skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
App.net will change nothing. The vast majority of users will not switch from Facebook or Twitter unless there is some compelling reason to do so.

Reddit took traffic from Digg because Digg 4.0 was a horribly bloated implementation. Facebook took traffic from Myspace because Myspace was a complete and utter mess on par with Geocities. Google took traffic from Altavista and Yahoo because their service was just plain better.

Ads are rarely ever a reason that users swap services, and because your average user doesn't care AT ALL about the trials and tribulations of developers who are trying to make a buck off the APIs of those companies, they aren't going to care about App.net products either.
Do you use Typekit? Google Analytics? Mixpanel? Olark? Do those services get used anywhere in the path your users might take from your front page to the page in your app where you take credit cards? Then all those services can take your customer's credit cards too.

I frankly trust Colin Percival a lot more than I trust Olark. And I like Olark.

Your point is something Colin should address in his FAQ, and so it was good of you to make it, but it's also trivially knocked down.
There are a bunch of hardware startups in this batch. I'm not sure why. Could be just random variation. But for whatever reason it's kind of the hardware batch.
The reason that Colin can get away with the picodollar model is that the type of people who use tarsnap would get annoyed if they were charged for 1gb if they were using 100mb. _For those customers_, there is a clear correlation between the price being charged and the value provided.
Yeap. Hotmail was filled with "Microsoft will close this service if you don't forward this email to all your contacts!!1!". And people did.
That doesn’t affect SEO, does it?
I think mbitter's point might be better explained by an example from outside the world of computers. Audi (high end cars), for example, recently acquired Ducati (high end motorcycles). No-one expects Ducati to be shuttered. Instead, people are expecting both companies to remain and to share their IP and improve both the cars and and motorcycles as knowledge flows from both companies.

In the land of computers being acquired tends to mean the acquired co. shutters their business, and everything they worked on ceases to be available to the customers who made them a company worth acquiring. I seriously applaud your allowing customers to set up their own servers. It's quite atypical... but it's kind of a dead-end thing unless you open-source the code. "Hooray... We can continue... but things will never improve, bugs will never be fixed, and our needs will eventually exceed the capabilities of the software that no-one is working on anymore."

Wouldn't it be nicer if the acquiring company valued the company being acquired enough to keep it going, or roll its functionality into its own offerings so that customers can continue being served?
Sounds like http://world.cs.brown.edu/
I use Georgify (Chrome Extension) makes things a lot better, I've actually forgotten what HN is like without it (yuck!) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...
I think generated content (i.e. created by using the :after pseudo-element) also is not selectable or copyable.
This is the right time for nReduce to start a news aggregator site, with the latest bells and whistles, and start competing with HN in quality content.

Show the latest startups they're incubating, the best advice from their investors, that would be the best place to follow up on what's going on over there.

One last thing, add a little red envelope to the header and you win my upvote.
That doesn't make any sense, because the whole point of PAYMENTIFRAME.COM is that you don't trust Stripe.

Colin implemented this because besides credit card numbers, he was unwilling to give Stripe control over his website. Colin's users trust him with things that are much more sensitive than credit card numbers.
Depends on the location. For example, wikitravel is much better for Tokyo or Kyoto than the modern version of the Frommer's or Lonely Planet guidebooks. Having recently been, the Frommer's and LP ones read more like a coffee table book for people who want to visit and list everything they'd see rather than actually figure out what to go to and how to get between them.
If the room the clay tablet is in survives, the clay tablet survives. You can't say the same about hard drives and burned DVDs. Pressed DVDs are probably fine though.
This is just income taxes, not Medicare and FICA and Unemployment.

With Ryan on the ticket, the rest are important to look at too.
Coderwall loads, although it looks completely dreadful. Then I clicked on http://jsbin.com/ewufof/3/edit and that doesn't load. I get the very attractive spinning graphic, and that's all she wrote.

It would be nice to see if the HN alternative worked.
different image (favicon is a g centered, this is a g on the
left hand side)
How is it not fair? People who make more than $200,000 (about 4% of the country) pay 50% of the income tax collected in this country. 4% pay 50%! The other 96% pay 50%. That seems incredibly slanted towards the lower class to me.
PHP perfectly can do the same. But I guess people want both.
Diaspora used Kickstarter to raise money. Lots of other similar software projects have. Just seems weird to me.
I just wonder if Facebook will enter this equation with their store of photos and names. I suggested this just prior to face.com's acquisition and someone suggested I had misplaced paranoia. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033521 just imagine that anytime you walk into a walmart store, you're tracked. Today's systems have the technical capacity to do it.
This makes WebGL in itself very dangerous, because you have to rely on blacklists/whitelists instead of real security measures.
Very different numbers than a similar calculator the Obama campaign emailed me a month ago or so. Go figure.
This seems to be inaccurate compared to the version on obama's site. http://www.barackobama.com/tax-calculator/
Just in case the parent was misinterpreted: I think "inefficient" is referring not to how space-inefficient the CSS is, but that it forces the browsers to do a lot of extra work. (In the vein of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Writing_Efficie... )
To the contrary, using dynamic libs allows the OS to cache commonly-used libs. Almost every program uses libc. When your process does a dyld load path as part of loading the ELF binary, the OS has the option to load a cached copy of the library; and possibly not even allocate an extra page of memory for it.

Using shared objects has a number of pitfalls: wasteful duplication on your hard disk, wasteful copying of the ELF binary into memory when you could tap the OS library cache for your dependencies (including extra page allocations), and the inability to upgrade a dependency of a binary without recompiling the binary.
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My shot at a HN redesign:

http://georgenava.appspot.com/demo/hn/index.html
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That's because both candidates won't change Medicare or FICA in any way. Wouldn't be a useful comparison.
I think I understand your reasoning but in many of these cases the "success" aspect I believe is that despite the failure/discontinuation of the product/company the investors still saw some kind of return on their investment. Though I don't know what Eric meant by "we took good care of all our investors" exactly, I'd assume they were satisfied with the terms. It's an additional plus that the world benefits by the open sourcing of clutch.io's IP that Twitter wasn't interested in. It sounds like a win-win-win, but that's just my opinion.
This is a fantasy because none of Sivers bad experiences and times of pure hell or near death experiences were written about. None of the heartache, none of the strife or regrets.

Half of any story makes it nothing more than a creative license fantasy.
In http://cls.ucla.edu/doc/Enclothed_cognition.pdf one of the experiments shows that people performed better in a Stroop task _wearing lab coats_ compared to their own clothes.
Not in a historical context.
Slick design, I like the fixed headers and sidebars.
If I was Stripe I'd be politely asking you to take this down. It's using their trademark (presumably) without permission and encouraging their users to do something very inadvisable.

Offering to host this seems like a really bad idea.

I know you're well meaning and trustworthy, but this shouldn't be run by a third party. For long term reliability reasons as much as security.
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Romney's plan will result in far lower tax revenues, not accounting for indirect effects. It looks like the issue you're citing is a result of a lower dependent deduction allowance of some sort, and it generally means marginally higher taxes under Romney for people with moderate income with respect to the number of dependents they have. This doesn't mean that the plan isn't well suited to promoting low taxes to helping the economy.

Also, that was a quite nicely designed site.
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That is true, but the point is that the only thing that is going to be compromised is the data that would be going to Stripe.

I know it is shocking to many of you to hear this, but the data Stripe collects is not really the most sensitive information on the Internet.

The point of the iframe is to contain the damage from any possible compromise. If PAYMENTIFRAME.COM is insecure (heh), you still aren't going to lose user sessions to your actual application.
Would the Mojave bait-and-switch count? Like this article, it was intended to be publicly revealed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Experiment
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that's just because you aren't big enough. Amazon has been caught testing prices previously, and there were a lot of upset people.

Noticing the test isn't what caused the outrage.. wait until you have thousands of people who find out they paid more than another person for the same item (ie in their minds: were ripped off).

Then you'll see how consumers feel about your test.
So long, and thanks for all the poop.
crickets chirping, once again

:/
After a couple of years with several media subscription services, I'm about done with them.

If I have a slow month, I feel like I'm losing money. I feel pressure to "consume now", because if I subsequently drop the service, I'll no longer have access.

Items come and go. I e.g. add them to my queue, to find a month or three later that they are no longer available.

I can't loan them to family or a friends (I'm not counting "authorized" "lending" features that are at the whim of the subscription service).

I'm switching back to ownership. And to public libraries -- assuming the U.S. manages to maintain any sort of public infrastructure.

Fuck "subscriptions". From someone who actually tried to make them work.

P.S. Not to mention my concerns about "centrally redacted history" and the like.
I showed it to people at Stripe before announcing it.
People trust Stripe. I think the issue here is Javascript and origin-policy and relinquishing control. When Stripe releases their version of STRIPEPAYMENTIFRAME.COM as an iframe solution then this can go away. I believe Colin mentioned a need for this now rather than waiting for Stripe.

Interesting side note: Yes I know it's only meant to be a demonstration site but PAYMENTIFRAME.COM is using Google Analytics. Oh HAI GA...what's my Security Code again? Just needed a nice chuckle before I head back from lunch.
Didn't hear about this. Apple user. Guess the "(almost)" is a very large or small almost.
You are not fit for solving the problem you are trying to solve
Colin trusts Stripe to collect credit cards. He does not trust them for anything else. Embedding the form on a page on TARSNAP.COM trusts them for everything that can happen on any web application on the same domain.
This is a bit f'd, Quora
Lack of generics has made me move to D instead.
I'm betting, and you could let us know on the real number, that there's rumours like this constantly, and most mac rumour sites (and there are plenty) weed through 90% of the bull.

I think this story is getting more press than it really deserves.
I'll make sure to carry a towel from now on, drink beer and eat peanuts.
Wow, that's surprising.
I'm inclined to believe this article is the result of confirmation bias.

I'm currently looking for housing in charlotte, and tree cover tells me nothing about whether I want to live in a particular neighborhood. Like Ljubljana, trees are everywhere.
> Your point is something Colin should address in his FAQ, and so it was good of you to make it, but it's also trivially knocked down.

So, you're saying that because Google Analytics could conceivably touch credit card information (using Stripe's JS), it's perfectly fine for some random guy with a suspect domain-name to?

I disagree.
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Dare I say that many HN readers (myself included) enjoy HN also because of it's "vintage" look-and-feel. Yes, it does hearken back to the AngelFire/Geocities days. It feels like a calling back to the time of some of the web's first innovations.

For some, I think the internet has achieved a mature enough status that there is outdated, replaced technology that some of us miss, even if we understand it was replaced for very good reasons.
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Agreed. Seems like everyone is a winner given how they are handling things.
Thanks for the link.

I'm a long-time customer of iFixit, but I've been really disappointed in iFixit's attempts to shill their products with FUD (warranted or not) about Apple. It reminds me of the "Chewie's" chewing gum scene in Clerks, where the gum salesman is ranting about the cigarette industry.

Every critical post they make is a long diatribe followed by a shilling of their products that does nothing to solve the larger problem. It's all about selling their product. And hey, it's their right, but I find it tacky.

What's the point of their $10 "liberation" kit? It includes the pentalobe driver for the screws they're replacing. Why would I really need to replace the screws at this point? I don't.

I thought this was a recent iFixit trend, but I see they've been using these tactics for a while.
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Explain what you mean by that? The first income tax was on the top 1% of income earners and created in 1913. In the 60's and 70's, top tax rates of 60-70% weren't uncommon. The history of the income tax in America has always placed a heavier burden (some may argue much heavier burden) on the high-income earners.
> Redundancy helps to recover partially damaged data. Redundancy 1:5 means that for every 5 consecutive data blocks, if one block is completely unreadable, PaperBack will be able to restore it. To reduce damages caused by coffee pots and other common dangers, blocks are distributed around the page. Higher redundancy decreases page capacity but improves reliability.

Please do study error correcting codes. Most of them can offer much better error correction with less overhead. Take a look at Wolfram's MathWorld article [1]. This topic is heavily covered in most information theory books.

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Error-CorrectingCode.html
I think Thomas is saying that I'm not "some random guy".
Taxes empower governments to undertake grandiose things like wars and large scale programs, and to avoid taking responsibility for past spending mistakes.

Consider how dishonest and corrupt our politicians are, and how apathetic and disempowered our electorate is... Most Americans pay very little in taxes and receive more in government services than they pay in taxes. These are the Americans who support the wars and the massive grandiose programs.

The small percentage of Americans who actually pay taxes are accused of being greedy, etc... all so that we can have wars and spending without accountability.

The entire system is set up to help powerful interests stay in power and to reduce voter empowerment. It's absurd that for something like healthcare so many people feel empowered by trusting a Federal/Corporate program to control the market. Maximum empowerment would result from things being handled at the local level, so that results and approaches could be compared across cities, states, etc.
That's great for Colin. But he should describe the steps he took to host his own iframed Stripe form. Not encourage others to blindly copy/paste an <iframe> tag pointing to his domain onto their website.
HTML5 standards-based and open platform for clouds. ;) Note: there were no images or jQuery used to produce this toy.
Wow, sorry, you really have no idea. It's not 80 hrs per week, sure, but it's certainly more than you're giving us credit for.

My percentages are base for what an early career should expect in their first couple of years with a permanent position (you'd call it "tenure track" in the US I believe). If I get a big grant, my teaching time would get bought out, so more of that time would go to research. It is possible to buy out of all teaching, though you would still be expected to supervise PhD students, so you'd still have some %age of teaching on your load.

Teaching isn't "easy", there's a lot more to it than "show up, explain stuff". Lecturing is easy. Preparing lectures, exams, dealing with students, marking, administration isn't "easy". If I could just lecture I'd be more than happy. It's the rest of it that's a complete drag of time.

Also, I had to laugh at your "real research" paragraph. You obviously have no idea how it works.
I always loved the first response to the request to implement finally. It was so delightfully arrogant.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32100

By the way, if you scroll down in that page there are two workaround solutions to get the finally behavior on any php5 version.
If Colin is attracting people for whom the difference between $0.03 and $0.30 is meaningful, then Colin is attracting people that do not deserve to do business with Colin. Colin was involved in security with BSD, and made a no-BS almost bulletproof encrypted backup solution on top of untrusted hardware, and has created something of actual value. Anyone whose data is worth less than, oh, call it $100 a month (at the low end) doesn't really need Tarsnap.

I respect that everyone has their own motivations for doing things and that economic optimality is not the be-all-end-all. Colin can run Tarsnap as an underpriced public utility if he wants to. But, Scout's honor, it is underpriced. The pricing model actively discourages large, savvy customers whose lives and businesses would benefit from switching to Tarsnap in favor of pathological bottom-feeders who gain no significant benefit from Tarsnap. My personal opinion is, in addition to costing Colin money, this moots the impact that his (extraordinarily impressive) engineering achievement could otherwise be providing to the world.

This is a very awkward conversion for me, so I'm going to refrain from the unsolicited advice for at least a few months until picodollars just make me snap again.
Thanks!

I think it's obvious to most people here, but Stripe's targeted at essentially everyone. It's quite possible that someone'd stumble across your site who just learned PHP and goes "sounds good, I'll drop it in".
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The guys in marketing may be calling it something else...

I have a suspicion the marketing guys might come up with that terminology as well (sorry I couldn't resist a little off topic inside baseball)
For their target audience, ruby programmers who want to write iOS apps, RubyMotion is very well-known.

https://www.google.com/search?q=use+ruby+to+write+ios+apps
Does anyone have an explanation for this? Obviously all talk of future tax policy is partially smoke and mirrors, but mine shows a $4K reduction in favor of Obama on Obama's site and a $16K reduction in favor of Romney on Romney's site.
Do you actually code with your TV on? I used to be able to do that when I was 15, but now I find it way too distracting.
Monolith info right there!
And may I also add that history is just history, and things aren't automatically good or bad because we did them in the past. The country is pretty tolerant towards Wiccans given the historical context of the Salem Witch Trials, but that hardly means that we should re-institute witch burning just because it's the historical context.
Don't forget about Caché Intersystems, who provide a "modern object-oriented" MUMPS implementation. Complete with SQL emulation and a web template language that's almost a direct lift of ColdFusion(down to needing Dreamweaver to edit files stored inside the DB).
Yes I'm aware - I was referring to that.
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Most acquaintances of mine who have embarked on "adventures" like this have ended up dead, maimed, homeless or with major regrets.

That said, a small number of them have had an overall very positive and life enriching experience.

I am not surprised that Sivers is a musician. I tend to stereotype aspiring artists and musicians as wanderers/dreamers who will most likely never make any money and end up bitter and impoverished for the rest of their lives. Gypsies they call them in Romania.

Can you imagine a whole society of people with this attitude. Hippie commune comes to mind.
I'm not sure why refactoring a table layout (an old html layout hack) into something more semantically correct and accessible is considered an "attack".