skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my moral obligation ended when I stopped using Godday's services for my hundreds of domains. I boycotted Godaddy before SOPA, for their support of the Arizona immigration law. I put up banners on my site for that law and SOPA. Stopped directing traffic to them.

But really... my customers want to use Godaddy. If I can get a couple bucks per registration, who am I to tell them no?

I don't think it's selling out. I give my customers choices, and they pick Godaddy.
New Era of Computing: An Interview with "Dr. Data"
> (The "www." subdomain is basically useless.)

Tanguy Ortolo answers 'Why www?' better than me.

http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article47/why-www
They recently released a few developer diaries that are worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYe_eNG5Cz0

It's impressive how much effort is put into a game like that compared to the web/mobile apps I usually build. Tempting, really
If you're unwilling to code, tell a developer what your idea is, tell him/her what you bring to the table (other than "ideas"), and offer the dev a generous share of the revenue and equity(for a two person team, at least 40%).

There is no reason for them to try and compete with you when they could work with you.
Google's UI is competitive with Apple's in elegance? That's an interesting perspective; obviously, I don't agree.
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Really, Fax???
In fact, one of referenced articles [0] states the students disclosed the hack to Ning in March. It's not clear when the hole was patched, but I have a hard time believing it has been nearly a month between the hack being demonstrated to Ning and Ning releasing a solution. Furthermore, it appears the Dutch news sites and TNW's translation are only reporting on the issue because the students are comfortable in now releasing this information, only after Ning has patched the vulnerability, BEFORE millions of accounts could be compromised. In this regard, I don't understand TNW's tone nor this post's title.

Of course, Ning should certainly come forward with their findings and what diligence was made.

[0] http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/110261/ning-lekt-accounts-100-mil...
Question for the crowd:

Can I write Windows Phone 7/8 apps in C/C++?

I have an app, DJPad, which from one codebase I've got running on HP TouchPad, Android, and Playbook (and soon iOS). I would love to add framework support for Windows Phone 7 via an SDL port but everywhere I look I only see .NET/XNA programmability.
He's using something tab-like, the task bar or whatever it's called on Mac. I use my (linux) task bar to see my separate apps (like everyone does), with sub-"apps" in Firefox tabs. His "tabs" are just migrated up to his task bar as separate instances of Safari. Same thing, different implementation. They both bookmark locations of concentration. The difference is that, on the Mac, for jwz, it works well with Safari and not with Firefox.
I like how the author scoffs at this as if it is self-evidently preposterous,

Have you used gmail lately? The new UI is a mess.
Hi, Salvatore,
Read http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Nassim-Nicholas-Taleb/dp/14... this book, Nassim discover and explore for most of people the true meaning of randomness, and actually he show useless of "Mathematical true randomness" in real life. Highly recommend this book.
And Yep, u are absolutely right, the random effect, is totally depends on how to look at it.
It's a good point but the wording in the guidelines suggests that both the 3rd party and the site operator share responsibility to get consent (ignoring the fact that Facebook may just sidestep this, being a US based company):

"The person setting the cookie is therefore primarily responsible for compliance with the requirements of the law."

and

"Where third party cookies are set through a website both parties will have a responsibility for ensuring users are clearly informed about cookies and for obtaining consent."

It opens up an interesting liability issue. I suspect terms of service agreements for companies that provide services based on 3rd party cookies may be updated shortly.
What in the name of the thousand green hells does this have to do with computer science?

EDIT: There is of course a perfectly legitimate interest in teaching this sort of thing; it just has nothing to do with computer science. Doesn't Stanford have a faculty of, I don't know, bubble inflation or whatever?
HFT Firm Fined $14M for Oil Manipulation
I edit text all day with a black background, often with green text (but not blindingly bright green), and that still makes my eyes hurt. I didn't make it past the 2nd paragraph.
India: obscene pics of gods require massive human censorship of Google, Facebook
Will there be .news, .games, .tech, etc. and if so, who will own them? And will they will be available for registration by normal people? Will normal people trust the owners enough to actually reguster subdonanes?

Those would be logical TLDs to have, but somehow I don't see ICANN encouraging their creation.
I was unable to find anything close to a definitive list, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language is a start.
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This will not happen.

Not before Starcraft 2 or World of Warcraft anyway. (And WoW is a six year old game that requires subscription, and Blizz still require you to purchased all previous expansions in order to enjoy the latest xpac, albeit at a lower price)

Why give it for free when people are willing to pay for it?
I am from Germany and it is so sad.

I love to listen to Grooveshark while coding and a few months ago Grooveshark disabled their site for people from Germany because of high GEMA related costs.

To work around this I installed a Chrome extension called Grooveshark Germany Unlocker (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/docdgimmdejoiemdaf...) which does some proxy magic.

For accessing Youtube content blocked by GEMA I usually use Stealthy (another Chrome extension).

I never have thought that I need these kind of tools - but I do.
So if someone doesn't love their job enough to spend MORE than 37.5% of their waking hours at it, the solution is to find a job they'll love THAAAAAT MUCH?

No, obviously the solution is to minimize the time spent working, either way.

"Only when we are free from working to live, will we be free to live to work."
A very lucrative 1996.
Your concern is pretty silly. If your life is at stake for whistle blowing, I bet Javascript being unsafe will be the last of your worries! You will probably use Tor in an Internet Cafe with incognito browsing mode.
Amazon CTO: 'You should be able to walk away' from cloud providers
Note enough people fell for that con I guess
That would certainly be a nice form of protest. They could even show a tiny message on top of each video explaining why all videos are silent in Germany. I really think Google should protest this rather than agree to make a deal with GEMA (if the decision remains final, at least).
I'll get right on that now. My MVP is too M and not enough V!
Right. What you have to look at is, how much more money would he bring in by using Kickstarter? Hard to say for sure, of course, but Kickstarter is in a very good position now to argue that it's well over 5%.

Seems to me that for someone who doesn't already have a large fan base, a Kickstarter campaign could easily increase their take by a factor of 4 (if not 10 or 100 or 1000). For someone well-known like Whedon the factor will be smaller, but if it's 1.5 or even 1.2, the 5% fee is more than covered.
But if inflation in different parts of the economy has different rates, than you can get a sudden re-alignment.
If we all told the author that he was an utterly fascinating contrarian, would that help him not feel so angry?
Direct link to the PDF: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak/Papers/HSoM.pdf
Do something you love is referring to creative passions. Find something creative you love to do and make it your profession.

Again, this is roughly equivalent to "let them eat cake." Creative professions are famously unremunerative.
This timing coincides with another open beta – TERA. An 'action' MMORPG that requires active dodging from the player and cursor targeting (instead of tab targeting like most traditional MMOs).

Diablo 3 beta will be easily completed in a day, all 5 classes, so TERA is a good second game to play around if you find yourself gobbling up the D3 beta too fast.
And to think I was prepared to go to work today.
Thank you! I'll buy the book, it's a truly interesting subject :)
H:SoE was the best Haskell book on the market when I was learning Haskell. Great book, but I really needed the depth of RWH to get anywhere practical.
Just give him an index fund. Or let him flip coins or roll dice.
>"Your device is forever stuck with Windows Phone 7."

I've got a laptop from 2004 that is stuck with XP and one from 2001 that is stuck with 2000. Both still do the limited tasks for which I use them. Closer to home, I have a Nokia E71 running S60 Feature Pack 1. It too does everything I need it to do when I use it.

Most people aren't gadget freaks. Microsoft has a strong track record of helping consumers avoid upgrading their OS when their hardware won't support it, e.g. Vista, 7, and 8 CP.

Microsoft may have sins, but they are not those of Google or Apple (e.g. Siri).
But as benologist said, numbers speak for themselves. I'm sure few vcs will ignore an email promising double digit growth rates

Oh, but they do. I won't name names here, but we had an agreement to meet up with an internet-famous VC that we contacted cold - but he cut off contact before we could confirm.

I appreciate the idea about attending meetups. We may try it, but our time is very constrained. Thanks.
There is a school of thought that prefers applications to delegate their window handling duties to the window manager, in order to have consistent behaviour across applications.

In that case, both MDI and tabbed UIs remove the capability of the WM to manage that specific rectangle of content, and require you to use in-app controls, which may not even exist.

This is especially pronounced for those who use non-standard window managers, say Ion or Awesome window manager which let you tile new windows rather than having them appear whereever they choose.

Dunno if that's jwz's reason, but it's one good reason that I've had in the past (although not for browsers, the number of tabs I keep grows too rapidly to manage nicely alongside long-lived windows)
Sometimes randomness spits out what we call patterns. 123456 seems like a pattern to us, and our beloved compression algos we wrote. But 123456 is just as random as any combo. I think. Right?

Related thinking, Sean Carroll on TED- Arrow of Time
http://y2u.be/WMaTyg8wR4Y
He says there's 'more' or 'less' entropy, but is there really such a thing?
Rolling 6666666 on a dice, and we scream luck! But rolling 3164536 should be just as likely/unlikely.
Options and vesting are common even with key employees; founders sometimes have a different equity vehicle than options, but founders should always be on a vesting schedule too.
I've registered a couple of domains with Name.com and it's been pretty painless and easy to do what I need.
When people ask my why I jailbreak my phone, my verbal answer is that I like to be able to control what's running on my phone (and peek at what it is doing), and my convenience demo is showing how SBSetting lets me turn wireless off, change brightness, and/or airplane on in a 0.5 secs of swipe+click.

I think that when I actively manage my battery life, I get 7-8 more hours to the 4S' 40 hours between charges of my normal use. It doesn't sound like much, but for me it's the difference between having to remember to charge all the time, and doing it opportunistically.
Really enjoy reading these, thanks for posting
I think raspberry pi and 0x10c will both be a part of the new demoscene.
Go Daddy is on 8th place for me.
> Utilitarians would generally want to keep
> it a secret, though

Yeah, those Utilitarians are always taking ideological stands on general issues.
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That's what really separates consumer electronics from cars: processing data requires (from a theoretical physics standpoint) a minuscule amount of energy, and there's a lot of room for improvement even with current technology.

Moving heavy things up hills or through air at high speeds requires a respectable amount of energy, and current technology is already within an order of magnitude or so to the theoretical peak efficiency.
The Microsoft Strategy, and how it's going to break everything
Most NDAs have such a period stated in the contract. However, every now and then, you come across one that doesn't. (I just received one earlier this week that did not explicitly state one.) So, as always, read everything before you sign!
> It was slow and I couldn't do the things I was used to doing in Firefox or Opera

It's still slow. But you can do all the stuff you can with the other browsers. I use it for developing mobile stuff, the ability to switch user agents is built in and it's at least slightly similar the iOS Safari.
The behaviour that dice and spinners and coins are trying to emulate is precisely what dsthysd said. In each case you hope that the faces of the die, sections of the spinner, and sides of the coin are equally likely each time.

I don't think I'm being unrealistic, how can learning more about probability theory change the conventional definition of random?

Isn't the real difficulty in trying to make a non-deterministic system out of a computer, since all we ever do with computers is feed instructions into them?
We have attempted the cold email route, and it does not work.

Thanks for the LinkedIn idea. Wouldn't we still need an introduction to the introducer? Does cold contact with someone who knows the VC actually work?
Slick New iOS Library Lets You Easily Manage Color Schemes in Your Apps
My iPhone tells me to turn wifi on every time I use the maps app because it improves location accuracy. It may just be the first launch after turning off wifi, but it seems to remind me after every time I turn wifi off.
Verbosity is good when you need to maintain projects developed with 300+ developers, scattered across the globe with multiple companies working on the project.

Why do you think verbose languages are so loved by big enterprise companies?

It is a total different scale of development.
It's about as unscary as the various disability and accessibility laws in the UK and EU. They make lots of demands too and have scary consequences for inaction, yet hardly anyone follows them to the letter and I've not heard of anyone getting punished either (although I'm not suggesting no-one has, it's just not common).

I suspect most companies, other than those with the budgets and public visibility to run scared, will just ignore this law until it becomes a problem. Indeed, they haven't done a good job of promoting it either - it's been in a few news stories.. woopty woo, I bet the majority of webmasters haven't even heard of it.
FastCompany tries innovative way to hire coder:Pay everyone who helped find them
Oh yeah - guns don't kill people, people do...
I migrated all of my domains over to NameCheap

1. Easy to use interface. Very straightforward. So much better than GoDaddy's mess.

2. Prices are negligible.

3. What else do I need from a registrar?

Bonus - Their CEO doesn't kill elephants.

Highly recommend!
Android 4, too. I think their shift to using only icons everywhere (in Android and their websites) was terrible. I have no idea what most of the icons are supposed to do until I tap them, which is a terrible way of navigating an interface.
You can in the same way argue that PI was random, but is not anymore now that it is known. The same could be said about any random sequence, like the tables of random numbers in calculus books or known PRNGs with known seeds.
I think it's kind of silly to argue Google v. Apple on elegance, yeah. But to my eye, Chrome really is a lot more elegant than Safari. There are a billion things Chrome does to make browsing quicker for me, not just because of raw browser speed but because things are just so graceful, simple, and direct. Just being able to search within a URL by starting to type the URL and then hitting 'Tab' is golden to me, and saves me a huge amount of time every single day.
They added a preference to get text in the buttons instead of the cryptic icons, which is a huge usability improvement.

I still don't like it as much as the old gmail.
I don't know whether it's my Mountain Lion install, particular version of Chrome/Opera/Firefox - but there is one reason why I use Safari - its butter-smooth scrolling.

Seriously, I was pretty huge Opera fanboy - but then I switched over to Safari to check out some page that was just broken in Opera and I was blown away.
If you don't have Mac with multi-touch trackpad, it might not be that big of a deal, but boy, does it make difference.

I hate almost everything else in Safari (no ability to pin tabs, that ridiculous "yeah, we won't resize tabs so we can show you more, just hide them in this stupid little >> menu" thing, I could go on and on...), but the way it scrolls outweighs anything else for me.
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Huh... "this guy", "the author" (2x).

Do people really not know who jwz is or why it might be notable that he doesn't use Firefox? Generally when a personal rant like this is upvoted, the reason isn't the content alone.
If we stopped frequenting all businesses that make political decisions we disagree with, we'd have no businesses left. That's sort of the reality of it. I still shop at Target despite donations to a republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, I still eat at Chick-fil-A despite donations to groups against gay marriage.

Are you boycotting every company that supported SOPA, including many many book publishers, Nike, Ford, Nintendo, Disney, and Wal-Mart? Do you refuse to watch movies produced by members of the MPAA? Have you stopped purchasing music from record company members of the RIAA? If not, then "don't sell out," and more importantly, don't tell the grandparent commenter what to do.
It's very sad that decades of right-wing propaganda has made libertarians think that a trade union is anything other than a rightful exercise of the Freedom of Association.
Sensationalist headline alert: It's hardly "anyone". The title makes it sounds like I could track your every move.
In addition, I think they completely failed with the HD themes, too. Some of them have such a contrast difference that you cannot even read label captions anymore, i.e., the complete left part below the Inbox becomes essentially useless...
This topic has come up a few times:

Four months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383817

Nine months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2753471

A year and a half ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766439
I tried that, and Wikipedia was #1 for me, which is probably a better result than any particular registrar.
It's not that false a dichotomy. I once started a job with a team I thought were awesome people... when I interviewed.

Once there I realized that none of them were all that social with each other, and I didn't want to be outside-of-work friends with most of them, either.
Something like device-pixel-ratio would be more useful than DPI. Raw DPI is meaningless unless you take distance into account, as is very clear in the case of the projector.
Storage is too cheap to care these days.

When $110 buys you 2TB (this morning on Newegg), then doing it on the fly and caching the result has about 100x better ROI than trying to solve it with a smart format. Remember, we're speaking about still photos here, where high retina quality ones rarely take more than 500k each, so 2TB buys you room for 4,000,000 photos (and since you'll be caching the lower res 200K images, it actually buys you room for 10,000,000 million photos)

That's not the case for videos - netflix, hulu and friends have multiple copies of each 1GB optimized for different devices. On-the-fly conversion is not possible, and the stream are significantly difference. For them, a reasonable, universally supported progressive video format will indeed make a huge difference
I'd be shocked, since he's using a Mac for its UI and extolling its virtues. I'm not aware of a way to swap out the Mac WM for another one.
When not building iPhone apps or scaling MySQL, most of us play WoW or Diablo. Didn't you get the battle chest with your welcome to the valley gift bag?
Yeah, it's subjective, and of course the way one works doesn't exist in the world of Platonic forms but is a function of the tools one uses.

EDIT: So, therefore, it's very difficult to make claims across toolsets. I am an Apple/Emacs guy from back in the Stone Age, so what I think of as "elegant" is going to be very different than someone who has a different history. YMW truly V.
The ironic thing is that a lot of it discusses browser UI design.
did you a/b test that default styled sign up button?
We're starting to open-source some of the iOS libraries we've been building at work. First library out the door, Color-Factory. It helps you easily build up a default palette to use across your application.
From the post: "the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job" - Max Levchin

I know culture fit is critical but where is the line between between not a fit and just having a hobby not shared by the rest of the team?
Yep, exactly!
Especially u can look on more common topic like success, and part of probability in it.

And sorry, they already have a second edition: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081297381X/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp... ,

after this book, i highly recommend read his another book: fooled by randomness
Yes, exactly. This is a more nicely stated version of what I was thinking.
Name.com is my personal favorite. Simple, clear, and not a lot of handholding.
I don't have 404,722 users but I do have a great app. How do I get to 404,722?
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The term "idea man" is a pejorative, and as someone who appreciates what Google became from being a handful of servers running a novel set of algorithms as described here:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html (the original paper was actually longer)

I appreciate idea men in a way no one who uses the term "idea man" does or can.
A part of the reason that these larger companies are having to resort to acquisitions as a hiring mechanism for good programmers is because the bubble is encouraging good programmers to leave larger corporate environments to either start their own startups or join their peers at their startups. The bubble investment environment is allowing non-profitable companies to pay large salaries for engineers that they couldn't otherwise afford. The sheer amount of money feeding into this startup bubble is inducing this at a massive scale, driving up the price of programmers across industries.
One option would be to split the material across multiple books. That wouldn't be very hard for a lot of technical topics, and isn't usually that hard to do for fiction (the cliffhanger ending has a long, long history).

A side benefit is that it might reduce "book bloat" - the tendency in recent years for programming books to weigh about 20 kg.
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I second that, privacy is not binary.

Also, when you think in security, it is always a trade off. And you cannot make rational decisions if you do not have a threat model. Maybe government agencies and big corporations know your every step. But I find perturbing that you choose to expose yourself to the garden variety of scumbag in the street. "Look all these nice gadgets and appliances at my home, which by the way is going to be alone for 3 weeks". +1
I feel jwz is trying to find a rational to his feelings.
Remove features
What? Remove a feature? I mean, after all, the feature is already implemented! Why take away a feature that’s all a sunk cost? Well, there are two main reasons for this.