skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right like I'm going to fire up an ssh session to an external lox and then run nmap to check for an open port on a remote server? Oh wait, I'll need putty. oh wait, I can't get out because my firewall has issues, ports are messy. Hmm should I find a way to get putty and different net connection to where I want? No instead now, I'm taking another 5 minutes to get telnet installed on the server. I guess the arguement that it will be more productive in the long term to get ssh going is valid but I prefer the simplicity and speed of running up telnet.
The state of US healthcare is certainly detriment to meaningful debate of reform.
If we're working on the laws of physics, things like that win.

But in space launch, the laws of engineering have tended to be more important. A very reliable reusable rocket is probably going to be a better investment of the marginal dollar than any kind of air launch.

(Unless you are going all the way to things like Stratolaunch, which is riding SpaceX's rocket reliability. The mothership ought to be quite reusable, but building the biggest wing ever in history is going to be a tall engineering order. It remains to be seen which way wins out in the end.)
I like the L connector, but it does interfere with the other ports and tends to develop a sharp bend.

So in some situations it's wonderful, in others its horrible.

But it's vastly better than any PC laptop connector I've ever used.
Also MacPorts, so

port install elinks
The Long-Term Value of Internet Companies
I'm US resident. I'm the Project Manager at a small web development/design agency with 7 healthy males under 45. My premiums are $748/month to insure my family (I'm married with 1 child). It is a "health savings account" plan with no copay. The deductible is $5,000k out of my pocket, then it covers everything. I can put pre-taxed money into a health savings account to use on expenses up to my deductible. I put $200/month into it.

So... I pay $948/month for health insurance for my family. I can buy a middle class home (I'm in Kansas City) for that kind of monthly investment.

I've investigated other options multiple times and this really is as good as it gets for us without switching to a big corp job.
I find it really interesting how communist many start ups are, especially considering so many of them involve libertarians.
I am one of those people. I like helping our customers. But, liking something and working on something when you feel like it is very different than having a consistent support response time of 15 minutes.
I think what's important is the predictability and stability of the medium. Quora's recent "feature" is particularly repugnant because they had already achieved relatively wide distribution on the model that people were reading things privately, and then unexpectedly turned this feature on on an opt-out basis.

It's like if the postal mail were suddenly posting your mail history for others to see.

It's equally fine to me if a service starts out as more public -- as imessage did, and going back further, as many instant messaging services did. As long as you know how it works before you start exposing yourself to it, it's not only fine, it becomes a feature you might take advantage of. Like a publicly tweeted @message for example, or calling someone knowing they have callerID.

Of course, I believe privacy has its place too -- an important one. We're working on an app called Burner that generates private phone numbers and will release soon.
It's not bigoted, just wrong. Requires a familiarity with US law to know why it's wrong, though. There are some ideas and beliefs that are more common in the US than in other places, just as there are particular ideas and beliefs everywhere that are more common there than other places. Don't lower the bar on bigotry.
The problem with B2B is that it doesn't follow the standard startup model.

In B2C, if you have 10,000 users, VCs will just start to look at you. In B2B, except in some specific instances, if you have 10,000 users you're already a million dollar company.

Thus, in B2C the risk/reward inflection point occurs much later chronologically than in B2B, and for a B2B business, I, personally, think that there is far too much ambiguity before that inflection point.
The difference is that there aren't 1 out 6 people (50 million) without health insurance in the UK and Canada. Another difference is that no one in the UK or Canada would ever have to go bankrupt trying to get that "fancy heart surgery" or "fancy cancer treatment" or "fancy kidney transplant".

"just in case by the time they are able to get that fancy heart surgery"

And, the 50 Million people who could never, ever hope to get that fancy heart surgery because they can't afford the surgery or the insurance (or don't qualify)? What of them?

Saying they are comparable in any way except "doctors perform treatment on patients in a licensed and regulated manner" is reaching.
Not that it's necessary to pile on more here, but just the quote "It's best to not consume it." is an overreaction.

Assuming that the cited articles actually showed causation, it would have to be a pretty significant risk to say not consuming it would be the best choice. It's a cheap and widely available source of protein and fat. Not everyone has readily available access to food, not to mention the cost of preparing and cooking it. It is, however, annoying that the price has gone up by about 22% in the last 10 years. (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ap)
Need to test jgc.org as part of CloudFlare Railgun testing
Factors that affect the Google PR update August 2012
Last time I checked (~3 months ago) canvas rendered favicons lead to HUGE memory leaks in Chrome.

I love this effect, but I had to remove it from my app. If you were only using it on a page that is navigated away from, then this will work great, most likely.
You're missing a category because you're focused on the benefits from the students' perspective. Look at it from an employer's perspective:

You have a 100 job applications for one open position. Most of the kids went to mediocre to good colleges. Two or three of the kids went to Harvard/Stanford/other selective college. Who do you offer an interview to?

Keep in mind, you're busy running a business. You don't have time to thoroughly analyze each application. You figure, if they're good enough for Harvard/Stanford/other selective college, they're good enough for me. So you start by interviewing the Harvard kids.

This isn't irrational. Harvard/Stanford/etc. spend a ton of money screening hundreds of thousands of the nations' brightest kids. If you make it into one of those schools, there's a very, very good chance you're at least competent. Elite schools (as defined by things like USNWR) will always serve this function, so kids who want to follow this traditional path to success will always flock to them, or to anything that manages to offer the same signaling/screening effect.
Now extrapolate my argument to the difference between the beach at the Dead Sea and the launch point for earth-orbiting payloads on a space elevator.
Influence rank: the shape of recruitment to come
And for that matter if your answer is powershell then go ahead and type up this script in notepad and save it as a ps1, then configure powershell to run code while I telnet

:: powershell script
try {
$tcp=new-object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient
$tcp.connect("localhost",25)
$tcp.close()
}
catch {
"Exception occured"
}
Not true, an ad is paid for by the company producing the product.
I agree, and I suspect that most users do as well. This poses an interesting question, though; why have sites like Facebook and Quora been imposing this upon people automatically? What is the 'business' benefit of forcing users to share exactly when they recieve, read, and respond to messages?
Those statistics are probably regarded as proprietary information by Apple. Good luck convincing them it's in their best interest to release them.
Someone should remove the hash from the url. It scrolls to the comments section of the article.
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me!
We're a B2B shop and have been profitable from day one. Sometimes it takes a while to get paid from the big guys, but once you're in, cash flow is great. There are some downsides (control, last minute BS, corporate things)--but it seems to be easier to get companies to part with their cash than your neighbor or suite-mate.
How does one enter the B2B market? Does B2B mean you're solving how two companies do business with each other?
I've never really had this issue. There's a light right on the MagSafe connector that indicates if it's charging your Mac or not.
Oh, come on now. It's explicitly unfair. Some people in the community feel that there is a chicken and egg problem of having too few women programmers and that it is a bad thing. So HS is purposefully giving a hand up to the female programmers in order to ameliorate the issue. They don't have to be fair here when their goal is long term equality in the future.

Also, should they care if it's legal? How is being unfair in pursuit of a greater good definitely a bad thing? And I presume trans applicants could pitch to be covered as women as they either are or were at one time women, though I expect the most understanding way to treat trans people is as the sex they have changed to and identify with. Same with intersex. So it appears you're using an ugly rhetorical game to cast negative light without saying much at all. It's possible that HS has had no trans or intersex people at their gatherings so it's a moot point anyway.

In short. Fairness need not be ones highest ideal. There are reasons why fairness may need to be traded off for other benefits or fairness over another term. And sorry for my tone. This sort worried impracticality frustrates me. I would have just down-voted and flagged your comment had I been able to log into my own account.
Just siphoning a little HN traffic. Thanks.

EDIT: I didn't expect this to get any up votes :-) Thanks, fellow HNers.

EDIT: Thanks. Railgun worked but my web host didn't like the sudden surge of traffic and shut off (now need to chat to my web host). The test meant the normal CloudFlare acceleration was turned off and all traffic was sent through a single IP address. Turns out my web host didn't like that :-)

EDIT: Now that that's over, if you feel like it you can read about CloudFlare's DoS statistics: http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-wednesday-witching-hour-cloud...
Well put. No one has heard of the company I work for, and we do some seriously cool B2B stuff. We're 100% employee owned and are #1 in certain segments of our customers.

No, we're not "sexy", we're not media darlings, and "social media" is really not in our genes. But our products are really awesome. :-)
I still like defender more. http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/
If Hemingway wrote JavaScript
Can you put a link to the actual github page on this page (for the lazy).

https://github.com/lipka/piecon
Starting in 2014 it will be far cheaper for many to pay the health insurance tax and enroll for coverage as necessary.
Suspect you may be confusing the state of 'being safe', with the measurement of 'being safe'. Empirical methods are not the only way to quantify something.

Either world view relies on

"Just trust me, I know"
or
"The numbers never lie"

Would be potentially problematic.

This debate has been going on for centuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_priori_and_a_posteriori
I was more meaning top to bottom, although I confess I never looked into the feasibility of just rolling my own thing with rack. I should have clarified what I was looking for, which was an event-based micro web framework.

Event machine is what's underpinning cramp, which is what I went for, and it does the job ok. The problems I had were to do with less than full support from the top to the bottom of the stack (basically the only server I could use was Thin, and there was no way to get anything working with Torquebox that I could find)

> Your Rails application can only have as many clients total as you have workers if they all keep a permanent connection.

So even though it's event-based, if I have 1000 clients long-polling (or SSE'ing, or whatever) that would tie up all my workers? I may have misunderstood what we were getting in Rails 4, then.
Lots of Jason Fried's influence in the subconscious, I should say. Two or three segments seem to be extracted verbatim from 'Getting Real' book. Nice text, congrats.
So can mobileorg synchronise via git now?
>it's a wash because there are waiting lists and eligibility requirements

It's not quite a wash, because you don't lose your home and your kids don't have to drop out of college if you can't afford insurance and you get sick.

For people who want private rooms and immediate service, added insurance seems perfectly reasonable.

>by the time they are able to get that fancy heart surgery, they may no longer be alive.

This will always be the case, no matter how much insurance you buy. There's no plan yet that brings the dead back to life.
It would be a ridiculous conceit for these sites to think that we weren't being social before these websites started trying to make us be social.

Of course, they don't. The adjective "social" really refers to commercial exploitation of voluntarily provided information about social networks (edit: I mean the REAL social network, not the website which tries to take over its management)

This requires the violation of your privacy and as Facebook has been at the forefront of this, they have also been at the forefront of trying to stigmatize and discourage privacy.
Exactly. Normal cannibalization. New businesses are built all the time by giving away what the incumbent charges for. Skype's an easy one. They don't charge all for normal calls, only for certain premiums. Innovator's Dilemma, etc., etc.

If @daltonc's app.net doesn't massively undercut FB's App Center revenue plan (or overwhelm it's distribution plan) somehow, what's the point?
French anti-P2P agency Hadopi likely to get shut down
"Yanis Varoufakis is an academic economist, an author, and a prominent contributor to the debates on the recent economic crises in Europe and the United States. Born in Athens, 1961, he moved to England to read Mathematics and Statistics and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex. He is currently Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens and Visiting Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous academic appointments include the Universities of Essex, East Anglia, Cambridge, Sydney and Glasgow. His books include:"

Let me boil this down a bit.

Heads in the clouds. So using Valve, with it's particular product (games) and it's type of employee (young) we are going to construct an argument that ends in:

"and it so happens that it constitutes the reason why I am personally excited to be part of Valve: The current system of corporate governance is bunk. Capitalist corporations are on the way to certain extinction. Replete with hierarchies that are exceedingly wasteful of human talent and energies, intertwined with toxic finance, co-dependent with political structures that are losing democratic legitimacy fast, a form of post-capitalist, decentralised corporation will, sooner or later, emerge."

One wonders if people who write things such as Yanis, well, if they've every done anything outside the academic world and pure theory relying on what appears to be on the surface well written arguments that would probably go over the head of Sam Walton or Warren Buffett.
I don't see what swearing has to do with reasonable discourse - logic stands regardless of how it is communicated. Furthermore, there is always room for expression that is related to the topic. Are we limited to reasonable discourse? Are we not allowed to express how we feel about the topic at hand? I don't think that lack of reasonable discussion implies lack of civility. People can be passionate (even expressing this through profanity) without detracting from the discussion at all.

Nonetheless, I see your point when extrapolated to wider use. I also admit that I am biased in also hating Javascript; in a different context, I'm sure I'd be equally as upset.
Yes, sorry, I meant per capita gdp, otherwise big countries would win out easily by sheer numbers.

I'm not definitively saying any of these are measures of that - the study of the effectiveness of education is a whole field of academic study on its own. What I meant was, many people use subjective measures that are grounded in cultural traditions as a metric for it, but I think that more objective measures of 'success' (such as prosperity, both individual and of the country as a whole, and for which I use per capita gdp as a proxy, with the caveat that said per capita GDP should probably be distributed roughly normally and have a not too large standard deviation - although I'm not prepared to quantify that, that's a whole other discussion...) are better criteria.

The reason I propose GDP, and this also answers your second question, is the assumption that people get educations to better their lives, at least in part in the material sense. So, the measure of the success of the educational system is in to what extent people actually better their lives in that aspect - to put it bluntly, how much (more) money they make. Of course making money isn't the only driving factor for many people when choosing what to study, but then again, for a majority of students it's a matter of weighing three factors: what do I like, what am I capable of, and what kind of a lifestyle will it provide me with. Since the first two are more or less fixed, the financial prospects of an education become a substantive decisive factor when it comes to study of choice.

So, in that line of reasoning, GDP is not a measure of the medical health of a country; since medical health is a goal in itself, while education is (partially, and in the aggregate, I'm not interested in nitpicking on the absoluteness of my phrasing...) a means to an end, to bettering ones life (at least partially) in the material sense, which is expressed by proxy in per capita GDP.
Wow that was quick. The site hasn't even been online for 24 hours yet.

I created Sendicate and if there are questions I'd be happy to answer.
I like this. I think people frequently underestimate the disadvantages of having team members work from home. Sure, basic tasks can be done remotely ("set up this database xy, perform maintenance work here etc") but all other tasks require collaboration. Having everyone in IRC will help, but it is not the same. People will not talk to each other the same. This is where video, instead of Skype calls or similar, might really help.

Edit: By all means put up screenshots so one can see what this app looks like.
I was actually trying to help the project with their new UI code about nine months ago, but then I moved to the US, had a lot of other stuff to take care of, and ended up abandoning the project. So happy for the development team though, keep it up guys!
If you try using this, give us some feedback! We'd love to make the library better!
Creating a social obligation to respond in many cases = more usage of the service.
This sounds like the work of the Syrian Cyber Army, a pro-Assad hacker group.

Some background links:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21506-assad-masses-syr...

http://www.theworld.org/2011/06/syrian-government-takes-the-...
Sucks...that you're in East coast..we need to open a better hacker school in SF Bay Area
I'm pretty sure I've read (though I could be wrong) that SpaceX is already profitable from contracts to launch commercial satellites, even without NASA's budget dollars.
I absolutely think that the system is preserved that way to keep down wages, but has the perverse systemic effect of lowering labor liquidity. There's no lobbying group for labor liquidity, though.
Looks like lipka is aware of that: https://github.com/lipka/piecon/issues/1
This is a bit of a chicken and an egg thing though. Startup failed because it didn't make it into an incubator or startup didn't make it into an incubator because startup was destined to fail?

From the blog post: "If we had gone through several products, and applied multiple times our chances of getting in would have been higher and who knows if I’d be writing this blog post today."

Are you sure it works that way? Having never applied for YC, I have no idea if it does or it doesn't, but from what I've read here on HN it seems like the product idea is very secondary to whether or not the YC team believes in the founders as individuals and pitching them again with a new product idea in a subsequent YC round wouldn't have really helped if the product is all that has changed.

Which is not to say that failing to get into YC once means you'll never get in but rather getting in in the future won't be due to new product ideas, but rather demonstrable growth as an individual (or team) which is probably actually harder to accomplish in a year-long timeframe if you're constantly focusing on which new product idea you should try.

In any case, I'd say your startup failed for the primary reason any startup fails, which is that failure is the natural state of any startup. Successes are the very rare exception.
But how can you be a real hacker when you haven't been steeled by the flames of IRC and newsgroups? Maybe you should do some sessions where the experts call you a noob in very eloquent ways.

Seriously though, I'm glad this happened. I'm glad programming is being taken seriously as a craft and not ending up a side note of the curriculum. Keep us informed!
IPhone 5 front panel in comparison with iPhone 4S
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> How does one enter the B2B market?

Create a product that solves a need that businesses have and sell it to them. Steve Blank's The Four Steps To The Epiphany is a great resource that is heavily focused on the B2B world.

> Does B2B mean you're solving how two companies do business with each other?

No, it just means that your business ("B") is selling "2" other businesses ("B"). So, when IBM sells WebSphere AS to other businesses, that's a B2B market.

B2C, conversely, is when you sell something to consumers. So, Wal-Mart is mainly B2C.

The lines aren't always clear, and there are other models that don't quite fit either definition.
The thing is, that Office applications on tablets suck.

You see, when you use Word/Excel/Powerpoint, your primary interaction is by keyboard, supported by mouse. Exactly the input devices, that tablets do not have!

As an Excel jockey during day, I do not want Excel on tablet. I want Excel on notebook (with trackpoint preferably).
I have to agree with this. The main use I have for telnet is checking that I can get access to an outside host:port from a locked down box I can't install anything on that is behind a firewall.

For example:
"Hey, program N is having trouble connecting to XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY, what's going on?"
A ping and a quick check of "telnet XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY" is very valuable when seeing if it's a firewall issue or something to check in the application.

Is there a replacement application I could use in the default install of windows to do the same thing? I really just need to verify I can get a TCP connection established to an outside address and port.
Temporary Solutions
I'm leaving my job in 2 weeks. I'm planning to get insurance through ACM if it's cheaper than COBRA.

http://www.acm.org/membership/insurance
And WorkFlowy is ok with that?
It's funny I've never read that book but love Jason Fried. Thanks for the comment :)