skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I checked with our (Mozilla) networking folks and here's what I learned.

This is for Chrome extensions only, not for web content. Mozilla has had an API available to extensions for this for a long time. That is how Chatzilla works, for example.

The Web API team has created a raw socket API for web content that will be used for the Boot to Gecko email client and other non-HTTP applications. For security reasons, this requires an extra permission to be granted by the app store and/or by the user.
There are alternative uses of probability. For example, you might measure the weight of 50 people eating one of two diets, and determine an average weight for each group. You want to know if the different diets affect weight. It is highly unlikely that the average weight will be exactly identical for each group, so now you use statistical methods to determine the probability that the diet caused the observed difference in weight. You now assign a "probability" to the hypothesis that diet influenced weight -- is that probability objective?
I like the iframe idea - it could actually be interesting to try to write the disclosure as marketing copy to join Refer.ly.

EG "[Firstname] thought you'd love [product name] from [vendor]. For spreading the love [firstname] gets a referral fee if you buy! Find out how you can start making money referring friends to products that you love too with Refer.ly today!"
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Quantum teleportation record broken, with a distance of 97 km
It's not even a reactor as I understand it--it's basically just a sealed neutron source and couldn't go critical.

It's not terribly surprising that they'd have something like that though. Kodak's Rochester plant was basically the chemical version of Hanford Site--lots of government work, little public oversight. My grandfather and several uncles worked there, and all received comprehensive life insurance as a standard benefit.
Was your sister working for you? If so, why? If not, how is this connected?

Also I'm not sure how the existence of a root user plays a part because on the vast majority of unix systems the default home directory permissions are permissive read (this was true in 1987 and is still true now) and if your sister didn't know about root users it seems fairly unlikely that she knew about chmod.
Great picture - be warned, does not include North America. First thing I wanted to do was see if I can see my house, and from what I can tell, I can't even see my country.
I don't think they are perfect programmers. Heck, I use several languages and frameworks, whatever is right for the project. Knowing a language isn't a perfect programmer (we all know that). And to your point, that was the comparison I would make. Node is young so there is a lack of experience with it.
This article seems to be very dated.

"jQuery Mobile is the new kid on the block. Announced in August 2010, it’s quickly progressed to a very functional Alpha 2."

jQuery Mobile has been out of Alpha for a very long time. 1.0 was announced in November of last year and they are currently in a stable 1.1.0 release. Alpha 2 was announced in November of 2010.
I've experienced this and I sympathise with you. I don't know the specifics of this case, so my comment from here on is about the general practise of content theft and barely-there attribution.

This is unfortunately a way of life for many of the larger tech sites, and will be until they adapt or suffer their inevitable faith.

For every one person who linked up my Android vs Condom post (which went hyper-viral), 10 more stole the images and put in a tiny gray on white text link somewhere at the bottom of the post. And these weren't no name sites, they were big 200K+ reader sorta sites.

There are a small number of respectable people who link to a site with the genuine intention of sending traffic its way (Daringfireball would be one of them). The remainder do their absolute best to hide it, as you noted, some only do it when called out.
There's a problem that's inherent to any client/server architecture: what work should get done on the client, and what should get done on the server? The author presents this as an ORM issue, but it has nothing specifically to do with ORMs; you'd have the same problem using an OODB server.
Seems to me that a better title for this article would be "A history of different ways to use Python in the web" rather than "HOWTO Use Python in the web", since most of the article is spent describing old things that should not be used for new projects.
Well in Java, if your JSON library doesn't have a single function to call for deserialize or serialize, it's either a poor library or you should be able to wrap the complicated part in a function that makes it a one-liner. The Jackson library for instance has ObjectMapper.readValue() and ObjectMapper.writeValue() which are both one-liners.

My main point though is that writing in JavaScript doesn't naturally make it easier to work with JSON than any other language with similar functions to serialize/deserialize JSON.
XBoxes primary display is the television, that is not the case for PCs. PCs require an additional software layer that consumers don't know about and don't "just work" the way a set-top box does.
The old adage is you can't copyright facts and there was certainly no requirement for TNW to do any "original research" to share these findings.

However, when you copy/use facts, you wade into hot water if you also copy the structure and the way those facts were originally expressed. The original TNW article shown here seems to step over that line with a barely masked copy of the original paragraphs.

What bothers me more, though, is that seemingly a CEO of a media organization has failed to do any damage control based around a genuine grievance (that wasn't even aggressively delivered). Saying things like "think it's pretty ridiculous that you're even getting the slightest bit annoyed about this", "needless to say, we'll be staying well clear of anything ur involved with in future for fear of ridiculous reaction" and using "u do realise that about 50% of all publications is content sourced from other publications right?" as a sort of defence is a horrible PR line for a proprietor to play, even if that's his honest opinion.
Ask HN: DNS service with Rest API
Hi,

I have been using dynect for a while but is kind of expensive to use the global traffic management I was looking zerigo with GeoDNS and it seems a better option for me.

Which other dns provider with Rest API should I consider?

Thanks.
Very true. But I do hope that the rise of the iPad creates a bigger demand for talented illustrators.
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True! It wasn't like this when I wrote the plugin though, plus I needed the effect to work cross-browser.
With respect to #1, I believe they use a heavily sharded MySQL cluster for at least part of their work. But I also believe you're right about #2.
I've discovered a bug, I think) too last days.
I was logged into my account wandering around, then I responded to somebody on my Gmail (somebody who had a project on Kickstarter)...then I went back to my account and I saw I am logged in now as the person I've just responded to!

I took screenshots of her account, I logged out and logged back into my account.
I sent an email to Kickstarter but I had no response from them. I still have the screenshots.
If I was interested in having people refer customers for my SaaS app, is there a way to sign up for refer.ly to generate and track these sort of referral links?
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I think the big sites that have been SEO'd to death (esp. HuffPo) don't have journalistic scruples; content is merely means to an end for them.
This is awesome! The demo looks really cool.
Overall I agree with comments here - the site feels rather lonely. Take a look at GrubWithUs and see how they've solved this problem. Theirs is much more inviting - there's activity, social proof etc.
Have you worked with SparkFun before?
I don't see how ORM forces your hand to be a direct mapping of the database. To me the benefit of ORM is that, most of the time I do want a direct mapping of the database, but there are often times when I need to add a layer of abstraction/validation/redirection on top of it.
It's worth noting that while this is becoming available in chrome now, the WebRTC APIs that both Chrome and Firefox are working on (and will likely start showing up in the 3-6 month time frame) is also likely to provide p2p message passing support.

There's a group of people beginning work on porting some of the traditional p2p constructs like DHTs into the browser, for those interested: http://joincollage.com/webp2p
On the other hand, the average SAT score at Harvard in 1950 was much lower than the average SAT score today (adjusted for SAT re-calibration as well).

Grade inflation also applies mostly to non-STEM majors. Average GPA for EECS at many of the top CS schools is significantly below a 3.0. Incidentally, it creates a feedback loop: grade inflation leads people to obsesses over their GPA and to switch from STEM to the majors more susceptible to grade inflation when their GPA falls below a certain point.
I love this post and the exchange of comments going on here. The OP is just starting to learn C, and to help learn it got started on a project that they found useful, which I think is one of the best ways to learn programming.

The community then responded by posting helpful feedback, much of which demonstrates the idiomatic way of doing things, which is often one of the most difficult things to learn when picking up a new programming language. Other helpful advice is posted on build options and debug tools.

This kind of constructive and useful feedback is great to see.
Good. Call.

That was my initial reaction when I read this too.
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I would setup a webservice for it, but Twitter's API only allows 300 queries per hour. Just get the list of follower IDs via the API, sort them, then plot the deltas between each ID.

Most Twitter follower networks registered thousands of Twitter accounts in a quick, automated fashion, making their entire list of Twitter ID's almost sequential. The plot shows the deltas of the Twitter IDs from 0 to the highest ID.

What's even more amusing is that, once you've identified a network, you can deduce the entire list of their clients by what users the network already follows.

Part of me wonders why Twitter doesn't just nuke the follower networks, since they are so easy to identify. But, on the other hand, it's almost comical looking at no-name Twitter users with tens of thousands of followers. There is no way to force a Twitter network to unfollow them, so they are stuck with the fake followers and all of the embarrassment that comes along with it.

Though, the scary part is that one can attack an adversary by buying up 25K Twitter followers for them for a pretty insignificant price (maybe $100).
yup i would get up too $40 EPC for some tweets but usually averaged in the $15-$30 range.

when you create value, people will click and most likely buy. on twitter, you can see what exactly is on their mind so it becomes pretty transparent what they specifically want when they tweet.
We are still doing the library for the young ones - I don't see myself wanting my offspring staring into the bright iPad screen all day reading or especially before nap and sleep at night when it can disrupt them.
While at uni, I had a habit of attending classes with my friends, outside of my curriculum. I remember attending a lecture on hermeneutics once, by a law professor, versed in philosophy and such... and this must have been some closing lecture as he was talking a lot about his personal experience of failing to achieve any substantial understanding of what meaning was, how (his) mind worked, etc.

He was putting it as if it was like trying to insert your head into your... in a desperate hope of reaching some 'real' understanding. And after all those years of trying (it looked like he had been trying), he was left with empty hands. Not zen-style empty hands, just what-i-hoped-to-grasp-i-couldnt empty hands.

Its a feeling you can probably get investigating stuff like physics, math, meaning in linguistics, neuroscience or simply thinking things through as the years go by.

Maybe grand parent was relating to something like this.
That's what I got from it as well; however it did seem needlessly verbose.
> I haven't looked into it, but I'm guessing Amazon must have some rule against this.

That seems to be the case, so they'd have to make a special arrangement with Amazon to do so.

> 9. ... nor will you create links formatted with your Associate’s tag for, or display such links on, a site that is not your site.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/oper...
It's unfortunate but true. These were my thoughts exactly. I can see the situation from both sides.
IME you can always still write direct SQL when appropriate.
Err, no. Music streaming services (Pandora/Audiogalaxy/Spotify) are the new radio. Facebook's Open Graph is the new radio. Background music in ads (Apple ads, for example) are the new radio.
Anyone else find it ironic that this post is about moving from Node to Ruby in order to produce the admin interface to a Java hosting service? (This was a blog post written by "Jelastic" devs, who make a Java PaaS product).

We seem to be seeing more of this "don't eat your own dogfood" approach to software development lately. The other example that comes to mind is the Play Framework, written in Python and also targeted to Java devs.
UPS is an interesting beast in rural areas, I always preferred them to FedEx. Where I grew up there were no road names before the 911 push a couple years back. The UPS drivers learned where all the people were and what landmarks the locals used for navigation. It did make for some interesting conversations with vendors ("ship it to: house 311 behind the school").

FedEx never really got the whole rural concept. Even with the names, they still have so many problems.
"I’ve been thinking about what an optimized collaborative space would look like. "

Jung : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious

When we lose ourself in some total focus, we seem to be happy and productive, some explain it with by dropping the individual self We transcend into a zen state ...
Did you tried jqmobi? It works great with backbone.js
Going to the doctor and worrying about cybersecurity
Nice article. Years ago I liked "Peopleware" enough that I got my boss to buy a copy for each person in the department.
I'm not a Java coder so I'll take your word on it about library support, I've only used the JSONObject, JSONArray, etc. classes. Surely you will concede that JSON being modeled after JavaScript gives the language a little bit of a leg up?
When travelling it often is. Mobile data rates are still prohibitively high in most places and wifi services have low caps.
You're making assumptions when you say that "the probability that you will CHOOSE TO LIFT the box containing the marble is 0.5".

Consider that there may be 3 boxes, and the person setting up the experiment flipped a coin for each box. If the coin landed heads up, a marble was placed in the box. If the coin landed tails up, no marble was placed. This means there may be 0 - 3 marbles total. Until you know the actual state of the box, the probability remains 0.5.
There was a time in history, when radio was first introduced, when publishers of newspapers sued radio stations for reading the news over the airwaves. It seems rather short-sighted now, doesn't it?
Sometimes you can actually game this. For example, I have noticed cheaptickets.com sometimes fails to update their prices quickly enough. All of the other websites have moved their prices to the new fare, but they slack behind. I know there is an issue since the airline does not ticket their mistake immediately (i.e. make the ticket more than a stub and actually consummate the transaction). I wonder who takes the hit on this?

If you look into all of the issues surrounding the United and Continental merger, there some fascinating material exists on airline reservation systems and back-ends. In summary, I think they get build to defense contractor standards, which does little to reassure me.
I'm pretty sure there is an XKCD about this.

Didn't we conclude yesterday that there was a fundamental flaw in the original author's assumptions in how tips get reported and preliminary evidence suggests Taxi drivers are now making less?

Now that a major tech publication has picked up the story it may legitimately be cited as fact in a Wikipedia article.

Now that a major tech publication has picked up the story it will probably also go as an unquestioned anecdote in a thousand VC pitches.
Has Thiel been careful to always specify that his anti-higher-education-in-the-U.S. stance only applies to entrepreneurial people?
I think it is complete utter BS that "apple prohibits unlocks" .. why would Apple care? This is just AT&T afraid to lose a customer with an unlocked phone.
Even though I can program an Arduino just fine, this is so low-friction that it will encourage me do short projects and experiments I otherwise might not.
Sorry man, I read that article and thought it's insights were profound. I am sorry to hear that they basically just 'spun' your hard work. Doesn't seem fair that you do the hard work but they end up with the lions share of the hits...

To SEO Experts:
Should they have given the original author a 'canonical' link from that page? Would that have helped matters SEO wise?
This would then go down to theoretical physics and whether or not it was already defined which box you would choose. I think something closer to the Schrödinger's cat experiment, and whether the cat will die. In this case, I think you could objectively say the probability is 50/50.
It's worth pointing to Graham Dumpleton's blog [1] -- he seems to be the Python world's web hosting ninja. See the great slide deck [2] from his recent talk on hosting python web apps [3] -- the deck nicely captures the recent state of the world.

Apache2 + mod_wsgi in Daemon mode is probably the most common approach (especially for VPSs), although I know several people who prefer nginx + gunicorn + supervisor. Both are sane and stable options at this point. (The python web frameworks themselves all speak WSGI and there are about seventeen million of 'em to choose from.)

[1] http://blog.dscpl.com.au/

[2] http://modwsgi.googlecode.com/files/mod_wsgi-pycon-sydney-20...

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWIvm-uloMg
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I'm surprised this post has received no comments or advice from Silicon Valley founders. I believe the competition for talent is fierce and most companies would love to have more developers readily available to join their companies.
And people still wonder why publications like these aren't considered serious purveyors of content. The goal isn't to spread information and break stories, instead it's to get eyeballs and sell advertisements.
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> Nobody rationally torrents a CD rip and then goes to the store to buy the real version.

I do. As a music collector, I prefer to sample the music online before buying it. If the music is sufficient, I eventually buy a physical copy and add it to my collection. The CD is then ripped onto my hard drive.

By purchasing a physical copy, I support local record stores (great people); I also obtain the album artwork, which interests me as a former designer.
That is really a fascinating project. Never heard of Supercollider before. If a "blender-for-audio" does not already exist, it looks like the sort of language that could be used to build an implementation.
I kept a paid account there from 2002 until late last year. My circle of friends was pretty active on LJ and didn't bail out to Facebook until 2009-2010.

One thing I remember about when LJ was independent was that they intentionally kept a feature disparity between paid & free users to steer people into paying.

And I remember in 2002-2004ish if you were at all an active user you definitely had to have paid -- they had more demand than server capacity, and they configured their load balancer to prioritize paid users. If you didn't pay you'd wait 30 seconds for a page to come up.

Since then they've closed the feature gap, and even if my friends were all to come back right now and post like they used to, I still don't see a need to pay. I couldn't care less about more photo hosting or user avatars.
Monetizing your website with affiliate offers doesn't make it spam. Having no other purpose than to redirect a visitor to an offer - does. Especially if you use less than lilly white SEO techniques. Here's a nice way to put it:

Google believes that pure affiliate websites do not provide additional value for web users, especially if they are part of a program that distributes its content to several hundred affiliates. Because a search result could return multiple sites, all with the same content, they create a frustrating user experience.

And here's the rest of it: http://bit.ly/KWS1cz

>For example in the UK there are sites that offer money back on all purchases

I don't see the relevance.
"...but still, the vast majority of debt trades in the 90-110 range."

That's usually for freshly issued/on-the run or about-to-mature debt. It _used_ to be the case before the financial crisis that most debt traded near par - that has changed as the cost of repo financing has become disjoint of the risk-free rate since the crisis.

EV/EBITDA is the multiple to compare - as you rightly pointed out. A naive EV comparison, as done by HackerCapital, is misleading.

The description of leverage is also a bit simplified - typically, you would discount earnings with the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) = (cost of debt)(debt/EV) + (cost of equity)(equity/EV). So the discount factor does not simply "balance out" the leveraged (and volatile) returns - it depends on the relative cost of debt vs. equity _and_ the leverage ratio.

It's in the (cost of equity) factor that you can normalize different sectors as (cost of equity) = risk_free_rate + historical_beta * (sector_return - risk_free_rate). Sector return would typically be from a benchmark equity index specific to the industry - whether tech or autos.