skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends how you define meaningful. It obviously required more resources than simply using standard parts and tools, so there must be some payoff.
You are welcome. You can have it if you like. I found it in a dank crevice next to a bewildered field-mouse, whilst searching forlornly for my missing marbles.
How should a gay web developer go about finding an intelligent lover?
Well of course it did, they didn't send out press releases.
If you want to give feedback about the program, please do so here:

https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/programfeedb...

Personally I think the new gTLDs are an incredible abuse of power. They were cooked up only so ICANN could cash in on being the authority. Having new gTLDs are going to cause a lot of problems and they are prohibitively expensive.
Sure, it may be that Automattic may need to release more closed products if they want to implement this vision

It may not even be the vision they have for Automattic ... but I do think it's an opportunity they have.

For Gravatar, no it's not a social network at all, but it's a potential part of a bigger, wider identity platform.
Plenty of things are illegal even though it's next to impossible to prevent them. EX: Insider trading, Smoking pot, large scale piracy, etc.
I'm impressed. The chromium pid settled around 15% on my Eeepc 900 (running Arch Linux, alsa, no pulseaudio)
For All Those Multidisciplinary Kids
hasn't this been a feature for a long time now?
What's the point in having so many top-level domains? I can see the value in having country codes, because otherwise there would be an international (probably US-dominated) authority that imposed its power on the Internet, but why any beyond that?
That HP battery's showing up as $160 for me, but point taken regardless
The problem there is that it doesn't solve their hotlinking problem.
Yes, the fictional app was called sore goggles

here is the HN link:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3699912
The folks I know who work for the government are pretty rule driven. Folks like that seem to think that rules have real power over people in a way that isn't true -- as if the rule itself has intrinsic power to stop people from doing X rather than the rewards and punishments which get tied to it.
Couldn't agree more. Great user experience.
I carried a 15 inch MBP while walking to work for 2 years, including four flights of stairs to my apartment. Carrying around weight has never been a problem for me, yet when I switched to the Air, it felt like a radical life change. It's hard to perceive how much just 3 pounds can air a difference but I was much more enthusiastic about heading out to do some work at a coffee shop or even just over to my couch.
Legalizing drugs by itself does not imply that the price of drugs will fall and that the violence will end. Lest not forget that, in Latin American, revolutions have been fought because of the impact of the exploitation of the people and land for the cultivation of commodity products such as bananas (see Banana Wars in Wikipedia) and for which gangs like La Mara are a consequence. Drugs for personal use are legal in Mexico, so the violence itself is not related to the criminalization of drugs, it's related to the profit of drugs. And legalizing drugs only strengthens the cartels grip on that profit (see OPEC).

The one key aspect that I often find that is missing from the intellectual reasoning of the drug cartel violence in Mexico is that most Americans don't understand that narco culture that exists in Northern Mexico. For over 30 or 40 years, there has developed a narco culture in Mexico where songs and movies have been influenced by the trade (see Chalino_Sánchez). Basically, Chalino_Sánchez was like the Mexican Jay-Z except he didn't sell out and was gunned down by an unknown assailant.
Preaching to the converted.

What's the point of these articles if they have no impact on legislation or the national conversation?
>it may be that Automattic may need to become a more closed if they want to implement this vision

If we're just discussing Automattic becoming a closed Facebook competitor, sure it's possible. I think they have the position to do so, but I'm certainly not interested in another closed platform, even if bits of the core software are free.

Gravatar is a wider identity platform, but it too just piggy backs on email. It's an avatar platform that piggy-backs on the email identity platform. And sadly, the avatar platform isn't distributed either.

In my opinion, BrowserID has a much better chance of being the technical and featureful identity provider. Anyone can be a BrowserID provider and provide any level of security from literally none to quadruple factor auth with PKI if they wanted. I would love to see proposals on how to layer functionality like Gravatar on top.

That's a social network alternative that I could get excited about!
Reanimating UUCP
"Did you think this is how it would work? I sure didn't."

Was there something you read that indicated that what they did wasn't allowed?

"Another angle on this, the ICANN people must have known about these applications long before they were made public. How could they continue this process, knowing that is how Google and Amazon interpreted the idea of new TLDs?"

Everything including the entire process and requirements were public and anyone could have read and determined the specifics prior to any submissions (and voiced objections). From my reading there was nothing to prevent this anymore than if you filed for .winer you could determine only your family could use it. (Same as you get to decide who uses scripting.com, right?)

At this point anyone can file objections to granting a particular TLD (the fact that you are the only applicant doesn't guarantee getting granted the TLD).

So I would suggest to the OP (Dave Winer) that he writes an objection if this bothers him which will also serve to alert the tech press.
True; it seems there's some more fuzzy element involved, involving how the substances are used rather than their intrinsic potency. For various reasons, turning nicotine into a more potent drug hasn't become popular. And, tobacco leaves smoked as-is are not acutely dangerous (only chronically dangerous). But, the same is basically true of coca leaves. The difference seems to be that coca leaves are refined into more potent/dangerous recreational drugs, but tobacco leaves aren't.
In the life of my 2008 MBP, I replaced the battery twice and the HDD three times (died mechanical failure once, second time became an SSD).
Well I'm still using an early-2008 white Macbook for Photoshop/Illustrator/Lightroom/browsing/coding without too much of a hiccup.

Considering that the MBP Retina can also play Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 comfortably, I could see myself using it for at least three years, if not more if I hand it down to a family member.
"Having new gTLDs are going to cause a lot of problems"

What problems do you see this creating?
on Dec 12, 1980, AAPL was $2.75.

The Apple I listed for $666.66 (I assume 1976)

So say that was 243 shares.

Today that would be roughly $140,000.
Well, at least, removing the glue is time consuming :)
Please don't patronize me.

I tried to be specific in what I said; I said that it was OK, and good, that these people existed. I was not making an argument that these people are necessarily less productive; but rather, that there was a qualitative difference in how they approached code that made a difference in what they could accomplish with it.

(Though I think in the medium to long term, they will end up less productive, because of a lack of abstraction and leverage of existing code beyond copy and paste. Probably, we don't disagree that much.)
Have you ever read the WoW forums (or any other official game forum)? The signal to noise ratio is absolute crap. The first few pages would be people saying "first!" and it goes downhill & off-topic from there. We're talking about a site with 10M subscribers, all of them focused on a single piece of official correspondence, wanting their chance to get attention.

It would be absolutely useless & provide zero opportunity for intelligent dialog. If anyone from Valve is listening and wants to open discussion, they would do better to interact with 'higher quality' communities directly.
If it can play Diablo 3, I can see myself using it for twelve years.
That work was impressive -- but kind of over the top. From what I can tell, their dataset could at most have been like 2.5TB uncompressed. Their model took 3 days to train on 1000 16 core machines. They called this "inexpensive way to develop features from unlabeled data". Later they point out that their model was "more than an order of magnitude larger than other large networks reported in literature".
I don't consider a few hours per month administering servers to be much more than the time I would spend working around Heroku's proprietary app model for the more esoteric things I would want to do. I would guess it's less, but I don't really know. Throw saving thousands a month into the mix and it's not something I'd lose sleep over. Database servers that can handle 10's of thousands of iops and web servers that can handle thousands of uncached requests per second makes machine administration a lot more pleasant than it was just 5 years ago. Hardware has been scaling vertically quickly enough that it's no longer strictly necessary to scale horizontally in a massive way as you grow.
Having operated a service similar in some ways to Skout, banning underage users is not the answer if you actually want to help them[1]. These same users will now sign up again but say they're 18+.

It's much better to encourage people to be honest and use that information to try and make the service safer, either through special features and app behavior or through user education. Nothing is perfect though, and no matter what you do some people will make bad decisions in spite of your best efforts to help them.

[1] If you're just covering your ass though, it's perfect. "The user lied! It's not our fault!"
I used idea paint to create whiteboard walls:

www.ideapaint.com
The Pirate Bay: No Whois Server Found.
Maybe more often than you would expect. Don't SSDs have a higher failure rate than their spinning metal counterparts?
Ask HN: For god's sake, how do I get custom social share buttons like this?
All the good implementations of share buttons on content sites come in vertical columns, like so:

http://onforb.es/LpNp0Z
(links to Forbes article)

So why the hell doesn't ShareThis.com or AddThis.com provide default vertical buttons like that? This pisses me off cause I've been wanting to integrate this into my site for a long time, but every time I start delving into it, I find that it's going to take me forever to customize them so they fit nicely in a vertical space.

Do any of you know of a simple script that will allow me to put these social share buttons on my site in vertical form without having to go through a bunch of tedious customizations?
at least once?

I have the same laptop and replaced the battery last year and also upgraded to a SSD. This made my old 2ghz C2D just as fast in everyday tasks at the i5 air I got from work.

in other news I just ordered a new MBP Retina to replace it :)
It's impossible to speak authoritatively for a large community with widely differing opinions, but it appears to me that for a lot of people, the distinction of whether or not a copyright violation is immoral or not is dependent on whether the instigator is actively profiting from the violation.

If you download Game of Thrones to watch on your laptop, there is a long and circuitous argument we can have about exactly how much you're harming HBO, but it's pretty clear that the only thing you're gaining is the ability to consume the TV show you've pirated. If your business's web site is based on someone else's code without proper licensing, and that design is presumably a factor in customers choosing to patronize you, you now have a tangible financial gain that is owed (at least in part) to a copyright violation.

It's a flawed analogy, but this is less like downloading an episode of Game of Thrones and more like selling bootleg DVDs of the show.
Different parts get better and cheaper (RAM, hard drives, processors), why wouldn't a battery? (serious question)
I wonder if the result is the same feeling that I have if I don't do any sports for too many days. I really look forward to that bike trip then, or to the gym. If that can be put into a pill, why not.

But I also believe that the key to fight mass obesity is a change of mindset in society. Not sure how this is achieved, but education on certain topics might help. Or role models that say the right things. Even if those things are not politically correct sometimes. But then again, would that sell the product those role models are selling?
TLDs are a nuisance, and I can't be arsed with figuring out if your site is a .net or .com or org. or .whatever. I just google it anyway.
You can can find Google's applications by looking under "Charleston Road Registry Inc.". Amazon is under their own name. Between the two of them, they have some pretty generic applications. i.e. ".lol", ".mom", ".pet" & ".soy"(?) etc...

It looks like Google only applied for 3 non-english TLDs. Amazon has closer to a dozen. Might say something about long term plans.

Microsoft has about a dozen applications, mostly for things they have trademarked. ".xbox" etc.

Apple is in there as well, but only for ".apple". ".app", ".tunes" were both applied for by Amazon.
FBI files on Feynman released
Agreed.
The rest look mostly like non-square Instagram photos.

That being said, I still prefer working of single machine, with virtualization. A complete take-away.
Dropbox still hasn't stopped public sharing, so http://bit.ly/NtMjGd.
The low bar of higher education
Upvoted for quality.

But I disagree with your choice of colors. The communist/socialist side is traditionally colored red.
Elon Musk 2012 commencement speech at Caltech (starts at 31st minute)
How does this compare to Ramaze or Innate?
> FJ is a site that's been around for years and has had a steady falloff of users and who's popularity has been waning since 2006. This looks to me like an act of desperation, not a brilliant gorilla marketing tactic.

What's that based on? Their traffic has almost tripled in the last year. They publish their traffic statistics, as you can see here: http://funnyjunk.com/stat/

Yesterday they had 23,282,449 page views. 1 year ago today they had 9,978,711 page views.
This blog post, dated May 2012, rants about a purported Skout ad that came up while playing Words With Friends

http://joeymarsilio.blogspot.com/2012/05/flirting-with-disas...

Assuming that it's real (I read comments from other sites complaining about an ad described as depicted), it's easy to see why critics felt the service was too forward in pandering to sexualitied teens.
I found that one individual had applied for 300 gTLDs, Google for 98 including for .lol and .foo. In reality, each company could have used just one gTLD such as .google and could have extended it having app.google domains. To Dave's point, these domains are not necessary open for the public. If google wins, .dad, they don't have to give you a domain in that gTLD.
There were $256.9m of trades on FB stock ~14m49s before he announced the story on his timeline. Two trades of 4,287,969 shares.

What is likely to have happened here? Did an institutional investor get wind of the story early? If so, why did the share price jump up?
Also, I personally work better when I can give a bit of my brain something else to think about so it shuts up and I can get real work done. That's why I listen to music; and, that's why during my late nights in grad school, I played a movie over and over again in the background. "How to Train Your Dragon" was the preferred feature, by the way.
I'm pretty unco, I'd probably miss 50% of the time and I don't want to be cleaning up piss at 3 am.
I believe friendfeed ran off of a single machine for most of its life. A few years down the line, I think most people who have only used EC2/Heroku would be shocked at how much traffic a single recent Xeon 8+ core machine with 32+ gigs of RAM and RAIDed SSDs can handle and the price at which it does it. Before that, even a mid-tier VPS is probably a better option than EC2 for most.

Sure, EC2 is probably best for a startup that expects to double every week from a nontrivial starting point and has large machine resource needs per user (viral video startups, for example). The vast, vast majority of startups won't have anything that resembles that kind of growth graph, though, and thus shouldn't blindly follow what the Pinterests of the world do. It's a completely different type of demand. If they find out that they actually are going to have double digit daily organic growth percentages, then they can switch to EC2 before it gets out of hand, but otherwise, it's premature optimization.
Copying and pasting a CSS file is much worse than torrenting television shows. Can't you see the obvious difference?

Years ago, I met with a potential client who was really upset that a competitor had hacked them and "stolen" all of their image assets and that's why they hadn't launched their site yet. After pressing on, they told me that the files were stolen, and were therefore gone from their server. I decided to pass on that project.

In retrospect, I probably should have offered my services to "steal" them back.
They made it easier to do this. You can send a public link to any file anywhere in Dropbox now.
Memory and storage are always margin padders for a simple reason: the average user cares about the benefit provided, not the raw cost. There isn't a single OEM I can think of that doesn't do this. Heck -- go buy a server from Dell or HP. You want to see margin? There's some crazy fantastic margin.

The user looks at a storage upgrade as "I get twice as much for X". They don't break it out to $ per GB, and they don't start to compare to low volume wholesale (i.e. NewEgg) component prices.

Automobiles are very similar, especially the higher end you go. Though even for family sedans, the "cost" of a V6 over a four-cylinder in a family sedan isn't several thousand dollars. Even if you include upgrades to the transmission and the rest of the driveline, the raw cost doesn't come close. It's tasty front-end margin, plain and simple, and I can't think of many people who complain about the cost per additional horsepower. The cost to produce 19" wheels over 18" wheels on a Porsche Boxster isn't anywhere near the extra $1560 they charge you, but if you want stiffer sidewalls, it's what it's going to cost straight from Porsche. Trim levels? Trust me, a V12 sedan doesn't cost 50% more than a V8 sedan, regardless of interior upgrades. There's a lot of pure profit built into top-trim levels of models.
2012 Subaru Impreza 5-door
It doesn't make good business sense to encourage people to spend $100 on a battery for a laptop they don't sell anymore when you could spend $800-$2000 on a new laptop.

The real question is: Why should a company provide better tech for their old machines when that tech has to be custom built for that and a small line of similar machines.
the company that started the original App Store

I'm sure Sage Networks haven't registered .apple

http://trademarkem.com/sage-networks-appstore-trademark-appl...
Turn-around time has been really bad for me for two distinct problems with my MacBook. First, the LCD backlight went out, and the local Apple Store had to ship it to a service center, which resulted in a 4 day wait to get it back in my hands. Then I had several keys mysteriously stop working - they couldn't figure it out at the store, so it was another week waiting for it to come back.

Another upside for Apple with these ultra-portables is that AppleCare sales will probably increase significantly.
I'm having a hard time without sarcasm tags. The Web 2.0 was so vague a phrase that it had too many meanings and the end was meaningless. I doubt any new threads were woven due to the invention of that phrase.
The market for moonshine is niche at best :

"The number of jurisdictions which ban the sale of alcoholic beverages is steadily decreasing which means that many of the former consumers of moonshine are much nearer to a legal alcohol sales outlet than was formerly the case. Moonshine-like distilled beverages with names like Collier and McKeel White Dog,[27] Everclear, Virginia Lightning, Georgia Moon Corn Whiskey, Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine,[28] Platte Valley Corn Whiskey Cat Daddy and Junior Johnson's Midnight Moon are produced commercially and sold in liquor stores, typically packaged in a clay jug or glass Mason jar. As a result of these changes and aggressive law enforcement, moonshine production is far less widespread than it was formerly." [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine_by_country
Development Ninjas
> Does it matter if some crappy blog is at unicorns.blog instead of unicorns.blogspot.com?

Yes - it matters greatly! Domains are used to define a number of critical Internet policies. Cookie policies are one example where subdomain interactions can confuse even seasoned veterans.
You pointed out that productivity can't be measured (though that hasn't stopped you from invoking the concept). Something else that can't be measured? "Business value".

Let alone the "business value" of an individual programmer's commits.
Check out both sites side by side: http://th.isandth.at/#leftTarget=http%3A//hackermonthly.com/... (not great on mobile devices)
The citizens of Monaco are forbidden from gambling at the Monte Carlo casino; I could see Mexico legalising production and transaction of cocaine but keeping consumption strictly prohibited. For the United States, however, this would be putting lipstick on a pig.
Author of Happy here. I apologize, the link ended up on here too early -- I'm preparing to release & announce the first proper version some time this weekend.

To answer your question though, the way Happy works largely revolves around routing the request URL through a simple graph of controllers (instead of mapping URLs to classes, like most other frameworks do it). These controllers are essentially apps-within-apps; modular, testable, describing functionality, not data.

It's also a good Rack citizen, as each Happy controller class is also a fully functional Rack app.

Details some time this weekend.
In defence of the euro: an Austrian perspective
My statements were not about preventing people from breaking laws,
instead, they are about never knowing that you're breaking a law until
after you have broken it.

Even if a link is on/to a reputable site and ends with ".html", it could
still be a link to JPG image of kiddie porn. You've just broken the law,
even though you had no intention of breaking the law, and had no
intention of being in possession of kiddie porn.

(NOTE: Sending an image file when a HTML file is expected is possible by
manipulating the MIME type sent by the web server for the ".html"
extension to tell the browser it is a JPEG image. Of course, another way
to do it is redirection, since by default, most browsers follow most
forms of redirection.)

Even if you had an automated agent (web spider) program following links,
it is YOUR connection that is logged as accessing the image.

If the kiddie porn image was part of some sting operation being run by
law enforcement, then you're stuffed.

This issue of "not knowing what you're accessing" is one of the long
standing and underlying flaws in the design of the Internet, so you can
be certain it won't be fixed any time soon.
Was there something you read that indicated that what they did wasn't allowed?

No kidding, private entities bid on, to buy, new gTLDs. Did the author assume that they would pay for them and then have to offer them up as a public good?