skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I was afraid that Nginx might not hold up"

Seeing articles get nuked by a sudden spike in traffic tends to give one unrealistic assumptions about what servers can handle. Most can take quite a bit if you're serving mostly static content.
And, they won't let me enter "Scheme" as a language. It is tyranny.

Years from now, when people say "remember 2010 and Facebook?" I'll remember. :-)
Here's the video of Rob delivering the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE17r3n1kz4#t=53m5s

IMO it is more compelling when spoken.
Anyone have a TLDR on what new functionality has been added to cluster? I skimmed the API and the changes didn't jump out.
Yes, and how about iMessage and FaceTime that require email addresses in contacts to work? And also the 3rd party sites that rely on Facebook OAuth API to identify users based on emails (they could use uids, but I'm sure some are still using email).
I'm sorry, but the writing is just absolutely awful. Content-wise there's nothing insightful or new here either. Just personal opinion, conjecture, and projections based on absolutely no hard facts at all. Seriously, this reads like a 16-year old's Reddit comment.
Once you start coding, the right side quickly gets cluttered. Maybe functions that get invoked by new code entry on left side should be brighter than non-invoked funcs/macros etc.. Or non-invoked funcs etc. should get dimmer?
Well said that man.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157104
Tossing us a bone! Thanks!
Run your WSGI app with nginx, uWSGI and supervisor using Vagrant
Just wanted to let you know, there's a typo on your landing page. "Archieve" should be "Archive". Otherwise, looking good!
Earlier you said: "If you want to refer to a specific non-index page, you'd specify http://www.example.com/path/to/uri/somepage.html "

So, is this presenting an implementation detail as well?

I only asked my original question because I thought I was missing something...
Hands-on Tips To Conquer Your Entrepreneurial Fears
this is hot. question: what do you make of the various content curation platforms out there? are they worth it?
According to the article, touching it is "like running your fingers along a picket fence" due to the angling of the blades.
I always thought the "one foot on the ground" was what it meant. You figure out a way to keep about half of your current strategy or assets or whatever fixed but applied in a new way to a new context, and change/recreate the other half. This is sort of what Microsoft is trying to do with Windows 8, they are keeping about half of their OS the same while radically changing the other half.

Compare with music theory for example - "pivot tones" are a way of making a smooth connection between chords in a harmonic progression, by keeping one or more notes the same while changing the others. Through a sequence of chord changes you can end up somewhere harmonically radically different from where you started, yet still keep each individual step smoothly connected to what came before.
Starting off a freelance career by pitching for gigs in a narrow niche market seems like a potentially challenging strategy for someone with no track record to back it up
You've actually had <username>@facebook.com available for receiving messages and for logging in (I login with ross.masters for example) for at least a year - what they've done here is to hide your displayed emails and only show this one (which is way out of line).
Facebook has notifications for almost anything that happens on their site which might be interesting for me to know about.

Why on earth do they not notify me about emails to my @facebook.com address?
Should also calculate the size of the home page against the date of the first funding (rather than just the dns / http response).

If a startup was funded with eg $3 million in 2007, and their supposed homepage is something like sub 3kb (10kb?) in size but responding, they're either dead (with a living domain) or they moved.

TheGlobe.com for example has a responding site, but they're dead as a door nail.
The idea is that you should only use UTF-8, otherwise why bother ?
Well, obviously it's a subjective opinion. I'll just say that my idea of good collaborative software is something a bit different than a pile of word docs hooked up to a web front-end and some other pages editable through a wysiwyg control that makes Frontpage 2000 look like a champ. But maybe that's just me. Obviously a lot of people find it useful. But to me I think it succeeds more due to the fact that it's an MS product and the extreme lack of robust competition in that space than it's due to any substantive positive qualities of sharepoint itself.

Edit: fixed wysiwyg typo.
In addition to trackers, didn't Sonique sound better than Winamp?

Same thing with XMPlay [0]. Much better sound (me thinks).

[0] http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Its "partisan" to think things like forced hormone therapy (and in some countries, not excluding our own: corrective rape and systematic abuse) is a bad thing, and dare we say, a violation of basic human rights? I'm sorry, I don't care who you are or what your politics are, thats messed up.

Giving other people rights doesn't take them away from the people who already have them.
I'm interested in knowing others viewpoint on this!
Try a browser extension similar to what was posted yesterday to automate this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4153772

At least read the first comment to figure out which one to use.
You don't need to allocate a new double to call hashCode on it. You can just call hashCode on the double you already have.

Out of curiosity, what language background are you coming from that this isn't obvious?
It could be a polarizing material that polarization changes angle across the surface, so that opposite sides are at 90 degrees difference. You can see from the inside with slightly changed color, but you can't see through two of the opposite sides of the glass.
English law punished homosexuality with chemical castration, but (according to ESR) Turing could easily have avoided this fate. Was Turing thus a "victim" of "oppression"? We're quibbling about words. Your notions of "victim" and "oppression" are simply different from ESR's. (Note: I'm confident that ESR isn't in favor of chemical castration for homosexuals.)
Warby Parker Review
Are these numbers from the inception of CrunchBase? What year was it started?
Conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this move might have anything to do with the new facebook integration in iOS... millions of iPhones are about to start automatically pulling contact info from facebook, wouldn't it be nice if all those people started using their @facebook.com email address?
>This is a really stupid move. If someone is viewing my profile and looking for an email address, they're not looking for this one. If that was the case they could just message me through the website.

This seems painfully obvious to me. I am willing to assume that this change in visibility of email addresses was inadvertent or just a simple misthought choice, but it seems far more arrogant of Facebook to think that I'm going to use them as an email client. Ever. Besides the privacy implications, Facebooks messages feature and email, basically be definition and by 5+ years of usage, indicates that they're not the same thing.

This is the worst possible way I've seen someone use email, and I'm someone who will often use Facebook messages as it's a more reliable way of getting in touch with someone than email.
And I think jgrahamc clearly countered Raymond's points there at the top of this thread.
This completely blows away the "let's the users sign up using facebook, we store their email and if we ever decide to ditch the FB login, we can always email them a password reset"
I'm curious to what the "other side" of this issue is. Is there nary a safe space on the internet for men to talk about their experience in the tech sector?
Nothing you have written contradicts what I wrote. "Partisan" doesn't mean "wrong". It simply means that those who insist on certain "basic human rights" mostly fall into the same party (metaphorically, if not literally—"tribe" might be more accurate). Replace "forced hormone therapy" with "abortion on demand" to make the party lines crystal clear. (For what it's worth, my own views mostly coincide with progressive orthodoxy on the subjects of homosexuality and abortion. But there are many other aspects of the orthodoxy I reject, so the party lines are easy to see.)
Y Combinator-Backed Rentobo Helps Landlords Fill Apartments Without ...
Locking people into a cell is also obviously criminal if anyone but the government does it.

There are certain powers that are useful for someone to be able to exert at specific, well-defined and controlled times. This is why the government has a monopoly on physical force, and for the same reason it has a monopoly on economic force.

Note also that the government doesn't actually force you to use their currency as a store of wealth. You're really only forced to use it to pay your taxes.
Same thing happened to me - but I got a notification. Then changed it right back again.
Well a FB link that don't demand a FB login - there is hope.

Anyhow given her job of "Sandberg oversees Facebook’s business operations including sales, marketing, business development, legal, human resources, public policy and communications. " and the good words zucker has said about her, then why is it she is only now being made a director? Makes you wonder what the other directors had to do for there roles and if there was anything left for them to do with her onboard already!
Just checked the same stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center
It's also a netspeak spelling of the English word "error." (For some reason it's considered humorous to transform -er and -or into -ar.)
Putting Sandberg on its Board is no surprise given that Sandberg is seen as critical to FB's operations and success by both the press and by Zuckerberg.

So, the only interesting part of this is the timing - why now, several weeks after the IPO?
Why do most start-ups die before they're ever launched?
Full Show 6/22/12: Conversations with Great Minds: Susan Jacoby
Start-Up Chile opens a new application process
Brackets, an open-source editor built with the web, for the web
Just tried this out with my own crackpot Markdown based static site generator and it works like a champ. What a pleasant surprise!
Suspected Sony hackers Cleary and Davis plead guilty
What do you expect from this moronic site, which is still trying to use E-mail addresses as user IDs? The only hope is that this change will be a tiny step toward informing users that they should log in with the string that precedes "@facebook.com". Otherwise, it's just dumb and dumb: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use...
The money put aside to pay for decommissioning is actually a pretty minuscule part of the cost; that's all included under operating costs, which are lower than coal's, i.e. very cheap. A much bigger problem is the delay and uncertainty introduced by a chronically backlogged and red-tape-infested NRC. Think about it this way: building a modern giant nuke plant takes a lot of money, and every month you're waiting for approval is a month you're paying interest on that money. Interest on loans is a huge part of the construction costs of a nuclear plant, and one of the harder to predict.
you can just manually download that script if you need to at the url it uses:

http://temp2.kodowa.com/playground/light.ps1
Triangulizor: Python script to apply a "triangular pixel" effect
I know you got downvoted and while I agree with you, it's not really Microsoft's fault. Microsoft is actually trying to stop it themselves by offering the same (sometimes) PCs in their own stores that come without the crapware.
You're talking specifically about liquid fluoride thorium reactors. Other types of thorium (or thorium-uranium mix) reactors exist, and are in commercial use now. Canada's CANDU reactors, for example, can run on thorium.
Boxopus: download torrents directly to DropBox
ZocDoc now in Spanish
Is it just me or is this entire product and its users fraught with danger?
This actually sounds pretty convenient.
Google to Announce Google Wallet Reboot at I/O
The Manson Family. Note that "family".

A controlling psychopath or cult requires cutting off access to outside resources, preempting a possible escape path.

No different.
Best way to Bootstrap your early stage startup
I dunno. I do a lot more long term contract work. I generally take on only one or two clients at a time in a relationship that lasts a few months. Meeting a potential client in person has never been too time consuming for me, as I only have to do it once or twice every few months.
WTF, who has their real E-mail addresses SHOWING on Facebook in the first place?
First, a disclaimer: I know next to nothing about non-profits. The fact that you know even less should give you a pause. If you're serious about this, do some (or even a lot of) research before asking the most basic questions.

A non-profit status is not about making revenue or not. It's a legal categorization of your company. So first, you need a company. Then you have to apply for a non-profit status with the government.

How do you apply for non-profit status? I don't know, you'll probably need to hire a lawyer specialized in non-profit registration to guide you through that process. It's also not a one-time thing: in order to maintain your non-profit status, you have to convince the government every year that you still are a non-profit.

You're confusing the means with the goal. You don't need non-profit to be benevolent. You can have crazy profits by day and spend those profits on benevolent activities by night. You can build wells in Ethiopia, send vaccines to Nigeria or any other thing that non-profits do without being a registered non-profit. You can think of non-profits as a way for rich people to do benevolent things (via donations) without spending time actually doing those things (i.e. rich person signs a check, a non-profit does the work of sending a malaria net to africa).

So why people register for non-profit status? First because it gives them a preferential treatment from government in terms of lower taxes (?), ability to fund-raise money that is tax-deductible for the donor etc. I'm sure few google searches will direct you to a much more extensive information.

Given preferential treatment why won't every company register as a non-profit? Because government doesn't give that treatment to just anybody. There is a checklist of things that a non-profit can and cannot do. If you're Locke, you won't like being a non-profit.

That partially answers your "fundraising vs. investment" question. I'm guessing that "investment" is not even on the table for non-profits due to government rules so they can either earn their money or do fundraising. If you think, however, that fundraising is easier than making money, then you're probably wrong, but that's a whole new topic.
Thanks for the kind words guys.

We're a little bummed about having to shutdown the service too. We worked extremely hard and are very proud of the service. We've received lots of very positive feedback. It's sad to see it go, but we're trying to do our best by our users. Let me know if you need any help with a data export.
Just to play the cynic, you've got the strange situation of a publicly traded company where the majority of voting rights are still tied up by its founder. Putting someone on the board who's already completely tied to its current path could be seen as just another symptom of a board in name only.

Personally I think the board's role should be to provide some measure of skepticism to the company's direction. This seems like putting just another yes man on a board without any teeth. So another way to look at this is why put Sheryl on the board at all?
"Simple but Powerful" .. This Android app is a perfect example
Immutability generally requires and/or benefits from programming in a functional style.
Let me point you to something important you have to understand about the monetary system in order to evaluate stuff like QE properly: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/09/mmp-blog-15-clear...

Basically, there are two different circuits of money: central bank money (aka reserves), which is what the banks have in their accounts at the Fed, and regular money, which is what you and I have in our bank accounts.

Those circuits never cross. The money in a central bank account can never move into a regular bank deposit, and vice versa.

Therefore, the banks are actually incapable of loaning out all that money that they have, because the design literally doesn't allow it. To talk about their willingness to loan that money out is completely nonsensical.

What banks actually do when they give a loan to a non-bank is that they simply create a deposit for that entity, which means they create money out of thin air by adding an appropriate entry to their accounting system.

The system as is actually makes a lot of sense. It is a very logical design, which becomes very clear when you really trace where money shows up on balance sheets. The first circuit is central bank liabilities/bank assets, the second circuit is bank liabilities/non-bank assets. It's no wonder they can't cross.

Unfortunately, we don't learn such things at school, so pretty much everything you read about the monetary system in the media is an incoherent and illogical mess.
Not sure if it is related, but I noticed my "Political Views" entry was also removed quite recently. Was previously "other". Anyone notice similar changes to user info?
You lost a lot of people by saying kool aid.

OSX's major malware holes are Microsoft Office, java and flash. After that the malware has to depend on the user putting their password.
Facebook: the Honey Badger of Social Media
http://davidcancel.com/3-startup-lessons-i-learned-the-hard-...
This is the best initiative in the world!
Apply and live the experience.
I can confirm. I had my wife check my account, and she has the most liberal viewing privileges of my profile out of anyone I know. She now only sees a @facebook.com email address. My primary address, @gmail.com, is no longer visible under Contact Info on my profile.
What do you mean by obscurity? Which level of the system are referring to? You seem to indicate that Windows is somehow open. Can you explain what you have in mind?
Content is king. I'd try what's out there and see if one works for you. If you have the time, manually curating it is probably your best option-- but this definitely is time consuming.
It's one thing to just hide a piece of information a user asked you to publish on their behalf. It's another to remove it, and then replace it with a nearly identical element because it's preferable to you from a business perspective.

The latter is why folks are upset; simply hiding all listed emails, or adding in the @facebook emails on profiles, would probably not have generated as many complaints.
Having read the article I call FUD; Nothing to see and realy not worth reading. I could do better with a few grep lines a awk script and /dev/rand.
I'm not sure this actually helps you, but I'm pretty sure there's a statutory Buyer's Remorse period where you can cancel within 14 days with no penalty.
I think for now the api is still returning their correct email address.
It's prettier. And it shows parameter expansion in some cases I think. And some day it will have some fancy-ass version of narrow-to-tag (which actually does sound like a real step forward).
Flaky founders.

Running out of cash.

Wantrepreneurs at the helm instead of entrepreneurs.

Pressure from "friends", family, etc to chase after the cubicle with fluorescent lighting rather than the apparently riskier start-up.

Fear.

Realizing the idea isn't as good as was originally thought and moving on to greener pastures.

Lack of technical expertise to get the product ready.

Regulatory restrictions that prevent the idea from moving forward.

Crappy credit that prevents the founders from being able to accept card payments, or worse yet, being in a jurisdiction where payment solutions are stuck in the stone age.

Most grim: death of a founder.

However ... a lot of these start ups appear to have just changed their name, been acquired, or otherwise pivoted into something new, which makes it look like hundreds of millions have been poured into companies that have just disappeared. They may not have updated their Crunchbase profile either, so I'm not sure how much stock I'd put in the stats, but I do think it's true that a lot of start-ups fizzle out before they even begin.
Crisply - Time Tracking
Awesome No Equity for the 40K!!! Good BootStap !!!
great program, great city, great people
Great way to get your start-up off the ground!
Hands up who wished they could reboot there wallet; Ok hands down, but we can dream.
More Evidence Shows Apple Store Search Changes (Including Some Sad Developers)
Anyone who applies for the current round and makes it in should know that there are more places to live in Chile than Santiago! Come live down in Pucón with us. We've got a live Volcano in our backyard! Best place to go if your business is tourism focused, for sure :)
It may not be secret, but if you choose to have the @facebook.com email address listed on your profile, it suggests that the @facebook.com email address is an appropriate email address to contact you at. I hid it from my contact information because facebook is not the best way to contact me and I don't want anyone to assume that it is because someone at facebook decided to see how many people don't do anything.
The rate of inflation has other effects. Prices tend to move upwards more easily than downwards; the most basic reason for this is that when you have a choice between reducing your real income via a general across-the-board inflation, or reducing your real income by cutting your nominal income, you should almost always choose the inflation (because spending is typically dominated by contracts, i.e. fixed cash flows like mortgage payments and utilities bills).

So if you have a choice between (1) x% demurrage and 0% inflation, or (2) 0% demurrage and x% inflation, you should always prefer option (2). This allows prices to adjust faster, which is generally a good thing.
Exactly. The fact that he (and his equally obtuse commenters) are actually taking it that far is what truly disgusts me.
right, from CrunchBase (later going to try add http://angel.co/ too), http://www.crunchbase.com/api
EU Cookie Law implementation gallery
I am a member of a public organization and I don't know how to access one of its repos with this.
Kuddos to Jon.
This is a great way to work on your venture and be part of a community of entrepreneurs from all over the world. The biggest plus is the constant collaboration within the co-working space and the local ecosystem: exchange ideas, get quick feedback, learn from others' area of expertise, boost up on positive energy from the whole group...
We died after :(
Great opportunity!!
Forced integration? It's your _Google_ account, it should work across all their products.
The only thing that was ever really "Forced" from google was when all my google plus circle's appeared in my android phone and I had to manually move them into different groups in my contacts to get it to stop.
I'm currently down in Santiago and part of round 3. I'm happy to try to answer any questions anybody has about the program.
Charging at the Challenges of Kinect
Apparently. I feel that if someone suffers due to a bigoted policy, then that person is the victim of oppression. He seems to think that it is not "oppression" if the person who suffers had an out. The mental gymnastics bit come in when he tries to gel that with what demonstrators suffered during the civil rights movement, which he does classify as oppression.
to paraphrase a classic: "on this planet, we obey the laws of thermodynamics."

can't be bothered to explain in detail, leaving a link to a most interesting blog instead: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/02/the-way-is-shut/. i assume increasing population => increasing energy demand.