skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there's a huge opportunity for digital publishers in this area. I just think it's going to be a market driven by the companies that can take someone from material through polish, production, promotion and then distribution.

Just as today there do exist companies that press CDs and companies that box CDs and companies that ship CDs from one warehouse to many retailers yet the market is truly driven by those who can take an artist from material to digital master. Everyone downstream is commoditized and generally gets or loses contracts based on shmoozing rather than merit.

I'm sure there's money in being the digital equivalent of the plucky independent CD printer/boxer/shipper. But you're going to have a hell of a time getting business from people who don't have a digital master yet (and most won't), regardless of how attractive your rates may be. And in the process of those people getting a digital master - they're likely going to be steered toward the distribution services recommended by those people who helped them create and promote that master.
Show HN: ANSI art renderer in JavaScript/Canvas
Can someone who is at least 'intermediate' in vim give me a reason as why a vim guy would switch?

I'm saying this as someone who feels the need to use a debugger maybe once every 3 or 4 months.
We "own" the airwaves and networks because they traverse our property, ... We use our agents -- the government -- to negotiate on our behalf

Our current conception of property rights does not recognize any ownership of these resources. This is very similar to resources such as the atmosphere; and rivers, lakes, and oceans. All these things are subject to "tragedy of the commons" issues, as well as market failures due to externalized costs.

You're right that there's nothing free about the market in communications spectrum. Because there is no recognized ownership, we must rely, as you note, on the stewardship by our governmental agencies.

The problem with this, of course, is the inherent inefficiencies of centralized control, as well as the errors created as a result of public choice economics.

The Coase Theorem [1] demonstrates that if we were to recognize an ownership interest in these resources, then we could expect that those problems could be worked out by an actual market, where today there is none in operation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
Getting HTTP500. How to crash a webserver?
Try not to take this personally, but in this context there's apparently not as much difference as you seem to think. Neither of you (as evidenced by your question) knew enough about DNS to fully understand the implications of what the article was saying. At best you knew enough to know what question to ask.

My point is actually that there's no reason average users need to know this stuff. Any more than there's a need for them to know what a CV boot is on their car. They know if the car makes a weird noise going around corners, call a mechanic. They know if they get errors on "teh Googlez", to call their ISP.
OCZ Vertex 3's have been pounded for reliability problems[4], so much so that they've just started a special deal on Newegg [2]. And coincidentally, I'm sure, a jolly story about "a machine's view of time" replete with olde-worlde charm, shows up on the front page of a major tech site, and oh, by the way, let me end by saying "I use OCZ Vertex 3's"...

Tom's Hardware suggests that Crucial's m4 series are faster than OCZ Vertex 3's, and don't come with a horrendous approval rating. A 256Gb m4 is $319 on newegg [1].

Intel's new 520 SSDs appear to have given them a proper SSD instead of the floppy-disc-like performance of the 510.[3] Though its $499 for 240gb. [5]

All drives have failures, and while it sucks to be the one that gets the dodgy drive, there will always be someone who can post "it didn't work for me". However, the OCZ Vertex have an unusually high number of "It didn't work for me" reviews. Is it a stitch-up? It'd be easy for "a motivated third party" to buy 27 drives off newegg and post negative reviews. It'd also be in OCZ's interest to fan the flames of doubt on the SF2281 as they are releasing new SSDs based on their own, newly-purchased, Indilinx controllers. But taking off the tin-foil hat, it does look like Vertex 3's have problems.

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...

[2] http://promotions.newegg.com/OCZ/022912/index.html?cm_sp=Cat...

[3] http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-520-sandforce-review-bench...

[4] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-227-707&#...

[5] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167...
Tworsekey: a tweeting morse key
I'm don't know about the Kindle app, but Kindle devices have Facebook and Twitter sharing built in. Once you link to your account, you can just select some text and tweet it.
Cisco warns EU about the bleak future of video chat under Microsoft/Skype
How to crash a blog.
The bankers will pack up for the day and play golf; no real impact.
Why is it not the most important moment of his career? Are you saying there was one break he had that really was the difference between his being a mega-successful A-list standup comedian and being a struggling pauper? Because his little stunt seems to be one of the biggest success stories of indie distribution to date. He would be rich either way, but maybe what is important to him is changing the world in which case I could easily see how this was the most important thing.
Please prove this assertion by posting the address of a resolver that behaves as you describe.
OpenStructures: physical building blocks on a shared geometrical grid
In absence of any feasible mechanism for eliminating browser engines other than WebKit, what use is "should"?
If you think nmcli qualifies as command line network configuration, you've never done any advanced network configuration at all. nmcli is a bad joke, with all the limitations of NetworkManager itself, and a really crappy interface to boot.

iproute2 is the gold standard of command-line network configuration on Linux, and for good reason. That NetworkManager conflicts with it instead of taking proper advantage of it is the whole problem.
My zend studio license is gathering dust now that i'm a phpstorm user. Surprisingly the zend server integration works quite well.
I started using Mac now. Some things I like about it, some things I don't.
Update, the Lean Launchpad course is not gone. Steve Blank just sent out an email notifying students that the class is delayed but will launch in the next 60 days.

I thought my hypotheses may have been incorrect because Steve Blank already has a book that he could use in the class (4 steps to the epiphany). However, looks like he is double timing it to release a new book for the Lean Launchpad class.

Snippets of the email from Steve Blank:

"First the bad news: I wanted to update you that the start of my upcoming online Lean LaunchPad will be delayed. But the good news is that, I will indeed be launching an online LaunchPad course. It will be offered within the next 60 days.

Why the delay? I am revamping the Lean LaunchPad class to base the new course on my new book, The Startup Owner's Manual (The book that is just what its subtitle says: the step-by-step guide to building a great company). This book replaces its 10-year-old predecessor, The Four Steps to the Epiphany. So the course and The Startup Owner's Manual will both provide you with ten years of real-world learning amassed since The Four Steps to the Epiphany was first published.

The Lean LaunchPad course will be in modules you can take asynchronously and digest at your leisure, ideally with your fellow startup team members. If you want to get a head start, you can buy the recommended text, The Startup Owner's Manual. (The book is recommended, but not required, for course participants.)"
Yes, this is true, modern Unix isn't remotely pure. When I think of where it could be for these discussions, I think of Plan 9. But even on Unix, syntax aware tools like cscope and ctags are fairly well integrated. The real weakness is the debugging story; modern Unix simply isn't as good at introspection as it could be, or arguably should be. Some of this is the ahead of time C compilation model making hot fixes hard or impossible, some of it is limitations in debugging tools and tracing tools, some of it is that the Unix stream model doesn't do a very good job of communicating structured data; it's a hard problem.

But, then, even Eclipse compares poorly to Genera, and it evolved from VisualAge for Java which was a near port of the Smalltalk product. So it isn't as though the competition is distinguishing itself through its excellence; look at how much effort in terms of code it is to integrate FindBugs with Eclipse—and all it does is some trivial static analysis!
Thank you, this is very useful.
That would have been hilariously satisfying.

"Sure, we'll shut down DFW and IAH. Your move."
Weren't they going to take down the New York Stock Exchange a couple months ago too?
That's right! I love the discovery part of these visualizations. It helped me to find proper books many times - the graph drawing library is a result of such discovery.

I wanted to learn JavaScript. So I read a book recommended by my old Silverlight-based visualization, and developed the library.

I believe recommendation was successful. The book is Crockford's "JavaScript: The good parts" - http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...
Universities are failing the progression of thought, period. Few are actually encouraging people to share ideas freely; many are "open-minded" as long as your ideas are leftist and not too offensive.

I'm a high school senior and many colleges I've looked at and applied to have stricter regulations on speech than high schools and super-limiting workplaces.

Papers are being assigned with minimum length requirements, experiments involving drugs are being squashed, and political correctness is often being held higher than freedom, honesty, and the exchange of ideas.

So what I mean by all this is that, yes, to look at this progression towards bullshit and think "Maybe I'll learn to run a business there" is nonsense. I think it's good that entrepreneurs are spending less and less time with "higher" education. Get the fuck out and start actually building things.
The negative cache time is defined by the SOA minimum field. Forward cache times are defined at the RR set level.
Book Publishers Shut Down Library.nu and iFile-it
Please do! And link to the rest of your research :)!

I'm just talking from my own (very) limited personal experience, though, and the Greg Wilson video I linked to (albeit it's been two years since I last watched it).
That got me right off the bat. He spends all this time crashing parties to rub elbows with who he wants to be and he didn't talk about anything he accomplished as a result, save for the rush of going where he wasn't supposed to be and the free drinks.
>And most of the time it, the failure, is rarely because of the technology (.NET, Java, Ruby, Clojure)

I disagree, while it won't come down to C# vs Java - things like libraries, tools (that are tied to languages/platforms) and their suitability for the task that you're trying to solve can make or break your project, especially with a short deadline.
The Kindle version of the ESV Bible makes clever use of the Kindle's index feature. All the verses in the Bible are indexed using abbreviated book names. So if I want to reach John 3:16, I hit Menu -> Index and type "jn 3 16<enter>". I'd rather have proper fuzzy matching ("jhn 3 16" wouldn't work, you need the exact abbreviation), but it's a workable substitute.
I bought an Intel 510 120GB SSD for my iMac before Christmas. I chose it over the Vertexes/Agility models because of the supposed HW quality.

After the 6th time of it corrupting various parts of my filesystem (often the catalogue and other important parts), I'm returning it to Amazon.

It was twice as annoying because I had to re-rip open my iMac to get at it. I think I will be exchanging it for an OWC Mercury Extreme.
yeah, it's a tradeoff. If the software does more, then the software is more complex... OK, but, sometimes it's nice that it does more. People are used to other systems (iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS) and those are setting the bar pretty high. They are all extremely complex systems that do a lot.

Everyone wants a simple system... as long as it has just this one thing that they need... and this one other thing...

This author seems to feel there was some way in which the software could do everything it does and there would be no downsides... you know, here and there in some detail it's probably true that the tradeoff is wrong. But that's just saying "all software could be better" or "all software has bugs" or something - true, but not an actionable insight.

I get the guy's frustration. But you know, there's no need to wrap the emotion up in non-factual hypotheses about source code that one is not familiar with.

Software sucks. We all know it. Using your imagination to diagnose why isn't going to get anyone anywhere ;-)

There probably are some improvements possible if we all go look at the source and get the real info.
First of all, iOS is not "inside a computer", and the fact that they are laying the blame at iOS shows a keen understanding of the needs of mobile OSs - better said: Android does this already, why don't you guys.

The fact that Apple is jumping when told to jump shows they know where the fault lies as well.
The hollow emptiness in social media numbers - most accounts are fake or empty
Will existing [installed] apps be required to ask for permission if it has not previously been explicitly granted? Or will they effectively be exempt?
I hardly see how he's hurting the charity by doing this.

It's not as if he's depriving the charities of money because he would have paid the large admission fees if he wasn't doing this; he just wouldn't go. And his presence there is not causing the charity to spend any more money by hiring more staff. There is the real cost of the food and drink he consumes, but depending on how the event is catered, if there is food left over, then he's not effecting anything, and if there isn't food left over, he's taking money out of the other attendees' pockets, not the charity's.

In fact, maybe he contributed to an enjoyable experience for the other attendees, which will make them more likely to support that charity in the future.

Utilitarianism FTW!
The issue you describe is not "fixable" in principle.
We're talking about someone with multiple seasons of an eponymous show on FX, a full season of an eponymous show on HBO, and numerous HBO standup specials, along with a studio film director credit, all this following a long career as a TV writer, and we think this Internet special was somehow his break?

I don't know, maybe you'll be right in the long run, but I'd bet against you being right.

I'll put it differently: Louis CK will end up being more important to the Internet than the Internet will be important to Louis CK.
I have to disagree, kindly of course. Since I don't know the gentleman, anything I say has to be taken with that in mind.

Most of us come here to laud and admire our fellows that are tenacious and ingenious enough to invent, create, market, sell, or hack their way to success. This fellow has done no different.

As he says near the beginning of the article, he knew where he wanted to be but didn't have the resources or connections to get there. So he figured out a way to achieve those goals. This is the epitome of what I love about hackers.

I also don't see a problem with his talking about it publicly. His intention wasn't to spend his entire life sneaking into parties. It was to make connections with people that would let him do things he'd be unable to otherwise. Assuming that he's done that, then talking about how he got to where he is now is perfectly fine.

I'll say that his style of writing does come off with a certain tone of braggadocio, but otherwise its an interesting and well written account.
"I could, right now, write an application for any version of Windows, OS X, or Linux that uploaded your address book without a single prompt. Hell, I could do this with any file owned by your user. "

I agree for the most part but "any version" is stretching it. There are solutions, but they're not sufficient imho. Theoretically Linux users can use AppArmor/SELinux/Tomoyo and a restrictive profile for the application. Unfortunately there is no "white-list" capability in those (open to correction on that) and they're not exactly easy to set up. Windows users can use security applications like Comodo's Defence+ and custom settings which, although powerful, gets rather annoying with popups.
In Defense of Anonymous Speech
Good work. The lack of availability in anything other than Ruby has been a bit of a pain. Now if only GFM was ported into Javascript.
True, but that could be argued to be Emacs-as-IDE. Cscope enables a better solution to this problem (with a clumsy interface) but solving it for good would require solving the structured-data-on-the-Unix-streams-model problem and I've yet to see a good solution to that.

People kludge them to fit all the time—look how older ctags implementations worked, after all—but it reminds me of a guy I who would write paragraphs so that each sentence had its own "line" and relied on implicit word wrap in LaTeX, HTML and the like to format it for human consumption. He did this so it would work better with tools like diff, patch, and version control in general. I thought "hey, worth a shot", tried it, and found it too clumsy for me during the writing process and abandoned it soon after.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3582904
The Dangerous "Research Works Act"
That's too bad... I have the same SSD from last June and it's been running in my Windows machine without a problem. I don't think I'll be getting a computer without an SSD in the future.

I guess hardware roulette with storage still has the worst odds...
I was surprised to see that IE9 had better performance than either FF 10 or Chrome 18. Anyone else seeing this?
Would be interesting to see know if there is special-case code in the Googles for that reason--I'm as sure we'll never know as I am that it is the case.

Anyways, would you mind elaborating on your disagreement? I'm pretty sure it's a fundamental difference in views that we'll have to agree to disagree on, but I'd like to know if you find my reasoning suspect. Thanks!

(as for the crazy: I don't mind being unpopular, provided I can justify my position--that's why good discussion [as we've had here] is so helpful.)
oh to be an agent provocateur these days! post on pastebin and be home in time for dinner. tomorrow, enjoy the "news" articles calling for a more "secure" internet ...
JQuery is a Monad
Thank you, Darius. I'm not sure about its usefulness as well :). But I'm having fun doing these visualizations - that's for sure.

YouTube visualization helps me to avoid duplicates and watch related videos without accidental repetitions. Amazon visualization - I use it to discover primary resources in a given knowledge domains. And sometimes to find what to read next. So far I never regretted a single book that I read based on this visualization. But I might be preconceived :).
So if a bunch of hospital workers were protesting their pay and formed a picket line around a hospital, their purpose would be to 'instill terror?' Somehow this comes across as adding to the dilution of the word 'terrorism.'

Do you really think that picketing a hospital is comparable to using guerilla tactics against a civilian population?

I'm not agreeing that people should be allowed to prevent access to a hospital, but the idea that 'terrorism' is the best label for this sort of action seems ill-advised. Maybe I'm being naive, but I don't think that anyone would have called such actions 'terrorism' back in the 90's, why is it all of the sudden terrorism now?

Seems like any deliberate action by a small group of people against a larger group of people that will have any sort of adverse affect on the larger group is being crammed into the 'terrorism' bucket these days...
TOR (which has most of its outbound bandwidth on very large pipes which probably aren't filtered much).

TOR itself filters it:

Also, remember that many of their more subtle communication mechanisms
(like spoofed UDP packets) can't be used over Tor, because it only transports
correctly-formed TCP connections.

My guess is that they're just clueless.
It's funny. These kind of guys think they're badasses, while in reality, to an attentive eye, they're the opposite: people with an attention seeking disorder.

Aside that the attention seeking is very obvious from the formatting of the text, the interesting thing is that he did really nothing special.
Naturally, credits for getting the right attitude that let him enter, but for the rest, what he's describing is not different from a socially comfortable (skilled, for the nerds) person.
Confinement would certainly be one way of getting "theorems for free" about untrusted code. But it doesn't work for all types of things you might want to prove.
"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points." (Alan Kay and others)

Basicly I think its because they have different points of view on problems we can find similarities in.
To clear up any confusion, I have nothing against encyclopedias. I have a fairly old copy of the Britannica on a bookshelf back home, and I used to love reading through them when I was younger.

Again, my issue isn't with encyclopedias--it is with the waste of potential for what Wikipedia has become.
WP7 is even more secure when it comes to contact info -- you can only access contacts from an app via UI control, and then you can only return email/phone number from one person at a time (whichever the user has selected).
The question is: why wasn't this permission asked since version 1.0 of iOS?

Android has had it since day one, isn't it common sense to assume that users might want to approve such access?

<shakes head>
Capacity Planning on a Cocktail Napkin
People seem divided over whether Reddit should be the only community site engine. It's open source, so it can be forked and has contributors from multiple companies.

People seem divided over whether the US Constitution should be the only governing document for nations. It's not copyrighted, so other nations can use it and has contributors from multiple states.

People seem divided over whether the Bible should be the only holy book. It's public domain, and it's been forked many times and has contributors from many nations.

Do you see the problem here?
why would it matter at all, given a crawler hits many pages on the same hostname?
the fact the initial request takes 250ms more is meaningless.

when you also take into effect that crawlers are either: bound on sleep() if they're friendly, bound on cpu if doing processing and you have a lot of money for bandwidth, or if you don't have much money, bound on bandwidth.

and given that crawlers tend to be massively parallelised, the DNS query could take minutes and you really still wouldn't care...

(go and read up on Amdahl's law)
I don't typically do login thru FB, but your app was so impressive that I figured, what-the-hell. It's a travesty that it's not higher up in the voting but perhaps the winning entries are more likely to draw the crowd that's more OK with logging in through FB.
Uh... sure...

What kind of "snowflakes" (very unique) project you're talking about?

And how short is short?

I'd like to know the silver or gold bullet we're about to discuss here, I'm curious. (just don't bring ASM/C vs Java/Ruby lame example though, you know, them kind of example that is too obvious and too weak to disprove generalization-but-not-100%-always type of statement).
Customize Bootstrap by analyzing an image
Creating one is easy compared to getting people to use it.