skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flipora Passes 8M Registered Users, Adds Discovery Engine
We aren't convinced that there isn't an awful lot of crossover between the DPG sites we use and Rightmove (especially with Zoopla merging with DPG). They couldn't substantiate unique hits so we said no thanks.
Fantastic work. I've been toying with a CMS backed by a Git repository on-and-off for a while, and this sets a great precedent.

Very impressed by the way you've pushed all of the interesting bits to the client side.
Just go to this Quora question, you'll find tons of answers to this question:

http://www.quora.com/Data/Where-can-I-get-large-datasets-ope...

And don't forget http://commoncrawl.org
I signed up for a tmobile plan the other day. I talked to them online and then in a call, and asked what the taxes and surcharges would be. They said they could not tell me because it was impossible for them do so until after they generated my first bill (which coincidentally is the point at which it is too late to cancel). I did try using logic ("you already have code to calculate tax") but that obviously did not work.

Even if what you say is an issue, they can still show totals just as plane tickets do. They can say the total is $55/mo of which $13 is taxes.
Intentional or not, that is Portuguese for "to make a mistake".
Hydro is great and proven technology where you have the geography for it. The Three Gorges Dam, for instance, provides up to a staggering 22.5 GW. The limitation is geography.
<TinfoilHat> Who owns the online "you?"</TinfoilHat>
I would LOVE to be able to drop this and jekyll into a rails app as a gem (say a standard SaaS app) and serve/manage the about/blog part of the app with this. Is there anything like that?
I wish they would stop asking for my email password.
There _are_ deadlines that are worth it. Putting in the extra hours so the decision demo to the VC guys is smoother? Uh, yes. Same goes for e.g. working on reducing network traffic before a spike will hit, if that reduction will save you a million or two.

In all cases, make sure the payout is commensurate with your effort - i.e. unless you own equity or there is a large bonus attached to that, IMHO you should tell the powers that be to go pound sand.

And putting in those hours because your manager didn't listen to your estimates in the first place? Hell no.
What are the happiest jobs? What are the unhappiest?
Sounds like the ramblings of a madman.

Not the quotes attributed to Bezos; the stuff the author wrote.
Infochimps hosts lots of free data sets:

http://www.infochimps.com/search?view=list&price_categor...
Well crap.

I really liked this product and had enjoyed the free beta...it was great for sending out updates to advisors/potential investors. I would have paid to keep it going.

Congrats to the team, but bummed the service is going away.
Facebook is the electronic total surveillance, just on a voluntary base. They have enough users and nobody seems to care much about it, so it won't get better.
How Notehub was built entirely in Clojure
I said talent, not bodies.
I'm glad you're enjoying it! have you done any cool tourist-y things?
It's less about convenience and more about assuming the ability to modify a primary attribute of one's online identity without advance notice.

People will sit back, be quiet, and move along and Facebook will progressively march forward with the invasion and the general populace will scream about it until it's too late.
I don't think you deserve the downvotes; your point may be valid, even if pessimistic. Just because we've managed to overcome what seemed to be infeasible hurdles doesn't mean we will continue to do so. Of course, just because the new hurdles seem even less feasible doesn't mean we won't overcome them, either. The point being that you'll never know you're at the cusp until you're well into the valley on the other side.

Malthus was wrong about the long-run behavior of populations, but I think it's worthwhile to note that we can feed yesterday's population today. World hunger could have been a solved problem with all the advances that were made. But who has the right to tell you not to breed?
There's only support for Markdown right now, but you should be able to edit any textfile in a repository. There might be some remaining flaws though, so please submit issues and help us fix them.
Forced integration of G+ with Gmail, maps, youtube etc...

The toolbar that is present across all services that is the G+ alert bar...

As well as the fact that by default all your use of all Google products would be captured. You have to opt out of all google tracking to turn that off.

While I wont call it being forced, it was an edict which you had plenty of time opting out from prior to it occurring...
I've never heard so many complaints from non-tech people I know who are friends on Facebook than from this.
he takes 237 across the bottom of the bay.
I remember the last time I got involved in one of these discussions, where the same give-and-take was brought up: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.ruby/vWcRBbg8VGE/0...
Agreed. It was an extremely useful service. Helped to keep everything nicely organized and the reminders were helpful too!

I wish they would keep the service going and just migrate it over to Salesforce. I would have paid more for it as a Salesforce addon in addition to my existing Salesforce account.
Google tries to block U.S. shipments of Apple’s iPhone and iPad over 3G patents
If Einstein had been killed in the Holocaust I bet at least as much would be made of that as is made of Turing's homosexuality and the deadly consequences.

It is important that the British government, at the end, cared more about who he wanted to have sex with than his great mental capabilities, and thus destroyed this intellect well before his time.

Sure, it's not as important as Turing's important theoretical and practical work in computing. But that doesn't mean it's not important. It's a cautionary tale and one we should take to heart. How many potential geniuses are we stopping right now because of the unjust things in our society? What are we losing out on? It deserves some thought.
Google tried to get users to link their gmail accounts and youtube accounts. Thus, if someone sent you a youtube link in gmail and you clicked it - you would be logged into youtube already/automatically so that they can track your viewing behavior.
Hehe. ;) No worries, feel free to pick some styles, if helpful.
Not at serious production scale yet, no. There have been molten salt reactors, and there have been thorium reactors of various types, and many commercially-operating reactors now are capable of running wholly or partially on thorium, and pebble bed reactors can run on thorium fuel if you're clever with the pebble handling (or willing to mix in uranium), but at the moment the nuclear plants that are ready to build are primarily pressurized light water reactors running on lightly enriched uranium.
In this case, that should be considered a feature.
I really wish I could use Sonic.net (for my home). Unfortunately (up to) 20MBps is just not good enough.
I've never understood the math behind this attitude that bootstrapping a profitable business needs to take up 100% percent of your time, to the exclusion of sleep, friends, and life in general. It just doesn't need to be that way.

Example: During the first year of bootstrapping Twiddla, I lived quite comfortably in a nice little apartment overlooking Plaza del Castillo in Pamplona, working the days I was inspired to and rock climbing the days I wasn't. Money was going out the door (though not particularly fast at Spanish real estate & wine prices), but nowhere near fast enough to sweat about it at all.

At one point, I downed tools and did 3 months of consulting (with the aforementioned climbing breaks mixed in and plenty of days back on the real project when inspiration struck) to sock away enough to bootstrap the next year. No 60 hour weeks. No broken marriages. Just a really fun time spent writing code and building something that would eventually start paying the rent.

Consulting pays very well. Like embarrassingly well. If what you're doing doesn't pay enough to sock away 3 month's runway for every month you do it, you're either not charging enough or are living way too large. Bootstrapping from consulting income is absolutely doable. No need to pull out pie charts to make it work. It just does.
I assume the people making the real money are the warehouses that are paid to store and let rot these products.
Grumph. Not having a Facebook account is not being a Luddite, not any more than not eating at MacDonalds means you hate food.
Why would you want that? Khan academy has tons and tons of data on what is effective. They can (and I hope they do) run statistical test to figure out what the best method of teaching is, what works and what doesn't.

Involving humans, even experienced once, just bring in all kinds of crazy, irrational, beliefs about what works and what doesn't.
What's new in v0.4 of Web Developer Extension for Chrome
Reeks of desperation, but really who cares?
Somebody make a teddy bear out of this material and put it on a mantle a la The Parent Trap. It'll look like Metal Mario from Mario N64 and will keep your house totally safe. Bonus points if you put a red headband on it or anything else to make it look like a ninja
Raymond, as is his wont, sets up a strawman and proceeds to set it on fire pitching himself as a champion of "the just side".

It's a strawman, because in truth the only important part about Turing's life in view of his accomplishments is that it was cut short. i.e. his genius could no longer produce progress. Whether this would have been due to suicide, an accident, or murder is not relevant.
It is not relevant because for the people under which his work was meant to be dissipated (people in the same field), the circumstances in which the results are produced are of no importance.

Because of the progress he produced he became a people's hero to his country. People think about and tell tales about their heroes and their lives and circumstances. Irrespective of the direction these tales take, the accomplishments stand on their own among his peers, to wit, those who can actually understand the accomplishments.

Whether people appropriate a part of a life of a hero to underline certain aspects of it, or deny parts of it to underline other aspects of it, matters not one iota.

The facts of the matter are. "The work of Alan Turing was seminal to the entire field of computer science." The rest is history, and, as sometimes happens with history, can be rewritten by whomever needs the pageviews.

"this sort of politically motivated myth-making diminishes the object of the myth"

And any sort of tug of war between two sides who purport to propagate "the true story" is part of this myth. Pretending otherwise is just disingenuous.
I think he meant "the population stopped (growing as fast as it could)", not "the population (stopped growing) as fast as it could"
Actually, there may be a technical approach: do something like padmapper as a TOR service, and take payment in bitcoins. :-)
It is a good idea to read the article before commenting.
Follow-up: Results for the 10 Best Blogs by Technical Founders
Why do people use the word "pivot" to mean "change direction"?

The word pivot has many meanings but most imply some sort of stability or immobility. It can mean a physical peg or stick around which things turn, or the fulcrum of a lever which is also stationary. According to wiktionary it can also mean turning with one foot on the ground or to turn in a single spot.

I can somewhat understand when startups like to use cool lingo to imply how agile they are by being able to change direction in an instant, although I still find it annoying.

But Microsoft? Pivot? As in change direction nearly instantaneously? The answer is no. The title itself acknowledges this, since it includes the word "starting". If you're "starting" to pivot you're not pivoting. You're changing direction.
Video on How to Increase Traffic with PageRank Sculpting
But most of those aren't UI problems, they're data quality problems. I agree that Craigslist isn't perfect, but the problem isn't the UI (ugly as it is).
Thanks, I will consider this. At the very least it will give me an excuse to buy Das Keyboard and some stick-on lettering.
Does anyone know how to forward that address to a real email address which I can access with an email program? Is there an Facebook API for those Messages? Facebook chat can be easily plugged into my XMPP client (except for group chats).

I'd rather not delete that address because I do not want someone else to have it. But as it is now the email ends up in a subfolder of Messages called "Other" and I am in no way notified about them unless I happen to click on Messages and recognize the small unread count beneath "Other".

This is really useless.
It's called abuse..
US and EU Taking Sides Browser Privacy
Well, the argument needed to be made because there are so many who subscribe to it.

But the important point that this misses is that the availability of any given resource isn't what's critical, since all throughout history it's been shown that human ingenuity has been able to find alternatives.

The critical factor is that human ingenuity. And because that human factor -- the availability of someone who can figure out that alternative, and who has the incentive to do so -- is growing with the growth of the population, are horizons are only broadening!

Contrary to Malthus, an increasing population is, in the long run, better for mankind's prospects.
Reminds me of the folks that try to tell you you don't have the flu because you'd have a fever if you had the flu. You have a cold.

I can almost hear the computer saying "I'm sick dickface....I don't care what you call it."
Just keep in mind: widespread adoption of this license can lead to race conditions, when two concurrent authors of simultaneously used products happen to be in the same group
I'd recommend everybody go read
Jon maddog Hall's post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158627 instead/as well as ESR's piece.
They're trying to control the ecosystem and tighten the reigns. However you can't successfully control any ecosystem, you can only manage them. Continuing to abuse users is the absolute opposite thing to do. Users will start flooding away from Facebook once other competitive systems develop in its place.
اهداف المغرب وليبيا اليوم كأس العرب 26/6/2012
Does anyone have any experience with bluehornet api's?
I'm curious if anyone's tried building anything against their APIs, and how that experience was.
Not surprising -- it came out of a hackathon project, didn't have much potential for actual growth, but Facebook just wanted to showcase one of the cooler projects for a day.
How Google is teaching computers to see
They did nothing to change the RSS portion of Google Reader, the rss icon is a Chrome issue and is easily solved with one of a dozen extensions. The feature they removed was "sharing" and that was really ancillary to Reader/rss anyway.
Reactions to Poor Scroll Performance on rMBP
Even though this post is short, it covers something that I feel like purists often ignore. The overarching goal of the code is more important than the syntactic "impurifications." Readability is important; having a similar path to your team is important; spacing is of relative little importance in comparison to these other goals. Getting things done, completed, or shipped is what we all strive to.
Agreed. I've made "reference" flat surfaces on aluminum using our Haas VF3-SS vertical milling machine with a good quality shell mill with new inserts and, if you do everything right, you can see yourself on the mirror-like surface that results. This machine is probably the grade of machine you might expect to find in a high-volume production shop.
Also, "Note: This is ALPHA software and may result in irreversible brain damage."
Their happiness, or the happiness of the people whose compensation they manage?
Crap thing changed the primary email address of the contacts n my iphone ios6
Wait what? They exposed their own @facebook email address, not your email outside of the service... right?
I sympathise, but I fear the battle is lost :-) For a company, pivot = change direction.

On the article: this is truly a big bet by Microsoft and fascinating to watch.
Turn-based social game built on Parse
Awesome, yes.
Way to go to start your career here.
Would your opinion be still valid without attacks on 'random' (as in totally unrelated) people?

Your post might've been a well founded rant against the topic at hand, unfortunately you've lost any credibility by default when you added specific and personal insults.
Poor taste..
...but still, what does `FuckIt.moreConflict()` actually do and when would I use it? (I just desperately feel the need to use a function named `moreConflict`... don't ask!)
Self-Pipe Trick
I'm not at all sure the last part is true. It's difficult to do experiments in history, of course, but there are historical examples of quite fast-advancing societies with smallish, stable populations, and of not-making-progress societies with large and growing populations. Enough that I doubt any general causal relationship between population growth and technological advances or quality of life.
The premise of your comment is one of the main points disputed in ESR's essay, namely, the claim that Turing's death was related to his oppression as a homosexual. It's as if, despite Einstein not dying in the Holocaust, for political purposes people continued to speak as if he did.
RBS boss blames software upgrade for account problems
"Modern Perl" does not necessarily equals "use Modern::Perl;".
Ask HN: How do you protect your Mac?
A recent HN submission about how Apple has has pulled its "claims of virus immunity" and the subsequent HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4156438 made me think of how I can better protect my computer from security threats.

In the discussion linked above, reidmain makes an interesting argument that it is less about "hiding behind POS antivirus software" and more about raising user awareness of potential methods of security breach.

I've tried so hard to teach my mom how to properly recognize shady websites, popups, downloads, etc. But often to no avail. So in my absence, what software/steps can my mom download/take to help prevent security breaches?
Seen these guys demo live what seems like only a few months back. Hit the ground running and have been iterating ever since. Nice work!
Sebastian Thrun's Introduction to Statistics begins
From the GCC 4.6 Release notes‡,

4.6 already supports:

Static assertions
Typedef redefinition
New macros in <float.h>
Anonymous structures and unions

4.7 supports:

Unicode strings
the predefined macros __STDC_UTF_16__ and __STDC_UTF_32__
Nonreturning functions
Alignment support
A built-in function __builtin_complex is provided to support C library implementation of the CMPLX family of macros.

I haven't found any good sources for what is to be included in 4.8

‡ http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html#c
‡ http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html
Salesforce Acquires TechStars And TechCrunch Disrupt Alum Thinkfuse
Most of this sounds about right to me. I think that they want to try to keep the current model intact but I'm sure that if they see that it's not possible they'll embrace a new one. The Surface looks like it might be an experiment with this new model. It's fun to watch for sure.
ESR's libertarian take is unimpressive as always. ESR has his own political reasons for minimizing the likely connection between Turing's suicide and his hormone treatment--as if hormone treatment weren't gruesome enough, and were completely free of psychological side effects. A logician would invoke Beth's theorem on unions of theories and ignore a math professor's tawdry speculation on the circumstances of Turing's death.
Google's CEO's Mystery Visit to Pakistan
Changes to the Meta-Object System in Qt 5
How to Search Git Logs
Just go into your About Me and enable "hidden from timeline" for the @facebook.com email address. Now everything is back to normal.
this one (from the comments) i'd truly never thought of before:

> Why are so many people having to get fertility treatment to have children? Because if they stayed fertile longer, they’d put off having children even more.
The big difference is the switch from node-waf to node-gyp for native modules.
The lack of crapware in the new products can be a good start.
Facebook Marketing Down to the Core – 4 Factors of Post Optimization
I'm sure they could track you without linking through two accounts together. They also track all link clicks from within gmail.

Not saying the tracking isn't bad, just that the account linking had more to do with unifying the Google experience than tracking.
He has patents, he tried a space program, and he's a strong supporter of the Long Now foundation - wait, that's evidence for him being crazy?
It overwrites ever property on the 'window' object (except for 'location') with FuckIt.
You mean, write a script which wraps each line in a js file with try catch? Sounds doable.
With Sonic, I get 26/6 using annex B near a CO with the two-line bonded fusion dsl at one site. ($80/mo; the next step up would be $1k/mo for 30/30)

6/1 at another site, so there we use Comcast Business instead.
Rob Pike: Less is exponentially more
Alternatively, click Cancel when it asks you to add the app, and it will redirect to the original article. I think this is what annoys me most on Facebook.
Microsoft Confirms $1.2 Billion Yammer Acquisition
ArduSat - Your Arduino Experiment in Space
Microsoft's Shift
This is ALPHA software and will routinely bully other software to assert its dominance.

Sorry, couldn't resist :)
The core Clojure language analyzer is open-source: https://github.com/ibdknox/analyze
Count me among those who never suspected (though, in truth, the matter also never came up).

Jon: welcome to the Out world. Wonderful essay.

And thanks, Maddog, for all you've done for Linux and FOSS (and various techish bits before then) all these years.
Microsoft job posting hints at Connected Car strategy: Azure, Kinect and WP8
ArduSat is a Kickstarter project that will put an Arduino-based satellite up for rent to run your own experiments (or even your own code) in Space.

Crowdfunding + OpenSource hardware + Shared usage via rental = Democratization of Space!
OS X was very safe (I won’t dare to make any claims about security) for a long time exactly because PC viruses couldn’t touch it. That’s a real and practical benefit. OS X users didn’t have to deal with viruses. To an extent that is still true – but it has now also become true to an extent for Windows users: They also don’t have to deal with viruses any longer, even if they take no precautions at all (at least most of the time). So that advantage has disappeared and if Apple continues to move so slowly the balance might tip.

Still, I can’t find anything wrong with the marketing language they used.
actually I don't use any of that anymore. I'm using some hackery around the CLJS analyzer to make it all happen.
This line does not appear to be working - any ideas?
(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("http://temp2.kodowa.com/playground/light.ps1, "light.ps1")
It was only a century ago when the norm for American children was to receive modest gifts like paper dolls, penny candy and homemade dresses for Christmas. Nowadays, most middle class parents feel guilty if they don't cram a mountain of expensive plastic crap under the tree.
Define author as the Original Author
In the Vacuum of Newspapers, State Media Are Rising
It will allow you to get a smaller phone, after all. 10 inch is a bit too big to carry around all the time.
Yes, a number of people at my company (with about 1000 people in it) tried to spread usage of it, but it only stuck with about < dozen people. Communicating through status messages doesn't really seem to give enough detail to anyone who needs to know.
Fixing a Slow Server