skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the stock market is not a place for individual investors"

It's very difficult to make money in stocks unless there is something you know that most others don't know about the company or it's prospects.

So if you know about security and know of a security company going public and something about the people at the company and the business prospects (not talking insider just a higher degree of understanding or knowledge) you might be able to do ok.

However I've found that even in things you know about it's hard to make it all work because you really don't know the behind the scenes things happening at the particular company you are investing in (which would be insider information). I'm reminded about this anytime I think about investing in Verisign which I know much of from the industry and the fact that I've been dealing with them for so many years and I haven't ever been that right in predicting where the stock is going to go based upon the way I see things since that is not the same as the way the market sees things. That said I probably have a better time and stand a better chance then someone who knows less than I do. I don't invest in stocks. It's gambling. Business is a gamble as well but at least you can control many things and improve your odds.
I'm sure he'd accept pull requests.
maybe... I don't have any 4.0+ devices to test on, and the large majority of users are still on 2.x
Nice. Now where in can I find the data about my comments - e.g. what's at http://news.ycombinator.org/threads?id=SideburnsOfDoom
>>>but the stuff he didn't say "No" to quickly became a blight on the company.

Ping.
Ah, sorry. I forgot to mention thin. I will update the article. I just mentioned the web servers I've tested with! :)
Reminds me of biology. It's always intrigued me that we often want to make computer systems as "good" as humans, and yet our acceptance of human faults is far higher than what we accept from computers. Any small part of a body may have some problems, but the body as a whole continues to function well. I wonder if this kind of design will become a trend?
With all due respect this is like saying we shouldn't use rockets to go into space but instead try to jump higher. Humans using their big monkey brains to make technological advancements is the core of space exploration. We should be inspired by the people designing and operating the technology. Probably more so than the (mostly) non-scientists and non-engineers who flew rockets to the Moon for example.
The 9gag team is solid.I first met them at 500Startups early last year.

At the time they were working on a number of products, but they truly had a mastery in understanding the creation and sharing process of people between 15-30. It showed within each product they created and it was ultimately 9gag that went bananas in terms of user adoption.

They also have a pretty neat mission that extends beyond a r/funny wrapper -- though with the myriad of clones and previously created similar sites there is some credit due to them for their rapid expansion.

I hope the raise will give them the resources to expand further as I have no doubt they are already doing quite well.

As for why YC -- probably to connect more fully in the Valley since they are (or intend to be) based in Hong Kong.

Pretty connected names in the investor list over at angel.co/9gag // Ben Ling, Chris Sacca, Kevin Rose etc..

Oh, and while I agree to some extent that sites like these marginally improve the internet, humour is a great remedy to many of our ails.
Top link from googling "gladwell corporate shill"

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/06/malcolm-gladwell-unma...

Summary:

* pushed ritalin for big pharma
* defending tobacco corporations on settlements
* advocating for financial deregulation
* and defending Enron executives

Allegedly rewarded $1m/yr for speaking by undisclosed corporations. Significantly more than what he makes as journalist or writer.
You can always use the AVD, it has 4.0 and now even 4.1.
Oh, so instead of a factual engineering update, you want to see him play politics. Gotcha.
I think any updates to the UI would be appreciated at this stage. The rest of the app seems to be working just fine, now all that's missing is a nice interface.
As Expected, Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo
"Renews itself naturally at a rate exceeding that of consumption"

Over what period of time (or is the rate of consumption fixed?) and what region of space?

"at projected rates of consumption, would be sufficient for forseable demand until the end of time on Earth"

Not sure I believe 4B-year forward demand projections...

Isn't the amount of energy expended (and/or mass of raw materials mixed) per TWh produced what we really care about?
Suppose false flag attacks represented as much as 20% of the scores of thousands of recorded attacks - even though prextexts for war like the Manchurian incident only require one or two attacks and not ongoing campaigns, for example.

What then? What of the other 80% in this hypothetical? Why are they still so incompetent?

If you want to seriously claim that the majority of all terrorist attacks are false flag operations, I don't give a skosh about what you consider 'facile'.
9GAG in YC. What the fuck.
not there yet because nobody has ever requested that feature :) i'll add it to the todo list
It also 'pings' everyone who starred/subscribed to the issue out of interest - very not cool
> The lightweight framework Sinatra has had streaming for a some time now

Rack itself has response streaming support[0]. As a result, even before Sinatra 1.3 and the `stream` helper method you could stream responses in Sinatra.

[0] since pretty much forever ago: https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/53e299724b9173efe50e9afc...
Surprised no ones mentioned the noscript plugin.

Since the user is on facebook they'd have facebook unblocked, but noscript still blocking everything else.

How would you discern a noscript user from bot?
This look pretty good, but is there any way to turn of the default scrolling behaviour? Kind of makes me nauseous.
I don't understand, who are the people profiting from click fraud on Facebook? Obviously Facebook is but we can pretty safely presume they're not coding bots on their own ad network. A competitor could maybe profit from it but this seems like a rather roundabout way to damage your competitors. What other rational business case is there to build click bots on Facebook?

This is not like Google with AdSense where they pay out 3rd parties, the motivation there is clear.
Just saw this come across Twitter:

"What @samsoffes has built with @cheddar is amazing for a solo gig: website, iOS app, API, open source, blog, store. Many startups do less." - @bb

After checking everything out and struggling with finishing up a thousand little side projects myself, I really respect the thoroughness.
Samsung reveals pre iPhone concepts
By ourselves. And we are creating iPad app where anyone can creates such beautiful buildings and maps of real cities.
I still cannot read that name without my brain auto-correcting in the missing "a".

I wish they would change the name to something more distinct from Code Academy.
so what? as i mentioned i know 9gag founders since they are from the same yc batch. they are extremely smart and talented guys, that already archived a lot and set very ambitious goals for their company future. i honestly wish them luck and excited to see them succeeding.

haters gona hate, who cares?
Good to know. I was worried there could be some bad interaction between rails and the eventmachine. :)
Marijuana republic sounds awkward. Can we just call it a cannabinocracy?
I know what HTTPS is, I am asking why it matters in this specific context. We're not talking about javascript, we're talking about images. Nobody cares if the images are being sent securely, do they? From a random sampling, it sure doesn't look like very many https sites serve up https images. My current plan for our upcoming site launch is also to serve up images over http, not https. Is there an actual reason not to do this, or is it just "its on my list so do it"?

Any idea why so many sites allow http after logging in? I realize a facebook account isn't a high value target, but it seems crazy that a site that size works over http. I imagine they must have some reason to support http (not implying it has to be a good reason).
What's a nice but clear way to end the conversation without damaging the relationship in case you want to pitch them for Series B?
I think there's a middle way: double-down on sending robots to space, which technologically and economically spurs innovation and sustainability on earth, that we might someday be in a position to send humans to space for extended stays.

Planetary Resources is going in the right direction. Capturing humanity's imagination is a good start; capturing their investment capital is what actually gets things done.
Mgit - runs a git command in multiple repositories
The Foundation have recently released a new distro, based on Raspbian, that gives better performance and is now their recommendation. Hardware floating point and better use of the ARM's instructions. X11 graphics performance still to be improved. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1605
actually you can just type codeacademy.com with the a. There is auto redirect to the one without the a.
Scariest hacks from Black Hat and Defcon
Is GNOME really “Staring into the abyss?” (Yep)
I don't want to imply that there's a hard-and-fast rule here -- there isn't. And it's possible (but highly unlikely) that I would hire someone who is entirely self-taught. It's more of a spectrum: if you've done very well in a program than I'm familiar with, I have a great deal of certainty about the kinds of problems you've dealt with; if your degree is slightly different (EE, CompEng) or from an institution that I have no familiarity with, that just means I need to familiarize myself and wade into the specifics -- it's not a strike against, by any means. If your degree is further afield but technical, that will require more validation that you understand computer science; I've seen way, way too many physicists who turn out to be horrifically bad software engineers. If your degree is non-technical, however, then you're going to get lumped into the "self-educated" camp -- and again, it's not impossible that I would hire someone self-educated, it's just highly unlikely to encounter someone self-educated who meets our bar for software engineer.
> I want to write to the socket.

That's what you do when you yield to the each's block. It's not like the caller calls each multiple times when it wants new data, he calls `each` once and you feed it data via the block it provides.

> Somehow data must be fed to the `each` function

Just as it "must be" fed to the `write` in your examples.
I kind of see 9gag as the new College Humor, maybe bigger and more inclusive. Congrats to the team!
Sources: next iPhone likely to be unveiled on Wednesday, September 12th
I'd second that. By no means would I want to see space exploration stop. I just don't think we should be looking to live elsewhere when we can't live here.
Will you keep making the source code available in a free software license in the upcoming iterations? Is the YC investment likely to cause any change in this regard?

I'm happy that you're able to work much more freely on NewsBlur, but as an early premium user, the investment did get me mildly worried about the future of my beloved app that a handful of dedicated people used, and was very well cared for by one guy I trusted my data and workflow with.

My uneducated and selfish hunch for NB's ideal future is one where you keep charging a much larger amount of users (and possibly charge more), avoid any further investment of the VC kind, and continue keeping the latest production source available under a free license.
Given the evidence in the new Samsung court case, with the 2010 iPad being worked on in 2002. That means there's still at least another eight years of pipeline that's yet to hit the public.
Pebble bed reactors are nice - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor

But my major problem with most forms of nuclear is that from a geopolitical standpoint, if you are proposing a technology for clean global power, it has to by definition be something you would be able to share freely with a potential enemy. Most current nuclear power technologies, including the pebble bed, conspicuously fail at this.
You sure it wasn't Ringo Starr? I'm going to vote Ringo.
The big difference was that College Humor was/is a content creator, not just a content aggregator.
I got my 60-something in-laws to get iPhones last year. They own 1 older PC and 2 PC laptops but are decidedly "non-tech." (like they don't even sync or update the phones)

My mother-in-law recently had a back-lighting issue with her display and I told her to take it to the Genius bar. They looked at me like I had three heads. They didn't buy their phones at an Apple store so they had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. I explained the whole concept of in-store service and support and that you just need to make an appointment and they were surprised.

So, I can totally see where Apple needs to make this aspect of their retail experience better known because a lot of people buy iOS devices from places other than an Apple store and have no clue about it.

Ironically, like most are responding to these ads, the most awkward part about explaining it to her was calling them geniuses. It was easier to finally say, it's like geek squad only better and cooler.
Are you sure that the reports aren't already public? Are you saying that aircrews were allowed to pick their own secondary targets if their primary targets were not reachable?
That image is really underwhelming considering what Apple has released. Apple actually gave us a peak into their design process. I really want to see Samsung's now too.
Makes sense to me... I'm still speculating if Apple will announce the smaller iPad along with the new iPhone. It makes sense in some aspects, but you would think they would announce it when they annually announce a new iPad (Q1).
The original link points to a non-official course that is still in beta testing.

Here is the link to the official Python track: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python

EDIT: all better now!
The power of Apple's marketing isn't in the new customers who see it, it's the old customers who use it as a script on how to promote the company. Who needs clever marketing with fans like these?
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/04/webrtc-efforts-underway-at-...

:)
I think it's way too early to tell. In fact, I doubt we will see if they truly will succeed without Steve until a new emerging technology trend threatens to dethrone Apple from one of the categories they dominate.

If, in 5-10 years the iPhone becomes irrelevant or outdated because of a new contender and Apple has to play catch-up, then I think we can say that Apple is in trouble without Steve.

Until then, Apple just needs to keep doing what they've mostly done even when Steve was running things, which is continually improving their products to remain competitive.
I agree with the points the writer makes. I also agree that they compound to make the ad bad. But..

I don't think the "allergic reaction" is because of them though, not directly. This ad is like a mean comedian bombing on stage. The joke isn't working and it's mean. If the comedian seems nice, harmless & vulnerable you empathetically cringe, unpleasantly sharing in his embarrassment. Not fun, but bearable. You might even give him a chance to recover. If he seems like an asshole & he's making a mean joke, you react with.. almost hate. You suddenly notice all the things you hate about this asshole who isn't funny.

That's why vitriol is a bad strategy for inexperienced comedians. If you bomb, the crowd will turn on you. Hard. If mean jokes are funny, they're allowed. If they're not, the audience wants blood.

This is also true for racist jokes, misogynistic jokes, joke about child abuse. etc. If its funny, its funny. If not, he's trying to make fun of child abuse?
Yes. It can also make you a better topologist, physicist and logician, as this paper states it[1]: Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone

This paper is also a very good introduction to Category Theory.

[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf
Jonah Lehrer famously said "I'll never get caught, you can't catch me." and "If I get caught I'll eat my shoe." At least, that's what I've just made up and attributed to him.
> One could analyze peaceful political movements based on their stated original goals, ignore all results that only partially meet those goals, and conclude that the vast majority are hardly more effective than terrorism.

Could you point to where in the studies they ignore the results? Go ahead, I'll wait.

> There are plenty of terrorist organisations that have never killed anyone or never targeted innocent civilians.

Name three.

> This focuses completely on the most extreme forms of terrorism, the islamic extremists with their suicide attacks. A form of terrorism that has been quite rare in the West, despite all of the publicity.

If you look, you'll find plenty of non-suicide attacks; and the suicide attacks are not all Islamic - the Tamil Tigers (1979-2009) are an excellent example of terrorist failure.

> And one could argue that those have been quite successful so far: with only a few successful attempts, they've gotten our full, almost daily, attention for over a decade now.

Well, I'm glad their ambitions were just to beat Snooki in ratings - like Osama bin Laden before his late demise, they can take consolation in watching Fox News.
A real-world survey of "mobile first"
For clarity.

I was in Mensa ~1969-1982.

In high school I was a terrible student and therefore I didn’t think I was that smart. My sister, much older and much wiser, thought otherwise and had me take a Mensa test when I was a junior.

The numbers confirmed her suspicion.

Being a Mensa member didn’t make school any easier but it gave me comfort that I wasn’t a complete idiot, just that I learned differently. Convergent was the only time I put Mensa on a resume because of how the recruiter described the intellectual horsepower of the hiring exec and the rest of the team. I thought I needed something to wave to get in the door.

It worked. After that I just let my resume and accomplishments speak for themselves.
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> And that number has to be consistently better than Google's.

Why's that? This isn't a zero sum game. You don't advertise only on Google or only on Facebook; as much as your budget allows, you advertise on every channel you can achieve a positive ROI on.

For any advertiser looking for a direct response, like a signup or purchase, I doubt anything Facebook can do would make the ROI better than advertising on search. No amount of demographic and interest targeting will make advertising to people as effective as advertising to intent. You can pay Google to send you people while they're in the process of looking for your product; Facebook doesn't do that.
So, this is why people don't take you seriously.

I know a couple of guys like you in my local activist community, who take a very hostile "I know the truth and you're all fools!" attitude, despite the fact that their audience is mostly very sympathetic to most of their assertions. We know spying on the Internet takes place; HN is full of cantankerous old Internet geeks who've seen, first-hand, plenty of examples of the state (whatever state you may choose, as it happens all over the world) behaving unethically on the Internet, spying on people and punishing people for things that shouldn't be crimes.

But, your paranoid approach is counter-productive. You might as well be working for the people you claim to be afraid of, for all the good you do (negative good; you're convincing people that the folks who believe the government is spying are all paranoid nutjobs who scream at anyone who has the gall to mention other possible explanations).

So, let's review:

1. Just because spying has taken place, and is currently taking place, and may even have the complicity of facebook in that spying, it does not mean that facebook is running a botnet to steal advertiser dollars. The simplest explanation is that facebook looks the other way while others run the botnets. facebook wins (a lot, as long as most advertisers don't know it's happening), botnet owner wins (a little), and the advertiser loses. But, there are other plausible explanations, including incompetence.

2. When you paint things in a "Either you accept my theory in its entirety, or you're all idiots", you force people to choose a side. Nobody wants to be on the same side as an asshole, so you force them to choose the other side. You make people who may even agree with you (to a greater or lesser degree) to begin to formulate plausible reasons for why you're wrong about the crazier stuff you're spouting...further convincing themselves that you're entirely wrong. The best you can hope for is people ignore you and don't have the chance to be inoculated against your ideas; having you as their first exposure to these concepts guarantees they will be less likely to believe them in the future, even if they come from a more credible source. Humans are funny creatures.

Thus, I would point out that there are some really naive and stupid people on HN that have zero grasp of effective argument, persuasion, and even basic logic.

You might be well-served by reading about non-violent communication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication

Edit: Removed the word "schizophrenic" as it was an insensitive use of the term, and was counter-productive to making my point.
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Nothing is wrong with subjective opinions, but the Invoking of the Name Steve Jobs is a needless appeal to authority.

If someone thinks the ads are bad, fine, that is a valid and worthwhile opinion to share. We can talk about why we like or don't like the ads.

But how can we argue about whether Steve would have ok'd them? For all we know, he personally approved these scripts 3 years ago and they are only now being produced. Presumably someone within Apple knows the truth, but aside from that person, the rest of us are just going to be grossly speculating in an attempt to seize the moral high ground of Saint Steve.
Yeah, I have issues with Chrome caching my JS template files as well... shift-refreshing the files themselves shows the changes, but it has no effect on ajax requests.
I'm currently building support for this into Candy, a multiuser javascript based xmpp client:

http://candy-chat.github.com/candy-webrtc/

If everything works, candy should be able to connect to gTalk as well, at some point.
(Uses Jingle for transferring SDP to the participant).
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to have affected his popularity, his income, or people's tendency to suspend rational thought and go ga-ga over his latest profundity.
I want to say:

>80% of $FBs revenue is made from bots! OLOL

but what I actually think is

>They're just pissed their campaign didn't work out like they'd hoped

BUT I also think that it's equally likely that $FB would, if possible, defraud the clueless. How deep are [client]'s pockets? How literate are they in working to strict ROI goals?

I think this is probably a relatively new phenomenon. Facebook went public. Sales managers need to hit targets, they're thinking quarterly and they've got stock.

People know people and the rest is history.

If this has got legs then it's the perfect storm for facebook. :)
Why Wall Street’s Facebook estimates are phony