skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, you'd still have to upload new versions to the store manually.

We're working on tools to ease that process also, but wanted to stay focused on the simplicity of the initial build process for our initial launch.
NewTechmeme: Techmeme Redesign
Assuming the request is valid, PUT should work without regard to whether the resource existed already. You're asserting what should be there, and if it works, then it either creates it or overwrites what was there before.

You have to use PUT to enable creating something only when the server URL that the resource will be available at is not known to the client.
The concept isn't new, and the competition is already there both for the scrap metal market and buying/selling people's unwanted crap.
I think there has been a lot of regression on the side of us progressives who are so afraid of being rhetoricians that we actively scuttle our own causes with poor choices of language. There are very few politicians on the left trying to best these trends with wit and brevity.
There are lots of people with great ideas and products out there who are not able to just up and quit jobs and move somewhere for months on end. It would be nice to see an option for people like this. Not everyone is single college student, what about established tech professionals with houses and mortgages, or even a family.
Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Google
Slay Your Inner-Wantrepreneur & Start Making Cash Today — W/ Neville (NSFW)
North Korea threatens to punish mobile-phone users as 'war criminals'
I'm worried about this patent, though I'm still a little confused by it. I recently thought about how I could set up some simple rules for my diet - 1) always eat breakfast, 2) go to the gym 4 days a week, 3) make my lunch 4 days a week (rather than buying it), 4) no beer weekday evenings, 5) no eating after 9pm.

If I set up an online system to allow a group people to create a set of their own conditions and get feedback on their promise, does this mean I have to pay IBM for using their idea - er - patented process?

They said (in the article) "IBM does not plan to sell this as a product – we are not making gadgets. This patent and others like it are created for groups to license from us. We did the heavy lifting in making it and whomever licenses it will get a working system out of it."

What was their "heavy lifting". I'm not sure what it was from the article. Did they create software that we can hook into? Or did they just patent the idea?

Maybe someone can help clarify this for me. I'm really hoping I have this wrong.

It's still a little confusing to me. And, I'll admit, a little worrisome as far as patents go.
Ask HN: What's wrong with WordPress?
Almost any time there's a discussion on HN about WordPress or something related to it, there are comments criticizing WP from a development/architecture/programming/whatever perspective. Speaking as someone who uses WP, and who is very interested in learning best practices and furthering my own development knowledge, what is done wrong in WordPress?
So if it's as bad as you make it sound, then you should probably not be using the substance with which you refer?
Cloak's on you: Scientists create 'invisible' object
with Mr Bunny taking 2nd!
What It's Really Like Working For Zuckerberg
What if the Internet amplifies instead of mitigates false information?
The problems with buses are all caused by cars. Why not build new roads solely for the use of buses? This would allow you to superimpose a subway like system on top of city's without the restrictions and cost of rail. Let specially licensed freight use it also to give business benefits.
My first impression of this site is that the hyperlink to information ration is way too high.
Liked it and compare with 'Netflix Culture' too.
He could fix the Windows user don't have ruby thing with a quick forward though. It's a good start.
The delivery came with a signature. They claimed it was not theirs. They also had it delivered to what turned out to be a disused building, beside a car park, in a ghetto.

I wrote it off as a lesson and closed my Paypal account that day.
I'm not sure narrative is the best way to teach programming. Programming allows for non-linear exploration and dissemination. Teaching it should incorporate such techniques...which is why I'm a big fan of how Jeremy did his CoffeeScript documentation.

Trying to teach programming through narrative storytelling seems counterproductive.
Another one here, have been procrastinating adding this capability for a week now.

Now I just need to find (or write) some php code that will save/serve the fetched json model.
Airbnb's Global Growth
It would be nice to see an overview from folks who've been involved. You can get some of the history from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dselect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptitude_(software)#History
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-detaile....
I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" on my netbook once.

It ate up the entire 1 GB of RAM and got OOM killed before it could finish computing dependencies.

I shouldn't need a swap partition just to update packages. So now I use apt-get if I'm upgrading a lot of packages at once. aptitude for other tasks.
Is TV dead yet?
Groups Speak Out About Next Week's Secret Meeting In Hollywood To Negotiate TPP
One problem I have with big media is that they want to charge you for every single unit of utility that you get out of their products; a hopeless task.
An incubator for grownups
Lots of people do more skilled work for the same or less on oDesk or vWorker.
Wow, an infographic with actual info. I want a larger size version of the graph of the Airbnb traveller network.
I am lucky to be right now in Poland visiting my GF. I took a some videos of todays ACTA protest in Poznan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLSSUV4P_d4
More videos will appear on my YouTube channel
Star Wars remade with hundreds of 15-second fan-made clips
How exactly does playing in groups increase my chances?

PS. You're gonna have a hard time marketing this idea based on the current concept.
The what's hot section is just as lazy and useless as Twitter trending topics. I almost never find globally hot topics hot. Twitter occasionally has some semi-relevant content there, but Google+ hot topics are dominated by funny pictures and gifs. I can only see this problem growing further as a result of these changes.
Pretty nice, but the slides are only interesting from page 45 to 74 the rest is totally useless.

I must be allergic to PR aimed at hipsgrammer (hipster programmer)...
The Quick-ish and Easy-ish “Getting Started w/ GitHub” Article
Agreed, and I think a lot of the angst amongst CRUD/web-app developers stems from a rapidly shrinking number of truly new problems to solve in the domain - hence the focus on yak-shaving, "platforms" to eke out the last few marginal efficiencies in creating a web-app, and re-inventions of the 1980s.

That's why I love embedded - because the domain contains a lot of problems which are constrained by hardware (which so far is still holding to Moore's law), there are always a number of new problems for software to solve.
I know that these guys do a large majority of Greek payments:

https://www.greekbill.com/

They're universally hated, although that might be hard to avoid as a thousands-of-dollars-per-semester bill collection service.

I think they also contract with the national organization of the fraternity, as opposed to each chapter house. Get in the contract that each chapter MUST use that service.

Not to mention their major technology issues... such as passing the Username and Password in plaintext in the URL when you log in.
Manhattan has the same problem, especially considering how narrow the streets are (due to "free" parking) and the lack of crosstown subway lines. It looks like the MTA has started a new program where some busses have police-car-like flashing lights and dedicated lanes. I haven't had the occasion to use the bus yet, but it doesn't look like it does anything. Taxi drivers make it their goal to use the road as rudely as possible, and there are a lot of taxis in Manhattan.
Related to that, I have a question that's been bugging me:

If the application is assessed primarily on the founders, is it really worth failed applicants applying again? Speaking as someone who has applied (and failed, with cause!) twice relatively recently, and as an experienced 14 year 'veteran' of web technology, I can't say that my experience, skills or business-savvy have drastically changed since the application from 6 months ago.

As there's (understandably) no feedback for previous rejections (e.g. "Your idea sucks" vs "Your founders suck"), it's difficult to tell whether it's a waste of time to apply again. (Having said all that, we will of course be applying again anyway!)
Google Reincarnates Dead Paper Mill as Data Center of Future
That's a kind offer. Do you have a preferred method of contact?
Want a Transportation System That Works? Vanpools
It made me feel better, as I struggle from time to time with design, to know that even companies with as much focused design talent as 37signals tweak stuff endlessly, and that clean designs don't spring fully-formed from their heads. Everyone iterates.
Great project, easy to install, beautiful presentation. Why limiting to GH pages though? I would love to use it with my markdown documentation, but my project is not on github.
WordPress Plugin Unblocks Censored Sites, Including The Pirate Bay
What graphing utility/service do you guys use at GitHub?
> I started the year with almost nothing and ended with a used van, a new utility trailer, less debt, fully paid bills and money left to take the family to Hawaii.

> less debt
> family to hawaii

Something does not compute here.
I think the 7 extension would be cool, but there is plenty of rail traffic to and from New Jersey. It's something like one train every 18 seconds.
I'm curious to know the financial situations of those who apply to YC. You don't have to give specifics, but has anyone gone through YC with a lot of school debt? (>$20k, >$40k?) How did you manage this?

For those who haven't gone through YC but do have a lot of school debt or otherwise, how do you think you'll manage?
Yes, but if you dig a little deeper, this guy is also running a blog. Stories like these raises his blogs profile and if the story gets picked up by a news outlet that can do wonders. With enough following he can write a book, publish articles in news papers or in very extraordinary case start his own reality TV series. History channel runs a popular TV series called American Pickers following two people who go around buying and selling antiques.
Sorry, this is pure misinformation. The ECJ ruling was made on NOVEMBER 24, not January 24. See:

http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_16799/?annee=2011

PAP (Polish Press Agency) for some strange reason reported this today, giving the wrong date, and all the major news outlets reported it without checking. (TVN24 now published a correction)

The ruling does not affect ACTA directly because there is nothing about ISP filtering in ACTA.
Interesting story, it's fascinating to see what people are doing to make ends meet in the new economy.

Similarly, I know someone who makes well over $100,000 a year buying, fixing, and reselling things on Craigslist and eBay. They found a very specific (and obvious) niche that is highly profitable to be in, I imagine if this guy specialized more he will see greater returns as well.
Upon Being Deported From Eritrea
Does anyone still use TechMeme? I never actually used it, but I thought it had mostly faded away by now?
Yes. Solving problems yourself is fun. Solving hard problems is even more fun. And the amount of programming related problems you solve on an average day is much less than it used to be.

When you had to handroll most of your code and make it work within the limited constraints of the hardware, you were solving problems all the time.

Sure there are still fun problems to work on, but the average programmer doesn't get to work on them.
There is something wrong with it. I can't really describe what though. I think the best designed news site out there right now is The Verge, but I'm sure there are other examples of what is right.
Women Experience Pain More Intensely Than Men
Impact of Go Daddy's two PR disasters in 2011 on iWantMyName customer growth
Maybe I'm overcautious here.

It's not a white/ black thing. If you know under what circumstances there could be bad side effects, if you listen to your body it's not bad.

But there are some people that just want a simple answer and are not interested in knowing the details.
Skills aren't taught at university; we develop them to cope with university
ManageEngine Applications Manager 10.2 Supports Oracle JRockit JVM
Announcing BigCouch 0.4
Ask HN: Who's offering free ideas consulting?
20 minutes of feedback. I saw user `abstractbill` offering this and I thought it would be nice to know about people who are willing to help potential startups in this way.

I'll be the first. I might be useful if you have an idea that is aiming to make developer life easier, because I'm constantly looking for ways to work better and faster. Hit me at vojto (at) me (dot) com.
What I meant to say was, "you can't expect something with a terminating representation in base 10 to always have a terminating representation in base 2". When you play with these cases in base 10, it builds intuition that can be applied to base 2 math.
Comparing JavaScript, CoffeeScript & ClojureScript
It's too white. It feels like it didn't load completely. Newest is narrow. 7 headlines take up 50 lines.
Teens are humans. Iff encouraging humans to share personal information online was creepy before, it's creepy now. All this changes is that they're not unfairly discriminating.

Well, they're still unfairly discriminating against those under 13, but congress is forcing their hand on that one.
But it's not ACID. For example, if the server or process running his database worker queue were to crash, records would be lost.

Of course, it's quite likely an acceptable trade-off for for these records. Relational DBs sold everyone on ACID in the 90's, but a lot of data doesn't really deserve its cost. He hasn't found a way around Brewer's Conjecture (and I wish I had a nickel for every time it's rediscovered :-).
There's a difference between suburbs where everyone has a yard and peace and quiet and suburbs where the sidewalks inconsistently exist, cul-de-sac neighborhoods inflate route lengths and compound traffic snarls, zoning breaks up residential areas with light commerical areas that have mandated massive lots to handle twice-a-year peak parking needs, etc.

You can literally see the difference in walkability and infrastructure service levels between suburban neighborhoods built in the 50s and those built in the late 70s and later.

One has consistent street and infrastructure grids, parks, likely bus stops (because they're feasible) and commercial-cluster downtown areas for goodness sake! While the other has larger yards, cul-de-sacs, inconsistent sidewalks and the closest they come to a downtown is a (likely now decrepit) mall with its own ocean of usually-empty parking and the commensurate traffic-snarling entrances and exits.
Clickable: http://jackpotbuddy.com/index.aspx
It's very impressive that he's able to earn so much money and support his family via Craigslist, but I can't help but think about how useful (or not useful, really) his job is for the overall economy. Basically, he's another middleman - buying goods for a low price and selling them higher. Without him in the picture, buyers could have purchased their items for less and saved money. I just don't see how this job adds a service to society.
Y Combinator Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2012
This whole piece of news is total B.S. There is no last-minute ruling. There was a ruling of the ECJ on NOVEMBER 24, not January 24. See: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_16799/?annee=2011

The reason for the confusion is that PAP (Polish Press Agency) reported this "news" today, giving the wrong date, and all the major news outlets re-reported it without checking (how hard is it to go to the ECJ website?). TVN24 has now published a correction, but the information has already spread and now many people think ACTA has been made illegal.

The truth is that the ECJ has never made any ruling about ACTA. It has only ruled that ISP filtering is illegal in the EU, but that is not directly in contradiction with ACTA.
OwnCloud moves ahead
Israeli hackers attack Iranian sites
I'm usually wary of Holman's presentations and writing. GitHub is such a unique, special place — an engineering company with a product engineers use and are devoted to.

This presentation is pretty good and has some good tenets. However, I have trouble believing that all of these ideals will work when you have a PM screaming at your engineers to finish the internal CRM system, or something else that engineers must work on but don't necessarily care about.
Good question. If you are playing alone then you only have one chance (assuming you buy $1 ticket). If you play in a group of 10 or 20 people you just increased your chances by hundreds of percents. Because 10 tickets are always better than 1. Of-course, you'll be sharing the winning with others.

Hope this makes sense?
I had not heard of that data structure before, thanks!

Sadly, it appears to be patented and thus of no use to me. http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nick/projects/Dwarf.html I think it's really quite crass and mercantile for UMD to patent basic computer science algorithms and data structures like that.
No reason not to have a javascript redirect on the G+ page before rendering to ask if you want to go to the app, and then redirect to googleplus://
I think you're missing a variable that equals "Having zero debt at all times is not everyone's highest priority".
Budgets.
Featured Ubuntu Software Centre Apps for January
Yes, we often fund groups' later applications. Dropbox was Drew Houston's second application. I believe PagerDuty was those guys' fourth.
that's a great suggestion. I don't agree with trying to get them to like coding for the sake of it. Lego Mindstorms is a nice way to learn some basic logic and if the child enjoys building things and similar things, coding might not be that far a step away.
I still do, it's a very nifty site to get an objective feel of tech news. The redesign however is not a very pleasant one, especially the font.
Tor – Multiple Vulnerabilities
Why the hellish font?
Well, he is delivering them, and taking old appliances away when he delivers them. There is a lot of value in that.

He is also adding "liquidity" to the "market" by immediately buying new listings, and holding them for a few days until the right buyer comes along. Without someone like him the seller would have to wait several days to find the right buyer.
Like sharing any other business idea you mean?
I'd be interested to hear more about the Kinect/Arduino video recording platform. We are always looking at better ways of capturing and storing video archives for later use internally.
The 'Human Costs' of an iPad
Median income in the West in 2010 was $53K, according to the Census Bureau (via Wikipedia), and since "the West" includes California I'm betting it's lower in Portland. Considering he says he's only working 25 hours a week, 1,000 a week is pretty darn good, even if he does have to pay for health insurance.
Actually, that's not the case at all.

Illegal drugs are huge money makers for lots of people, countries and organizations (both selling them AND fighting against them).

Although, the initial historical reason they got illegal in the first places is because of some moral-style campaigns and a lot of ill-informed medical opinions (along with a few correct ones).
> The problems with buses are all caused by cars.

Sorry, but that's just not true. In a relatively small city with narrow streets like Cambridge, buses have just as many problems navigating around cyclists, awkward intersections, and indeed other buses. And the problems buses cause, particularly when only sparsely occupied, have nothing to do with cars at all.

> Why not build new roads solely for the use of buses?

Where are we going to put those?

They're trying to create new roads only for the use of buses, by taking away lanes that used to be for everyone and designating them to be bus lanes instead. That is making things much worse for everyone else, because it means 50% of the road surface on major arterial routes is unused most of the time. And it isn't even helping buses that much, because they still have to get to and from those major routes on the back roads they serve, and they still have to stop at lights or give way at roundabouts just like everyone else.

(Cambridge also has far too many sets of traffic lights for its size, which introduces an entirely artificial ceiling on the capacity of its road network for reasons no-one seems to quite understand. You can usually tell when the lights fail at a major intersection, because the drivers all start being polite and taking turns to proceed, there are hardly any queues in the area, and journeys are invariably quicker and more pleasant. Note to people wanting saner traffic systems for cities in future: competitive routes and stop/go lights are an evil that will cripple your efficiency.)
Which is why you submit a DELETE request to delete a comment right? Oh, you don't? Maybe it isn't actually how the web works after all.
This is a cool article; it will be interesting to see how it scales up going forward.

I also spend a lot of time on craigslist, and this extension has saved me hours and made browsing much more efficient:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aikbdokcmcbbeaadpd...

Chrome only though :(
How much operational burden is involved in running Voldemort datastores?
NoSQL Trends for 2012
One thing the slides mention in passing that I cannot stress the usefulness of enough is an internal wiki. There are so many common tips, issues, ideas, etc. that can be more effectively communicated and expanded upon when they're in a centralized location for all to see. So many conversations of the form "I've never dealt with that, but I know $coworker ran into that once. Go ask him." can be reduced or eliminated if the ideas are already visibly detailed. In short, setting up an internal wiki helps improve/scale your team's productivity.
I might as well ask it first -- when does it go live on cloudant.com?
Property Management Boston Massachusetts MA
The oligarchy in China is at least out in the open and nationalistic.

In the west the oligarchy does everything in secret, their motives are largely unclear, and they keep everyone focused on culture war issues that never get resolved and celebrity like gossiping about politicians. Meanwhile, the lobbyists and the rest of the oligarchy write absurdly complex bills and pass them in obscurity.

In Russia it's a bit of a hybrid of the western and eastern system.
Totally devoid of information. I would be more interested in reading actual technical reports of higly scaled infrastructures. These flimsy half-truths gleaned from such scaling, I can do without.
About $3K cash and about 100+ man hours.
If you don't have Optima (the font), it defaults to Trebuchet, which I find very ugly. Could they not have used one of many available webfonts (from Typekit/FontSquirrel/Google etc.)?