skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think OpenTable predates Yelp, actually. I might be wrong about that, but I remember having used OpenTable long before ever having seen Yelp. I didn't realize there was a review component to it. Good move on their part.
Yep, that’s where I looked.
For anyone that wants to track their own typing, check out the whatpulse project: http://whatpulse.org/

My typing (http://whatpulse.org/stats/users/210575/) seems to match his in frequency, around 10 million per year.
So how much money can someone make buying cracked phones, fixing them, and reselling? I guess it only takes one person doing this to normalize the price of a cracked phone.
When are we going to stop referring to companies as the X of Y? It's incredibly confusing and detracts from the company's message.

Or am I alone in thinking this?
How do you decide who to follow on Twitter?
Do you use Twitter's "Who to follow" recommendations?

Do you see who your friends are following?

Do you only follow people you've met in person?

What are the deciding factors?
This article is about my best friend. He told me the backstory a couple nights ago:

He gets a random email asking if he's available to talk to the Globe about his pirate license. "Sure, why not?" So he gets on the phone with a reporter who asks him about his interest in piracy, and that's when he mentions that he used to dress up for Talk Like a Pirate Day in high school. "Do you have any photos of you dressed as a pirate?" "No..."

So a couple hours later he gets an email asking if the Globe can take photos of him dressed as a pirate. And when he suggests they do it at the MIT Sailing Pavilion, they ask around and find a photographer who somehow knows the guy who runs the pavilion. So they meet up, and in some down time the manager tells Jacob: "You know, he's a pretty awesome photographer. Everything he does ends up on the front page."

And it did.

edit: I forgot the best part of the story (for me). I was eating lunch with his former roommate when he walks right past us. We both text him. So he comes back and talks to us for a while, then mentions offhand "So I need to go take photos with a reporter for the Globe. By the way, can I borrow your socks?" The next time he passed by he was in full pirate costume.
Yobongo, Which Launched SXSW, to be Acquired and Shut Down
I've been doing it in bits for a few years, mostly because I'm a sucker for interesting-looking graphs of data, but imo it's a mixed blessing. I've definitely found interesting trends, but measuring is also something I'm actively conscious of, and, as is often the case, it's hard to measure things without the very fact of measurement changing them.

I find myself struggling to avoid falling into the trap of doing or avoiding-to-do things specifically so that they'll show up in the analytics in a certain way that looks nice, which feels like a weird "teaching to the test" but applied to my actual life. Some things I've since stopped tracking because I really disliked the meta-ness of it all.
Women programmers make 95 cents to the dollar men earn
IIRC what wuala did was give people more storage if they give up a part of their hard drive for other to sync with, so it's exactly the same model except without external hardware and more flexibility in choosing how much storage you want to trade off.
Wuala also keep a centralize server in addition to this P2P cloud so I think the purpose of the cloud was more for bandwidth.
I can agree with that.

I'm sure you weren't implying me in particular, but to clarify, I certainly don't think open source is the solution to everything.

I just find it particularly important in the field of emulation. This is much like a science, with constant refinements to theories. Since we're running against the clock to preserve these systems before they die, I assign much more value to open source emulators than I do to other applications (for instance, I'm happy to use the closed source nVidia driver on Linux.)
In the basic case, linked lists are O(n) for inserting at position n, on account of having to follow n elements' worth of pointer trail to get to that position. When you're inserting at the first position (as should normally be the case for most applications to which linked lists are well suited), n happens to be 1.

For certain applications where you already have a pointer to position n by the time you find out you need to insert there, then insertion does end up taking constant time as long as it's not a persistent linked list. But big-O is for describing the worst case, not the ideal case that you can achieve given certain optimizations.
I really like some of the ideas in Go however it still hasen't hit that critical mass that languages need to hit to really make it in the crowded world of programming languages. This is going to be even more difficult for Go then it was for Python or Ruby since they both can serve very well as prototyping language or glue languages. As a systems language Go needs to be able to gain traction from nothing.
Surely the TSA screeners do not know who the testers are, or what they look like. That would defeat the purpose of the test.
Amateur Rocketeer Qu8k Rocket Flies to 120,000+ Feet
The story I heard continued on to say that the donor's husband had died on the Titanic when it sank, and hance her concern.

EDIT:
And incidentally, I got 2 of the 4, and Kendo really ought to count as well.
This assumes that mandatory PE increases their likelihood of being fit in the future. If the students resent it, then it might be a net negative to their future fitness. Or it might just have no effect whatsoever.
That's still waaay too much for a 140 character message and a thumbnail of the author, plus possible custom css.
Also S3 now that you can host static websites there.
Iso Block Building
X of Y is pretty powerful when it makes sense. In this case it's tough for me to parse.

Edit: For me, I see EC2 as virtualized servers, and Heroku as Application management. I see Twilio as currently on the same playing field/complexity as Heroku (compared to say, hosted Asterisk)
What’s Apple’s plan after OS X 10.9?
Is it so unreasonable to force everyone to change their password?
How to jailbreak iOS 5.1.
CouchDB uses SHA-1 hashes for passwords - you've got to be kidding me. What is the rationale for that over bcrypt?
When I submit, links are instantly dead. Why?
"nigthmare"? Is that the typographic nightmare?
Seven trends to help you predict iPad and iPhone camera specs
I took the promise of equity, cash and benefits. Two of which are being reduced, one of which had dwindling value.

Good advice, thanks.
15 Examples of WebGL (Google Chrome) Experiments
One can find plenty of examples of such WebGL experiments (Google Chrome) in the internet from which you can get a clear idea how this technology is changing the meaning of 3D graphics in the zone of website designing and development.
Songkick Secures Sequoia's First Ever UK Investment with a $10M B Round
by default CouchDB gives everyone in the world admin access to your instance

tl;dr I dont believe this is a couch issue in the slightest

That seems like a slightly generous interpretation...
How much actual money is there in the world?
The Best Ferris Wheels
This list is intended to serve as a master checklist for enthusiasts of Ferris Wheels and of the complete Ferris Wheel experience.
Actually, all languages suck because there are benefits and tradeofs to every design decision -- cross compitable binary format means JIT compilers, garbage collection means more wasted memory, etc. It is all tradeofs.
No swim test, just a mandatory health and nutrition class.

I use it to find out what the popular websites are for freshmen who don't want to pay attention to lectures. Turns out people who won't stop talking in class really like 9gag.
Please fix the name of Rovio in the title. It is not "Rovia". The original article is spelled correctly.
There is absolutely nothing to see here as far as CouchDB is concerned - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4847145/couchdb-adding-us.... Note that this answer from 2011 noting that _users is not intended for storing secure information.

npm effed up is all.
11. Github.

Don't get me wrong - Github is an excellent site, well built and very useful. However there is a rapidly growing trend of people taking Github as the only place open-source software can live, while I choose to host my own repositories. Github is becoming the Facebook of open-source.

Am I the only person who feels this way?
At the end of the article: "There is entire ecosystem that takes broken phones and makes them whole again, so prices of broken phones aren’t even that low."
It would be very helpful in this situation to actually mention your city? Promise we will not come after you.
Isn't the linux kernel more than 10k lines of code, too?

And GIMP?
Sara Blakely on bootstrapping Spanx
An API for an API. How meta. I would have gone with "The SendHub API: GroupMe for Twilio". Heroku for Twilio doesn't make sense to me.

Question: How many numbers can a plan have?
I'm not sure, but I love that the ratio of the price to fix a cracked screen vs the value created by doing that is roughly the same across all model of iPhones. Put differently, it makes sense that you can always make a little money by fixing up iPhones. You'd expect people to value that more than just the cost of doing it (no uncertainty, not having to look around, etc).
A Venture Capitalist Explains Why There Are So Few Blacks In Silicon Valley
In the case of Hacker News, wouldn't you look at the conversion rate of HN readers -> YC applicants, and determine the value by looking at the value of the larger (and theoretically better) applicant pool?
Some people can do pretty well. But you can't know until you've tested it, repeatedly.
Those are definitely the two options I'm weighing.
I'm hopeful people will be understanding.
> And yes, it looks like they've been using it for a while, no-one noticed till now.

What do you mean by that? This is all from software released today, right?
The SendHub site makes it hard to understand what you do. My takeaway is that you make it easier to use the Twilio SMS send API. In other words, you can help me reduce this:

require 'twilio-ruby'

# find your credentials at twilio.com/user/account
account_sid = 'AC043dcf9844e04758bc3a36a84c29761'
auth_token = '62ea81de3a5b414154eb263595357c69'

@client = Twilio::REST::Client.new account_sid, auth_token

@client.account.sms.messages.create(
:from => '+15105551234', # From a Twilio number you own
:to => '+16105557069', # Text any number
:body => 'Ahoy hoy!'
)

to a single line (the first code is from Twilio's page). If that's not what you do, you should make it clear what you do. Otherwise, I wonder why I'd pay (and add a point of potential failure) to reduce a single line of code to a different single line of code. Also, it looks like I'd lose the inbound SMS feature of Twilio.

Gosh, this sounds like I'm bashing your app, which I don't mean to do. You're YC-backed, so I'm sure the issue is the content on your website not representing your actual value. Hope this helps you align the two.
Yeah that was my feeling too. I mean it's great to have a one-click application to get up and going, but Twilio is about the easiest API i've ever seen, so it's not exactly rocket science.
Meet Clover, possible savior of lost mobile transactions
Oh Look, Someone Just Made CrunchBase Incredibly Useful
Happened at work last month. Everything from the mini-fridge to the monitors.
Probably by preferring storage nodes on faster connections.
Yes that's what we ended up doing with Kapow. Just felt... dirty :)
Enabling broadcast and multicast in the Amazon EC2 network
I can't tell if this is just a simplified passthrough API for working with Twilio or if there is something more to their services.

Twilio's API is already pretty dead simple.
Sucks you had an unpleasant interaction with them. I worked with them quite a bit and never got that. I did stupidly take an interview from a recruiter called Jivaronic or something. That was pretty bad.
it's one thing to pay money and gain space, but it's another thing to pay money and lose disk space you have. i feel like people are more likely to pick the former.
And numerous compilers and interpeters and other system-level software.

The author might be talking about consumer-oriented software, but still saying that C isn't suitable for large codebases is very presumptuous.

disingenuous was the wrong word
We’ve been acquired
At any given moment there's probably a vanishingly small number of HN news readers who are unfamiliar with who 37Signals are. So I suspect that for them, gaining the front page on HN is less profitable than gaining traction in nearly any other community. As such, writing interesting stuff that is appealing to a broad base of communities is more profitable for them than tailoring their posts to get on the HN front page.

My supposition; but really, what ethical difference does it make? If the HN community likes to read the 37Signals viral marketing material then I suppose we all gain, right?
http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/security.html
Inside the clone factory: The story of Germany's Samwer brothers
Isn't it funny how people scoff at ruggedized phones for being "ugly" but then go and slap all kinds of chintzy cases and screen protectors to their fragile phones, making them much uglier than the rugged variant and just barely more resistant to damage than without all that crap?

Mind I have never broken a phone, and I take good care of all the units I have had, only replacing them due to obsolescence.
Government use of Ubuntu
Here is the discussion from the last time this was posted (90 Comments):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1087068
Just mentioning that the Apple Store is always good first place to go to. I got mine replaced for free when I cracked my iPhone 4.
It Would Be A Huge Boost To The Economy If Women Would Start Inventing Things
When will this certificate be available on MITx?
Thats probably true. On the one hand you have users getting so used to bootstrap sites that they begin to instinctively know expected behavior and how to navigate other bootstrap sites, which is good UX. Then on the other hand you have a lack of brand, and disinterest because of overuse, which is bad UX. I suppose its a bit of a catch-22.
Medical technology startups face FDA approval challenges
Actually, I don't think you should trust anyone or anything with your passwords except for yourself. Trusting any one system is giving yourself a single point of failure.

EMAIL:
- Take the time to learn a couple of strong passwords for your email. You can almost always reset forgotten passwords, don't forget that.
- Insure you have two-step login enabled for your email service should it be supported, and make sure you have all the secret questions answers memorised.
- By the way, secret questions are stupid. It's easier for me to get you to tell me your mothers maiden name and birthday than it is to make you tell me your password.
- Have a phone number and other emails associated with your main email accounts, if possible.

OTHER STUFF:
- Never use the same password at one site.
- Develop a personal "scheme" that lets you form passwords easily.

For example, combine a couple of short words/sentences you know, some numbers related to the service (e.g. got an 'i' in the URL? add 99), add some #@~!"£$ with similar rules. Develop something that works for you. Now when you approach a service you use, you should already have a solid idea what the password is.

- Write down "reminders" but not actually passwords on paper. Don't label them. Write other things that don't make sense. Put it in your desk draw.
- Can't do that? PGP/Truecrypt/bcrypt/whatever a text file.

Forgot your password? Press the forgot password button.
OSM is a database of geographic facts ("There is a road here. It is called Main Street. It is a primary road." etc.) Copyright of databases is non-obvious, so they are switching to a click through database EULA thingie.
It's incredibly difficult to fathom (hah!) how high the pressure is at such depths. This quote puts it into [some] perspective:

> The Deepsea Challenger itself will compress by about 2.5 inches during the descent, according to sponsor National Geographic.
New category "SaaSaaS"? (Software-as-a-Service)-as-a-Service
For that matter, libc is considerably more than 10 kLOC (on FreeBSD 9.0, it's about 140 kLOC), and it's hard to think of a more stereotypical block of C code than that.
The "yield to traffic inside the roundabout" rule is the safer and more efficient rule, more or less regardless of roundabout size.
FWIW, I meant Dr. Decapitator. But really, take your pick.
The main issue is what happens when you want to receive a reply to your message - you're going to have to build an inbound endpoint and process those requests. Then how do you know what you sent that contact in the past or what they sent you? We fix those kind of problems and it's just one call for each of them.
Thanks. I was starting to wonder why this is not generating as many comments as it normally would have for this type of articles.
I strongly believe in the concept of "outsourcing" components of an operation in order to specialize more, but is Twilio's API really that hard to use?
We add a lot of extra features on top of the twilio api, like: send and receive messages, context for conversations, scheduled messages and contact management.
Apple hands iPad rivals an opportunity, but who will take it?
The "Python expert" version doesn't run, but it's not hard to fix:

import operator as op
import functools as f
fact = lambda x: f.reduce(op.mul, range(1, x + 1))
print(fact(6))

If you're using Python 2.x, you can make it a bit shorter due to reduce being in the default namespace:

import operator as op
fact = lambda x: reduce(op.mul, xrange(1, x + 1))
print fact(6)
or platform as a service?
That $100-$150 per month price point is bad. For $1200 to $1600, you can buy one of these cheap 100cc Chinese scooters easily, and you don't even need an iPhone. Insurance is about $40 a month and usually not even required for such a low displacement engine, and parking and gas are negligible. Also, riding a scooter safely isn't trivial, and isn't a skill most people have already picked up, like driving. Also, stinky herpes helmet or bring your own, and they aren't really that cheap and are sized.

Also, I don't want to support starting a new trend of the iPhone being the new facebook login.
AT&T faking 4G on iPhones in New York City
Heres my personal tale of attempting to stick it out for as long as possible. It's quite a long read.

Not saying it'll be like this for you, but you need to decide when its time for you to call it quits, and not necessarily get trapped into thinking you can single handedly hold up a sinking ship

http://lookingbackaretrospective.posterous.com
I would really like to know: Did Dwolla actually say "no charge-backs" on their site? If so, who was expected to pay when there was obvious fraud?

This is one of the benefits of using a credit card online. The CC companies take care of all fraud for you. They make it very easy to dispute charges.
Follow people who are interesting and useful -- ideally both.

Look at your competitors, friends, business colleagues to see who they are following. Look at what they say. See if you care.

Sometimes someone "matters" to your business even if they aren't especially interesting because of their position. It might help to know that a prospective customer is in town, so you can tweet, "Want to meet for lunch?"

Think of Twitter as a radio. You can tune in and listen to whatever station interests you.

(Note: I co-wrote a book about Twitter for business. That might make me more reliable... or less. :-) )
Anyone know what the price was?
Interesting that many of the yobongo team were on Scrapblog team before its assets were acquired by Mixbook last year.

http://allthingsd.com/20120308/yobongo-which-launched-at-las...
We love the Twilio api too, but you still have to write a lot of code to make it fully functional for your app, our api takes a lot of that need away. For example, what happens if someone calls the number you send your text from? We have settings and options for that.
I follow people I know personally, services and businesses I use regularly, and people I’ve met and have some sort of ongoing connection to (but aren’t “friends” or acquaintances). Everything else gets added to a list, and especially noisy twitterers (not a fixed rule, but if you update > dozen times an hour) get added to a list and unfollowed.

I find accounts by very occasionally strolling through my followers and the followers/followees of people I follow, or through blogs/articles I like, or people who interact with me who are not bots.

I've set a soft limit of 200 for myself for accounts to follow, it once was over 1000 but I just found that useless in all twitter clients. I unfollowed almost all celebrities, almost all bloggers I regularly read anyway, and really tried hard to cut it down to people or services I had some sort of connection to.

Though I understand the reasoning, the inability to match email accounts to twitter ids is annoying as I frequently discover that someone I know is on twitter entirely by accident.
So breech of copyright = stealing? The RIAA and MPAA were right all along...
Do you think it's up to employers to pay women the same amount they pay men, just because they're women? What I mean is, each employee negotiates individually. I don't think that employers think "I think I'll pay this guy an extra 5.2% just because he's a dude." I think the real problem is that women (in aggregate) are negotiating 5% lower pay for themselves than men (in aggregate) are.

Edit: I guess what I'm asking is What's the call to action? Should we give all women in tech a 5% raise because we feel guilty?
Perfect. I'll definitely read through this.
Interesting. Maybe you could do a rational economic calculation based on value lost per destructive event, frequency of events, and odds that such event will happen before a non-protected event (loss, theft, crushing which exceeds the resilience of a case). Compare that with the cost of a case and the value lost by using a case (ugliness, size).

Although I took my magpul case off my iphone 4 today (to use a tascam im2 microphone), and it's really hard to hold the glass surface, compared to the nice plastic surface of the case.
Don't make the mistake of conflating physical activity with a particular culture centered around sports in schools.
We give you 1 number per plan, but always happy to talk through individual needs: sales [at] sendhub.com or feel free to ping us on live chat on our site.
The second richest company in the United States is not deserving of the ignorance defense.
Form Wizards in Struts2
JOB TITLE:-Treasury Analyst I 
JOB TITLE:-Treasury Analyst I	LOCATION:-San jose, CA
Absolutely agree. It's too bad this happened, but they've turned it into something interesting, and by clearly explaining what's going on, one would hope that customers will be understanding.

It reminded me a bit of these guys:

http://blog.saleae.com/?p=143

Different problem, but same kind of "small-company" response.
Am I the only who has never heard of Airbnb Meetups before?
As far as I can tell, those are raw numbers without controlling for experience, education, etc. It doesn’t sound so bad compared with other industries. You could easily imagine that women programmers on average have 5% less experience or skill than male programmers; the difference may not even be statistically significant.
If anyone's interested (I am because I found myself to be a 'Lazier programmer') -

Timeit's time for three functions:

Lazy Programmer - 0.907521744301

Lazier Programmer - 1.0473810545812512

Using math.factorial - 0.12187403971609001
wow, so he was and is writing a minimum of 50 up to 200 emails per day ? Insane, that would take up my whole day, but since hes mostly managing his company his job probably is mostly about writing stuff to people, but still amazing to keep that up for so long.