skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a link on that page right there ("get the code") as well as the "fork me on github" banner in the main site. Should we make this more clear? (not sure if you were pointing out a deficiency or asking a question)
If I go to www.spotify.com it redirects to http://www.spotify.com/int/ and the following message comes up:

" Spotify is currently not available in New Zealand. Enter your email address to be first in line when we launch! "

Which isn't exactly solving the problem...
Both of my companies www.sincerely.com & www.xobni.com are ZeroCater customers. The quality and diversity of the food we get is better with ZeroCater than when we ordered it ourselves. Also, the vendors show up on time. They know if we complain they won't just lose 1 customer - they may lose all of ZeroCater. Arram has found a true market need. His story of hustle is inspiring. I'm so genuinely excited by this perfect story of entrepreneurship. And I wish I would have invested.
Sadly it looks like supporting SPDY for Firefox has to be special-cased (the indicator checks for X-Firefox-Spdy: in the headers). Because of this only a couple of the above servers support it.
The title of the post makes this sound frivolous, but it actually seems like a worthwhile endeavor. 60 ms * the number of packets sent back and forth is significant; and, as the article points out, it'll also add redundancy to the cable network between Asia and the rest of the world.
No, we did the indexing and searching ourselves utilizing Solr and using a document service (can't remember the name, starts with an S, which was pricy). This let us take out a lot of "fuzzy" tokenization requirements and rely on pretty exact matches in content. I'd love to talk more about it with you. My email is in my profile.
We've been doing the simpler version of this for years now, basically stolen the idea from a 2007 MarketingSherpa article [1]: we just raise a modal window for every subscriber address and ask something like "Please check again: is this your email address? - Yes / No (I want to correct it) (with the email address in big letters). Has worked wonders ever since ;)

[1] http://www.marketingsherpa.com/content/?q=node/2223
Sorry, but what value do publishers provide for _digital_ products? I mean for paperback copies I can understand the value (they will have printers closer to their market for reduced costs, better local promotion etc), but for ebook versions what do they provide you?
You are right. I don't really feel offended anymore. It's just, that this type of thing goes against my upbringing. To give you an idea, if you used this metaphor in Germany it would be way worse than saying "We had to work like niggers".
Great resource. Will be implementing this.
Thank you very much. It's so generous of you to share your expertise at such a price point that almost feels like stealing :)

Seriously, have a great life.
You might appreciate jslint or closure-compiler - both have their quirks, but they can be tremendously helpful at finding certain errors.
The day I see a coca cola logo on my POST screen is the day I purchase a sledgehammer.
sounds good, grazie!
Hi, I don't think I would, it's nice to have the URL lookup, but a tab in chrome with whois opened up is free while using trello or a google doc. Plus the market segment that would find this tool useful is quite small of start-ups. However, I would argue this would be great tool worth paying for enterprise wise, ad/design agencies have a nightmare trying to find a URL for projects, or new rebranding projects.
Good news. Tangentially: I hadn't realized that Nestlé has biotech subsidiaries. Strange.
A while ago I made this bookmarklet to easily geocitize a webpage:

https://gist.github.com/2141034

The code is quite dumb but it works rather well.
I, too, took it literal. Could be because this community is made up of very literal folks.
Even then, you can keep communication via email or IM, just send a message to the person who may know, "hey, do we have any library for this, seems like we might", etc and they get back to you when they can, you don't have to have face to face to ask questions, as you said, mainly its important for newbies, but more experienced dev's should know when to ping someone even if the response won't be immediate.
Hiring between portfolio companies – playing nice in the sandbox?
Including this thread. Oh my.
Caroline Lewko: don’t expect mobile developers to be part of just one community
Have it installed for a few weeks now, it fails for many domains. If you click a link from example.com to example.org, it will already mark example.org as 'potentially tracking you on example.com' (because it sent the referer of example.com to example.org once).

Also it reports nearly every domain I visited in the past weeks to be tracked by lesswrong.com, which is rather impossible.

Lastly, it gets cluttered very fast. Not within 5 minutes, but a day later no user could make sense of it anymore. There should also be a clear overview with things like top domains (which would be Facebook for their Like button, Google ads and analytics, and probably more).
Yes, and I'm saying where I grew up most people seemed to think it was outdated drivel. We live (where I live) are in a multicultural society with many immigrants living peacefully, and we found, from the people I know, TKaMB dry and mining lessons that have long been incorporated in our society.
What about the whole "Ender commits mass genocide" part?

The book's apologetic tone about his violence doesn't make it any better - I would even argue that it makes it worse, as it waters down to "extreme violence is okay if you don't feel good about it".
Found the recorded presentation of this: http://new.livestream.com/websummit/LWS/videos/348135. It's only 30 minutes long.
Yes, they're not a charity. They're also not a pension fund. To me they look a little like a prep school (but maybe I'm wrong).

The mission of a prep school is to help good students become brilliant; if it becomes stuffed by already brilliant candidates (for example because the admission process is more selective than the admission process of the college it preps for), so much so that there's no place left for second-tier students who would make the most of its teaching, then there's a problem.

I'm just wondering if this is something YC worries about or should worry about.
It has nothing to do with the location.
What do you see as the difference between the two? Or, put another way, what do you see as the requirements for a disruption?

I don't see any reason why a middleman that's doing something innovative shouldn't be considered a disruption.
Zuckerberg a no-show at pre-IPO analyst meeting
Sexism in Tech. Or: CloudMine pulls its sponsorship of API Jam.
I think what people in some of these countries don't realize is that there is not a big enough financial incentive to do the legal work required to bring certain artists to those regions.

What exactly is this "legal work"? The Berne convention makes copyright worldwide, and your typical software company doesn't need to check to see if their customer is in the US before selling them their product. Your typical independent band doesn't perform a region-check on customers buying their MP3s. What's different here?

From what I can tell, most of the "legal work" is complexity created by the labels themselves.
I'm all for less sexism in the tech community, but this just looks like someone taking an opportunity to make a furor, rather than constructively working to change attitudes.

"Let's have a lynching."
Updating server software is not rocket science. There are enough good webhosts out there that are doing a great job of keeping their servers up to date. Mind you, they are not the cheapest.

I also like to mention Parallels and their product Plesk that gets updated automatically without any problems; at least on our server.
Summary: Suggests using a single registrar, says in comments:

"Many domain investors might stick with 2 or 3 registrars [...] it’s not a bad thing to do."

Appears to amount to "complexity is bad, mkay?". Which is fair enough, having domains with lots of registrars is probably a nightmare.
It doesn't. However, the more launches required to assemble your spacecraft, the more chances there are for something to go wrong.
I am glad you liked it.

1) Yeah this makes a lot of sense. We are planning to charge $0, $5, $20, $99 per month depending on the number of impressions your tutorial gets and the amount of support you need.

We might also sell the library on its own for a one-time fee. (this will probably be without analytics though).
Heroku and Apigee have already tweeted that they have pulled their sponsorships
I agree about team rooms, and IBM agrees with you too: In the 1970s, IBM's research into this suggested a hybrid model for developer productivity -- it's one I think still works well today.

The idea behind the model is that small product or functional teams tend to need to talk at the same time, and therefore also tend to need 'flow' time at the same time. Breaking flow for the group is evil, hence separate space. Recongregating for a short chat between team members is evil, hence the coworking.

400 square feet is more than enough space for a brainstorming area as well as desks.

I personally hate to see a common pattern of developers with headphones on -- it means the tech teams are stressed in some way, and don't have enough flow time or personal space.
It sounds like you have the email addresses of your users stored in plaintext. In that case, you should be able to extract all of the domains of verified email addresses from your existing information, thereby covering all of the likely domain names of your userbase and future users.
Study: alternative energy has barely displaced fossil fuels
ya, this. There's literally nothing jQuery related in this code. The jQuery part prevents it from being run in node or in non-jquery sites.
Louis CK did it first, but I'm glad Aziz followed!
> At the end of the day, you're not entitled to everything everyone else has.

It has nothing to do with entitlement. Copyright is not a god-given right. It is a social contract; the consumer respects the copyright so that the artist gets more money, in return the consumer gets more art.

Currently, this social contract is out of balance. I think the right approach would be for some smaller countries, such as Slovenia, which get routinely neglected by copyright moguls, to pass laws saying that copyright is only valid if the work in question is offered domestically under equal terms as elsewhere worldwide. That would solve the problem real quick, one way or the other.
New iPad: Consumer Reports says tablet runs hot
That modules vs. types has been going on for awhile

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622166

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse505/98au/s...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481700

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641355
Heroku didn't notice/care until someone else started making a big deal about it. Then like any sane company they took the safe route.
Mobile Marketplace EggDrop Hits Half A Million Downloads
Just bought the 5.99 Deluxe with PSDs -- Ill reply back after I have a chance to review it.

I just want to say, the 2.99 was an awesome price point - from an incentive to buy stand point. With 5.99 including PSDs it seemed like a no brainer.

I love cheap learning materials like this. It would be sweet if there was a standard e-learning app on the ipad and I could buy the courses through that app for $1.99 where all the courses were tech focused.

Khan Academy is awesome, but I want good materials that could even be things like Adrian Cockrofts cloud tutorials etc..

-------

EDIT:

Ok, I read the doc and here is my review.

1. The overall concept of this is fantastic, and I think the example UI you show is clean, elegant and beautiful.

2. I would have liked to see an initial explaination of a thought process on what to first write down, in pencil, about the elements you would have in the UI. Help me know what you, as an expert, may intrinsically know - or be able to do in your head based on experience.

3. Prior to page 20, your example UI image jumps from place to place, then 20+ (mostly, except page 28) it is in the same place, this allowed me to scroll through the doc and quickly flip back and forth to visually compare steps. It would be better if all UI examples were in the same place.

4. To further item 3; I strongly feel this doc would be far better if it were in landscape format. I am reading this on a screen, and it is a PDF. Portrait wastes a ton of space and makes the overall content scaled smaller as I try to see a single page on my monitor at a time.

If you were to put the doc in landscape with all notations and commentary to the right hand side, ideally using 11x17, as the page size, this would be a hell of a lot more consumable. (It is an e-book first. Dont worry about people who print to 8.5 x 11 as much. (I make a LOT of graphic documents for all my clients, and every one of them is 11x17 because the information density and clarity balance on 11x17 is far more than 8.5x11

5. The fact that you included links to examples and resources throughout the document is fantastic.

Overall, I liked this and it was worth my purchase, but i think the formating could be improved for easier consumption.

Thanks!!
As someone who was 13 years old in 1996, I take exception to this. It looks like it was made by an 11 year old in 1996.
Title is redundant. If anyone other than 13 year olds were designing websites in 1996 there certainly wasn't any evidence of it back then.
I wish some of details were spelled out when posting these sorts of e-books. Visual Design, vs. the Design + the JS, CSS and HTML is a significant difference. My guess was that it solely focused on the mockup, based on seeing the psd option. And I would've been upset buying this with hopes of getting the actual code to develop a front-end like this.
It's just as likely that they didn't know. Marketing materials don't get sent through sponsors first.
All evidence to the contrary (including this article).
Pirate Bay Wants to Send Servers into Low Orbit with Drones
Maybe fly to the moon first before you tackle mars?
You definitely make some good arguments, thanks again for sharing your feedback :)
I disagree. If it works once, it works. We're running on Rails 2.3, have been for two years, and have no plans to upgrade. I can't imagine any extra feature we'd need from the framework; if so, we build it ourselves. We've hacked Rails up to fit our needs, and I think that's the way it should be.
Just doing DNS checks might not be enough:

`$ dig hotnail.com MX`
yields results but is still invalid.
Absolutely. Voice traffic is a big consumer of IP bandwidth these days. The difference between a call made over a link with 170 ms of latency and 230 ms of latency is significant. In conversational terms, the average call participants will start being annoyed at around 300 ms. At 230 ms, any hiccup is going to make the call pretty frustrating. Shaving 30% off that latency buys you some headroom and better general conversational performance.

In a greater sense, voice can teach you a lot about the challenges of network various conditions. You can pick and chose a codec to work around a low bitrate, or even high loss rates, but when working with latency, you're stuck. This looks like $1.5 billion well spent.
Learning by Rapid Iteration
Microsoft Invents Projector Eyewear for Xbox
Phage Theraphy: A virus fueled alternative to antibiotics
As bacteria grow increasingly antibiotic resistant, phage therapy (using tailored viruses to kill bacteria) is getting new credibility as an alternative.
Yes, because pulling sponsorships from an incompetently promoted event is definitely the same thing as lynching its organizers.
Groovy parallel systems
Unfortunately for society, the middlemen whom that would put out of business are doing everything in their power to make sure that never happens.
Complaints new iPad too hot to handle
I don't like that Boston is in the headline. People do notice these things.
There, changed it. If people still take this one literally, I don't know what to say…
The other major frontier of exploration isn't faring any better:

"More people have walked on the surface of the Moon than have visited the bottom of the Marianas Trench. We've even been to the Moon more recently than we have the very bottom of the sea."

http://io9.com/5894566/james-cameron-says-the-current-state-...
As well as getting more money, they can get advance money. This is important for movies. They can raise a chunk of the production budget by pre-selling distribution rights to Europe and Asia &c. In order to have something concrete to sell, they need strict DVD region coding and country restrictions on the internet.

Distribution rights for your country are worth investing in because you know you can make money if the movie is popular. A percentage of net profits is not worth investing in, because you have no control over what they are netted of.

Global distributors alone won't solve this -- the funding mechanisms need to change too.
Darpa wants the ultimate technology, sensor network to monitor the vast Arctic
Thanks for the replies. Last time I looked there was an experimental apache mod that looked dead, and not much else. Glad to see activity again.
It took less than 2 hours for this to go from Twitter meme to Heroku and Apigee pulling out. If a sponsor pulled out tomorrow, I'd still be impressed with them for doing it. The simplest explanation for what happened here: this is an image Heroku gives a shit about not having.
I don't think anyone in particular tried to make a furor, more that this was just a particularly egregious and dumb case, where it was easy for everyone to pile on and apparent to everyone what the proper resolution was. It snowballed quickly because unlike more pervasive gender issues in the tech community, this was an easy one to solve, if not avoid in the first place.
Be careful. Some legit domains might not have an MX record. (but could still work; messages will usually go to the A address)
But they have to understand that, by trying to get more money by inflicting pain on their customers by herding them into per-region pens, they thereby gave up all their moral rights to bitch about piracy, ever? In any non-home country, anyway?
I think this is too narrow a range to determine where bugs are in the process.

Bugs in the application process can only really be rooted out by startups that apply and are successful.

Startups that apply and fail could point to a bug in a number of different areas - not just the application process.

If the purpose of YC is to make money and improve startups, than they are failing at both of those things if they pass on startups that eventually succeed.
It's not a social contract, it's a government granted monopoly.

Currently the 'industry' operates much like a cartel. I would posit that granting monopolies rarely benefits the most people, despite the good intentions.
This is interesting, thank you for sharing.

One of the core values we are providing is the hassle-free analytics we provide that lets you see core metrics like close-rates of individual explanation boxes, successful completion rate of the tour and the amount of time your users spend on each explanation box.

Also, being able to interactively build a tour for your website is really valuable especially if you are a marketer or a non-technical manager who wants to do this.

We also don't require IDs for elements which makes it very easy to try and iterate.
Leah Francis: even when she is dressed pussy-pictures-
He wrote at length about it here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...
Picle App, from 15 to 30,000 users in a week
+1.

Back then at 13, I already knew the dancing baby was not cool.
The article implies that Mozilla is on our side, and wouldn't sell the user to marketing firms. But if you visit mozilla.org, collusion reveals that Mozilla (potentially) pass your information to webtrendslive.com.
I've also never been paid to make games, so hopefully someone who has can come along and correct me. I've found that Lua is a great fit because the cost of calling from native code to Lua and from Lua to native code is almost zero, because even running big routines of pure Lua is reasonably feasible, and because it's much more expressive than C++.
Link to relevant news article, for those looking for more context http://bostinno.com/2012/03/20/boston-api-jam-publishes-even...
No on mentions one of the real behind-the-scenes motives for these new lines: Tokyo and London are major hubs for the financial services industry and reducing even 60ms in transmit time means big bucks for High Frequency Trading in these two stock markets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
The whole point is that third-party source code can change without your knowledge (or permission, etc). Or, worse, the third-party can simply be hacked.
Got to love the fact that another HN link hovering around this one reads:

"Fact based, data-oriented news (s0rce.com)"
For me the pricing model is perfect for something like this. $2.99? thats right in my 'don't even think about it' impulse range. $5.99 for additional features? I'm already paying $2.99, its not much more AND I get more stuff. Bravo!
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All you have to do is like the page to enter. Its a great startup website also
The 72 DPI Myth
Duplicate from two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3675565
Excuse me: "As soon as the event was published the Heroku team immediately took action with Apigee quick to follow."

What would you expect Heroku have done differently?

HN has seen a sharp increase in negativity lately. What gives?
What was the sexist language in question?
I figured with people selling iOS games that take months of development for $0.99, an eBook shouldn't be much more expensive than that… Plus my main target for this eBook is hackers and entrepreneurs, and since design is not their main field I wanted to make it as easy as possible for them to give the eBook a try.

And I agree that a $1.99-a-course tutorial marketplace would be very cool. Seems like there's already a lot of startups in this space (Skillshare, Udacity, Khan Academy…?)
double that!

Gumroad.com would be ideal for things like this!
yes, I agree, I once worked in a completely open office (no separate rooms, even for the manager / "CEO", it was a very small startup company and would have to listen to this sort of nonsense all day
Only on HN can you get compliments on your pricing model. This is why I love this place :)
pretty much. that's why I find this valuation system that so grossly over-emphasizes future people at the expense of current ones so creeeeeepy.
Self-defense ends when the immediate threat is incapacitated. Ender fights on past that point. The umbrella of "self-defence" does not cover all that he does.
[Benefits to the event include] Women: Need another beer? Let our friendly (female) staff get that for you.
I also involuntarily twinged slightly at "take a brake" and "thing of the paste". Going to guess this didn't get a lot of review before being sent out...
One of the easiest and most powerful actions you can take to change attitudes towards acceptable behaviour in a community is, unsurprisingly, to immediately express disapproval whenever undesirable behaviour happens in your presence.

It's Frown Power. It's effective. Sqoot engaged in some pretty douche-y sexism in the e-presence of thousands of people, and thousands of people are expressing disapproval back at them. It's a safe bet they'll get the message that doing things like that in the future is undesirable, because having people vociferously disapprove of you isn't a pleasant experience.

It might not fix the attitudes of the people who wrote that line, but if it discourages the expression of those attitudes, the culture will radically change in a quite short period of time regardless of whether or not those individuals ever get a clue.

(Incidentally, comparing Sqoot getting told off on twitter and losing some sponsors to minorities being murdered because of their race is more than needlessly hyperbolic).