skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Osama denied my friend request! :-( (Sad terrorist)
Have had a lot of fun with this so far even though I'm only at level 4, kind of went off on a tangent on level 3 and after getting a partial solution I realised that there was a much easier way of approaching it
Or which language attracts the most expert typists.
Twitter and LinkedIn are successful in distinct niches from Facebook. Companies and privacy-conscious people apart from activists (Germans?) may also be interested in a social network that lets them own their information.
I wouldn't call it cultural, I'd call it human nature. We're generally intrinsically lazy, so any silver bullet that promises to solve all our problems with next to no effort is very enticing.
Other publishers I buy from, such as Manning, also add watermarks. Personally, I couldn't care less.
inter-app protocols will emerge spontaneously.
The path to creating AnyList was long and winding, so it's hard to say exactly. It wasn't always going to be a standalone app, and we built some stuff that we ended up not using as a result. We've been working on the app since last fall, but we weren't always working on it 100% of the time.

See: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/19-months-and-1-pivot-later...

The company is just me and my co-founder right now, but we also hired some outside graphic design help.

We aren't ready to discuss monetization plans, stay tuned.
CEO of fashion startup LOOKK steps down
Mutations can also be beneficial. I wonder if other traits, such as intelligence variability, are also related to father age?

There's even a nice evolutionary coincidence: if you wanted to play with genes to make something, it's a good idea to start with the genes of older fathers, because they've shown they can survive longer.
Facebook's Real Problem
IV is simply milking the hole in patent system that you don't actually have to produce anything real to get the patent. The actual model they keep talking about (like laser zappers) are just "token" stuff that they can show to journalist to make case that they are not like other trolls. The fact is that IV have far many troll patents than real stuff they have built to show off.

Not sure why Nathan needs to do all these things to hurt technology world when he is already billionaire and enough money to last several generations. Person with his brain power could do much better things for tech world. He is in essence showing patent trolls how to be socially acceptable even if you are doing the bad stuff for the current and next generations. He has innovated successful trolling business model that is going to hurt a lot to humanity at the personal gain of trolls.

IV is legitimization of patent trolling in the same way lobbing is legitimization of bribery in political system.
FreeAgent is fantastic for invoicing - slick, simple UI, and baked into accounting & tax calculation tools (I've only used it in the UK but I believe they rolled it out to the US recently too)
EDIT:

In light of some controversy over the title of this article I have taken the liberty of removing what I see as being some of the more potentially misleading terms.

The word "create" is rather obviously a misnomer based on Newtons laws, but I'm trying to stay true to the text of the original article, while keeping the discussion on the scientific merit of the subject.

Thank you.
Not quite figuring out how this is functionally different than vim's split buffers. Just seems less flexible than splits in that it did not mention that tiled windows could be repositioned or resized.
Diamond is only the hardest known naturally occurring material.

For the hardest known material, take a look at this paper from 2005:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005ApPhL..87h3106D

Or the Wikipedia article for a more general treatment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated_diamond_nanorod
re: CEO just told you it's $2MM, yes, but perhaps he'll instead tell you it's actually $5MM but he wants to incent you to take a larger equity stake (the other options trading off expected reward for additional financial security).
Disney's 'Physical Face Cloning' produces the ultimate photo-realistic robots
You're right. I've read that several times over several years and never noticed.
AOL is still in business?
Generally speaking, most businesses will have some sort of "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" type policy. However, they will often come under fire for (ab)using that policy however they see fit. It is a tricky situation really. It probably comes down to whether or not you fall into a group that is protected. They would be in a media/legal shit storm if they denied you entry because you were in a wheelchair. I don't know if being a Democratic is a protected group.

Edit: I guess specifically if being in that protected group played into why you were denied. Meaning, they can toss you for being drunk even if you're in a wheelchair.
The author seems surprised that a meet-up about development process and methodologies is mostly older, experienced devs rather than young hipsters. It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out.
Okay but there are more PHP users out there. If you had one PHP server I would start to run it right now. My (and many others) shared hostings do not provide Ruby, Java, C++ support.
I think security of data is where a lot of the open source networks have fallen down. (I'm thinking Diaspora and their SSL-encypted node).

Because you shouldn't be trying to close the analog hole, it's essentially impossible (just look at sites like failbook).

Instead you should be trying to be about as secure as email, and allow other people to secure it if that's what they want to try and do.
Oh you.
I couldn't type various characters, such as <>={ and probably others that I didn't get to try out. I have an Icelandic keyboard layout, if that matters. I should probably switch to the American layout anyway.
Ubuntu 12.04, Chrome version 21.0.1180.79.

This is still excellent. If these keys worked I would definitely use it.
Nice work selling the shovels. :D
This is a good suggestion if only a bit vague. How exactly do you do that?
I was being very snarky, admittedly. The article just really irritated me and I was extremely drunk on rum.
This reminds me of Learn Code The Hard Way... The guy that runs it states the only way to learn is by typing the code in, bit by bit and not to go too long because you might burn yourself out...This is a nice free tool, Cheers moonboots!
Tootsie's Secret Empire
Yeah, I think it's that farms are now a real business and not a side business, and there's enough science and business involved that if you're going to be a farmer and compete against professional farmers, you should do it as a profession, vs. just owning real estate.

A person who wants to own a farm but not be a professional farmer should probably lease the farm to a professional farmer (which is fairly common); what I'd personally like to do is own a timber estate, since that really is mostly passive for 30-50 years.
Sure, I just meant in general 2% seems very high. Friends of mine got the suggestion to do a test with a 3% chance of killing the embryo (or what they call it - it was rather early stage). The doc apparently thought nothing of it. I thought it is crazy (and they thought so too). Added information that the mom was already 40, so not that many new attempts left.
the result of building a lean version of the system fast. We are going to be updating our design, FAQ in 2 weeks. Thank you for noting.
Also, from where did Jesus get his Y chromosome?
Google will only display for videos that opt-in to have ads displayed before them. Also, they will display videos watched on YouTube.com. Hence, of videos we promoted so far, we haven't seen anyone have pre-rolls appear in their vids.
Flexible web site layouts
As one of the original instigators of dwm and wmii before that (mostly by shouting at garbeam) I want to point out that this kind of tiled window management was first introduced in larswm (that is sadly discontinued), which in turn was heavily inspired by Rob Pike's Acme editing environment ( http://acme.cat-v.org ).

So in a way we have gone full circle, from text editor, to window managers, back to text editor.

That said, I still prefer Acme to vim, but would be really cool if somebody added mouse chording to vim :)
>A system that synchronizes live should never get that role, except if they can guarantee that old data is never overwritten, new is always appended. //

Why don't Dropbox enable this use-case. It would surely be very easy to implement. I guess that pack-rat does do this in a way but seems like overkill.

I'd like something along the lines of duplicating all files but requiring confirmation of deletions and overwrites.
Yes, that's correct, hence Facebook's user feed is not really based on, or helping, the social-web part of the user's life. The user feed or stream is there as an advertisement, a selling product, for the product and services to advertise to (it is sort of a loop, isn't it - you are selling yourself to the one who is also selling to you).

The real social-web aspect of the Facebook is in their Groups, or Pages, where users collaborate, converge "together" on a single entity (of any particular Group or Page).

Do you follow my logic now?

I am against the idea of making users standing independent on their own because they then become an island in themselves. It is fine if you are making them a product, a brand, or portfolio, but none of this is helpful for the authentic social-interaction. You don't need a brand or portfolio to be social, that's not its original purpose. The original purpose of the user (individual human being) is to communicate, be social, create communities.
I never actually look at the average star rating. I read a couple 5-star reviews, read more 4-star and 2-star reviews, and decide based on that.

Considering how many Amazon 1-star reviews I find that can be summed up as, "UPS sucked," averages are kinda useless.
If you want to see a lot of young people then go to a 48-hour hack-a-thon. That's a development methodology where you'll find fewer 40-50 year old devs.

You find mostly older devs at meetups about process and methodology not because it's and old and boring subject. Rather, because they're the ones who are concerned about process and methodology and are more likely to be at a management level.
Predict 2012 US Presidential Election, share shortURL - feedback pls
Retaining copyright isn't what matters. The license they choose on the copyright they (naturally) retain does.

It is possible that they could craft a license such that protocol-incompatible changes are not allowed, but I don't think that would be in their best interest. This is a starting point. The risk isn't fragmentation, it's crickets (ie nobody cares) and an untested protocol that may need multiple versions to get right.
Whooping Cough is making an epidemic, deadly comeback in the USA
Show HN: A1161 - Competitive Writing
Gah, I'm stuck on level 4. I've never really dealt with security in ruby / sinatra / sequel applications.
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Dave McClure is ripping VCs again: They’re f***ing arrogant and stupid a**holes
The most valuable two settings I know for this are:

set ttymouse=xterm2

set mouse=n

Now you can use the mouse to resize buffers and click on tabs. You can even click to focus on a buffer and don't need to meta-press your way around when you just want to browse things. Go on, click on topics inside of the help, assign the right click to supertab[1], navigate NerdTree[2] like the explorer clone it is. Collapse and expand code folds[3] like a 21st century digital boy.[4]

Furthermore, your scrollwheel all of a sudden now scrolls through your document in putty, xterm, screen, rxvt, tmux, iterm; all of them. Yes, total heresy, I know.

The only thing more important than this is doing a visual selection[5] and then doing a :!(any program) like say: fmt, sort, mail, python, rdoc, indent, bc ...

I know what you are thinking; "But kristopolous, this is so easy; it is not possible". Relax my friend, this is unix, you know this.

PS: Here's my custom vim builder/environment maker: https://github.com/kristopolous/vimbuild

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658

[2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643

[3] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/fold.html

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN6kCgMUjFw

[5] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/visual.html
Why can't I share my test results on social networks? This is like one of the only types of social activites / games I would want to share with my friends!

Other than that, this is freaking rad!

I found it funny that I'm normally a 120-150 WPM typist, but when typing special characters for regex, etc, I hit a patch of molasses.
Great book and I just bought it. Is it possible to get a version with a white background for better printing?
Stop Fooling Around, Jump Into Search, And Triple Your Stock Price
How dare the US government use the products of US companies!
It makes perfect sense to me for Facebook to do that.
Zynga not interested in being acquired but investors think they should be
What a stupid thinking, overfilled with greed.

If I give you $100 million to kill your friend and you say "no" -- is that making you an idiot??

I am asking seriously.
votenight.com allows people to predict US Electoral map and share shortURL of the Electoral map. You can embed the electoral map prediction on your website / blog. Looking for any kind of feedback on this project that can make it easier and fun for people to use.
Outside In, the movie referenced in the article, can be found on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYo7MHuj0g
You wrote: "Because the definition of waste is the purchaser not getting any utility from the product, the economy has a net loss in wealth equivalent to what the producer expended in making the unused product."

Would you consider unused cell phone minutes (that don't roll over) waste?

What about any other monthly-commit-type product or service, where network/CPU/storage capacity is provisioned (expended by the provider), purchased by the customer, but unused - is that waste by your definition?
Amazing job by Vayable! And congrats to everyone running a revenue-generating startup at YC if this is enough of a trend that Bloomberg is reporting on it!

I really hope that this signals the advent of a genuine change in how mainstream investors value revenue-generating startups, so that early-stage companies can get away from being valued simply in terms of a revenue multiplier and thus penalized in comparison to companies that ignore fundamentals. Among other things, this is going to make it much easier for bootstrappers, who need to build revenue into their products from the start.

And Paul -- if this is a real trend I hope you will follow up on this topic with an article in a couple of months. While I know this stuff is sensitive on a company-by-company level, it'll be interesting to hear how and if you perceive valuations are changing for YC companies that put their revenue front-and-center like this. My experience with a few friends in different funded startups outside California is that beyond seed rounds investors are still focused very heavily on users, users, users because the return period on organic linear growth is perceived as too long or uncertain to justify investing any sizable (greater than a few hundred thousand) infusion of cash.
(not associated in any way with tent.io)

1. Just because it is allowed by the protocol doesn't mean any given client needs to pay any attention. Just like email, I can filter out any messages from people not in my contacts. I may choose not to and instead run each one of those messages through a spam filter. In this respect it really seems no different than email. Individual clients/servers can choose to be as strict as they like (but servers are servers, and they are sitting on the internet, so spammers can see them and send messages that will be ignored if they like).

2. Since connections with most of your contacts are theoretically maintained so you can push out new data, updating is more akin to propagating a new ip through the DNS system than using a redirect. Yes a DNS server can misbehave, but that can only screw up a network of well behaved servers for so long.
The more accurate you want to get, the more computationally expensive. Netflix actually did a contest with a million dollar prize to the team that could come up with the most accurate rating prediction algorithm. In the end, the million dollar algorithm was too expensive to implement, so they never ended up using it.
There is nothing in this article worth reading.
FB market cap is $41.65B, so 1% is $417M.

$300M cash + $417M stock = $717M total.

That's $283M short of $1B number familiar to the public.
I suspect you may see more of these through the end of the year as folks who had big plans for Android tablets realize that the non-iPad market is about to be "owned" by Windows 8. While i have my issues with Win 8 the idea of a tablet where I can use real programs, and not just apps, for the same price as an Android tablet makes my next purchase a no-brainer (insert/insult joke here).
First Seattle Bike Parking App is here
Wait, commercial radio is still around?
The Portfolio Problem
This is cool but it doesn't play well with Caps lock.
I'll chime in as one of those, who made something similar. It's not very official, but should work in Firefox and Chrome for all keyboard layouts, though you have to bring your own text.

http://type.trmnl.org/
This definitely shows me how much of the coding style I use is in muscle memory, I'm continually trying to add spaces and newlines where they aren't!

It would be interesting to be able to pick specific coding styles for C

I'm spending too long on this, back to work...
Congrats, Kurt!
An entire generation of game devs bestow their most humble appreciation for showing us the path to enlightenment.
Hopefully the new content will reflect the changing state of the field, for example: OpenGL ES 2.0 hacks for smartphones and WebGL.
Perhaps thats why they were ...

"focusing on families in which parents with no signs of a mental disorder gave birth to a child who developed autism or schizophrenia"
You're making it sound like a chore to script in lisp. The whole point is that lisp is probably the most concise and flexible (i.e. most powerful in both the pg sense and the conventional sense) way to customize a sufficiently large environment, Clojure maybe even more so than CL.
Likewise, there's a lot I learned from conversations I've had with YC founders and other startups in the accelerator space. I just launched the book yesterday: http://sellfy.com/p/9j2z Here's some background on myself and the book: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29634915106/what-i-l... Loving what I'm reading so far. Very inspirational. +1.
And thus, by explaining, measuring and classifying, lighting incantations are no longer magic.
> This should be called out as the meaningless crap that it is, and it should be replaced by actual content.

Meanwhile it seems to have eluded you that the whole point of this thread is that your original comment was meaningless crap devoid of any actual content.
This is suprisingly fun. At first, you feel like a badass, reading the documentation for every function call, googling for exotic bugs. Then you feel like a total idiot when you notice how simple it actually is. Finally, you laugh at people in the IRC because you know exactly how stupid they feel.
I know that my idea and implementation could make money and instead of releasing it on my own and profiting, it would become property of the company.

I have very different ideas of what I'd pursue within the context, and on my own.

If I'm developing something within the context of a company, I'm likely to think of things that can leverage existing marketing and sales channels, existing operations and support resources, and existing corporate technical abilities, and I'm likely to try to make sure that it fits into a cohesive strategy with the rest of the company's projects.

If I'm doing something totally on my own, none of that would apply because I wouldn't have the same resources or constraints, so it's unlikely I'd go in the same direction anyway.
I had this exact same problem! Kept trying to predictively type characters that weren't actually there in the source code.
I hope this crew is looking at WebRTC. The true killer app for a distributed social network is going to be a global decentalized video chat network. Imagine Google hangouts without Google. Even just to implement a voice-only chat without a centralized system would be pretty phenomenal.

Also, I really think they're making a mistake by not using secure Websockets for their protocol. Plain HTTP has too much overhead for what needs to be an efficient messaging protocol and the potential need for persistent connections.
No offense, but Germany is far from what I'd call a stable nation. It has, in fact, only been a nation for 141 years. and during that time has, as you've noted changed governments many times.
Not even that, quite. There are two known naturally occurring minerals that are harder than diamond: wurtzite boron nitride, and lonsdaleite (another carbon allotrope). They just don't occur in very large quantities.

Ref: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16610-diamond-no-longe...
1992 Wash Post editor memo on the PC and impacts
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The First Amendment applies to the government, not to private entities such as airlines and not on private property (such as the interior of an aircraft).
This is great. You should charge money.

Regarding indentation: I think you made a reasonable choice in excluding it across the board. Definitely better than requiring it to be typed everywhere. That said, ideally you would require the user to make the keystrokes to un-indent whenever an IDE wouldn't automatically.

Also: Something in Objective-C please. Those square brackets took me a lot of practice to get used to.
That's just your opinion that having children when older is harmful to society. But what I consider more harmful to society is this thinking that every single individual action has to be weighed against the "benefits of society". This thinking seems to be more and more prevalent and is dangerous for freedom.
Typing the Php sample code - mainly the namespace stuff was a horrible experience.

Please find some code that isn't laden heavy with use statements. I'd expect my editor to autocomplete these...
I can't really imagine that working very well when coding. It'd cause huge issues with autocomplete and autoindent.
Yeah, this is ultimately what prevents me from contemplating using Scala in a broader context. I will admit I haven't tried for a while, but every time I've tried out the Scala eclipse plugin it's been incredibly flaky. For the top tier of developers this doesn't matter too much (they can either handle flakiness or do without an IDE at all) but companies specifically do not want to build their systems dependent on constantly having top tier developers to do every little change they need.

You can contrast with Groovy which while still not perfect, has an awesome eclipse plugin and SpringSource offers a whole customised eclipse version for working with their stuff.
Twitter revoked Tumblr's friend-finding privileges
> not getting any utility from the product

My emergency food supply, that perishes/expires/gets thrown out periodically - am I getting any utility from it?
YUI on NodeJS
He's right, sadly, but I don't see it changing anytime soon.

Props to branding himself as the anti-VC, it endears him to entrepreneurs, and ensures a ton of quality dealflow.