skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't involved at the time, but what I've gathered over the years is that the early history of blogging and rss involved competing standards and personal and technical rivalries. My understanding is that Winer is an ardent self-promoter, quite opinionated, and rubs some people strongly the wrong way. He's created a bunch of cool and interesting stuff, and proudly claims credit for stuff some people don't think he deserves credit for. I don't really know who's right and who's wrong, I suspect there's at least a little fault on all sides.

I think if Winer had explained or given footnotes, it would have distracted from the point of what I thought was a very powerful essay, but then I agree with him about Stallman.
I'm with you. Winer is exhausting because he spends so much time trying to make sure his reader understands how impressive he is.

It gets dull.
The Internet only weighs 50 grams [video]
This is how I visualize time and I've thought about why I perceive it the way I do, and it was due to how my kindergarten teacher taught us the concepts of time.

It's rather amazing how many life-long concepts come out of kindergarten.
If you agree with Schopenhauer on "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." and if you accept that the space Dave operates is populated by hackers, entrepreneurs and lots of other people looking for the next big thing, then his point is particularly poignant:

> Okay, you say it's weird. And I say weird is good. People
who show originality openly, without fear, are people I
admire. And people I stand up for.

Well put Dave. I agree.

edit: Fixed grammatical error.
Everyone hates on his lack of tact. It has been made worse by his unfortunate recent comment on Steve Jobs. It's not infighting, it is the community almost as a whole.
Dave Winer is widely regarded to have invented both RSS and blogging.
Where does the personhood of a lump sum of money[1] come into play here?

[1]: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/connecticut/ctdce/3:2011cv0...
The free world is truly capable of doing that, it just decided that is more lucrative to build non-free computers...
Mr Stallman recently said that although he regretted Mr Job's death, he wasn't sorry that the creator of the walled garden of locked down consumer computing devices was no more.

This caused some discussion along the lines of Mr Stallman :

1) should be hunted down and killed for mentioning the sainted Mr Jobs

or

2) is the only one with the courage to stand up and say what he believes.

(delete as appropriate)
Just do it and post it. Don't post a comment with "Maybe..."
Great work guys!! Looking forward to see more integration and new widgets! As I said before would love to have more info on the graphing widgets ;)
Unlike the circle jerk that goes on in this forum, right?
Installing the hacked version of Flash does not required root access. On my Honeycomb tablet its as easy as installing any non-market APK.
I have yet to try it mind
It is a very common flaw in reasoning that one party assumes that the opposition disagrees because they are scared or secretly agree. Atheists are all secretly christians, homophobes are all secretly gay, liberals are scared of "the truth."

People who mock Stallman for taking his shoe off and eating things he picked off his foot in the middle of a presentation are not terrified of him shattering their paradigm. They just think it's gross.
There's also been a lot of people using his lack of tact to point out how weird he is, and how much they dislike him, which is kind of sad.

Sometimes, the worst oppressors are the formerly oppressed, and I think the same may apply to bullying. There's no scorn like the geek's scorn for someone geekier than they consider acceptable.
(Are you instilling an entrepreneurial spirit in your children?)
The technology is 360 x 180 degree virtual tours made with panoramas similar to street view technology. There is a few different methods of shooting the panoramas all of which produce a 360 x 180 photograph(s). The photographs are then designed into a tour to allow for transitions. You can view more of these type tours over a http://hdvirtualcitytours.com
Why Mixpanel moved off the public cloud
Sweet. It's about time there is token support for the API.
The Uncracked Code of Boarding Quickly
The Fickle Fate of Firefox
Discover new urban music with a robot
I couldn't find it in the current Terms of Service, so I expect that they saw the typical /r/gaming histrionics, checked and saw that they hadn't actually sold the info, figured out how much reddit histrionics cost in sales versus the almost-completely-absent demand for information about super-entitled whiny PC gamers, and decided it wouldn't hurt to remove it from the agreement and their business plans.
I also stand up for Stallman
How did you combine MongoDB with elasticsearch? Is this open-sourced somewhere?
I'm not sure Stallman needs "standing up for." The Kottke post from Winer had a quote from Stallman's rider, and that's about it. http://kottke.org/11/10/richard-stallmans-rider .

Some people think Stallman's weird, but I'm certain he's decided his beliefs and attitudes are worth it. He made that decision on his own, as his own person, and I'm not sure he needs Winer to come save him from the big bad bullies.
I seem to remember MS "Programmer's Workbench" for C/C++ 6 on DOS in the early 90s. It was a PITA, and I far and away preferred the Borland tool stack.

The one thing the MS C compiler seemed good at was compiling gigantic "translitered" functions (generated by a code translator of the company where I was working at the time). Otherwise, meh.

Turbo Pascal for Windows was simply awesome, (unfairly) compared to the C SDK for Windows 3.X, as well. The windowing library (objects), and the way it linked methods as event callbacks were much easier to read and write than hand-crufted event loops/switches in C. MS eventually made something comparable in C++, but I was long gone to *nix land by the time that mattered.
You won't find it. It's somewhere in the back end of Janrain's authentication service. It doesn't serve user facing requests, but it does get hit.
Great slides!

I wonder what city has 5 Lamborghini sightings per week...
This comment reminds me of bikeshedding. There was this whole post, full of emotion and anger and sadness and conflict, written about people and behaviour and social ostracism, and you climbed onto your soapbox to say THAT?

I can’t help but feel that this is not your best work. I have no idea whether it’s true or not, but Dave’s personality is irrelevant to the argument, which is about online communities and cyber-bullying.

Unless, perhaps, you are trying to demonstrate how it works? Have I failed to catch the subtle way you demonstrate that if someone is disliked for something, no matter what they say and how important it is, people will focus on why they dislike that person?
Among Tech Giants, Apple Generates Most Profit Per Employee
I'm also in Beijing and at a start-up funded both locally and from US investors.

I think one of the most telling signs of (3) you mentioned is that the major internet companies in China is virtually the same as it was 10 years ago. While Yahoo! have and AOL have long since fallen by the wayside in the US, Alibaba, Tencent and Sina keep chugging along in China.

This doesn't tend to happen in more open tech markets.
IPhone 4S demand said to be outpacing supply
I strongly agree with the point that wyclif is making. Dave has a bad habit of self-promotion, and he needs to be called out on it. The myth that Dave invented RSS is an especially extreme example.

Back on October 4th, 2006, I wrote up a fairly thorough overview of the controversy surrounding RSS: "RSS has been damage by in-fighting among those who have developed it". I documented in detail the extent to which David Winer interfered with other people's work, while claiming credit for that work. Please read this if you do not know much about the history of this conflict:

http://www.teamlalala.com/blog/2006/10/24/rss-has-been-damag...
Is your product SOLID?
"But if you're not willing to sacrifice everything, then why are you even here?"

I hope you're not suggesting that an entrepreneur must be willing to sacrifice family time (or having a family at all) to be successful.

Because that's definitely bullshit.
I also stand up for Stallman:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-also-stand-up-for-stallman
... and this is a good thing? as opposed to learn proper RDBMS first and learn the lingo of NoSQL (document vs key-value vs column-oriented)?

But I digress, people have different experience. I've seen projects got burned many times by beginners who have lacked of understanding of RDBMS and you may have entirely different experience where your project shines because of MongoDB.
Isn't that backwards? If east were up, north would be to the left. Unless you're making a celestial map.
I ordered The Mythical Man-Month a year or two ago. This is something of a blasphemous statement on Hacker News, but for me the book was a letdown. It felt like a rehash of ideas that I already knew from reading Paul Graham's essays, other technical blogs, and comments on Hacker News.

The reality, of course, is that the book was so spot-on and insightful that many of its ideas have simply been absorbed into the way we approach software development. It seems so common sense today that people don't even cite an idea stolen from TMMM.

Unfortunately, this meant that nothing in the book was new to me, and reading it was rather dull. Because of that, if you've spent much time following the tech community, my recommendation is to prioritize reading TMMM below many of your other suggestions.
Only thing I don't like with MongoDB/Node is that it requires a VPS and can't be deployed on a shared hosting environment. Or is there a company that can host MongoDB/Node combination at an affordable price today?
The best resource for mastering probability, and financial mathematics are Yufeng Guo's guides to passing actuarial exams. He takes the hacker approach to teaching fairly difficult concepts so you can focus on solving problems quickly. Most of the books recommended here are too traditional in their approach,(boring) this is a true hacker guide to learning how to frame problems correctly and then the math needed to solve them. If you are a decent programmer you can figure out the application afterward. I used them to pass the introductory actuarial exams and they are awesome.

Here is his page on actex, take a look at some of the previews and I think you will be sold. http://www.actexmadriver.com/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=8...
I meant on the hardware side. A PC + display takes up, what, 40 watts minimum?
I just have to say, the best coffee in NYC is actually La Colombe on Lafayette and Prince. I will buy you a cup if you haven’t tried it ;)
Dave is someone who has strong opinions and has been involved in things like RSS and web logging for many many years. He is often early to the party or the driving force behind a lot of things we take for granted today. RSS, podcasting, blogging, XML-RPC, SOAP, significant work on outliners.

Often when others join the party and he has something to say about their implementation or contribution he will say it in a pretty direct manner. This has led to some interesting spats. Some that come to mind:

RSS vs ATOM

Harsh/sarcastic words and criticism by Mark Pilgrim (dive into python guy)

Aaron Swartz wrote a service to watch for edits in Dave's blogs posts a long time ago to see if he was chaining "history."

Finally, just scroll down on this page you will see that the general reaction seems to be more negative than usual. A lot of time resorting to personal attacks.

For those of you who don't know his writing he has stuff online back to '95 or maybe earlier and it would serve the younger techies well to go back and take a look with an open mind.
Still requires a PC to run it, right?
Disclosure: I work at Factual.

Factual provides an API for businesses in the US and around the world. In fact, SimpleGeo partnered with us for some of their data. Other alternatives you can consider are FourSquare, Google Places, etc. Each alternative has it's own pricing structure and terms and conditions.

You can browse some of our POI data by going to http://www.factual.com/topic/places
Striving for Leadership as Your Next Career Breakthrough
> We do have Tumblr, Etsy, and Foursquare...

But would you know that if you weren't already plugged into the tech scene? I don't recall seeing a sign outside of Foursquare's building. Etsy had a handmade sign taped to some windows you couldn't see from the street unless you knew to look for it. 111 8th Ave doesn't have a big Google sign out front. There's no big Vimeo or OkCupid, etc., etc., signs outside IAC's headquarters. I don't believe Tumblr has a sign out front. In fact, the only tech company sign I recall seeing on the side of a building in NYC was Squarespace before they moved (I don't know if their new place has a sign). Compare that to walking around Soma or driving down the 101.

Most people probably have no idea there are well-known tech companies based here.
This comment contributes nothing to the discussion.

On the contrary, it neatly illustrates what the OP is talking about.
But people who use it as if it somehow disproves his position on the ethics of software are stupid or dishonest. Simple as that.
The Humble Voxatron Debut
How to find out if your users are on Facebook
If you go to YC, you already have started selling your company.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

But there is no reason to kid one's self.
Alpha Dart IDE binaries available for Win/Mac/Linux at dartlang.org
There are plenty of other times during the year in which people wear costumes. Theme parties, for one.
"Sounds like someone who is tiptoeing right up to the edge of recommending a liberal arts education and then shying away. ;)"

Emphasis on a liberal arts education, as opposed to a humanities education. A true liberal arts education is about broad exposure but many people interpret the term to mean a simple avoidance of math and hard sciences, which is a huge shame.
A friend has brought to my attention that the tone of this comment is racist. The comment is too old to edit or delete at this point, but I am sorry for the offense I have caused.
Them: "So, I'm going to sell Viagra and Cialis, I'll give you $100 and you put those pages at the top, thanks."

[Later]

Them: "Why aren't my pages at the top yet, I sent you the money yesterday."
If you're someone(innocent or otherwise) being chased by an un-manned aircraft, could shooting at it with purpose to disable it be construed as an act of self defense? Especially if it carries weapons.
After seeing some other comments I went and looked into it. It seems Winer is the one who thinks he invented RSS.

Reality seems to say multiple competing XML formats for content syndication existed around the same time. Someone took some features of Winer's format and combined it with an existing one and called it RSS. Shrug

And on inventing blogging I read up thanks to wiki [1], as usual, and lo and behold! The claim his blog is one of the oldest is sourced! To an interview in which he claims it about his own blog, and then discounts it a sentence later.

I have no opinion on if this guy actually influenced as much of tech history as he seems to think, but history has either been very unkind to him, or he promotes himself beyond the facts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogging

[2] http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082-985714.html
I find it disturbing that you thinking bullying is a "meme."
Dave Winer can claim credit only for the 2.0 version of RSS. The earliest version of RSS was invented by Dan Libby at Netscape. In 2006 I wrote up a thorough overview of the history of RSS up to that point:

http://www.teamlalala.com/blog/2006/10/24/rss-has-been-damag...
I don't know any other service like Simplegeo.

MongoDB has some pretty good geo-aware methods worth looking.
There are a number of MongoDB shared hosts listed at http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Hosting+Center that you might want to check out.
How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (Infographic)
Visual Awesomeness.
Sorry for the hash tag in the url, it's not necessary but I figured we wanted a separate thread to discuss the new bundle. A mod can strip it off if desired.
Have you tried Heroku? I've been using Heroku and MongoLab's plugin, all for free. It can get expensive after lots of data, but until then, it is all free.
Yeah, I don't think that C++ killed Delphi. Java killed Delphi.

Java may kinda look like C++, but Java 1.1 acted a lot like Borland Pascal plus a UCSD pcode-system. Nested blocks, strong typing, easy string manipulation, portable interpreter. And support for strings over 255 chars long, too! :-)
You can do it with Heroku if you don't mind using MongoLab or MongoHQ. There's also the option of spinning up a free 128mb Node.js SmartMachine at http://no.de.
I agree that the biggest issue is #1. Another problems I've run into are:

- Operations are not automatically aborted if the client closes the connection. Suppose a case where the client is sending many queries that are queued by the server (usually waiting for a lock to be released). Client times out, re-establishes a connection, retries, etc. Mongo will execute the operations even if the client is no longer waiting for the response. Operations are not automatically aborted.

- Sending slaveOk() queries need to be sent to the slaves explicitly by the driver, and I haven't seen it work reliably. Ideally you'd send them to mongos and let it send slaveOk() queries automatically to the slaves. All the drivers would be simpler and just work. But this is not the case. You can't do it unless sharding is enabled. Each driver needs to implement this functionality.

But I must say that overall my experience has been very positive. It's very developer friendly. You can go from not knowing anything about it to having a working prototype in an hour or so. The flexibility in querying the system is awesome.

You just need to understand the limitations of the system. Once you start pushing the limits it gets significantly more complicated.
That's the part that puzzled me. The comment was only that the parrot clause was "up there with" other extremely specific rider clauses. And the Van Halen clause is these days pretty widely known as an interesting system hack rather than mere eccentricity or weirdness. The Kottke post didn't come across to me as mocking at all, actually. (Unless you see "crazy" as exclusively of negative valence, I suppose.)
I think the two of you are using different definitions. Soros indeed has assets of X billion dollars. That kid from Yale has assets of 50 million that he has leveraged 100 times to be able to control positions valuing at 5 billion.
Except that kottke didn't say anything at all about Stallman's ethics, position on software, or the FSF. He just said it was ridiculous for him to put two paragraphs about parrots in his rider. Simple as that.
I also stand up for Stallman. Yes, people think he is a weird guy. But we are all weird, and he's weird and has changed the world for the better. I don't see what there is to hate.

People worry that he might not be the best interface between Free Software and the rest of the world (because it's hard to relate to him), but who cares? If you can do a better job, do it. The only thing that's bad for the Free Software movement is worrying about who the leader is. It's you. Now get back to work and make us some awesome software.
you climbed onto your soapbox to say THAT?

In Critical Theory discussions, it's called "derailing", and once you have a name for it, it becomes even more frustrating.

Notice how now, we're not discussing the original ideas of the post, but are completely pushed into a tangential discussion.

At least HN has threaded discussions. When it happens in flat discussions like Facebook, it's an order of magnitude more annoying.
But not the Privacy Policy.
Googling:

"dave winer" jerk --> 75,700
"dave winer" ass --> 248,000
"dave winer" asshole --> 9,440

For some strange reason, I find myself not interested in reading Dave Winer denouncing others for "bullying", all the while reminding you, sotto voce, of how wonderful Dave Winer is.
He's American.
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-each-Plac...
I'm also interested in talking, shoot me an email, tranmchau@gmail.com
In response to the deleted post below: I don't think it's fair, let alone possible, to try to prevent the developing world from becoming developed merely out of a fear for the possibility of "bad things" happening due to excess CO2 in the atmosphere. Moreover, we are already more or less past the stage where we will have to deal with the consequences of high CO2 levels, whatever they are. I think a wealthier, more developed world is far, far more likely to be able to do that.

Additionally, if it's possible for the developed world to switch to "green" energy sources economically then it ought to be possible for the developing world to do so as well.
Show HN: NonDev/NonDesigner's First Infograph - Avg IRS Tax Audit Refund is 100k
Foursquare is good for a simple and fast list of places, but the data inside that is incomplete sometimes.

This Factual is new to me and seems good, I will see it better later (big list of places for Brazil, exactly what I need sometimes).
FusionPublisher - An app within an app.
Google to Start Charging Fee for Google Maps Usage
I don't know to where OP is referring, but I've found Table 12 on Ave A & 12th to be a decent place to work. When I've gone during the day on weekdays it's usually half-empty, has free wifi, and the staff hasn't seemed to mind my loitering (though I do buy stuff).
actually the original joke was about buying a new computer, I mutated it to apply it to TP
Glad to be proven wrong.
While there are problems with SimpleGeo (neighborhood misspellings in San Fran, GeoIP that isn't very complete, polygons that represent political boundaries and not geo boundaries, etc) it is a useful and affordable service that we use all the time. I kind of hoped it would go to Google who would use it to improve their APIs.

I hope it lives on with Urban Airship and keeps getting resources to improve. In the end it's a good thing that someone is competing with Google in this space.
I've been using MongoDB with a custom ad server I built over the summer that is hitting 10,000 impressions per second at peak ties. This is all on one box and it hasn't broken a sweat yet. Because of that positive experience, we have decided to use MongoDB for all future projects instead of MySQL (we make multiplayer games).
Wikipedia gives him credit for part of 0.91: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_web_syndication_tech...
I meant that he cares about total freedom and control of his hardware, and yet bought from a country that likes the opposite. Who knows if some part of it isn't actually open source, and if it isn't, China and NK are the least trustable countries (not companies per se) for it to be from.
I'm pretty sure Weiner is talking about Stallman critics in general, making kottke just an example. This kind of reasoning is common amongst them.
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Hey Guys, I never used Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop before so this is my first attempt at creating an infographic. I'm hoping that I did a decent job, so please give me any feedback if possible. Also, this is the first time I tried putting together a website myself entirely.

So I'm hoping to get any help feedback possible! Thanks!

Cam.
Wow. So, less than 300k or so and you stay in L1, which is crazy fast. Contiguous reads must have some trick for streaming into L1 in anticipation of the request. The only explanation i have for the large stride/large read speedup is maybe you're laying out data in separate memory modules so you get some parallel reads. I guess that curve from 8b to 4kb comes from increasing collisions? Is this even vaguely right?

That's a cool graph.