skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That could work, but an original design goal was to avoid server dependencies or bottlenecks.

For instant display or the stepwise animation, the lag of a server roundtrip could be a problem; for some users, posting data to a remote service might introduce privacy concerns. (The regex-powertoy can be run completely locally.)
With a few exceptions, TLDs are not canonical in any real sense anymore. That ship sailed years ago when .org and .net were opened up to general registrations. And it continues to sail today: is bit.ly really based in Libya? No of course not. So who cares if Amazon.com the company secures .amazon the domain. In practical usage it's not that different from what they've done snapping up amazon domain names for years.
Ooh, hadn't thoughht of that. You must be talking about the table of contents, in which I use some quick JS to listen for clicks on the box to call a load actions with _self as the target. I didn't even think that would effect those who explicitly do new tabs.

(if you meant for ulterior purposes, no...I don't even explicitly load in jquery, hence the sloppy inline JS)
A Boeing 747 LCF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747_LCF can cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours and carry 180,530 kg.

3TB drives weigh ~1 lb = 180,530kg/1lb * 3Tbytes / 3.5 hours in seconds ~= 235TBytes/s which is rather close. Especially when you consider how long it takes to load those container ships and how limited the destinations are.

PS: As to pirates your 84 million drives at 150$ a piece would be worth ~12.6 billion dollars which might actually be a tempting target even if you can only get 10% of their actual value in ransom.

Edit: Even this is small next to MicroSD cards. ~64GB/gram = 29Tbytes/lb = 2,270Tbytes/second across the Atlantic for ~12.64 billion.
This is great! Looking forward to this being rolled out to everyone.
"We highlight them not for their gender, but because they are awesome by any kind of measure."

Just curious if you really mean gender, or if you actually mean sex.
Reading through his tweets, one really interested me:

> The major Record Labels thought Megabox is dead. Artists rejoice. It is coming and it will unchain you. http://instagr.am/p/MHNAsPMkep/

Just another piece of evidence that Megaupload doesn't want to hurt the artists; they intend to do quite the opposite.
> The problem with commenting about how horrifying it is is that it's not a unique observation and therefore not that interesting.

Fair enough. But again - this wasn't a judgement. Maybe I expected a quick vague reference to one of these obvious points.

> How do we do teach them? Not sure.

On one side kids will be kids. On the other hand, adults fail in similar ways, sometimes spectacularly - and then millions of people are allowed to die (Sorry for the dramatic delivery).

These situations have a certain 'smell' to them, which I think kids can identify. Maybe it's not as stinky as stealing, but there's definitely a fragrance.

It'll be great if we can have a red light blink in their heads at the point - an inner voice saying:

"I know what's going on. It's just as wrong as stealing. Option 1: stay away from the situation. Option 2 (better): fine a way to stop it."

How do we teach our kids that it's wrong to steal and lie? I'm guessing here: Train them to defer instant gratification in favor of a higher ground.

I hope I don't sound silly. I'm a young parent and Bob Dylan is playing in the background.
Great concept, LOVE the website design and typography.
Paul Buchheit's LiPo battery caught fire last night and burned up home office
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I wonder how big a fraction of all the harddisks in the world that would represent...
You ought to be able to google it, but it's a person assigned to assist the bus driver - mainly with keeping order among students - so that the driver can concentrate on driving. Reasonably common on American schoolbuses, depending on the district.
This is indeed shocking. I cannot recall a time in which I was subjected to using software which contained a bug. I sincerely hope this does not become a trend.
This is easily one of the most honest and true posts I've read about Valley culture in a long, long time.

Having been through this exact process, I can assure you that this is how it really works.
It froze up Chrome on my PC for a few seconds also.
So I liked this, like everything else Diego writes, but this graf doesn't ring true to me:

Joe and Wayne work on building something they know GooBook could acquire without looking stupid. Something they might be able to do in-house, except their most talented engineers are desperately working on ways to extract more money out of ads, or to reduce the costs of their gargantuan infrastructure. Some are stationed in Antarctica building a self-cooling datacenter; others are diverted from creative projects into the new 99.9999999999% uptime initiative: one second of downtime costs a million dollars. Forget that stupid 18% free-time web app project, and come help make some mon-ay. The quarterly report must look good. Shareholders demand it!

Working on self-cooling data centers sounds awesome to me, & also penguins. But more importantly: the 99.9999999999% uptime initiative that saves a million dollars for every second rescued sounds awesome to me. Developers are rarely so privileged as to work on problems that are simultaneously hard, well capitalized, and easily quantifiable.

"Mon-nay"? This paragraph reminds me painfully of how mouthy I was when I was 24 and had just had the company where I was an early employee be acquired by a BigCo.
Generally in the US any time there's a bus full of kids, there's an authority figure that's not a teacher in charge of discipline. Sometimes it's the driver, sometimes a separate monitor.

At least when I was in grade school 15-20 years ago those people were generally not well respected by students, as they couldn't mete out real consequences for misbehavior.
Well, if you like jQuery Mobile, Kendo Mobile is VERY similar, but in many ways much, much better. It looks and feels pretty native. It switches UI styles per operating system which is very cool. The best part of Kendo Mobile is that it is fast and much more bug free.

When I was building an app with jQuery Mobile, each time I added a feature it managed to add a bug. It was a huge pain. Kendo Mobile made it where I didn't have those kinds of bugs that I had with JQM.

I didn't use Sencha Touch because it is MVC with its own framework, and I had a bunch of existing KnockoutJS code that worked really well with Kendo Mobile, so I can't say much about Sencha Touch other than Sencha Touch seems fast and demos well, but is designed to look more like iOS.

If you have money to spend, Kendo Mobile is great and works great with PhoneGap/Cordova. If you don't want to spend the $200, check out Sencha Touch. Avoid jQuery Mobile like the plague. It's not ready for prime time.
link to funding campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein

at $273k now, just 1 hour after this post.
Software eating shoes
Facebook seems to have no problem crashing Chrome on my three machines.
While I applaud his motivation, what he's suggesting is an intrinsically unsound way to go about it.
A startup = a chemical reaction with extremely high activation energy. In such circumstances, the best thing you can do is get one or more catalysts. YC or any other VC/incubator is just a catalyst to lower your activation energy & let the chemical reaction happen sooner/faster. Without the catalyst, the reaction will most likely not happen, period. Whether you get a catalyst or not, you most definitely don't want inhibitors in your reaction. "Holed up in Philly for $650 a month working 14-hours a day" - that's a bigtime inhibitor right there. Why not spend $6500 in sv and work 8 hours a day - its a lot more sustainable, that $6500 comes out of some vc's pocket in exchange for equity, nobody's burnt out and everybody's happy. Let the capital markets work in your favor. Don't handicap yourself.
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Disturbingly accurate.

• Make a sufficiently shiny, yet imminently disposable product.

• Hoard employees (each one bumps your valuation by ~$1.5 million), be loud, get acquired.

• Kill product. (You never cared about it anyway -- it was just a vehicle for ego and attention. Now that you've got your $5 million, you don't need the validation of all those silly pawns/customers anymore.)
And this would seem to prove it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151109

A guy named Roth wrote a post, that got posted to HN, about pg's essay on how to disagree. pg responds. Husafan starts a dialog with pg. There's a response back, clearly continuing the dialog, saying "I felt like I gave that aspect of his post the reply it deserved", referring to "my essay", etc. but instead of being posted under pg's handle, the response is posted by nickb.

A little further down the thread, user ncart makes the connection:

holy sh*t!!! nickb = pg ????
Yup, RFC 1149: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
Extended by RFC 2549 to add QoS: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2549.txt

But the best thing is that this was actually implemented at least once: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
How to be more creative
Have you tried highlighting gift shop items in actual posts sometimes?
Also, $6m really isn't that much these days. Might get you a nice house in the Silly Valley and a few years of living expenses, but that's not "set for life" money if you're in your 20s.
I don't know that this is so much an explanation of why databases matter, so much as an assertion of faith that they do. While I would never deny the claim, you could substitute "morality" for database and it could be an excerpt from a sermon.
This is called "acceptable risk". If it would cost $3m to eliminate the risk and the damages would only total $1.5m, that would be an acceptable risk.
Another striking example is the failure of Fukushima I and II. Basically what happend was that they had a power failure (of the external line)! They thought that was somehow too unlikely to account for, which I really have trouble with understanding. Isn't it obvious that multiple systems can fail because of some unaccounted for event external event? One that affects both, on-site and external power? And in the Japanese case, the trigger was not even something you'd need much fantasy for, an earthquake. Japan is sitting directly on one of the biggest geo faults on earth, and they don't account for simultaneous power outage!

So, yes, many if not most people are very poor risk assessors.

Then again, this might be rather a capacity (or the lack thereof) of the organization within the risk is assessed. This is what the software engineering quip "Most problems are people problems" means, I think. In some environments it is hard to bring up the unlikely, catastrophic scenarions without being seen as overly pessimistic and somehow not enough subscribed to the success of the undertaking as a whole. So you assess risk success overly optimistic in order to further your career, not to assess risk accurately.
This seems like an unfair attack (edit: especially as below it seems it's not even accurate). As an example of what a company actually run by someone who advocates that philosophy looks like, take a look at BB&T, which avoided much of the subprime lending crisis. The bank refused to underwrite seemingly profitable mortgages that they thought might be harmful to customers (since property values couldn't go up forever), even though Countrywide, Bank of America, and others underwrote negative amortization mortgages. In the long run, the CEO understood he could be more profitable by entering into mutually beneficial deals.

“We knew that we would be setting up a lot of young people to get in trouble if we made negative amortization mortgages,” Allison said in a recent interview. “I’m never going to make a decision that I believe is bad for my clients, even if I can make a profit in the short-term, because it will always come back to haunt me.”

Sources:

On avoiding ARMs: http://www.aier.org/article/7594-restoring-trust-banking

On being run by an Objectivist and guiding the bank by Ayn Rand's philosophy: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/02bbt.html?pagewa...
Of course it's awesome to work on those problems. The point I was trying to make is that in this case the company has to choose between innovating for the long term, and solving urgent problems that mean lots of $ in the short term. Internal venture projects tend to be put on the back burner when your best engineers could save 50M by optimizing the hell out of your backend.
Are you serious? $6m sounds like more than enough to retire on at any point for most people.
Braintree is pretty great, I like working with their API and customer service (always ready and willing to talk on the phone, which is great).

Avoid Authorize.Net like the plague. Horrifically bad XML API that will make you want to claw your eyes out.
Adversely. Twitter being down causes a stir, which gets people talking even more. They quickly make up for the lost revenue as a result.

There is no such thing as bad publicity.
yes, every time we have a new item in the shop we highlight it.
I plan to use Zapier for a side project, but for alerting their fastest plan has a 5 minute lag (the free plan has 5 hours of lag)

(Disclaimer, I work for PagerDuty which totally does what you're talking about)
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6MM is way the fuck more than almost anyone pulls out of their startup, but that aside, his point was you take the 6MM to buy breathing room for your next startup, which "really" swings for the fences.
How do you get private property and contract enforcement without laws and law enforcement?
Do you expect Google search to have downtime?
If you want to live like a 20-something for the rest of your life, sure. Your cost structure changes as you get older and have things like houses, spouses, cars, and children.
I took that point; it's just the way you wrote it: derisively (sorry, that's just the most appropriate word; I'm not harumphing at you).
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I think your advice's spot on: 1. focus, 2. Avoid feature creep. Regarding control, I wanted to add what Ryan Carson's 2 cents regarding VC funding:

"I was against raising venture capital for a long time. I felt giving away some control of your company would be distracting. Now that we’ve raised $5m, I can say raising money with the right investor will really push you faster and harder as an entrepreneur. It feels like going from university sports to the pros. The pace is faster and everyone is more experienced. I’m so glad we’ve raised money and it’s taken me to the next level as a business owner."

Source: http://ryancarson.com/post/25580650719/7-dos-and-donts-for-f...
If you go to India, for example, where the IT companies are booming, those folks are growing all their talent from within. They’re doing it because they have to, but it’s not rocket science as to how you can do it

I don't think this is true - everything I've read about outsourcing companies is that they have a very high turnover of staff.
Hacker News is one of the few forums where being able to lock in a six-figure salary (100k USD) for 60 years isn't viewed as being set for life. The wonders of entrepreneurship and the cost of living in the Bay Area.
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Why would Java devs care about Node.js?

That's like taking several large steps backwards.
If new startups agreed that they wouldn't leave their users out to dry if they got acquired would you be more likely to trust them and use their service?
I am not sure Twitter needs a premium account. What it does need to solve is making it easy for first time users to find content from authoritative sources. The noise problem is far too big for Twitter to keep ignoring.
Possibly true. However, I'd argue that the quantum difference between student debt and a few million in the bank is higher in terms of utility than the one between $5M and billions. Most of your money problems are solved with a few million: you get to work on what you want, can take a year off whenever, etc. You can still die of pancreatic cancer, suffer an ugly divorce, etc.

That's a different post, though.
This is exactly why people consider the valley to be a huge bubble. This kind of "innovation" isn't sustainable at all.
That just not true. There is plenty to learn from a computing device of any type. The best thing I find to learn is that they are not endless gaming playing machines but you can create things on them.

The iPad allows for that
Do you have a house or kids? I do. The near-certainty that I could afford college, house payments, and a humane retirement would be an intense motivator for me. I'm not conservative by any means --- I work for a company I cofounded --- but I think it's easy to forget that adults like us live with a pretty fucking high cortisol load.
No worries, you make a fair point and I take no offense :)
I have an off-contract 3GS that's working fine as a bulky iPod touch for my kid. The older 2G and iPod Touch from 2008 (ie, 4 years ago) won't support iOS6.

However, you can buy WP7 phones right now that will not be able to run the latest OS when WP8 comes out. If I were selling these things (or Nokia), I'd be pretty frustrated about that.

Why pre-announce? Osbourne effect FTL.
Years ago, I belonged to a gifted homeschoolers list. It turns out a lot of gifted kids who get homeschooled are "problem kids". Very often, they are twice exceptional: both gifted and disabled in some way. It meant that this gifted homeschoolers list was one of the most positive, pro-active environments for getting effective help for a child with a serious disability. Lists aimed at providing support for a particular disability are often fairly negative environments where assumptions about how much you must suffer subtly keep real solutions from being discussed. Folks pursuing real solutions get a lot of flack if they dare speak up and many of them just quietly go away after a while.

I don't know what would create the same thing for women in tech, but I think if someone could find that, it would be a more effective and resilient means to get support to women in tech. It would need to be a project which just so happened to attract a high percentage of women without the name or stated goal having anything to do with gender and which also in no way excluded men.
HOLY IT'S A HACKER NEWS MIRACLE SOMEONE TELL PAUL!

:)
"You ought to be able to google it",
I know, but I figured there might be something specific to this case, so I thought I'd ask.

"but it's a person assigned to assist the bus driver"
Should she maybe not have been doing a better job of keeping the kids in line? Does she not have the power to stand up, tell them to shut up and pull the bus over? I'm not excusing their behaviour in the slightest, it just seems that she wasn't really performing the task she was hired to do.
If you have high expectations about the amount and 'quality' of your personal possessions, then sure. I'm sure most every one else can make due on that amount.

I think with wise spending and decent investments I could easily make that amount last my entire life and have quite a bit to give away at the end.
> Just another piece of evidence that Megaupload doesn't hurt the artists and actually intends to do the opposite.

I wouldn't want to be the one arguing that case.

Sure, some artists used Megaupload to share their own works, but these uploads were far outnumbered by their illegitimate counterparts.
How I got a 15% discount at the Apple online store from your own home.
$6MM invested with a 6% return provides a $360k pa lifestyle just living off the interest. That seems like quite enough for houses, spouses (well—maybe spouse; alimony could eat into that quite a bit), cars, and children.
But what makes it not sustainable? As long as there exist a few GooBooks, won't acquisitions continue to be sought?
Here's what I'd suggest.

Find an old keyboard, one you don't mind taking some abuse. Plug it in to a computer somewhere, put it in a 80x25 text mode where the letters are nice and big.

Then log in and let them bash at it randomly to their heart's desire. They'll be able to make lights on the keyboard turn on and off, and see the effect on the screen of what they do on the keyboard. It might only last a few minutes at first, and that's fine.

Once they can recognize letters pretty reliably, they could start with some simple CLI things. At almost 3, Oliver can log himself in, but I usually have to point to each letter in his username before he hits it. He knows his letters, but not his QWERTY, yet. He also has some issues with repeating letters. But once he's logged in, it's mostly random mashing at the keyboard for him yet too. I bet it won't be for long though.

As to age, each child is different. Follow their cues. If they happily sit on your lap for 15 minutes, seriously studying, or laughing at the hilarious error messages they make, then it's time. Or if they start wanting to use your computer. If they run off after 30 seconds, try again in a month or two.
im tired of these "1mo old discover the theory of relativity" articles and it the best thing evar.
can't we actually evolve a little bit?
I think the key point was diverted from. The employees aren't doing what they want anymore, so some stable "we can always get acquihired by google again when we fail" startup is attractive. As employee 3, they will walk away with a huge 0.5% of the exit while the founders walk away with 35% each.

how mouthy I was when I was 24

Welcome to The Bay Area: where self worth is measured by frat-like posturing and manipulation to level up at any cost.
Google I/O vet Will Smidlein is 15 years old
"Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work"

One of the major assumptions of modern day work - especially working for a start-up - is the assumption that a worker has a 8, 10, or 12+ hour block open every day to focus on work. We need to change this assumption and empower workers to set their own schedules and gauge them by performance and work accomplished - not by number of hours spent in the office or slinging code in front of a computer.
How about this? tap for <C-o>, hold for <Esc>
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Yeah, but only until the GooBooks realize that they are just paying a huge premium for acquiring talent (and a worthless product).
Agree that the noise problem has gotten out of control. Timeline with more than 150 people in it is chaos. Twitter offers only one way to organize your timeline, chronological order. Needs some way to organize.
The last version of Windows I used seriously was 3.1.

Last winter, I suddenly had to fix problems in Windows Server 2008. I may have been a bit slow, but yes, I can fix an OS I've never used.

If you have a good knowledge base, and the experience to provide a good intuition, you can figure them out.

I would, incidentally, consider Debian to be a modern OS, and a CLI to be a modern UI. If they can string together commands in bash, I'm sure they'll be just fine with Windows.
You don't think "take lots of photos" is good advice? I'm curious how you would recommend people improve their skill in general.
> then stick to your guns and you'll see zero progress, but your ideals will still be intact.

That would require some self deception. Those who have an ideal, and know at the same time that sticking to their guns wouldn't work, shouldn't stick to their guns. Unless of course they only want to signal an ideal, which I concede is easier than actually trying achieve it.
Can I come over to play as well - that is a great collection of hardware that you have.
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Google is rolling out bug reporting to the Chrome Store (http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/20/google-separates-app-review...). I can't wait for Google to release it to the Play Store too.
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