skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I update tumblr, which posts a to my facebook and twitter. The twitter update posts itself to G+, and facebook again. ~70% of my friends see that post at least two times, if not four.

It sucks.
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It doesn't say his whole job is to be TOR expert. He could have knowledge in TOR - one doesn't have to be exceptionally knowledgeable to be considered "expert" in legalese, regular working knowledge of the matter allowing him to make informed conclusions like "this set of packets is a TOR traffic going to this IP" should be enough - and other matters too.
Congratulations to Sam & team.

A brief conversation with Sam was what convinced me to apply to YC in the first place, and I'm very glad I did. Sam has shown himself to be an expert, a smooth operator, and an excellent teacher. Green Dot is very lucky to have Sam & co joining them.
We are "stuck" in 2001.

Since the ServicePack2-update XP has been doing what an OS is supposed to do: doing its job and being invisible at it.

We skipped all the Windows versions since XP and we think we are going to like Windows 8 ;)
+1,000,000. It was cool at launch, and true there are some areas where it's legitimately superior to FB and Twitter, but overall it's only marginally better at best, not enough to get most people to switch.

Worse, since launch they don't seem to have rolled out many improvements, despite the clamor among its users for solutions to various problems.

> Asked about what Google+ actually is, Gundotra answered that, at its simplest, it is a social layer across all of Google's services. For Gundotra, what was missing on Google before Google+ was its ability to really understand its users and their connections. The challenge, in Gundotra's view, is that most people don't actually quite understand this.

Actually, people don't care. They're not using G+ in order to help Google understand them and their connections, they're using it to connect, learn, grow, and enjoy themselves. But as good as the idea of circles is, there are still shortcomings in the service that impede this, and which Google hasn't addressed (hopefully they're in the process of learning from their copious amounts user feedback and fixing it all, but no idea what's going on behind the scenes).

> The general feeling one got from watching Gundotra was that in his view, those who don't quite get Google+ are probably not using it right and not looking at it in the right way.

That's unfortunate. The right way is what is natural, intuitive, and emergent. If Google didn't quite predict all of that exactly, G+ needs to adapt, not the other way around. Again, maybe they're doing exactly that behind the scenes, and just aren't done yet. I hope so, it's a great service with a lot of potential if they can just nail the remaining issues.

> As for a full read/write API that would give developers access to the stream and allow them to post to it, Gundotra noted that he doesn't quite want to do it yet. In his view, just opening up an API would pollute the stream.

I grok his concerns, but what they really need to do is provide the tools for users to micro-manage their own streams. Hashtag filtering for circles would be a huge step in that direction, and give users complete granular control over what they see and from whom. For example, if I want to see Sergey Brin's posts on computer science but not his skydiving vacations or pictures of dinner, hashtag filtering on my CS circle would facilitate that.

Side note - amusing article in the sidebar: "Study: Two-Thirds of Search Engine Users Don’t Want Personalized Results". Yup. I tend to use DDG or Google in Chromium Incognito these days.
Hilarious. It's pretty good for short, witty puns.
Good idea, although it's hard to schedule around all the existing events.
The sites that have easily scaled bcrypt include many so large that this argument has basically been mooted, but if you want to nerd around with it: you would hypothetically just turn the cost factor down to accommodate load.
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I regularly read HN, and I like to think I'm generally aware of web development stuff, and I hadn't even heard of Bootstrap until the for/against argument blew up on HN over the last few days.

If I haven't heard of it, none of my friends have. Out of the hundreds of people I know, I'd imagine possibly one of them has heard of Bootstrap.

Unless your startup target is web developers, nobody will have any clue what you're using as your UI kit, but they'll be pleased when things are where they normally are.
It did get me and I'm sure a lot of other people thinking. Would you mind answering this Quora question that I set up so I can sleep tonight?

http://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Tether-HTML5-app-work
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Don't know if this is the best home page, but I have this: http://cl.ly/012B0V3C2P2Y2L1v101I

Currently active projects with links to admin site, stats etc.
those whom enjoyed the zen sentiment of this post ("accept, accept, accept") will also enjoy's Paul's "I am nothing". http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2908015
It's no secret that the "going rate" for startups that are successful and get acqui-hired is $1-2M per engineer.

It's hard for big companies to find talented engineers, and so when they acqui-hire, they can just instantly shuffle those smart people out of the project they're working on and onto something else.

The bet is that each smart engineer will provide at least $1-2M of value to the company in the long-run.
Meanwhile, what I thought was, "Oh, this is where they censor it for YouTube."

Which, now that you mention it, is the same thing you're saying.
Can we expect any way to tether a Wifi-only iPad or iPod touch to this service in future?
Fuck Cancer.
"I can look after your house, do the cooking, mind the children".... seriously?

Seriously sexist and creepy.

Liberate the robots! Overthrow the slave owner "human" class!
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I actually used it when I was getting going with Rails. Trying to install rails on Windows was a nightmare. Your tutorial was so easy to follow and was invaluable right after I had switched over to Mint from Mandriva.
3 simple ways to stay inspired, motivated as an entrepreneur
Well done. Thank you for sharing this intimate part of you. Please, please everyone: take heed: "Those who push only for the sake of some future reward, or to avoid failure, very often burn out, sometimes tragically. Please don't do that."

To those not taking heed: Being and Internet Celebrity today will provide you no comfort in that not-to-distant tomorrow when your spouse, children, family, and friends have realized that they are not the most important ingredients of your life.
This was truly touching. Thanks PB.
If everything has to go through their servers and then downloaded by the Mac/PC, then it basically defeats the whole purpose of tethering.

The real trick is that they found a way to pipe data from the iPhone to the Mac without going through the internet, all using a good ol' browser web page.
Actually, that's 20mb, but I'm pretty sure this went up to 50mb with the new iOS 5.1 update.
Thank you for sharing this Paul.

It puts 'our world' into perspective and makes you think hard about what really matters to you deep down.

When you're young out of college you don't often think about family and your personal future.

I think we should all do that a bit more.
Why does the assembly tester guy even have a job? A robot could have asked her the same questions.
Trademark Woes
Hey HN, just wanted to vent and share our recent experiences lately with trademarking.

We had a very relevant and favorable name for our startup. We've purchased the domain name, built the technology, worked on design and marketing/messaging, and purchased business cards. Only months later after all that work and talking to customers and mentors to develop our product did we start the process to trademark our name. We're fortunate to have access to a trademark attorney, who told us that our name has a big chance conflicting with another trademark recently granted which lists what seems like every internet software good and service under the sun, only a few letters off but pronounced very similarly. Overall, we're fortunate to not have incorporated yet, but I think it's more the attachment to the name and the time spent developing our messaging that's got us down.

After getting over the initial stage of feeling bummed we have to abandon that relevant name, we spent a week brainstorming new names that sounded unique, domain was available, and a uspto.gov search turned up no concerning results. We narrowed it down to a few favorites, and decided on our favorite one. We were so excited around this new name, started brainstorming how we could leverage a play on the name for marketing, design, and focusing the company around a cool character mascot we began sketching. Spoke to the trademark attorney today and he found another trademark with goods and services described as a desktop CMS application and selling prerecorded video/audio recordings for lessons in marketing. At first we said no, that's so different from what we're doing! But then he showed us a similar application for a different spelling of the name we wanted, along with the letter for rejection by the trademark office, which explained:

The goods and/or services of the parties need not be identical or directly competitive to find a likelihood of confusion. Rather, they need only be related in some manner, or the conditions surrounding their marketing are such that they would be encountered by the same purchasers under circumstances that would give rise to the mistaken belief that the goods and/or services come from a common source.

Now we're back to square one. We're thinking for this round we need to brainstorm names that are obscure, possibly in a different language, or a word that means nothing at all.

Does anyone have any similar stories or advice to share? Going through this frustrating process, I'm surprised any startup is able to choose any name with common words in them. Do many companies just go with a name once they secure the domain and hope for the best?

Thanks for any feedback.
Interesting idea. Are these posts are exactly the same or do they have different title/message?
Thanks. I hope more providers think this way.
I have another good suggestion: learn pressing the left control with the side of your palm. It's usually a very minimal movement, and I find it a lot easier (and less straining) than moving the pinky to press control. The only drawback is that it doesn't really work on a laptop keyboard.

I picked that up a few years back playing World of Warcraft and some other games, to avoid having to move my left hand away from WASD as much as possible, but it has served me very well in a lot of other applications since then.

Edit: Well, that was supposed to be an answer to cheatercheater below this comment. Woops.
Isn't SXSW over, in the Portlandia sense of the word, by now?
fair enough, but I still question why a tutorial needs to be rewritten to make use of a different CSS framework. Are there that many people forking this tutorial that they want something cleaner to work with? I just don't get it.
I can relate to where you're coming from. When it comes to the motivations that drive some engineers (vs. the ideals that ought to drive them), you'll probably like the recent talk by Bret Victor, "Inventing on Principle" (vimeo.com/36579366).

You (correctly) point out the places where capitalism comes up empty, if capitalism is our implicit system of determining the worth of goods and services. Apart from the environment (which seems unaddressed by the major economic models of the world) or the other causes you mentioned (unaddressed by capitalism, at least), I suppose it's fine to rely on the adequacy of money as some measure of the wealth we add to the world (http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html).

Even if the world is being eaten by software (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651...), the transition to using software happens fastest through startups, I'm coming to believe. I used to work in a life-sci research lab, and there's just an exponentially growing divide between data growth and the tech resources to handle it. NGOs and government can be disorganized and unmotivated, so working for them is not necessarily going to be the best use of your engineering talents. But that might be aside your point, i.e., try to work towards noble goals.

Lastly, and most importantly, I find the model of the Aravind Eye Hospital as truly inspiring and business-model bending: a company set up to help the ones who are the _most_ in need. The ones who can least afford it. And yet in the process, generate income that goes back to serving and accelerating the mission. _This_ is what "social enterprises" ought to be:
http://infinitevisionaries.com
I completely agree with you, mindstab. I didn't feel sympathy, I felt rage that the dudes writing this story thought it was cool to play around with my actual oppression to make up an imaginary oppression, where both the real and the fake are meant titillates them and other guys, not to speak to women's actual experience.
You should charge money for the more advanced features (eg: auto email)
Thanks for writing that, Paul.

Six months ago, I lost a family member to glioblastoma, another one of those "get your affairs in order" cancers. It was 3 months from beginning to end for us as well.

In the interim, it seems like I've had two sorts of conversations. Ones with people who have experienced loss, and ones with those who haven't. The latter group are perfectly nice people, but there's a gap. So I am very grateful that you've taken the time to write about issues that are so present to me and so many others.

And yes, of course this is about startups: Beginnings and endings. Loss and acceptance. Presence in the moment. Creation and joy. And choosing wisely how to spend what little time we each have.
"Old" and "new" don't describe intrinsic qualities, they're just indicators of what sequence things arrived in, which is something wholly orthogonal to the value or utility of the things in question.

Yes, people may often be uncomfortable with change per se - but if it's fallacious to presume that change is always bad, it's equally fallacious to presume that newer is always better.

Much of the criticism of Google's recent changes describes valid objections to the nature of Google as a tool in its present state, not just complaints that it's different from what they're used to.
I have never lost anyone in my immediate family but this made me choke up,

"He was gone, but his belongings were still there... It does not feel good to pack up the remains of your brother's life."

RIP Stephen
I guess this is how we are different. I am an avid Android user (phone & tablet). I like my devices. They work for me. I think both the iPhone and the iPad are nice pieces of hardware. They are slick. They function well. They do about the same things that my devices do. Some things are better... somethings are not (they do lack a couple things I really enjoy about my devices). Unfortunately for Apple, they are the very reason I probably will never own one of those devices. But if the iPad is what works for you... awesome. Use it. Love it. I don't think we need an "iPad killer" or an "iPhone killer". It would be a very sad world if there truly was only one option for a phone or tablet (even if it was an Android based device). There is plenty of space for multiple players. It is just plain arrogant douche-baggery to go around with this "the iPad is all you will ever need so stop looking" attitude. The best tool is the one that works best for you. Funny thing is, that is not be the same tool for everybody. Do I care that the iPad may have 99.9999% of the market share of tablets today? Nope. Just because all those people decided the iPad was the best tool for them it is irrelevant to which tool is best for me. Perhaps down the road more people will start choosing something else. Maybe not. I still like my choice. I'm not going to tell you what device to use... so don't start telling me which one I should (unless you're just trying to be an arrogant douche wagon for the heck of it).

But hey... what do I know. I'm just some idiot that doesn't own an iPhad. rolls eyes
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I've gone through a few hireart applications and I find them rather irritating. They allow the hirer to ask an ENORMOUS amount of work for an application. The last one I did took over 3 hours to complete, 7 essays and two videos, one a rather long screencast.

I think hire art gets in the way of finding talent, but a lot of people looking to make a good connection dont have hours to complete a long list of questions created at the whim of a founder or HR rep.
Terminal IDE is great and I use it frequently on my Prime, but it has no DNS name resolution built in. Also it is missing emacs. This has limited it to really just another place to SSH to a VPS.

*NOTE you can use jping to get the IP for a hostname. FWIW
You first learn to accept, accept, accept, then you learn to cope, cope, cope.

You must also learn when to fight, when to submit, and most importantly the balance in between.

For humanity didn't progress by simply accepting, simply coping, nor can it survive further by always fighting.

Take care.
Beeminder: Enforced Goal Tracking (quantified self with teeth)
Loopt was a lemon, dropping to just 500 daily active users prior to sale
anyone know of a good common lisp book/tutorial?
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I wish Google would take the problems of cross phone compatibility more seriously. Without it the entire purpose of Android is compromised, and yet, they don't seem to put much effort into ensuring compatibility or motivating manufacturers to ensure it.

For example, while I support Google's decision to keep the Android market open, I don't see why apps that simply crash upon launch should be allowed allowed to be sold and downloaded to people's phones. Google can easily detect / track this kind of thing and automatically flag phones not supported as incompatible, refund users and notify the developers. On the developers side, they should have access to an extensive database of compatibility information so that manufacturers are shamed into seeing devices that are hard to support getting black banned in the market and crossed off support lists by developers.

I don't think you need an authoritarian approach like Apple's to make things better, but you need to do more than Google is right now.
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I am really skeptical (though I'd be more than happy to see someone prove me wrong) about these "framework" apps, that doesn't actualy do anything by itself, except to provide an API of some sort for others to take advantage of. They reminds me of those obscure ActiveX plugins (3D model viewers, etc) that sites make you install. I am usually somewhat hesitant about getting them on my computer unless a see great value (eg growl), but I suppose I'll be even less willing to have these on my iPhone, as an app that sits somewhere on my home screen. My users might feel differently about this, but it certainly would be very difficult for me to explain to them what is it that they are installing and the experience could become quite confusing.
I can relate so much, unfortunately. Reading this post, and all the details that you provide about that day - I can remember so well the day that I learned my sister had an accident... and the night that she passed.

I found out it took a lot more effort to get back to normal life afterwards and I feel encouraged that you have been able to.

The worst part is the need for meaning - in what happened and in what you want to happen for your life - and the high burden it can impose on someone.
Two years in, I feel that acceptance is indeed the only way to be able to fly again.

Thank you for this post paul... and good luck handling that day and remember your beloved brother.
Yes you can, if you know math. Plus, with math knowledge often comes the wisdom to not commit crimes.
>So not gonna work for wifi-only iPads

Excuse my ignorance of Apple products but how can tethering work on a device without a internet connection ? You want to go trough a iPad proxy to get to a WiFi connection ? Why not just connect to WiFi with the PC ?
My post titled "Forget Self-Improvement" seemed to spark a lot of feedback—some positive, lots critical. Regardless, it started some good discussions, which is what Deliberatism is all about.

A number of commenters asked how one might find the thing they love. It's hard for me to say what will work for others, but I have some hunches. This post contains some of my thoughts.
Zeldman said, “In 1999 it was Razorfish’s money. That sucked too. There’s always been a garish commercial sideshow alongside good indy content.”

Ben Brown responded, “But Razorfish made websites. Amex makes debt. Is SXSW the product that we consume, or are we the product SXSW sells to Amex?”
I've always like about:blank. It even comes with a friendly reminder. http://imgur.com/jRmfB
Practical Common Lisp : http://amzn.to/A1pooF

definitely one of the best CL books out there...
Practical Common Lisp is very good and it's free: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

For more advanced stuff, On Lisp and Let Over Lambda are both good, and both (mostly) free.
I've been doing iOS dev for a while now and I'm considering expanding to Android as well but stories like this give me pause. I guess I've been spoiled by an environment that's homogeneous enough that I don't have to worry about things like GL shaders mysteriously failing on some devices etc.

Can more experienced devs comment on how common these kinds of problems are in practice? If I do some Android ports for my clients do I really need to buy 10+ devices and debug on each of them?
By "Fuck Cancer", do you mean that "Nations should stand together and help drive forward the research and development it takes to prevent and fight cancer"?
Thanks for sharing your story, it's good to remember the truly valuable things in life.
You could want to use the iPad as the client. Ie use an iPhone to give internet connection to the iPad.
(I guess that what the GP meant)
Oh I see, that makes sense :)
I'm not seeing where GP indicates they don't realize that VCs' loyalty to their buddies can easily bring them in profit in the long term.
this looks pretty cool. use it to install python and/or ruby:
http://botbrew.inportb.com/
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PNaCl is not NaCl. None of the NaCl apps in the Chrome App Store are PNaCl apps - which isn't surprising since PNaCl isn't ready.
This is nice but really vague. I read your last story and it was the same. Why don't you give some examples?
Per http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/09/loopt-dau/ daily active users were below 500 prior to the sale.
The perils of gamification
"... No sponsor, no fancy running equipment--he's in overalls and work boots. He won, setting a new record for the race, knocking almost 2 days off the old record. ..."

I saw Cliffy Young during that run. I was on a bus on the way to Canberra for school when we passed him going up a hill. The way he won was by taking very few rest stops, sleeping at most 2Hrs every 24. I'm pretty sure he had runners on but did train in gumboots at home.
That would be a nice change from posturing over domination, natural resources, and ideological differences. But I don't expect it to happen.

I find the meme "Fuck <thing that doesn't care>" to be a reflection of the 'accept, accept, accept' mantra. Sort of like the old "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." where the term meant more 'I expunge them from my consideration' rather than any overt sexual overtones.
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