skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have been using this in production for well over a year. About 300,000 files have been uploaded via this system. It is quite robust and reliable. The only notable bugs are that drag n drop doesn't work on IE and that Safari/Win has a bug with multi-select. Neither are bugs with the uploader but rather browser limitations.

I highly recommend it. We made it our default uploader, replacing both a java applet and Yui uploader. the drag and drop is awesome, as are the hooks for custom ui, pre-flighting, and error handling.

Alan
Once I figured out that Perl was not just Regular Expressions I had a lot more fun. Irssi scripts are all Perl.

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In numerous cases the FBI has been accused of entrapment...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/29/fbi-entrapment-r...
The 'New Aesthetic' Needs to Get Weirder
This is the main strength, and also one of the most obvious flaws, of PHP. What makes it incredibly easy to get started (if you start from static HTML) also makes it easy to trip yourself up later on.

Mixing logic and your text/data will work well for inserting a simple date, but when you start adding more complicated logic it is easy to create a mess which is difficult to read and modify even for you a few months later. That's the reason other frameworks/languages try to give you a more structured (and complex) starting point.
Most Important Photo Site for Ecommerce? It's not Pinterest.
Yep I like that thinking - no walls and distances on the internet. To take your example a step further, a google search and our boss sees what dance club we attended, sees photos of our last messy night there, and see our comments on pillreports (in a hypothetical case of having a bit too much fun one full moon, and posting about it before the sun comes up). There's a time and place for real names, and it's not most of the time online.
I have this hope, however irrational, that compilers and similar projects become more common on Kickstarter. This is currently the only search result for “compiler”, which feels…wrong, somehow. If I’m not doing anything else this summer, I might just put up a language project and see if I don’t get laughed off the stage.

Of course, it’s hard to offer good “prizes” (or whatever—Kickstarter doesn’t seem to have a term for them) for a project that of right ought to be free and open. This guy had the good sense to offer services, but I could see an “enterprise” edition working out as well.
I think that's a good thing, because it makes sure they get people who are in it for more than the money. I'm not saying that wanting to strike it big in a startup is all about money or is a bad motivation, but rather that it unambiguously paints Valve as a place where employees don't even have to think of it as a career. People are there because they want to make cool things with cool people, not because it's a good stepping stone to another opportunity. I think I read that their retention rate for employees is like 98% or something?

I don't think they need promises of money to attract the kind of people they're looking for. Plus, I'm sure they pay very well, being a 200-300 employee private company bringing in billions in revenue.
How spooky, I was in Harare just two weeks ago for a friends wedding. The electrical grid only seemed to work for a few hours, however with a backup generator the Internet seemed reliable!
How Confirmation Bias Shapes the Debate Over Income Inequality
> She kept the vocabulary clean

It may have been "clean" in the sense that little profanity was used, but it was also full of sexual slang and drug references, and clearly intended to shame Frank (not saying he didn't deserve it, but on the other hand I think a bit more tact is in order). So I could see Kickstarter considering it a violation of the "Don't post obscene, hateful, or objectionable content. If you do we will remove it and suspend you." guideline.

If she did think informing her backers was a good idea, she could have said something along the lines of:

"Hello, backers, you may have noticed that some guy named FrankSinatraWhatever has been posting spam on my threads. Unfortunately, Frank has been cyberstalking me for a while due to a failed relationship from college. If you see Frank posting anything on my project, please just ignore him. Sorry about this, and thank you all for funding my project!"

Still gets the point across without being vulgar, tactless, or ego-stroking.
This was obviously written by a troll and not Rachel.
I'm pledging $1,000 to this. As the author of the PragProg book on CoffeeScript (http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript), I have a stake in making CoffeeScript a more mainstream tool, and I believe that Michael's project will greatly advance this cause.

The use of CoffeeScript has become fairly widespread at startups (GitHub, 37signals, many YC alums...) but not in larger enterprises. One reason for this is that debugging CoffeeScript requires a "hacker mentality": compile-time errors are often reported with minimal or misleading explanations (e.g. "Unexpected ," when there is no comma on the line, but rather an implicit comma from whitespace); run-time errors have to be manually traced from the compiled JS to the original CoffeeScript.

These flaws are likely to be ameliorated gradually (Jeremy has stated that Source Map support is the primary goal for CoffeeScript 1.4), but this project could improve the debugging situation dramatically in a matter of months. I hope the CoffeeScript community will lend Michael their support.
I would like to buy and play that game, or better to say experience that story.
I wish Justin would have explicitly elaborated.
The author seems to believe that a complete rewrite is necessary to address fundamental design issues with the existing compiler. I don’t know much about CoffeeScript or its internals, but since he’s worked significantly on it, I’m inclined to trust his judgement.
Uh... what do you think the actual chance that SHE wrote that?

Edit: Answer: Virtually zero.
Fascinating. Also reminds me the Doctor Who (4th Doctor) story, the City of Death (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/City_of_Death). Perhaps sci-fi writers really are pre-cogs.
Are there any good alternatives to gmail that include tools for migrating an existing gmail account?
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Launch and ignore them. Definitely don't let them shape your business, right now they're nobodies too.
there isn't any.
Starting up a sideline in t-shirt sales? Online payments too small an industry? :p
I think there can be an integration of both services. The Apple TV has Netflix which competes somewhat with their own offerings.

If it helps sell more hardware I doubt it will matter much to Apple.
Social contagion: Conflicting ideas
Yup. Sad someone here took it seriously.
http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission.
Structural diversity in social contagion
Nope. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Exclusive-Simpsons-Springfield-N...
Although the main character in this drama will never be Miss Congeniality, the systematic and largely undocumented attacks on her character on HN leave a very bad taste in my mouth.

This "discussion" feels like a witch hunt.
> If you find yourself in a position like me ,don’t lost hope instead start a project and tell people about it ,it doesn’t have to perfect and use all the resources you can get.

Inspiring story!

I'm curious about the tech stack for mixdem. Was it forked from an example link aggregator, written from scratch, php or ...?
You did it right. HN allows you to submit a URL or Text, but not both. It's customary around here that someone replies with the clickable link.

Nice job on the app by the way. If you add the ability to doodle a free-form drawing I might consider purchasing it. My notes tend to contain illustrations.
I think it's far more likely that that was posted by a troll or by the stalker than by her...
i'm sure there is room for two, but with the competitive disadvantage we have ... surely it is wiser to differentiate to increase our chance of success? Also, they aren't quite nobodies ... they do their PR well and are reaping the benefits.
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Obvious Reddit troll, please keep that crap off of Hacker News.
I just subscribed. Didn't know this existed. I'd be curious to know how many subscribers there are after this HN post is two days old.
Artificial photosynthesis breakthrough: Fast molecular catalyzer
Senders will keep mail for you in the queue only for a limited time, after a few days (IIRC) your mail will bounce. So if your host or ISP unfairly takes down your SMTP server and you have to go to court with them, you WILL lose mail.

Generally, running an SMTP server is quite a responsibility: not losing mail, not being exploited to send spam. What matters is not so much that you can set up in a few hours, but whether you want to take on that responsibility.
Nice! Like everyone else, I had a stab at the same problem. Not nearly as slick but might be interesting: http://www.thebitflow.com/journal.php#photo_upload (github: https://github.com/jaimz/file_upload)
> " ... the researchers found that the best predictor of whether someone would join Facebook was a subtly different factor: the number of distinct groups that an individual could link up with through the site. Most people have more than one social network: a group of one's old school friends, for instance, is likely to have little contact with one's work colleagues, who in turn won't have much to do with one's extended family. The more such groups were present on Facebook, the greater the probability that an individual would join."

This is fascinating given the recent discussions on identity, privacy etc. Specifically, that the ability to interact with different social circles through one site encouraged people to sign up.

Original paper is at:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/27/1116502109.abst...
IMHO $3.99 is the ceiling for an impulse purchase. I would consider going higher if it fulfilled certain criteria for me but by then, it's no longer an "impulse" buy.
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Do you have a link to that? I can’t find it on Reddit. Would be great, thanks!
Agree. This is a beautiful implementation, given the state of browsers, but “moving files from one computer to another” seems like it was a solved problem a long time ago.

(See also, editing rich text.)
Is making those compiler features simple and easy?

I was wondering why Rails.app need $25,000 while this is like half the price.
I used to be the coder of a small demoscene team in the early 2000's. I never had as much fun writing computer programs ever since then. It was creating awesome stuff just for the sake of awesomeness.
"Accenture..."

Ah -- great to see another wonderful contribution by management consultants...
I would have to agree with @Terretta. A launch price is probably your best bet while your user base grows, praises and criticisms flow in (along with reviews), a few updates to the program happen and you finally settle on a price that can sustain further development and feed your family.

All of this is moot if $14.99 is indeed your launch price.
You're letting your imagination run wild. The reality is nobody is going to give a crap they exist and nobody is going to give a crap you exist. If you both manage to overcome that then you might be competitors.

Their PR ... unless it's just noise maybe you can learn from it. If it's stories on TC/HN/etc then it's probably just noise, they'll get traffic and not much else from it unless you're particularly aligned with those audiences.
Good of you to say, and it's good to hear things are going swimmingly since you removed it.

The whole idea of accountability is in my opinion flawed when it comes to casual contributions from internet participants. The word "accountability" is heavy-handed, and has a presumptuous tone of expectation of wrong-doing, an ever-looming threat of penalty if one steps out of line.

"Say the wrong thing, and YOU YES YOU will be held ACCOUNTABLE."

Real name enforcement is an ALL CAPS effort to force "accountable" behavior at the expense of privacy or just comfortable contributions from users. When our words end up set in stone online, and when many of us are not professional writers, signing one's real identity to a casual opinion may be a hazardous activity.

This is the internet. We don't need to be so uptight. On the whole, communities behave respectfully when the community is respected and valued, regardless of public display of real names.
Moreover, can you copyright any artificial language? My instinct says “yes, but you shouldn’t”. Case in point: Loglan versus Lojban, which is somewhat analogous to the Java/J#/C# thing.
It's here, though I now question whether it was actually posted by the OP.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/s97g4/banned_fro...
Congrats! Did you get it on through PR or was it out of the blue?
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Stuxnet-like program for North Korea.
Do you have any backing for that? Usually at a big company, your team makes the 5mil. Good luck conjuring 5mil at a small company with no scaling infrastructure and few users. And not working for a CEO or CTO or whoever who takes credit for your work. Sure it's possible, but it's a gamble not everyone feels like taking.
Check out Trestle:

https://www.trestleapp.com/services/custom

we're already running custom NodeJS code for our customers - along with the 14 other API services we have (including our Chain server) you can do a ton. It all is tied in to our ACL's too, so your custom service works the same as any other API service.

We're also super happy to run it on DotCloud too ;)
Fix your About page; ideally, it should say something about you.
I see that you've already lowered the price to $8.99 without enough time to get some second opinions here:

>> Special Launch Week Pricing!!! << Grab it now while it lasts.

So now I have to ask, what of the 10 or so people that purchased the app just yesterday for $14.99?? Are you refunding their money?
Regardless of stalking:

So basically Kickstarter is saying if there is some other project you don't like on the site you can get it taken off by hiring an offshore site to spam the competitor project.

They need a stackoverflow or quora like community system (I haven't used the site but I'm assuming they don't).

I will say that was kind of crappy of her to post Daniella's full name. It might not be her fault. It could be the company's policy. If it was a letter from the CEO I could understand. My wife is an executive assistant and she routinely has to write letters that she doesn't necessarily agree with.
Hmm, this reddit account (brokenrobot23) http://www.reddit.com/user/brokenrobot23

was created a few hours ago in support of Rachel, as was your account (blingbling23), quite the coincidence, isn't it?
You have a rather small family. That's cool, but not everyone does.
I think as soon as a language gets copyrighted, people will move away from it in droves, which would be interesting because it would enforce the idea that patents and copyrights stifle innovation rather than encourage it.
Insurgents vs Incumbents
Thanks for letting me know. I'm looking into it.
Also link to your blog from your site.
I'm pretty sure you just made that up.

EDIT: Nevermind, you just took it from http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/s97g4/banned_fro... , an obvious reddit troll.
Wind map data visualization
ArXiv: New Sequential Methods for Detecting Portscanners
This is a report from ~2 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3767889
Just a heads up for people who haven't played Braid (or you have played it but still want to dig deeper into the game's meaning), don't read Page 2 of the article. The author gives away too much! I've played the game and know that it's just his interpretation, but I still wish I haven't read it...
Someone capable of writing this kind of software will earn much more than $3000 per month at a full time job. I understand that this is probably not a for-profit project but if the guy can dedicate 4 full time months to this than he:

1) Can work full time
2) Needs the money

Why not find a regular programming job that will pay you much more?He is obviously skilled enough to be hired.
Sure but iDisk was little more than a generic WebDAV service, so you could easily replace it with a service from another provider with the money saved.
Pregnancy and Child Care
Agreed. In her blog post she says that this is someone who "stalks" hundreds of targets. A stalker that stalks because of a personal vendetta/obsession, as the troll post implies, wouldn't do that.
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Funding seems to be the only proxy for how we're judging accelerators, so some of this is expected. Think we'll see more and more companies joining that already have traction--because they can leverage the program better to get big rounds than someone at the mvp stage. Sort of a shame that is the goal.
That all supports the marketing effort. Mongo is optimized for a good out-of-the-box experience for developers. It is basically the MySQL model -- hook developers first, fix the fundamentals later. Caveat emptor.
There is something extremely fishy going on in the Court of The Hague.

BREIN (which is just a local front for the MPAA and RIAA, since NL barely has a movie/recording industry of it's own, and what there is is barely affected by piracy) has for years shopped around in various courts, but has now focused completely on The Hague where it has had a series of favorable results. Some of which, especially the censorship order, are considered extremely debatable within the legal community.

This one really takes the biscuit: the utter refusal of the court to even allow a legal democratic political party to defend itself is completely unprecedented.

In other news: BREIN is now also suing other ISP's (again, in The Hague), and the court has appointed the same judge that was responsible for the previous controversial censorship order. Attempts to have the judge removed from the case have failed.
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I dunno, you’ve got to strike a balance. I mean, technically I own the copyright to the compilers and interpreters I write, even if they’re under permissive licenses. But the difference between “benevolent dictator for life” and “odious stifler of innovation” is sometimes a tad unclear. It has just as much to do with public perception as the language owners themselves.
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The problem is that making a better JavaScript you can actually use is a lot harder than making a better CoffeeScript. If you make a better CoffeeScript, you just have to write one compiler for it, written in JavaScript. If you make a better JavaScript, you have to lobby all of the major browser vendors to accept it. And then you have to wait for the browser teams to write the compiler. And even if you write the compilers yourself really fast for all of the open-source projects, you still have to wait for the Internet Explorer team to upgrade their compiler - you can't speed that up, because IE is closed-source. And finally, you can't safely use that new JavaScript on most sites until a few years later, when most people have upgraded their browsers. Whereas compiled CoffeeScript runs on even old browsers.
I've also been using this on production for about eight months with no issues. Mutli-file upload works great too. Best part is all the callbacks options that are available: https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload/wiki/Options
Cross Window Messaging with HTML5 LocalStorage Events
Congratulations from me as well. As an animal lover I truly enjoyed the video.

It's interesting how tablets are appealing even to different species.
ex-military

Off topic, I heard (from a former US military person), that they have a distinction between the terms "ex-military" (kicked out) and "former military" (left voluntarily), and saying "former military" is a nicer thing to them, and that they'll pick up that you're aware of the difference. Any military people able to confirm/deny?
This is a poorly written blog post. I am not at all convinced of anything. The only reason I could think of for it having appeared on the top of HN is that it mentioned Pieter Thiel and Ron Paul.
congrats to guys. I subscribed some months back. Have been out of perl development since a year. This newsletter really helped to keep me updated. Infact i started re-looking again into cpan modules and filed a bug report recently for one of the modules. thanks again
> Also, $15 is very steep.

My counterpoint to this...

Don't start off engaging in the race towards all apps' pricing going to zero. Because it will. Someone is going to clone your app and make it a $1, or free. There's more than enough time for those shenanigans, so you might as well price it somewhere where some people might think it is steep and you think is fair. You can always bring it down as a "limited time sale", but it will be hard to raise it if you price it too low to start.
Fun fact: Money doesn't motivate everyone.
This is tough.

But, I think this is no different than for example Stack Overflow where questions and comments can be edited and removed if they are not on topic, or in this case, where they do not follow the Kickstarter community guidelines.

And that is exactly what happened here. Comments from the spammer/stalker are not on topic. Responses to those comments are also not on topic.

Rachel had the choice to either actively remove those comments or to participate in those off-topic discussions. She did the latter while in my (no so humble opinion) removing them was really the only appropriate choice.

Kickstarter is not a forum for drama, it is a place to raise money for your project. And that should be your one and only goal if you start a project there. This stupid spammer/stalker is taking away valuable time that she could also have put into marketing her project or participating in real discussions.

The fact that this is someone who has stalked her for the past 10 years is very sad but it is not relevant in this discussion. She is the admin of the project and she has the powers to keep it on topic.
Ask HN: Building a browser extension for HN points for links across web
I wanted to find out if there's already, or advice on how to build, a browser extension that persistently shows across the web what the Hacker News points score is for a link. I could see this useful in Google News where before the link is clicked you already know how the HN community sees it. Or, if after you clicked on a link, what the HN votes are.
I think I don't have a way of automatically refunding my customers. The folks who got it have to ask Apple for a refund if they wanna re-purchase at the new lower price.
Micromax Funbook Cheapest tablet.
I visited your website. I read it all. I still have no idea what exactly your app actually is. This is... problematic, to say the least.
There is also a VHDL implementation that was just released: https://github.com/isuru-c-p/DCPU16-VHDL
Maybe the title should rather say that Peter Thiel is a political person. I am myself, but it seems to me that everybody who is, whether left or right wing, think that they have the solution to the current -- or any -- crisis.
I know that, I own several of his books. :)

Still, to be the person that John Carmack learned graphics programming from... that's pretty badass.
This is a great collection of links. And it's extremely up-to-date - that last demo, Gaia Machina, just came out last week!
Launch first, then use their launch as free publicity : on each news on their launch, comment : "hoo nice, but that's just like Xxx" (well, add more value, do not spam heartlessly)
Money scales but emotions around money don't