skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sourcing static content from a static web server

Technically, the iframe is dynamic content, seeing as it's generated by a CGI script based on the parameters in the URL. :-)
The difference here is that the greatest asset of Ducati is it's brand as a high-end motorcycle producer. Thus getting a return on this acquisition from Audi's perspective means continuing to deliver on that brand's promise of awesome, pricey motorcycles. (Which incidentally makes good money for Audi as well)

The greatest asset of Clutch.io is the technical team and their ability to produce well-crafted code which means getting a return on the acquisition means deploying that team toward important projects at Twitter which could help them grow their userbase, engage existing users and monetize those users.

(Disclaimer - I have not spoken to the team about why they were acquired and what they'll be working on, but my statements are representative of what the majority of these types of acquisitions are like)
You say "next couple of years".

IE6 was released in 2001 and while it's finally on it's way out, you will run into people who want it supported.

So by next couple of years, do you mean 10 years after IE8 was released which would be 2018 we'll begin to see support for it dropping?

jQuery serves the exact purpose of allowing you to push your design forward without burning as much time supporting inconsistency. I believe jQuery defers to built in browser implementations when they are better or compatible so you still don't loose anything by using jQuery
Doing "most" things at local level is actually as much of a problem as a solution. There are definitely cases where it helps, but there are plenty where it doesn't:

Consider local school boards, etc. Finland is the current darling of education reformers who cheerfully cite all kinds of features of the Finnish school system while ignoring the fact that it's _centrally controlled_.

Similarly, the world has tried lots of different healthcare systems and the one thing that seems to have been discovered is that having lots of different healthcare systems is a Bad Idea (don't do single payer AND private AND pay as you go ... pick one dammit).

Then there's the 50,000 or so different law enforcement agencies in the US -- with overlapping jurisdictions, powers, responsibilities, and so forth.

9/11 occurred, in part, because the FBI didn't share information efficiently with the CIA, and the "solution" was to create several new organizations (Homeland Security, TSA, Office of Information Awareness, etc. etc.)

Local governance isn't a silver bullet any more than central control. Horses for courses.
You can disable that in your settings.
It's not just fear of money. In consumer apps, "free" means the potential of having hundreds of millions of users globally. This includes people in relatively poor countries, who would never pay for anything online. Nevertheless, they pad your numbers. Not to mention that you can have multiple accounts, sock puppets, etc.

The market rewards this behavior: Facebook is worth $40B not because of ads, but because of the potential to eventually sell something to a significant fraction of its billion users. App.net would have a hard time being worth several billion dollars if you do the math, which is completely fine. Perhaps they could have 100k real users paying $50/year = $5M. That might justify a valuation in the tens or hundreds of millions, depending on growth rates. Fantastic for a bootstrapped company. Not nearly good enough for Twitter's investors who put over a billion dollars into the company.

I wrote a blog post about this yesterday: http://diegobasch.com/the-dangers-of-being-a-product-instead...
Using sophisticated software your iPhone can calculate your heart beat.
This is completely crossing the line. Showing others what you have searched without notifying me about this is just offensive to me. I love quora and what they are doing, but this is completely below the belt.
It's not just an argument of preference when programmers suggest not using tables for layout - it's about using a best practice and a standard instead of an old hack that is a habit many are lazy to break in an age when most browsers have excellent CSS support.

This is what a screen reader emulator tells me the front page of HN sounds like:

"Page has one hundred thirty links Hacker News dash Internet Explorer Table with one column and ninety-eight rows Table with three columns and one row Link Graphic slash yeighteen .gifLink Hacker NewsLink new vertical bar Link comments vertical bar Link ask vertical bar Link jobs vertical bar Link submitLink login Table end Table with three columns and ninety-two rows"

Of course, anyone actually using HN with a real screen reader will probably only get the links list from their reader, knowing how useless the supporting markup is (aside from the table layout, HN doesn't use meaningful heading tags).

There are many more reasons not to use tables for layout, but accessibility should be enough of a reason alone to stay away from layout tables.
I really hope this blows back hard on Quora.

We need dramatic examples of companies' valuations being hit for making such privacy violations on a whim. Google and Facebook can mostly get away with similar violations since the large majority of users simply don't care and/or don't understand the privacy concerns, but maybe it's not too late to lash back at relatively insignificant companies like Quora for blatant disregard of privacy...
> In the land of computers being acquired tends to mean the acquired co. shutters their business

Not really, e.g. Oracle acquiring Sun or Vmware acquiring Nicira, not to mention all the $100M+ but "unfashionable" acquires that don't even get airtime on HN.

Anyway, I don't get this sort of complaint. If you really think the service had potential to be profitable, why not go ahead and clone it?
They should have provided clear notification on the next login with a link to the details of the implementation. I recall no such action occurring in anyway.
Not unless you are 1. visiting a lot of sites for the 1st time that use these libraries and/or 2. frequently clear your browser cache.

Your browser caches the libraries on first load anyway.
Bookmarklet to turn on/off style sheets:

javascript:(function(){var%20s=document.styleSheets;for(var%20i%20in%20s){s[i].disabled=!!!s[i].disabled;}})();

Makes pretty much any page readable, but combine with noscript/adblock to keep the content from changing.
I didn't see it on first glance at the Kickstarter page, but I know Arduino has more than 6 pins and more than 3 PWM pins. I have to wonder how compatible this will be with projects that can work on Arduino but might not be able to fit on Digispark.

*edit - obviously it won't be, I'm just wondering out loud what kind of projects a user of this board would be unknowingly locking themselves out of when they assume "Arduino-capable" means they can fit that cool RFID project onto an $8 board.
TinyCo Looks to Canada for Mobile Game Developer Talent with new Studio
Of course, it's not politically correct to say that there are more guy geniuses than girl geniuses, no matter how convincing the data may be. Saying that there are more male idiots is presumably perfectly okay; people who care about such things generally only care if it's the "minority" (never mind that women are a numerical majority in the US [1]).

Caveats: I don't know how convincing the data is. My point is that the discussion would not change even if the science happened to be completely airtight. Anecdotally, many of the intelligent people I've met over the years have happened to be women, so I'm inclined to believe in equality or even a female-favorable situation for the high tail (but how this is affected by socialization and cultural expectations is a topic for another post).

[1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
Doubling SaaS Revenue by Changing The Pricing Model
HNpod 6 - App.net, Startup Platform Choice, and Box funding
If you want a quick and dirty CRUD app, GeneXus is probably up there:

http://www.genexus.com/global/home?en

It's a code generation tool that's mainly popular in South America and is making some inroads in Japan and Europe.

It does generate some ugly code, and ugly-looking applications, but it generates all the backend code and can generate to iOS and Android too.
Author Fights For His Book On The Internet
Agreed, people are far too casual about dropping random javascript into their web sites. (I tried to make this point last year when I blogged about how Iran should have forged an SSL certificate for ssl.google-analytics.com instead of *.google.com, but that blog post didn't get much attention sadly.)
Rejecting the Entrepreneurial Education - The Industry
Err. This what he saying, you focus more on manipulating equations in the language of maths such as algebra, calculus, and less time on remembering what's the answer to 7 * 8.
I'm aware of that link and here's my result in Chrome on Incognito.

Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 1,172,808 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 20.16 bits of identifying information.
Exactly. How is this different from identi.ca?
He's specifically said the shortfall will be made up with income taxes though. You're giving him a free pass by not building those dollars into the model somehow.
You may be unique, but within a very small pool. For example, my current user agent string alone narrows me down to within one in ~2-3 million users/browsers. When taken with the intersection of all those other bits, it's very easy to get an incredibly high-resolution snapshot of an individual...
You'll have to send an email to privacy@quora.com to delete your account. I did, and they deleted my account. I also told them politely that broadcasting what every user reads to the entire world is very creepy. It is a shame, as the quality of answers at quora is much higher than in other places.
Web Tool to Edit Existing Website
This reminds me of the Sokal Affair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

Very similar idea - and all before the Internet.
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Except that the evil javascript will set its domain to yourdomain.com (you're allowed to strip components) and then it can tamper with anything else from yourdomain.com.
Why Copyright & Patent Laws Go Against How We Create
This sounds a whole like like the Sokal Affair - take a look at it on wikipedia if not familiar.
And all before the Internet.
The exact point is that the critics remain silent, while the believers (or those doing it on purpose) carry the false news forward. Then those posts will appear on the search engines. Then those searching about the topic will become convinced based on big number of similar posts.
Or if you like dark themes; http://userstyles.org/styles/71155
This should not be a default option. I accidently found out after reading an article in YC. So creepy.
Check out: http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets/

Here's how it looks: http://awesomescreenshot.com/02fd25oe4
As another example, I wrote a HN clone the 'right' way: https://bitorama.com.
It even supports right-to-left!
Chatroulette.com goes Karaoke :-)
All the more reason why we need to teach kids in elem schools now how to identify real info and research sources. What a mess.
Very true. Acid-free paper has a expected life of over 1000 years. Think about how long paper documents like the Magna Carta, ancient illuminated bibles from the 700's, Shakespeare's plays have survived without special climate-controlled environments.

Also paper in bulk is hard to destroy. A stack of paper is pretty dense and can survive to some degree a house fire or flood.
I'd have to disagree. I think capturing iPhone-iphone sales could be huge. Of course, to do that, they need to enable payment.
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Law enforcement using license plate tracking cameras
The hard part is not making the company, but paying the lawyers and accountants to maintain it properly afterwards. It's like a tax by itself that reaches thousands/tens of thousands of dollars per year.
Having ran a travel directory site for a bit I'm always interested in Google's ambitions in the space. I still haven't completely understood why Google bought Zagat, and now Frommer's is a bit odd as well. My theories -

1) Small business relationships - well established relationships with long-established small businesses that may never have tried advertising online. Every listing is a potential new Adwords customer. I know someone who worked with Zagat and the 1st thing they did was swap out the ad network, so I'd say this is reason #1. These guys have very trusting and loyal ad partners

2) Brand recognition and perception of quality control in consumer listings.

3) Databases - its really hard to get a complete database of small business info from foreign countries. Googlebot is just never going to as good of a job cleaning up this content as a decent editorial staff. These guys have been intricately compiling and updating DBs of eateries and attractions for decades.

4) The guidebooks - I doubt the revenue from selling paper guidebooks means much to Google, but it might be a lesson in selling digital content, who knows

5) They acquired them both for a steal. A bunch of editors working for peanuts, content and new adwords customers scooped up at a fire sale.
I'm still confused how that gets by Google. The full text shows up in search results, but is blurred by CSS for humans. Isn't that not allowed? Even experts-exchange includes the readable plaintext answers way at the bottom if you scroll down, for that reason.

edit: removed discussion of googleoff/googleon directives in the HTML source. Seemed suspicious, but apparently it's something to do with Google Search Appliance.
Ah, the joy of noscript.
We're trying to use a standardized document format. Building on Atom. Should be able to read serialized format in any blog reader. Microformats will be used to add structure, and JavaScript library will take feed, order elements, and select versions for presentation. Add a little CSS for additional presentation elements (e.g., of an action item list).
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Coursera launches a course on big data
On Chrome, the tab's title is an animated cloud moving across a line..
Cython memoryviews for fast and clean array access
Tutorial: Using Django's Multiple Database Support
New Google favicon
The default will always be what supports their desired business model the most.
Understood. As there is no reliable way to guess at who would be affected and how (ie what income levels, with dependents / or without) - we believe the most accurate way to portray the plan is with what Romney has stated publicly and the shortfall that he needs to account for (ie $2.8 trillion over 10 years).
@cperciva – wrong. Both pages have to opt into the same domain for that to work.

As in, even if the "evil script" set it's domain to yourdomain.com, unless your pages on yourdomain.com ALSO do

document.domain = 'yourdomain.com';

The script on the subdomain can't access that content.

[EDIT] Whoever is downvoting this, can you demonstrate otherwise?
I find the Lonely Planet guidebooks are targeted at a very specific sort of traveler (one that is younger and cooler). I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for my parents.
Iris? That's not even worth comparing :|
hopefully this would get implemented in Cloud platforms like OpenStack.
Works in IE, FF, chrome, and even on iOS! The clouds look different in each browser.

It kinda reminds me of zombo.com!
I changed my user agent string & managed to get down to 15.99 bits of information (one in 65,161). Curious if anyone did better.
Surprising that they would okay it, but their call I suppose.
TED talk by Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix (on copyright and patents)
That's insane, that's a bannable offense in Google. How do they still show up in search results?
So to be ethical, everyone who's currently a citizen of singapore should emigrate and renounce their citizenship due to military service. To a country where there isn't military service? The likelihood of any sort of agressive or defensive military action by singapore is small.
Assuming the Wikimedia Travel project gets off the ground, Wikitravel and its forks, or at least the material and active users and admins of these, will migrate to the new project.

Wikitravel is pretty good, but uneven depth of coverage. I usually read at least the main Wikipedia article and Wikitravel article about places I'm going to, and web search and sites like Yelp for details. Together this is a huge improvement over guidebooks. With more attention that a Wikimedia travel site would get, I'd expect even more/better for the types of things I look at Wikitravel for now, probably meaning I'd need to search/yelp/etc just a bit less.

(Of course most people would get to Wikimedia Travel via Google, and they could use WT content, so it'd be a win for Google just like Wikipedia, even if it made their purchase of Frommer's worth less.)
You are right, people shouldn't jump to conclusions, but, unfortunately, they often do.
You're probably thinking of the Rosetta Project: http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/

...I always thought it was a very cool idea too.
Yes, that's right! Our very first prototype was using a 5 degree of freedom IMU board from SparkFun.

Yes, the kickstands can be deployed manually during a call or automatically, if the robot is sitting in one place for a long time. When the user attempts to drive again, the kickstands instantly lift off the ground and the robot can drive again.
Blhack,

I ran across this comment of yours - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377315 - and certainly appreciate your privacy concerns. A healthy private life is undoubtedly everyone's personal choice.

At the same time, HackerNews is YCombinator's tech blog, and highly visible. Frankly, your opinion comes off as somewhat paranoid. It's not that it isn't justified, I'm not saying that one way or another, but I would strongly consider the impact statements like this have on your image in the social space.

I heard back from Kenneth. He actually said that your social strategy is a "shambles", which is excusable, and also that you "had 0 interest in improving this" -- which is not.

He said that you were more interested in getting to the moon than in building a social network around the project.

blhack, the money we entrusted you with not appropriate to spend idly dreaming up conspiracy theories.

The world is social. People chirp, tweedle, and most recently iMessage those they care about and feel a community with.

This community is now your top priority. I want to be able to show Ken that you have put together at least 10,000 likes and 30,000 followers by the end of the year. Consider this "stage one" of your rocketry design phase.

While we are not saying that failure to meet this metric means the board will necessarily replace you, consider it a part of your job description.

We are also denying your proposed budget. Please work on your social program.

Your board.
Thank you!

Now when I get some time a little later I can have a look at the source and see what's going on.

Cheers!
Following your reference, I see:

> During this time, top climate change scientists from around the globe—comprising the United Nations-sponsored Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)— improved understanding of global warming, and produced three major reports and many related documents.

Tilt! They "improved" nothing! Total, reeking garbage. We're talking Ramaswamy's 'radiative forcing' which is clever terminology but simplistic nonsense.

The IPCC is mostly just a political organization. Its 'science' is just junk, deliberately so.

The "consensus" of the 'climate science' community is inevitable, given the funding and review processes, and meaningless.

Moreover, for the main issue of CO2 from human activity causing significant global warming, 'climate science' has no significant science -- the issue is too difficult.

See my posts Part I and Part II in this thread.

Sorry you've been taken in by the IPCC rip-off, flim-flam, fraud scam.
With a security background, I'm painfully aware of how very little is private these days. But this is just a disgrace. I deleted my account. I hope others get the message.
It all depends on your system font: http://www.marathon-studios.com/unicode/U2601/Cloud

I also didn't use any frameworks or vendor prefixes.. should be all standards compliant cloud action :D

The zombo.com references is the highest of praise in my book. I might re-make zombo.com as HTML5 sometime..
Building a biodiverse startup team
What you're hoping for is already here. I'm sorry since I already praised bandcamp in another comment, however this comes very close to the better way you mentioned. As an artist you have a lot of options today - a label contract is just one of them. Bandcamp, Topspin, CDBaby (are they still around?) or direct website sales are the alternatives. And of course let's not forget smaller independent labels. It is perfectly possible to be successful without a major label these days. If an artist decides to go the traditional route, it is his decision and it wasn't his only option.

I seriously doubt that Dotcom has the artists in mind with this new venture, it is a nice way to advertise the service though and he certainly knows that. Let's see.
Any Javascript you inject into the front page of your app owns the customer experience entirely. It does not matter that you set up a subdomain to send people to for payments; malicious Javascript is just going to "send" users to an extremely authentic looking facsimile of that domain.
Punch cards were not that hard to sort after dropping them.

Once you have a deck, draw some thing on the deck edges with a permanent marker making sure that all the card edges have been marked.

If the deck is dropped, first of all it doesn't usually scatter that much (cards tend to stick to neighbor) and the marks on the edge help visually sort the deck pretty fast.
...Says someone in the business of spreading rumors.

You had the disclaimer on your top level comment but not this one: "(disclaimer: I run MacRumors.com)"
Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl
Smells desperate to me.

Quora launched with all kinds of "Former Facebooker!" hype that it hasn't really lived up to.

I've had some good reads on the site, but only from the cream of the crop threads that make it into the digest emails.

Searching out a general question on Quora seems more likely to lead directly to hordes of marketers linking back to their own sites.
I'm in my early 20s, and I have heard of (and respect) Zagat. I'd never heard of Frommer's until this story broke.
Haha, yes, we've come a long way since then!
Facebook Lets You Announce That You're Expecting A Baby
At the moment, NAT means that lots of connections have to go through a central server, at least to set up the connection. With IPv6, that need should vanish (providing you aren't firewalled by your router).

The two things combined should remove a lot of middlemen.
My understanding is that pages from yourdomain.com would already have document.domain set to 'yourdomain.com', but I'm not a javascript expert.
Relevant: (?)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366002
This approach of Stripe's has always seemed like a bit of a shell game to me, but I can only assume it's been deemed PCI compliant.
Everyone, PLEASE tweet this link and post to your Facebook account. Let's show Progressive that they can't screw people.
>We must become more critical of what we read and think 'Is this reasonable? '

The problem w/ this prescription is that just b/c something is 'unreasonable' to us doesn't make it untrue.
I sent feedback@quora.com a message to let them know I am very upset with this gross violation of privacy and Web norms.

I encourage you all to do the same. (Or call them, if you know someone.)