skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why even use a throwaway? I don't understand why people do this. It seems very ego-centric to think people really really care/judge you if you post something like this. People are mostly preoccupied with themselves - they'll think about your troubles for a day, but not a minute more.
Because if you build your startup's site using PHP, you'll never be able to scale like a Flickr, Digg, Wikipedia, or Facebook.

// Ahem.
There are thousands of Mexican, Italian and French restaurants out there all of them more or less copying each other.

The point of having a business is to make money, not to save the world or be original. Thats a luxury of very few people.

So without trying to defend the guys, I would say. Welcome to the real world.
They're free to sell the shares too.

And no, you can't 'buy' Mojang shares atm.
Loss of hair
Doesn't work on my T500 (Intel i915 graphics). Shows black screen after everything loads. Does anyone else have this?
Ideas are like...
An idea is like a fart. It may start within you, but once it's released, you can't control where it goes.

Also, they all stink except for my own!
This reminds me of what you so see many small Chinese and Asian firms do with hardware and other physical goods in their local markets.
> Then they baited and switched upon their users, putting up a paywall.

Which StackOverflow's Creative Commons license and public data dumps make very difficult to implement.
Does free tools from Microsoft work for you?
Let's see, how much damage was done by this?

Each blocked site lost:

- $X directly in business missed during those hours

- The trust of users who believed the warning

If they lost these things by arson or slander, the perpetrator might be punished. But since it was the government, they'll probably get nothing but an apology.

Any justice system will have some collateral damage: standing trial costs you time, money and reputation, even in a fair trial where you're declared innocent. But since the damage is so real and sometimes severe, we should REALLY force government to be careful how it applies itself. Warrants, oversight, auditing, judicial review, etc.

No bureaucrat should have a "ruin this business" button.
Why must community and business be mutually exclusive? Hint: they're not, and SO is both.
Fixed - thank you !
Firebird speed in Ruby vs Delphi vs .Net
> NITEC is responsible for maintaining a list of sites which they want to be made unavailable to Danish citizens. Each day the country’s Internet service providers retrieve the list and then apply DNS blockades across their infrastructure.

So that's already pretty weak, but then we find out it's implemented with a shared Windows folder.

sigh.
Possibly, but it popped the top open. Maybe it's possible to do that by just flexing some muscles.
Hugely successful boss decides to reward his employees.

It's a tragedy that this is _newsworthy_.

By spreading the news, maybe Notch hopes that other hugely successful business owners will consider following suit.
If you haven't even seen Windows 8, please don't comment on it. It's clear from even a quick look at Windows 8 what awkward transition between "tablet" and "desktop" he's talking about.
Well, I don't know that "Welcome to the real world" matters. No-one in HN is saying that they should be banned from doing it, or otherwise prevented. Just that we, as a community, don't value the people that do it.
The word "Kebab" describes a different dish in the Middle East and in Germany.
This comes up often. Can you elaborate on how one becomes a pariah after failing a tech startup? And how does it make it impossible to get funding again? Is it because the banks will not give you loans due to bad credit or sth?
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I feel the same way. My first API on my current project was a horrible mess, and did I only realize why it sucked and what I needed to change when I decided to play with Backbone.js over a weekend using my API as a data source. The only way, I think, one can build a RESTful API is to do it from the client's perspective, much like BDD builds software using a list of actions the user wants to make.

If you're not using your own API, then it's probably broken.
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The other weekend I somehow ended up seeing "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D".

Worst movie I ever saw in my life, but watch it, because the Ghost Rider considers illegal downloads a sin (line from the movie, can't reproduce the exact quote).

Hollywood has been brain-washing people for years and we shouldn't underestimate their power of persuasion.
Yes, they're copycats.

But those of us who live in Europe sometimes get absolutely infuriated by US-based startups who go for years ignoring potential non-US customers. I'm sure Fab.com would have eventually rolled out to Europe, but in the meantime I'm happy that someone else built a product that solves the same problem.

Sometimes this is a real regulatory problem, like anything to do with banking/payments/etc. But oftentimes it's just because businesses don't seem to like taking on the extra work/complexity of thinking internationally.

So while I don't like their pure copycat methods (down to page layouts), I think they're serving a valuable purpose in the marketplace.
You pointed in the right direction but kind of missed the big one: does not work without javascript at all.
Corrected link: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Skitt%27s_Law

Were you trolling for this? ;)
An open challenge to PandoDaily
I'm currently in the 12th grade of a Gymnasium in Germany and while we get a lot of information on jobs, possible areas of study and things you can do after studying at a university creating or joining a startup is not even considered.

The risk is generally considered to be so high that you have to be unbelievably good at what you are doing, insane or most likely both to take it under consideration.
10 Ways for Startups to Expand Their Reach in 2012
"For one, he doesn't need to "justify the statement". It's a HISTORICAL argument."

No, it is not.

The author claims that the proponents of NoSQL are unaware they are repeating history. It's not an argument over history, it's an argument over what a certain group of people know.

"So take a computing history book and look for the "hierarchical databases". You'll find them easily. Check how and if they are alike to current NoSQL databases."

Irrelevant. The point is not whether hierarchical databases are alike to current NoSQL databases, but whether or not the proponents of NoSQL are aware of past database designs.

Nor is it a "argument by authority" to suggest that the author's statement needs to be justified. The author is claiming that everyone who designs or promotes NoSQL databases has less understanding about databases that a first year CompSci student. This is not an argument from authority, but an argument about authority.

"At some point you assume your readers do their work. It's not as if Code is some mysterious figure, and the things the relational theory solves"

Again, you valiantly miss my point. The question is not whether Codd invented the relational model, but whether he "was explicitly trying to rectify these mistakes" (whatever "these mistakes" are; the author never explains).

The relational model has its advantages, but it's not a silver bullet, and understanding the limitations of a model or algorithm is just as important, if not more so, than understanding its advantages. Codd would understand the limitations of the model he devised more than anyone.

Computer science is all about finding the right tools for the job. Codd added a useful tool to our collective toolbox, but it's not the only tool we have available. Nor are hierarchical databases inherently inferior to relational databases; sometimes a hierarchy is exactly what you want. A lot of websites, including Hacker News, would fit the hierarchical model better than the relational model.

"Now, if you are not a Computer Scientist, then the article is not meant for you, anyway."

It's painfully clear the article is not meant for computer scientists of any calibre.
I think you're asking the wrong question. Show me how the need for ROI has hurt the current user experience.
Yep. At least for now, that seems to be the only way to capture news without any noise.
For a really simple blog (or blogs in general) this is a PITA.

Just use Jekyll and be done with it.
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At which point someone would download the complete StackExchange data dump[1], import it into one of the dozens of SE engine clones like Shapado and compete with them without having to bootstrap the content.

[1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/09/creative-commons-data-...
Maybe this was before my time, but was experts-exchange ever anything more than SEO spam with no content?
I don't endorse inches as a measure, but they are pretty intuitive. Maybe it's because the swedish word for inch is "tum", which means "thumb". And it happens to be 1.25 inches from the top of my thumb to the first joint.
Couple that with the ability to buy my own domain right away and you 've got a business
Was there one in Stuttgart? :(
according to Time-Out Berlin. Yeah, according to Wikipedia, I'm wrong. Never trust a travel guide. I've been to the Emirates and what they have there is entirely different to what they have in Germany. Australia, France and the Czech Republic have something different, which is 'the greasy thing'.
German Court Shuts Down Two Apple, Samsung Lawsuits
It took me way too long to realize this, but there were actually answers below the huge wall of links on E-E pages!
Where "counterfeit" usually means totally legit pharmaceuticals overseas that someone in the US didn't make money off of (or enough money off of).
The article says "retrieved" from a "folder". It doesn't even say whether it was Windows, or on a server somewhere. It could have been FTP or something.
"These are two contradictory statements in one statement."

Well I'm glad I got the opportunity to chat with you sir, and your smarts shut me down. I'll shut up now.

Let me know when I can talk, and in the meantime
I agree. The real problem has nothing to do with tweets, it is about non-obvious, non-intuitive, obscure functionality with no clear way to learn.
The 9 Flavors Of Windows 8 Show The Key Difference Between Microsoft And Apple
Speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence
Not if your application is a bunch of small C programs that monitor each other a la DJB.
In the google plus demo thing, by default, you could autofill the ID with someone famous like Robert Scoble .. For people like me who are not active on G+ (thats pretty much everyone)
MMM discusses this kind of thing all the time, re: how much money is enough for financial independence.
See related post about $$$ vs. family:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/03/02/reader-case-study-...
OTOH, underground trains never suffer from traffic congestions. I feel more comfortable spending constant 0.5 hours in the underground than spending variable 0.3–2.5 hours in a traffic jam.
I strongly suspect that this will prove to be limited by the RF path; it relies (as far as I can tell) on coherent properties of the wavefront. This means it will break as soon as the signal passes through heterogeneous material (such as a building), or as soon as reflections produce multi-path interference.

And you certainly wouldn't be able to use it at HF - imagine what the ionosphere will do to your carefully constructed wave!

In general, using more parameters of the wave reduces your resilience to noise; the usual approach of extracting only amplitude, frequency and (perhaps) phase is a summation operator that smooths out a lot of interference. Conceptually, this is like how QPSK needs a higher SNR than BPSK does - you're using more parameters, so you're reducing the 'distance' between things you want to distinguish, so you're increasing the chance that a given amount of noise will produce errors.
So when exactly are we going to wake up to the fact that governments in the "free" West have over the past two decades implemented measures with respect to freedom of information, communication and privacy that in the decades before that we've consistently denounced as totalitarian police state tactics when it came to communist nations?

The problem is not that the police made this mistake. The problem is that they actually have the authority to do this in the first place.
> "Sometimes you just have to let people fail. It's quicker than opposing them."

Yes, that seems to be the case more often than not… As a consultant I see it almost as a guarantee for success in projects that come after/are replacing failed ones. I think it’s all about ego at the end of the day… people have to have their say and pursue it even if they’re not experts in the field (while they certainly think they are experts - hence the ego thing). I wonder - how can this thinking be undone?
Wikipedia is exactly as centralized as StackOverflow, in that it's all in a single site but licensed under Creative Commons.
Important point: new content. It is not possible to retroactively change the CC license used to a more restrictive one ("I know you fully legally downloaded the last data dump, but could you delete your copy? Pretty please?").

So, license change -> major drop in participation as many will go elsewhere bringing with them SO's content up to that point -> might as well close the thing down, killing the golden goose and whatnot.

(btw, 1.there are worries that the community has already gained too much traction and the site's decline is imminent, as it'll surely be swamped with high-noise Q&A; and 2. speaking for myself, I'd surely quit if a restrictive license were put in place, there are many such users)
Highlights of Mobile World Congress 2012
Mobile World Congress 2012 was recently held in Barcelona on 27 February 2012 to celebrate the advancements of mobile technology. The event lasted four days and has been the greatest hit of the year. Nokia had been lucky enough to host the opening press conference of this huge event. Let’s look at some of the highlights of this huge event.
Do you think that's an ok thing to do? I mean wouldn't Scoble have a right to be annoyed that I'm using his posts :)

Certainly be adding some examples though, but here's mine for now http://qiip.me/edlea
I can hardly keep up with what's politically correct these days. Isn't censorship for oppressive regimes and the sort? I thought Europe was supposed to be progressive..
Nine different products = massive confusion for users. Apple certainly made more money when they simplified their computer offerings so that users didn't have to do extreme mental exercises to compare features and buy.
I've worked at government agencies (recently) that banned all "third party browsers". Compared to that kind of policy, I think choosing Chrome is wonderful.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3615920

Maybe it's still in the future.
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So you'd have one 'emails' table per Inbox, right? So for 1 million users, you'd have 1 million tables, and no SQL database can handle that.
Two reasons that I can see...

If the server generates custom mimetypes, clients have to ensure they "Accept:" the correct mimetype for every request. And if you have multiple data types (and you will have multiple data types), then this "Accept:" header will vary for every request. Getting this right is an irritant to client developers with no actual benefit to them, and a great potential source of bugs.

Much easier is if the client can just send "Accept: application/json" or "Accept: application/xml" for every request.

If the server generates custom mimetypes, and you update your API to v2 which produces an article listing in an incompatible format, you either have to introduce a version number into your mimetype (which seems messy and pointless busywork), or stick with the same mimetype and accept that your custom mimetypes aren't actually particularly meaningful as their meaning can change substantially over time (so why did you have them in the first place?)

Much easier is if the server had just used "Content-Type: application/json" or "Content-Type: application/xml" which will always be correct.
I once built a task queue using redis, start-stop-daemon and php. start-stop-daemon can turn vanilla php scripts(or any kind of script for that matter) to a worker.
it's on the road map, but I'm not sure whether to add more services first or get domain names working...
It could be that your TL;DR has exactly the same content as [the first paragraph of] TFA, so it adds nothing to the conversation, the way a good summary of a complex topic would.

Edit: forgot some words
Sure, but that's a little exotic and expensive for the consumer market at this point. I'd be happy with phased array satellite antennas I can stick on the outside of my house.
I wasn't talking about "email" as a use-case, I was talking about "Gmail". Obviously you can serve 1000s of email users using an SQL and IMAP database.
Some Tips on Interacting with the Press
gorgeous work, great job!
What a great video. Made my day!
Nice!
I've registered and kinda like it.

Integrate with facebook would be hard?
UK campaign to get kids coding crowd-sources funding
We're happy to hear you got your job with a little help from us! If anyone else would like an invite to our careers site, you can use this link for an invite. http://bit.ly/A4CB1B

Additionally we are actually hiring people to join the careers team right now, http://bit.ly/xXXewd <- developers, and http://bit.ly/xthTi9 <- product manager.

I am curious how your Stack Overflow activity was used in the hiring process. Would you mind sharing?
How many canvas tag in a web page? Actually, 10000 without a glitch
Yup. As recently as 2008, in fact ;) It's just a question of scale - the community gets larger, so you get more of everything.
Thanks! Maybe Facebook pages might be better suited. It's on the list of services to hook up with though.
What Does Your Blog’s Color Scheme Say About Your Brand?
I have no idea what this is or why i'm supposed to want it
Popular web product 2010 (social network) + popular news item 2011 (bitcoin) gives me this maybe?

I think the first thing you should do is give a short, easy to digest message on the home page about what Coin Connect gives to its users

Will it make me rich? How
Will it get me laid? How
Will it make me powerful? How

What tech have you used to build this?
wow, thanks! makes a difference to hear it.
Silly me, I took me a few minutes to understand the concept.

In a user perspective, "Try Now" or the "See Demo" is the first button I press before reading anything.

I think you need to tweak a little bit of that workflow. Otherwise, great app!
June 1.-3. i'm organizing a Startup Weekend in Frankfurt Germany, to get a strong Startup culture and community started here, and this will include more events in the future. I set out to do this not to copy the culture of silicon valley, rather the culture of the Amsterdam Startup scene and especially the Appsterdam Initiative.

When i was at Startup Weekend Amsterdam and got to meet Mike Lee and others it occured to me that this was a concept that was much more realistic for a european and especially german city.

In Germany getting VC Money is not easy and you have to be very careful how the deal is done because of Tax issues. Taking risks is very unpopular in Germany and failed startups are viewed upon as wasted money and time, failed founders are looked upon as pariahs.

To combat this all that helps is a very strong community that has a common denominator where people share their point of view which is different from most of the people around them and help them with problems that are common only to startups in germany.

Non-Startup-event-wise our city isn't bad. Our Webmondays draw >100 people, our Barcamps over 200. We've got a local Hackerspace which offers 3D Printing Workshops among other things. We have a strong web culture, although Co-Working spaces are still being set up and are still more expensive than i would like them to be.

Frankfurt is known mostly as a banking city and some Venture Capital Groups are based here. It's not ideal as office space doesn't come as cheap as elsewhere, but the infrastructure in Frankfurt is superb and I've never met so many qualified Freelancers as in the Rhine-Main-Area.

The founder of one of the current YC Company Popset, Nicolas Bös, is from Frankfurt and very excited that we're building something here, which comes to show that we have the potential here.
the London meetup started out in someone's bedroom, now 500+ people. You should go for it.
It's disappointing that they didn't also include metric; or do metric first with Imperial for the US and Burmese audience.

The distance travelled by light in 1 ns, = 299.792458 mm (11.803~ in).
This was not implemented until Google has temporarily kicked them off the indexes for black-hat SEO back in 2008, IIRC. Before that, the answers were not physically present on the page served to humans, but they were on the page that was served to Googlebot. This is called "content cloaking" and is punishable by a Google-ban (which takes at least weeks to get reversed).
I use a VirtualBox VM with Windows on it and have a shared folder between the two.
'The famous quotation "It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission" (EAFP) is often attributed to Grace Hopper.'

This quote makes much more sense when attributed to her.
This touches on what I think is one of the more interesting technological problems that we have to worry about right now. As a disclosure, most of the reason I think that is because I'm a PhD student doing research on hardware security.
Anyways, there has been a lot of interesting discussion on the topic. DARPA has had at least two programs dedicated to trying to solve this problem, IRIS and TRUST [1]. Both of them seemed to be more interested in tampering by third-parties, perhaps because it's not in their best interest to accuse the people designing their ICs of attacking them.

In the long run, verifying the functionality and intentions of software and hardware are probably roughly the same problem, with no clear solution to either in the foreseeable future.

[1] http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/problem-from-hell/
Up here in the Socialist Republic of Canada, the counterfeit drug criminals are so entrenched in power that when you fill a prescription, the pharmacist is required by law to offer you the counterfeit drug alongside the brand-name drug, usually at about 25% of the brand name drug’s price.

Worse, the spin-masters in power have taken control of the conversation, everyone in Canada calls them “generic” drugs, as if molecules and atoms were identical to each other and there’s no difference besides the logo stamped on the pill and the label glued on the bottle.

And we’re prisoners of the system, trapped in the endless nightmare of free health care.
By blocking a Tor exit you do not block the Tor network, as new exits are created all the time. Also the person doing the abusive behaviour, can continue without restriction, but you then frustrate users in regimes that do not have free speech.

So if you know an abusive user came from a Tor exit node, support freedom and don't block it. Block the user.

You may be running a forum, or some other way users can post to a site. Consider that while you might block an abusive user, you are also blocking people in countries that do not have a first amendment and speech is an issue of life or death.

Support free speech: allow Tor exit nodes. :-)
I agree that NoSQL is a strange term, although perhaps not quite for the same reason. I agree with the statement by @batista that SQL in this context is a defined way of thinking about problems. But NoACID seems much more appropriate especially as many "NoSQL" systems get SQL interfaces stuck on top.