skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare is a frigging nightmare if you're outside the US and on a dynamic ip(which includes pretty much everyone in India.)
I keep having to enter a captcha on links from HN, because a lot of people apparently use them.

Things like these(although probably helpful to the site authors) are actually breaking the internet unfortunately.
The W4 doesn't go to the IRS. It goes to your employer's payroll department.
I've been using the HP Cloud private beta for a while, and it's definitely interesting. It's basically Open Stack, and might make some sense vs. Amazon EC2 for clients with on premises (managed by HP consulting/professional services) and cloud hybrid.

It will be interesting to see HP Cloud vs. VMware (Terremark, etc.) vs. Amazon GovCloud in the enterprise/government space. EC2 vs. Rackspace is probably the bigger competition for most b2c webapps.
Also iOS and blackberry:

http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
How does it work? Looks very cool.
I'm in this school. I do my taxes on paper and mail them in. It's probably not rational. It definitely takes longer than using software (but honestly, not a lot longer). I like to be reminded how absurd the whole system is.
I realize that some of you may not know much about me or even who I am. I like to think that I am uniquely qualified as an artist, entrepreneur and geek. I was trained as a mathematician. My first job after I graduated involved being the systems operator for an MPM OS system and I wrote a lot of DBASE IV scripts. I had a fascination with the old RPG punch card programming language. I am deeply involved in the digital amateur radio world. You can sometimes find me operating PSK31 on 20 meters. I spent some time in Chicago near the CME. I worked as a “Quant” doing some semi high frequency trading. While there I became involved with a company called www.thepoint.com which evolved into www.groupon.com.

This post is blowing my mind and I'm only a couple grafs into it. David Lowery was a f'ing quant for CME traders?
I <3 you so hard, Internet.
Shrug Even more people are surprised that Excel is Turing complete.
"A convenient and fair comparison is the Corolla also made by Toyota."

No a fair comparison would be a non-hybrid Prius. I don't know if Toyota makes such a vehicle, but Honda makes the Civic in both a hybrid and conventional model, so a direct comparison would be fair. I'd actually like to see that analysis as I drive a Civic.
Very inspiring. Thanks. We're doing this at FeedForward: http://www.feed-forward.net -- trying to change the way artists communicate with each other (for the better...) is liking watching grass grow, but every now and then you see some real growth from an artist, or two people work together to create something new who never knew each other but for FeedForward and that creates value -- at least for me!!
You see dull, repetitious work ahead of you. If you avoid it, you’re lazy. If you feel too icky not to find a better way, then you’re constructively dissatisfied. Your 4-year-old daughter demonstrates that what you’re doing is needlessly complicated, arbitrary, or meaningless. Did she do it by being “dumb”? No. She did it by being unassuming and asking simple questions, like “why?”—without fear of offending.

It’s all about open-mindedness and a light touch, not stupidity and laziness. The sense is much better conveyed by koans[1] than this kind of blunt language. But of course, blunt language makes for eye-catching titles.

[1] http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
They're billion dollar companies, they can't be trusted.
Personally programming defines me. It is a discipline that can only be mastered through dedication and time. I go through the entire day thinking about programming, I go to sleep thinking about programming. Just because I do it as a job as well does not take away from that. I realize that I am extremely lucky to be so passionate about what I do but it isn't stopping you to do what you want to do...go do it.
Cool, I'm @bitops on twitter. If you'd like a reader feel free to let me know there.
Totally agree, but there are protocols in place to tunnel layer 2 domains to encompass multiple data centers. VMotion between DCs is not as crazy as it sounds, it's just prohibitively expensive.
great service, especially for a distributed team. helps everyone keep abreast of what everyone else is doing, and has helped me manage contractors.

I cannot recommend this product more to founders with small teams. Easily the best money I'm spending on collaboration tools.
For awhile now though, there's been a $15 tier, and currently only 3 backers have chosen that option. Given the cost ineffectiveness of a t-shirt, particularly at a low price like $15, other than Chris' eternal gratitude, what sort of recompense would people want for that level of support? Almost 30 times the number of people went for the $100 beta access level, and only slightly fewer went for the $50 license, so apparently it's popular enough, but what's the best way to get support at a $10 or $15 level?
It is actually possible, though not necessarily advisable, to pay US taxes using credit cards: http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=101316,00.html
"Can't update" ??? Why would that be ?

* Corporate policy - Fred Flintstone Enterprises? Still running IE 4 !

* Underpowered computer - buy a new one!

* Don't know how - pay someone to do it for you!

Google Chrome runs on Windows, Mac & Linux and it auto-updates. What's there not to like?
6. Cross your fingers and hope that you'll never use a machine afflicted with a keylogging trojan.
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You're contradicting yourself here. If it's plain HTML, there's none of the database/intranet/etc going on and so every bit of overhead is noticeable... which is the point the GP was trying to make.

Not that I share that opinion. I think the whole world needs to move on SSL, even though it's kinda broken in the current method where a select few companies make a crazy killing selling their SSL certs (although there are cheap alternatives).
Like the article says, saving money isn't the only reason to drive a hybrid.

If you care about the environment, and are wealthy enough, you might be willing to pay a premium to reduce your carbon footprint.
It's using OpenCV's template matching function. I tried to use other OCR libraries but OpenCV ended up yielding the most accurate results.
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IPhone app aims to program your dreams ('Inception' anyone?)
Wolfram Research is infamous for claiming copyright to the language of Mathematica threatening to sue the University of California. They have also have a long history of causing automatic translators and shims for converting Mathematica syntax code into other systems to disappear (supposedly based on the language copyright).
The same comparison can be done (for estimating savings) between diesel and unleaded gas in France. I did a similar calculation years ago and you had to drive your diesel vehicle more than 10 years before making any savings. Basically the initial investment trumps the ongoing costs.
Too bad I can't do that for the @gmail account I've been using.
I would not have seen this had you not written this comment. Thank you. This is so excellent.
I feel it's willfully ignorant of the history of antitrust law

FWIW, I've spent a huge chunk of time studying ethics on my own. It's true that I can't claim to know a LOT of history about antitrust law. But the reason it's possible to make sense of "complex systems" is the use of (correct) principles about how they work, not examining every concrete example ad infinitum and saying, for example, "well, but maybe the ball will fall up next time". Anyway, putting aside the philosophisizing, I have more specific comments below.

It's illegal when I use my monopoly to stop competitors from selling their own widgets

My point is that your only means to do that is to use government force, i.e., laws. (Now there's a principle for you!)

Now, I might obfuscate the design of my widgets so that only I can make other widgets that interface with them. But that's not the same thing. For example, that doesn't stop others from making their own entirely separate system of interconnecting widgets. Similarly, Apple controlling what's in the App Store doesn't stop Google from creating it's own app store and controlling it's content. One might say that Apple "has a monopoly on content of the App Store," but that's using the term "monopoly" disingenuously.

This is not supposed to be a complete proof of anything, but it's supposed to suggest my line of thinking.

If you believe that this situation is impossible, then the law is irrelevant

Quite the opposite. The law is highly relevant because it's what makes the "cheating" possible. For example, if Apple got the government to bad the Google Store. Or if the EU bans Microsoft tightly bundling IE in Windows, for a real example.
A random ordering will create an incentive to split orders into smaller pieces. Which at the limit is going to devolve to the the proportional fulfillment case once everyone submits only orders of the minimum size.
Turning a "Ghost Town" into a town of robots is not any better.

I know of small communities that are actually flourishing inside Google+.

Google thinks that they rather have a small amount of original content rather that an abundance of auto-posts from other social networks.
I'd be impressed if it used computer vision. I'd be even more impressed if it used Amazon's Mechanical Turk. :)
Like the article says, however, footprint is also a factor of the car's manufacturing process. If that piece of information is not being disclosed, you have no idea whether you are, overall, reducing the carbon footprint. Making a car takes huge amounts of energy (and therefore, "carbon"). The best thing you could do as a car owner is to keep your car as long as possible. It's not what the industry wants, however...
Like the article also says, you don't actually know if you're reducing your "carbon footprint" or not.

You don't know how much more carbon is produced in the manufacture of a prius than the manufacture of a non-hybrid.
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the scheme you're describing is no different than the continuous case. whoever came in first gets filled first. it doesn't matter if matching happens at a set interval, getting into the book first still matters, and HFT continuous as usual
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not only that, but if you believe in economics, you are "voting with your dollar" for alternative technologies, signaling to auto manufacturers that a growing number of people care about cars with increased fuel economy and reduced emissions.
A whiteboard and a big pack of colored sticky notes works for this. It might sound simplistic, but it's surprising effective. It's difficult to ignore the big board if you hang it in a public area of the office. Pretty shallow learning curve also helps.

I actually think if you're trying to get people to buy in to a methodology such as this, it's easier to start with a physical board and progress to something like Trello. One step at a time.
How did fit everything in a 3M IPA? Is anything downloaded after the app is installed?
fetchmail is very handy for this sort of problem. Regularly pull and remove your mail from your webmail account. Then you can manage it locally the same way you would all your other archives.

Not foolproof, of course, but it improves matters. Also note I don't present this as a solution for John Everyman, but rather the sorts of folks who might be reading Coding Horror.
Agreed. $50 for a license it too high. Lowering it to $15 for a license would put it in impulse buy territory for most people, and you'd likely get a lot more backers and receive more money. Personally, I don't know you at all, so I have no reason to trust that you will produce something good, and so I don't want to gamble $50 on it. But, I would gamble $15 on it.

The other software kickstarters I've backed have included a copy of the product for the lowest tier (usually $15), and then added swag like t-shirts at the higher tiers.

Something like this:

$15: Light Table license

$30: Light Table license and included in the list of contributors

$50: Light Table license, included in list of contributors, and early access to beta

$100: Light Table license, included in list of contributors, early access to betas, and t-shirt

Lowering the early access will get you more beta testers, and raising the t-shirt higher will make you have to ship less t-shirts.
If someone loves making lots of money, and those things "nobody" loves pay good money because the supply of people willing to do them is low, then those people who LOVE to make money will do them...

EDIT: It all comes down to balancing and finding what you truly LOVE. If being a janitor paid $300 an hour because supposedly nobody would do it otherwise... I'd do it knowing, thinking, and planning with what I love in mind... saving up money so I could do/have what I love! My time! Sometimes you have to put in short term pain for a long term gain...
Do you have any meaningful citation for these events?

The only mention I can find of the incident you seem to be alluding to is a brief, vague, and un-sourced mention in a text file dating to 1991[1]. I'd be entirely unsurprised to learn that there is far more nuance to the story than what you and said file state, or that the incident was largely the result of a game of telephone.

[1] http://progfree.org/Copyright/against-user-interface-copyrig...
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The thing I hate about Google Authenticator is when you use a google authenticator protected gmail account for other google services. Google has a bunch of things where they don't yet support 2fa, so sometimes you enter the wrong password.

It would be good if you had a dedicated-to-email google account, definitely. As it is, I use it for a gmail account I use with all my google services, and it's a real pain -- especially because the gmail password itself is a long random string, and sometimes I need to enter that on a mobile or other device.

I'd really like better user credential management using something like OneID (public keys, challenge-response auth), but people have tried that in the past and haven't been terribly successful getting it adopted. It might work better on a mobile OS, so maybe next-gen Apple iOS keystore could do something like this.
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You can still, however, make your own buttons using the API calls from the related social sites. You do not have to use the standard buttons provided. This way you can avoid all the privacy issues.
Yeah, you are. The assumption is you wouldn't try to sell an e-book for $102 (it says this explicitly) and you wouldn't try to sell fertilizer on the e-book advertisement (it doesn't say this, but it is common sense.). It is also assumed that we aren't making a shoddy product, nor something earth shattering.

The article is suggesting you use adwords demand compared to your expected optimal product price to determine if that market is over or under served.
I've had terrible experiences with cloudflare, a fellow HN user uses it and I constantly have problems connecting to his site (cloudflare telling me it's down) when it's definitely up and accessible by others. I definitely see the value in their product (idea) though.
So the app-specific passwords are single-factor authentication keys. Why not just skip the two-factor authentication altogether and use a longer password/phrase?
Similar experience.
So I must ask: what do you think are the major hurdles preventing something like the Smalltalk browser being implemented in/for Ruby?
CreateJS - A suite of JavaScript libraries and tools for HTML5.
Children share half your DNA.

Grandchildren share 0-1/2 your DNA, in a normal distribution around 1/4

Similar values and distributions happen for great and great-great grandchildren centered on 1/8th and 1/16th respectively

This is due to the randomness associated with the chromosome from you or your co-parent being randomly selected.

A grandchild exceptionally like you might be almost 1/2 your DNA
now i'll wait for the logging evaluator.
ps: does it compatible with uterus.js?
Major e-commerce product detail page html for PC: 240775 bytes

For smartphone: 15903 bytes

For old phones (mostly text): 2369 bytes

Server-side device detection does make a difference here, and in other footprints (initial external resources, backend services) as well.
I addressed some of this in detail in a more philosophical manner in response to a "sibling" comment of your comment, so I'll just be more specific here.

I believe that if it were not for various antitrust action (in both the EU and the US), MS would have continued bundling IE with Windows in a way that made the two inseparable. This would have led to the collapse of the Windows, because IE was too bug-ridden and security-vulnerable at the time, just barely acceptable. There had to be a separation of the two for Windows to remain viable. The EU had a particularly harsh ruling on this, IIRC.

Were it not for the EU, Linux, Solaris, BeOS, Amiga, or something else would have suddenly become much more important and would have taken up the slack. In other words, antitrust action may have "accidentally" saved Microsoft from their own mistakes.

I actually think this theory is plausible. (I know I actually was driven away from Windows because it was too virus-prone, and yes, this is for technical reasons, not just being the most used.)

Maybe MS and Windows would have survived just fine anyway. But the true moral of the story is, MS fundamentally cannot achieve a true monopoly in the operating system market, unless they get the government to ban all other operating systems. Unless other operatings systems become illegal, somebody else can always make a new one.
If you are dumb enough to trust a service like Gmail with your credit cards, passwords, and other codes, well.. you're dumb.
Hmm. So let's say we assign every trader a unique ID and randomly (or not) prioritize the IDs every tick. (I'm assuming you're shuffling the IDs and not the individual orders; otherwise, as jsnell points out, it averages out to the pro rata case.) The main problem I can see is that if someone can get their hands on multiple IDs, they can duplicate their orders across all their IDs and we're back to the pro rata system.

Even if you make sure to assign just one ID per trading firm, firms could coordinate to share their IDs. For example, if you're not using your ID this tick, you might place an order on my behalf for a small fee. And I'll also have sent some of my orders through an independent broker to take advantage of their ID. (Of course, if that broker places many such orders, and only some of those fill, they'll need some policy for which of their customers get the trades... maybe they could use time priority?)

It's conceivable (if unlikely) that the SEC could enact and enforce a ban on such collusion. Even then I think there would be other perverse incentives, but I'll need to think more about it.
Unfortunately, the first item is still valid. "Speed" is and continues to be a concern.

If python did multithreading then speed could be overlooked as processors grow more and more cores. The GIL prevents python programs from using the full potential of modern hardware, though.
To me "once it's launched" means it's a cathedral design where no one will see what's going on with the project until some future date.

I'd prefer it if third-party contributions were allowed right away, and I'd be completely fine with only the core developers being paid. I think getting early feedback from users who care enough to contribute would be invaluable here.
I'm confused about what Kickstarter will accept for software projects and which ones they won't. My latest project was rejected, but it was also a developer app. What is the guideline for what they will accept?
US steel was a near monopoly (70% of the market) not though government regulation but simply by buying up the competition. It was also lost market share to more innovative rivals.

ALCOA was the opposite they become a monopoly by out competing everyone else.
I ended up doing the processing server side - performance on older devices was shockingly slow.
Now someone needs to link some Eddie Izzard videos...
>but what's the best way to get support at a $10 or $15 level?

That's obvious: Include a full copy of the product at that level. Call it "no support" or something, but if you're going to be doing pay-what-you-want, then go ahead and start now.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Kickstarter take software projects? Isn't software creative?
Just a thought; when I read the title and started reading the description, I thought you were actually selling a giant drafting-table sized LCD.

If you wanted to integrate the IDE well with one particular piece of really nice kit, and then tell people that if they donate more than $BIGNUM, they get a nice workstation, all setup and integrated.

(just a silly idea. That's probably more of a distraction than you want. But it could be showy.)
that sounds interesting. is the event open to the public?
Is is April 1st yet again?

That's 1/6th the Akamai market cap.

You know, Akamai. That other little CDN. The one that happens to make 4000x the revenue of Cloudflare.

Ah well, it's probably justified. Cloudflare insists they're not a CDN after all. They only happen to offer the exact same services by accident.
Can we trust the screen the new codes are being displayed on? :-)
He has posted his "guide" which is just the reddit AMA in a nut shell with no other special information other than his contacts in marketing online.

Time to put those domains to work boys!
>provided you own a cell phone.

Well, crap. My only "phone" is my Google Voice number...
What I would really like to see is something that leverages all of the skill available for and effort put into web development directly for native application development, with minimal impact on the developers it's trying to win over. E.g., an HTML+CSS+JavaScript compiler that will take your web-app code and generate a native application for whatever target that behaves just like that source code would have if it were rendered in a browser.

One of Microsoft's really good, ahead-of-the-time ideas was HTML Applications, which are essentially that and have been around (but pretty much forgotten) ever since IE5. Not a compiler, but a special interpreter based on a browser that runs HTML+CSS+JavaScript as a native application, with a special execution environment that gives script access to the operating system and some extra HTML tags for window styling.
Know what services you've given access to your Google account
Typing a six digit number every 31 days is too much work to add a significant layer of security to a very important account?
These are revokable, and don't allow access to change your password.
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Two factor auth works fine without a cell phone. You can put a land line in as a backup and of course you should store the extra physical codes somewhere safe as well.

Obviously though, this would be a pain to use without a portable device that can generate the appropriate time-based code.
I fundamentally disagree that Android did deep harm to open source. That's just absurd.