skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, no one was really considering it. It was commissioned by NASA to a small contractor team just as a thought experiment and as a theoretical demonstration of Saturn V capabilities, with no intention of going through with it.
Will it let you export html/css or are you confined to their website?
When a terrorist hate group is the elected government of the Palestinian Authority, we expect you to deal with them as the elected government. Not to like it, but to do it.
Martin McGuinness, former member of the IRA army council, is Deputy Minister of Northern Ireland - a country he ran bombing campaigns to destroy (I'm not exaggerating: the explicit aim of the 30-year PIRA campaign was a reunited Ireland). Nelson Mandela is a convicted terrorist. We expect so much from you, yes. No-one expects this much from people they hate.

That tar-brush you're waving around is very, very wide.
This is pretty harsh, but you're right: it was always sub-par, with some compelling features. As a long-time BBEdit (and thus Mac) user, my impression was Textmate appealed to "switchers" who may not have been aware of better options.

I tried Textmate many times, but single-character undo was always unforgivable.
I had an application that did this about a year ago. The results were a bit rubbish though. I wonder if it has improved and how it compares to this thing.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vital-signs-camera-philips/id...
The problem isn't trading fast, it's trading unfairly. Not following regulations. Heaping the costs of speed on others, while reaping the benefits. We have documented hundreds of examples of clear rule violations. http://www.nanex.net/aqck/aqckIndex.html

Did you know that in 1999, during the internet bull market, the system processed just 1000 quotes/second, and today it's 1.5 million/second? Guess who pays for that? Guess who benefits? http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3528.html

Did you know that your orders to ETrade and other retail brokers are tagged as "dumb" and sold to the highest bidder like Knight, UBS, Citadel, who then internally match your order (it never goes to the exchange, except during the flash crash). They give you the price from the slower system, but buy/sell from the faster one. The incentive to skew the two is irresistible. http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3519.html

When you get a price-improvement of a penny on a 100 share $60,000 apple trade, they steal 99 cents - and front run some other investor, who's order is left hanging (sometimes forever). It happens in Apple more than 2,000 times a day. http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3520.html

When you offer to buy something at a price, then yank that price before the other party can see it (speed of light), is that fair? It happens millions of times a day. http://www.nanex.net/Research/bloodbot/bloodbot.html

I could go on and on.
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Nothing fancy. Either a shared folder in my home-directory for users on the same machine, or email. Most of my work is separate individuals showing off their data rather than working together on one dataset. That could be a cool feature though--project groups or something.
Webs Website Builder - A perfect score, insanely flexible
The biggest reason of all, it lets you sync sources across all devices. Sync saved stories. Notification and communication take a backseat when you can easily send push notification to a much larger audience that is your entire userbase. Just thought it was important to mention that.
The background image is TOO distracting. It's way too saturated and colorful and just clashes and takes away from the screenshot and call to action button. That's the biggest problem with using big background images.

Also, you also have severe alignment problems. See http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/05/quick-fix-up-redesign-o... The width of the header, the body, and the footer are all different.
Why is this interesting? Because 1) search engine crawlability matters and 2) the more AJAXy web apps get, the harder it is to make them crawlable.

The more we move away from traditional web "pages" to rich web apps that do everything through DOM manipulations on a single page, the harder it is for the search engine robots to crawl what we build.
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I will be writing my next CV in Baskerville.

The font reminds me of old scientific tomes, etc.
Awesome service! I absolutely HATE doing authentication with Devise. And doing signup/login is boring as hell. Definitely going to use this for my new project.

I genuinely hope Dailycred takes off and be around for a long time to come.

Can we add custom data columns like "roles"?
Perfectly legitimate and pretty awesome, even.
I recently build an OAuth2 provider application on top of free ruby libraries (doorkeeper, devise, rails 3.2) for the german pirate party.

While it's currently only in German, it already uses I18n and has a nice coverage in rspec and cucumber.

see https://github.com/rmoriz/piraten_login#readme and https://piratenlogin.de/

Already implemented (but not documented yet) is an XMPP push notification API that consumers can use to send notifications (using Blather, EventMachine, Redis PubSub, Foreman). Also several roles (scopes) are implemented to allow everything from "per-consumer-app-uid", "global uid" up to push messaging (for people interested in privacy)

An Omniauth plugin to implement PiratenLogin is available here (thanks to the awesome doorkeeper gem):

https://github.com/rmoriz/omniauth_piratenlogin#readme
Surely there will be a huge benefit in using the hardware TM support if the implementation does not suck. It is integrated with the cache so should work much better. Structuring stuff to make this work seems a win.
I find that argument hard to accept when this system only lets you loan out a book once ever. If I wanted to show a book to my friends and family it would get loaned far more than that.
I'd like to see someone make an animated .gif with those images.
I can't thank you enough for this - thanks very much!!!
Here, let me save the HFT apologists from their post:

liquidity market-makers benefits retail investors handwave handwave march of technology fat guy in a suit waving his fingers around liquidity liquidity liquidity paying 1/8 of a cent for a trade obviously harms the retail investor more than the entire market crashing when algorithms fight with each other handwave handwave market making you don't understand the importance of liquidity market maker liquidity liquidity no fat guys in suits.
Sounds like good idea to me. I currently only use Twitter and Facebook in my prototype, but once we start user registrations, this is the service I definitely want to try first.
The B&W cameras are primarily used for navigation and hazard avoidance. The rover is equipped with color cameras, and they will get stood up in time. For now they are starting with the basic pieces and gradually bringing more online.
Whoever wrote this is brilliant. I'm very excited to see what these guys are doing. Skim.me looks like a complete game changer. Totally amazing. This is probably the most excited I've been for a startup launch, ever.

I look at a lot of sites throughout the day, and waste a lot of time checking them more often than I need to, typing in urls, navigating to content, scrolling past ads, and even just trying to remember what sites I want to look at.

With skim.me, I could just go to one spot each morning and evening, and scroll through everything I was going to look at that day in 15 just minutes, so I can save time and focus on other stuff for the rest of the day. It would change my life. I can't wait.

And I am definitely not saying because I'm on the skim.me team or anything like that. Nope. No affiliation whatsoever. I definitely don't know Clinton or Neil or go to school with them or co-found skim.me and work out of Varick St with these awesome guys every day.
count me interested to here more too.
I don't recall that particular comment, though I know that some people in Campbell River are trying hard to turn CR into something of a tech centre. There's a really great buzz on the island right now...
PG, do you think you could skim through a short excerpt from my book as well? I wrote it after applying to the class of S12 and wanted to share what I learnt: http://bit.ly/icecreamstart Ice Cream Startups: Pick your best idea & run with it
The thing about robotics is that, as a field, its so monumentally huge that there's not really going to be a specific "industry" like, say software engineering.

There will be so many sub disciplines that take lifetimes to master, and meta-disciplines that specialize in getting them together, it will be mind-blowing.

Right now, when I look at robotics, I usually see mechanical engineers making neat chassis that are useless because they can't build a simple H-Bridge with transistors, EE's making cool circuits that are then bodged onto cardboard so flimsy it doesn't work, and everyone failing for want of decent software.

Robotics needs welders, material scientists, psychologists, chemists, mechanical engineers, EE's, botanists, etc etc.. It takes a village to raise a robot.

Don't be an expert in robots. Be an expert in something who happens to have a passion for robots, and then go find a tribe. This is kind of why the Media Lab at MIT has kicked butt at robotics for so long.
salient points. thanks!
It won so many adopters because it was simple and pretty. The advanced features are great, but TM won because it didn't have Emacs/Vim learning curve, and it mostly just worked.
Don Mitchell has some cool stuff on his site, I'm always tempted to use his "Palette of Planets"[1] in a project...

[1] http://donpmitchell.blogspot.com/2006/02/palette-of-planets....
1) It is not black it is #111 :)
2) Rules in design are meant to be broken. It is good to know the rules nevertheless, so that you know which ones to break.
Maybe a graduate PHD program in robotics at MIT or CM. And make lots of contacts.
It's all about marketing. "$0.001 per user" looks a lot more attractive and cheaper than "$10 per 10000 users".
So you think schools should teach programming over fundamental science? As a very learned person said, "[physics] runs the shit that runs the shit that runs the shit that runs your shit!"

If you don't know physics, you don't know why there are fundamental limits to Moore's Law that we are rapidly approaching, for an example.
Sounds like a textbook example of Second System Syndrome.
- ... there's really is much for a trustee to do ...

- ... in the early and mid-200s ...

What the hell happened to ZDNet? That article has a few typos. Do they not have anyone proof read things?
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This is part of NASA's Planetary Protection directive [1]. Their goal is to ensure that we do not inadvertently contaminate the pristine environments that we visit with our spacecraft. If we did, we would be destroying an invaluable scientific resource!

They are also responsible for ensuring that samples returned to Earth from outer space are handled safely.

[1] http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov
"We're just taking something as dogma (anti-college) and just running with it, where we're going I don't know. There's no "there" there."

You could say the same thing in reverse: it's just opting out of the pro-college dogma.

Colleges have a huge amount of overhead like land, buildings, bureaucracy and enticements like fancy campuses and perks; much of it for students studying soft subjects with a lot of grade inflation. It's all paid for by government incentives and a trillion dollars in student loan debt.

A lot of studies say that college degrees are still worth the cost, but I'd like to know if such studies control for the self-selection of college students. Is it that college puts people on the path toward success or that people on the path toward success tend to choose college? Also, do the various majors independently justify their costs, or are political science majors lumped with engineers?

Today, I'd still probably choose college if I were 18 again (in engineering or one of a few other subjects). But ten years from now, I hope there are better alternatives available (which will make the colleges better, too), and college will just be one option that can survive without government subsidy.

Such a change will also improve the liberal arts and soft subjects at colleges. Right now, such subjects are diluted by a lot of people that just don't know what to do, and think that those subjects are easier and leave more time to party. When those people are no longer encouraged by easy money and enticed by fancy campuses, or fear the stigma of not going to college, then the softer subject classes will be left with serious thinkers.
I found this: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=702
250k concurrent connections on "... a $0.12/hr rackspace 2GB cloud server." vs 2M concurrent connections on a 24 core server with 96GB of memory.
This is tremendously helpful!
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Control-Click. I don't think it is an oversight, because "Manual Override" is touted officially as a feature:

http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#gatekeeper

And even explicitly mentioned in a system dialogue:

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gateke...

I am still not on Mountain Lion, so I don't know if you need to enter a password (which children shouldn't have) or right clicking is enough?
Love the app, great job

If you do decide to offer a web version, a chrome/firefox extension might be a good choice - it could be a very similar user experience to how it works now in the mac menu bar, and you wouldn't have to keep a tab open for it.
I remember meeting Neil 4 years ago at Stanford's new startups career fair, when they were trying ReelSurfer back then! Its nice to see him stuck to the idea, getting into YC and then launching it on much bigger stage! Now I think about it, I think its incredible, to stick to the idea and follow that passion! Good luck Niel & team.
The zyngafication of games has already begun and is happening regardless of what happens to Zynga. Micropayments and free to play games are moving from the fringe to the default and this is terrible for gaming. It's terrible because it forces companies to become zyngafied. They rely solely on numbers; they shove their their gimmicks down your throat. Gaming is slowly moving from 'nerds and kids having fun' to 'pigeons in a box having their wallets picked'.

Ultimately, hating on Zynga is pointless, because that mindset has infected EA, SOE, THQ and even the 'good' developers like valve[1] and blizzard.

In short, game developers have gone from small groups of nerds to large corporations run with a corporation-like efficiency. The product managers that so brutally follow analytics in the SF web dev scene are also starting to infiltrate gaming.

[1] In team fortress 2, crates drop which require you to purchase a key to open. This exact move is very common in free to play games, but as far as I know it was developed by Zynga in Mafia Wars.
Tell that to Fab or Gilt or Facebook...
Amazon is not a good company. I don't know why more people aren't talking about it.

They treat their 3rd-party sellers like garbage. They make up a large percentage of their yearly income and don't even offer any kind of support beyond automated responses. Amazon also doesn't keep the same standard of service as their sellers.

They have bots that will auto-ban your account with no recourse.

If a customer complains, they get their money back in 99% of the cases (even if it's > 1 year later) without ever having to return the item (I got scammed by many customers this way). Amazon also has no way of banning a customer, so they can keep doing it, leaving you negative feedback, and their bots will auto-ban you (good luck getting it un-banned after this happens). So you end up losing all of the money and the item you sold.

If I buy an ipad and complain, Amazon (If I'm buying from Amazon.com..and not a 3rd party seller) will make me return it before I get a refund.

I was a seller for many years and finally called it quits. They know they can get away with it because they are biggest site on the Internet (besides Ebay).

Ebay has its problems, but at least you are treated with respect as a seller. After moving everything to Ebay, all of my problems went away.
I am not an employee of Thiel. -- Danielle Fong.
Well, typically you stop using "months" once you've gone beyond a year or so. I tell people my kid is 5 years old... not 64 months. To say something will be gone "in months" would imply you think it will be less than a year... not 7 years.
Is this based on Eulerian Video Magnification? See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062216
OK, so I've been looking through the code and from what I see I suspect a big reason for the rewrite was to move huge chunks into platform-independent C++ for an ultimate Win32/Linux/Mac trifecta release (maybe for TM3). If so, this would explain why things got so bogged down.

The actual layout/folding code, for example, is in C++. When it needs to draw it calls Core Graphics C functions. A lot of the other things like commands are similarly abstracted. But the thing is, if you look in Frameworks/layout/src/layout.cc for example (the code that actually lays out the text), it looks like nice platform-independent C++ code. Ah, you think, this will be easy! Until you get to, say, CGRect layout_t::rect_for (row_tree_t::iterator rowIter). The return type is CGRect and it's calling CGRectMake. These are Mac-specific Core Graphics calls. The drawing code is similarly Mac-specific.

So the first thing you'd need to do is follow the architecture and start TRULY abstracting the core functionality into these C++ classes and, when they make a call to something platform-specific, you'll need to replace it with something platform-independent.

To do this, you'll need to:

- Make or move to an abstracted Graphics Context library. You could use something like Cairo or roll your own (which is what WebKit does).

- Further abstract the application structure away from the actual classes. So, for example, you would have platform neutral code to talk about the UI logically but then have each "MyWindow" C/C++ class hold a "PlatformWindowHandle" which, on Linux might be a GTKWindow pointer, on Win32 might be a Window HANDLE or COM object reference to a .NET Window, and on Mac be a pointer to an NSWindow. You'd obviously need similar platform-neutral library infrastructure to call into each of these with a similar API and translate to the platform actually running at the bottom. You could write this yourself, or you could maybe just use wxWidgets or some other library that's had a decade-long head start. You lose some control that way, though.

- Repeat with all other areas of the app that are still Mac-specific.

My opinion is this would be a good starting point for such a thing, and if you really wanted to make it happen you could. But you're NOT going to just go in there and replace NSWindows with GTKWindows and NSButtons with GTKButtons and call it a day. It will be MUCH more work than that.
Looks cool, I've been wanting something like this for a while.

Also, your animated quickstart is annoying. Leave it as text please.
First off, I support LendInk and think these authors behaved like children. Heck, I was outraged I even blogged about it.

However, I'd like to play devil's advocate for a moment. A few weeks ago, the Ryan Holiday fiasco went public. If you don't remember this, he was the guy who lied his way into coverage in mainstream media (ie - ABC, MSNBC, the New York Times, etc.) This was a situation where journalists didn't check their own facts (in this case, they didn't vet their expert) and they printed lies.

A few months ago, ABC tweeted that Hosni Mubarak had died. Turns out he was still alive (and it took journalists about twenty minutes to figure that out).

Journalists are in the business of fact checking, yet they've been caught many, many times unknowingly spreading hoaxes. Social media is incredibly powerful (now), but it will become useless if we don't teach civilians how to check their facts before they start lynch mobs.

Anyone have any ideas how we can guide users towards showing some restraint in similar situations?
No, you simply send the card details to the payment gateway which vaults them. You get back a token to reference to make the actual charges in the future. You don't have to do an authorization up front. Virtually every payment gateway has such a feature. There's no need to implement storage on your own and take on the compliance burdens.

If you use SpreedlyCore, for example, you point your signup/billing form to their server, which stores the card data then redirects back to your site, so the user never sees anything but your site yet the payment data never hits your server. If you use Stripe, for example, the form submission gets intercepted by JavaScript that sends it to Stripe instead of your server, then returns a token in a callback. If you use services like these, there's virtually no compliance burden at all.

> Then, you have the issue as to whether or not the card has the amount available in the future when you intend to charge it...

You'd have that issue whether you used a 3rd party processor or your own merchant account. Amazon Payments wouldn't have given them money when the customers' cards had no funds either.

BTW: There is no PCI-DSS or PA-DSS level that allows storing of verification codes, for either businesses or payment software companies. The whole point of that code is that it's never stored.
I support death

Death doesn't really need your support, although it might appreciate the fanbase as it is usually not that popular on the whole, apart from with goths, although it tends to find them a bit embarrassing.
The Romani have been historically oppressed, and were the victims of genocide along with Jews in the Holocaust. Where should their sovereign state be located?

I hope I'm not being a jerk, but there were lots of Jews in the first half of the 20th century that were opposed to Zionism. I assume you wouldn't accuse them all of being antisemitic.
Exactly. A rational defence works in courtrooms but is largely useless against angry mobs. If people are angry at you before they even meet you, there is not a terrible lot you can really be expected to do. Not without an advertising budget anyway.
The purchase of publication rights is an equity transaction, in that a valuable piece of (intellectual) property is changing hands. And the law as written is murky enough that it's not simple to say that crowdfunding of public benefits wouldn't be covered. Not to say that Amazon couldn't be a bit more transparent about what their concerns are. By running a crowdfunding site under the new rules; is Amazon taking on unacceptable liabilities? Could Amazon be held liable by funders if unglue.it failed to secure rights to a book they had nominated to publish?

Those are serious questions that only a lawyer can answer.