skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia also has an API (although this does little to address tptacek's concerns of database meltdown, unless you cache frequent requests):

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query

For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revi...

brings back:

{
"query": {
"pages": {
"1666533": {
"pageid": 1666533,
"ns": 0,
"title": "Y Combinator (company)",
"revisions": [
{
"*": "{{Infobox company\n| company_name = Y Combinator\n
[...redacted full wikitext content of article...]"
}
]
}
}
}
}
What's next for curiosity on Mars? (Scientific American podcast)
I do think there's still a lot of demand. Very many people still prefer physical paper photos over just viewing them online. As you say, the pervasiveness of photo printing services should speak to this.

An article I just found [1] from 2008 said 18 billion photos were printed in 2007 from services, and grew to 19.7 billion by 2008. Even if it has decreased since then, even with these very limited two data points (19.7 billion, and existing pervasiveness of photo printing services), I would assume the market is very lucrative.

PicPlum is attempting to simplify the process significantly. If they can capture even a respectable part of the market, I think it's sounds like a very viable business.

[1]http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/content/InfoTrends-Online-P...
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They aren't independent, though. "Gravity drag" comes from the fact that you need to put in 1G just to remain at constant speed. It's thus most efficient to have as high acceleration as possible. Unfortunately the aerodynamics work in the opposite direction: you don't want to go fast because that increases aero losses and there's a limit to how fast you can go in the lower atmosphere without breaking up. So the combined effects probably mean that the net loss is quite a bit larger than you could achieve if you only had to minimize one of them.
My apologies frisco. I'm co-founder at TeselaGen. We've been running like crazy, currently engaging with some of the largest biotech companies in the world. We would love to have you as a user and get your input as well. We've been holding invitations until we release our upcoming new version, later this summer. We'll be contacting you soon!
Ah. Thanks for the clarification.

At any rate, it looks cool but someone should really build a GUI for it.
I think you just did :)
Voice to text works fine for limited input. So if all you needed was the letters of the alphabet (rather than words) it works pretty well.
It's more likely they'd be upset over losing photos of their child growing up, for instance. Or if they've digitized, say, financial records.

I mean, yeah, obviously the primary concern would be "oh my god my house burnt down." But if you can minimize the repercussions by putting digital stuff which is important to you offsite, maybe that's something to be relieved about.
"After Epic Hack [...]".

Sorry, not that epic. Yes, multiple steps were required but the biggest issue in security once again was the human element.

Epic would be finding the flaws in SSL/TLS that allows you to generate a valid cert for any domain (Moxie Marlinspike) or a bug in DNS that is such cause for concern that people have to upgrade their infrastructure (Dan Kaminsky) or intercepting GSM calls (Chris Paget) while making the device believe it is on a legitimate network.

This hack came down to social engineering and using flaws in two companies verification systems. That isn't epic. People have been calling companies and people on the phone for decades and having them hand over information without proper identification/verification. The guys stuff got remote erased, well damn, the system worked as it was supposed to work ... other than that the right person wasn't at the controls ... remote wipe worked as expected.

Yes, changes have to be made, and yes security and verification of identity has to be made more secure when there is a lot at stake, but this hack was by no means epic.
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I actually had a similar issue recently where I forgot my PayPal password and I didn't know the answers to my security questions. PayPal then sent me a pin through snail mail to the address they had on file. IMO, this bit of inconvenience is worth the added security.
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Or to take a purely commercial angle: Where there is change, there is opportunity. Startups don't make money by joining the herd, but by exploiting changing situations.

Change can come in many forms, including social. Such stories are a record of social change, and the pressures that drive it.
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It is only possible if you know your iCloud username and password.

Now the reason why the attacker was able to remote wipe is because he had the iCloud username and the newly generated password.
Wikipedia is not a social media site.
With all due respect, I completely disagree. If you understand the fundamentals of an IPO, as I explained below you would know that there is a 180 day lock-up period for employees, this means that employees haven't been able to sell their stock yet. When they do sell their stock it will be at $10/$15/share. The only folks who made money on the IPO were Merrill Lynch who SHORTED IT!

You're typically supposed to IPO at the point you are preparing to grow. Not flatline. Your original argument is exactly what I'm saying is the misguided philosophy of Silicon Valley, and the Tech Community as a whole. Again, no offense, but step back and look at what I just said. I have a point. This IPO fucked everyone, including Zuckerberg, employees, and anyone else who still holds shares which as I said above is every single employee.
This is an extension not a Web App. Change the title.
The wiki (http://wiki.basho.com/Riak.html) is actually really good. I've been spending a lot of time on http://wiki.basho.com/Operations.html, http://wiki.basho.com/Concepts.html, and their sub-pages today.

The navigation could be improved, though. For instance, on the Concepts page I linked to above it isn't obvious that I'm on an overview page and that each link on the left (buckets, clusters, replications, etc.) leads to another more detailed page rather than a section of the current page.
Transcriptic (https://www.transcriptic.com/about/jobs) is definitely another company to watch in that space, and they are hiring. Hopefully the legions of unemployed bioinformatics and cast-off pharmaceutical researchers will take their expertise to these new enterprises and catalyze this nascent revolution.
Did you find it a decent supplement to Golang's own "Effective Go" and "Go Tour"? Does it provide much that Golang's own documentation lacks (besides intro to programming stuff)?
Thank you, I'll give it a go.
I think you do Bresenham a great disservice, by underestimating how far ahead of its time this really was. This was published in 1962, so any patent would have expired in 1982. So any patent would probably have had almost no effect, because it would have expired before the market advanced to the point where it was generally applicable.
That's my concern as well and the reason I went through a bit off an ordeal getting Clojure into emacs, as opposed to falling back on a Clojure editor.
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Facebook got a huge injection of capital at very favourable rates which was good for all holders prior to the IPO. I understand that it might be disappointing to see your stock go from $38 to $15 over the lockup period, but my point is that it was never worth $38 in the first place, so by getting new buyers to pay $38 for a $15 stock, the current owners increase the real value of their own stake for free.

I will agree, however, that the biggest winner is and probably always will be the investment bank. Well . . . sometimes the bank loses, but not very often if they do their job right.
Judges don't always stand for stuff like this, though I assume most of the people caught in this manner are leaned on until they plea bargain.

A while ago a family was flying out to visit their home in Africa and carrying a large amount of cash. When asked how much they had they said something like "About $4,000" and the agent they were talking to said that the estimate was fine and instructed them to write that down. When they got further in, though, another agent insisted that the money be counted and when it came out a bit higher than was written down used this as an excuse to seize the money. After a lengthy court battle, though, the family got the money back.
ah. gotcha.
Does anyone know how an autonomous car can handle stop lights being out? Or a traffic cop at an intersection? Will it has to learn and recognize the hand gestures?
Interesting assessment. I live in Silicon Valley, I don't own a share of FB, I do trade frequently. Like you, I made an assessment. My frusteration comes mostly from reading on tech blogs what Facebook "needs to do". Techcrunch acts like they are Bloomberg or something, which goes exactly with my broad brush stroked point as you said.

It's actually the valuation I care about vs. the stock price, but people tend to understand that better, so I use that as a unit instead of valuation.

The bottom line is yes, I write pointed, and passionately, I'm not personally at a loss for FB, I'm just tired of hearing "expert opinions" even on Bloomberg.
Wired mentions Apple 46 times in the article (including twice in the title)... and Amazon 3 times. In fact, most of the public and HN outrage about this incident has been directed at Apple.

That's the downside of Apple being so close to perfect. We expect perfection from them at all times. And when they make a mistake, it seems 100x more outrageous than if it were any other company.

Don't get me wrong, they made a terrible mistake in this case, but Amazon has gotten off lightly in comparison.
Prices of apps made by independent developers are often higher than on Windows, simply because of less competition (at least it used to be that way but at least in the consumer space I feel that it's shifting). App quality is often higher however.

It's not really comparable to Linux packages. GPL software is nice, but it's usually also a lot of work until it works the way you want - paid apps are there to do that for you. You could still install most Linux tools using Macports / Homebrew. At some point you will recognize that sometimes spending 20-30$ instead of investing hours of your time is worth it.

Now concerning Apple's own software: IF they fit your needs they are usually a total no-brainer. Pages/Numbers/Keynote give you 90% of the power of MS Office, in a more consistent way and at 1/4 of the price. Similar things can be said about Aperture and Final Cut X, Logic Pro even being the industry leader from what I hear. Apple certainly doesn't make a profit on those alone.
> "Imagine Google's landing page being chokeful of "content" including, most notably, the featured articles of random nature."

In the case of Google that is easy, since they have no content. Wikipedia does, and displays it (and yes, content, not "content", I have no idea what you thought you were doing there, but I saw it) -- along with a search field. So where is the problem?

> "People come, they consume and they leave. Sad, but that's life. But still the site is built to favor not their experience, but the experience of those who is deeply involved with Wikipedia"

You say that is if it's a bad thing. It's not as if there was any content there if the site wasn't accomodating to those who actually help out.

> "the change initiated by those outside of the community."

Making a websites with some screen mockups, zero code and a huge font as to make the whole thing unreadable isn't initiating change, it's piggybacking on the success and popularity of Wikipedia.

I mean, yes, by all means get involved and help improve it. But just telling them from the outside what to do, that's silly. Actually, all the content is free. You can make a mirror of Wikipedia and implement those changes. Let us see a live demo, you know. Screenshots and the promise to check your email are cute, but it's kinda been done before.
Dartmouth has E as well.
Fair, but the only problem I see with your reasoning is stock grants were being issued as far back as 18 months ago at $25/share, which means that those employees DID lose money.
Sometimes you're not really thinking about what you're thinking about when you're thinking about it.
Well, they're already trying to quell the flames of their database servers by heavyhandedly deleting articles that they find non-notable.

The unfortunate truth of the matter is that, given infinite time, they will have to fight all these fires eventually. To delay the inevitable by not actively encouraging user registration is a disservice to the entire editorial platform.
Further poking around comes up with an article that claims the story originates with a consultant friend of Russell Ackoff (the author of the book I linked to), and took place in a New York hotel in 1955. A bit more specific, but I'm still a bit suspect since Ackoff doesn't seem to mention these details in his writing. Presumably if it is mentioned in the earlier book that you point to, Ackoff must have published or mentioned it elsewhere. I've done this one to death now, so I think I'll move on.
I'm working on an app that incorporates outgoing social media messages. If there is a link in the message I hit it on the backend and send a json list of image urls to the user. The user can then flip through them and decide which image to add to their message.
uhh, the looters in the article are bankers and CEO's. The looters in Atlas Shrugged are government and people on welfare. Very different definitions.
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Yeah, before the Federal Reserve came along, we never had these sorts of problems...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
Presumably the company has plans to invest the cash raised in the IPO to generate positive returns.
I believe that Peter Thiel, Accel Partners, and several other early investors sold a considerable part of their shares in the IPO.

That being said, I agree with your article and you make lots of good points!
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I'm confused - there is a bid/ask spread of $10.00/10.05. A person comes along and deliberately chooses to buy at $10.05, rather than placing a passive ALO buy order at $10.00 or $10.01.

Why do you think this person didn't want or need liquidity?

And why do you feel that it's worse for a machine to sell it to him at a low price than for a human to sell it to him at a high price?
You are right. Brainfart. thanks
Predictions of the economic effects of the GCars:

http://vancouverdata.blogspot.ca/2012/08/googles-self-drivin...
Please just KISS. Why would we want to make Wikipedia clunky and overstylized?
The publisher has a copy of the table of contents and the first chapter as a pdf on the "downloads" tab of:

http://www.garlandscience.com/product/isbn/9780815341055
Honestly, I'd expect semi-fun mode to be implemented to prevent human drivers from passing, thus killing the "fun" and reinforcing the "driving is tedious" meme in order to serve a greater safety goal.
Here's a much better and through article on the subject the RWW:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googles_self-driving_ca...
Yes, typically you have a negotiated rate, such as 5%, 10%, whatever. You're right I saw the s-1, but even then they still lost a lot, and the employees got screwed.
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> In an earlier attempt on Tuesday to change an AppleID password (which is the same password used to log into iCloud and iTunes), Apple customer service offered up a different response, saying that passwords could only be changed over the phone if we were able to supply a serial number for a device linked to the AppleID in question — for example, an iPhone, iPad or MacBook computer.

Adding (or worse, substituting) a serial number helps, but seems insecure in the event of a lost/stolen phone. A device serial number, plus all the already mentioned info: name, address, last 4 characters of a credit card, are all reasonably easy to extract from a stolen phone. Would be nice if some piece of info not usually stored on a phone were required. I suppose that a lost phone is already a security breach, but any containment would be an improvement.
> Do people order prints anymore?

That's exactly what I'm wondering. I mean, if you'd told me about the basic concept behind Picplum, I would've rejected it in a split second as entirely absurd. But they've been live since August 2011 and still going. Makes me wonder how many other good ideas like that I've rejected off hand.
This is a horrible blanket statement. Don't call all designers ignorant because you don't like one specific proposed redesign.
I'd love to see more about how to reverse engineer this information.
Nerds, it's time to up your fashion game.
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At work. Sorry if that was unclear; I didn't mean to be.
Dust from where? Earth? The MSL is assembled in a clean room. You can see how much dust was stirred up in the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGMDXy-Y1I&feature=g-wl
I have a forthcoming blog post about the development of double entry accounting systems in the late Middle Ages and the way in which these are recovery-oriented systems with an eye on error detection and recovery. Of course these were on paper instead of digitally, but I think some of the same perspectives apply.

Double entry accounting always balances because it takes the viewpoint of a business with no intrinsic value, where debt owed to business and assets owned by the business (debits, lit. "thing owed") equals debts owed by the business (credits, "thing entrusted to someone else", either to creditors or to stockholders). Because everything is recorded from the counterparty's perspective and the business has no perspective, the system is robust. I further wonder if this isn't a natural development from medieval tally sticks to track debt.

But one thing that occurred to me is that it is hard to engineer this sort of system. Double entry accounting systems were probably an organic development based on the opening up of literacy outside the Church in the later Middle Ages. Pacioli only wrote about a system already in use. He did not invent it. It seems to me that over the next hundred years or so we can expect to see our approaches to computing evolve in a similar manner. The big challenge is that unlike building on tally sticks, we don;t have clear examples of how to do this with the computing problems of today.
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Can I beg you to write a little book on Riak then? I'm not a basho employee, I just hate their documentation every bit as much as you do for the same reasons.

Your "little" series is a boon to humanity man :(
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No.

Trusting trust isn't even applicable here. That trick only works with programs that build other programs.
I no longer work in HFT.

As for your other questions, I suggest you go read my blog posts on the topic. They answer all your factual questions.
Why do people write non-conditional loops as "for(;;)" instead of "while(1)"?
Billing. I can imagine if you incur costs for physical manufacture (printing photos), you would want to be very sure that you're going to get paid.
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That is the same though as investors buying in at $38. Employees could always choose to negotiate the grants or leave if they think they are bad value.
I don't know much about the FB employee stock plan. If they were given grants, the price doesn't matter. They gained shares of the company. If those shares were labeled $25 when they were in fact worth $15, they can't be said to have lost $10 because they actually netted stock worth $15. You might argue taxes as they would have to pay tax on the $25 income, but when they later sell, they can claim the $10 capital loss. Assuming they are in the same tax bracket, it is a wash.

If they were given options which the employees had to pay $25 to exercise, then yes, the employees lost money. However, they had the same opportunity to make the analysis that any other investor had. No one forced them to exercise their options, and those who did paid too much.
Afaik amazon didnt run ads pointing out how insecure their competitors were -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQb_Q8WRL_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&...

The downside to selling people on the idea that your platform is secure and infallible is that people will hold you up to it.
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is it me or is everyone tired of signing yet another online petition to get our government to do the right thing? I feel extremely discouraged by the state of our nation yet I have no idea how to fix it. Signing online petitions to just be ignored by our representatives doesn't do it for me anymore. I wonder if a secession of the nerds and geeks from the rest of the nation would be a good idea? bah, i'm gonna drink another beer and wallow in some self pity now. ignore me.
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GODADDY sniffed a domain that I was tracking and grabbed it on the day it expired. It is now being offered through BLUERAZOR.COM. ( a proxy company used by Godaddy to hide frontrunning activity)

GRABBING DOMAINS IS A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW

IS GODADDY USING FAKE REGISTRANT INFORMATION TO REGISTER THESE DOMAINS?

USING A FAKE NAME TO REGISTER A DOMAIN IS IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW

CAN GODADDY THEY PROVIDE PROPER REGISTRANT INFORMATION FOR THE COUNTLESS DOMAINS THAT THEY HAVE STOLEN?
Not everyone accesses the internet on their own computer.

Seriously though, I never see the wikipedia front page. I either go through a link in google, start with 'en.' in the address bar, or start typing 'wiki' and choose a previous link. All of these are easier and more portable across browsers and OSs than the knowledge required to change your language locale.
SV was the leader in social media three years ago but today the interesting companies, like Pinterest, are run out of places like Iowa.
Agreed, epic is a definite overstatement.
I just backed this. I have one of the metal disk filters that exist already, but I find it's really annoying to get the bits of coffee out of it, and if you don't spend the time on it you get rancid coffee taste.

For those of you wondering if the aeropress is good, it makes amazing coffee. If this filter lives up to its promise, then I'm going to be a super happy guy.
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So that you can do tricks like this:

#define ever (;;)
for ever {...}

;-)
Don't get me wrong, I agree with your sentiment. However, I think in this case, it is about the fact that the stakes were much higher with the iCloud account.

Yes, I would be very annoyed if an account which had personal information, a history of purchases, and was linked to my credit got hacked (e.g. by social engineering). However, I would be even more annoyed if my laptop and phone got remote-wiped due to the same type of hacking.

But to be honest, I haven't been following the story that closely, so I am happy to be proven wrong on the perceived difference between the social engineering of Amazon vs Apple support .