skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant piece for those who can't access the page:

So, curiously, I tried replacing my username
with Kevin Rose’s:

http://oink-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/kevinrose-export.zip

(go ahead, click it). You’ll get a zip file
of every item he has ever added, rated or
reviewed. You’ll also get every photo he has
ever uploaded to Oink.
Not when everything you put in is Public.
A blog - wordpress.

Anything that is slightly blog like - wordpress.

If something needs to be customised a lot - Django.
sorry, trying to get it back up.
Respect your users.
Not a deep link, but a link to the site directly

http://www.gapingvoidart.com/ignore-everybody-11x14-p-69_0.h...
Thanks for your words of encouragement.If you could mention anything anecdotal, that would be great too.
Ha. I thought the download service was pretty clever and well put together, but didn't notice that the link they gave you wasn't anonymized.
What can a normal person buy right now that appreciates in value at any reasonable rate? Not savings accounts, not stocks (on average), not houses... Most of us don't have the money or connections to invest anything other than some time in hits-driven businesses like startups.
I noticed this when I did my export as well, but when I saw the data, it was only public information. But makes for a good headline for this blogger it seems.
A specialization to make your words more powerfully targeted:

The widely accepted startup methodology---start small and iterate---is just a process for generating epiphanies >based in reality<.

A deletion to make your words more powerfully generalized:

I think the author had excellent insight into the newbie pickup artist's mind, and gave his character a response calculated to strike at the core of the wanna-be's psyche.
GitHub is great because you get to use git. I don't think that you can entirely separate them from each other, or craft an argument for the advantages of GitHub without somehow mentioning git. The vulnerability in GitHub clearly matters. It was a potentially explosive issue, but GitHub issued a prompt and appropriate mea culpa, while resolving the problem. Also, it stirred the pot in the Rails community, with many coming up with safeguards against the potential mass assignment vulnerability. Although I disagree with his downplaying of the problem, I certainly don't have plans of going anywhere else, which I think is the spirit of what the author was trying to convey.
Google Chrome at Pwn2Own and Pwnium
Site is unresponsive... This is the whole of the retraction text:

"Regrettably, we have discovered that one of our most popular episodes was partially fabricated. This week, we devote the entire hour to detailing the errors in "Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory,[1]" Mike Daisey’s story about visiting Foxconn, an Apple supplier factory in China. Rob Schmitz[2], a reporter for Marketplace, raises doubts on much of Daisey's story."

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/m...
[2] http://www.marketplace.org/people/rob-schmitz
Twitter's privacy breach: read the timeline of any (non-Protected) user by navigating to http://www.twitter.com/{username}
It's a real shame that SendHub is US-only.

I can see SendHub really taking off if it expands to Europe/further afield, given how huge SMS is over here. I suspect that has more to do with the carriers than SendHub, but still..

Anyone know about plans to expand to Europe?
This article fails to say what this flag actually does. My understanding is that it makes 64 bit java use 32 bit pointers. Using the fact that all java memory is 8 byte aligned, a 32 bit pointer gets you a 32gb memory space.
I love that we simultaneously have a heap of victim blaming that

(a) they need to develop their professional networks more and
(b) they just need to man up and move to South Dakota.

Before you start commenting with an easy solution, you should stop and think: if everyone did this, what would happen?

In the case of everyone networking better, it would simply recreate the current situation but biased towards those who are inherently better at networking. Well-written resumes aren't themselves valuable: they work as a signal of someone standing out from the crowd. But if everyone does that, it just shifts the equilibrium.

In the case of everyone moving to South Dakota, you'd end up with an unemployment rate of 30% in South Dakota. More than that, even: the number of unemployed in California is currently 2 million, which is more than double South Dakota's total population, let alone workforce, even ignoring the heap of infrastructure issues and mass destruction of social capital that would be involved in that kind of movement.

Instead, look at issues of public choice, broken institutions, and the system as a whole. Do not bother trying to blame (or excuse, for that matter) the individuals involved, unless what you're interested in is furthering a persona of being a hard-ass concerned with individual responsibility and tough love (or, on the other side, a persona of someone who is exceptionally sympathetic and caring toward others). Because whatever state individuals are in now as a result of their choices, as a whole those same individuals, made of the same stock and character and making the same general choices, were better off 6 years ago. What's changed, and how can we reverse or modulate it to improve overall outcomes?
I've never lived in Boston, but I've lived in SF and current live in the Valley and I have to say that SF is awesome for public transit (when it's on time) and SV is better for bike because of the bike lanes. SamTrans on the peninsula is a joke, but the VTA and CalTrain are pretty good. They don't have the extensive coverage of Muni in SF, but if you aren't willing to walk a few blocks to get from a transit stop then you need a car.
I also believe that this is one of the potential benefit of G+. Though this can also easily be rotten by SEO if they use fake people or mechanical turcs. This may explain the effort to enforce identifying the real person behind an account. Facebook is going for it and google too. And this just to be able to throw bigger shovels of ads to us.
Browse Twitter like a boss
394 days ago I posted to HackerNews that I not only had a startup idea but after a few brief conversation I had also “secured” some funding to build an MVP. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2223764

This is a followup post to update you on my progress and to ask for help - http://www.bradslavin.com/2012/03/16/my-baby-is-ugly-from-co...
BTW - M-16s aren't "big scary".

I grew up in rural Alaska where guns were very much a part of everyday life, and I'm not sure I entirely agree.

Handguns are for situations where you don't expect to shoot something. Long guns are for situations where you do. In Alaska, most people carried handguns in the woods in case of bears, but a rifle indicated intent to kill things. Police often have a rifle, shotgun or both in the car, but don't get it out when they're not expecting trouble.

Something similar can be seen in the military, where soldiers whose primary job involves shooting people carry rifles or machine guns, and soldiers whose job is something else often have only a handgun.

A police officer carrying a long gun is, and should be a little alarming; it implies an unusually high expectation of a shootout.
This is decidedly not true. While I wouldn't be so vain as to call myself the top 1% of developers, I've gotten job offers from most major software companies, but one of my criteria for where I accept a job is "do you have fewer than 50 people?"

I want to write code all day, and I want to work on interesting and very hard problems. While this exists at large companies, there are very few jobs at top tier small companies where this doesn't exist.
Is the web our employee, co-worker, partner or boss?
He indicated they refunded him for the duplicate order that he mistakenly placed and that resulted in his being charged twice. Ergo, the second book wasn't a "freebie" until customer support, after processing a refund, also made it a freebie.
The out-of-the-box configuration for Postgres has a lot of performance issues compared to MySQL. I'm not really sure what scenario it's designed for, but I've always needed to make changes for my use case.

Postgres' query optimizer is a lot smarter than MySQL's. For trivial queries this is irrelevant, but your queries have to get a lot more complicated before they'll confuse Postgres relative to MySQL.

Postgres doesn't (that I know of) have multiple storage engines. You don't get something like MyISAM where you can trade transactional safety for better read performance. This is both a plus and a minus: you only have one option but all of the storage engine-related developer time has gone into fixing up that one option.

If you're experienced with MySQL, Postgres will probably come off as ... pedantic. Historically it as a project has cared a lot more about data integrity than MySQL has. That means a lot of the things you could "get away with" in MySQL aren't allowed. In general this is a good thing, but it also can get irritating.

In general, Postgres seems to expect you to know/care a lot more about databases. MySQL is set up so that many use cases work well enough without tuning it, but the flipside of that situation is that the average community member probably doesn't know as much about configuring it to get better performance.

If you're looking to treat your database as a big heap that stores your data and more or less efficiently regurgitates it (i.e. 90% of web programming's use of databases) then Postgres is likely going to need too much babying for the value it provides. If you actually need to deal with very complex queries and can afford to care deeply about your data, I'd have a hard time recommending anything else.
I'm not sure exactly how much water these data-centers use, but it's huge enough that Microsoft built a water treatment plant next to its DC in Quincy, WA, which it now leases back to the city for $10/year in exchange for reduced water rates. In that scenario the water is reused by treating at each stage between the fruit processors, the data center and the city.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/msdatacenters/archive/2011/10/13/...
The main point is that being hard to repair makes it also hard to disassemble for recycling purposes, not if our moms can repair their iPads.

I agree with you in the innovation part and the article may make one consider if innovation should be stifled in favor of the environment.
Is there a reasonable means to prevent people from spamming their friends to get the discount and then saying over some more trusted channel "Please disregard the spam, I haven't tried this thing and don't know whether it is good yet?"
Mike's response: http://mikedaisey.blogspot.in/2012/03/statement-on-tal.html
There were few reasons for mainstream adoption of cryptography in the early 90's. On-line commerce and communication barely existed. Thus little motive existed for public cryptography research and development. By comparison, militaries of the world had decades of experience. Battles had been won and lost because of cryptography.

The cypherpunk movement[1] of the 90's and gradual push towards mass adoption of cryptography for on-line commerce led to the NSA attempting to introduce key escrow via the clipper chip[2] (to enable backdoor access to crypto systems). This plan suffered a quick demise, hastened in part by a serious vulnerability in the scheme being identified by Matt Blaze in '94.

The rate of progress of this movement raised a lot of eyebrows. Crypto currencies were discussed and demonstrated. Julian Assange (and others) demonstrated Rubberhose FS (a deniable encryption system). And if that wasn't extreme enough, Jim Bell started a conversation about the application of cryptography to anonymous crowd-sourced political assassinations (!)...

It should be fairly obvious to see why the NSA (and more widely, the US government) had concerns. These concerns are still valid today with dual-use crypto-anarchy[3] technology such as Tor and Bitcoin being in common use. One side may be trying to prevent this technology being used by Mexican drug cartels, smugglers, etc. The other side sees greater merit in ensuring that populations in Syria, Iran, China, etc can bypass government censorship.

It's well worth reading about this era of computing history and all the well known names that were involved[4]. The insight gained will help with forming opinions on current topics, ensuring that both sides of arguments and all consequences are considered.

In summary, I think it'd be fair to say that mainstream reliance on strong cryptography has dwarfed military usage for a number of years now. The threat is also significantly higher to public/commercial entities because a failure of crypto systems in banking, stock exchange, news and on-line commerce could destroy economies. A break of AES, RSA, etc would primarily be kept secret to prevent economies from collapsing -- not so much to maintain an ability to decrypt meaningless chitter-chatter between millions of ordinary people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk#Noteworthy_cypherpu...
I found the same thing, the whole article is incredibly weak.

He asked with a sort of cocky, corporate assumption that I too was as appalled as he was at the blantant disregard for security [...] it was clear from the way he was talking about version control that he longed for the days of centralized control where one guy had to manually merge in everyone’s changesets

There is a gigantic gulf between being appalled at github's security and wanting to go back to the days one guy was merging all changes by hand.

it wouldn’t be tough to convince some manager-type that this Github thing does deserve a second-look.

Maybe thats because it is worth taking a second look? Who's going to be convinced by a laundry list that boils down to "shit happens, luckily nothing bad happened this one time and it could never be completely catastrophic"? Thats a incredibly low bar to set. I love github, its well tailored to be a host for an open-source master, but not for private stuff; even if we were willing to host internal services outside the trusted network, I certainly couldn't trust github.
There are reasons why many many more people are 'dreamers and thinkers' and have tons of ideas. Because it's easy. Executing those ideas is much harder for most, as it entails actual effort, time, planning and most critically, endurance. I know I had my fair share of TONS of ideas, MANY of them started and very few actually finished.
update2 - Apparently some usernames work and others don't

I believe his account is the only one that is made public. Obtaining a list of usernames is as easy as a 'site:oink.com' search in google.

curl -I http://oink-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/kevinrose-export.zip

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amz-id-2: 9lLlixkcIypVbEIPzp7lmAT3gqwxFS3h99pdgnipW5aZVmhy422YA06OaMT7KOXd
x-amz-request-id: E6D61A351A455807
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:23:28 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:22:17 GMT
ETag: "799ee5f116bed2fac2893dda920a987a"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: application/zip
Content-Length: 65492507
Server: AmazonS3

curl -I http://oink-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/thebucknutz-export.zip

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
x-amz-request-id: D3BF734D33B46816
x-amz-id-2: exsDFYH6AcczbNuZWnlFW86EO9SP8EpwMDSwx9dGjSl9A24f3jXBobTRgOw+XNrC
Content-Type: application/xml
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:23:37 GMT
Server: AmazonS3

update - seems that she had some success with links last night. Looks like they've fixed perms in the meantime.

https://twitter.com/#!/cristinacordova/statuses/180708226696...
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Saw similar engagement results for a client in the private-sales biz when they released their native ipad app.

One piece of data you guys aren't showing, that was relevant to our experience was % who were previous Fab.com buyers.

When we looked at the data again through that lense w found what looked more like a migration of previously strong web-buyers over to ipad.

In context of your article you note "we started to notice that iPad users behaved exceptionally differently from all other mobile users and web users."

But reframing from my own experience I think that the real story is that "your BUYERS behaved exceptionally differently", not the platform users.

Rereading your article, did I miss he point and you had already pulled previously registered from the data?
Not to mention that GitHub also has an excellent self-hosted product: https://enterprise.github.com/
And then, there's the human error issue.

When I got my visa, I went with my mom and brother. Since we have very similar names, the lady who took our fingerprints mixed up the fingerprints. She noticed her mistake and fixed my brothers. But she forgot mine.

End result: when I actually got to the USA and went on the scanner, I got a "fingerprint mismatch". I was directed to a room to sort it out. The immigration officer was extremely polite about it tho, way friendlier than what I expected.

After waiting in line for some guy who was accused of drug dealing but was found not guilty (they were waiting for the courthouse to open to verify), and for a girl who consistently spent as much time as she could in the US (and last time had overstayed the visa), it was my turn. The conversation was as follows:

agent: (...) 5 minute wait while he was apparently typing something, while glancing at me from time to time
agent: - Who is this individual? (turns the monitor)
me: uhhh... oh, that's my brother!
agent: - And where's he now?
me: - Just over there! (points)
agent: - Oh, ok. Welcome to America.
me: - Thank you.

I went to the door and turned back.

agent: - The exit is over there.
me: - I know. I just wanted to ask you something: did you manage to fix my file?
agent: - No. You'll always have this problem.
me: - ... okay then.

I have no idea if that's the typical experience - I hope it is and, if true, I have no qualms about it. There was nothing inherently humiliating, there was no disrespect at any time.

Now, I considered writing to the DHS asking about it, but I am pretty sure that they'll ask me to get another visa. Which I won't until mine expires or if I'm required to change my status for some reason. See below.

By the way, paying $12 for a form is nothing, try having to travel 800km and stand in line under the sun for an hour, after paying $150 (plus travel and accommodation expenses), with no guarantees you'll actually have the damn thing issued. Oh, and that's to be done during workdays - you'll have to use vacation or sick days. Also, it must be scheduled months in advance. And you still have to file the landing papers, which ask you the same sort of questions the article was complaining about.

All that, for a country with a visa rejection rate of less than 5%.

So yeah, I agree that the US needs to be more welcoming. But it is not always that bad. It does need more consistency, though. I guess many of the "rules" are made up by whoever is in charge at that moment.
Show HN: Turning March Madness into a live trivia game
The author appears quite young, so I want to give my two cents to him (her?): when HN people downplay the importance of "ideas," be wary of what an idea counts for in the HN community. A PHP photo sharing site[1], useful markov chain eigendecomposition[2], and the underpinning of our entire industry[3] are all lumped under 'ideas' and yet the HN crowd seems skewed toward being the next PHP photo sharing site rather than the other two.

HN is focused primarily on business. A PHP photo sharing site has a much lower effort-to-bux ratio than some wacky electrical switch. This is completely fine, but you have to make the separation between "dollas" and "innovation." Often they live under the same roof, but one doesn't automatically imply the other. Ideas are where researchers play, and researchers are the antithesis of business.

Your advice ('think less, do more') still stands. I just want to let you know that ideas do have merit, you just have to look in the right place. Good luck!

[1] http://www.facebook.com
[2] http://www.google.com
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor
Daisey responds: "It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell its story, and I believe it does so with integrity".

Calling to mind Jack Shafer (now at Reuters, formally Slate's media critic) on the problematic nature of narrative journalism:

http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2012/03/14/dismantling-t...
Google is already predicting flu trends. I imagine that could be modified for stocks or just about anything else.

http://www.google.org/flutrends/
How to market my app?
I have developed an app for newspapers, it works on iphone, ipad, android, blackberry, playbook and windows 7. I've been able to sell it to several companies as a newspaper app and sometimes as an app for an event for a cinema festival and so on.

But now I'm kind of stuck. I'm not sure how to market it and how to reach more customers. Any ideas?

I'm not much of a marketing guy, I'm much more into coding.

Here's my app and site:
http://www.gic.mx/Newspaper (it's in english and spanish)

Here are some apps using my platform, they're all free although in spanish:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/el-siglo-de-torreon/id388446524?mt=8
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/reviews/58246/?lang=es
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/58246/?lang=es&CFID=66346195&CFTOKEN=66324830
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/ieconomy/acclaimed-ap...

...decent text details.
The developer of Python for iOS, Jonathan Hosmer, mentions that he is prevented by App store policy to provide the functionality of importing external sources into the app.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633968

However, another HN user found a clever workaround using python's builtin exec and urlib:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3634837
http://myblog.rsynnott.com/2012/02/fun-with-python-for-ios.h...
Khoi Vinh & Mark Boulton: Grids are Good
I've been working with postgresql for the last 8 months. I dont really like it though I've gotten used to it now. One thing that sucks in pgsql is the DB-link package. I feel MS SQL Server DBLINKs are way better.

I cut my DB teeth on Oracle and mysql, and have worked with MS SQL server for about 2 years before we moved to postgresql, so I may have a bias but I have to say I'm not terribly impressed with it. One nice thing I found a few months ago was the acquire lock functions in pl/pgsql. This was useful at the time.
Show HN: ClassConnect, Github model for K-12 lessons
Do you think that this can mostly be explained by the assumption that iPad owners are more affluent, or is there something in tablet/iPad usage patterns (maybe more casual browsing situations) that could explain part of it.

Very interesting stats in any case.
And spoken not 50ft from the NSA/FBI/CIA booths attending the conference ..
Was Pearl Harbor really that bad? I mean in the grand scheme of things. Which would be preferable, preventing another Pearl Harbor or preserving liberty?

I'll take liberty every single time because otherwise there's nothing worth defending.
The funny thing is that I am not a liberal. I'm not a conservative either. A sensible mixture, maybe.

Traveling really opens your mind in ways that can't be quantified. I really think that our countrymen can be very egocentric to the point of bordering on ignorance. Understanding and knowing about other cultures is very important. I'd gladly support such a tax incentive because I am sure that it would pay dividends many times over in amazing ways.