skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to set

jQuery = pyquery.PyQuery(someHTMLDocumentString)

So I can use jQuery like I'm used to. At this point, you can do

links = jQuery('a')

or whatever.
My guess is you sound like a troll.
Incidentally, SQL Server 2008 has a FILESTREAM type which integrates with NTFS to give you streaming access to BLOBs (you can even work with them via Windows file handles). MSDN has a pretty thorough (and I thought interesting) technical article on them. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109(v=sql.100)....
Why Google doesn't see java malware.
Flagged for the linkbait title (which is in fact the title of the forum post), but I'd love it if the title we just edited to actually reflect what was going on.

Edit: To answer some comments; it's misleading because Apple is rejecting some applications which use Dropbox. Or, rather, a single one that we know of. For a reason other than "Dropbox is used by the application", to boot. A better title would explain what was actually happening (no offense to OP; I'm glad s/he cut out the editorializing). But I'm sitting here at -4, so it's unlikely this is seen :)
I was about to say "Java!!!" then realized how misplaced that statement was given the circumstances. Oracle really is shooting themselves in the foot here.
So why differentiate, other than with a value that clearly segments them?

This is not unlike Apple's laptop plan - before it was retired, the plastic unibody 13" macbook and 13" aluminum macbook pro had almost no distinctions to a consumer aside from exterior.
I used to do custom SharePoint development using SharePoint and MOSS 2007 from Microsoft. Fun developing experience. I was doing document management for some rather large companies. Guess where Microsoft put all of the images, word, excel,powerpoint presentations, email and whatever else! In a blob in an SQL 2005 server database. It was amazing how fast those hard drives could fill up with each document and all of it's revisions being stored there. There was talk that MS might eventually add external blob support but I quit long before that if it ever happened at all. If anyone asks me now I simply refer them to other document management servers.
Competition, Startups, and Vision
"There are no guarantees in life about whether anyone will succeed, but there is also not infinite time to wonder what might have been."

That line was the best part in your writeup.
I'm not sure why he or the talk is considered infamous. (Full version here: http://vimeo.com/22053820) When a client orders work to be done, that work should be billed as agreed and then the client should pay for the work they ordered. In design and web development, there seems to be some moral confusion among some clients whether they actually have to pay for the work the ordered. The speaker argues, and I believe rightly so, that this is bullshit.
It's linkbaity for sure but it seems entirely accurate, too.
How many billions of people are there on the planet? 'Social' is probably the only application of technology that I see applying to every single one of them. While I think what we've seen so far is rather faddish, 'social' will continue to be a massive application for software.
Any chance you could add in some features of DuckDuckGo regarding privacy? Examples could be not tracking search history, not sending a referrer, etc.
Whoops forgot to introduce it. Click (or hit spacebar) to see a random GIF fullscreen, keep clicking for more. You can directly link to any of the GIFs. These are all added by users, you add your own by simply dropping in a GIF URL on the homepage.
I view the acquisition as a tradeoff in whether you'd like to exert a lot of effort upfront or down the road.

If you exert a lot of effort upfront, you can collect a few high-paying customers and provide more tailored support to their needs. Of course the fewer customers you have means each has a greater proportional influence in affecting the direction of your product. That is, assuming customer feedback is something you're interested in, which I acknowledge is not necessarily always the case.

If you would rather exert effort more "constantly" and gradually down the road, than the many customers approach is good. Many apps which end up in this situation do so because of a massive user spike at the point when their app "goes big". In that case, the short-term growth is clearly not gradual, but the long-term growth leading up to that point may be.

My personal preference would be a small to medium customer base to provide more tailored support.
Using Proto-Personas for Executive Alignment
I don't understand why this is linkbait? Apple is indeed rejecting apps which use Dropbox.
Surely the headline should be, "How Tweeting Nearly Ruined Obama's Secret Trip to Afghanistan"? The headline makes it sound like Twitter the company had something to do with it other than running the service.
Wow. 17. I still have a Fedora 1 DVD from way back in the day. Crazy to think that it's progressed so far!
Buy the domain name satiate.me and have it play a new random gif every 3-5 seconds.
I removed "The horror" from the original title to make it less of a link bait.

What's your suggestion for the title though?
I can not be the only one thinking there is an antitrust issue here? I would guess the book thing means Apple is under quite a bit of scrutiny.

While I'm not involved in mobile, I've had similar experiences for over half a decade dealing with the banal, highly questionable, and non-uniformly enforced rules Google imposes on its own advertisers. Some of the stuff is bad enough it makes you think it would fall under RICO if this wasn't a large company but rather an Italian owned waste disposal company.
Just because he doesn't use it any more doesn't mean the feedback is any less valuable.

It's great feedback. It points out specific problems and solutions. Ways that, from his point of view, the UI could be improved.
Bing. We are working one some custom crawling/indexing to enhance.
If you have feedback, why don't you email them directly?

Edit: Ok, I was downvoted for my comment. The reason I posted this is because the parent wrote a long comment about the product that has nothing to do with the content of the article and may not even be viewed by the team.
As best I can tell, the title here is better than the title of the forum post ("The Horror." has been removed.) I think "Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox." reflects what's going on pretty well. Why do you disagree?
I can't stop clicking.
So who's buying and who's shorting?
I think the best way to do that would be to offer a free plugin with added benefits once you pay for it (like buffer). I look at is similarly to buying an app on a phone, it would largely depend on how useful it would be, how much I would use it, and if I could justify paying money for it.

I have a plug in to remove the ads on the Pandora page, and to show a pop up with song name and artist regardless of what webpage I'm focusing on. I wouldn't pay for that plugin, but a strong ad blocking one could be worth the money.

Do you have something in mind?
Airport trips in Boston are flat-fee trips.
Full piece here: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...
Thx. Yes, many crawlers and indexers. Many.
It is very likely that the run rate of last month is more than 1/12th of the total annual revenue, as they are growing rapidly.

So let's estimate their run rate of last month at $75K and it becomes realistic - albeit a bit tight - to have 10 people on the payroll.
Awesome. Would you be able to share? We'll post it to the site..
Reminded me of http://neave.com/television/, just random "channel" switching but slightly longer scenes and with sound.

How is your site different, from say, YTMND (which also allows sound on top of GIFs), aside from being minimalistic and not having to log in to create? (though I think I answered my own question here)
To be fair to Google, when they bought Android it's not as if there was another mobile startup with a competing .Net-based product.
AFAIK, it would only be an antitrust issue if it were shown to be anticompetitive. If Apple is a monopoly or acting as part of an illegal trust, yeah, they're going to get smacked down. But I think the general consensus is that Android is a credible competitor to iOS and Windows is a more-than-credible competitor to Mac OS X, so Apple is not a monopoly.
The JVM rose to prominence in the browser, and it was not always known for its "high performance features". Quite the opposite. Doppio is cool if for nothing else than to demonstrate that this is possible at all. I can't wait to see where the team gets once it can optimize for performance.
How do you explain "open" projects like this one, which is basically offering a year-long subscription to whatever they produce:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005365109/jane-jensens-...

It doesn't seem like this project should've been accept.
Question to founders -- how did you get your first 1000 users?
How do you bootstrap an SDL app on iOS? I've been considering taking this route myself because I really hate multi-language development and all my DSP code is in C++.
I don't think that's accurate. It would be like saying "Apple rejecting applications that use buttons" because the apps being rejected have buttons. I'm not saying Apple is doing a good thing here, but the blog post states that it also happens for Google accounts and presumably any other web service where you'd sign up via a browser. Sending people to the site for that purpose if the service is potentially a pay one seems to be in violation of Apple's terms, though it's certainly a stretch. Apple should clarify things and not restrict browser use, but also the title is needlessly alarming.
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies [pdf]
Google analytics for social media
"needs webkit [or Opera.Next]"
i'm not too sure on the exact details of antitrust but this seems more ethical then antitrust. They are not disallowing the users from NOT being able to purchase more dropbox storage - as long as it goes their stream to purchase it (which results in them getting 30%). Wouldn't antitrust be that they are not allowing it all together on their platform? Wouldn't the same idea of you going to a movie theater and not allowing you to bring in your own food/candy - you must purchase it through them since they make more money from a transaction you would have done elsewhere?
I did Save Page -> Find/Replace All "webkit" "moz"
Works :)
Perhaps we can look forward to a future in which the dumb stuff in people's pasts is acceptable.
This can cut both ways. One time I said something vaguely insulting (and in retrospect, insensitive) about Steve Wozniak on Slashdot, and he replied to the comment personally.

You never know who is reading, so don't say anything you couldn't vouch for in real life (which increasingly overlaps with our Internet life)
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It's back to the old v0.3 Dropbox SDK for me. What a pain in the ass.
500K/month would mean 50,000 paying users and I'm pretty sure they don't have that.
How can they hire 10 people? The same way other cash-strapped startups can - by giving equity instead of big salary.
Sure, it's pretty simple. I actually just took the icon from your search thing and added it to mine. The only difference between ours now is that I use the param tag so that it's not just one long url.

https://gist.github.com/2572530
Or perhaps they'll be judged on their ability to learn from their mistakes.
Gree acquires Funzio for $210M
This is Reddit at its best--good questions, good answers, and helpful citations provided by random passers-by.
RIM's Failed Hail Mary
Bleh, C++ sux to code for =/

I like C# although mono always failed to be nearly as good as .NET and that hindered C# a lot.

If microsoft had realized it and made .NET multiplaform as well, and open source, we may live in a different world today. Heck, Microsft could be leading.

But then again, rewritting the past is easier said than done.
No. They are blocking applications which allow you to make purchases without using Apples in app purchasing system. See the difference ?
Sorry, but 'Social' isn't going anywhere. There will continue to be different iterations of Social applications and technologies, but the core will remain. Humans are a social species. This will not change any time soon. Some have a vision of the future where humans are different and technology changes them. All I have seen is humans adapting technology and the world to what they are. The more you align the technology you create with what humans already are, or want, (including design, functions, and features) the more successful and adopted it will be.
1) Research antitrust. It doesn't mean what you think it means.

2) Apple has done nothing different than has been done before. It is an existing in app purchasing rule.
I have a fair amount of experience with MSNP, and it is the exact opposite of P2P. Some things like file transfers will sometimes use P2P if it's available.
I'll agree there are much more neutral & accurate titles that could be used, but given that the title is factual (For some reason, Apple has begun enforcing a policy that they were being selective about previously, and is now indeed rejecting apps that use Dropbox.) and the source is a post to the Dropbox developer forums (not a blog post.) I don't think this title is far enough off the mark to warrant changing it.

Linkbait might be "Apple still bitter Dropbox rejected buyout offer, bans API from App Store." ;)
Oh, right, when I launched it I just saw a background of random squares that changed a bit every time, and I didn't have any gif to try it out with, so I closed it.
In a word: no.

Social is here to stay. Socialization is the dominant use of all forms of communication, as it always has been, and we are seeing that being (clumsily, haltingly) applied to the web. Things will change, mutate, evolve, etc. but social isn't going away, though a lot of the norms of social on the internet of today may well fall by the wayside, just as other aspects of social interaction in the physical world have as well over time.
Add one part http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/random and we're off to the races!
GREE acquires social mobile game dev Funzio
This passes for front page analysis on HN?

I have a feeling the moon is going to crash into the earth soon. It's just too big and too far up in the sky.
This has gone way too far. The other day I downloaded the Google Play Books app. I started it up, signed in.. and nothing. No prompt to go buy books online, no hint at what the app does... just a blank screen.

It's completely scummy. You can buy Apple's iCloud storage upgrade from within the OS, and now you can't even LINK to a place where you could link to a place where if you click the right link you could buy Dropbox storage.
But they bought a good solid team and a great brand that can be reused in other incarnations. It's either that or compete with them. Not really a mistake when you look at it from an exec's perspective.
Wikipedia's Wales to help make UK academic research available for free online
At least two devs in the linked-to thread claim that they have been rejected for the same reason.
I like the view point. Another way of looking at this is what Startups were always good at. They were always good at "Disruptive Innovation". The regular "Continuos Innovations" is better done by big companies. Most startups today dont start with the idea of creating a business but to disruptively solve a problem. If the goal of the business is to cause Disruptive Innovation then it can be done better without looking at the money on day to day basis. Big Companies being able to acquire these Innovative companies works well for all parties involved.
...and using the Dropbox SDK is apparently violating that
Bonzi-Buddy Reborn as a Terminal Program
Other Apps Could Learn from News.me's Location Features
This is really going over the line. People are content in the walled garden, but if it starts getting too stuffy in there people will want to leave. Unfortunately it makes "business sense" (read: nonsense) for Apple to raise the walls of their walled garden as high as they can make them. Hopefully at some point there will be enough discontent to remove things like this.
From the Yelp Developer API:

>You can monetize your apps and sites to your heart's content -- we don't require any sort of revenue share - but don't create tools for sale that extend Yelp functionality (such as Facebook integration).
What I'm questioning is whether or not he actually ever attempted to use it as his main project management solution in the first place, and instead gave a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that it was a single-page javascript application. Someone who's asking for a plain HTML version of a rich desktop style application probably wasn't going to use it in the first place. I'm open to eating crow, though.
The audio library incompatibilities were API changes. Amavisd's issues are not binary either but do seem mostly socket related.
this is an antitrust issue even if it isn't by law.

sometimes i think developers should unite and pull all apps from appstore to protest.
So what really sets the various BSDs apart? Has anyone done a good comparison between them?
"Competition law, known in the United States as antitrust law, is law that promotes or maintains market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies."[1]

One could argue that rejecting apps that make use of (or in this case encourage signup to) Dropbox is anti-competitive conduct since Dropbox is a competitor of iCloud (isn't it?)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law
why does this need to be a service?
If Skype is flawed, then to a certain degree so is Facebook, SMS messaging, Facetime, and the rest. Being able to sell your company for billions two times, keeping ownership of the underlying technical IP and suing the first buyer seems like a pretty shrewd business model to me.

Of course I wish everyone was using end-to-end encrypted audio, text, and video communication with onion routing in the middle. But we aren't there yet. Arguably because everyone with A-list business, marketing, and technical acumen would rather be a billionaire.
Don't forget that their software is notoriously convoluted and buggy as hell. The wider they spread themselves the less effort and time seems to be going into their product.
Altering the logging table scheme once it reaches several million rows? Not fun. I think flat files are much easier to scale.
It's awful, and it's painful for everyone -- not just those using the DropBox APIs. The origins of these clauses are with iBooks and the Kindle app for iOS.

I wrote about it in a recent blog post:

http://davepeck.org/2011/11/04/kindle-clauses/
I thought Apple was all about giving consumers the best UX and that revenue would automatically follow... how does a move like this help UX?

How come Apple's reviewers are so freaking vigilant about in-app purchases while letting a fart app or a tethering app (or even, until one point, those uploading address books without any alert) slip through so often?
I absolutely agree. I now have an instinctive reaction to reach for my pocket whenever I'm feeling the slightest bit impatient, and I have caught myself on a couple of occasions reaching for my pocket when I already have my phone out, because I'm waiting for a page to load in the mobile browser.
Now I'm curious: Assume for the sake of argument that we're dealing with an app on a single physical machine, no separate DB server. If you wanted to have production data and logs both in, say, Postgres, would you run two separate Postgres daemons, or is there some saner way of handling this?
No obligatory xkcd? http://xkcd.com/597/
We're gonna make it a lot more obvious soon.
Significant market share is enough for antitrust to be a concern. You don't need a monopoly, and indeed most companies engaging in anti-competitive behavior don't.
Thanks.

It's a bit thin, so I suggest you guys pump a lot of public datasets into it, and then do a series of blog posts about "look what you can discover from these public datasets with out awesome Q engine in a matter of seconds".
After reading through the thread it seems they are rejecting apps because a piece of the Dropbox SDK breaks the App Store guidelines. They are not simply rejecting Dropbox integrated apps.

It's well known that you cannot link the user to make a purchase outside of the iOS ecosystem. It was a huge issue with the eBook apps last years.

I'm not saying I agree with Apple's stance on that but they are not rejecting apps which use Dropbox because they don't like Dropbox. Dropbox is breaking the rules and as soon as they fix that (it seems they already have) there will be no more problems.
Screw them for publishing stuff to my facebook feed, and not allowing me to listen otherwise. It's terrible, but I still but up for it for some unknown reason. I have no sympathy.
I think I can sort of see what's going on, we're trying to fit the data of some GPS position taken from a walk around the park or something similar, and fit it to some linear combination of basis of some "street functions" to minimize its two-norm, where the "street function" corresponding to each street for some point (x,y) is some measure of how far away from the street that point is.

For example, in the subproblem of only one-way streets that we can assume to be composed of one or more segments of straight lines per street, we take a simple street-function $\phi_i(x,y)$ corresponding to street i to be the norm of the projection of <x,y> onto that street. Furthermore we also add into the system some "smoothing-function" to ensure that the overall shape of the final path is doable, for example constraining the distance between successive points. Next, we solve the argmin of the norm equation for each point so that each point is now moved to some linear combination of the streets, and truncate all but the most significant street basis, and rerun until we get to some acceptable tolerance.

Maybe?
One advantage to using a multi-seat solution is the same reason virtualization in datacenters works so well. One user isn't going to maximize resource usage at all times, so my spare CPU cycles are available for you when you need to run a bursty CPU-intensive app and vice versa.
[I have a zillion snarky type replies that itch to be free, but we'll keep that monster in the box today.]

"Way to far" is an interesting characterization. Apple has rules about their playground, they like their rules, they make Apple very profitable.

So the question becomes can Google leverage this liability to increase the penetration or market share of Android tablets? Once these tactics hurt Apple in the market they will change. Until then, well its their town and you either have to play by their rules or not play at all.
I love OpenBSD and have 5.0 installed on a router. But man they are old-school. Just looking at the upgrade instructions[1] brings me back to the time before package managers and makes my long for a nice "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade51.html
How many number of links is the limit? If the mobile site had a link to Google, and Google had an ad for Google Apps, because it's within the webview, does that still mean it's in app purchasing?
Since I see a lot of people using the term "antitrust" incorrectly in this article, here is a Wikipedia link on United States antitrust law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
I hope you are consistently this much anal about the "linkbaitiness" of every HN article - or else I'll just have to regard you as an Apple employee or an Apple apologist.