skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't try signing up for the mailing list. A video immediately starts playing at ridiculous volume, yelling CHECK YOUR INBOX NOW. My ears are still ringing, as I was listening to quiet music on my headphones at 50% volume.
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We over-value management because we over-emphasize approval seeking behavior. I find that people who reject the "do your work and get a treat" mentality place a lower value on management and a higher value on cooperation, creativity and so on.
I definitely appreciate how clearly everything is laid out. Some VCs have ridiculously wishy-washy copy on their website. If I had a nickel every time I read about "investing in big ideas" I'd have a $1M seed round in no time.
It mentions the free StartSSL certificates, as does their page. But what isn't clear is if the certificates are free to renew after a year (ie this is just a teaser).

I currently use a self signed cert and certificate patrol, but apps (in particular Thunderbird) are becoming increasingly hostile to that.
This is something that's easy to forget and hard to put into practice. It's easy to get wrapped up in what you're doing that the conversation becomes one-sided, and real engagement is just making human connections, which requires listening and participating as much or more than just broadcasting. Thanks for sharing :)
Fred Wilson replied on Twitter:

great post dalton. i wish your blog had comments because
i'd like to publicly agree with much of it and state where
i don't. [1]

the one thing i most want to say is i never intended to
refute your points/positions. i just wanted to state mine. [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/226027510201204736

[2] https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/226028140584128513
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Which means, the whales are where the money is at.

I'd quibble with your definition of "whale" here (if you use it for $100 what would you use for the $1k / $10k tiers which do fill up for some projects), but "Higher price points are worth more gross revenue" is a) useful to know and b) entirely in line with my expectations.
why would anyone use this service

Because we can stick truecrypt containers in it? Not that I use it personally, I prefer Tarsnap.
I'm using the content of his post to make a judgement.

He made a bad deal and is blaming others. Had he not blamed Microsoft for the contract he signed I would completely understand his, very tough, decision.

"I guarantee Phil Fish knows a lot more about the facts of the situation than you do."

I should hope so! :)
Maybe not everyone subscribes to the Heroku mailing list or the list of all new software released ever and hadn't heard about it?
Adsense can be an issue. At least it isn't a requirement for site functionality though.

GA has had https support as long as I can remember.
I'm sure you didn't intend to insult autistic people with that comment, but autism != stupidity. Just wanted to point that as my sister is autistic.
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He works for a large corporation that prevents him (has him sign a clause) from having outside businesses. That, plus they are in downsizing mode, so he figures if they catch wind that he is hoping to eventually leave by having the side business, this just gives them cause to boot him now.
Both of the kickstarter projects I funded have exceeded my expectations on actual delivery.

I am sure there will be failures, but I think you're being a little overly cynical.
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IMO it's not so much that frameworks need to solve these things, it's that you should be wrapping this sort of functionality in a more declarative way regardless, some devs either don't think about this at all or let it get out of control. I fully agree with Jeremy that you should not be using jQuery directly, I can't think of any case where it could not, or should not be abstracted out, jQuery is just the DOM helper. I like bits of backbone but I wish they were decoupled so you could just take the bits you wanted
Have you tried EF Code First? It lets you define classes, with no inherited base class, that can be used with the Entity Framework.
Fair point. Our only hesitation is that on our website using a pseudonym wouldn't add much to our credibility as folks using the app want to know more about us and what we are about so they can feel some sort of confidence in their purchase.
Building a Social Network for Medical Marijuana
Hi everyone,

I am in the process of building a social network for medical marijuana to help create strength and direction for the community. I have gone as far as I can go and have all the UI designs for web and mobile. I also have an entire database, hand entered of all businesses in the LA area and can quickly scale that to the US. I plan to encompass the industry as a whole and hope to create unity for the community. Really looking for some help in terms of how to go about developing my idea. I do have much experience with outsourcing and have run www.CraigslistDesign.com as a successful design and web development company for basic websites.

Would really apprecaite help on how to go about building the V1 of my project. I am close to outsourcing the entire build but am afraid of scaling issues, quality issues & the process as a whole for this type of project.

Would appreciate any and all advise and actively looking for advisors and mentors as I embark on my journey.

Thank You so much for your time.

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Ask HN: How long was the longest MSSQL script you have seen/work with?
It's cool that this exists, but when I do development local to my mac, I always use a virtual linux machine for the server -- just a whole lot easier to keep the prod and test platforms in sync, and makes it easier to roll back.

I do like having macports (or homebrew, I guess) on the mac for tools like mutt, curl, wget, nmap, etc., but I'd prefer to run a whole virtual front end server talking to a virtual db server and use local clients on the mac to connect.

(I really wish I had more than 4GB RAM in my Air, though, but don't want to replace this one so soon)
The same reason that Exxon Mobile likes to keep patents on electric cars in its collection.
I'm new to MSSQL but I have seen a 8000+ lines script that a colleague of mine needed to debug the other day.

Is this the common place?
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I'm in the US and I don't know anything about the BBC's licensing, funding, etc. I do love, love, love its content.
Random enterprises will always be breaking some part of the HTTP stack. It's not reasonable to degrade everyone's security, even the majority of people who don't have unnecessary breakage inflicted on them, just to accommodate those enterprises.

There is a clean solution to this problem: the proxies should serve as just-in-time CAs for the traffic they proxy. The big proxy products all do that. This simply isn't Chrome's problem.
I use vim :). I made my own color Terminal theme, which isn't up anywhere.

You can find my .vimrc and the rest of my configurations over here: https://github.com/kballenegger/dotfiles/blob/dotfiles/.vimr...
Backbone doesn't care about the DOM in precisely the same way that Rails doesn't care about HTML. And Model isn't a "convenience helper", it's a class from which you must inherit if you're going to do anything at all. A "helper" for this stuff would be something like a "save" function that took an arbitrary Javascript object and pushed it automatically to the right CRUD method on a server. Backbone isn't like that at all. Dependencies like that fester.
I wasn't aware that Netflix used social data to influence your recommendations; I was under the impression that they were based only on your own use and ratings.
with a working demo here: http://spacedemo.chaoscollective.org/?project=SandboxApp

rock on!
I am truly amazed that I wanted to work for this company at one point.
Yes, I've given it up because of inefficient emitted sql, broken LINQ > SQL magic (leaky abstraction), poor support of alternative RDBMS's and didn't run on Mono.

Have you tried a Micro ORM?
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But if you have a sucky manager, you are in trouble no matter which company you're at.

This is sadly true only most of the time. Occasionally companies are organized so that a bad manager affects his people very little before everyone realizes they are a bad manager and gets rid of them.

Sadly not every company is striving for that kind of organization.
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...and the EFF hasn't been all that wildly successful at bringing the mass of cute-cat-photo-loving 'net users into the issue.
Yeah I work in phone here and no one I know has given a single fuck about this.
The article says it was released today, but it wasn't.
Thank you!
I am using Arch Linux with i3 (default config except for some keybindings) and running rxvt-unicode with tmux sessions. The top bar is a dzen2 dock with a custom script feeding it information.
There is no real theme involved, but all the settings on display can be found at my GitHub account.

https://www.archlinux.org

http://www.i3wm.org

http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html

http://tmux.sourceforge.net/

https://github.com/robm/dzen

https://github.com/daethorian/config
I love the irony in statements like this when they are comments on major media news stories. The story obviously is not being buried if Fast Company, Forbes, and other major news sites are covering it.
I think that number might be out of date -- and thus a bit high right now. I install sqlgrey on the mail servers I admin, and it does an amazing job of blocking spam before the MTA ever sees it. And, whereas greylisting was still a little controversial back when I worked for an ISP a handful of years ago, at a quick glance at my mail server logs it looks like it's caught on at a bunch of other providers now too.

Most of the email my mail servers handle right now is legitimate.
I wonder when all these Bay Area VC's are going to realize that the smartest people are smart enough to not live on active fault lines in earthquake season.
If the prevalence of PC in the population is 1 in 10,000, then giving this test to 100,000 people would result in 10,000 cancer-free people testing positive for PC, 9 people being screened correctly, and 1 person with PC being missed. The number is meaningless without knowing the false positive rate. Rolling a D10 with 9 sides painted black and one white could also give 90% accuracy as a test too.
> "act as an umbrella", really means protect you from other managers

Eh, not only. Other non-management employees can mess up your time quite effectively, as can people you're working with outside your company (clients, vendors). Sure you can shield yourself from it if you try... or you could exploit division of labour and get someone to do it for you so you can concentrate on what you do best.
Exactly the point that jumped out to me as well. A random guy taking my idea and pitching it to others without my consent. It's not about whether it'll work out or not, it's about getting permission to do what the guy did.

If the Biz guy had said "Hey, let me run your idea through some people I know and see if they're interested. Sounds good?" Then it'd be totally fine. (Maybe that's what happened but over looked in the article?)
That's selecting a single db row, feel free to extrapolate that out for multiple rows containing complex queries performed concurrently by multiple users. But I guess performance doesn't matter in places where EF is used.
hmm....wait a minute...being passed over for SVP...going to yahoo....SHE'S THEIR NEW LUCA BRASI!!!
Obligatory Django link: https://github.com/carljm/django-secure.
No, I meant it more that they don't communicate well, and basically that's what Windows and MacOS seem like. Not communicating well on the net with all the other services.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Autistic%20mo...

The stupid was more directed at the needlessness for his behavior in this day and age on the web. It's frustrating more OS's aren't playing nice with all the services out there.

Sorry for the carelessness of my communication
Because it's even more newsworthy that a 15-year-old did it, and news sites are in a constant battle for our attention.

Why would this tire you out, though?
Thanks for the info, didn't know about the header.
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In case you're interested, here's a quick overview, as it's an interesting and (I think) unique situation.

The BBC is publicly owned, and it's primary source of income is "the license fee". A TV license is required if you watch any live TV in the UK, and costs £145/year ($230). You need a license even if you never watch a BBC channel (there are 100s of channels - our equivalents of HBO, ESPN etc.) however you don't need a license if you never watch live TV (you can watch on-demand TV, for example through BBC iPlayer, and not have to have a license).

BBC also makes money through stuff like DVD sales, both in the UK and all over the world, and by selling shows they own to other countries (e.g. Top Gear).

Most content on the BBC website (news/etc.) is available from anywhere in the world, but if you visit from outside the UK you are shown advertising. Video content (e.g. TV shows on iPlayer) is generally not available outside the UK, however I believe this is soon to change and it will be available for a fee.

Some small amounts of content (for example this "BBC Future", that this article is from) are for some unknown reason created for a non-UK audience and does not allow viewers with UK IP addresses.

(OK, it's not easy to give a "quick" overview of the BBC, my bad.)
Congrats to Manu! (we were classmates)
It's true that there are people not being aware of the information now and they'll be people not aware of it in the future. But I think[1] there's a large group of people who are aware that the information exists, but are just ignoring it as they deem that info too complex/time consuming to learn. Enabling better security practices for this group would be an overall net gain.

[1] Based on my past experiences, YMMV :-)
* League of Women Voters

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A lot of it. The stack ranking system (the one the article mentioned is old), the fact that people are reading the Vanity Fair article secretively, etc... Most of this article is trying to paint an immensely negative picture that simply isn't true.
In [1] you showed us how to authenticate via DNSSEC HTTPS in Chrome. If I understand correctly this involves a lookup of a TYPE257 record. Given that only 5% can resolve TXT records, do you know what % of Chrome users can then resolve TYPE257 records?

Digressing a bit further, wouldn't you say that even if HSTS is enabled and registered in the all the browsers' built-in list, you still have the problem of unencrypted DNS lookups? (Maybe this kind of attack is orders of magnitude harder to implement. I honestly don't know.)

[1] http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/06/16/dnssecchrome.html
Neat. I don't love the ko.observables, but as an alternative to having to have objects fit into a predefined structure/class hierarchy, they seemed like a good tradeoff.
I would not be surprised to learn that all of these things you say are true. But you miss what Steve Jobs did, he made them happen. Which is to say that he may have been claiming credit left and right but he looked (from the outside) to be fearless in his drive to get the next product done and shipping. A really fascinating story in WSJ today about Nokia and their smart phone dreams in 2007 [1]. Which if you read the article has this quote:

"If only they had been landed in products," Mr. Elop said of the company's inventions in a recent interview, "I think Nokia would have been in a different place."

And that is so key. To go to production requires a crap ton of work, there are manuals, there are repair strategies, there are warranty kits, there are certifications and approvals, there is testing and injection molding tooling. The list seems nearly endless. Then once you ship the product (unless you're HP apparently :-) you commit to supporting it for 2, 3 even 5 years. That is a Big Deal(tm) and so making that commitment requires Big Decisions.

Now when you are small its easy, you have to ship product to survive and you don't care that you're committing to 5 years of long term support if you're just happy if you still exist in five years. But if you're a big name and a big company you see that investment meaning you can't invest in something else. And if you don't passionately and honestly believe that what is being proposed is or can be the next big thing, you don't dare ship it and miss the real big thing.

Clayton did a much better job than I at describing the Innovator's Dilemma but the essence of what he speaks about is the will to ship. Steve had that in spades and its a rare gift. It can work against you too (see Adam Osborne who announced but shipped late the Osborne Executive as the HBR exemplar of killing yourself).

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230438800457753...
How exactly does "I know what I'm doing. I'll reset the option when the underlying issue is resolved, and overall it's a great feature for the browser, but I need to have the ability to be responsible for myself." become "train the staff to be blind to security warnings"?
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I've used NHibernate, Linq2Sql, and Entity Framework in real projects. I like EF the best, particularly EF Code First. I'm not fond of NHibernate's configuration files and lack of linq support. EF Code First has its quirks too, but seems very lean.
But, but, I am bitter, apathetic, and contrarian!
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So... aside from the HUD integration, which is cool, what's the difference between what they've made and having multiple browser windows open?
This seems to have already happened, the future of Microsoft is Steven Sinofsky. (Well, barring Windows 8 being a Vista-esque disaster...)

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-28/tech/31106885...
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You're not terribly familiar with the concepts of democracy, right?
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brew install postgres

Done. How is this useful?
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Investors are gamblers, and gamblers look for good odds. Until we can prove that the odds of success in the Bay Area are not better than other places, we'll have to often deal with required local operation.

Lots of folks who aren't already wealthy would prefer living elsewhere (unless you like places with Manhattan-style prices, but no Manhattan-style amenities).
It's nice to see tech cross over into worlds traditionally governed by the humanities. There is so much journalism that can be automated and refined. Same goes for law.
It's not arrogant on Chrome's part to incrementally improve the user's security, while forcing companies to incrementally improve their security. It's incompetent on the IT department's side to ignore a problem that is both a genuine security risk and an obstacle to getting things done. (Besides, as other commenters have pointed out, the ignore option is only hidden if the server opts to send an HSTS header.)
Heroku told me it was just released today.
The EE is just about the ultimate, isn't it? I'm also a fan of the smooth flowing industrial design of the old Cincinnati horizontal mills.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with HL3 taking so long to release. Only partly joking.
I tried Induction a few weeks back and it has quite a ways to go before you could rely on it day in and day out.

I'm still holding out for Postgres and Sqlite support in Sequel Pro since that tool has a great UI and tons of nifty features.
A smooth user experience on Unity is needed in order to ensure the well functioning of the web apps and browsers together.

Encapsulating the browser process, is what usually kills web widget performance, and I end up going back to the browser..
Anyone else have expensive legal?
I didn't realize you were forced at gunpoint to donate.
Also, that was my first time using gist.io, and I must say it was awesome.
Crypto? This is a solved problem:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/ATM_20handshake_202
What app do you use to manage the virtual instances?
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Fair enough. It's interesting how Tizen fizzled out despite being the combination of like three previous mobile OS's.
I think this is a great way getting started with postgres. You don't have to build it from scratch(may via homebrew) and can directly dive in using it. I know, there are binaries linked on the postgres website, but I had some issues with the installer in the past.
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And that conviction was immoral and improper. Microsoft did not have a monopoly in the proper sense of the term, only in the sense used by anti-business people who want to twist the term to suit their own purpose.
It's funny that this has been going on 'underground' for a few years (at least 2009) by a bunch of different groups. These two knuckleheads (hi HackMiami!) give a talk in 2010 about terrorist forums and how to troll them: http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/62093
This is a good idea, and would integrate very well with a tech job website.

I do think you should feature the "statistics" and "methodology" up top: I almost missed those.

I'm also very interested in string matching/text search, but in a very different area:
http://www.ericbullington.com/articles/2012/03/26/libtm-a-tr...
It's interesting how varied the applications are for these string search algorithms and data structures: a lot of the active research is this area is going on in bioinformatics (not full text search though, obviously). And then there's the kind of translation retrieval stuff I'm interested in, and you've found yet another cool application in commit histories.

I'm very interested in seeing where you take this idea.
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