skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree with this on the desktop, but I wonder if it's still true when folks try to contact you via mobile and they can't keep the browser window open for reference while entering your address in their email client.
sounds great - just what we need

questions:
- any word on pricing? will there be a monthly min?
- also can i set up recurring charges with pin?

great work

cheers

justin
A) My comment was very specifically focused on you, acting as a solo developer/founder, not a person you'd hire.

B) A multihomed setup is not a black box of mystery, and is nowhere near as expensive as people are saying from the hip.
i surely would like to see a follow up of this article here at hackers news. I feel less environmental guilty if i can build a pc with a low power usage.

But as far as i can see, this 'beast' of 12 cores, its not a high end system it runs around 1.3 GHZ ?
Do 12 cores makeup for low speed ?
there is also a 8 core buldozer amd at around 75 watt but with double the Ghz speed if i remind corectly (thats equals about 35 wat to ratio of 16 cores)
If Iran developed Flame you think they would chose to use it as a PR stunt over using it for intelligence gathering. From what I understand Iran is more interested in developing nukes than generating bad press for US/Israel.
Any info on how and why so many were cracked? Passwords too simple?
I've been listening to the Bastion soundtrack on repeat for the last week :-). I feel like it very much fits in the style of Firefly, but maybe that's just me.
Is there a Godwin's Law equivalent for how long it takes someone to use a rape comparison in an online discussion?
Considering that the New York Times this week published a leak from within the administration admitting responsibility for Stuxnet and Duqu, both of which targeted Iran, do you honestly believe that Iran developing Flame as a false flag operation is equally credible?
I started learning python a little while ago-there are so many options-mostly been using trial and error to figure out the best approach-from experience what you said TOTALLY makes sense--thanks
p.s talking to other people who are also at the moment trying to learn python seems it would help-but I haven't been able to find any good discussion group/sites/forums/etc like that. Doea anyone know any good ones to do that?
You have repeated this multiple times on this thread. Would you like to explain what you mean?
There's a lot going on here - text masking, gradients with non-zero starting points, gradients as text colors, making text shadows work, layers of divs, and more.
Perhaps I just don't understand the terminology here, but which large countries are not considered nation-states?
EHarmony Confirms Password Hack
I'm sorry for being so snippy about this. It's one of my snippy topics.
What about browserid, openid etc
I'm afraid to ask...but why do you say that?
I didn't call anyone an architecture astronaut; I'm just citing the first paragraph of that post.
Ask HN: What's your reason for doing a startup?
I've recently been given an offer to join a startup of 10+ people. I'm very hesitant though, because for me the reason for doing a startup was that I wanted to learn about my own limits.

Obviously I like the idea of having money, but more than anything I want to make my own choices, and I don't think I'll be able to do it at this place.

Is this a stupid whiney thing to think about? Or is it something worth actually doing?
how can I reach you privately?
CWI definitely it's an impressive research facility. Well done.
Well understood also. It's not like they're doing cutting edge pharmaceutical drug research that takes mega scientists and billions in funding and very precise enzyme targeting, etc.

They mostly iterate on known drugs to make their making cheaper / more addictive. And they can easily test on junkies (I presume).
One of those countries is Iran. That said, Japan prior to and during World War II knew of its pressing need, had plenty of patriotism to draw upon, had high levels of education and infrastructure, and still failed to compete in that area.
Isn't it your fault to have picked Heroku in this case?
Nothing is being compared to rape: an argument is being compared to a well known argument involving rape, to illustrate its fallacious nature.

Perhaps there is also a law for how long it takes until someone attempts to dismiss an argument by introducing a red herring.
Someone with "22 years of computer experience" and knows about encryption algorithms doesn't become a border guard.
Android growth has slowed for the 4th consecutive month.
http://www.asymco.com/2012/06/04/trouble-with-the-robot/

Also in the article you knocked, is the statistic that for every dollar devs make in the Appstore, they can expect to make $0.24 on the Android Marketplace.

ICS adoption rate is at 7.1% 7 months after launch. Apple reached that level of adoption for iOS 5.1.1 in 19 hrs.
http://parislemon.com/post/24459135733/7-months-vs-19-hours

I'll let the reader discern, but add the subtle hint that...ha ha...no, Android is not even close.
You stated in another response that your app was targeted at 2-8 year olds. I'm not sure that target audience is a good base of comparison between Android and iOS.

My 7 year old daughter has an iPod and she get's iTunes points for gifts. I am NOT however, going to give her an Android Phone. Until there is an Android version of the iPod and a way to buy gift cards for market purchases, I don't see the under ~15 market being lucrative in the Android space.

EDIT: I would also bet that 100% of your sales on the Amazon market are from Kindle Fire users. THOSE are the only small form factor Android devices that are cheap enough to give to children, thus your success there.
It's nice to see Github building apps for each platform, without taking shortcuts. It's so much more pleasant to build AND use native apps with things like XAML and the Metro UI vs. making kludgy HTML shell apps.
If you don't know what a term means, why the fuck are you using it?

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-nation-state.htm

You people are fucking ignorant.
No (at least to the same degree), but AMD's next architecture will, and in a much more interesting form.
The zero days can come from all over, the PLC and SCADA system knowledge is all over the world.

From what I've read, SCADA leaves an aspect of its system wide open and insecure, to make development easier.
The sample request is nearly identical to Stripe. Is it safe to say this is Stripe for Australia? What's the relationship between Stripe and Pin?
Apple gets sweeping patent for macbook air design
Draw With Your Face | Google+ based drawing game that uses your face as a brush.
Twitter Shuts Down Thunderclap Lightning-Fast
The US is not a nation state.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-nation-state.htm

If you don't know what the term means, maybe it's best to avoid using it? Or read a fucking book once in a while.
We should in fact value our customer's heartbeats ... but what about our own?

I think the tendency to get things accomplished is stronger in those of us that view our lives as short.
thanks sardonicbryan. "yield" makes more sense. scale is the name of the game!
Does Heroku not have custom ErrorDocumenrs? We had those in the 90's...
Came here to make a similar point: not only could you make a plant that produces enzymes that cleave the herbicide, you could make a plant that expresses efflux pumps that pump the herbicide out of the cells, making the plant immune as well. This mechanism is used by cancer tumors and bacteria to resist all the crap we throw at them trying to kill them. I suspect there are a multitude of ways to make Round-up resistant crops.
WTF, A YEAR AGO ?? They didn't notify users (i.e. me). Aren't they in breach of California law? Where are they based?
>>* No, it means the music industry as a whole is doomed, period.

Or, it means that technology (and preexisting oligopoly) has broken that particular market.*

So, basically the same thing in a different phrasing?

>Recordings themselves are an experiential byproduct.

Yes. I do think that the record ALSO removed the primary link between audience and musician. But al least it retained some of that.

A record is a byproduct primarily linked with music.

In a way that t-shirt, an autograph box, vinyl dolls etc are not.
Is it really necessary? I don't believe Stripe does it.
I think that's true with Heroku, but gets less true as providers get bigger. If you tell a user that your service is temporarily down "because Google is down", even a lot of regular people will know what that means, and not really blame you for it.
I think the OP used the term nation state when he meant sovereign state; it was just a mistake of language. johnlepson, on the other hand, seems to have a bee in his bonnet about the US not being a nation state. Whether the US is a nation state or not depends on how multicultural you think it is; it's a political disagreement.
probably gziped

edit:ops had this in my tab opened since morning and commented without refreshing
So, yeah, while misuse of literally literally bugs the shit out of me a lot, I'm fairly tossed up about whether it's worth bugging out over. The recent surfacing of the 'poisonous/venomous' distinction smacks of pop-culture faddism and as such, is just dull and tedious.

Academics, scientists, and engineers generally understand these details (indeed, Dalton Caldwell almost certainly _does_ know the distinction, being as he was, I gather, a 'Founder/CEO of a Sequoia portfolio company'). Complicated, careful work (in nuclear physics or space launches, for instance) generally depends on this, no doubt.

But outside those domains -- in a personal blog, for instance, or when noodling catfish in the bayou, say -- splitting infinitives might be ok, or even a shibboleth. See Dave Chappelle's analysis on Inside The Actors Studio regarding speaking as a black American.

And, while I don't care to hurtle ad-hominems ad-hoc, if you _are_ going to be pedantic about the minutiae of someone else's considered work, it's possibly worth knowing that the word is 'vicinity'.
Troubleshooting with Dtrace specifically the Solaris variants (since Solaris contains the most probes) teaches you a lot of general Unix internals that usually only dedicated kernel/User land programmers would know.
If people are "distracted" by their cellphone during your presentation, the problem might not be the cellphone...
The most interesting thing about the announcement is that Square apparently now has an (unannounced?) integration method.
I was satiring totalitarian states that tend to produce fake nonsense statistics about how popular they are.

e.g. in 2002 Saddam Hussein was re-elected President of Iraq. He got 100% of the votes, and there was 100% turnout ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/16/iraq )
I strongly suggest reading "Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi - I think it pretty accurately describes our near future.
If you plan on committing a crime, yes. Please carry your documentation with you. If you don't, feel free to carry on with life as normal.

(sorry, I know this is rather flippant and intended to be humorous/tongue-in-cheek.. I simply don't see this radical expansion of slippery-slope philosophy that many of you do.)
Apparently this breach is a year old, so nothing to do with it. Maybe they just decided to go public today hoping that focus would remain on LNKD or (even better) people would just think "ah well, it can happen to everybody".
Carmack will lead the game revolution, again
"If it was up to me, we'd all go back to vinyl bumping through wide cones set in heavy oak" Hell yeah!

And I totally understand that, all I’m saying (and this is based on my general understanding of the market and no hard data at all, so take it as you will), but there’s a lot of people like you and me out there, and the market will exist, and can thrive serving us. And looking at things from the perspective of current digital music sales ignores the bulk of these people. If anything, a focus towards developing a model that serves people like us will only go towards expanding the market for music ‘sales’ (i.e. converting would-be pirated downloads to sales).

And without going too far-off on a tangent, I’d also argue that the market in many ways depends on the minority of high-volume consumers functioning as the ‘early adaptors’ who discover music and popularize it for the masses. This market, in my opinion, will always be a fairly strong force and will always be served in some fashion that involves ownership (whether that be legal or otherwise).
Even vendors that promise that, e.g. Amazon, aren't infallible.
HBO turned-down Mad Men. In the recent past Thrones, Veep and Girls have all debuted to critical acclaim and ratings success.

Anecdotally, from what I've read, show runners love HBO.

Anybody who thinks HBO is at risk either isn't paying attention to it, or just has tastes outside the mainstream. They have among best original content -- scripted shows, comedy specials, 'reality' shows, documentaries, and movies -- on television today. And have. For the last 15 years.
Don't do it for the money — 99% of startups fail. That's not to say that you might not fall into the 1%. Someone's gotta hit it big once in a while, right?

Do it because you love what you do and are passionate about it. Too many people failed trying to chase money. Don't make the mistake of doing a startup for the wrong reason.
Things you should know about configuring a Cisco IOS switch
From my personal experience, the two main challenges when it comes to making video games are:

1) It's a multidisciplinary effort. Unless you're someone with multiple talents, you need to put together a team to work on it. You might try to pull it off all by yourself using free resources you can find on the Internet, but it's next to impossible to make a truly great game that way.

2) The biggest amount of work will be spent on "polishing" things. Dotting the i's and crossing the t's, testing your levels and tweaking them, all that stuff is a lot of work. And videogame players are a lot less forgiving than other application users.
No, I don't "honestly believe" that at all; I thought my post made it quite clear that is was pure conjecture. I don't see it as "outside the realm of possibility;" though, it is quite unlikely.
> most people view a simple border check as more dangerous than a fanatical religious terrorist.

Which terrorist?

So by your logic, because there was a fanatical religious terrorist at some point in time, it is perfectly ok for this country to start prying into everyone's (public and private) accounts, infer who knows what from what they read there ("You write on twitter you are going to have a _blast_!? in Boston" "Ok, step over here please"), and then proceed to interrogate people at the border.

It seems like the guy was added to some black database somewhere. Are you in that database too? Can you check who is in there? Do you know how one gets added or removed from it?

Are you prepared to justify all the groping, and x-raying going in airports because because of a religious terrorist. What else are you willing to sacrifice because of this religious terrorist.

I am, for one, also very disappointed to see that you and others have drunk the cool-aid that has been flowing from Washington D.C. (This is a War on Terror, Be Afraid, Be Prepared for More Attacks, We Must Invade etc. etc.)
But the only tool I HAVE is a hammer!
Scott Guthrie demos Linux on Azure live
Nothing is official. English, unlike other languages, does not have an official governing body. There is no official One True English Language.
the day where we have a deep enough understanding of computer science for that sort of attack innovation to be the baseline would be a pretty amazing future (and one which is pretty unlikely to happen I think)
Quite off topic, but I'm always sad to see really poor scalability:

To my surprise, this blog post hit the top spot on HN at least briefly. My blog started throwing some app errors.

I've had a couple of hit HN stories on my blog without a problem, and it was hosted from my apartment on an old server with 256MB of RAM. Now, it is static pages served through nginx, but I'm pretty sure that a few thousand hits shouldn't require 10 Heroku dynos to not fall over.

Kids these days. (the mindset, not the age)
The cold war continues (going with the missile crisis line), and it is thus the Fed is preparing for QE3.

I agree strongly with another comment: Sequoia was right, and then some.

Nothing actually got better, it's just that people think it did. A moment of respite from the turmoil is all the last two or three years represents. That moment of respite cost between $8 and $15 trillion depending on what you're counting (total deficits + Fed bailouts).

In fact, things are far worse today than they were at the height of the crisis, as we've loaded up on $6 or so trillion more in public debt we can never pay back. We've added about $400 to $500 billion more in student loan debt, and a few million college graduates are sitting on the sidelines without jobs and experience, and we've got millions more living on food stamps without jobs.

The only thing separating our system from absolute implosion is the global reserve currency that we're currently massively abusing at our leisure. If mortgage rates had to rise to their natural rates (absent Fed manipulation holding down both long term and short term rates), housing would quickly plunge another 1/3, and that alone would rupture the entire financial system and bring it to its knees.

The truth is, we look a lot like the imploding EU zone across the Federal and State levels. Except we've got the dollar, for now.
I understand your position here, but, please make contact with some Iranian refugees/dissidents near you for the full picture. Its bad. Worse than I understand Texas to be, by several ball parks.
I hope they show up in the ubuntu software center. They are pain to find (after installation) using the .deb files.
Using the Heroku Postgres Dev plan
You can get rid of a huge amount of password-related frustration by using a good password manager (not the rinky-dink ones that browsers come built in with).

I've been very satisfied with 1Password and I can't imagine going back to not using it.
I'd say platforms like stackmob which create mobile APIs + wordpress, drupal etc. which make it easy to add an API to those + then platforms like 3scale, mashery etc. which help manage access.
Html-select: an alternative html 5 / css 3 select box.
Hey thanks for the tips, I'll check this out. I tried adwords, saw absolutely no ROI after lots of experimentation.
If you're watching the Scott keynote, Windows Azure now supports both PaaS and IaaS.
Pretty interesting way to think of twitter - kind of a message bus.
>and is almost a year old

I think the submitter realizes this. The end of the URL includes '?repost-after-a-year' :)

Edit: But it is still worth pointing that out to people reading the comments here since obviously not everyone will notice that.

Edit2: While roughly a year since it was last posted (nine months), the article is two years old now.

Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472
Am I the only one out there who listens to a lot of their music almost exclusively through YouTube?

There is a lot to dislike about YouTube and how it handles music, but when it comes to instantly finding music that I want and without no restrictions on playback, YouTube works wonderfully well (at least, for me)
I guess the model needs to be right so everybody along the way gets paid, then people may step up.
So now I can finally truthfully call myself a Rockstar Developer...
His fear stems from the fact that most people believe they have a right to the Internet and are essentially anonymous.

To respond to your hellfire missile analogy, if I am in Canada or the US, I'm not worrying about it but if I'm in the middle east, it's a different story.
4 decades of famine or 1 typhoon?

What the actions of world leaders have effectively said is that we will sacrifice our economic growth in exchange for the ability to ensure that current debt can continue to be serviced.
Eh I look at it like this: if a sales person is confident in their abilities in social marketing/online ads, it would be a great deal for them because they're getting in to it late in the game after everything else, including the board is designed on in stock. They don't have to worry about it being vaporware, etc.
Show HN: Sinew, a Ruby gem/DSL for crawling and scraping
I don't think that's true, but either way it is not helpful to the discussion.
And 'platforms' like Pandora, Spotify, YouTube (if you can even consider it as adequate at all in this context), and others will never replace the ability to build a personal collection.

I agree. In particular, I would add that many of these platforms serve the classical music listeners poorly, IME. I tend to see lots of a) overplayed pieces that I've heard a billion times like Vivaldi's Seasons and/or b) mediocre orchestras/artists (the Radio Orchestra of East Bulgaria or something). The ITunes catalogue is also rather weak, actually. Lots of great classical CDs can't be found there. Finally, in many cases I'm attached to a particular rendition or version. I don't want to hear the Brandenburg Concertos on modern instruments, for example, yet you'll often hear this sort of thing on these services.

So, at this point I have a very large classical collection that I've accumulated over the years that serves my idiosyncratic tastes. Until someone comes along that provides an equivalent experience -- and there's probably a market opportunity there -- nothing can replace it.
Your customer wants to know whether it's you or Heroku because...? (There may be a legitimate business case for the distinction. Perhaps you can clarify.)
The fascinating thing is that strong commercial/public cryptography has only really become a "thing" in the past couple of decades; it used to be nearly exclusively the domain of governments, which is why even today there are still residual export controls on strong cryptography.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U...
Hey, I just turned 16 and I am in a similar position.
I'm @asselinpaul on Twitter. I'd like to talk to you about your previous jobs ;) If you don't have Twitter, my email is: 'pa.asselin@gmail.com'
I thought the same thing! Totally agree.