skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know Dan and a few of the others involved in this project and their passion is both amazing and warranted. Data is becoming and indispensable tool in the modern newsroom, and it makes sense that the pairing of seasoned journalists and creative developers is key to uncovering new stories today.

Pretty exciting stuff, and I can't wait to see what they do next.
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Zerigo is down
Anyone have a good replacement for Sparrow?
I've really enjoyed Sparrow Mail on my desktop, and now am looking for a solid replacement. Any suggestions? I hate the native web gmail interface, and Sparrow looked awesome and got search perfect (unlike mail.app)
Did you talk to him? Ask him why he is doing that?
Richmond was a 'typo' on my part. I meant Redmond. I was basically told that all Microsoft software development happened inside of the US.
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That's actually fairly sophisticated (bordering on overkill, but then again it is overkill with a marketing purpose given that they're analytics folks...)

If I were going to do it:

1) Is my book about sadomasochism? If "no", I would reconsider "Submit" as button copy. People like "Get My Free X" a lot more, which leads into...

2) "Join the conversation" sounds like something that only a marketing person would love. If you want to offer something to convince people to join your list -- and you do! -- promise them immediate value from it. There has to be an early chapter you can give away for free. If your publishers are too 19th century to cotton to that, a) they should be fired but b) you can produce something short & actionable which is spiritually aligned with the book and then give that away.

3) Microcopy to the general effect of "We won't spam you" pretty much invariably works. It's also a good idea to set expectations as to what kind of email they'll be getting and how frequently.
This was fun. Definitely more engaged with it than the average review, though I think that the novelty would wear off quickly after this first one.
It's definitely a tricky negotiation. I've been on both side of the transaction (including deals that fell through for various reasons). ohashi has covered most of what I'd recommend. One thing to include ... seriously consider using an escrow service if you do come to an agreement to protect both side in the transaction.
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I don't think it is a question of forbidden or crossed line. It is a question of self brand (reputation) that may be ternished.

In some situation when they have to pick employee A or B for a bonus, a promotion or to be fired, and there is no clear difference between the two, the choice will rely on subjective and detail differences like beeing once caught with a porn page on its screen. Some employees could jump on such opportunities to smear their competitors.

Thus, since it was not required to use such type of screen capture to illustrate the problem, and it is not the usual type of content we read here, it make sense it was initially flagged and frown upon. Though I don't think fair to say the author is lacking judgment. To me it is the result of a culture difference. None good, none bad.
It really is a disgusting hack, and specific to FreeBSD. It does need to be a bit more sophisticated than "block an IP if it floods me" because as it is now someone can simply spoof the IP of an ISP's DNS server and effectively firewall them, blocking their users from being able to resolve the domain names I'm hosting.

I can give you one tip to get you started: if you're running named, you can enable logging of every query, something like (hope this formats ok) :

logging {
channel query_logging {
file "/var/log/named/querylog"
versions 3 size 100M;
print-time yes; // timestamp log entries
};

category queries {
query_logging;
};

};
Am I being oversensitive or is that a very strange way to word a "new tech item quickly sells out" headline?
Galaxy Nexus running CM9 RC1 is vulnerable to Mempodroid :(
I have Cablevision and they technically allow you to opt out. But even after opting out, I still get that damned useless ad-infested search page sometimes, seemingly at random. I'm not sure if it's because of their incompetence of malicious intent.
> If you're doing it and you're not happy, know that you can fix it.

How?
There's a lot of distance between "can't" and "don't want to."
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I think you're reading too far. The assertion is pretty straightforward: an Android device built in the US puts pressure on Apple to do the same. And the sentence links to a story about Apple wanting to build in the US but not being able to do so. I don't see an assertion of causality. They just looked for an opportunity to link to another Forbes story, saw a relevant one, and threw it in. The author may not have even written the link in the original.
1. No, its not bad. I was not looking at the issue from "right" or "Wrong" perspective. This is only one example. I am sure there are others.

2. Unfortunately, its not even up to the judge to determine "obligations". Companies that grow as big as Facebook tend to turn evilish. ATT is a private company with healthy profits; your phonecalls suppose to be private and you pay ATT for delivering of service, but yet you have NSA and others involved, where the Government publicly saying "yes we listen everything, we OCR your conversations looking for terrorism, we record everything in our trillion terabytes storage center". Skype is private too but its been known they are or may be listening too.

To think that profits-seeking revenue-troubled Facebook will not want to look for additional ways of making money such as selling your data to government is naive. I really can imagine, sooner or later, an official set aside budget that Govetnment will come up with that will be spend only on asking Facebook for full access to their databases. Who knows, perhaps this is they way FB will turn profitable-healthy. Guess the question would be if that, hopefully, will finally scare ppl off of using it.
I really agree with the choice of pursuing an interest in music. Understanding how rhythms, counts, and more come together to make something greater is fundamental to the building of software.

Learning to find the patterns in music is much like finding the patterns in a problem, and a solution to know you 'got it'.
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Wait, so they all fall on the visible spectrum?
Puff piece? Did you read the whole article through a neutral lens? Here are some excerpts you might have missed:

> At slow speeds the Model S feels disappointingly like a hefty, battery-laden electric car. With a light foot on the accelerator, it shuffles from stop sign to stop sign with all the eagerness of a fat man asked to change seats on an airliner. You can almost hear it sigh.

> Fortunately, for me, the brake pedal works just as well as the accelerator nicely preventing me from rear-ending cars ahead after each startling burst of speed.

Even the quote that you took out of context was a begrudging acknowledgement that it was believable that the car would handle well given the low center of gravity, but that he'd have to wait to say for sure.
No, I don't believe so. I could (or can and do) use my real name. I simply don't -want- to use my real name.

I dislike giving incorrect answers to questions. I did use that box when testing the new requirements for lack of a better fit. By so doing, I am allowing Youtube (Google) to misrepresent my reasons for declining to use my real name. I don't care for that.

As I said in my video response, Youtube (Google) can either acknowledge my desire for a certain level of anonymity when I interact with youtube, or I simply will move to Vimeo or another provider.

Like a lot of people, I'm kind of stuck on the gmail tar baby. It will be hard for me to step away from gmail. Youtube, on the other hand, is not something where I have built up a lot of utility. It could be that they simply have decided that Youtube will now focus on the 'professional' posters, and not worry so much about casual posters and users like myself. I believe that is a mistake because the people that make a buck (or think they might) on youtube start as casual users.

I have noticed that youtube seems to be paying a lot more attention to the commercial users than to the casual users. That is their choice, but I'd bet that there will be other folks that would be only too happy to focus on the hoi pilloy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_polloi)
Running an older CM7 build on my evo4g, vulnerable to ZurgRush :(
In addition, it seems like this is as much about real names for video uploaders as for commenters. My guess is that's what they really care about, not the comments cesspool.
It's a soundbite analogy suggesting that the Government isn't generally terribly organised and covering up something as huge as aliens not only existing but already having been among us isn't likely. Considering what he does for a living Seth must get asked this question loads and this is a convenient way to get his point across without having to have a long winded discussion every time on the complexities or unlikelihood of a cover up of this magnitude.
Weak perhaps to you and me, but to the average internet user, much stronger.
This is actually a pretty good idea if you've noticed some sort of systemic problem with your ISP's DNS. If the secondary is likely to be down at the same times as the primary, it's a good way to avoid that dependency.
Since when does real name equate to a better quality comment? Perhaps it is more about Big Brother tracking people's points-of-view on controversial issues? Or is it for better targeted ads?

I am uninclined to comment with my real name generally because my opinion changes, and I change over time.

I recently left a FB blog comment simply as "I like it" and felt almost uncomfortable with that. Does it matter what my real name is or what I look like? HN shows that anonymity works with just modding and the option to reveal one's identity. Why doesn't YouTube tally user comments and comment scores if they want to improve quality.. that's why I think this is a Big Brother or ad push.

Comments that self-destruct after a set period are another answer to comment quality, or ones that revert to a pseudonym, either fixed or random after a period of time.
Those aren't "good effects of sitting", they are good effects of other things which typically involve sitting. The place most people I've talked to went, when seeing the original article, was talking about standing desks. If it is in fact the sitting-as-opposed-to-standing that is having an impact, that would be a good way of having the benefits of a desk job without the sitting. I don't think anyone read it and said, "Oh, I'd better quit my cushy desk job and become a coal miner."
OK, so who's going to do the correlation with en vogue colors from the same years (fashion, paint, cars, etc.)?
And on Windows? Or a Ubuntu user who only knows how to use the GUI? Or OS X?
I want to work for you.

Coming out of two startup sales, I have to say if you want to make money you shouldn't be an early employee anyway; you should join when the company is willing to pay good money.
The article suggested that the high piracy rate may be because Google Play is only available in 31 countries, and with only credit and debit card payment options.

No hard numbers were provided to back that up, but presumably supporting more countries and payment options could only help sales. So, Google could support more countries and payment options.

Alternately, they could add more sophisticated DRM to android phones.
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Reminds me of those Android apps out there were the first screen is just login/register. Nothing to draw users in at all. For some reason, tons of programmers, when writing, just immediately go - aaaand we need accounts! Quick! A lot of times the app really has no need for them yet at all and it would be better to work on free open features that can get some users coming and coming back. So I guess it is good to sell something developers want, but I'd really like to see less of this particular thing, not more.
I've been using fish exclusively for about 2 years, and the only thing I really missed was smart tab-completing multiple directories, like cd l/a/t/b<tab> completing to Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles even if there's another top-level directory starting with L.

Fish's consistent syntax for conditionals/loops is what brought me over in the first place, I always needed to work to remember what goes where in zsh/bash. For one-off tasks the reduction in mental overhead was a _huge_ win.

That said, I recently did switch back to zsh for a functional command-not-found handler - fish's only includes the name of the binary rather than the whole command, so I couldn't productively use it as a retry wrapper.
I assume most people find my app directly on the Mac App Store. There is the "Search App Store..." button that Mac OS displays when you double click an unknown file type. I think that's important for my app, but I have no numbers to back that up.

On the website, I get some hits from fileinfo.com. I also posted to a couple of forums where people asked how to open mdb files on a Mac. I tried to be as little spammy as possible, and always disclosed my affiliation with MDB Viewer when writing about it (for example see http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=27957 at the bottom of the page)

I provide really thorough documentation on my website. I hope that the docs double as search engine landing pages.

I tried Google Adwords (I got 100€ credit for free), but I don't know if that actually led to any sales. I didn't continue because it seemed too much of a hassle.

I don't do much analytics, so I have no clue how successful the different things I did were. I occasionaly check my website using awstats, and I check app sales with AppViz, and that's about it.
Yeah, it's overkill because the book is about this stuff. Normally this much analysis is narcissism. We even left some stuff out (like the Facebook page traffic and ramp-up.)

Agree completely about getting the button wording right. We'll try some different buttons; the 37Signals example (where they changed from "buy" to "see plans and pricing" and doubled conversions) shows this is something to spend a lot of time on. Candidly, we had only a few days to get things live, so they're still rough around the edges.

Our publishers are O'Reilly, so they're delightfully open (encouraging, even) about sharing all kinds of content. And there's simply too much for the book to hold. Great point that we should make some content just for list subscribers.

We're in the middle of interviews with a bunch of big tech companies about the metrics they watched in the early days, and we should probably put some of that aside just for subscribers.

Thanks for the feedback.
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You don't need double opt in unless you are sending them emails. Assuming we're talking about a typical web app, this isn't the case. The method you propose actually has a pretty massive usability flaw. When someone signs up on my site, they are immediately logged in and free to use it. Content they upload/create isn't made visible to other until they confirm their account registration via emailed link. The email verification is to prevent spammers. Signups occur almost always directly because "I want to do X", and if you put a barrier between the sign up and the "do X" like waiting a half hour for an email confirmation, then a significant number of people will simply give up and never complete the signup.
I tend to agree that asserting they created an animal is a bit of a stretch. The creature doesn't obtain or maintain its structure through internally-encoded genes, nor does it maintain its behavior through an internal stimulus response mechanism. Its structure is grown around a polymer film, and its behavior is completely externally driven. At best, they have created a cyborg jellyfish-like thing.
Nevermind that. Deliver a box of these to any corporate office, whether they're expecting the shipment or not, they will accept and eventually distribute them within their facilities.
Social is a Cancer
I don't expect any Amazon employees who are making 100K to need a subsidized associates degree, though.
Ummm, what?

http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/building-and-test...

Source:
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/native_client/trunk/src/nativ...

That wasn't hard to find.
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Guess what? I've never seen Blade Runner, and I enjoy flabbergasting people.
Why haven't you published this to the Google Play store?
This page:

http://www.acgov.org/government/news/smartgrid.htm

Says $11.7 million. But that is the project cost, not the additional cost of using this system to provide backup power to the jail.
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This article is great opportunity for the title editor.
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Ok, thank you for your insight. No offense intended, but I still think it's narrow minded if people (or rather their peers) think along those lines, but alas, that's probably a culture thing. I think that a (work) culture that punishes reading this article looses out on some valuable insights.

As a completely unrelated side note: I think that picture was an excellent choice. It's a graphic example that pretty much everyone can relate to. I'm not embarrassed by having that picture on my screen but I'd be embarrassed if my email address could be verified to belong to a registered porn site account [1]. It gets the authors point across so much better than showing an MSDN account.

[1] It doesn't. Don't bother looking ;)
…it makes sense to use the system's ability to temporarily decrease power consumption at the jail for things like the air-conditioning or lighting to create more excess power to sell to the grid.

Nothing says "for profit penal system" like turning off the environmental support systems when you can make a lot of money diverting the power for sale.
Sobering. I cringe every time I remember that it is likely that someone will propose metal-detectors at movie theaters now.
Grab the latest of JMZTaylor's unofficial CM9 nightlies! They are very stable and a huge upgrade from CM7 on my original Evo.
Numbers Attract Attention, Vague Statements Don’t
that's not the whole story of a hackathon - tremendous value gets added from the experience/learning/relationships built as well
The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 (so far)
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Awesome a hackathon that is run by a product person(blog owner), marketing/pr woman, banking analyst and one front end dev. Where do I sign up?
Venture funding falls 12 percent in second quarter
Neat, but it's still a very linear narrative, with the addition of having to type in commands to be able to read the next section.

Would have been much better if the review was exposed as an API which you could explore freely. And maybe some embedded silly programming challenges to be able to more effectively read the review. e.g. the example paragraph API could have just .nextChar() and .hasMoreChars() methods, so one would have to write a loop to comfortably read the example.

Opportunities are endless, though the book itself looks interesting.
Of course, but this is a one-time thing. Do it once, it's a fun novelty. But you'd never really do it again.
That's only because they added rudimentary voting a few years back. Do you remember what it was like before that?
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I don't understand your argument here. NaCl is an open source and openly developed project that anyone is welcome to participate in. The repository, tracker, and mailing lists are all public. In fact, the NaCl team has made numerous efforts to involve the other browser makers (even if they haven't shown interest so far).
The interactive review was fun and caught my attention. The book has been purchased.
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>no peer moderation or ranking

It seems like enough thumbs down or enough spam flaggings take care of moderation, and thumbs up takes care of at least two rankings.
Those jobs aren't. There might be cool new manufacturing design jobs. Anything repetitive will, inevitably, be automated away.
If i may ask what is your backend database and how have you implemented the custom fields?
Sell it to the government? Using it to better target ads (which translates directly into more revenue for Google) seems a lot more likely them some secret government profiling conspiracy.
Personally I think YouTube should have HN/Reddit-style threaded comments, but I wonder how well that works for videos seen and commented on every day.
Gearhead websites like Jalopnik and TTAC have taken Tesla to task for only providing extremely short press junkets to reviewers - assumably so nobody will ever get the thing down to empty and have something bad to say about it in their review. To me it shows a lack of confidence in their own product.

I personally hope the best for them, but to this day it remains to be seen if they can actually deliver the 50k Model S to a customer.
This hits close to home. I tried getting internet service from TWC twice but they failed each time. The first time they couldn't find the cable output. Turned out it didn't exist. So I scheduled an appointment for a "wall drop" (creation of needed cable output), but the guy just showed up confused that I didn't have one asked me to schedule a wall drop.
Ran it on Verizon Galaxy Nexus (4.0.4) and it appears everything is patched. Now if they would just get me Jellybean, I would be a really happy camper...
This isn't about Youtube, this is simply use of a property with a massive userbase owned by Google to promote its strategic priority du jour, which is getting traction for Google+. This is hardly the first time Google has done this -- for example, they'll often bootstrap key products with "Oh yeah, we have a mortal lock on navigation on the Internet." That's why Google Video (and later Youtube) got such prominent billing in the search results, why Chrome has a front-page-of-the-Internet banner ad on the homepage of the company that doesn't do banner ads, etc.

+ Edit to add: A quick check of a few diverse searches show that Youtube is substantially less prominent than I remember it being.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer
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Yes, true, there are some cases where you don't need double opt-in, but we're in trade-off territory here [1]. If you decide that your customers value privacy less than usability, fine with me. The point is: It can be done.

[1] Most services that I've signed up to lately log you in once you confirm the email. That's what I regard as the best compromise and for that case, the scheme works perfectly without leaking information.
What about a patent under something like Twitter's Innovator's Patent Agreement?

http://blog.twitter.com/2012/04/introducing-innovators-paten...