skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tabs collapse really well from large nested tab groups so you can have lots of tabs open without much issue. I've had 100+ open without much stress.
"something we couldn’t supply with our own money." I find it likely that next round investors were deliberately asking to see the company jump a high hurdle before funding- to see if it was hobby or a commitment.
And thank goodness they did.
"And now Youtube says it might start running ads against content I created and handing that money over to these crooks"

Bingo. If you ever wondered "What are these people trying to achieve?" this is it. By abusing the YouTube infrastructure and content systems they can get Google to collect money from other peoples content and give it to them. Unless Google can get out ahead of this problem they may find themselves fighting yet another class action Youtube lawsuit. I am sure they would rather spend that money on improving the YouTube experience than on lining lawyers pockets.
Thanks for the feedback. We gave this a lot of thought but ultimately didn't want to create an experience that was a "free" download that required additional in-app payment before it had any utility.
I decided a while ago to stop reading Wired, after some ridiculous piece of hack journalism I can't even remember now. This makes me want to stop reading Wired again, but I can't do it twice.

This is like Sony all over again. I've been boycotting them for the past few years, and they just keep doing things that make me want to boycott them. When will someone invent the double boycott?
Ghostly Discovery
It sounds like a Minecraft clone.
This was the first idea I came up with when I thought about the Twilio API, so I'm glad someone has done it.

I just projected so far down the line that I would have requests from the FBI every day for who was behind particular phone numbers due to nefarious use of temporary phone numbers.
Nothing to announce yet, but we are looking at this.
I really wish people would stop with knee-jerk reactions.

>> Why is this on the front page? I cannot possibly understand. The situation is truly beyond my comprehension.

The article demonstrates the malleability of Ubuntu's CSS theming system.
Of course people want ads to be more relevant, but at what cost. You want your TV ads to be more relevant, but you probably don't want someone living with you to report to the networks what interests you each day.

Ask people the question straight up: "Do you want more relevant ads, where relevancy is determined by tracking cookies that track what sites you go to on the web." I bet most people say, "Give me the less relevant ads".
Create something. Share it. Stay on it until it doesn’t suck anymore.
Anyone tried this yet? The proposition looks valuable (at least for the one on the receiving end).
My Mac running Mountain Lion & FV2 doesn't have that checkbox in Users & Groups. My User & Groups preferences pane looks exactly like the authors except for that one checkbox that mine does not have.
Having looked into and setup test implementations of Cloudstack, Openstack, Opennebula and a few others... I have to say I was not that impressed with the current state of Openstack.

For starters the documentation left much to be desired. An example of this was the implementation of their XCP support. It exists, it's a thing in the stack... but good luck implementing this based off of the documentation! They fail to mention that it isn't really possible without an extreme amount of hacking. In general the documentation leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion, and for a project seeking as much influence on the cloud space as Openstack is, this is a big miss.

Cloudstack has its own issues, but was a reasonably well documented project with a clear implementation path. To note though, is that comparing their XCP/Xenserver compatibility isn't fair since Citrix sponsors this project...

I think one of the problems with Openstack is it is trying to be too many things when the core foundation of the software does not seem to be fully 'defined' yet.
I would argue that if a janitor was to optimise his/her route by counting steps, this is not a technical problem and so doesn't make him an engineer.

Doing so is called "industrial engineering".
The possibilities of GTK theming are very interesting, but the result is ugly, it doesn’t fit. See:

http://f.cl.ly/items/3S033x090a370x1u0S3h/osx-ubuntu.png

http://f.cl.ly/items/0Y1H0X0l45272l2j401t/osx-ubuntu-2.png

http://f.cl.ly/items/1a3o1x2a0g0v161v062j/osx-ubuntu-3.png
Well, maybe not irrelevant but way more less relevant than it was. Back then it was something I read regularly. But now it's the place where I go to on lazy days when there's no other action on the internet and I'm too procrastinate-y to code :)
The best[1] advertising is the kind that informs people that a solution to their very real problems exists.

The worst[1] advertising is the kind that convinces you you have a problem you don't really have. It aims to make unhappy with what you have or who are when you would otherwise have been content.

Sometimes it seems to me like our society gets shaped more by the worst kinds of advertising than the best.

[1] By best and worst, I mean most beneficial to the person/people viewing the advertisement. An advertiser or deodorant executive would probably have a different opinion on the matter.
Currently making one right now.... At least I have some nice competition.
Why can't Google ignore this? Don't they make most of their revenue for targeted ads on the search page?

Besides, what happened to Google siding with the user even when their revenue was on the line? Wasn't that their corporate position with China? Or is that only the corporate position when it conveniently aligns with other interests?

This just seems like a no-brainer.
It feels like about.com sells every 3-6 years for a lower price.
It's sad that they target users, not developers though. Imagine how awesome the ecosystem would be if many developers use it.
"Today, Bob left us to pursue other opportunities. In this difficult time, I want to convey my appreciation for the dedication and hard work each of you brings to our team. Keep up the good work, and thanks for all the fish."
HTC One X? I own one and I'm happy with it. I certainly prefer it over the iPhone.

(Disclaimer, I've owned a iPhone 3GS in the past, and this isn't my first android phone)
Functional vs Object Oriented Programming with Michael Feathers
This isn't fashion advice for nerds. Becoming traditionally fashionable will render nerds un-nerdy.

There's nothing wrong with fashion blogs, but this feels like it's aimed at what the author perceives as being low-hanging fruit / easy pickings. It feels a little bit condescending.

There might be a market here, but I don't think this site has the tone quite right (yet).
The shocking extent to which Samsung modeled the Galaxy S after the iPhone
Almost every week I think. They are mostly asking about differences to other products etc
Please bring this to the UK app store. Please.
> Some suggest that instead it is "engineering", not "science". But engineering is nothing more than applied science.

This seems to be an entirely self-serving and arbitrary definition on which to base his argument.
To me a Let's Play is a useful insight into how someone else tackles a game. Commonly if I am stuck, I will look for a Let's Play video to see how it's done. It's also great being able to see the ending of a game which you find impossible to complete.

Also in the case of a story-driven game, I might decide to watch a Let's Play of the previous game to refresh my memory on basic plot points.

If anything they are good for the gaming industry.
Does anyone know if they plan to launch the same service in Europe soon? Or does a similar service exist?
"He didn't say that Wikipedia has to change, it was merely just his design idea that he wanted to share with the world."

Well, the cynic in me -- which I've been trying to restrain throughout the last few days of this discussion -- thinks he was doing it primarily as "content marketing" for his design firm. Maybe it's a little unfair to pin that motive on him. And I certainly have no way of knowing what the hidden agenda was, or even if there was one. But when you make a "pitch" to the entire Internet in this fashion, generally speaking, you're doing it to get attention (and business).

There's nothing wrong with content marketing. Some HN luminaries do it all the time. But the content has to provide some value, and a lot of folks (myself included) are still struggling to find the value in the Wikipedia redesign post.
If you want to improve your craft, you need feedback. Honest feedback, not feedback guided by other goals (like, making friends with/influencing you).
Is this coming to Android at any time?
Sometimes tap water is bad. I lived in a house with extremely hard water, and it was basically undrinkable. Of course, I was generally buying water in gallon or 2.2 gallon containers at the time.

When I buy bottled water today, I want an unflavored drink that is healthy. In my view, what I am actually paying for is not water. I am paying for a disposable bottle, convenience, and usually cold. That's why I pay extra for the sport bottles with the better top. There was probably latent demand for this, but people didn't know they actually wanted it. In general, at least in the US, because of the abundance created over the last 30 years through the production of cheap manufactured goods and innumerable process improvements, people are more willing to pay for things they never would have before.

And also, I am glad they succeeded in selling deodorant. It is definitely a quality of life improvement, as I notice when I visit places where deodorant usage is not prevalent. I generally don't view marketing as adversarial like many people though. If something exists that will improve my life, I want to know about it.
Actually, if Apple had an interest in Square, wouldn't it then be a shrewd move for Starbucks to invest and get on the board? Buying into a company not long before it's acquired can be a great way to make a buck.
Positing that your ideological opponents are a subspecies of humanity. Classy.
Awesome idea. You don't seem to be listed in non-US app stores (Canada, in my case). Any plans to be available internationally, or at least in the same countries served by Twilio?
You're talking about smartOS I'm assuming? I'm not certain the comparison is apt. With smartOS you're just being given a node platform, with Openstack you have the entire management platform.
Upstart is Crowd Funding for Dreamers
Why do people treat buying an app with the same amount of deliberation as buying a new car? The price is less than a large coffee at Dunkin Donuts.

I don't mean to be picking on you quintendf because I do exactly the same thing and your comment made me realize it. I am going to download the app just because of your arguement - I am going to need it sometime in the next few months and not remember the name.

There must be some cognitive bias about buying an app. I will blow $2 on a Diet Coke when I fill-up with gas with barely a second thought. But ask me to download a $2 app - Whoa! this is going to take some thought, research...
They charge a lot less than that in bulk too.
This is a cool idea. Did you account for the smaller amount of users at night vs day?

It might be even more interesting to do comparisons between subreddits and comparisons between hashtags or followers of certain figures.

Also do you have a link to the source?

Keep up the good stuff!
I love what Influitive is doing with helping advocates help companies.
We are definitely looking at expanding our international coverage as soon as we practically can. Nothing to announce formally yet though.
What would you count as tracking? Would websites only have analytics or A/B test results on users that have printed, signed and sent them consent forms?
> Form over function is not evil.

I must disagree wholeheartedly, all the more regarding a tool as valuable as Wikipedia. As small as I try to keep my identity, this is part of it.

I suspect some of the hostility we're seeing is a delayed reaction to the prevalence of this viewpoint here. HN no longer has consensus about which of the Two Cultures is favored.
FTA: “Social media is of increasing importance to law enforcement and criminal prosecutions,” said Mr. Cunningham, a former criminal prosecutor. “In general, social media outlets do a very good job of cooperating with authorities, but in this case, however, Twitter should have given the information without a court order under their emergency procedures policy. The threats were clear enough.”

I call shenanigans on this. The reason we have a system of laws, judges, and subpoenas is to a uniform application of the law. If someone is making a serious threat through any outlet then I'm all for having the appropriate authorities apprehend them but having private enterprises defer to their better judgement on when information should be released is a slippery road with a steep incline.

If they really want to solve this problem then the requests for information with valid subpoenas should be standardized* as should the rejection of those without valid subpoenas.

* Imagine each judge cryptographically signed subpoenas and that company websites had an uploader for authorities to upload them (or a unique id linking to them). The latter would go into a queue at the company and get efficiently processed either automatically (if the info requested is standardized, for example give me all tweets and the IP addresses for user XYZ) or by manually by employees of the company. Efficient, transparent, and auditable.
Realtime Raises $100 Million To Make The Internet More Like Live TV
I am very impressed with BetaKit - these people write terrific, penetrating articles.
How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.
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From my personal experience I think some numbers do get reused. When I first got my Google Voice number I kept getting a bunch of calls asking for some other person, so I guess Google just reused someone else's old number.
The IP address would be the Burner servers, not the end user.
How did we ever live with payphones?
"... shown that many difficulties associated with dyslexia can potentially be traced back to a malfunction of the medial geniculate body in the thalamus."

I always wonder if things like Dyslexia are more a symptom from something else, like how ADD can be caused in people who have food sensitivities or allergies but don't realize it - or perhaps a terrible childhood where the person / mind / brain learned distraction behaviours for coping, and therefore until those distraction behaviours are explored that ADD person will never learn how to focus.

And why is it considered faulty? How can one determine the pros and cons of how a mind will develop due to how the brain works? It really bothers me that much of very narrow scientifically-done research doesn't reach back out into a holistic view. I understand that if you keep the narrow context than their statements remain 'true' - however that isn't beneficial on an individual-by-individual basis when our body and minds are so complex.

A quick fix sounds nice, is 'cheap' in cost (if you ignore side-effects and that many times medications are bandaids that tend to fall off or let symptoms [from something underlying] worsen), and is purely driven by profit-motive - at least that's where funding comes from, even if it's in researcher's hearts to trying to find answers to help others. We know things like MSG and artificial red food dies cause ADD in a large percentage of the population, though in North America we still allow it in our food - whereas in much of Europe such things are ban.

Anyway, clearly I am for preventative/proactive health and not putting temporary bandaids on things. Research is showing more and more that bandaids (not literally) end up costing society more than dealing with the base issues.
Since when were college graduates "students"?
All the more reason to turn off LTE in the phone. Not sure how the phone is configured, but it's entirely possible the phone is using up battery trying to find non-existent LTE towers unless it's explicitly disabled

(but I do agree with you in that battery life in most of the android phones is terrible)
GNOME Developers Lay Out Plans for GNOME OS
We tried to do this at Orbital Data (WAN optimization firm), and one or more existing TCP implmentations didn't support it. Compatibility with existing implementations was a significant barrier to optimizations that were technically permitted within the spec.

I dont recall exactly which TCPs this broke, but I do remember the implementations for VXWorks, some thirdparty TCP for mainframe OSs (IBM 370), and Solaris were often the culprit, and less often there was a problem with a Windows TCP (remember there are different releases to test of each. If you don't, your customers will). While I realize you may not care about those servers, you really don't want to make changes to the client that are incompatible.

I'd suggest checking with the SPDY guys. They've done tons of testing of various latency improvements.
I read the quoted patent blurb and thought, "oh great, so now if I write 'A multi-user, elastic, on-demand, distributed relational database management system,' I have to deal with this dude suing me." I hope patents don't work like that...
Google spreadsheets gains lockdown feature
> The article demonstrates the malleability of Ubuntu's CSS theming system.

That doesn't make this newsworthy.
I don't know, and I suspect that the task of tracking down definitively and conclusively exactly what the conditions are when I can and cannot read things would be lengthy and relatively unrewarding.

I have better things to do than play "hunt the foible" on Google.
You're right. I meant to include Visa's complaint form, https://usa.visa.com/checkoutfees/contact.jsp which mentions the right for US retailers to set minimums up to $10.

It is worth noting minimums can not be set for debit card transactions.
Are there similar (recent) numbers for tablets yet? I am curious whether the Nexus 7 & Kindle Fire are putting a dent into the iPad's domination of the tablet market.
Show HN: egoFile RSS reader sorts, highlights, summarizes item by your interests
Yeah, I know, another RSS reader, but I figured an automatically personalized RSS reader could do a lot more than just magic sort items. It also tries to group related items.

I put this together last week and was curious if anyone else finds it worthwhile. The algorithms can always be improved but I'm finding even dumb methods to be a lot more useful than nothing.

I'd like to know if anyone finds it useful, or has suggestions, so I can justify improving it.

It's a webapp at http://www.egofile.com/

You can paste your OPML subscription list into the feed search box.
All phone numbers have some ambient activity -- wrong numbers alone account for at least some randomness, though some obviously have more than others, and even very established carriers sometimes distribute numbers with a "legacy". So it's sort of a known problem.

For Burner, each number goes through a quarantine and is monitored for activity before we use it.

EDIT: Also worth noting that SMS seems to be more popular than voice calls, at least initially. "Wrong number SMS" doesn't seem like an actual problem as of yet.
Quibble: I don't think I'd consider either "yea" or "anyways" misspellings per se, at least in informal chatting. "Anyways" is heard in some spoken dialects, so you'd expect it in written forms of the same dialects. And I think of "yea" (in modern usage) as a variant of "yeah", like "yah" is. All of them are phonetic spellings of dialectal versions of "yes" to begin with (along with "yep" and "yup" and such).

They don't, at least, seem in the same category as clear spelling errors like copyright/copywrite, or bureaucracy/beaurocracy.
Zeus Trojan Hits BlackBerry Devices
Totally fair- always a tough tradeoff to make. thanks for the response!
just what we need
Even better: if you would be able to choose the country the number should be from… :)
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. Innocent mistakes we can deal with. I was more worried about a high rate of formal disputes where customers might claim we took money fraudulently. It sounds like a track record full of that sort of thing can make it harder to get good terms in the future, and I didn't see why that should be significantly higher with one form of payment than another.
Maybe but I hope Google would take the higher moral ground and assume the user has consciously decided to enable it as they have no way to tell otherwise.

It would look a little bad if Google just straight up ignored the DNT header on IE10.
You probably know this already, but The Agitator has been doing a bunch of posts about seizing money recently. The vast majority are taken from minorities, and sometimes the cops threaten to take any children you are travelling with away from you if the money isn't forfeited on the spot. I'm probably getting some details wrong so check on him for details.
It might look a little bit like OS X Lion, but it's missing over 200 features which make Lion... Lion, not to mention it doesn't even run OSX apps!
Google Says Nearly 50 Percent Of Olympics-Related Searches From Mobile Devices
Right. I do not believe these operators are certified.
I think that was an odd situation that had a lot to do about how software was distributed and consumed then.

Even if Android keeps gaining marketshare -lets say it gets to 70/75%- I don't think this will play the same way as Mac/PC did in the 90s. Most of what people do these days with a computer / phone is platform agnostic (web browsing, for instance).
I hear where you're coming from, but I think different people just like different things about games, and my bias is towards games that have strong stories. Take Mass Effect an an example - for me personally, the most interesting part of the game is making decisions and seeing how the story progresses as a result. I like to pew-pew the aliens as much as the next guy, but I'm most interested in seeing how character X reacts to action A. I'm not alone - the reason so many people were annoyed about the ending was that they wanted to find out what happens to the characters that they'd grown attached to over the last three games.

Now you're right that they could absolutely release the story of Mass Effect as a (really really long) film, but I like to have choice in how the story progresses, and I don't want to watch lots of different movies with all the choices played out. Having that control makes me feel more engaged in the story than watching it passively.

Not everyone will feel that's worth the price of entry for a game - I do.
Their iTunes page says you can make outbound calls and messages: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/burner-disposable-phone-numbe...
Or when a user signs up for our app we have them sign up for Picplum in the background, when they buy credits it goes through picplum in the background and the same for when they use the credits?