skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this similar to how lost things are usually in the last place you look for them? It does make sense that people would continue replacing something until it worked!
Adobe CS6 released and is available at price starting from $1299
Why invicta watches are cheap
Laziness is the mother of all inventions. Neat trick.
$200,000 is an awful lot to pay for this networking possibility. There's no reason why putting high leverage individuals together should cost so much money. What would a competitor with universities on the networking front look like?

Keep in mind that $200,000 will pay for a lot of plane tickets, so the competing service could involve lots of world travel and still be much cheaper than elite schools.
Yes, but the difference is Functional Programmers don't have to actually build anything. They made a well funded mess in the eighties with the AI research, and now they can just feel superior to anybody else while producing a tiny percentage of production code in all fields combined, and not very good or popular one at that.

The most popular or useful thing a functional programmer can build (or has every built, Emacs aside) is his own functional language.

/s
You're welcome to believe whatever you want, but you're not welcome to your own facts. If you can point to specific language in CISPA that would relate to or enable powers similar to SOPA (or any powers to control digital communication at all), I'd be really interested to see it.
I know, god forbid anyone should get paid right?
'for' loops
Sure, but there's no doubt that SSDs on average wear out faster, which makes them that much more expensive a choice.

It may be worth it in the long run, but you have to keep that in mind when making the choice.
How to Get Venture Funding: Practical Advice from an Intel Investment Director
Added a test case for not caching the DOM element: http://jsperf.com/lazy-url-parsing/2
possibly, in fact, why do kids need go to college at all in the near future?
C++'s name mangling feels like a dealbreaker to me; it really hurts interoperability with other languages.

In general, C feels well-suited to be the language that (almost) every other language can talk to; C++ just doesn't fit that role so well.
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I hear this argument all of the time here in conservative Idaho, that social security provides more of a benefit than what's been paid in.

For many people (the subset of the working poor who end up living a long time) this is absolutely the case. For many other people (those with a below average lifespan or substantially above average career earnings) Social Security is a terrible deal and has no chance under the current formula of paying them back what they put in. Even if you don't count what their employers had to contribute, which might otherwise have been spent on higher wages.

It seems inevitable that the SS payroll tax cap will be lifted without substantial changes to the benefit formula, which will make it an even worse deal for, say, the median earner with a post-graduate degree.

That doesn't demonstrate that it's a bad program, just that's it's redistributive and we should be honest about that fact. A smart, productive 35-year old should absolutely not rely on Social Security for her retirement, assuming she doesn't want her lifestyle to drop off a cliff at age 68 or whatever the retirement age is by then.
How to tell stuff to a computer
And a single Java class can be more challenging than a large Haskell code base. So what?
I'm not sure why you got downvoted for calling the MySpace interface 'an abomination'. It's hard to find a better word for it.

MySpace was very weird in that it seemed like they didn't want you to alter your page. I know that statement seems odd, but there wasn't an easy way to do this. To make changes they didn't offer a UI to set up your own CSS or simply changes colors/backgrounds/etc without CSS, you essentially used JS injection on a couple fields to get the page to look like you wanted. If they had limited what people could do it, or gave them an easier avenue to do it, MySpace might not have lost as much traffic once the much 'prettier' Facebook came out.
Can this store mail in mbox format? In what header do the gmail labels go?
For anyone that doesn't recall, this was how Gumroad started: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614
I can't get access to the footer because of the endless scrolling. Basically there's no way for me to access the Search box long enough to type something in. Is it possible to move the footer items to the top or somewhere else?
Fully agree. Worst of all are the truculent widget bars that refuse to scroll with the rest of the page. Thankfully the Antisocial subscription for Adblock takes care of them.
This kind of little speaker-microphone 'sonar' is the kind of project we would give to undergraduate students as an afternoon practical. It's simple stuff to get going. The real magic that would make this useful is the signal processing and tracking algorithms which turn the extremely inaccurate raw data into something that provides a good user experience.

A few kHz (the gap between what the speakers can do and human hearing) isn't much bandwidth, so this system is going to be highly affected by the tradeoff between range accuracy and Doppler accuracy. If they are attempting to do bistatic (two transmitters) tricks to derive spatial position, then this information will be similarly inaccurate.
Do you also instruct your customers to run on Intel chips for optimal performance?
First things first, your Dad is awesome.

Market research: The number 1 filter my friends use to filter out dudes they wish not to communicate with is spelling/grammar. You would think match, OK Cupid, etc. would have spell checkers in their profile creation process, but they don't.

The only bad assumption is this: An error or two isn't a dealbreaker. Also, the picture needs to match the profile (which probably is more of an issue than you would think).

Also, FYI match is doing market research on dating coaches and step by step coached dating, so I'd imagine they might be in the market for co-branded marketing of a service like this, if your Dad can make this work.
A couple of responses to that which might change your reasoning (let me know!):

* CISPA is opt-in, so if Facebook doesn't want to share information with the government, CISPA isn't going to change its obligations.

* If Facebook wants to share information with the MPAA and RIAA, its Terms of Service already enable it to do so, explicitly.

* CISPA itself has gone through multiple successive drafts to eliminate the perception that it was merely a tool of license enforcement; the version the House finally passed (a) defines "cyber threat" specifically in regards to the "Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability" triad familiar to netsec practitioners (it is the first piece of federal legislation to do so, I believe) and (b) specifically exempts "consumer licensing" from the events that engage CISPA information sharing.

* SOPA was intended to provide countermeasures to "criminal" copyright infringement and actually did provide some government control over network traffic. CISPA provides no countermeasures of any sort; it only governs information sharing.

What are your thoughts on that? Do you think I'm misreading the law on any of those four points? Or, having been made aware of them, is your reasoning on CISPA at all influenced?
Also with mine.
Science-Based Medicine is a great blog. If you read HN, you should read SBM. Indeed, you should go read the complete SBM backlog.
Why is it so expensive to buy or sell a house in America?
Just as a note, the site is aimed at bringing new content to users, content that the user might not be connected to through their social network.

Let me know what you guys think
"The best recommendations have a lot of verbs."
"Data indicates, however, that only 6 per cent of Windows 7 users ever used Media Center."

Indeed. I'm glad to see that they're getting rid of the bloat (that is underutilzed).
Usually IE8 users are stuck in IE8 unless they let the OS upgrade their browser, so most of the users that started with IE8 are still stuck in 2009. Chrome/FF users tend to have less issues with upgrades.
That's understandable. Not everyone will be addicted.
I get bored with fighting games, but scorch/worms and such absolutely enthral me.

Count yourself lucky I guess.
I have now spent 5 minutes on the EFF site and am now qualified to hold forth at length.

More seriously, that depends on the terms of "opt-in" and "sharing" and "security", yes? Such details make nice real estate for the Devil. I'm by no means convinced that the people writing these laws understand the implications and possibilities -- I don't trust their values because I don't think they have the understanding to even have values. Or understand how those values are advanced or eroded. What opinions I have of their values are formed by the SOPA episode.

To _my_ mind, I would need to see the compelling argument for why we need legislation in the first place. At which time I'd have to go to school on this more than I have. And most of the security problems I've read about have more to do with corporations doing a terrible job configuring their own equipment than with some remarkable threat that can only be met through government-organized action.

So in general, I'm against any law without some compelling need. I don't see one here, and that might be ignorance, but that's my view at the moment.

How would I relate that to Facebook? If my view were valid, my first stab would be, "They are supporting over-broad legislation, without a stated need, that could easily go wrong. That bespeaks a centralized-solution attitude contrary to the values that have built the 'net we have today, and unlikely to found the trust needed to make the 'net work best going forward."

But even if that withstood scrutiny I'm not sure their business is going to live or die based on what is essentially a question of corporate culture. If they don't die of something else, they'll get opportunities to change their approach on this stuff.
1.) This strategy that has a high likelihood of working.

2.) I don't see anything wrong with it.

Is there an unwritten rule that one must be affiliated with YC to have an opinion about the program?
Show HN: A/B testing for iOS and Android
I waited, and I saw half-baked software addons to Android, some of which weren't even operating at show time. I saw an ugly beast of a phone that clearly spent most of it's time in Legal instead of Design. So much for Samsung wowing us.
Less BA, more MBA
But in those 30 years the surplus SS money was used to paper over deficits caused mostly by tax cuts on the top income percentiles.

This is getting way off topic, but the lower and middle class portions of the Bush tax cuts, for example, contribute way more to the deficit than those for the upper class. And your claim doesn't really square with the trend of more % of all income taxes being paid by the top percentiles over time.
Pirate Party wins again, enters another parliament
We launched Clutch.io about a month ago, and one thing that really surprised us was how many of our customers asked us to support A/B testing. So that's what we've been building! You don't have to use our Clutch Framework in order to use this new A/B testing stuff, and this is all 100% native. (But if you do use our framework, it gets even more powerful because you can add new tests instantly.) Really looking forward to your feedback, HN!
I think what the 'No Idea' misses is that if there is a team which is absolutely amazing and can theoretically come into YC and amaze everybody with their capabilities, don't you think they'd be able to come up with an idea?

PG even gives a list of things he'd like to see built, take one of those if you don't have your own, but not having anything to me seems like a bit of a cop-out.
Origins of the Open Source CSLA .NET Framework
"Chopped Testicles, Mommy? Are You Delighted?"
Yeah, "cool demo, but..." -- I was also surprised that clicking the "Flip" 'button' didn't flip. Between that and the fact that you have to be on the left side to flip back, and on the right side to flip forward (just like a real book), instead of being able to flip either way from anywhere on the page, says that they are concentrating on the gimmicky "RealThing" metaphore of a book, and ignoring usability and Fitts' Law.

The User-Interface-Hall-Of-Shame-Worthy QuickTime 4.0 player and IBM's "RealThings" interface design methodology made the same mistake.

http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/qtime.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealThings
A very good point, as ICC is known to produce very bad code (intentionally) when run on AMD systems.
For anyone trying to get the Linux version to work, here's what worked for me.

1. Download the tgz and unzip.

2. Create and activate a new virtualenv in that directory.

3. easy_install -U distribute (in my case, the version of distribute installed by pip was too old for imapclient)

3. pip install logbook gdata imapclient

4. Replace bin/gmvault with the following

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import os

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.join(sys.path[0], '../lib')))

import gmv.gmv_cmd as runner
runner.bootstrap_run()
DRM-free ebook: The run for profit
I never said it was bad work. Don't misrepresent what I actually said. I said it's a sex worker job. Which it is. I'd love to see an explanation for how getting paid to perform phone sex is not a sex worker job.
I recently started using concierge services available to some credit cards.

Basically, concierge workers are similar to personal assistants and will fulfill requests such as book concert tickets, make phone calls for reservations, do some google research regarding one topic or another.

I found out that most concierge workers actually work from home. If she's ok with that kind of work, it might be worth looking into. Here's a reference: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/VIPdesk-com-Reviews-E29813....
Samsung Focus 2 – LTE-enabled WP7
Can't wait to buy one.
Yes, actually.

If you find the right tech company, your work can be very visible, and can be part of a product that will exist for decades.

If you have the right personality, you can also become very visible outside the organisation as well such that people inside and outside will know you.
I really like it, nice job.
Stimulating Entrepreneurship in Britain
Push mail platform for Web or iOS
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Apple releases iOS 5.1.1 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
This is a little OT, but it hits home so I want to correct this misconception: Harvard (and MIT) are very affordable, and the majority of students attending do not pay full tuition. Indeed, at Harvard families with incomes under $65,000 pay nothing at all, and those with incomes between $65-150k are heavily subsidised and asked to pay between 0-10% of their income for tuition. I wouldn't have been able to attend without such help.
If you want to use directly comparable companies (recent social network IPOs), it's still inconclusive.

ZNGA: sends lots of traffic to facebook, gets users from facebook. Not a great investment for people who bought at the IPO ($10, $8.36 now), but not horrible.

LNKD: ($45 IPO, $114 now) -- social network, but professional vs. personal/social. Small percentage of the company was put on the market, so I'm not sure how valid the market cap really is.
To be fair, you'd equate this to Facebook's own integrated ecosystem (groups, events, marketplace) -- not your friends. There's benefits to having my friends and I both on iOS (iMessage, etc.), but the deciding factor for a social network are the people, and if your friends aren't there, it doesn't matter how many party RSVPs I send out.
For those of you downvoting - please read http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49#49 . There is a long documented history of ICC producing suboptimal code for AMD processors. AMD currently has 19.1% market share and I am genuinely curious what people who use ICC do for that part of the market. I guess if you are selling an end to end solution or developing inhouse tools this is not a problem.
JSFixed: an initiative to make TC39 more developer friendly
Congrats to Sahil, I think a few of us have been watching this since day 1. His record speaks for itself.

It's also good that Gumroad was essentially made possible by Stripe's very accessible API (as far as I know). I think I speak for all Europeans when I say hurry up and get Stripe over here.
This is pretty interesting, because Sahil just raised his seed like 3 months ago...
I am a physicist, so yes. It's just one of these rumours that goes around.

But hey, next year we get to go to the fascinating city of... Baltimore! Again. Then... Denver! Again.
Q: Who uses Facebook?
A: Millions of MySpacers

:)
I suspect YC has a good idea the "No Idea" thing will work.
Why test ideas you think are bad?

From what I've heard, ad hoc teams already happen in the YC program for various reasons. This is not a completely untested hypothesis.
BackTrack is pretty overwhelming at the beginning. Do you have any suggestions on what programs/attacks will give you the most bang-for-your-buck?
Damn, what is it about pancreatic cancer and tech giants?
The fanboy is strong with you. Google is CLEARLY trying to create a Apple-style universe. Hence the music store. Hence the app store. Hence forcing every google user in existence into at least seeing these services, and being automatically signed up for them (I never signed up for Google Play, surprisingly it already works for me).

Google clearly is fighting the fragmentation of carriers, not happy about it! Where did you get this? Google has been trying to get their carriers to follow them, to follow guidelines, to decrease fragmentation, improve their update mechanisms. Heck, 4.0 was a subtle attempt to get a lot of the carriers to not built their shit on top (they of course, did), Google keeps threatening to shut off App Store access for versions of the software that don't meet their demands.

This is not the behavior of a company who is shooting for and attempting to increase fragmentation of their platform.

And, hilariously, you missed the biggest part: Google cares about advertising. They don't get to advertise on the Fire, in any form -- Amazon is the master of it. So no, you better bet that they're not thrilled about the two major points of their mobile platform being ignored (1: create a google universe that users live in 2: advertise to those users). Those are Google's clear and often-repeated goals. And the increasing fragmentation is ruining that, not helping it.
Agreed. If they thought it would put them out of business, would they do it? It makes more sense to ask if it will put community colleges out of business.
I'm aware that they're kernel functions, but it's not necessarily that simple.
Microsoft Stores offering $99 Xbox 360 with contract now
What is Gumroad's competitive advantage? It doesn't look like it's its technology but its brand.
thanks ibk! It was the middle of the night when HN tweeted it :( Site's back up now.
And from the customer's point of view, the first product did the single most important thing properly. Feed the cats with minimal human input. That's still a decision on the creators' part i.e the creators could have sat down and bickered about colour options but they (presumably) took a decision to fix the customer's problem.

The fact that Jeff used the same feeders for five years is a testament to how well the original designers were able to address the core problem well enough.

Edit: They also functioned well enough that he bought the updated version on faith.
Thanks for the link. I was looking for it as I remember this post from what I thought was last year (apparently longer - boy does time fly). Glad to see them doing well.
Why would they need money for growth? They use Stripe and host on the cloud. If they aren't profitable now why would they be at 10x the size?
Aside from the great STL container inspection (There are claims that macros exist to make container inspection nice. There is also set prettyprint.), you can do all that in gdb. If you like IDEs you can use Eclipse and CDT, which has a frontend to gdb that works just as well as VS's debugger.
Information security is a topic that I'm very interested in, but it's such a large area that I don't know even where to start. In this field especially, "learning by doing" seems an extraordinarily bad idea. You say this is your speciality; how did you acquire it? Are there any online courses, good books, or useful (i.e. non-bullshit) certifications that you can recommend?
I worked in an oil refinery for about a half year (turnarounds). Turnarounds involved shutting down one part of the refinery for rebuilding and repairs.

A lot of the work involved pipe welding. Pipe welding pays extremely well (for a trade) and that's because it requires such consistently high performance. As a pipe welder, you have to stamp your name into every weld you do. If your weld fails, it could kill people.

They check pipe welds using an xray. If a guy's weld failed xray more than once(and usually more than 0 times), he was out of the job.
Automated spell checking would hurt Match's matching accuracy. It's one thing if a guy realizes he needs to make a good impression then edits in Word. But if it's automated the women (and men, I know I carry this same prejudice) will lose a valuable and cheap filter.
So much for all the professors on food stamps. Now they have to compete with free classes from Harvard.

http://chronicle.com/article/From-Graduate-School-to/131795/
Your time would be better spent reading the CISPA bill itself, which goes to some length to define "sharing" and "security". I can summarize, but the firsthand sources are surprisingly readable:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr3523

As regards "opt-in": it's inherently opt-in, because it provides no mechanism for the government to demand information from any provider. Obviously, the government can already use court orders to get access to information. Beyond that, the bill explicitly prevents the government from making such demands; for instance: "Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the Federal Government to... ‘(A) require a private-sector entity to share information with the Federal Government;".

As regards "security": the bill actually defines this term (a novel twist in "cyber security" legislation):

‘(i) a vulnerability of a system or network of a government or private
entity;

‘(ii) a threat to the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of a
system or network of a government or private entity or any information
stored on, processed on, or transiting such a system or network;

‘(iii) efforts to deny access to or degrade, disrupt, or destroy a
system or network of a government or private entity; or

‘(iv) efforts to gain unauthorized access to a system or network of a
government or private entity, including to gain such unauthorized
access for the purpose of exfiltrating information stored on,
processed on, or transiting a system or network of a government or
private entity.
What Privacy Advocates Don't Get About Data Tracking on the Web
I wonder what the implications are for Justin.tv...
Brand and product simplicity, elegance of implementation. What is Dropbox's competitive advantage, or Instagram's?
the release on HackerNews is a bit premature. I wanted to test the response and was not expecting so much interest.
I will fix the deployment issues on Linux and Mac OS X.
You can download the tgz and run a michael said.

You can also use easy_install or pip. It is on Pypi
Create a virtualenv as it is better and do:
pip install gmvault (or easy_install gmvault)

See http://gmvault.org/install.html#py_install for further info