skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious to see how this will monetize. The founders of Gravatar often shared anecdotes in meetups how Gravatar was painful despite being big as there was no money in avatars.
Google acquires social ad startup Wildfire
Your argument is somewhat self-contradictory.

We know that lots of child porn exists. If you create additional scarcity by preventing the exchange of old/existing child porn (probably mostly 20 year old pictures, etc.) then you increase the chances of new children being exploited.

The legal adult industry has seen most of the profit evaporate b/c of the large amount of free content. The only people making money are those selling ads on top of existing content, which is often not even owned by the companies hosting it. The original owners lack the resources to enforce copyright law b/c they have no income stream to use to do so.

So rather than relying upon the idealistic notion that all exploitation and exploitative pornography can actually be successfully eliminated, it might make more sense to take a more pragmatic view about the forces of supply and demand involved, with the goal of reducing additional harm.
How many years ago did India not have 600 million people with electricity to lose?
several of these exist, not on FB though. Taskrabbit is the first one that comes to mind.
You needn't look any farther than Hotmail to grow wary of the merits of their new service.

And there's the whole Skype brouhaha.

Microsoft have an edge over Google in that they aren't perceived to be as morally bankrupt, when it comes to privacy and protecting their users (because they earn their money elsewhere), but with the Skype criticism, that may be subject to change. It's a nice flank of attack to use against Google, though, and the video ad in the submission hits all the right notes.
Do you think we're going to still be using the Windows 95 model in 10 years?

Maybe. We used the command-line model for 25+ years before that.
Does the new outlook.com support tags in addition to hierarchical folders? This is what I love about GMail. Plus, I generally hate the way the MS WYSIWYG editor has a live of its own and makes quoting of passages from received emails into multi-font nightmares.
Looks like his account has been restored: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/07/31/twitter-restores-th...
Could someone using gnome3 here comment on the status of multi monitor support?
Yahoo email down worldwide
Initial impressions are positive. It looks feature wise (space, the other Office apps), that's comparable to Gmail for many people. I think I'll play around with it to see if it sticks. It's nice to see some competition and MSFT stepping up and improving this. Props.
Since everything has to be downloaded from the Windows Store (which can control the experience) and it comes with Office RT, most people probably won't notice. There will be people who will ask where the DVD drive door is...
Unfortunately you'll still be missing out on lots of games, even with Steam for Linux. Initially, Steam for Linux will only be good for a few Valve titles and indie games.
QuickBooks Payroll is an add-on whose code lives side-by-side (and is deployed with) the QuickBooks Desktop code. I am the developer that maintains the integration of the TurboTax tax processing code and engines technology with QuickBooks' accounting and payroll functionality.

"Payroll deductions are pretty simple" is not as true when you require nationwide support. The Yonkers residency tax, the Indiana counties payroll tax, etc. are not as simple as getting the employees' states and running calcs. Add in non-tax deductions (401(k), wage garnishments, worker's comp) and you've now found yourself in an interesting world.
Outlook.com team are doing a reddit AMA
A good video can be a huge time saver for showing workflow, how an experienced coder uses the editor/IDE, REPL, debugger, git and testing libs/CI
Also relevant is the nature of the product being advertised - in this case, it was a specific event - not a call to visit a website or even to visit a store that holds regular business hours. Clearly, this was a very effective way of drawing customers to the event but the lessons learned hardly apply to other businesses.
It's not as if OEMs are being forced to make Microsoft the sole CA of machines they sell.

Here's Fedora's response (Matthew Garret mjg59):

"We explored the possibility of producing a Fedora key and encouraging hardware vendors to incorporate it, but turned it down for a couple of reasons. First, while we had a surprisingly positive response from the vendors, there was no realistic chance that we could get all of them to carry it. That would mean going back to the bad old days of scouring compatibility lists before buying hardware, and that's fundamentally user-hostile. Secondly, it would put Fedora in a privileged position. As one of the larger distributions, we have more opportunity to talk to hardware manufacturers than most distributions do. Systems with a Fedora key would boot Fedora fine, but would they boot Mandriva? Arch? Mint? Mepis? Adopting a distribution-specific key and encouraging hardware companies to adopt it would have been hostile to other distributions. We want to compete on merit, not because we have better links to OEMs."
Extremism normalized
Git would be cool to play in a distributive way between the students.
Does the new outlook.com support tags in addition to hierarchical folders? This is what I love about GMail. Plus, I generally hate the way the MS WYSIWYG editor has a live of its own and makes quoting of passages from received emails into multi-font nightmares.

-- Olav
IBM attempts to redefine the IPS
Cómo Adelgazar Rapido Añadiendo Sólo Dos Hábitos Inteligentes
¿Sabías que sólo la vigilancia unos pocos minutos cada día y el seguimiento pueden hacer grandes diferencias en los resultados que obtienes de tu dieta y rutina de ejercicios?
It usually doesn't. If the strings or pegs are worn out, those may need to be replaced, but from what I understand that's a fairly infrequent occurrence.

The strings are under a lot of tension, and if they're way out of tune simply cranking them a semitone back into tune won't do much. They won't stay put.

From the bit I've dealt with a piano tuner, they told that you're generally not supposed to tune it more than I believe it was about 4 cents each time (a semitone is 100 cents). It gives the strings and everything else a chance to adjust before tuning again. It's a similar idea to a guitar I think... If you just crank the tuning pegs around a few times it generally doesn't stay in tune very well. It needs to be a slow process.

If you've got an old, very out of tune piano it may take several tunings over a couple of years to bring it back into tune, but it should be do-able.

There's also humidity to take into account - you need to keep the humidity pretty constant while you do this or the wood will absorb/release water and change shape and bring the piano back out of tune.
I and many other cinephiles prefer Hulu Plus because of the commercial-free Criterion catalog. I also find Hulu's software to be superior, at least on 360 and PS3. I'm a satisfied Netflix customer, too, though.
A perl regular expression will test for a match in less than a microsecond. Other scripting languages have a similar speed.

There's no need to program like it's 1985 any more.
Personally, depending on so many libraries is a turn off. Seems more like a collection of modules, than a framework. Also, hard to grasp how the MVC structure is wired. Example and test would be nice.
This is a huge strawman... No where is it claimed by anyone that Apple copied Samsung. The only thing that's obvious from this picture, and it is obvious, is that rectangles with rounded borders and a look a feel that's dominated by a huge screen with no ornaments is an obvious idea that Apple should not have monopoly over.
the former is scary

Depends a lot on context. If Twitter had said "FYI, one of your e-mail addresses is currently publicly visible on our service, expect a deluge of e-mail", I don't see a huge problem. If they said "Hey, want us to ban this guy?" then that's something different.
Google buys Wildfire
A basic question: How does the bot owner gets benefited by driving up clicks on FB ads? I understand in case of AdSense, the owner of the site would get cut. But how does the bot owner gets cut from the ads that are displayed on FB pages?
Tank-Shaped Device to Extend Your Wi-Fi Range
Lack of an over arching incredible vision? Lack of a genius of marketing at the helm? Those two are off the top of my head. It really just seems that Jobs led a better team to better execute stuff other people were already working on, but he saw how it could all be great. Not a bad quality by far, but not worthy of making them the only company allowed to work on touchscreen phones for sure.
Monetizing is always a challenge for any service.

We definitely take to heart much of the advice the Gravatar folks have passed along. It's not as simple as it might seem from the surface. Managing connections to social services adds an even broader set of challenges.

That said, we do operate a media platform at heart which we are more focused on monetizing.
We very recently moved in the US from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system. In the former, if you can provide evidence of the genesis of the invention before the filing of the opponent's patent, then that may invalidate their patent.

Samsung might be well within their rights if they say "See, we invented it first, but didn't think it was patent worthy." I don't know the particulars on the "patent worthy" consideration.
It's hard to see running a critical service over an SSH tunnel as a long-term solution.

Since I'm tempted to set this up myself (not for Redis though), what is the alternative?
Yup, lesson learned. I definitely won't ever depend on Mixpanel again to do something as simple a reliably serve up a single .js file.

I don't want to include their JS file because what happens if they make a change that I need?

That said, their documentation should account for this better imho. There should be sample code which clearly illustrates that if you are going to rely on callbacks being fired, that you better also setup a timer to make sure that they actually get fired.

Edit in response to your response above:

Mixpanel sells themselves on being simple to use, from their homepage: "It takes less than 10 minutes and is incredibly simple." The reality is far from that.

Yes, I made a mistake of assuming that their JS would always get loaded and their callback would always get fired. I fully own up to that and I've learned my lesson. That said, their documentation should also reflect that the callback may not fire and you should be prepared for that by doing XYZ. It is two lines in bold red text and I would have thought harder about depending on that callback to fire. It honestly didn't cross my mind that their js wouldn't load and it hasn't been an issue until now.

I'm also not trivializing service stability, yes, things go down and that is a fact of life. That said, when you've got $10+ million in the bank, you can prioritize a bit of the money towards setting up reliably serving of a single file, that doesn't go down for hours on end. There are services, such as CloudFlare and CloudFront which are pretty damn reliable for exactly this purpose and yes, are trivial to implement.
As a long-time Yahoo mail user, I'd say basically any email service is better than Yahoo Mail, at least if we're talking about their webmail interfaces.

(Protip: http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/launch)
Guaranteed?
PyCon US 2013: Announcing "The Young Coder: Let's Learn Python"
Any demo?

I want to see what the UX is like before integrating it into my app.
This is not to prove prior art, contrary to what the headline implies

The purpose of this is to establish that Samsung did not wilfully infringe even if Apple's patents are valid (they will argue they were just in good faith continuing to evolve designs they already had that were similar), but that Apple's patents are invalid because they are dictated by function - it is logical for touch screen phones to get a large screen and reduce number of buttons, for example - and because the design elements were obvious (arguing that the existence of a wide range of similar designs, even if not published, shows that no knowledge of the iPhone was necessary for someone with ordinary knowledge of the arts to come up with something similar).

Samsung has previously argued prior art previously in the form of prototype / design studies for tablets by Knight-Ridder.
Everyone is Bad at Saving For Retirement
i like ssh. i like putty. the linux desktop is a sick joke that's been losing in the marketplace for a decade -- it's not like i like kde better.

to just take an example, the user-friendly way to update Ubuntu linux is

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

try to do it with the GUI and it's a kafka nightmare. sometimes it just hangs up for hours with the progress bar stuck. Installing software on the command line is just

$ sudo apt-get install X

whereas you can screw around forever with the GUI and never find the package you're looking for
Surely the Thunderbolt interface has an IO-MMU?
Who trained the trainers? Hint: They were probably self-taught.
Yeah - I think the real challenge for startups is often that the communities and audiences for what they do, particularly early in the game, aren't often well-defined. Even when they are, they are often fragmented, and the precise interest targeting in Facebook Ads only works for Pages above a certain size threshold (unclear what exactly this is) - so if your target audience likes a few dozen smaller, scattered Pages, you can't necessarily target them directly.

For some startups/companies, though, there is a pretty clearly defined audience, or a big competitor with an audience to target. If I'm Hipmunk, I can run ads targeting Kayak, Hotwire, Expedia, to go after people who I know book travel online (and then, of that subset of people, target only people who match certain demographic/geographic parameters).
I switch between Outlook and Gmail and frequently find myself wondering why ctrl + enter doesn't work in Gmail.
Investigation report: High volume betting clubs in the Mass Cash Winfall
Except this only recently was made to work again (a year?) and it doesn't work across all Google properties. I agree that the new effort from Microsoft had no chance against the old gmail, against the current gmail the jury is still out :-).

What I find interesting is that its even a product. I know that sounds weird but bear with me for a moment.

Mail (the service) has changed hardly at all for a decade. You send an email, may be you attach a few files, you get the email. The biggest change was that you could send text that had been formatted with HTML so that it looked 'better' (not everyone agrees with this) than plain, monospaced text.

Its a bitch to monetize in any way except direct payment, and yet the Eudora's and other mail clients of the world have faded from memory.

Given the collective memory, is it time for mail as a service? You know you pay $12/year or something and it just works. Nobody futzes with the UI, the amount of space you get/use is entirely a function of what you're willing to pay.

The question I'm asking is this, "Have we collectively come to understand the intrinsic value of email?" If so is there a utility service business plan that makes sense now? I could certainly see how you might structure such a business.
Invoice B2B trading partners with EDI using simple web interface
Cloud based B2B trading gateway AS2Gateway introduces the ability to electronically invoice trading partners over EDI/AS2 through a simple web based interface.
You're an email hipster.

Good point about the Google account bans, though. See also: Skydrive.

Bad point about mixing personal and business email in one window, though. That's a disaster waiting to happen.
What difference in tactics?

The Khomeinists used exactly the same tactics as the Bolsheviks did, right down to being organized as soviets or committees.

And Al Qaeda use exactly the same tactics as the CIA taught them, in fact they train using US Marines tactics manuals translated into arabic.

Maybe instead of shooting off ad hominems about "coming out of the woodwork" you might try actually knowing what you're talking about.

You can start with "Tactics of the Crescent Moon" and "Imperial Hubris" as references.
Google Acquires Social Marketer Wildfire
Cool story, but he should have mentioned his other business does "better Facebook Analytics than you ever thought possible". The fact that he didn't makes my bias radar beep.
it's time for a rewrite

That sent a shiver down my spine. Please, Google, don't rewrite gmail. Continue improving incrementally. Thanks.
NBC Retracts Complaint, Guy Adams Is Back On Twitter
This letter gives a fascinating look at the structure of three high-volume betting clubs that formed around the Massachusetts Cash Winfall game.

In the past, the Boston Globe has done its best to cast a pretty negative light on these bettors. This investigation gives quite a different view.

Starting on p. 14, the description of the August 16th, 2010 drawing and the MIT club's trigger of a surprise rolldown is both fascinating and a bit scary in terms of what it means about the structure of the lottery commission.
vtund http://vtun.sourceforge.net/

I've only used it for tunnelling some traffic out of my home network to a VPS but it's been rock solid for me over several years of frequent use.
While this appears to be a very valuable tutorial, I'm a bit worried about what "like Cut the Rope" implies. You can't get that level of polish without putting thousands of man-hours into it, so I'm afraid it's a bit like those "learn to draw an owl" memes:

1. Draw a circle.

2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl.
There is nothing distinguishing Android from a conventional general-purpose computing OS, aside from the fact that it's designed to be used with a finger rather than a mouse. The question you're really asking is whether traditional computing tasks can be performed efficiently with a touch interface.
I tried the audio version because they kept putting "O" or zero in the captcha and it was too much of a guess. If a captcha is going to mangle characters, it must accept any of the possible valid options.

It's like they pursued test-driven development on the captcha but the only test was whether bots couldn't pass, not whether humans could pass it.

After only three attempts, it told me "You've reached the limit for number of attempts. These limits help us protect against spam from automated programs. You can try again later."

The audio captcha was so terrible that I recorded it to share with others. Oddly enough, when I played back my recording of it, it was easier to understand the "valid" words. That is very curious.

Oddly enough, I just reloaded the captcha page and it dropped me into an account and just won't let me send anything until I pass a captcha. I try every once in a while but any time I solve the captcha it gives me the rate-limiting message.

On a side note, they allowed me to sign in with my passport which does not have a Microsoft-provided e-mail address. The interface seems to presume it's responsible for my other e-mail address.
DISQUS addressed my concerns pretty well
Hack your PS3 saves with the newest incarnation of Game Genie
You can see an example of how it works when you add your profile pic on http://refer.ly
Unless George Zimmerman files the complaint himself, I think you getting Spike Lee suspended isn't going to happen.
Microsoft Tries, Tries Again to Take on Gmail, This Time With Outlook.com
This is exactly why services like CloudFlare exist. You can get pretty much the same behavior using CloudFront too. You may get a bit of downtime, but nothing like the hour+ that is going on now. You can even chain them together... CloudFlare in front of your CloudFront. CloudFlare screws up, just turn it off, now everything goes to CloudFront.
> if Apple really was copying off Samsung, as this article suggests

That is not AT ALL what the article says. It doesn't even hint at it. Hell, it even almost says the exact contrary at the end when drawing a parallel with GUIs.
I have had Hulu Plus on Apple TV for 6 months... what is the difference?
What are the things that drive price? What does the diligence process look like? Managing telling employees vs secrecy?
Twitter's arbitrariness: do we need a dist'd protocol, not a central service?
Watching various tweets going past in the light of the NBC fiasco, and several people are suggesting that we should have an email-like protocol so we can develop a Twitter-like system with multiple providers, similar to how we now have multiple email servers.

Surely this can't be too hard to design and implement - most likely the impossible challenge is the chicken-and-egg problem - how can you get people to use it.
But if enough people start giving up from windows since they are using it as a game only OS, game publishers will have to take action.

Yes it's a dream, but maybe one day... maybe one day...
There is some risky gender stereotyping that can arise in tandem with these kinds of discussions

Damn straight, and you've already internalized the lingo. "Pink" and "blue" are the new "AAA" and "hardcore": game industry terms that piss me right off.

Many of the best games are profoundly gender-neutral. Your Marios, Zeldas, Sonics, and Katamari Damacys being the obvious examples. Then again you mentioned working for a Zynga competitor; I'm not so certain that delivering great games was in their mission statement.
Good luck with that.

SAAS means you're vulnerable to vendor change with every pageload.

Though there are getting to be tools which allow you to reverse-engineer sites and design them how you want, but this is subject to a lot of churn keeping up with the SAAS vendor.

Still lovin' my mutt.
Yeah, I can't imagine Facebook building exactly what the commenter described, but it'd be interesting for a company like TaskRabbit to integrate their product with the Facebook Ads API, such that if you posted a task, you could pay a few bucks to run local, targeted ads to folks in order to make sure that your task reached the right people.
Open webOS July Edition
The JS file doesn't expose a UI at the moment, it provides a method for directly uploading to us.

On the mobile side, we have screenshots at the specific repos. Here's how the mobile implementations look:

[ios] https://github.com/chute/avatars-io-ios/

[android] https://github.com/chute/avatars-io-android
I use gnome3 and gnome-shell every day, I have used linux based distros for something like 13 years now and have used many different desktop paradigms.

After about a year or so of using KDE I switched to Gnome, and then to Blackbox and then Fluxbox and eventually ION.

For me, now that I am accustomed to the various shortcuts and key combinations, gnome3 is amazingly fast to use compared to gnome2 (and any "start menu" based desktop). I really don't know how I could go back! Whenever I have to use a relatives computer it's an incredibly frustrating and slow affair with my hand instinctively flying up to the top left only to find that nothing happens. First thing I do when sitting at my own desk is throwing the mouse pointer (or hitting the "windows" key) and typing "ter" and pressing enter.. terminal appears and work begins..

Gnome3 is open source and Free Software, those who don't like it will move to the gnome2 fork and I am sure will be very happy. You can't force everyone to use (and develop) the desktop that you want, that's the whole point!

"But no one is using it!": well, I think the gnome3 developers are probably using it daily.. and if noone else in the world was a user, maybe they would still be producing it for their own benefit.. would you still ridicule it in that case?
But it's not bad UI per se. It's just not particularly attractive.

To put it another way, I've never had a problem finding what I was looking for on his site.

edit: here's another example of what I'm talking about: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3215-liveauctioneers-an-unlik...