The best example will win a Macbook Air, a ticket to the Keeping it Realtime conference and all entries get a Pusher t-shirt.
It's not a commentary on interview questions. It's a tutorial on C language rules, with a silly little story to make it more interesting.

What everyone is missing is how interesting the tutorial is, despite it being about a really dreary topic. I'm reading a book called "Why Don't Students Like School", which goes into some detail about this kind of thing. It's quite good (and really should be, given that it's about how to make education interesting).
Having well known investors certainly helped. that and the idea and technologies they'd be working with made the difference
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Most Java projects depend on XML documents, which contain a URL telling you where the "document definition" (DTD) lives. That DTD is / can be used to verify that the XML is valid.

If the URL starts failing or serving up different content then your builds may fail.
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I don't see anything that says it was a single server (I'm taking your words literally).

Any wildly popular (wildly is debatable, nonetheless they have many customers) service can put itself in to this situation if it does not have failover cases.
They did, and it was quickly taken up by others. There was a great interview on it linked here earlier. Hold up. There: http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/10/07/Kalle-Lasn-Occupy-Wall-Str...
Netflix Back-Peddles on Qwikster
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Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.

Requests allow you to send HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE HTTP requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It’s powered by urllib2, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.
I want a bigger screen :(

It's hard to read books on the iPhone, but it's easy on 3.7-4.0" phones, even when they have less pixels.
I would not doubt if they still split the company internally. They can have one website, one billing department, etc, but still have 2 internal companies. One company (probably the DVD business) just pays the other one for the services rendered (website, billing...)

This way, it is not a total reversal, just a reversal of the customer facing changes that were generally disliked.
this book is recommended on one of the last slides (although i don't remember it talking about sequence points, or i forgot, since that was one of the things i just learnt...; i think they may only have been named in the iso standard which was probably after that book was published)

and i just found this - http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/ - which looks like a good basic intro.
So I'm lucky to have an ISP that has a zero evil score ? Or is that something i can expect normally.
Robert Rubin is on that list. Quote:

CLAIM TO FAME: As Clinton's treasury secretary, he pushed to overturn regulations prohibiting finance-bank hybrids such as...Citigroup. QUOTE: Wishes he could have reined in Citi but "I don't know what I could have done" as just a board member.

HIS HAUL, 1999-2009: $124 million

When I was in high school, I read Liar's Poker. I came to despise Rubin based on that book. Everything which I have heard of him thereafter has confirmed my opinion.

While he was at Solomon Brothers during the 1980s, Rubin's demands for compensation shocked even the greediest traders. Rubin then joined the Clinton administration, the same administration whose electoral campaign decried "the decade of greed." Then he played a part in the current crash, getting yet another obscene pile of money for himself courtesy of the American taxpayer (or the Treasury Department printing press, take your pick).

We are ruled by fools and phonies.
The time to make the decision was before they added streaming to Netflix. Had Netflix launched Qwikster in the first place instead of Netflix Streaming, they might be in a stronger position today.
I agree, this syntax makes little sense in dynamic languages where classes/types are first-class values that share the namespace with functions and ordinary values... Even in JavaScript, where it sort-of-kind-of makes sense, it introduces more problems than it solves.
and Chrome's application shortcut feature
0.6mm at its thinnest point, and 0.5mm thicker at its thickest point (the latter being a sticking point, UK's Advertising Standards Authority ruled against Samsung's claim of thinnest smartphone on the market on these grounds)
no, it's not a good book to learn the standards! :o) for that you are better with harbison & steele or similar (although that's more a reference - maybe this http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/ which i just found?). deeper c is more like a collection of essays that explore interesting corners - it doesn't attempt to cover everything (i enjoyed it, i'm just saying it's not what you described...)

ps you say standards (plural) - all the above is c only.
I don't believe it's coincidence that the media started bleating the "OWS has no message" meme at the exact same time.

Yeah, I know it's reddit, but this comment from a P/R person was pretty eye-opening:

"Right at this moment, hundreds of journalists are receiving calls and emails from communication agencies, pitching them on the 'lack of focus' keypoints on the behalf of their clients. This is why the coverage we get only revolves on this point, because there is a concerted effort behind it. Sounds terrible? Well, that the way things work."

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/l428p/occupy_wall_...
The tricky thing is that project management is a very mature industry, so saying that I'm going to build a badass PM tool says even less -- my thought was to focus on the reason for building the tool. My take is that project management in the software space fails because the stacks of tools companies use are rarely interoperable. Efficiency and predictability are hugely dependent on a tight coupling between the different phases of software dev -- and that's where there's still huge amounts of room to innovate.

I hear what you're saying, I just don't know how to rephrase that question to focus on what's innovative...

edit: just to be clear, I think you're right. I'm going to takle this this all day to try to make it clearer. Thanks.
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