skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A username and password is great. To get that you have to fill out a bunch of personal information that most people do not have time for or want to fill out. Soon a person will have 20 email accounts tied to 20 different Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter accounts. I guess my goal was to find out how a single piece of information could be used to login to many different sites similar to OpenID or single sign on and be successful. Thank you so much for your comment.
The docs say that this will work best on a unix like system but doesn't say what that means or whether it will work on Windows. Has anyone tried this on Windows? Does it work?
> I'd be surprised if you kept any of those customers.

So would I, considering they're shutting down the product...

Roughly three months warning, plus free service during that time, plus free Urban Airship Pro for six months seems pretty reasonable to me. What length of time would you have considered fair?
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New Storage Device is Very Small, as in 12 Atoms
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How many people are going to make this same comment? Colbert has already covered it multiple times.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/40346...
First full featured OpenGL GLSL programming environment for iPhone/iPad
I have just released my new app GLSL Studio which is a full programming environment for iPhone/iPod/iPad. GLSL Studio allows you to create full vertex/fragment shaders right on the device and is perfect for both professionals as well as those wanting to learn graphics/game programming. Features include syntax highlighting (with both light/dark themes), custom keyboard with arrow keys and coding shortcuts, auto-indentation, compiler debug output, vertex data generation including various primitives, texture mapping and normal modes and more.
One advice is to use tried and mature tech that you KNOW when have to get something done under pressure. There are enough moving parts to get something done in 4 days. Let alone introducing some "hip" untested tech in short amount of time.
I see you mod'd my question down. you can just say you don't have anything to disclose...
No, it's not. It might be immune from the DNS blocking but that is only part of the bill. The other part provides a process for content owners to issue "takedown" orders to ad and payment processors who do business with companies like TPB.
This reminds me a lot of back when the SCO Group was suing everyone who used/sold Linux and was a big enough target to be worth their time.
Wow, hadn't thought of that.

Zero industry connection, nada. Formerly in finance (not covering media), now freelance and building my own business.

Anyone peronally worried about my post can find my email in profile -- send me a phone number, I'll call you.

EDIT: Wasn't me. Downvotes never make sense to me. Downvote me for _admitting_ I said something speculative? With all the crazy guesses posited as Gospel truth here?
They are still profitable, but obviously they would more profitable without piracy. That is a point that needs to be considered. No one can just suddenly state that one company has too much profit. Just because media companies are profitable doesn't excuse pirating of their products
As discussed earlier, criticism of government or public figures is not out of bounds. Freedom of speech is very important and everyone values that in India. Print/electronic media is not regulated and they often criticize the government. However, they (especially print media) work under certain moral framework like not making any obscene remarks or vulgar attacks. I believe that is the sticking point for all the authorities in India. If traditional media can follow this "moral framework" then why not the Internet? And to be honest, I'm not sure how many people even understand the concept of user generated content based websites or web 2.0; let alone the inner workings of the Internet.

I fear Internet regulation will be the major theme of 2012. All the major countries are looking ways to regulate it. And its really sad.
On the destructive nature of narcissist CEOs
This blows out all email validation out there

You mean all half-assed email validation out there. They're broken to begin with, nobody does it right and the regex to match rfc822 addresses is big and ugly.

Edit: found it: http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
How Evernote Rethought Their Service, And Invented A Food Diary
How about a "delete your Facebook account in protest of sopa" day?
That's just conspiracy talk. So the same U.S. government that created the internet, and opened it up to the public, is now trying to censor it? I think the politicians are acting honestly and with good intent: their goal is to prevent this tool for communication for being used for criminal purposes, and yes, digital piracy is a crime.
>The "series of tubes" moment was a very strange one to mock, because he was right

I always felt that way as well, but the way he said it was just so mockable. In the end, that's why it went viral: not because he was a dinosaur who didn't understand the Internet, but because he appeared to be a dinosaur who didn't understand the Internet, to people who themselves did not understand it.

Representative Smith can make as many factually incorrect statements as he wants; as long as they appear reasonable to the uninformed public he'll never be called on it in the way Stevens was.
It tells us that they looked at customer data, and that's a really, really big deal to people who are doing serious business that involves private information that is: (1) regulated by government, and/or (2) has significant commercial value.

You can waive your arms and talk yourself blue in the face about your security protocols, but in the end it all comes down to trust. This kind of slip-up erodes that trust.
Convenience doesn't justify anything. It is more convenient for me to take a newspaper off my neighbor's lawn than it would be to contact the newspaper company and order a subscription, but that doesn't mean it's ok.
The author misses the key command for performing set operations:

comm

This can perform set differences, unions, and even symmetric difference.

comm -23 a b # a minus b
comm -12 a b # a and b
comm -3 a b # a symmetric difference b (with some extra tabs)
Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments
I think the shelf life for the "pain" IE has caused, is going to be a lot less than we both realise.

The iterations on developing browsers has gotten tighter and it is very much a thriving ecosystem of innovation. As people start using newer versions of all browsers, "pain" from yesterdays browsers will drop. Looking at the recent deal of Mozilla and Google, even with Chrome demonstrates quite clearly the huge value a good browser has for a companies bottom line.

Im not sure if there is a large deal of code sharing, yet I would imagine any effort to bring an "IE" browser to their mobile platform will have it working quite closely with the proposed "html5" spec. This in turn I think would force updates to the "desktop IE".
Next-gen iPhone, iPad could deliver 20 times the graphics power
Politico, Facebook Team Up to Measure GOP Candidate Buzz
There is a brand new theme, called simply Default, that ships with Sublime Text 2. See:

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-buil...

If you've customised your theme already, you'll need to go into Global Settings > User and either remove the theme line or change it to:

"theme": "Default.sublime-theme",
Tech Company PACs Donate To SOPA/PIPA Sponsors
Not to mention that it's much easier to attract a cofounder if you've actually made some progress.
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In my opinion, when Alexis Ohanian goes before Congress, this should be something that is brought up. Just yesterday (http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3451934) we saw how Congress doesn't understand why this law would be so difficult to enforce and how broad it really is. It's something that they can actually relate to, as I imagine they all have websites of their own and having them block within the United States would be catastrophic for their future election plans.
The free service etc are lovely perks, but a year of notice would be nice.
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Here we go. Ended up a commit where I fixed a typo related to that wasn't merged in yet. It should be all good! Thanks for the support!
Tim Cook takes iPhone where Steve Jobs couldn't
Why Writing is Like Smoking a Cigarette with the Lit End in Your Mouth
With the new push there is now a secret undocumented sopablackout_srsbzns=true flag you can set if you want the blackout to never go away.
Is hiring software developers an evaluation problem or a supply/demand problem?

GitHub provides a great signal for evaluating whether someone is one of the top 100 or top 1000 developers in the world. Just check how many follows or forks they have! But Linus and DHH can work wherever they want, and they're probably unlikely to work in SF for $60--100k plus options in your SaaS startup.

Because of supply and demand, the people who are going to work long hours in that price range seem to be recent graduates. As a result, all of the hiring processes I've seen are geared toward trying to get a vaguely passable evaluation of how good a recent graduate is, using the minimum possible developer time. This leads to the coding interview as we know it: 30--45 minutes long and usually involving a trite programming problem utilizing the most advanced class most undergraduates will have taken, introduction to algorithms.

Personally, I would love if tech companies switched to evaluating based on work samples (e.g., code), but I don't think it makes sense given the demographics that they're targeting as new employees and the amount of time to have a developer genuinely evaluate a coding sample (rather than count followers, etc.).

Is it likely that GitHire and similar will increase the supply of good candidates in the right price range, rather than periodically e-mailing the top developers on GitHub and possibly polluting the ecosystem?
Is this slider viewable by the public? I'm honestly curious about what a $1k image slider looks like.
The government doesn't act as a collective unit. It is made up of individual actors, however, it is entirely possible that by making decisions with the best of intentions, they end up gifting certain elements a magic wand to censor any and all activity that may threaten their power.

It's true, you wouldn't call the guys who created the atomic bomb mass murderers, however that doesn't change the disastrous consequences of their actions!
Yeah, the id thing could just be my theme's layout. I don't feel like debugging so I'll just let it run full page, no bigs.
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_a...

It's been a while since I deleted my account, so can't remember how to get there (just found it in 30 seconds googling), and yes you do have to avoid logging in for x days (if I remember correctly it's either 30 or 90) before the deletion becomes permanent.

But that's a long way from not being able to delete your account at all.
I used to think the same. But now that I'm spending more time freelancing for startups than I am working on my own stuff:

Freelancers aren't that expensive when you look at the grand scheme of things. A single freelancer can maintain an app serving thousands of users - provided you know exactly what you need.

Don't hire freelancers unless you:

1. Have done your customer development

2. Know which features you need

3. Know how much these features are worth to you

4. Already have something

So, freelancers might not be the best option for building your first prototype, but they are very good at polishing up your first prototype into a MVP.
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I've got a lot of faith in varnish, so I'm pretty sure things should hold up on this end. However, yes, if you are worried about relying on an external resource by all means curl/wget/whatever the js file and server it up yourself. You just won't get any fixes or features we push in the meantime.
They charge like $30k+ for website design - they better be good. SimpleGeo made someone money - a web design firm!
We were using it in a yet to be released iPhone app as part of a venue locator. Specifically, we had various Storage layers with venues and other points of interest. Our client would have been able to add and remove POIs easily without updating the iOS app, layers could be turned off and on, etc. Now we must use local static data, we're just a couple of weeks away from release and can't really afford to switch our location backend.
.. and scienec-y (sorry, couldn't help :) )
Introducing m 1.0.0, a test/unit test runner that can run tests by line number.
Top 5 Social Media Books to read in 2012.
How about Facebook and Google block all profiles and search content from those companies who support SOPA?

[It's cool if you down vote, but please let me know why. This is not Reddit]
Maybe Google can move more Chromebooks if they allowed dual-booting into Android, added some dev tools, and geared them towards developers.
Actually, I don't agree - to my mind, the DMCA (as much as I disagree with most of it) already provides a mechanism for the situation to be handled: if we find our content on your site, we send you a notice; to be eligible for "safe harbor" status, the site must take the content down.

We've already seen that this law is often misused by large-scale content creators (see: Warner and Hotfile, various music labels issuing takedowns on files uploaded by their own artists). I don't know why I should expect that giving additional power to those most likely to misuse it is a good idea.
Thanks for the kind words man!...My situation is actually not as hopeless as I am leading people to believe here.

The point I was trying to make was that a bunch of negative experiences with women when you are young leaves very deep scars and these scars manifest themselves as unconscious biases so much that whenever you see a beautiful woman (who will most probably reject you if you tried!) you are automatically biased against her.My brain does this to me so often even though I think I am logical than most other people.

Now I will make another point that is also controversial.(someone needs to say these things!)

See when you grow your skills interacting with women a point comes when the things you cant change matter much more than the things you can, so much that the situation seems pretty helpless.

So at that point even if I bought really expensive clothes and bought myself a mercedes or say became a really smooth talker, how women respond to me would only marginally improve as compared to the non-possible changes such as changing my race to become white...changing my height to become six feet tall etc.

So no matter what I do a six feet tall white guy or a good looking muscular black guy will always have significantly higher odds of attracting a given woman over me.

The more you approach the limit the more you begin to see this brutal truth of the dating world.The things that matter most are things you are born with and this sometimes causes you develop significantly negative feelings towards women as a whole.
Which VC has the most exits to Google?
The co-founders left to work on new ventures. There's Joe Stump's Sprint.ly, and Matt Galligan's Circa.
I like your opinion (probably because I'm biased of this trend as well).

Unfortunately, we live in the world where people eat people.

For those who have large number of repos and code written in GitHub, they would rejoice when they see this. Just like Haskell people would feel excited when they see the number of jobs for Haskell programmers out there cannot be met with the supply.

These people will push this idea forward because it is for their best interest (only a few who would keep the purity of the community).

At the end of the day, we're all human beings so we have greeds and egos. We want to have high salary or challenging work or the best work place/culture/free-food and we work to achieve that. Part of the work is to have GitHub repos apparently (used to be StackOverflow karma).

Some hackers dislike the notion of getting interesting jobs/deals because of your rolodex because that would suggest sales/marketing/licking butt mentality. They also dislike it because communication (with real people, not over the internet) is not their strongest suit.

For those who disagree with this wave/bubble, we should create our own. We should push our own ideology. We should figure out how not to be attracted with this wave/bubble.

... or we can stand up and be an entrepreneur (one option, not the only option) and say to hell with this job-seeker mob-mentality?
They got funding from Jeff Bezos.
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Bitbucket Downtime Post-Mortem
That's a great suggestion, but the js snippet does not rely on any external toolkit that would make cross-browser text fading easy to do. Everything it needs to work it provides for itself. It's not even minified but ends up 1.7KB gzipped. I kinda like it that way.

Also, the snippet is really meant for people who can't do this on their own - really, someone with beginner jQuery skills can probably create this on their own site in 10 minutes, so forgive it for being bare bones.
Monopoly is a problem. It comes to a point when they're spending more time and money on litigating other people's businesses than advancing their own technology that everyone is forced to use.
To my understanding it's not the US Comedy Central that is blocking you from viewing it outside the US but your country of origin - if they signed exclusive distribution rights for that country. Not too sure how this plays out in EU countries but I definitely know this is the case in Canada where The Comedy Network has exclusive broadcast/distribution rights.

In any case these types of antiquated deals further support the idea that SOPA was crafted by an industry that refuses to innovate.
They'll just do the same thing they did with insider trading and other laws, they'll exempt themselves.
Thousands line up in China ahead of Friday launch of Apple's iPhone 4S
That link is old, but another resource to look into is http://www.openstreetmap.org/
That doesn't make sense. Twitter's robots.txt allows profile pages and tweets to be indexed, and Google does index them. Google is simply choosing to exclude them from their people & places feature so that they can favor their own Google+ profiles.

It's only the outbound links within tweets that Google is forbidden from indexing. That has nothing to do with why Google excludes content on twitter.com itself.
Erodes what trust exactly?

You're assuming 37signals made an agreement ("we won't be able to see your filenames in our logs") that they intentionally never made, and then you're claiming they violated said non-existent agreement.

If you're a company with super-sensitive data then it's on YOU to choose the appropriate place to store that data. There are services made explicitly for that sort of thing. It's absolutely ridiculous and irresponsible to require a certain level of privacy features, sign up for a service that doesn't have those privacy features, and then act as if they violated your trust.
It's not that I'm unaware of peer-to-peer sharing, or the fact that uploading is inherently part of browsing. My thinking is, most content hosts are published to be found. An indexing process could find published content, and laws could enforce findability.

It's about as effective as our existing regulatory systems. For instance, a lot of commerce is taxed and regulated, but you could just walk up to somebody and make exchange. Never air-tight, but it is enforcement.

Is my suggestion wise? I definitely don't think so, but it is feasible. And maybe I'm not considering something correctly -- but, please, don't be rude about my technical prowess. I'm just trying to strengthen our argument.
Create and Run Android And Java Programs Completely On Your Phone
Everyone who has sung "Happy Birthday" is also a pirate. Yes, really.

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

http://www.unhappybirthday.com/

Sure, there's some evidence that they may have done some iffy things with the registration, but you'd have to go through an expensive trial to prove that, so good luck.
How do you stop drug trade? How do you stop illegal activities in general. I'm not sure you can ever eliminate these. Most you can do is to curb them.

In the case of online piracy, as some have already said, part of the issue is convenience. But that is only a part of the issue (and this where netflixes, spotifies, and steams of the world come in). But you will never be able to stop people who rather pirate (either for financial reasons, symbolic reasons, etc.).

Now the question is, are you willing to give power to people who may abuse it to stop something that may be unstoppable or would you rather work on other means of curbing the issue.
FYI, it definitely wasn't him. HN doesn't allow anyone to downvote replies to their own comments.
Looks good guys, I can see the uses for this
Hackers Want to Build an Uncensorable Internet in Outer Space
I'll admit I didn't bother reading the article, but what exactly is this supposed to be a measure of?
Thanks a lot for your compliments :)

Of course we are hoping to get good feedback (some true gems have already been told!) from the very smart Hacker News crowd to bring the product to the next level.

But we want to keep a certain balance between paid and free resources, since we want to become the number one go-to location when it comes to searching for online learning resources (whether paid or free shouldn't matter).
I think it's worth noting that this was an experiment done as part of a research paper. The HN title basically implies that it's something ready for production. Nonetheless very impressive.
At CES, tablet obsession gives way to tech's bigger picture
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The Weak Antitrust Case against Google
All the points are valid but they are peculiar to Java, not to all managed high-level languages. C#/.NET, for example, have unsigned types, value-type arrays and structs, memory mapped files and specialized collections.

I heard about related stuff happening while I was working at a Smalltalk vendor. The programmer who was implementing the network cryptography library would just call up the VM engineer and ask for goodies like support for large bit arrays, and he'd get them in for the next VM release. The programmer was able to beat some of RSA data security's (poorly implemented) reference DLL's written in C by 3% with a Smalltalk program.

In the Smalltalk environments, it's easy to implement "primitives" coded in C, just in case you weren't internal to the vendor. With open VMs like Squeak, you can add your own bytecode to support optimizations if you want to.
I agree although it is great to make the difference between a technology company and a technology-enabled company. The cofounders of Birchbox, which falls into the latter category, launched their mvp as a wordpress site. Now I am sure they have a bunch of engineers and a software product built from the ground up.
You'll notice the author works at Google. Assume that the projects are "very large" :)
I would agree with you if their breaking away weren't open sourced.