skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If ICANN has the final say, they don't need to sue them then, do they?

Sue was a misnomer. The point being amazon wouldn't have ultimate control. They could lose it.

>The TLD denotes some sort of category. Giving North Korea control over .kp is fine because .kp represents North Korea. Giving Amazon.com control over .books is not fine because .books does not represent Amazon.com, nor is Amazon.com representative of the concept of books. If they were giving .books to the American Library Association, I wouldn't have a problem with it.

Yes, I just disagree with it. This is a slippery slope on a slippery slope argument.

Amazon is more representing of books on the whole that the US Goverment represent all of .gov(ernment) and ICANN represent all com(panies).

In order for your argument to hold water, you would need to show that having a .book domain is inherently valuable. If it isn't then it is of zero consequence. Google doesn't care that there isn't a google.kp becuase it doesn't matter. If we are to assume that we are several years in the future, amazon has been given control over .book, and they are now basically required socially for any kind of book tour/signing/press junket etc, /and/ if amazon starts turning people away who don't give them good deals, then sure, i'll be standing right beside you. And ICANN would most likely react with a request to change behavior from amazon, or they would take it away and manage it themselves.

But I can practically guarantee that

a. .books won't be that popular

b. amazon won't prevent a single author from getting a .book (they would just be turning away possible sources of income)

In the end, none of this will really matter.
An "idea guy" who also handles marketing and sales shouldn't be considered just an "idea guy".
I live in the burbs too, so I know the feeling. (Actually moving closer to the city in a week).

There are loads of startup related happenings regularly now. I produce some myself. :)

Shoot me an email (tim ATatAT entrepreneursunpluggd DOTdotDOT com) and I'd be happy to give you some suggestions.
Sure, servers have an extremely limited ecosystem of apps/services, you can get a handle on installation and support, even hardware. But try to corral a bunch of developers or home users. The interoperability matrix explodes.

Compare your 'millions' with the what, half a billion Windows machines, and you make the point very well.
Aren't those simple wordpress plugins giving relevant suggestion from the database? Not sure if they allow us to customize those messages.
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As a user it doesn't leave me in the dark. I look at the store 'shelf' and select what I want. I'm about as interested in the behind the scenes of the App Store as I would be about how my local grocery store shelves are stocked. I'm sure it's fascinating I just don't care very much. If they don't have exactly the type of soup I am looking for I'll probably just get a slightly different type of soup. At worst maybe I would have to consider shopping at a different store instead. If they explained to me that they decided not to carry this brand of soup because sometimes the can explodes and shoots metal shards in your face I would I actually appreciate their choice to stop selling it. I don't need soup cans exploding in my face and I don't really have time to keep up with all the details of how soup cans are made, what the different types are, which types of cans are the most reliable/safe, etc. I'm fine with the grocery store handling that for me.
Cheating Goes High-Tech
Play Android Games and Apps On PC
Does your home page Call To Action pass this simple test?
>When my cat plays with reflected lights dancing on the floor, she may well be in violation of somebody's patent.

Maybe this one? http://www.google.com/patents/US5443036
Facebook social scientists are hunting for insights about human behavior
Smaller networks promoting tight networks I can agree with, but I'm always skeptical of throwing out judgements on "work ethic" based on what part of the country a person is from.
captchas are very annoying. it is surprising that they have lasted this long. what would be the best alternatives?
Why does it matter to you why this question matters to me?
Each Neo4j node stores all of the data, and it doesn't scale write horizontally well.

OrientDB tries to scale writes (I'll be testing this in a few months), but still stores all of the data everywhere.

This looks like it shards the data automagically. If it works well, I might be able to bang on it a bit, but I'm guessing that it gives shit performance for complex graph questions.
In a couple of ways -

1. WebEngage notifications can be "targeted" - it means you can choose to pop the message only to visitors meeting certain criteria. E.g. only to visitors coming from Google search, only to visitors spending 30 seconds on pricing page etc.

2. Smart notifications will automatically fetch updates from your Twitter/Blog/FB etc and create a notification out of it.

3. WebEngage notifications will have a definite call-to-action and the analytics will be focused on proving you a lot of BI around clickthrough rates.
I was just in Vegas...how about a 100kt nuclear weapon for urban renewal?
launching page looks really good, when nessfile starts?
Seriously?! My fellow nerds drive me insane sometimes with their ridiculous focus on details that mean absolutely nothing. Arrrrrgh.
I bet the cordcutters subreddit encounters this question quite a bit: http://www.reddit.com/r/cordcutters

You also might try /r/gadgets for the same reason. I am certain there are probably a fair number of geeks that hang out on HN, but I suspect there is more of a consumer friendly atmosphere (especially about purchasing decisions) on reddit.
The major problem with this scheme is that if I type it "wrong", I have no conscious way of recalling how to type it correctly. In fact, my natural cadence will likely be thrown off even more by the stress of not being able to log in. I would quite literally have to walk away from the computer, do something relaxing for a few hours, and then walk back hoping that I type naturally again.
Yes, there is one. We'll build smart notifications on top of the API. Once we gain some confidence using our own API, we'll make it publicly available.
The real problem is that Unix commands produce flat text output without any information about how to parse that text back into structured data. Any user who wants the structured version of the data has to parse it themselves, but these parsers are ad hoc and incomplete by their very nature.

People praise perl, sed, awk, cut, etc. for being good at text processing. But the only reason they need these text-processing tools for pipelines is because they are trying to recover structure from the data that was already present before the previous stage of the pipeline threw that structure away by dumping it to flat text!

Text is obviously a convenient way for humans to view a program's output, so clearly it's useful that all Unix programs (ls, ps, etc) can dump their output as text. But there's no need to dump to text until the output is being sent to a human. If you're piping "ls | grep" there is no reason for "ls" to dump to text and "grep" to parse it back from text, especially since "grep" doesn't know anything about the format of ls's output. It would be way more convenient if you could say something like:

ls | grep 'file.size > 1M'

But the only way to do this today is to parse ls's output first. There would be no reason for this if ls could send structured data to grep.

What I'm describing is similar to Monad, Microsoft's next-gen shell. AIUI it can send .NET objects between processes instead of flat text. But IMO it's too imposing to mandate a single object representation like .NET objects.

I'm experimenting with the idea of letting people specify the output of command-line utilities as a Protocol Buffer schema, for example:

message DirectoryEntry {
optional uint64 inode = 1;
optional string name = 2;
optional uint64 size = 3;
// etc.
}

I think this could be a compelling way of making the next generation of usability in command-line pipelines, by saving people from having to write ad-hoc parsers all the time.
It doesn't even have release notes yet. Can't be that big a change from 4.7.0.
Yeah, for the blog use-case you can call us similar. But yes, we will let you tweak the snippet (title, description etc) for the notification once generated.
The late Michael Crichton wrote an Apple II program in the mid 80's using intra-letter timings to check if the person typing a password in was the person who set it. Worked pretty well; better if improved to sample multiple times, use long phrases, and adjust tolerance.
One side of this story I can't figure out is how wildly bad Apple's PR has been. They refused to comment for this story. Seriously? I can understand how this happened (it's just an app, there's a plausible lawsuit, pull it). But once that little girls face went up... ?

Apple is in no danger here. They can just say "On further review, the plaintiff's case is not as strong as we thought; we'll wait for the courts to decide and eagerly await their decision.". But there's nothing from them at all. They didn't put the app back up, they didn't issue a statement. They wouldn't even talk to Ars about this story. What's going on in there? This is a PR disaster.

So... what would Steve have done?
Was it the XHack hackathon?
There are a bunch of users like this on HN. Look at any "ITWorld" story that hits HN; odds are, it's been submitted by a single-purpose account that submits only stories from ITWorld. Torrentfreak has had similar users.
Titan exposes graph data over a machine cluster. It is an OLTP system that allows you to do local neighborhood graph traversals in sub-second time. For OLAP processing (e.g. global graph algorithms), Aurelius will be releasing two projects named Faunus and Fulgora in the coming months. These provide Hadoop connectivity and compressed in-memory representations of "graph slices." We will be publishing our talk slides tonight that discuss this eco-system of graph technologies. See http://titanbiggraphdata.eventbrite.com/
And it differs quite a bit based on _what_ I am typing, too. Plus the tactivity(?) of the keyboard factors in, because as soon as I have feedback that the key was registered, I am on to the next one.
Java and Flash are notoriously problematic (not to mention insecure) on 32-bits too.
Thinking Cities, Networked Society
Ide - vim Tutorials - Stack Overflow
Third Time's The Charm (Gaston Labs)
I'm just sick of wolfram. <--- Period.
Computer family tree and chronology 1938-1988
Nokia to cut 10k jobs
Internet Explorer 7 Tax
I use to live in Lincoln before moving to San Francisco..

What sorts of startup resources are you seeing that you feel will propel Lincoln forward?

I can think of a handful of "startups" or technology based companies in Lincoln; Hudl, Penlink, Nanonation, i2rd, ...

While it's great to have these companies, I would contend that the number of startups Lincoln has is probably in line with the rest of the country and nothing special. The world is changing; if the city is inviting to new businesses you _should_ see more software type businesses crop up.

I just don't see Lincoln as anything special.
People switching from buying x86 laptops or desktops switching to buying tablets instead.

If the iPad/Android/Windows 8 tablet doesn't have an Intel processor in it then that's money lost for Intel.
http://hackaday.com/2009/10/09/safelock-biometric-typing-sec...

I experimented with this a couple of years ago when I saw that video, by implementing an ajaxy authentication system that timed keystrokes. Ignoring the fact that you could probably keylog the heck out of it, I found that a single user's typing patterns varied substantially, depending on typing skill, input device, and so on. Oh, well.
Half-life of plutonium-238 is 87.7 years so there should be approximately half of the original power left after that time. Nowadays the power of the device is about 75 % of original.
That was the originally stated intention. iOS 1 didn't have an app market. Everything was supposed to be written in HTML5+JS and accessed via a browser.
Your first thought is correct. This fails. Trivially.

If you got through the problem of people's keystroke speed varying with local factors, you'd wind-up with a situation where not only is your "password" the same on every site, even sites you visited without logging into could "sniff" your "password".

0-factor "identification"!
Titan currently does not have "edge indexing" and thus can not implement Blueprints' GraphSail interface [https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki/Sail-Ouplementa...]. If it did implement GraphSail, then SPARQL would be supported via the Sail SPARQL engine.
This. I didn't know what Olark was until I clicked on the link here, then I saw that all-too-familiar box that I try to avoid out of the corner of my eye. It's great that people are getting real feedback and having conversations with their customers, but in my experience, it doesn't distinguish itself from "Hi! Click here to talk to a REAL LIVE person!" chat windows that you see on so many ecommerce sites that either direct you to a new page entirely, bounce up and down continuously or create a modal after a few seconds of surfing to remind me that it is there.
Those are guidelines, not rules, and they're rather ambiguous in many places.
definitely checking this out. used their connected photo picker sdk and it worked flawlessly
Although I understand what you're saying, it sounded to me as if the person has direct experience with IE7 not working with "simple" layouts. In fact, it reads as if the person is saying that IE7 just doesn't work at all despite the design and layout. I'm curious as to what that means because based on my experience simple layouts are not much of an issue for IE7 and complex ones are not that bad. The claim that it "just doesn't work" requires further explanation regardless of the person's experience.
It's sometimes said that if you aren't embarrassed by your product at launch then you've waited too long. It's important to get early feedback, and build on early reactions and responses.

Likewise, by making ideas like this, along with an early investigation, perhaps someone can build on it, or throw out another idea, and perhaps people can work together to find a good solution to the mess that is current user identification.

Or would you rather people beavered away in secret, never sharing ideas, never sharing their results, and never working together?
Alex Payne giving away his MacBook Pro to a motivated young developer
Well, so you are able to create notifications from your twitter/fb/linkedin etc. Few use-cases are well discussed in the post and I am sure their are many more.
Also, it mentions "We’ll be adding complete customization capabilities (colors, targeting etc) to Notification." So there is going to be a layer of targeting. (see this http://webengage.com/features/survey-and-lead-generation | first para talks about targeting)
Analytics around notification displays, clicks etc are going to be very insightful, I am sure.
Congrats on the release, Marko!
Will Windows 7 be the new XP?
If you sync your MacOS machine to the equivalent Google services (Calendar, Mail, Contacts, Music, Photos), you can then sync your Android to the same things. This is what I do, and have been super happy with the arrangement.

Though, you are trading one behemoth for another. You could, of course, substitute some of the pieces of this with your own, or other services without a hitch.
I really love this. It's a ton of fun to play with. Seriously considering it on my next project.
Apparently I'm already using this for something slightly different than the intended purpose and loving it.

This may be an excellent tool for me to send myself reminders for tasks I'm doing later in the day. I often write a task list in one moment, then forget it in the midst of the day's work. It's the use of the "Call yourself after" section being a timer, rather than a clock that makes that easy to think about.

I've currently got it set to remind me to leave work on time for an evening appointment.
Switch to MongoDB and you'll start loving MySQL.
Also, Aurelius will be posting a blog post in ~2 weeks where we will be simulating Twitter. We replay Twitter from day 1 to June 2009 and slam it with ~10,000 concurrent users writing/reading follows relationships, tweets, stream constructions -- ultimately growing (what we think will be) a 3 billion edge graph when the simulation is complete.
You mean CAP theorem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem I imagine it is either the A or the P that gets to be the victim, but I'm not sure which in this case.
I think that really depends on your goals. If your goal is to bash out a web application and get a startup off the ground, you ought to learn something that is tailored to doing that. Ruby on Rails and Django(Python) aren't bad choices. I'd avoid PHP, but that is my opinion and you'll find lots of people who disagree. Research your options and learn something that makes sense to you and will enable you to bring other people on later.

If you want to launch a career as a systems programmer, which is a fundamentally different goal, then yes, you should learn C, even if you end up using other things.
You are incorrect. Casino gambling is entirely state regulated, there is no Federal law controlling it. More and more of them are allowing it because its an easy way to boost their tax revenues without raising income and property taxes.

The Mississippi gulf coast has had casino gambling since the 1990's when it was authorized by the state, http://www.worldcasinodirectory.com/mississippi.

Colorado voters legalized casino gambling in BlackHawk in the 1990's as well, http://www.blackhawkcolorado.com.

Detroit legalized gambling in the 1990's, and a number of state legalized it on riverboats on the Mississipi in the 90's as well.

The Federal laws on the subjects mostly apply to interstate gambling enterprises which is where they do have jurisdiction, in particular sports betting and the 2006 law which outlawed online gambling primarily by preventing banks from transferring funds to and from online gambling sites.
Doesn't look too intrusive, and may even help them keep a decent balance. I don't think anybody expected them to look like typical glasses.
I'm not surprised. They need somewhere to put the battery. Video processing is not a low-power activity.

No, actually, I am surprised. I figured there would be a thin cord down to something about the size of a cigarette pack on your belt or in your pocket.
So, the distinction is self-serving and intellectually dishonest rationalization? Not exactly surprising.
Yes, I believe this is pretty much standard practice. Keeps Google from getting confused by duplicate content and sends all the juice from links to one url rather than two.
He would have waited for the drama to mostly blow over, and then, if they made a decision to put a stake in the ground over the story, would have written a plain-English 3 paragraph letter published on their website about what Apple's strategy moving forward regarding the issue would be.

Most of the time, though, Apple just doesn't get involved in stuff like this. What's in it for them? It's not actually a PR disaster for Apple; if anything, from a coldly calculated perspective, this is good PR for Apple.
Children with high IQ more likely to do drugs as adults
They won't go before, "in a bold move to save the company", its most valuable IP is sold to their strategic partner Microsoft.

Who will then promptly proceed to troll each and every Android phone manufacturer to either have a WP7 lineup or pay an even hefty patent ext^H^H^Hlicensing fee.
I found that at previous PyCon US that I attended, Macbooks made up about 75-80% of the laptops. I imagine its pretty similar at Rails conferences.
Opera 12 arrives with webcam APIs and experimental WebGL support
Check out Technori.com Once a month they have a showcase for startups. I know www.nextdoorchi.com has startup gatherings once per week.
which I assume Disqus has done thoroughly

And your assumption is based on what?

Just by looking at the result it's obvious they haven't.

That's not a UX study

Exactly. It's the common sense that you would possess if you had been involved with any similar project of significant size. And I'll proceed to criticize obvious violations of well established common sense without performing studies on other peoples sites, thank you very much.

"the user" doesn't care about the Reactions, Community, or star buttons

Yes, it's still common sense. And quoting what I said does still not make a counter-argument. If the user cares about "Reactions" then where did all those useful pingback-listings go that used to trail every blog post? If he cares about detached community-silos then why can't even Apple make one work? And when was the last time you've seen a useful star-rating on a comment-thread outside an established forum?

That's you trying to spin your personal opinion as fact.

My spin must be pretty good then since you still haven't even tried to dispute any of my claims or references. Oh wait, actually you have once. Turned out not so well...
I have a feeling that Apple's PR strategy of 'never respond' came from Steve Jobs. It's fairly typical for Apple to refuse to comment on most stories.
OpenCount, the public resource tracking system
David Wilcock explains the Meaning behind "End Of Time"
They look much bigger than the previous pictures that I have seen. Wouldn't all that weight pushing down on the ear be uncomfortable after a few hours?
Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to write a little function (perl, python, whatever) to act as a "visitor" to hold this state, then just pass it little closures (maybe a hash/map?) to evaluate the regexs and pass the match into a code block?

Something like (perl):

&visit_matches(

{ ' +' => sub { $x += length( $1); },

'#+' => sub { print $1, ' at ' $y, ',', $x'; $x += length( $1); },

'\n' => sub { $y++; }

});

(not an exact match to the pseudo-awk, but enough to get the idea)
I'm the OP. So here's the deal... I read The Atlantic daily. I actually wrote a script to check their feed and score the stories via the sharedcount API and email me the best-of-the-best.

If something is interesting to me and I believe it would be useful to other startup hackers like me, I submit it. It's that simple.

If there's something to be gained from doing this (aside from hopefully spurring an interesting discussion on HN), I'm not smart enough to figure out what it is.

The people who are anti The Atlantic should re-read the posting guidelines which describe as on-topic, "Anything that good hackers would find interesting."

Interested in behavioral economics? Government policy that affects startups? Human psychology that we should accommodate in our apps? Technology trends? Yeah, I'm sorry to say but The Atlantic, Salon, Wired, etc. are some of the best at covering that stuff.

If this content is no longer welcome on HN, we need to get a LOT more precise about the Guidelines.
Network Caching on iOS using HTTP Cache Headers
You sir, have made my morning(I mean afternoon).

Thanks!
s/I may be pragmatic/It may be pragmatic/
I've called them, and they've called me several times relating to various different issues.

They've always been very pleasant and happy to help.
What about source code? Like Pike, I think that it's a little bit nonsensical that

foo(shortArg1, shortarg2, shortArg3);

is easy to find, but

foo(longArg1,
methodCall().stuff(),
evenMoreComplicatedStuff);

is much more difficult to grep for.
Flying robots designed to crash, recover
Why Apple and Siri will be a hit in the car cockpit
Other very big distinction: the unauthorized user of the copyrighted work is making money out of it.

Most "internet vigilantes" support free exchange of copyrighted works between individuals, not companies taking your stuff and making money with it.