skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Firefox, open Preferences -> Content, hit the "Advanced" button next to "Enable Javascript", and uncheck "disable or replace context menus". With that unchecked, you get the right-click menu as usual, in addition to whatever the site wants to offer.
POLA violation.
What browser/OS are you in? It looks pretty reasonable in Chrome on OSX; we spent a decent amount of time trying to get it as close as we could. Some browsers do weird math on resizing.
History of the item can be found here - http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/archive/index.php/t-...
What does running on Amazon mean (in 2006)? Remember, the company is officially Amazon.com, Inc., i.e. the ecommerce site turning tens of billions in revenue.

Here's an excerpt from the Businessweek cover story[1] a few weeks after EC2's launch:

> Amazon is starting to rent out just about everything it uses to run its own business, from rack space in its 10 million square feet of warehouses worldwide to spare computing capacity on its thousands of servers, data storage on its disk drives, and even some of the millions of lines of software code it has written to coordinate all that.

Weeks later Bezos discussed the $2 billion investment in Amazon.com's infrastructure [2]. In effectively the same breath he mentioned 200,000 developers signed up for AWS. This is deliberately deceptive. Bezos linked AWS with Amazon.com's infrastructure, when the two are totally separate.

Signs point towards EC2 coming about through the intransigence of a couple people [3], not through a deliberate effort by top brass to rent out Amazon.com's infrastructure. Implicating the main site was a tactic to inspire confidence and provoke experimentation. It's unclear whether EC2 would have found the same success had Amazon not papered over the inchoate AWS architecture by invoking the Amazon brand.

I love AWS. Their blog is the only corporate blog I subscribe to, because everything they post is so friggin' cool. Sentences like these...

> If you have ever searched Amazon.com, you've already used the technology that underlies CloudSearch.

...are weasely and unnecessary. Maybe CloudSearch is functionally identical to Amazon.com search or maybe it isn't. Everyone understands there are tradeoffs to be made. I just wish Amazon were more transparent about its architecture.

[1]: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_46/b4009001....
[2]: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/09/we_build_muck_s.html
[3]: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/am...
Google Announces First Quarter 2012 Results and Proposal for New Class of Stock
I've no idea of the legality involved, but from a moral and ethical perspective, egging on a depressed, suicidal person is immoral and ethical with a possible few exceptions (e.g. terminally ill person wishing to cut short a remaining painful period). Ironic, perhaps, that these Reddit users probably got karma on the site at the same time they in fact earned negative karma under whatever value system you prefer.
That's not the actual logo. It's a variation that is only used in the header.

The official logo includes the Social Coding tagline.
More accurate headline: "USC research team claims level of order found in Viking data set is indicative of biological processes, rather than prevailing consensus view which holds it was geological in nature."
> Isn't "post-factum civil litigation" an even better mechanism for enforcement?

That hasn't worked out well for Madoff's "investors".

> Look companies that are "bad actors" are going to cheat the SEC and the public anyway...

And Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley to prevent future Enrons and WorldComms. HR 3606 repeals SOX for the first 5 years of an "emerging growth company" stock issuance and returns us to the "good old days" when fraudsters were able to run wild.
> No auction house would touch this.

Not necessarily true. Auction houses have accepted a lot of fake baseball memorabilia for a long time. There's too much money at risk for them to admit that they do though.
I have seen both sides and, at the risk of oversimplifying, I feel the core is the same for both programming and business.

For business guys: a good place to start is to gain a deep understanding of how the app is built. At the core it is not much different than that financial model you had built. It’s just written in a different 'language'. Start today: have in depth conversations with your developers, understand how each element interacts (more detailed is better). Learn what the developers are struggling with, and try to solve those problems with them. Sometimes, you will pin point the source of the problem before they do. That’s a good feeling. If and when you decide to learn the language, this experience would be massively helpful.

For programmers wanting to learn the business aspects: The key lies in developing a good hypothesis, and in constantly refining it based on what you hear from the customers, competitors, market, investors, etc. Approach it like coding; each hypothesis element is an object - it takes in some inputs and throws some output. Check whether all elements are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. The process is not too different from developing that app. Just make sure to not get caught in the details. Question everything constantly - is this the most important thing and how. And yes, you will get by wonderfully well if you ask others, nicely.
5 Reasons You Need Finance Talent on Your Start-up Team
This sounds good, it's what quite a few of us are looking for. Is there a similar project that doesn't require SpineJS, or can Atmos2 be made to work with other front-end frameworks?
To Keep Start-Ups at Home, France Invests in Them
Enter our trusted troubadour of bullshit, TechCrunch:

Hands down the funniest thing I've read in a while.
Agreed, however I do believe that each person should have a basic understanding of at least one level below where they're working at.
Frankly, it's better to own the drafting process yourself : We're happy to show all the black-lined versions, but (due to 'technical difficulties') get our counterparties to send over manual changes which we implement...
I think they don't want to make a noise because the next Air will have much of the power (but lacking the connectivity). This is literally one for the Pros. Can't see the line continuing beyond this iteration.
Sort of off-topic, but on the subject of using fragment identifiers to pass around secrets, Ben Adida used them to secure session cookies from eavesdroppers:

https://github.com/benadida/sessionlock

http://www2008.org/papers/pdf/p517-adida.pdf

He uses a token in the fragment identifier to authenticate every request; since the fragment identifier never gets sent to the server, a passive attacker never sees it -- it's a nice trick.
Why only 20 stories? I usually scan the first three pages once a day, a snapshot of the top 90 articles. Only about 10% are relevant so I'd rather have more summaries to sift thru to find the ~10 relevant articles for the day.
What language? How did you design?
Very nice. Glad to see patent system abusers get their comeuppance.

The true test of integrity, however, would be for Nest to NOT also abuse the patent system once _they_ get established.
Ludicrous. Apple is spread out over many more computer markets than RIM ever was.
U.S. IT Jobs Back To 2008 Levels
How about giving writers the respect they deserve and not algorithmically rewriting their work? Has our attention span really gotten so short that we cannot read articles of substance any longer?
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Neat toy, but it looks like it needs a phone to use data, install applications and so on. Personally, I'm not the type of person that wants to wear another accessory. I used to need a watch. I don't need a watch that needs a phone. Just saying.

I see this as a sample of what's to come from mobile technology. I prefer that phones evolve instead of adding a new accessory.
The inundation with links to other articles (inline and sliding in) makes this site basically unreadable. It's impossible to concentrate! Really just shameful for a purported science site...
LinkedIn is like voicemail, more annoying than useful.

My question is, since everyone seems to agree with this assessment, how did they ever get all that IPO attention?
"Ironic, perhaps, that these Reddit users probably got karma on the site at the same time they in fact earned negative karma under whatever value system you prefer." Probably true... so sad.
I show them SSH and they need another app for that. Same for Ruby, most local dev servers, etc. and then every mundane command for me turns into twice the work for them because they have to do what I'm doing plus whatever extra steps plus configuration on their machines.

Oh, God, yes.

I teach a class of aspiring hackers on the weekends, and they're all gamers and they come in with their windows laptops. Every once in a while I'll have a piece of a lesson where they need to install some dependency or compile some code they wrote in a text file, and it just brings the lesson to a screeching hault.

Having them download a python cli so I could show them how to use python as calculator in one of our earlier lessons ended up being more trouble than it was worth.

Windows is just not developer friendly if you're working in anything but .Net - and I think C#-.Net-Visual Studio programming for windows desktop applications is the best programming experience there is. I just don't have many clients asking for that.
I think he is using it properly, the boom is negatively impacting his business (Lemons) so he is trying to see if there is a way to take advantage of this (Lemonade)...
Probably all were doing a little bit here and there but only two were hired 100% for that purpose. 13 person team with 30 million users...amazing!

(Amazon and cloud are the unsung heroes.)
Hi, I'm a dev at Votizen.

I haven't read that study yet - it's on my list - but I tend to agree that existing social ties are somewhat orthogonal to political views. We are surprised by our friends' views precisely because we don't feel comfortable discussing things. This limits communication and understanding. The two-party winner-take-all system, combined with slow feedback loops (I won't vote for Pelosi because she supported warrantless wiretaps, but she doesn't know that and therefore doesn't care about it) mean that the messaging for campaigns to succeed depends on wedge issues and vilification.

At the same time, our social connections (be they online or off) do inform our positions and views on ranges of acceptable behavior. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window and http://www.amazon.com/Connected-Surprising-Networks-Friends-...

Connectedness in a network increases the transitivity of ideas. Now what we need is a forum/channel/model for expressing our political positions/desires/demands and we should see the political process get less hierarchical, more responsive, and more accountable.

So yes, "please vote for my candidate" via online channels is v0 of the overall goal. We want to flip it, "take my position if you want my vote", but to get there, we need campaigns to recognize the influence of their electorate that social networks (again, online or offline) provide.
Saw this on Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/) a while back. I don't remember where Armin got inspiration from, but I remember he showed me another site that did this before his.

Sidestepping the UX discussion here, there's an important moral here for startups:

Have a logo page with print-suitable copies of your logo. Actually, do one better and have the following logos:

1. Vector, raster (large), raster (small) in color

2. Vector, raster (large), raster (small) in monochrome

Anytime somebody wants to write about you, anytime you're sponsoring a conference, anytime you need stuff printed—that page will serve you well and let your t-shirt suppliers/conference organizers/curious journalists the thing they need without having to bug you. Until you get really big, misuse of your logo is unlikely. Just make it easy for people to get, like everything else about your company.

At Skills (http://skillsapp.com) we have a direct link in every page's footer and another on our about page.
How Instagram Grew From Foursquare Knock-Off to $1 Billion Photo Empire
Yup, that's right. Kickstarter already operates in the clear. What JOBS enables is kickstarter with equity involved. That opens up a lot more opportunities.

Consider the case of someone who wants to launch a small business to do something that can't be doled out in small chunks to backers. Let's say I want to build a better wheelchair, for example. Well, even if people can tell from my descriptions and existing work that I really know what I'm doing and have a fantastic idea, few people actually need a wheelchair. So with the kickstarter model this could be a tough project to get going, but if equity could change hands it could be a lot easier.

Yes, there's going to be fraud with this, lots and lots of fraud. But there's already a lot of fraud in the market. It's not important to attempt to eliminate fraud, it's more important to make sure people have enough information to know when they're doing something risky. On the whole I think it's vastly better for everyone if we enabled startups at the low end at the risk of widespread small scale fraud than if we keep everyone's investments locked away with the "too big to fail" companies where large scale fraud and malfeasance has the potential to topple governments and destabilize the world economy.
Why not accept a special header similar to "Strict-Transport-Security"? Let it be X-False-Start and for following requests False Start would be enabled for that site.
if you don't like the name you can import to another namespace :

<script src="../o_O.js?mynamespace"></script>
A ~10 year record could mean ~30 chances to vote, but hardly anyone votes in a majority of those elections. I, too, am curious how they have an average of 10 votes per voter.
No after the fact litigation is usually a bad idea because by that time most of the money is gone. You will only get part of your investment and then you will have to pay about half of what you get to the lawyers. And that is if you are lucky. In most securities fraud the money is usually all gone by the time they catch the bad guy.

Furthermore, if you have a couple of bad high profile thefts, that would poison the water for the honest companies too.

As in most cases prudent prevention is better than punishment.

And by the way Taibbi's right. Allowing people to lie on presentations is always a bad idea and will always result in people lying in presentations.
Indeed, this looks more legitimate (I couldn't my way there from the linked article or the auction listing. Did I miss it, or are you the seller?). Money quote here:

> I bought it through an online ad. The elderly gentleman I purchased it off of is a retired engraver. The company he worked for was hired to make some award medallions for a ceremony at Apple. It would have been some point in 1983 I personally think, but he really couldn't recall. They sent over this Mac to use as a model for him to work off of. When the job was done, they tried to make arrangements to send it back. Apparently after several attempts, Apple just told them to keep it.

If I was about to drop $100k on this thing, I'd definitely want to find that "online ad" for verification.
Well, that's assuming people actually believe what Google. And even they believe what Google says, they don't have any compelling reason to switch from Facebook until their friends actually do switch.

What I mean is that even assuming that people believe google's statement of "it's not a ghost town anymore", they are probably not going to move until it actually stops being a ghost town.
I'd love to see the best of both worlds. I too love it when someone takes the time to summarize an article -- great community service. I'd love to establish a convention for doing so (I vote for prepending "Summary:" -- I find "tl;dr" irksome).

Then HNsummaries.com could fetch those when available instead of or in addition to the auto-summaries.
Thanks! I've been working hard on it.
This is really great. I wound up doing something like this by hand (by eye?) the last time I needed to generate a distinct color palette (player colors in an online map game).
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I don't think it's a lack of educational opportunities. Not as such. It's several things.

* Machines used to enhance the productivity of a single person. Computers just replace people, and not with another person operating a computer to do what multiple people once could, with no humans at all.

* As you noted, "the masses" can only adapt so much. We simply cannot make a scientist or a fine artist out of someone with an IQ of 85, and that person is only one standard deviation below average. Hell, we have a damned hard enough time trying to make a high-level white-collar worker out of someone with a merely median IQ of 100.

* Our socioeconomic system is structured so that the productivity improvements from computing are captured by capital owners (broadly: businesses who own machines, business owners, and investors). So instead of higher productivity raising output, increased output making the worker more valuable, and the more valuable worker commanding a higher wage (what we used to get: wages rising with productivity), we now use productivity as an excuse to lay off unwanted and "unnecessary" workers, keep output at the same levels (or grow it only slightly), and pocket the difference.

* The "rote bullshit" jobs being replaced by the machines are, in fact, the limiting factor of the economy. Scientists, artists, and philosophers in fact depend completely and utterly on functioning infrastructure and basic industries. To paraphrase Paul-Muad'dib Atreides, he who can destroy a thing has supreme power over it: the businesses that control the basic infrastructure on which the "higher-level" occupations rent-seek upon it. So we can't seem to have a market economy in which we pour all our productivity advancements in "raising the level" of occupations people hold. Today's prices bear this out: housing, health-care, education and energy are the most expensive and quickest-growing components of a common budget.

At some point, we have to accept that many (most?) people are too dumb to work in a mostly-automated economy, that we've given the base of our economy entirely into the control of a narrow class of capitalists, and that these two classes of people hold the remaining productive/"higher-level" citizenry by the balls.
Not in the Apple App Store. The first 50 are very, very easy. Its just getting more after the initial sales burst which is tricky.
I really radically disagree. You simply can't do cutting-edge scientific research in a public library.
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I often read these types of articles and wonder if the author considers that there are many flavours of what one might consider a "baseline". While I have cloned a repo or two, I wouldn't say that it is a mainstay of how I evolve my abilities.

I could interject all sorts of other expertise that I must use on a daily basis, where my lack of knowledge of such would render me unemployed. My skill set has evolved into what someone might call a designineer. Do I think everyone has to be a hybrid designer/developer to get the job done? Of course not. However, I wouldn't gather those skills and conflate that my skill set is necessary to getting the job done for someone else.

It reminds me of the purist argument, where the evangelist will protest against web fonts, frameworks and the like. In 2001, if you were using CSS or JS you were not a purist. We can see that labels like these are to serve a purpose and it seems to be little more than an exercise in pedantry.

At the end of the day, it's about providing quality work and getting the respect you deserve for your work.
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I recommend Pitmans actual critique of FEXPRs.
Wow !! As a movie buff myself I think I'll be vising you site almost everyday now. This is what I used to do before:

- Go to www.imdb.com
- Click on 'See more movie showtimes' at the right.
- On the next page, click on the 'Favorites' tab to choose a theater.
- Go to maps.google.com and plan the route to the theater.

This is definitely going to save me at least a few hours every week while I check which movie is playing at what location.

And its got TRAILERS too !!! I'm addicted !!
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Congrats to the Pebble team! It's great to see a hardware / software startup like this one succeed. All the standard criticisms of "hey, they'll knock that off in China tomorrow" don't apply at all as integrated hardware and software isn't as easy as it seems. It's also interesting that a lot of HN users are saying "ah, I don't want another device" while the market is saying that there are a lot of people out there that want a cool iPhone integrated watch.
For those who haven't used Everyme: when you install the app, it asks you to link up your phone contacts (not stored on their server), FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts. I think it then identifies your most important contacts and places them into circles for you.

My point? Of those 200k people in circles, only 24k have explicitly opted in:

Specifically, he says that 24,000 people have created Everyme accounts. Because of the way Everyme is designed, that’s only a small part of its social footprint.

The other ~175k, which includes my mom, dad, girlfriend, and brother, might not know Everyme actually exists.

Everyme has been advertising very heavily (5by5, Daring Fireball) leading up to its launch, so I don't know if this is a win or not. At least they're putting on the full-court PR press--smart, given that they're selling a social network. Best of luck to them.
Well, it's like having an abstract of a paper. Which is a good point -- ideally the authors themselves would provide the summary. Still, you certainly need summaries!

I'd say the only time summaries could be a bad thing is for fiction, where you don't want to give things away.

For non-fiction giving things away is whole point. :)
Here is a decent article written by Andy Hertzfeld. He was one of the original people working on the Macintosh.
The story explains they there were in fact Twiggy drive Macintosh machines but they found the drives expensive and unreliable which forced them to switch to the 3.5 inch Sony drives.
It wouldn't be susceptible because there could be more than one competing. Different providers would optimize for different types of investors.
And how many creative projects are viable business propositions?
This is what happens when blogs and tech "news" sites report on stuff without doing any fact checking at all. Plenty of redditors did a bit more digging around and it seems to be a hoax since there is no link between the guy who committed suicide and the posting. There is no subnoea served and the police report doesn't have any links between them. It's one group of redditors who dislike another group and seem to be trolling.

Anyway, I don't think these stories belong on hn, so flagged.
I press the generate button and then nothing happens. Firefox here.
I like to take a "vested" interest in my undergrad and my personal acheivements... but even still...

Go Knights!
I think this is a fantastic way to handle it. I feel like it should probably be a user-configurable setting, too. There are a surprising number of comments in this thread from people whose process has been interrupted, and I think it's a cop-out to just tell them to ctrl-click to open a new tab. Don't get in the user's way.
Here's my big concern: If my entire app is client-based JavaScript, wouldn't that make cloning my app as simple as copying all of the JavaScript and other asset files and then associating them with another firebase account -- perhaps modifying them some so they dont't get banned?

It seems like it lowers the barrier to competition a bit too much for me.
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