skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India's got SOPA
can I get a disclosure from you about anything that would impede your neutrality (either way) like employers, business partnerships etc on the subject of SOPA

that last part just sounds like a threat from the other side, you know?
You must be one of those lucky people that only write new code all the time and never have to maintain code written by someone else. For the rest of us poor suckers who have to do a mix of writing new code and maintaining existing code bases written by other sadistic (!) developers then it's a very valid concern.
> In order to deliver on this aggressive vision in the shortest amount of time possible, we need to focus our product development efforts.

Let me get this straight. You want to focus on developing your product, but you want your customers to focus on migrating to another provider so that you can focus on your product. This is a pretty shitty way to treat a paying customer. A two and a half month notice is basically a fuck you, I'd be surprised if you kept any of those customers.
Thanks for posting this link! I've always wondered who designed the beautiful icons on their pages, and it's even more remarkable to see them in high-res.
It's just a question of where you draw the line, isn't it?

The Times doesn't print holocaust deniers' statements without a note that such a claim is bullshit, does it? Or, if it does (in which case it would presumably just make sure to have a "mainstream" 3rd party point of view accompany it), how "big" can a lie be in the Times before they'd state the clear objective [yeah, yeah...] truth in their own voice? A claim that George W. Bush is still the President? That the sky isn't blue?

Which is not to say that "Obama apologizes for the US" is on the same plane as far as how easy it is for the overwhelming majority to find agreeability on its, err, "truthiness". Therein lies the rub, I suppose.
Looking for a Good Rating Module
Can anybody recommend a hosted rating module that completes a feedback loop and then posts results in a feed embedded on a website? Amazon style.
I want a newspaper that can call a lie a lie
Turning to Tech on the Road
But Stewart has about 80 writers (I think) at least some of which I know to be techy. They must be keeping him aware.
We made our IRC bot respond to TWSS jokes, but ours was just a dumb match from a set of few thousand jokes that we scraped from offline. You can look at the code at:
https://github.com/jfriedly/jenni

Now that I took Stanford's Machine Learning class though, I think I might just duplicate what this guy did for our bot.
I didn't miss it. I'm just not sure what you said fits the context of my original post.

Freckle looks nice. I'm not sure if Freckle has a similar contractor mechanism to Freshbooks to create a funnel to collect hours from multiple internal and external sources, but keep them separate. And that, is one of the key integration points to save management and admin time for freelancing, contracting, consulting and startups, especially when you have a flood of projects and bill out on each one individually.

I'm not super hot on Freshbooks, but it does a few things that are critical better than anything I've found. I've worked with almost every major accounting package in the last 15 years, integrating many of them with many systems.

Right from a basic to Enterprise ERP level. Accpac, SAP, quicken, quickbooks, myob, Peachtree, Simply, BusinessVision and more. I'm that guy who gets thrown down many accounting integration wells working both in manufacturing and service industries.

What's the point? My post was about a working system where my business has projects, and time put on those projects for by internal employees and outside contractors, a common setup for programming shops, and startups. A subtle, but huge difference.

I get invoices from my contractors. I get time sheets from employees. I need to collect and tracking time both as an aggregate and separately.

Lots of small issues pop up though. My contractor bills me at one rate, I manage his time and the project and bill that same time at a higher rate to the customer. Things get a little more complex than a straight billing system. Adding to the fun, quite often startups do some consulting work on the side to supplement / customize their software.

Committing time from a command line doesn't do it for my business. It probably would be a feature that's very, super convenient and sweet for just myself, though. I love stuff like that!

Since I am out to own a business, and not a job I can't quit (A business is something that runs without us), it's what's behind my thought, decisions, and direction.

I hope this clears it up a little. :)
Foursquare Launches Web Version of Recommendations
(cough) acquhire
Hard to tell. The "series of tubes" moment was a very strange one to mock, because he was right---the context of that quote is that he was saying it was more like a series of tubes than like a fleet of trucks, which for the purposes of his explanation was exactly right: he was trying to explain bandwidth limitation.

There were other things he said that day that were bad, but "series of tubes" is an analogy, and a good one.

So it's hard to say what could become a Ted Stevens moment here, or which side it'll come from; someone just has to pick some statement to mock, and get lucky that it goes viral.
Umm... most sites offer the ability to login using an username and password. I don't see what mainstream problem you're trying to solve here.. most people dun care about stuff like this
I think these guys are a lot smarter than you think.

Step 1: Create a basic app with some paid resources.
Step 2: Post on Hacker News.
Step 3: Get great feedback (all free) about how to make app really successful so people use it.
Step 4: Make the recommended changes and the second iteration is a smashing success.

Very smart guys - I tip my hat to you.
Not being an Indian, I'm surprised at how often the word "defamatory" appears in discussions by Indian government officials and now this court. Is prior restraint an established Indian tradition? Is criticism of government or other public figures out of bounds? If it is, it's difficult to see how the internet could ever be made to conform.
This blows out all email validation out there. The only thing left to verify is at least one character before @ along with at least three characters after the @ (including a period). Or did I miss something?

Edit: personally, I think just checking for @ is enough. All were really trying to do is make sure the customer didn't accidentally put in his first name or some other field where his email belongs.
yes you are right...sorry I misunderstood him....but my point about the similarity in emotions about companies which reject you (although it is only one or a few recruiters who are rejecting you) when you apply for a job and women (although I have only interacted with a very negligible fraction of all women) when most of them reject you still remains valid.
I filter 95% of such emails.

You filter 95% of such emails sent to you, which is trivial but important. If you're accurately reporting your filtering behavior (it is no slight to say that people misremember things all the time), sending you email is stupendously profitable. It just means it (statistically speaking) costs about 20 cents to hit your inbox instead of 1 cent.

Your behavior is not normative, though. Even for very techy audiences, a lot of people actually enjoy getting email. We can know this with certainty because they will open the emails, they will click on things in them, and then they will buy when you tell them to buy. Insert NDAed anecdote from Client #1, NDAed anecdote from Client #2, and NDAed anecdote from Client #3.

The lady sitting 20 feet away from me in this coworking space runs a less lucrative business than most enterprise software companies, and individual emails have earned her more than BCC has earned me in the last year (at approximately the same number of people on the email list).

The focus of my work for WPEngine this week was designing a marketing product for them and making a drip mail channel to send eight emails in the month after someone uses that product. It should absolutely print money. (One penny to send an email, use your imagination as to what a $200 a month hosting account is worth.)

Hopefully, WPEngine will let me talk about it after we have good stats.
Installed it earlier this week, and it is awesome.

I've uploaded patched versions of Menlo and Mensch here if you don't want to bother doing it yourself.

https://gist.github.com/1595572
Ask HN: If SOPA isn't the answer, how do you eliminate online piracy?
I know most on HN are opposed to SOPA. I am not familiar enough with the bill to know the full implications if it becomes law. But doesn't everyone agree that there needs to be some law passed to protect the works of media creators? If SOPA isn't the answer, is PIPA the solution?

How would you design a bill to fight against online piracy?
Maestro halts N.Y. Philharmonic over jarring ringtone
The one exception is the keyboard. The previous keyboards I had used were the iOS keyboards when I had an iPod Touch, and the Sense keyboard from when I bought my phone to when I installed Cyanogenmod. The stock Android keyboard was shockingly bad. I installed SwiftKey, but it's still not quite as good as the Sense keyboard.
While I think it should go down, if it doesn't it'll be interesting to see the results of the massive influx of anxiety-driven redditors looking for a place with karma-whoring link-baity headlines to fill with memes.

If I'm right with this it can become the ultimate stress test for the HN community guidelines and it's moderation system.
I agree with this article in terms of a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder, but I'm not totally sold on the converse situation -- a technical founder looking for
a business/marketing co-founder...
They might have only been able to hit a low level support rep who doesn't know anything. Hopefully, a story like this will get the attention of someone who can actually figure out what's going on here and do something.
I hate meetings
Nobody is free of sin. So, it is dangerous to permit an act like that.
the Phil Fisher book is classic, Buffett's investing style owes as much to him as to Ben Graham. Not sure if this list is very 2012 specific though.

What's a little unusual about 2012 is that potential market outcomes look bimodal, Europe is going through some issues and big changes, either it will result in another financial crisis and recession, or not.

FWIW here's my Listmania list of classic investment books
http://www.amazon.com/lm/3MJG8KO3PF7IW

A discussion of 2012 from Bill Gross, who is sort of the Peter Lynch or Warren Buffett of bonds (had a crappy 2011 though)

http://www.pimco.com/EN/Insights/Pages/Towards-the-Paranorma...
Cyanogenmod Settings > Interface > Overscoll effect.

Edge Glow is the gradients, Bounce is an iOS like behaviour, or you can just turn it all off like stock Android.
It's really easy to understand how something like this could happen. I'm sure it was a mistake by the web designer and not intentional however under SOPA he would be facing the same repercussions that everyone is worried about even though it was a mistake.

Prime example of why SOPA is so god awful.

When I was a teenager I participated in a program offered through 4H (4-h.org) every year where we would visit out State Capital and hold a mock legislative lesson over the corse of a week. Depending on what portion you had signed up for you might play the part of a Lobbyist, Legislator, Senator, Whip or even the Speaker of the House.
We would have the actual representatives and lobbyists there to give presentations and offer advice while we argued bills on the floor and made our back room dealings that would decide what bills would be killed or passed (Our advisers were not very happy when one year we legalized prostitution! LOL).

You could think of it as sort of a YCombinator of politics.

Once you understand exactly how the system works you realize why it seems that so many of our representatives seem to be absolutely clueless as to what the bills they are proposing actually do or what implications they may have.

The general gist is this:

Lobbyist: This is what I'm proposing <Insert> overly simplified explanation of the proposed legislation similar to how you would explain the inner-workings/programming of a software to your grandmother </Insert>

Lobbyist: We have a draft of the bill ready it's important to your constituents because <Insert> Three Points: from overly simplified explanation</Insert> do I have your support on this issue?

Representative: Sure send the draft to my office and I'll look it over (70% never actually will)

Rince and repeat for each representative until it has enough support to make it through committee and to the floor.

Result: 70% of the representatives only have a paragraph explanation of what they are voting on. The other 30% are the ones who actually understand the bill and will either fight for or against it.

Bill passes even if it's BAD, BAD, BAD for the State or in the case of Washington, The Country.
I'm not sure I would have contacted Apple about this, given their penchant for punishing security researchers who bring problems to their attention.

What I don't fully understand is if the attacker doesn't need access to the email account in question, why would they even use valid email addresses? Wouldn't it be less risky to use bogus addresses?
http://www.workforpie.com checks both github and bitbucket. They also check HN and Stack Overflow to get a rounded out picture. It's an opt-in service though, targeted at the employees not the employers. I've found that their rating system is pretty fair and accurate. I think of it as klout for programmers.

Forking a bunch of repositories isn't going to earn you much there.
A Simple Explanation Of Why SOPA Is Bad, With Citations
Is "cajoling" the path to victory? Perhaps you mean something different, but this reminds me of a common, sad type of Craigslist post. Frequently you see ads posted by people with ideas for software who think they ought to be able to get somebody to be their code monkey for $25/hr or so. Many of them are completely clueless as to why they get crappy software and must spend so much time replacing people who quit. Most frequently they seem to blame the situation on bad developers.

Going rates aside, one thing many people (including freelancers!) do not realize is that paying somebody $30/hr gross for a 2-month contract is not even remotely equivalent to a permanent salaried position that works out to $30/hr. Contracts frequently include billable hours and there's tons of negotiation for jobs that fall through. There's generally less security and there are fewer benefits. I've also noticed that there tends to be more time pressure on a lot of the little contracts.

I think it's reasonable to multiply hourly rates by a factor of 2 or so for contract jobs. This is why you have a market with $90,000 salaries and $100-150/hr contract rates. If you try to get somebody for $3000-4000 per month you'll either be lucky and get a student or something or you will get the sort of person who couldn't find anything else. If you do get lucky, your freelancer will not stick around very long because they will find much better opportunities.
I would bet $1 that most companies, like most developers, are not using GH. Most startups, perhaps. Most people who read HN, I don't know. Most companies, that's a pretty big basket.
IBM builds memory chips one atom at a time
i'll definitely buy a copy...although their are some resources online for getting better with (impressing)women.
Foursquare: still mobile-focused, but with more love for the web
On app design (2)
You can't eliminate it completely, though companies like Nike, Apple and Microsoft are able to continue being profitable despite widespread pirating of their goods. In part the problem is that piracy is easier than current methods of getting content and partly that businesses haven't adapted to the new business models needed.
They must have some system of auditing the email verification to see where it came from, or if it even took place.
Google just upped the ante on being social
Former YuMe CEO takes over at Affine Systems
Verizon’s live iPad streaming, LG TV app later this year?
I'm just as puzzled by this. If a customer makes it clear that he wants to pack up and go, why wouldn't you just let him?

It reminds me of the way Facebook treats its users. I've tried to get rid of an old account, and I found it's nigh impossible. The most a mere mortal can hope for is for the account to be put in hibernation mode -- but if you ever make the mistake of logging into the account ever again, bam! You're back.

I've had the same Apple ID since the day iTools launched (in 2000), and I've never felt the need to cancel or delete an account, but I assumed they would let me! I see no good reason Apple would keep around every account that was ever created.
Verizon demands LTE in all future smartphones, tablets
Cloud investments zoom; account for 1/4 of web deals
Facebook debuts “listen with” button to make music more social
>So. Yes, its practical to build Git in a higher level language, but you just can't get the same performance, or tight memory utilization, that C Git gets. That's what that higher level language abstraction costs you. But, JGit performs reasonably well; well enough that we use internally at Google as a git server.

I think that this is the key takeaway for the entire post.

One of the reasons I generally dislike any of the "X IS BETTER THAN Y" bakeoffs is that performance is now so implementation dependent that these comparisons are pretty much moot. Given that basically any non-trivial implementation can be improved, it's difficult to say that anything is faster, especially when one considers developer skill.

Developers should not be chasing the abstract, absolute best performance. Instead, the language used should be the one that delivers performance that is good enough for their client's needs. If they can get it with something that we're familiar with, that's great. If they need to learn a new tool, that's also good. But it doesn't make much sense to throw away all the knowledge that a developer has about a certain language to chase "better performance" with a different one. Most likely, the first effort implementations on a new language won't be nearly as good as the implementations on the more familiar language.

It's generally true that optimized Java won't ever be as fast as optimized C. But for the vast majority of cases, it doesn't need to. Java's speed is enough for those cases. And in the small minority where it's not sufficient, C is still around.
Life Lessons Learned From Interns (I See Young People)
Did someone say "bacon"?

http://basic-converter.org

BaCon, by Peter van Eerten, provides a useful replacement for shell scripts when you need more power, but don't want to move up to the complexity of C.
Brenton Ashworth on ClojureScript One
The Case For A 21-hour Work Week
Let's all be clear here. SOPA is less about piracy and more about censorship.

The internet has evolved into becoming our only defense against people in power ( be they governments or corporations ) conspiring to keep the status quo by keeping information from us. SOPA is their attempt at confiscating this wonderful tool we have for organisation and spreading information.

This discussion is part of a larger debate as to the balancing act of affording unchecked power to a selected group of people. Keep in mind, the ideal of democracy allowing the replacement of these powers DOES NOT WORK in real life. THIS is the real root of the problem. This entire debate reminds me of the Lokpal bill debate going on in India. Essentially asking – How do you police the police?
You don't fight piracy with laws. You fight piracy with products.

Most piracy is more about convenience than price. Thousands of smarter people than me have written reams about this. Its like fighting obesity. You don't just take a drug and get a quick fix, it takes a different mindset that causes the patient to live a different kind of life.
Hiring a freelancer is not that expensive. You can hire someone for a month --for a couple thousands dollars--, and a month is plenty of time to build a prototype if that’s all you’re doing.

Seriously? Customizing a WordPress Theme costs between $1,000 and $2,500. Building (Design+Front End Programming+Back End Programming) a fully-fledged WordPress magazine theme can cost between $15,000 and $20,000.

If you are not a software developer, and your start-up core product is software: just don't do it. Don't take OP advice. This might work out if your product is physical and you are using the web to deliver. (Also there are cloud services that will help you and are cheap).

Anything that involve software requires co-founders to be technical. Web Development is as expensive as hell. Small features requires lots of time and Freelancers bill hourly. I'm telling that because I just finished some custom slider for a client costing him more than $1k. Yes, just an image slider.
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We all know SimpleGeo was a failure. It doesn't count as an acquisition. It failed, and the founders moved on to Urban Airship.
The Three Winners Of The AT&T Hackathon: Innovation, Innovation, Innovation
How Social Media Is Reshaping CES
While the OP has made some mistakes, not posting them in public is not one of them. It takes guts to publicly admitted your failure. I commend OP for manning it up.

He will grow from it and will do better next time.
With the old domain name structure, a valid TLD would be 2-4 characters so you'd check to make sure the last segment of a domain fits that when validating email addresses. Now a TLD can be so much more there's no way to really validate it.

I might be coming from an old school of programming where finding the right method to validate an email was important for form validation. Maybe others aren't so hung up on this issue.
Will the government come along and knock some heads together in a few years? Maybe. But this is a much more nuanced situation that Microsoft’s execution of Netscape. That could take years and years, and the government may question Facebook’s willingness to throw data to their shareholder Microsoft while withholding it from Google

Exactly, and reading MG Siegler's interpretation of antitrust law is the same as reading his musings on string theory.
Slovenia limits legal use of cash to €50, for any bills, including meals.
Is there some reason that gfortran from the GCC project is not on the list of compilers for this language shootout? Instead only the branded "Intel Fortran" compiler shows up. Hmm.
In society's definition of beauty, for those class of beautiful people (celebrities for instance), they work especially hard at looking beautiful. I would guess a female celebrity spends a lot of effort on her hair and makeup and has a personal trainer, dietician, etc so that she looks beautiful. A "smart" person on the other end of the spectrum I would imagine spends little or no time on "looks" once they get past a certain threshold of neatness and cleanliness because they simply don't care that much about how they look. That's doesn't affect their sense of self worth as much.
Sorry, but that is just a huge blunder. I can see from your comment that you think it's no big deal, but I read that item and immediately blacklisted 37Signals as a vendor that looks at customer files.

Your explanation makes it worse, not better; you shouldn't even be looking at filenames.