skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a tenth of the cool projects on github were endorsed by Github, github would be a failure.

Or at least it would be a mere shadow of its insane awesomeness.
Wozniak calls for open Apple
AKA: Laziness. (Edited to fix spelling pointed out by child comment. Thanks.)

I don't require perfection, just competence. If you don't care enough about your output to make it easily understandable (I don't have to put effort into deciphering your words), why should I care about it?
This app lets you create 3D models out of snapshots - pirate fabs soon to come?
Maybe we can start by not referring to a lot of tech blogs as journalism. Some are, but most aren't - including many that would like us to think they are.
Zee/TheNextWeb has a history of copying others' work without permission, including for one period HN comments. See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640492

Note that what I was concerned about was not respectful excerpting: for a time, they were scraping every HN comment related to their links back to their site, without permission/notification to authors, without threading, with NOFOLLOW.
Perforce has something similar though not exact called Time Lapse View

http://filehost.perforce.com/downloads/media/tlv/tlv.html

I’ve been missing this in git for sometime..
Groupon Announces First Quarter 2012 Results
The job posting itself has already been fixed:

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs/jobs-Investment-Analyst-w-29013...

Quantitative skills in a field such as computer science,
mathematics, statistics, physics, or engineering; no
college degree required

Tempest in a teapot. Obviously someone junior in Thiel's organization who didn't get the message, fixed at the speed of light. Now let's see Yglesias, Slate, and CNN issue addendums.
Getting Started In The Development Community
Most beginners go the wrong way about starting out in our community. This article is short and concise, written specifically for beginners (targeted at young people but goes for everyone).

This is one for your bookmarks and to share on forums/twitter to people that are constantly annoying you!
The CEO’s Weekly Checklist
Loving Google but Not Its Public Offering (from 2004)
When I was at CWRU in the mid-90's, I was on a student panel which provided large donors (those whose last names were the same as large area companies, mostly) with an opportunity to ask questions of students. Several donors wondered why Case students studied so hard and participated so little in extra-curricular activities. After all, one said, I'd rather hire the interesting, well-rounded student with a 3.0 GPA than the boring one with a 3.7. Several students on the panel explained that many of their peers feared the short-term consequences of low GPAs -- lost scholarships and limited job opportunities. The donors were surprised to learn that most companies (in come cases including their own) would refuse to allow students with less than, say, a 3.5 GPA to even sign-up for on-campus interviews.
That's sort of a jaded view, I think. There's plenty of YC startups that we never hear anything about.
You sound like a moron!
I majored in math with a minor in CS (undergrad). Of his entire technical explanation, I'm only familiar with the notions "automorphism" and "topology". To add insult to injury, I did have a course on topology, but it covered only so-called "point-set" topology, and not the algebraic variety thereof.
Duritz is a world class music professional who has lived and breathed the music business for over 20 years, but somehow you know better than him how to sell his music?
California-usterity CA. Gov. Announces $8.3 Billion in Cuts
I highly doubt teenagers and low-wage earning youths torrent with the intent to buy a CD. In fact I know of no one around my age (younger side) who even buys CDs in general.

Torrenting and then downloading from iTunes makes no sense either.
Also who cares if Twitter had to move to another technology. 99.9999% of people will never ever have to face those issues.

Twitter would have hit the wall with any other tech, it just grew like crazy all of a sudden. The fact that it was able to get on its feet so fast though, that's thanks to Rails.

I think this whole "Rails doesn't scale" is the new "Java is slow". Baseless and ridiculous.
Hands on with the Pebble Smartwatch
Its a lease to own, after 15 years you own it outright. For the 15 years the system is fully maintained and warranted under the contract.
It can't be that simple, Pixar has to have massive distributed systems right? I mean it can't be a single linux system with a single backup, if that's the case you would be safer storing it in Dropbox (Not that you would) since at least then you would have copies on all of your nodes.
I think you totally missed my point.

I was just speaking to how Railists too often, do not openly consider or think anything productive, well structured, or maybe even great could have existed before, or at the same time as Rails for the web.

We forget the difference between a language and a framework as well. Too many folks short sightedly compare a language to a framework. Frameworks will always evolve and change, and few rarely do anything new or novel, just like languages may, but they're entirely different things.
They could argue you are not strictly human, nor a citizen, I'm sure.
Problem with Pandora and Spotify is that unlike the actual radio new songs are slower to get on them.
Thanks for the feedback. I will edit the Registration page to be a bit more informative.
I see your Adam Duritz-backed ad-hom argument and raise you David Lowery:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850935

Frankly, I'd rather have Lowery on my side than Counting Crows. But, matter of taste.

Too busy to read? Here's the top line:

* Lowery is Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven; also, a programmer with a math background and now a recording engineering.

* Most musicians make fuck-all from concerts and merch and many live out of their van.

* Musicians were sharing their music for free long before file sharing sites started profiting off their work.

* Technology isn't making recording high-quality music cheaper, but is sapping the returns from doing so.

* When you factor recoup and automatic sale royalties into the picture, the major label system was giving midlist artists a middle class existence, which they've now lost.

* Studies showing an uptick in sales after file sharing are often rigged in obvious, comical ways.

* Youtube and Facebook have made it impossible for midlist artists to set up their own shops online.
I think the problem is that people do not understand that better education raises the ceiling in almost any job.

For example, a web developer might think that studying English or history would not help them do their job at all, but business is filled with contracts, memos, emails, and other writing that carries all kinds of subtext. The abilities to critically analyze and construct written arguments are invaluable in the business world. English or history educations teach these abilities.

It's like a mental martial art...you might not need it much, but if you don't know it, you're easier to beat up.
"Mr. Kaplan, the entrepreneur, argues that by styling itself as an idiosyncratic company that has broken the mold in initial offerings, Google is potentially courting disaster."

Maybe in hindsight he meant the opposite of disaster.
Courier companies have been optimised around a B2B experience -- where it doesn't matter what time it's delivered, because there is always someone at the front desk.

Drives me insane too. A failed delivery must have a reasonable cost in terms of time/money/capacity. I'm surprised there hasn't been an economic driver to sort this out.

Someone like Amazon needs to get in on the game - either with their own service, or partner with someone. If any company is suffering because of a crappy courier experience, it'll be them.
Refactoring javascript for unit testing
And another[1]:

You should credit @dexterous for screenshot used @ http://thenextweb.com/in/2012/05/03/indian-isps-reportedly-blocking-access-to-vimeo-and-some-torrent-sites/ Citation: http://twitpic.com/9gr7y9 https://twitter.com/#!/dexterous/status/198036547830947841

[1] https://twitter.com/#!/dnene/statuses/198122429447548928
It's hard to get a CRM that pleases most people and at the same time doesn't get in the way for most people - we have some strong opinions about why that is, and we'll be writing about it soon.

Thanks for the kind words!
Nvidia  Delivers Eclipse-based IDE for GPU Computing on Linux and Mac OS
Stephen Wolfram isn't exactly known for his humility.
> The Next Web is featured on HN quite frequently

I never understood the appeal of the TNW. Of the articles that did make it to the HN front page that I've seen, I've always thought the quality of the TNW's content was quite low. So I guess what's transpired today is not much of a surprise to me.
Musicians have been selling their music for ads for almost as long as there has been radio advertising.
And, to boot is still in damage control mode, now that pretending ignorance does not work we're going for the 'unfortunate timing angle'.

Nice work on the distance calculation, I think you've just figured out a way to create a blogspam detector, if an article is linked from a newer article and there is a > X% (with X somewhere in the neighbourhood of 45%) or so similarity then it is blogspam.
Of course, I meant your entertainment suite at the stadium. Somewhere to relax with your friends from the government while you watch the games. Perhaps share a few laughs over a glass or two about how they conned the Olympic Committee?
sorry, my "infrastructure" was vague. I meant ISPs, traffic hubs, physical cables, etc. The stuff that gets tampered with before it actually hits your PC.
Microsoft-Funded BitTorrent Disruptor Might Break The Law
original ...

"JANUARY 23, 2011 - DAVE FELDMAN"

http://operationproject.com/2011/adventures-in-html5-part-on...
I imagine they're referring not to the rendered frames, but to the models, textures, etc. that the animators were using.

And honestly...the larger the system, the more things that can go wrong. Lots of people back up files to RAID arrays, only to find out that their parity drive(s) are hosed at the worst possible moment. The price of a good backup system is eternal diligence.
Most beginners go the wrong way about starting out in our community. This article is short and concise, written specifically for beginners (targeted at young people but goes for everyone).

This is one for your bookmarks and to share on forums/twitter to people that are constantly annoying you!
Docracy, Smallknot, FundingGates, and Moveline share startup stories
Which is great because everybody has a browser and is capable of updating it.
> There's a new breed of CEOs who use 'ur' in public correspondence.

Either that, or a very, very old breed.
Anyone interested in NKS might also be interested in Cosma Shalizi's review which details several substantial problems with the book.

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/
I blog at http://bkvirendra.github.com

But its really difficult to express myself on my Blog as I really suck at it !!
Facebook vs Spotify: iPhone App Annoyance
Why does Spotify's app log me out all the time, while Facebook's app never does? I find it all the more ironic that I use Facebook to login to Spotify.

Thanks!
Senate Committee Probing MS on Windows on ARM Browser Complaints
Yes I used them... The contract is transferrable. I have fully paid off the panels already so I suspect that it will add a lot of value to our house if we decided to sell.
In any case, the job posting has already been fixed:

www.linkedin.com/jobs/jobs-Investment-Analyst-w-2901306

Quantitative skills in a field such as computer science,
mathematics, statistics, physics, or engineering; no
college degree required

Thiel actually believes in what he's saying.
Is there an accompanying karate game, so that you, like Woody Allen, can beat a man senseless with a banana? (Sleeper)

Looks like a fun way to make familiar, intuitive controls for your friends.
Wal-Mart would get the exclusive contract for services. After that you would be happy to actually receive a package, most likely not your package.

What about Wal-Mart is it that leads you to believe they'd do badly at being a post office?
Tesla a Geek, Edison a Douche
Ironically, if you'd spell-checked your comment, you would have seen the word you were looking for was "laziness". On the other hand, there's no easy mechanical way of noticing that a small word ("have") was omitted, which is one of the typos for which Zee was being criticized. So what you did is actually lazier than what he did. But I don't look down on you for this typo either. Both your comment and Zee's are pretty easy to understand.

Nobody's perfect. I make mistakes like this all the time, and I'm a professional editor. It's not incompetence — I simply don't have the time to carefully reread, spellcheck and grammar-check everything I write to make sure it's all flawless. And I know many intelligent people who make more mistakes than I do. So when I see somebody get called on a typo, but it's perfectly clear what they were saying in spite of the typo, I find it a bit petty.
Interesting idea. Ofcourse, OLAP isn't just about the underlying cubes and dimensions, in the end it's about how the information is being presented to the user. There's a reason why Microsoft is so good at data warehousing, because their product is one of the best, and also extremely feature-rich from the "front end" to the back end.
No, it is native client. not a web ssh client
Are Stanford Students Just (Really Excellent) Sheep?
People Often Do Research Before They Buy Treadmills 
Buy treadmills after thorough research to have one which offers the desired results.
The equivalent would be cutting the credits off a movie and replacing them with release group name and scene shoutouts.
Thanks, but the distance calculation is the work of Alex Martelli from Stack Overflow. It's one of the sources I cited: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3106994/algorithm-to-calc... I cited. It's simple enough that I probably could have thought of it on my own if I spent more time on it, but then again it was simple enough to find with a Google search.
It has been proven time and time again that "pirates" buy more of that product than everyone else.
Responding to the first paragraph of the article, groups can create innovative off-the-wall ideas without solitude, that's how improv comedy works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisational_theatre
I think Groupon has far more potential than people assume. By being the biggest and having established some integration with local merchants, they could dominate the local space beyond just daily deals.
Video minus blogspam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_g0tyaIeE
If you are suggesting that could they store Toy Story II content in Dropbox you A. forget how long ago Toy Story II was (1999) and B. underestimate the size and throughput of all the data that goes into making such a movie.

edit: added "could" to make it clear that I'm suggesting that such was an impossibility.
Learning new technologies is something I do, not because I'm interested in getting hired or in becoming the DHH of node. I would do it even if I were by profession a truck driver.

This may sound "romantic", but when your love of technology interferes with you actually being productive and getting things done, ... it's frustrating.

If you are a student, then jumping on a new platform and making a name for yourself is a great thing to do. But I'm an old fart, I was there when Java applets were "the thing that will change the world".

>There will be new kinds of software that directly result from the new possibilities of Node, CoffeeScript, Meteor, Firebase, Parse, etc.

Like what? (not rude, just curious)

As far as I can see there's nothing new under the Sun, so to speak.
>> #2 would necessitate an incredible amount of arbitrage (i.e., increase prices even further) because it would severely impact their ability to maximize parcels shipped.

> I'm fine with that. Like I said elsewhere, this is costing me £30 to send. I'd have happily spent £100 to get it done fuss-free.

It's not enough that you want to pay £100... there have to be enough customers willing to pay £100 to balance out the loss of customers who would pay £30 (as well as the decrease in unit volume that would result), and there probably aren't.
Typos are fine, but there is a limit. I read through some of his comments here, and there are enough typos that it makes it fairly annoying to read.

Slow down just a bit and read it over before you post. You'll still make mistakes, but not in every other post.
Mozilla Takes Web Apps To Desktop
ICloud is the Difference Between Great and Excellent
Pragmatic Metaprogramming
JS & jQuery data model for ajax forms
I as a software hacker/tinkerer I have been wanting to get into hardware hacking for quite a while and this looks like a perfect starting point "kit" to play with, with the perfect price.

Thank you for making the world a bit more interesting :)
Are you sure you're not trying to simplify a process that just can't be simplified anymore than it already is?

For instance, how are you going to handle the veritable smörgåsbord of unique terms and conditions that come attached to each merchant's affiliate schemes? How are users going to be informed of these terms?

Perhaps more importantly, how are you going to deal with people who violate these terms? What happens when one of your users starts using your links as part of a Google AdWords campaign, bidding on keywords that a merchant specifically prohibits?

What happens when a user starts sending your links in the form of unsolicited emails, or starts offering an incentive for people to make a purchase through a referral link — both practices that are commonly prohibited by affiliate schemes?
The point being, whenever there is an article about "piracy" - being this sort of generic, "victimless" action (say "crime" and people will really go apeshit on you) - and people fall over themselves to defend it, say it's not a problem, indicate that it's just a symptom and fuck the content people if they can't deal, and so on.

It's interesting that when it's just one person with their own story, that is somehow closer to HN, it seems to either change opinions, or bring out a different set of commentors. This despite the in question few paragraphs being orders of magnitude less effort to produce than a lot of the content that is typically "pirated".

(Note all the downvotes with nary a response)
MapBox goes for MapKit feature parity with location services
Toy story 2 was quite a while ago. I'm sure it's much different now.
A meandering rant on sexism
Toy Story 2 was released in 1999.

I'm assuming they were working on it quite a bit before then.

I think you're overestimating the tech available at that time
The plagiarizer hasn't taken the care to assimilate an idea well enough so he can put it into his own words. The effort put into explaining something in one's own words has the powerful effect of spurring the imagination and intellect, which then can lead to new insights. The question is does Action Man care? Clearly not. Talk about steering clear of something -- thanks for the unintended warning.
On one hand, good for them and hopefully they'll be profitable in Q2.

On the other hand, how can we be sure these are the real numbers will all of the recent scandal?
To the contrary, the tools are getting progressively worse. Show me one feature in Powerpoint or Keynote that is specifically designed to give me actionable feedback on how to improve my presentation.

I'm not arguing for or against visual design - yes, you're right nothing new there. What I'm trying to point out, as we start migrating our presentation tools to the web, is that we don't need to copy all the useless inheritance.

For now, and yes I'm the early technical adopter.. I'm willing to edit the HTML markup directly, heck I'll FTP the darn thing to your server, and will do other backflips.. all if you manage to give me good feedback on how to do a better presentation next time around.
Some guys I went to school with have started a company trying to solve this problem. It involves having your package delivered to a glorified electronic mailbox in your area. The courier delivers it to the box; you get an email with a pin code for retrieving your parcel. http://corporate.bufferbox.com/
Why do you wish that people would change their consuming behavior and not their producing behavior? I think it makes more sense to improve the tools/standards for infographic creation (as you mentioned, there is value there) than it does to ask everybody to become a better consumer.

In any case, I feel like these kinds of reactions happen with the advent of every new communications "technology." When the masses get some new tool in their hand they overwhelmingly produce a bunch of shit. After the dust settles some small percentage of those people rise to the top by creating quality which is then happily consumed by everyone.

For me the best example is looking at the historical reactions to the printing press. At that time the only books were hand scribed by monks and they were all religious texts of high quality. When the printing press came out many people were upset that books would ruin education for everyone because so much crap would be printed. We all know how that turned out: a lot of crap WAS printed, but tell me the printing press was a bad idea. Now I'm not saying infographics are the next book, but they are a new communication medium.
That's the problem though. These 'writers' tend to demand respect and be acknowledged as journalists, yet can't even proof their own words. I don't think I've gone gone through a day where I don't find grammar and spelling errors on high volume news sites like HuffPo and Techcrunch.

I think when you have such a high profile and mass visibility, the bar for quality is raised higher (or should be), even in the context of speed posting and scoops. Your product influences a generation that is sadly forgetting and ignoring the value of proper grammar.
LightSquared files for bankruptcy
Did you just decide to not read the part where he said "Not that you would"? He was making a point, not actually suggesting that they use Dropbox before it was invented to make backups of their multi million dollar movie production.
That's true for bittorrent, although as others have suggested, smaller torrent communities focused on a particular genre may also act to provide ad-hoc recommendations.

At Presto.fm we're working on a different solution to the problem, by creating a way to discover and stream new music using personalized radio stations seeded with the listener's existing favourite artists or genres. (A bit like some existing services but with a focus on niche artists and a deep catalogue of music).

http://presto.fm
well from my experience, working with OLAP Cubes, Microsoft is normally used when cost saving is important, its considered cheaper than competition. And the development tools are so easy to use, non-programmers can be trained to create and customize cubes.

On the front end, they only have excel, which is good, really good, but other tools have much simpler and in my opinion better clients, for example Cognos and BO
Could you cite some primary sources?