skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use google for our domain email. In order to handle uploads via email on this same domain we simply create a new account and send emails to this account.
You then can have a hook (imap push) in google imap to detect when an email is received per account/box and process is right away. Or you can just run a cron every minute the check if new emails have been received. We then fire a script that pulls the email via imap, and then processes the emails/images into json format for use.

This allows us to keep everything on google and we do not need move our MX somewhere else. Also we keep our "upload" email on the same domain.

Pretty simple solution with no additional costs.
I didn't understand "a push" at first : It's a blackjack term : "In the case of a tied score, known as 'push' or 'standoff', bets are normally returned without adjustment; however, a blackjack beats any hand which is not a blackjack, even with value 21. Blackjack vs. blackjack is a push."
I think the point is:
Suppose google blackout for a day, since they have never done this before afaik it will give them insight into how crucial their service is (or isn't) to the population in general.

If they saw that modern society could not function without them then they could then effectively hold legislators over a barrel and say "pass law X or we turn it off", these laws might not always be things we would like.

Of course if they pulled that enough times I'm sure another engine would come along and replace them.

This is a problem I have with centralized software and data that is proprietary to one company, I imagine Google and Facebook could legally do some pretty nasty things if they wanted to.
Most interesting part of the article: "So the net cost for the tip was about $22k. I paid for the vast majority of this with one month's consultancy beforehand."
It feels like this project is like 2 guys at Samsung and Intel and 2 PR departments just wanting to generate press releases.
I'm using OpenJDK for Java 7 right now, but I'm heavily considering moving to the Oracle version. I keep reading that they're the same codebase, but while that may be, they're hardly the same release. OpenJDK uses these IcedTea releases that don't map to Oracle's "u" releases at all.

As of now, IcedTea is lagging behind Oracle JDK 7u2 and it's not clear when it'll catch up. 7u2 has some important bug fixes and invokedynamic performance enhancements. So, it seems like the better release to go with.
PhoneGap's great for many purposes, but some developers find it too heavyweight.

We've designed our wrapper and tools to appeal to developers who may not have any mobile dev experience before and who don't need the flexibility to write native code that runs along-side the generated code. Which is why we call it 'wrapped HTML5' rather than 'hybrid'. This means we can make the whole development flow faster and simple.

So, definitely looking to solve the same problems, but we're targeting a different set of developers who value speed and simplicity and may not have any mobile dev experience before.
I don't actually watch TV very often, and don't have it at home, but over the holidays I saw this feature at someone's house. I think it was DirectTV/Dish, and during a commercial for some TBS(?) show, it prompted you to press some button on the remote to automatically record the series. It was pretty cool.
How many of them have a test-suit that actually passes? Where bugs are fixed when they are introduced?
It would be massively bad if google were to shutdown -- most people like my mom simply types "yahoo" in her chrome browser, which does a google search for yahoo, then she clicks the first result to go there -- same goes for most people using android phones, typing out ".com" is just extra work people don't do. If search were down for a day, people would just assume their internet is broken, even if they knew about the alternatives.
I have mixed feelings about this. An unpaid Intern will bust their butt on your startup's design and not get any of the proceeds. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

If I can't afford a full time employee, I hire a contractor (usually US based).
But does Agile really get practiced as the manifesto would require?
I think the problem here is that google, and potentially any company, would be well within their rights to sue the federal government for damages and let a judge determine the merit for the take down.

Given that google makes approximately 3.5 million USD an hour, a take down and lengthy court battle could put the federal government on the line for billions of dollars. Not only in damage to revenue, but in loss of customers and customer conversion. If google lost even 1% of its users the government could have to pay for loss of future income.

IMO stopping SOPA/PIPA is protecting the government itself. A law isn't real until its tested in the supreme court. The major Tech companies run patent cases against each other like they're just trying to keep their lawyers busy. I don't know why the government would want to get on the wrong side of these multinational corporations. Sorry, but if too great an expense is placed on them by the government then it'll quickly become surprisingly cost effective to move entirely overseas.

Honestly I wouldn't mind. I live in Canada, I wouldn't mind the house prices in the Greater Toronto Area sky rocketing with a massive tech influx. I mean it'd be the greatest property market hike in fifty-years.
Burning Man: Oh, the Places You'll Go
I doubt anyone will check.
Wow, I did not know a young consultant could make that much in a month...jaw dropped when I saw that.

Anyone care to explain how that is possible?
Gandi.net is a great international registrar. They are based in Paris, France, and took a public stance against SOPA. They are also the EFF's registrar and have a great web interface. Their slogan is "no bullshit™"

I have no affiliation with them, aside from being a very satisfied customer.
It's a face saving gesture and after the fact, but they're basically acknowledging that they can't ask their lawmaker friends for DNS blocking on anything.

*edit: Should also point out that the MPAA is purely a lobbyist organization. Influencing legislation on behalf of the interests of their members is their raison d'etre. Chris Dodd, former Senator from Connecticut who's name is on a lot of laws is the current chairman and CEO.
Ouch, I feel old now. Here's the .signature I used at the time, featuring an encoded bit of anti-CDA, presumably illegal under CDA profanity.

#!/usr/bin/perl -pl- ,,ep) ayf >|)nj,,
$_=reverse lc$_;s@"@''@g;y/[]{A-U}<>()a-y1-9,!.?`'/][} # Joey Hess
{><)(eq)paj6y!fk7wuodbjsfn^mxhl2Eh59L86`i'%,/;s@k@>|@g # joey@kitenet.net

(Flips text upside down.. we didn't have unicode then..)
Reminder: http://code.google.com/p/offline-wiki/

For people who lack the inclination to download Wikipedia.
Thanks for posting this Alex. Anything to get more people traveling.
I think it's also worthwhile pointing out that a lot of the cost of these kinds of long trips don't grow a whole lot in comparison to relatively shorter trips. Flights are, in my experience, the largest single expense, and so will cost the same whether you stay for a few weeks at each stop or a few months.
The Anonymous User Pattern
I'm not sure what you consider "rare" or how you sourced your parts, but I feel like maybe your timetable is a little off.

I can't speak to the economics side, but I feel fixed-gear mania was in full-swing well before 2006. I worked in a bike shop in a small Midwestern city (so presumably the trend had already been on the rise on the coasts well before this) from 2003 to 2005, and even then fixed-gear discussion was not infrequent. I'm pretty sure you could order flip-flop hubs from QBP at the time, although I can't recall if fixed-specific hubs were available, since I don't recall anyone ever actually wanting one and not a flip-flop. My point is that major suppliers were already providing new parts specifically for that market.

Although, yeah, I don't recall any non-boutique manufacturers making fixed or flip-flop models while I was in the business.

Anyway, maybe you specifically meant the secondhand or market, but I just wanted to point out that your LBS probably had plenty of fixed-gear parts available before '06.
Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 pre-release demo
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Thank you. I cherish learning from such insight. These nuances can only be discovered after you've done something. I appreciate you sharing.

The "validate your ideas" advice is sound, yet throwing up fake landing pages, day in day out, until I hit gold, is just something I can't get excited about. My version of validation has been build a prototype and show it to people or, the much more dangerous, "I know people will want this because [insert something that has changed]." I'm certainly taking more risk by spending more time on each idea to, arguably, get worse data, but at least I'm enjoying doing it. Taking what you've said into account, there is also less of a chance that I end up with a product that I am not passionate about.
Try visiting the tech blog site, Engadget, and reading through the comments, particularly the comments about Android and Apple devices.

The numerous flame wars and hate comments were what drove me away from the website.

(By the way I have nothing against the writers or editors creating the content for the website; they are all fine people in my opinion. My issue is with the quality control, or there lack of, of the comments moderation.)
Show me the profits being impacted by piracy. Show me the number of jobs lost to piracy.

I get that it takes a lot of people across the production chain to get media developed and delivered to the end consumer, but I have yet to be shown how piracy impacts those people.

I'm not naive, people steal content. They do it all the time, in fact. Hell, I download show off of BT every so often. But how much of that revenue did you actually lose? Just tell me, I want to know.

Why are legitimate movie downloads (that are locked with DRM) as expensive as DVDs? Why is it that when I purchase digital content I'm simply renting it, I don't actually own any of it?

The MPAA serves the interests of studios executives, plain and simple. They don't serve their own ecosystems; if they did, they would innovate more and attempt to actually create more value for their own employees (and related businesses).
I think so. The Wired article completely dismisses any benefit from our lose associations by saying that we are only shaped by the opinions of our close friends. The Facebook article says that we are actually exposed to the diverse opinions offered by our associates more than those of our close friends.

The example given in the Wired article about the two universities in Kansas implies that the students at the larger university, who are surrounded by a more diverse students but who have close friends similar to themselves, are exposed to less diverse opinions. That is never actually proven in the article.
Another good reason for them not to do it (from their POV) would be this:

If they shutdown for a day everybody suddenly thinks "Wow, Google can actually go down.. what if this happened again? what if it was for longer next time? Is it really a good idea to give these guys a monopoly on search and put all our eggs in one basket?"
Expensive bikes usually get a heavier locks, so it tends to even out.
AMD is the answer
This isn't an official release yet.
I'm sure that the 911 operator won't mind, especially if it is or could be a genuine emergency.
You're targeting web developers who find PhoneGap too heavyweight, slow, and difficult to learn?
Does it offer any help implementing Newsstand? All independent publishers would be interested if it made Newsstand completely easy.
But I think most people familiar with any number of fixed-gear advocates will tell you: it's mostly about fashion (in this case, part of the fashion arises from the overall simplicity of the machine).

And if there's one thing that isn't fashionable on a fixed-gear bike, it's a gross cable-pull handbrake.

But yeah, I agree, it's stupid not to have brakes.
The US ZIPScribble Map
Your ISP should provide DS-Lite for you; I suspect that's why there aren't any tutorials.
Don't forget the Chris King Headset Composite Index: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-getting-around-it...
Congratulations guys, always great to see a start-up move on to the next phase. Good luck with everything.
How To Have a Life-Changing Holiday
Based on my experience as an intern several years ago, the following were the BEST way to have your opinion passed along:

1) Phone calls
2) PERSONALIZED dead tree letters (not form ones, photo copies, or from one of those letter generators)

YMMV depending on who your rep is though.
love NumPy, that's the whole reason why I started using python.
Believe it or not, publishers (and galleries) used to make extensive use of the simple expedient of waiting for the creator of a work to die (often leaving the family/estate without the means for a burial), which is why the posthumous extension exists at all. Mind you, it has grown from the reasonable protection it once was (something on the order of a dozen or twenty years, depending on the jurisdiction -- enough to inconvenience the vultures or to provide a modest widow's pension) to something utterly ridiculous.
I agree with you. Thousands of people use google to search for critical information and loss of that for a day would cause losses in the tune of millions of dollars (if not billions) for a number of companies. I dont think that can be justified in an effort to raise awareness. To me putting a black mark across their logo would be good enough with a link and video explaining why SOPA is bad and why could it stifle innovation.
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Hackers Threaten to Post Source Code for Symantec Product
Great post. There's a "swing for the fences" mentality in the SV / startup community that I think has driven a lot of potential talent away from entrepreneurship in general.

The idea that entrepreneurship requires immense sacrifice to do well, or to be "worth doing at all" presupposes a set of romantic values that just don't map well to the relative size and frequency of market opportunities.

My Mac app nets me between $100-200 per month, every month, for noise-floor incremental time commitment. For anyone obsessed with becoming a Successful Entrepreneur, that's a 'how dare you even mention it' achievement. But you would be AMAZED at how an extra $100-200/month can improve a man's happiness at the end of the day. It's like an anti-aliasing algorithm for all those little bullshit expenses that, in aggregate, can lead to non-trivial stress.

If that $100/month (and the feeling of delivering value to direct customers) makes me 5% calmer and happier while I'm hanging out with my wife and son at night, it's an enormous win.
The rapid iteration/pivot approach makes more sense if you start with something you are passionate about. That's the key. Maybe try only testing your assumptions about your market? Try to describe someone who would use your product and then find someone who matches your description. If they are not interested it's only one aspect of your idea. If your passion for this idea wilts after one encounter like this then either you aren't cut out for this gig or you weren't that passionate about it. Probably the latter, because if you have the guts to make a phone call to some random stranger you're already doing something 99% of people won't.
You are correct about the parts being available in QBP and such. I was working in an LBS at the time. I suppose the timetable of 'boom' I'm talking about falls in when the generic sealed-bearing Velocity hubs started to show up on the scene. Before that you needed to go the Surly or Suzue Basic route if you wanted a cheap-ish hub. Prices were notably higher in price though.

I know that I was getting into things right around '03, and my friends were all about it by about then too. But it wasn't nearly as regular an occurance to see a fixie rider on the street (in SF/Oakland) until '06 or '07.
You have my condolences. Sincerely.
The Day The LOLcats Died (SOPA/PIPA protest)
The data set is for the last 6 months so should include Summer and Winter in Chicago.
I think that is an oversimplification. I dont see the average 401k investor investing in IPO's so I dont see how you arrive at the conclusion that more 401k money equals to more companies going public.
Are most traffic jams caused by this phenomena, or simply because miles ahead of you there are 4 lanes of cars trying to take a 2 lane exit?
Yes. You can be pretty sure that the developers where still underpaid.

[that's sarcasm of course]
Leveling the field: What I learned from for-profit education
as nat was only a method of dealing with lack of address space, and not a security measure, hopefully nat will become very rare...
I've heard of daily rates of up to £2000 ($3000) in some very specialized areas of finance systems, so $22K in a month seems achievable if you have the right skills.
Use random hashing if you care about security
This is true, although I highly doubt companies would take this on for the perceived fear it could be hacked, but then again this is likely the fear of going electronic in the first place (although anyone really interested in pirating a 500 page textbook would simply buy a double-sided fax-style scanner - where it rolls the page through - and simply cut off the spine of the book).

A cunning use of a private tracker would be to embed a reader into the client so that non-nerds are more likely to keep opening the client to use their textbooks and simply set the seed rate low at 10kb/s so it doesn't kill peoples bandwidth and get noticed. If you make it readable in part and download in priority (first pages first, obviously), you might only have to seed >0.1% of the estimated bandwidth usage to get everyone with full books.

Actually this would be an amazing way to distribute a game too. If the client is built into the game launcher, simply have the client only download the core and the mandatory tutorial. If someone goes down a certain quest path you prioritize the later portions of the quest before continuing the download of the other quests. You could also prioritize associated quests and follow on quests because you know people will complete them.
The Four Stages of Introducing New Technologies
And up is down and black is white. The MPAA and RIAA are the poster children for maintaining the status quo. They have no need to innovate as long as they can continue to line the pockets of corrupt politicians.
When I started professionally in 2004, I saw my first large-scale CI setup, and I was pretty impressed. You mean we can make computers run tests all day and night? Check to see if code compiles? Tell us when stuff breaks? It's brilliant.

It's the best part of being Lazy -- automate crap so you can concentrate on the fun stuff, like actually hacking code and making software.

I'm not sure how/when CI got lumped in with capital-A Agile. It's just a pragmatic idea.
You're in the pre-1995 bucket, when 1600 was extremely rare. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#1995_re-centering_.28raisin...
Yeah, I spent a couple of hours porting the Bootstrap 2.0-wip branch to SASS yesterday (so bootstrap-sass is half ready when it's released) and I was surprised to see 'Bootstrap 2.0' posted on HN, seeing as I've seen 'a few weeks' quoted as the release date.

bootstrap.io isn't actually running the most up-to-date documentation: it's missing the new style dropdowns, as well as the JS builder and a few plugins (typeahead, carousel etc).
I'm on my second android phone (Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus), and haven't found a reason to root it yet. I was on an N900 and OpenMoko before them, and a good stock experience is actually quite nice.

Honestly this example isn't really selling me. If the phone hasn't been screwed-up by the carrier, what's missing?
Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service, Possibly Tomorrow
Markets without broad transparent participation and non-existent regulation will be prone to fraud and manipulation. The last couple of years have shown us that even markets with broad participation and (under enforced) regulation can be manipulated. I am waiting for the first few blowups and scandals to happen to restore some balance in this trend of keeping things private for longer.
"Private sector research works" is the disingenuous and obfuscating term that the publishers are using to call publicly funded research manuscripts that the publisher has then 'added value' to. When they say they 'add value', what they mean is copy editing, archiving, distribution, etc. They include in this peer-reviewing the manuscript, but in reality that is done for free by scientists whose salaries are again, mostly paid for by public funds.
Google Knows Ethnicity
IMO, having some notice on the home page is not a great deal at all. I rarely every go to the Google home page. I just use the search bars on the browsers. The rare time is to see some doodle.

Google should go dark like Wikipedia. That will have the biggest impact, and of course, the impact will be much bigger than the Wikipedia black out.
I'm running a bunch of t1.micros for different websites, now I have to pay twice as much to get an ELB for each to use v6? And I still can't SSH over v6. Amazon needs to stop pretending that ELB is the final solution for v6 and give each instance their own v6 address.
Microsoft still world's third-most valuable brand; Amazon No. 26
The results are in, and there isn't a very dramatic difference.

Looks like 8 companies have switched away from GoDaddy since the data was collected.

I've issued a pull request to jf for the updated stats.
Online Banking is usually done internally by banks. The front facing consumer sites are usually done by an agency.

I know that Host was doing work for Bank West. Anyone knows if they also did this as well or are they just above the line for this client?
TechCrunch Readers Love Slides (And Other Stats From SlideShare)
To everyone amazed by the various suboptimal decisions that startups make, think of it this way: the easiest, most straightforward solution is always the best one until it's more costly than some alternative.

I'd rather have my team working on product than researching domain registrars or hosts, since the odds of your registrar having a meaningful impact on your company's success are very low. Thus "just grab a big box on Rackspace" or "Namecheap is fine, just get it done".
Try the Public Knowledge Project -- http://pkp.sfu.ca (disclaimer: I work for them). We create open source publishing software for journals and conferences (among other things). Our unofficial list of journals is steadily growing (over 11,000) and we are seeing more and more highly reputable journals going open access (whether or not they use our software). The tide is slowly turning...