skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm... yes you can go to Intentional school. There are plenty in Shanghai. I bet you are not wealthy enough to get in?
Only Chinese people can understand the problems in China. It's a complicated society. You guys only see the surface of the soceity. Deep inside, every corner of the street is a community itself. Every village is a different society.

The one thing that people can agree on is that Chinese government puts too much time and effort in keeping GOP as high as possible, and neglect fairness. But it is hard to do anything useful: deep interest group involves in every level of the government. Bad.
I remember feeling excited about the cd-add-on for the SNES... Ahh, tempus fugit.
For the questions about relative ranking of contributions, sure. But the entropy results seem reasonable, since it might average over a large number per-developer preferences.
Preparing a massively open online course (Part 2)
Projects like Kiva aim to develop industry in poor countries:

http://www.kiva.org
Nice piece.

This part in particular resonates with me:

"Sure details are important, but they can also make you so dogmatic that you completely miss the point. Being open to learning from other people is more important than defending your viewpoint."

I intentionally avoid using analogies or quoting details in most situations for exactly this reason.

It only takes one arguable detail or imperfect analogy to pretty much guarantee destruction of what could be a useful discussion.

Sticking to general ideas and context essentially disarms the folks who default to "battle mode".
I've been using the alpha for the past days and it's really refreshing. Interesting discussions, and the API that is shaping up, looks really good. Congratulations and thanks Dalton.
I use Clementine music player (Ubuntu). Go to Extra|Rain.
Physics, Topology, Logic, Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009) [pdf]
I did not know the SU actually turned off all radio transmissions and sent out
ships to assist in the recovery of Apollo 13. That is an impressive display of
human compassion, even inmidst the Cold War (though the cynic in me assumes
there were ulterior motives, as well).
When will we forget?
Nice! I haven't seen these before, but that's a great idea... 10 minutes later... take a look at What The NASA
http://wtnasa.com/
UPDATE - all the domains have been taken! They went pretty quickly, sorry about that. Thanks for inquiring.
I love this. In years past, Dalton and his team were able to raise millions in funding from a top-tier venture capital firm. But raising $500,000 in revenue from his target customers, that's a whole different ball game! Super excited to see where this goes. Congratulations to Dalton and the whole team!
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The title captured the true character of Java: Write once, almost run almost everywhere.
AOsafety brand "worktunes" - nothing says "don't bother me, I'm working" quite like giant yellow hearing protectors.

Also, the noise dampening comes in handy in the data center. I mean, it's not so loud that short periods of time are going to kill your hearing, but over the years? yeah, I could see problems.

Also, I find I don't get fatigued as quickly in a data center with hearing protection.

But I use them for office work, too; it's not like I have 'golden ears' anyhow; these things are perfectly fine for listening to MP3 quality audio. I have clipped off the antenna; reception is shit most of the places I work.
I just put up an alternate to wtfnasa called wtnasa (what the NASA) - http://wtnasa.com/
I hope this is something you would send to your niece with a clean conscience :)
I know piracy is always rampant and for every site taken down there will be a new popping up, but the shut down of ISOHunt, Demonoid, even the PirateBay is only offering magnet now seems to be taking a hit.

For those of who us who aren't active in the community, the sites that we used to find torrents is slowly diminishing, or at least the quality of the sites is diminishing.
Great tool! Is there a way to add static text?

The 2 usability recommendations I would add are:

1) Tell me how long my video clip is. (Don't make me keep guessing if I am in the 5 second range).

2) After creating the gif, if I don't like it let me go back to the editing screen with the last settings I used. I trimmed a youtube video down in the editor, but when the gif was created a few extra frames seemed to appear in the final product.
I was a huge doubter on day one - the initial video and manifesto seemed confusing and too abstract to fly - but seeing Dalton handle intensive negativity (even some from me, I'm a bit ashamed to admit) with such aplomb won me over. Seeing his frequent updates with progress, even before the $500k mark, was a great confidence booster.

Every cent well deserved. I was a supporter, and I look forward to helping build app.net in to something amazing.
No it isn't. That may be how you interpret it but it's an incredibly versatile word with semantics that are notoriously hard to pin down.

In this case "what the fuck" is a well-established idiom. Many people don't even notice the vulgarity.
Replace line 58 with a base64 encoding of the image to make it pure HTML/CSS!
I'm genuinely surprised, I didn't believe it would make it this far. I've backed it and I really hope it delivers, it's going to be very interesting to see how this turns out. I feel sceptical (because the value in Twitter is the people, not the platform) but I was also sceptical that this would ever reach $100,000, let alone $500,000, so clearly any assumptions previously made are wrong.
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Great read, thanks Randall! [+1].

Interesting points, but I don't believe in next 100 years we will be able to live on Mars, or there will be enough justification to move there and spend trillion to pursue that vision (of course this mission only gets us closer). Not only its still extremely expensive to fly there, further the only way to live there is under the shelter, which would cost hundreds of times more than building something similar on Earth.

One could only hope that down within the further explorations, there will be possibilities to either mine or produce something that Mars' atmosphere is perfect for, and something that would cost much more to accomplish here on Earth. Eventually, possible monetary gains would create entire new industry with trillion poured in. Wonder what Mars atmosphere is suitable to produce.
To have funded something in which users are going to be first class citizens feels remarkably refreshing.
I just spent the past 4 months programming a library in C89. I would have MUCH preferred C99 if only for inline variable declaration.

The key issue for my project was being cross platform. Since Microsoft's compiler does not implement C99 and never will, my hands were tied.

Now that's just my library. Other programers might be willing to decide case by case which features of C99 to use. Still if the document dates back to 2003 then C99 support everywhere would have been even more primitive. C89 would thus be the right decision for a introduction to C to avoid confusion.
Not that I'm accusing Dalton of doing this, but when croudfunding without using a platform like kickstarter, it might be too easy to fake backer numbers in order to meet the goal or inflate popularity.

What this means for the future: Companies will announce croudfunding and then fake amazing numbers in order to appear popular and gain lots of press.

I can see the headline now: "ACME Software raises $3 million in first 24 hours!" Actual funds raised: $250.
Here's a zero image version: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/rEfKk

Using a CSS texture from http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/
This is very much how my experience with App.net has been. I was a non-believer, but seeing how Dalton handled things has turned me into a major fan of his.
Another explanation: The problem with a YouTube series is connecting the people who would like the series with the series.

My view is that this problem holds for about 2/3rds of the content now on the Internet and is getting much worse rapidly.

My work is to do something about that.
I think we'll definitely see a lot of attempts, but I don't know if many will have much success.

It's very similar to Louis C.K.'s online video. While his video was successful, it only worked because he'd already established a name for himself. Other, lesser known, comedians will have a hard time replicating that because they don't have the brand already.

If first-time entrepreneurs try and use crowd-funding, I just don't see catching unless the product is truly awesome (think Pebble).
A more curt, but more direct response would be: As a Christian Nun, you wouldn't even be in Zambia if it weren't for explorers increasing the bounds of our knowledge. Apart from the Copts in Egypt, there's not a lot of 'native' Christianity in Africa.
After reading the title and then the article I felt a bit sad, but now that you posted this link and I'm confused. As much as I respect hard work of other people, what's the point of this plethora of sub-standard apps? Getting a wider net of possible quick sales?

Going with a publisher should be avoided as much as possible and it's a very ignorant answer, but for the end user, it seems that only these types of games seem to be worth their money.
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A number of people have raised this point to Dalton and he has promised that he will do a third party verification of all funding promises.

For example, see this: https://twitter.com/daltonc/status/234698066245074945 and
https://twitter.com/daltonc/status/234399350275571714

EDIT: Added a link to Twitter conversation showing more context.
I am split on if I think C/assembler is the best introduction material for computer science, or if scheme is.

What I am rather certain of though is that just about everything in-between is not. You don't really see the best of both worlds, but rather the worse.

(I should probably clarify that I think there is a large disconnect between what makes a good language for teaching and what makes a good language for software development in a corporate environment.)
No sugar/etc., just salted peanuts. Ingredients: peanuts, salt. It's hard to counteract eating thousands of calories of peanuts daily, though (for a while I was going through 2x bags, i.e. 3000 calories/day just from peanuts).
This is legit. Dalton's model of funding might spur interest in startups to get money from actual users, rather than venture capital
The "adorable little bird(s) struggling really hard to do something impressive" theme is strong with both titles. That's how I read it, I guess.
https://alpha.app.net/dalton/post/32618

"We are using Stripe, so it's easy to audit." - Dalton Caldwell
He was also drafted into the Wehrmacht to fight on the Eastern front, was wounded in the Battle of Moscow, and was the only member of his platoon to survive Stalingrad.

The world isn't some Hollywood movie where the good guys and bad guys are clearly delineated.
It's an interesting point, if you look at the video statistics it has only had 31,000 plays which means for every 4 people that watch the video at least 1 spends $50. However, Stripe has access to their payment info so it's possible to prove whether or not this is faked.

Actually, that's an interesting question: would it be fraud to fake the last $xxx,xxx of a crowd sourcing drive?
This assumes that we wouldn't have these things without NASA. What evidence is there that private industry would not have provided them more efficiently?
That's also very true. Particularly for something like a series which doesn't have an easily accessed niche, it's a major problem.

(I make videos on the Web for a living, and it's certainly been a problem for my company before now.)

What's your work? I'd be interested to hear about that.
Dalton also says this on app.net: https://alpha.app.net/dalton/post/32618
How can this be any related?
It's a mosaic so they're not blacked-out, they're sections where there is no image data. Presumably they either haven't taken pictures of those parts of the visual field, or the pictures aren't available or are unusable for some reason.

Either that or, you know, maybe a bird drifted into shot ;-)
This is awesome.

But the real question is how they got funded more than 50% in just 4 days?
It's amazing. I hope this is not a manual increase of the counter.
isoHunt is shut down? (I don't follow this stuff much, but I saw some of the people from isoHunt at DEFCON and the website still seems to be online; I could totally be misunderstanding the situation, though.)
...bootstrap? :/
Dalton's covering this: https://alpha.app.net/dalton/post/32618. In a recent blog post, he also talks about how crowdfunding campaigns usually pick up steam in the last 48 hours
"The fact that he is talking publicly about an internal project, apparently without authorisation, may mean he is looking for the emergency exit sign over the door..."

From everything said publicly it seems like "grok" isn't a secret for Google, the team members just haven't talked about it much because it is so likely to fail or at least fall short of its goals given how ambitious it is.

The fact that the project wouldn't be explicitly secret is perfectly believable, just look at Go or Dart which have been developed fully in the open. Like those projects, grok seems like the sort of thing that could potentially help Google and everyone but isn't seen as a competitive advantage for advertising/social, so it is perfectly reasonable to believe they aren't trying to keep it a secret.
Dalton Caldwell’s Twitter alternative App.net reaches $500,000 funding goal
The police are accountable to elected representatives. Therefore the taxpayers are responsible for their police dept., and owe money to the victims when their police go astray. I chose my town in part because of its professional police dept., which in turn implies smart voters.
Thanks.

It's amazing how many things we believe (and when I say "we", I mean society, including e.g. doctors whose job it is to know better) that have never been scientifically looked at properly -- or worse, were looked at and shown to be wrong.

My current list:

- dietary cholesterol is bad for you (truth: essentially irrelevant)

- serum cholesterol is bad for you (truth: it's a marker, not a cause. apparently, the body makes more of it in an attempt to solve other problems, which will manifest faster if you use statins to reduce cholesterol)

- dietary sodium is bad for you (truth: blood pressure is tightly regulated, and dietary sodium has very little to do with serum sodium and blood pressure, unless it is in ridiculous excess. Too little sodium is also harmful)

- butter is bad for you. (truth: some is bad, some is good. butter is so ill-defined to make general statements useless. grass-fed organic european style butter is good for you)

- you should avoid introducing allergens such as nuts to young kids, lest they develop allergies. (truth: not clear, but observational evidence show inverse correlation between how early you introduce nuts and the prevalence of nut allergies)

- weight change is equal to c*(calories in - calories out). (truth: only in the tautologically useless sense. generally wrong the way 99% of the people apply it. nutrition science is anything but)

I'm looking for a rigorous study that shows toothpasts are helpful (indeed, that brushing is helpful). Some studies by Weston Price (and his successors) imply that cavities correlate with grain and sugar consumption, and that brushing is not helpful against cavities if the diet is bad.
The OTP virtual machine takes a lot of memory. It's an interpretter, which means much slower execution, as article and others above pointed - The Erlang VM is soft-realtime, it can't guarantee that something would finish in certain amount of micro or milliseconds, or if it does guarantee - it's too much for what they need (just guessing here).

But the concepts are very similar - message passing being the way to communicate between modules, rather than shared memory ways.

This brings another topic - the Linux vs Minix debate :) - I guess there are right things to be done for the right time, and right target. It's just getting all these things right is the hardest.
IBM licensed it so they could optimize Java for Z, i-Series (aka AS/400), p-Series (AIX) and WebSphere. A decade ago, it performed much better than Sun Java in many respects.

There used to be licensing restrictions as well -- I think on x86 it was theoretically only free to run on IBM hardware or with other IBM software (ie. WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, etc).
Dalton continuously put out updates for people and I think updates like this(http://daltoncaldwell.com/appnet-is-not-vaporware) would have pushed people who were mildly skeptic to contribute.
I guess the bit that made me twitch was the "great poker players do X". It's true, great poker players do indeed go all in to demonstrate, amongst other things, commitment to a hand (well, ish. Actually it's more to reduce the value of the pot for other players. Amongst other reasons. Sort of.) - but so do good poker players, average poker players, and crap poker players who've read about 2/3 of a short book on no limit (the latter would be me).

Given that the point of the statement was to compare how Mark Pinkus could be great, rather than average or crap, that rather undermines the whole rhetorical point.
That's true for every type of funding, though.
For IPython, we now merge most pull requests by clicking the green button. It's convenient, and it automatically links the merge to the PR, so you can find the discussion associated with the changes. For testing, we have a script (test_pr.py) that merges and tests the changes, posting the result to a comment on the PR.
From the JPL coding standard: "Callbacks should be avoided"
Most Kickstarter-like campaigns start out strong, dip down, then get a lot of traction right before the close of the project (for the ones that are going to be successful).
That's pretty amazing. Clearly app.net is tapping into something that people are starting to feel pretty strongly about--the benefits of "free" aren't necessarily worth the consequences in the longterm.

I could see a similar model of aligning user/company interests rather than advertiser/company interests working for other services--email probably being the biggest that comes to mind.

This is actually a good thing for revenue as even a small membership fee is going to VASTLY outweigh the per user revenue generated from advertising. We'll see if this idea is capable of jumping from internet nerdom to the mainstream, but mainstream users are also becoming more and more aware of the actual cost of 'free' products.

So... congrats app.net team, and good luck!
Are you referring to App.net's use of Twitter bootstrap to build their UI or to the way Dalton funded the execution of this idea?
How many characters does it allow per message? From the screenshots, it looks like 256. Is this correct?

Thanks.
I don't think so; it seems to me that it's the opposite of appjs. The tagline of appjs is:

> Build Desktop Applications for Linux, Windows and Mac using HTML, CSS and Javascript

Pyjs is python->javascript/html/css compiler; it started as a port of GWT:

> Pyjs started life as a Python port of Google Web Toolkit, the Java-to-JavaScript compiler.

Basically, it allows you to use Python to write both web and desktop applications; abstracting out the css, javascript, and html.
And of course, the number will be higher per-person for people who actually use Facebook, because you have to exclude those without it or without internet.
Probably will be better to serve static content only by nginx. http://forgif.me/assets/132.gif error from rails.

maybe this will help http://27smiles.com/2008/05/22/setting-up-nginx-with-rails/
The "You're Not Working With The Owner" aspect of a big company is usually the most underrated reason why some companies succeed in hiring and retaining top performers, and some don't.

The immediate manager is a major reason, from what I've seen, for why people leave or love their jobs. The manager may not even share the same ethics that need to flow down in the company from the founders/owners, and may even work towards ensuring her/his own appraisal success. This is why maintaining the big company's culture is such a tough task, and one bad hire at a senior level can slowly destroy major chunks of it.
Anyone have an idea how much could these domains go for or how they could be monetized legally?
I think a large part of the strong finish is a feedback loop. As it gets closer to achieving the goal, the belief that this concept could take off strengthens, which leads to more signups.

That and the press blitz, of course.
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I don't want to ask dumb questions and I also read the content on their site, but I'm still not sure if it's just a twitter alternative or more. And what about identica? Isn't it a similar service like app.net?
I don't understand how your comment is a refutation of the assertion that C will teach you more about the machine than other languages.

Which language would you recommend using if you want to learn more about the machine?
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And celebrity users endorsing it would have helped as well. For example - Robert Scoble, Stephen Fry (https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/234695539357257728) etc.
I doubt it would have the same impact; I don't think the Catholic church is anticipating the conversion of godless Martians.
Yes, it's 256 chars.
NASA is part of the military-industrial complex.

See the first link joering2 posted. If you look at the top 10 defense contractors you'll find that several of them are also Nasa contractors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NASA_contractors
Cool! I backed it mostly to snag my first name (@gabe) in case it actually does take off, but it's a neat idea, too. Congrats to Dalton and the gang.
I'm not really sure what the purpose of this service is. Could somebody please explain? I'm not trying to be a dick. I myself wouldn't pay to use Facebook minus the ads. I barely use it as it is. I only pay for things that provide me with some utility. The description of "a paid, real-time social feed" is vague and ambiguous.
A centralized social network is what's wrong. Despite their best intentions they're still going to have all their users and developers by the balls. This absolutely will not replace Facebook or Twitter, it'll be just another one of the dozens of copycats like Path.

What really needs to happen is an open decentralized protocol needs to be agreed upon for newsfeeds + blog posts (wordpress) + microblog (twitter). Then everyone can write their own servers and clients and operate in a manner like Email currently works.
http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal.
HaloZero could be referring to this news: https://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-forced-to-shut-down-in-the-...
My understanding is that yes, identica and app.net are similar, except for their business models. Identica didn't have a clear business model (AFAIK), so they would likely resort to advertising. App.net is trying to avoid that by charging users directly.