skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After looking at ten other transactional email service providers, I picked Mandrill for the Rails Prelaunch Signup example app built for the RailsApps project. The benefits are the generous free plan, the easy integration with Rails, and the integration with MailChimp. So far, so good, though a few users were confused when they tried to use the same API keys for MailChimp and Mandrill. If you want to see how to set up Rails with Mandrill (and MailChimp), see the Rails Prelaunch Signup example app: http://railsapps.github.com/rails-prelaunch-signup/.
A Brief History of Spreadsheets [2004]
Vungle launches $1m fund to help devs monetize their mobile apps
My breakthrough in being comfortable with public speaking came from a quote:

"...though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is inaccurate, it is at least _definitively_ inaccurate." - Douglas Adams

If I am to make a mistake while presenting, then by gum I'm going to make that mistake with the most confidence and gusto I can muster. I will own up to being wrong, I will turn that into a "teaching moment" for the audience, I will plow forward confident in the spirit of Kipling's "If" knowing that while I may have screwed up I did so in a good-faith effort at taking the lead and making things happen for an audience that chose to follow. If I am wrong, then I shall be definitively wrong!

That's pretty good for an awkward introvert.
Quite awhile ago Flash started "deleting" the file in /tmp as soon as it got the file handle. You can still get the file handle using 'lsof' while the video is playing. It would be easier to just use a tool like youtube-dl or clive (or a browser extension) to grab the videos, though.
Gondor expands its Django hosting to any Python WSGI app
I don't think of it as consolidation... I think of it sorta in the way Joel describes consumer routers in his last post http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-st.... There's a lot I'm working out in my head about this, so let me spit out some points for you to consider:

- the increasing move to *aaS (look at OnLive, for example)

- the reports that MS wants to charge >$60 for Windows RT licenses even on <$500 devices

- the difficulty companies like Google and MS have competing toe to toe with Apple's vertically integrated devices

- the existence of bloatware.
Whoops, I tend to assume a feature on TC indicates a recentish launch.
It would be great to read some war stories about small companies which started with a "just ship it" mentality and ended up adopting these practices. Designing with the practices in mind would be the best approach, but that's a lot of extra design goals, and likely to slow development down.
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Try here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=184564
It's not so much to compete with anyone, we just happen to have 1000s of game developers using our platform and thought it would be a nice supplement.
Can start-ups submit provisional patents via source code or videos?
What happens when you ask people to pick the lowest unique prime number.
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No, but it can remove a lot of load, which gives more horses for the realtime stuff. And when you factor in webGL, for shifting load to the graphics hardware, then there is a hell of a lot that can be done in the browser.
I've edited out that statement. It was a gross oversimplification and I should have gone into the difference between a hash and an encryption scheme and the fact the password is the key in this case.
"people that know how to program know that programming is not about typing words on a screen"

Agree.
While I am not a programmer, I can certainly do enough to have made money with programs that I have written that have allowed me to achieve some goal that I had. Starting with editing shell scripts with ed and awk (a crude estimating system). To me it's fun. What can I do to automate something? How can I tweak this or that? I'm sure this is quite common. Fun. You want to do it. You like doing it. It's not work.

I've been doing this for quite some time now and found it fun right from the start and never get bored and it's always a challenge.

The bottom line though with all my learning has been making mistakes and figuring things out. In order to do this you need to actually make something and use it in order to think and come up with ideas on how to make it better and to solve the problems you run into.
Honestly? Probably because they can't trust their hardware manufacturers on quality, they can't innovate as fast as they want to with third party manufacturers, and Steve Jobs taught them that hardware matters (more than well engineered mice).
> may have even tempted Steve Jobs.

[citation needed]
The ITU isn't that obscure, it is the main trans-national regulatory body for telecommunications. If you've ever made a phone call across a national border the ITU is the body that set the technical standards that made that call possible.

Having the ITU be the responsible party for resolving cross-border disputes over internet policy isn't entirely crazy. However I wouldn't expect too much of it one way or the other; by their very nature trans-national governance entities are mostly advisory; and make a convenient stalking horse for multiple national agendas.
Ah you're right - I misunderstood the parent's comment
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Coal and nuclear power are both dangerous, just in different ways. And there are incidents that don't get much international coverage, but still have a lasting impact. For example there has been a small fire at a German nuclear plant in 1986. Officials say no radioactivity was released. But still, 20 years after the event, cases of childhood leukemia are three times more prevalent in the surrounding area than normal. How many children died because of this small accident? How many other adverse effects exist that we can't see or link to nuclear power?
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We don't charge anything yet although we intended to, we're already a widely used SaaS. That's interesting that SO only gets a few posts a week, we might not be large enough to pull this off yet.
I usually don't go for articles like this, but I am a sucker for lists of good sites.

There are a few the author suggests. Lean Domain Search is one we use constantly when developing new marketing ideas in our vertical. While we don't use it for sites, it is dynamite for offering the creative spark when discussing things with the marketing team.

There are a couple of things I am still looking for, though:

1) A chrome extension that lets you highlight a domain name, right click and see the whois info. All the ones I've looked at are either full of extras I don't need or require extra steps.
2) Domain management service. Something that lets you manage your domains from one site across registrars.
Kernel upgrades on machines with nVidia GPUs and binary drivers are a pain because the Linux kernel developers have chosen to not provide a stable binary interface, and in some cases, have deliberately broken interfaces by changing them to "GPL-only".

Meanwhile, Windows, Solaris, and FreeBSD users generally have no problems between kernel updates.
You never taped a song off the radio?
Yes, "If you build it, they will come" works.

But:

"If they come, especially if 450,000 users come in six months, you will get $10 million dollars. Then you will build it."

This could also work ;)
my 'build stuff with javascript' to-do list grows even further.

now...to find some time.
Some of this sounds like useful info, not just defensive justification or whining. Anyone considering using AirBnB should be seeking out such articles and getting a clue before they risk similar repercussions.

Makes me wonder, though, if couchsurfing will see similar fallout at some point.
"Talks should always be reactionary rather than anticipatory: they’re going to come off as more natural, more interesting, and above all, more valuable."

I think that's not true at all. There is room for both. I would say do not mix them. Talks can either share what's been done or share what can be from a visionary perspective.
You're just making things up, stop it. DRI2 and KMS are no more "linux kernel" things than "X" things; all you have to do is check the domain hosting the specs. These are well established, well-supported APIs that have been very well received in the Linux world. And yet NVIDIA wants nothing to do with either, for silly internal reasons with poor justification.

(FreeBSD has commited to support for both, btw).
Fellow web developers, I can tell you from experience that you must edit this list before deploying it in an application:

http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/cou...

My understanding is that we have the UN to thank:

http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/...
Street Fighter 2? :)
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Well, we were kids back then, and I think they took it as one of the risks involved in teaching programming. They surely threatened him, but they just wanted us to stop. So, as we knew that if we kept on infecting the pcs, they would punish my friend, we had to stop. But at least we kept some of our benefits (internet access, etc)
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Why are they singling out Tech people? You ever met a salesperson or a CEO?
Why ‪sharding‬ isn't the same as a parallel ‪database‬
They have two keyboards available for the Surface. See the "full laptop-style keyboard" from their main marketing site:

https://www.microsoft.com/global/surface/en/us/publishingima...
Nice write up. I also made a dead-simple jQuery Mobile + Firebase app and blogged about it last week, if anyone is interested: http://blog.codiqa.com/2012/06/opencount-civic-app-with-codi...
I just went from the open source Nouveau drivers to the closed source one a few days ago.

My CPU was literally running hotter from the radiated heat from the GPU due to the driver not doing something right.

Things seem to be cooler with the official driver. Anybody else seeing this?

Linus claims to be pragmatic. So I'm a little surprised he went off like this on Nvidia on a point of idealogical purity. It's actually not clear to me what his complaint against Nvidia not publishing their GPU specs is. Nvidia has pretty consistently updated their drivers, so personally I don't care that they're not open source.
Intel releases Linux support for every new graphics chipset they build, before the hardware ships. That seems about as close to "built for Linux" as you can get.
Ask HN: What to do if VC doesn't show
Had a call scheduled with a VC (I was calling him). He didn't pick up, I left a message. Followed up 10 minutes after with an email asking if we were still on. No answer. What do you advise?
Using Sublime Text 2 (OS X) for git commit messages
A quick hack to make Sublime Text 2 the default commit message editor for git.
I have refused to use Nvidia products for years even on any Windows machines; because of their policy towards Linux. Wish more people who cared about Linux would vote with their wallets.

What gets me about Linus' response though is that he's constantly labeling free software advocates as "religious" nuts. Nvidia's stance seems consistent with a certain pragmatism that I'd have thought he was fine with. He's had no aversion to using closed source proprietary software when it suited his purposes (eg. Bitkeeper) But now he's upset that Nvidia don't want to play ball?

Having said that it's nice to see him make such a strong statement that I wholeheartedly agree with, just wish it hadn't been so long in coming.
Wikileaks' Julian Assange Seeks Political Asylum in Ecuador's UK Embassy
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Because there's a hiring crunch with technical people, and because it's Forbes, who is never going to imply money people could be incompetent.
I've been using MightyText in beta for months. It doesn't resemble iMessage in any way, and it's not supposed to. I have no idea where the headline came from. It's not an IM service. It is, simply, an app for sending and receiving text messages through your phone from a PC. So if you're at a computer and you receive a text, or you want to text someone, instead of taking your phone out of your pocket and using the little screen and the little keyboard, you do it right on the computer. Simple, useful, end of story.
The Central Limit Theorem Makes Random Testing Hard
Oh, not that binary API stability flamewar again :) It is what it is - Nvidia doesn't play well with it is the problem - others do it well.
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It's not "iMessage for Android users" in any way. The headline is nonsense. If your browser is closed or your PC is shut down, MightyText does nothing for you. The browser interface is the interface.
It could. But I think the addition of money into the scenario is what makes it such a hot issue with landlords.
Steven Wright's stage presence should be a github repo.
Well, if using deceptive graphs aren't very convincing (see all of the results of his article). Perhaps his criticism of Germany, Estonia, and his writings on the stimulus actions by the USA which turned out to be wrong would do it.
If only lambda's allowed statements :(.

>>>mymap = [
lambda args: raise IndexError,
lambda args: (0, args[0], 1),
lambda args: (args[0], args[1], 1),
lambda args: args,
]

That aside, this approach would be much slower too.
Sincerely, correct me if I am wrong:

This message I am about to post may travel through China before arriving at its destination, which may or not be back in the US.

If this message goes from Point A (US) to Point B (China) to Point C (US) it is not purely domestic traffic.

At Point C, where it enters the US, it should be possible to see that it came from China. It can be claimed then, that it is indeed not purely domestic traffic.

If this is not correct, please forgive me.
Sounds like you know a lot more about it than me, and certainly makes sense - I was at an esports tournament (so would likely follow the rules of sports events), the 2002 World Cyber Games Grand Final. We weren't given any background, just a list of words not to use on air.
Admittedly I slipped an "always" in there when I shouldn't have; I agree that anticipatory talks can be great, too.

Let's put it this way, though: for a beginning or first-time speaker, I'll maintain that talks should be reactionary. There are more than enough other things to worry about going into your first talk that it's really comforting to talk about your past experiences than try to prepare a new project or a "what-if" for an arbitrary conference date. That's more the target market I meant with that (admittedly broad) statement.
Congrats!

I have to pry...what is the most useful thing you've been able to do with what you've learned so far? I've taught Ruby to beginners and though it hate the configuration process, at least I can show how to do useful things pretty quickly, like writing a loop to pull down a set of webpages. I want to teach JS to beginners but can't think of useful things to do...there are neat things, of course (such as JQuery animations)...but I'm looking for practical tasks.
Congrats to Codecademy. I hope they spend it wisely on fulfilling their promise that "Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code."

I'm a bit worried about what might happen to all these young potential coders if the marketing doesn't deliver as promised.

Meanwhile, I'd like to propose a much humbler effort which is not intended to compete by any means with codecademy:

We run a little anti-school from our Brooklyn loft. We call it Kitchen Table Coders [1] because we only allow as many people who can fit around our kitchen table. Every weekend we pick a topic that we're excited about and carve out some time to teach it to others.

(btw - we're not a startup nor do we wish to be. If you'd like to start a Kitchen-Table-Coders session in your town, please do. We'll help you get started.)

[1] http://kitchentablecoders.com
> Anyone considering using AirBnB should be seeking out such articles and getting a clue before they risk similar repercussions.

Anyone who doesn't own the space they are advertising on AirBnB. Owners, of course, should be aware of any issues that are relevant to them (zoning? insurance? HOA?) but this won't be one of them.
This is farking brilliant.

However, will we be able to link to an exchange account? All my "cues" are work cues, not in my gmail or gcal.

Also, with the location services - will it alert me when someone I know is near that is in the Cue-cosystem?
Got IPv6? Can you please help with this IPv6 deployment survey?
Were you completely new to programming or were you just trying to learn Javascript as a non JS programmer? Because if the latter, then I think you're in the wrong audience for CA?
> Norways free power

Mind explaining what you are talking about?

I mean if you have free power, then yes converting it into something else even inefficiently is good. But what free power?

I know there are some geothermal plants in Iceland that capture otherwise wasted power and use it to refine aluminium, but I've never heard of countries with free power.
MV: Any Hacker Houses have open rooms?
I'm planning to move to the Bay area by the end of the month and would love to live with a bunch of like-minded people. Do any hacker houses in the area have open rooms? If not, I'd be open to organizing a hacker house if a couple people are interested.

My budget is $600 - 850. Any city near Palo Alto or MV would work.

Thanks!
Curious to hear thoughts on the '4 takeaways' ...

For instance, do you think investors are 'at least as likely to succeed by investing in “failed” entrepreneurs as “successful” ones'?
Optimus was my first huge disappointment for me from NVidia. When I used Linux, I preferred NVidia over ATI, because it worked out of the box with the official NVidia driver. This all changed when I bought a laptop with NVidia Optimus, it didn't work at all. If NVidia had provided a proprietary driver, that would have been fine, but they simply ignored it, which was the "fuck you" to the consumers who wanted to use Linux on their laptops which had NVidia Optimus.

NVidia, should just do what they did before: make things work for the [Linux] consumer. Just make a proprietary/open source/open core/semi open source driver that just works with Optimus hardware without having to hack stuff. It's 2012, video should just work.
You comment alone Sir, needs its own blog post. Pretty interesting. My accountant never told me this.
Curious. What are Firebase and Trigger.io help me solve that isn't already available in any other standard web framework (think LAMP)? Are they only really applicable for building real-time apps?
IE9 support lands today, and we've decided against supporting earlier versions of IE - too much headache and code bloat/hackishness to justify addressing the ever shrinking < IE9 user base.
Absolutely true. Note, though, that sizeof(int) == sizeof(char) is allowed if you have 16-bit chars.
Well, not by itself but from the little reading up on gasification I did just now it seems that a cheapish source of hydrogen might make turning coal into gasoline much more economical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process
Tell HN: Assange seeking asylum in Ecuadorean Embassy in London
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I think you're dead-on. Windows 8 would get a bad rap because some vendor installed it on crap hardware. I think MS releasing their own hardware is wise -- it basically sets the bar for what a Windows 8 tablet should be.
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There sure are a lot of articles being written about something which has some fundamental questions about it which have so far remain unanswered, specifically, price and when it is scheduled to go on sale.

In some aspects, this announcement was strikingly similar to RIM's Playbook announcement: reviewers were unable to play with it, price was an open question, and it was still months away from market.
It'd be great if they allowed for onetime discounts as well. For one of my projects, I give members of the organization a 10% discount. With this, they could get the discount but only if they are frequent customers.
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Stardog features OWL reasoning, compared to RDFS or RDFS+ for example. Last year I blogged about using it with JRuby http://blog.markwatson.com/2011/11/using-stardog-rdf-datasto...

So far I haven't had as much time as I would like to experiment with it as I would like, but so far I like it.
> Actually the 500M (or 400M or 300M) or whatever number is bogus.

Could you provide some sources here?

> They've probably created a very large Freebase graph for scale testing and it's likely that they're able to handle 500M entities from a hardware perspective.

If this were reality it would be a pretty big lie on Google's part. Why do you think this is the case?

EDIT: OK, now I realize why your comments trigger my BS alarm. It's in your interest to represent the Google knowledge-graph as being equivalent to Freebase/metaweb (a Google acquisition many years ago. Do you really think they did nothing to increase their graph since that acquisition?) because you are the founder of Ontology2 (the company providing this service). You really should mention that somewhere in this thread or on your profile (I realize your comments elsewhere in this thread allude to it -- for the claims you are making without sources that's not enough IMHO).
No screen shots?
Yeah, I should have just said UNIX time.
Here's a neat bit of spreadsheet history – the story of Lotus Improv (up to 1991, it seems) and Steve Jobs' role in its development:

http://simson.net/clips/91.NW.Improv.html
That feature is also available in today's release. You can give any customer a discount of 10% (or any other value) when they're checking out.
The only person in the wrong here is the customer service representative who's violating US sanctions against Iran by selling an iPad to an Iranian citizen.

e: can't read, see below.
pretty cool, wasn't aware of this at all. thanks for the explanation. but even if it were unpacked, curl wouldn't execute it.