skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all the talk about learning programming and the article regarding CodeAcademy's shortcomings, I thought this course was a nice introduction for the non-programmer.

For the education-minded out there, this also serves as Berkeley's pilot course that they're hoping the College Board will approve as the model for a new AP Computer Science offering at the high-school level.
Fragmentation Is Not The End of Android
Hehe - to actually answer the question, though, the method you are describing might work with enough good planning behind it. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like your lead dev is willing to do that. You will probably find that the amount of work required to fix the existing system is within a stone's throw of the work required to rewrite it.

I wouldn't call your described plan a "good" way of doing things, necessarily.
Why Did ccLoop Pivot?
I'm not sure that's the right question to ask. In 2003, people asked "do we need another social network?" The answer was surely no. However, (speaking for myself) I do want at least one good social networking tool and at least one good source of tech news.

There are countless sources of tech news, most of which are not particularly good (Sturgeon's Law I guess). If Sarah Lacy can manage to build a better version of what Techcrunch was at its best, that would be nice. It remains to be seen of course.
Many are not working because they're unemployed: http://www.google.com/search?&q=U.S.+real+unemployment+r...
It quite clearly states it is intended for the certain circumstances you describe, Webkit on mobile devices. I don't believe anyone would suggest using this for the desktop environment.
Welcome to HN!

The problem is that US legislation can be changed in lot of weird ways between the time its introduced and when it's passed. For example, there could be popular support for a "Protecting Net Freedoms" act and something good could be introduced. But the special interest lobbyists would likely get a large amount of edits in, and the "provisions" added for "protecting (children|national security|the environment)" and "creating jobs".

So at the end of the day, passing a "Protecting Net Freedoms" act would likely be worse than the status quo (which in the US is still quite good IMHO).
Thanks, I certainly don't want to worry too much but, at the same time, the data is a big component of the value proposition in this case and likely what cost us more (more than the actual development of the service, for example).

So much so that we are likely to make more money by giving access to the data via API to other companies than by allowing "normal" people to search through the data and get paid a referral fee every time they click on something.

By why should we avoid the latter as an additional revenue stream? I'd rather try and make it more difficult for people to scrape it (and I don't want to ask people to accept T&C before making a search)

Thanks for the reply Paul
Nearly 1000 of NY Tech protesting Senators on PIPA this Wed - join us, Valley
Could Bing seriously challenge Google?
:) I agree. However, you might be losing "sales" to people who don't agree. Maybe that is a small group, idk.

But I see how you would need a two column layout (or something) for the results of longer search terms.
I came here to post something very similar.

"I do not want to sell this company" .... for less than a billion dollars :) She should have kept bolding.

I think there's always room for competition, even in startup blogging. Being so saturated, however, they WILL need to find a way to do something different - no matter how small - something to keep us coming back.
Ah. Good point. I wonder why the number of flags is kept secret. Also, is there any disincentive to flagging? Does it cost you karma or something? Is there any difference between a flag and a (secret) downvote?
>Do we really need another site covering startups?

Yes.

Nobody covers startups in the aspirational way TC used to do. TC of old made you want to do a startup. TC of now/RRW/AllThingD etc, tell you about startups. just like any news site.
I'm pretty sure that's just snark....
Lines like 'Your DBA is likely the best looking and smartest person in your IT department.' are you clue.
Does backbone use .data()?
What about, instead of comment scores, if the comment is among a top percentage of comments in the thread, the user's name is a different color, like orange? Kind of like how a new user's name is green.
Minimalism, like most words describing styles, is a very flexible word. If I write a composition in which a single person plays a pair of water glasses with one drumstick, that's "minimalism". And if I employ a very expensive sound studio to record a famous pop song consisting of the simplest possible drum track, a sparse guitar riff, a one-note vocal part with occasional distortion, and a toy Casio organ, that's also "minimalism":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYcviXK4rg&feature=relat...

And, of course, I can be a "minimalist composer" even while writing complex works for entire orchestras:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coolidge_Adams

None of these forms of minimalism is more "real" than the others.

Meanwhile, I'm afraid I don't understand your point. At least the OP has provided a living example of his style of minimalism. Can you give us a living example of yours? Even poor people "use money to access what they need", eat meat, travel by bus, use shared public infrastructure, and hire immigrant workers. Even subsistence farmers do these things. Even ascetic Buddhist monks do these things. (They don't subsist entirely on oxygen, after all: They're supported by donations. Or, if you insist, they "outsource the burden of sustaining their lifestyle".)

So when you say the words "real minimalist", who am I supposed to see in my mind's eye? Could it be someone I've ever actually met?
Is the nature of your site such that unauthorized access will have significant impact on the health, safety, or welfare of the users?

If you're a bank, plaintext passwords are bad.

If you're HN, it really doesn't matter much(IMO).

The level of security should match the level of the threat - most people don't need bodyguards for a trip to the grocery store.

Yes, plaintext passwords are less secure, but they may be the result of business analysis regarding the costs associated with unauthorized access versus the costs associated with poor customer service when someone loses their password.
16.0.912.75 - OS X 10.7.2 | Runs great
Really the most powerful signal that could come out of this whole debacle is to see just one congressperson lose their seat unambiguously because of their support for net censorship.

I say, regardless of whether or not anything passes this year, we find one of the weaker sponsors of SOPA/PIPA who's up for re-election this year and make them pay.
If they are, I'd see it the same way as funding the node port. The less temptations for developers to build on *nix, the better for Microsoft. Using Windows on EC2 means they're still using Windows, after all.
Here are a few people doing similar things.

There are also a few patents on this concept if I can find the link to the patent I will post.

http://www.dotomator.com/web20.html

http://blungr.com/

http://www.domainnamesoup.com/

One comment I have on your site is that you give to many choices (it's not lean) on one page and there is no organization to the choices. Also similar to what others do there should be a way to enter a secondary characteristic.

Oh, here's a bonus benefit to your site that I just noticed and a new place to market using the site.

The ratio of red-registered to green-available is helpful in determining how valuable or in vogue a domain name is that contains a particular word. I would compute a ratio of green to red.

(see as a test "search" or "social" vs. some other less popular word like "opthamology")

Also you don't appear to be checking the actual word that is entered to see if that is available. And you aren't indicating which TLD's so I'm assuming all your suggestions are in .com

Example: "Found 1000 available domains containing "ycombinator""
Do you know of a way to save the files without prompting? DOM localstorage is tiny. If there was a way to pull updates from your friends automatically and cache them, that would make the web browser a real powerful tool.
How mobile apps are getting data savvy, even internationally
How some app developers are experimenting with new ways to support offline & low connectivity use; lowering data demands could be key in growing app ecosystem.
Interactive Quadtrees and Well-Separated Pairs Decomposition
"Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying."

I thought the technology sector spend peanuts on lobbying compared to the entertainment industry?
A lot of the equivalent in the US will be dependent on state law, so it will vary depending on location.
Every time there's a submission from google.com someone complains that it looks like an official Google statement and we need subdomains to differentiate. I find this obnoxious, mostly because I have never found this to be any kind of problem but also because you people keep repeating this feature request for every link from google.com.

Probably 99.99% of google.com submissions are not linking to any official Google statements. And when submissions do happen to deal with official Google statements, they tend to be Google+ posts from someone who represents Google. So subdomains won't magically fix anything.

Why can't you just click through if it is ambiguous to you?
Eagle: Tcl reimplemented in C#
A little bit of medicine can cure you, a lot can poison you.
I had the same thought. Maybe for short burst where something is well thought out in your head and all your doing in transcribing. For most coding I find my typing to be more than sufficient. Maybe for something like documentation (but who writes that anyway?).
It does run javascript: http://www.jefftk.com/news/2012-01-11.html
This guy is clearly a professional attention whore. It's good to contrast him with "early retirement extreme" who lives in the RV in the East Bay who gets posted from time to time.

"15 things" isn't sustainable. It's fake minimalism. It's like saying you're a minimalist after your house burns down and you escape with nothing but your cell phone and credit card. He imposes a significantly higher load on the infrastructure around him (whether he pays for it, or just the kindness of friends letting hin crash on the couch).

In contrast, "East Bay RV" really has whittled down his life to just the things he needs.
Wikipedia and Wordpress confirm their participation in SOPA strike on Jan 18th
Great job and super fast results.

It's great to have tons of inputs and tons of results, but we need a tool to get all these great results into a funnel that at the end you can easily spot a great name.

Suggestions:

1) Modifiers to minimize results like max chars in the domain name.

2) Take the word or phrase the person typed in and throw it into reverse dictionary [1] and then take those results and re-run them through your site (ditto for thesaurus.com).

3) Option to remove a result when one word ends and another starts with the same letter and try reversing to see if available (ie ramppart.com).

4) Option to include tons of different mythology dictionaries [2] and include names where definitions include the user's inputed word/phrase.

[1] http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml

[2] http://www.ventrue.net/GSA/myth.htm
Tell me the Truth – Is Santa for Real?
There’s never a good time to be confronted by a child with the question of “Santa Claus”.
Hey hey, wait a minute.

I searched out Code (http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=Code) and tried to register codejet.com ,which was shown available by you , but, it was already registered. Similarly, I tried to get Codehit and again, it failed. Could you please explain?
I normally dont comment much here, but this made me came out of my cave to type, Thanks for thinking out of the box, or at least showing me a new path to follow, as a web developer I miss the old days of "Flashy and Tacky" websites not because I miss flash, Its because of the innovation that drived that time, we all know there are some bad examples and bad implementations but when the project is right Its well worth it.
(NOTE: I am the author.)

I did try to get the episode from the Fox site. (I watch South Park on line this way all the time.) It didn't work. I also tried -- successfully -- the get it from iTunes. It cost me $6 (because I somehow accidentally downloaded it twice). But then IT WOULDN"T PLAY because my display is a DVI display and not an HDMI display!
Which makes the licensing of Android phones even more ironic. MS is using the patent system to do to phone manufacturers what MS did to PC manufacturers decades ago.
An Italian-American Tradition
Make no mistake about it, Italian women are great cooks. And so are Mexican, Greek, Polish, Ukrainian and Romanian women, for that matter. Baby boomers didn’t grow up on fast food.
Zawodny Clarifies NASA Video about LENR
Even documentation, if you want people to actually read it.
Show HN: Tracely - Manage your daily tasks and habits
Wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against SOPA
Douglas Rushkoff: Why I am learning to code and you should, too
What Is Passive Income And How To Earn It
Cyberattacks Temporarily Cripple 2 Israeli Web Sites
> Ultimately a company storing files is almost certainly going to require its staff to look through directories, log files, database tables.

Why? (Or at least, why should they see anything private in raw form?)

> And it is certainly going to require staff to have the ability, even if they never have to use it.

Why?

> By giving them your files you are trusting them not to screw you over.

By giving themselves the technical ability to examine private user data, they are making a strong (or indeed legally compelling, in some cases) argument for not using their service to store anything private at all. That's a death sentence for most cloud services.

We don't accept companies storing passwords in plain text. We don't accept companies transmitting credit card data in the clear, and PCI DSS requires quite strict controls on access to such data even when it's stored internally on the company network. Businesses dealing with sensitive data such as health records are subject to all kinds of regulations on the privacy of that data. Professionals dealing with privileged communications such as between lawyers and clients don't get a pass. Off-site backup services give all kinds of strong guarantees about the security and privacy of the data entrusted to them.

Why should we give a pass to anyone else, because they can't figure out how to set up a security system where only the end user can access the unencrypted version of their own data?
What do the investors get out of this if Sarah is never going to sell it?
There is a 'FileStorage' API which I would like to use rather than the DOM, but only Chrome supports it for now, and I would like this experiment to remain cross-platform (there are enough 'chrome-only' experiments on the web already).

I have opened an issue about this here: https://github.com/Miserlou/DirtyShare/issues/3
Rails or Sinatra: The Best of Both Worlds?
Yeah, currently we look at publicly accessible work a developer has done. Agreed that front-end and design heavy work shows much better in a portfolio (and is usually an easier sell for the project owner) but we're working on ways to bubble back-end work to the top so it shows nicely. We get a number of back-end only type projects come through, so definitely still request an invite.
Googlebot Running Javascript
I mean the language together with implementation.
Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?
It should always be possible to change username
Dividends? That would be a novel concept.
they do charge YouTube, it's just hidden in the ISP to ISP agreements.
Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
mweil,
I just spent 10 minutes on your website, and I still am finding it very difficult to understand what it is you do.

Some tangible examples would really help prospective visitors. I remember seeing the site before in an article on TechCrunch and thinking exactly the same. The article on TechCrunch explains what it is that you do, a lot better than your examples.

I don't want to "Get Started" in order to have to figure out how your product can help.

I'm in the need for a mobile port of my application, so I really would like to see all of the potential offerings that are out there, but CloudMine has fallen way short on being able to explain what it is that you do? </trying to be constructive criticism - so don't take it the wrong way>.

The site looks good though :)
There is a strong case to be made that 37signals should have access to this data for debugging purposes or similar. And as others have suggested, customers trusting 37signals with data should expect this at some level, unless the customers are encrypting everything at their end first.

But should everyone in the company have that level of access, or should access be restricted to the minimum necessary? What I don't see in others comments here (except tghw's [1]) is any recognition of that. It's all very well saying you want to give your devs access, and that you can be trusted, but over time and as your company grows you're exposing yourself to the risk of a rogue operator. And it only takes one person to do something bad to severely damage the trust your customers hold in you.

It's a balance, to be sure, but I'm inclined to think a blanket "we trust our devs, so they have the access they need" could be exposing yourself to a large risk you don't need.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3471338
"This is an opportunity to design a better shell for the development environment of the future, which I believe will be the Web itself. Consumer computing devices are becoming less general and open, designed for consumption more than creation. Those born today may grow up without access to the kinds of flexible tools that sparked so many young people's interest in programming during the era of desktop computing. Bringing developer tools to the Web means bringing the full power of general-purpose computing to a new generation."

I think that this observation is false. There is a recent proliferation of closed devices (iphone, etc), but consumer desktops and laptops abound, and a consumer is no more prohibited nor discouraged from installing an open operating system than they were in the past. The Fallacies of Distributed Computing aren't going anywhere, and dedicated machines will be with us for a long time: The convenience and privacy limitations of computing dependent on a network make it plain that programmers will be using local machines for a very long time.

inimino (a good guy) specializes in JavaScript, so I can understand why he finds an idea like this interesting. But it's a pipe dream, no pun intended.

I can see the value of this sort of thing as a JavaScript library for combining web services abiding by some packet standard.
Interestingly, child abuse is perpetuated. Spanking is perpetuated. It's not clear why. There have been countless studies and they show that if you spank your child they will be less intelligent, more prone to alcoholism & smoking, less confident, etc. They will also probably spank their children.

I'm an American and live in France. My daughter is in the French school system and I prefer it to the International school here because it's stricter and really challenges the kids.

But as for parenting (what I've seen, at least) isn't inconsiderate of the child -- it's abusive. Presenting it next to over-indulged American kids doesn't excuse or validate that.
World Bank Assumes Control of Google Map Data
"I work at Google as a Webmaster Trends Analyst. This is my personal profile."

Security wise a bad idea. For example email of a actual company employee (at a company that offers email) might normally might be name@corp.yahoo.com or name@corp.google.com not name@yahoo.com etc.

By posting in this manner nothing to prevent someone from posting the wrong information.
What Is So Wrong With Mercurial's Named Branches?
Why all the self-hate of Mercurial's named branches?
> We don't accept companies storing passwords in plain text. We don't accept companies transmitting credit card data in the clear

This is in case somebody gains unauthorised access to the data, not in case staff can't be trusted. For example, paying by credit card over the phone you hand over your phone number to whoever is taking your order, but if they were to enter it into a system that system then has to comply with regulations.

As to plain text passwords, again this is in case of the data being stolen. It's all very well saying "Google shouldn't store plain text passwords", but if Google as a company wanted to read my email, they could a.) just replace the encrypted password in my database entry with one that they can use or b.) place code in their login system that would log the plain text password secretly or c.) Go straight into where my emails are being stored and access them there.

How do you get around this and make it impossible for them to access your data?
I don't mind. Thanks! Since the site is mostly an ad for my apps, I thought I'd have some fun with a graphics heavy approach.
"but they never bother to mention as much as their function or position within Google."

And even if they did how do you even know that info is true? Who verifies that?
hahah. good question. i live in san francisco, so i'm very lucky to have access to local organic farmer markets almost everyday. to answer your question: almost all of it...hopefully. besides the superfoods ( spirulina, cacao, maca powder, etc.)

i shop at rainbow grocery for produce, which most of what they have is local. it's more expensive, but worth it. i support local first.

not to rant: but coming from a lebanese culture and giving up food i love (meat, dairy) to be more eco, and of course, have optimum nutrition has been the best decision i've ever made in my life. no joke. i think/hope one day, more people will start to convert to plant based diets, as they will see the the truth in the data.
It's terrible because at the end of the day Canadians have very little say when it comes to what many of their own laws will be.

The border and immigration are also horrible. Unfortunately I think that's an area where most Americans are clueless even though it has a big economic impact on them, whether they leave the country or not.
they are definitely pursuing a business model in a pretty logical fashion, so I'd easily go with company.

relying on the affiliate model feels like a betrayal in the UX and it essentially hands over one of the most obvious ongoing revenue streams to the registrar. Why not take that margin and recurring revenue for yourself? Its not like its hard nowadays to set up as a reseller - getting accredited is slightly more complicated, but it you can make it as a reseller, then even that hurdle becomes pretty achievable.
I too tried my hand at it in a side project:
iheartpy.com

See if there's anything you find useful in it.
Although, I think this comment needs to be someplace else.
Don't you see the problem there. The developers who build crap apps end up being rewarded the same as those who build great apps. Essentially, you're saying that you do pay $5 for a great app because you buy 5 and keep 1, but the developer who built the app you like gets just $1. That sucks.
Sorry to see it go. Though I never applied to a job with tinyproj, I liked the way it worked. It was simplicity itself. We'll see how GroupTalent goes, but I'm not thrilled at the way their filter works.

Anyway, good effort Kyle!

# Edit:
By the way, how exactly do we get "transitioned" to GroupTalent? Should I expect some instructions, an email or something? Or is it better to just go ahead and apply for an invitation like everyone else?