skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, no one can argue with the idea that it takes a ton of work in many different areas to create a successful business. However, this doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a tipping point.

In my experience, many of my projects build on each other, and in many cases the true benefit of each project isn't clear until some critical mass of other projects have also been completed. For example, I spent the first few months of my business making what I thought was a pretty good product, but when I launched it, no one signed up. It turns out that my landing page sucked, I did a terrible job of onboarding the user, and the product didn't come with the right default settings. All of those things were important, but when I finished the last one, all of a sudden free trial users started turning into subscribers. That final project wasn't actually "that one thing" but it looked that way because it was the straw that broke the camels back.

So yes, there's probably not a "one thing" that will be responsible for taking you to the next level, but there will possibly be "one thing" that puts the finishing touch on a massive body of prior work. I think that's the dream that many of us use as motivation for pushing through the tough times at a startup.
I hope not! Mayer needs to work on fixing Yahoo from the inside-out. I want to see Yahoo start launching some interesting products on their own.
I don't think there are any Chernobyl-like reactors in operation today. Even if the design of reactors like ones at the Fukushima plant may be considered horribly flawed (they should be able to cool themselves passively, with no external power input whatsoever, after someone hits the scram button) the magnitude of the disaster is much smaller.

An article posted here a couple days back mentions the hot zones around Fukushima are 3x less radioactive than downtown Denver. This is something to think about.

Also, we must consider what other options we have for power generation. Can solar, wind and hydro generate all the power we need? How long until we can build economically viable fusion plants?
Similar things have been written about IBM and others. Like what Cringely wrote about IT, IBM, and Memphis. For some reason, it's called "trashy gossip" when Zed writes it, but Cringely gets a bunch of people agreeing w/ him and providing insider accounts. No one ever seems to come and prove Zed wrong with facts of their own.

For example, no one seems to say, "Oh I was there, and the situation was way overblown. ThoughtWorks was kidding, never serious w/ its intimidation. And offering a junior sysadmin job to a real programmer applying to Google is just a starting point. It's not because of a screwed up corp. hiring process."
Facebook launches 'Sponsored Results' today
"I’ve divided this post into four core parts because I know you’re a busy person and I love you."

He really does talk like that. Man am I going to miss this guy.
That was a solid-fuel reactor. The one people are excited about these days is liquid-fueled. Oak Ridge built a couple small reactors in the 50's and 60's.

Liquid fuel brings several advantages, like being able to extract fission products that poison the reaction, giving you very high fuel efficiency. And if it overheats, a frozen plug melts and drains all the fuel into a tank designed to passively cool it.
Just adding my 2c, even before Prime, I would gladly pay a few dollars more for FbA because I knew the shipping dates would be reliable and it would count toward the $25 free shipping minimum.
I'm heartbroken by this news. It's only a matter of time before what was a beautiful and whimsical community becomes like every other VC-backed money-grubbing site.
There is currently no reference implementation, but it will be on Github within a week or so.
> Free to play is a terrible dis-service to gamers.

This isn't a priori true. Valve seems to have a good handle on non-sucky F2P, for example.
This is what I get for editing code on the fly. Should be really fixed now.
This actually is better than the 20% dev time in Google and other places. 20% dev time sprinkled now and then won't help to develop an idea fully since there are still daily tasks that distract the pursuit. Development of an idea requires a long stretch of concentrated effort. 4 weeks off to experiment sounds right.
I'd argue that -- for native client authors -- HTTP and REST are actually larger barriers than a simple non-HTTP protocol.

I also don't understand the concern over "inventing" a new binary protocol. It's not like it's any more complicated or difficult than "inventing" a non-binary protocol. The framing rules just don't use ASCII/UTF-8 field delimiters. There are plenty of existing encodings to use, no more difficult than JSON.
Startup of the Week – TypeWhale
Awesome, but it looks like it is CGI.
Thanks for the feedback. I think people (myself included) can get so caught up trying to limit piracy that we don't think about how it makes the user feel.

I think that having it on every page is definitely over the top. Would you still be annoyed if it was just on a single page? Say with a thank you for purchasing message?
I like the Costco free sample comparison, haven't thought of it that way before.
> the first human every woman can say was her...

I think that's a typo, should be: "...first woman every human...". All of us have Mitochondrial Eve as our matrilineal MRCA, not just those with two X chromosomes.
That's a proposed model, not scientific fact.
Segoe ships with some MS products (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe). I think the 'C' fonts are more tied to Windows releases (Vista and 7, probably 8, too)

So, I guess you can find Segoe UI but not Calibri on a XP system with a relatively (but maybe not too) modern Office. Maybe there are other requirements (newer IEs might install the 'C' fonts, too)
Appleseed, OneSocialWeb, StatusNet/OStatus, Disapora...
HTTP is a huge, hefty, inefficient and complex protocol whose only advantage is that HTML/JS supports it by default. Arguments that 'websockets' solve this are ridiculous in the face of the fact that we can just use 'sockets', like we always have. WebSockets are a work-around for the constraints of the browser.

As a mobile/desktop/server engineer, I would love the opportunity to work with other server-side teams that aren't wedded to the web/HTTP via historical accident and thus don't force us to use HTTP.
Apple-Samsung verdict form requires jurors to answer 600 questions
The important thing is they let everyone set priority in what they see as important and go do it, rather than priority dictated from top down which has led to the neglect of the badly needed internal tools. This is a very good management technique on delegation and empowerment.
Considering her background was Google, it is interesting that she is going with Apple's products. Maybe it is a slap in the face to her former employer going to their main rival.
We're building something like this for a while at Qbix.

It's not an easy problem to solve when it comes to privacy and security: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120110469#b

Eventually to arrive at this: http://myownstream.com
I was quipping that I don't wish to see FreeBSD drift any further away from what unification there is.

My fear is that the awful hack-on-hack-ad-infinitum we do have at least binds us together, even if it is in misery. I'm not at all uncomfortable with replacing libtool, and I'm certain a very good job could be made. But I can hear 18 m68k afficianados crying out in pain that the new toolchain doesn't work on their NetBSD system, or the guy who wrote his own C compiler that needs some extra rules feeling totally shafted because now he was to write M4 and "M5," which for some reason he cannot stand any more than M4 even thought it looks nothing alike.

We stand unified. Not by good things. But by the woe we all suffer. To those out there seeking to crush that & make better, I wish you the best! Please keep in mind a simple mantra as you go about inventing the future, do no harm. Libtool maybe awful but it's how distributions are made.

phkamp, sorry for missing the reply. M4 is ugly, libtool takes forever, everything in it is a hack. It's proven to be an at least adequately flexible hack that has kept *nix unified, more or less. I respect that, but I'm not a systems programmer that gets burned by it on a regular basis either, and I don't mind that my OpenWRT compiles of all packages take 32 hours and it's all libtool's fault.
This is valuable -- I'd recommend adding a page to your site that includes these types of critiques, it'd be useful for those working on or around those other protocols. And it'd give people who are interested in your work a URL they could send around when asked "why not just use salmon/webfinger/ostatus/whatever."
Awesome. I've wanted this forever, glad someone is finally picking up the ball and running with it. I'll be happy to beta test!
I don't think so, considering that not all of my followers are going to be using the service all of the time. If the server just blindly downloaded everything always, then yes, it would be more bandwidth. But with proper caching strategies and servers only requesting new posts when clients are active, I think you could save a lot of bandwidth by not pushing everything.
Jorge Cham nailed this phenomenon:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
He just signed up with my own bootstrapped business, http://www.LiberWriter.com so we'll be producing one for him ASAP:-)
Agile attacks are almost always clueless, ill-informed and incoherent rants such as this one.

There's a lot of valid and interesting criticism of particular Agile methodologies and practices, but full frontal attacks on Agile in general are usually just malicious link-bait such as this one.
I guess this is the natural outcome, when we expect the government to be the driver of scientific research. When the ones controlling the purse are also the ones we hold responsible for defense, then defense is bound to be a core focus of what gets researched.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Clark

What's the difference between many religious concepts of gods and an extraterrestrial civilization that (at least on our scale) appears immortal, omniscient and all powerful?

Asimov's The Last Question illustrates the point pretty well:

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
What annoys me the most about DLC is the cost relative to the value added. $5 DLC for a $50 game is adding another 10% of the base cost of the game itself, but you don't add remotely that much enjoyment/value/playtime.
I assume if you can extract Uranium from sea water, you are very close to extract Thorium. In any case, we are all set up to use Uranium and Thorium still require a lot of R&D, politics and safety regulation before we can start generating commercial power with it.
Interesting Duckduckgo Karma widget. Where can I find more info about it ?
Hi Guys,

I'm Laksman (@Laksman on twitter), author of SideProject book. I put together this project over many months with the help of the 37 participants. Launch has been pretty hectic but is going well, so far the feedback has been positive and I'm implemented a lot of changes suggested here. Also, feel free to shoot me an email personally if you have any questions, firstname at gmail.com. Hope you guys enjoy the book.

Laksman
This would also be a good method for recording a video screen capture of your iPhone. Just have iShowU or similar record the computer screen.
Unit tests! ;)
And yet they support a max of 100 vaults per account, so some roll behind recompaction of incrementals is still necessary.
The problem with PDFs is that they make a lot of assumptions about layout and formatting, whereas mobi and epub are HTML based, and therefore work on a much larger array of devices - from mobile phones to Kindle for PC, including, critically, eInk based readers which are way better for sitting down to read than anything LCD based.
The SJMN has a copy of the 20-page verdict form. I must say I have my doubts about the utility of the adversarial process in situations like this. In an amusing irony, the last question on the form concerns 'patent exhaustion.'

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21362502/document-app...
Huge kudos for the design of the site - it definitely gives off a Tron-like feel. I can't imagine the attention to detail to what amounts to just a game.
WOW, that went better than expected. tptacek can expect an e-mail ;)
Graylog2 only handles syslog and its own protocol (GELF) for accepting log events. Graylog2 uses ElasticSearch for data storage. Logstash can use ElasticSearch or just send the data elsewhere.

The Graylog2 web interface is pretty awesome and it has some neat stuff built in. Logstash ships with a fairly spartan web interface though we're going to replace it with a ruby port of Kibana in the future.

Logstash can accept data from GELF senders (via the gelf input plugin I wrote) or send to gelf receivers (like Graylog2).

Graylog2 is awesome, don't get me wrong. I just had to bail on it when it was still on MongoDB because I couldn't justify the cost of instances needed to get a MongoDB instance that could hold more than 4 hours of data.
Instead of sub domain, email address would have been a better choice.

user@provider.tld

Where provider.tld provides specification/api.. like robot.txt/tent.json that would specify actual api endpoints for given user.
Works now, thanks a bunch.
Essentially yes. The ocean is a fantastic dump for radioactive material. Also, it only takes 10 ft of water to block all radiation, alpha, beta and gamma.

However. Radioactive 'waste' is actually really useful. We can recycle it and use it. It's just a matter of regulations and cost. I'd much rather make our radioactive by products readily accessible for when we can use it as either fuel (only need a higher neutron flux) or extract elements for various uses.
I used Goodfilms briefly, but the rating system is so bad I stopped. The odd thing is that, as this blog post demonstrates, they recognize the problem and then totally fail to solve it. Ratings tend to be fairly bimodal, with people either liking or disliking stuff and not making fine-grained choices. In response to this, the Goodfilms system makes ratings continuous, so that rather than trying to figure out whether a film is 4 or 5 stars, the user now has to figure out whether it's 3.8 stars or 4.6, then compounds the problem by making the user rate on two separate scales with a pretty opaque distinction. So the response to the observation that people's ratings tend to be simplistic is to make the rating system much more complicated; it's pretty much the exact opposite of a solution (I quite like letterboxd's system, which has five-star ratings and also a "like" button, which gives you some level of choice over how fine-grained you want to make your ratings).
Yeah - it's odd from the personal branding perspective to NOT identify yourself as the author.

Thanks Nathan! Really excited about the book launch - it's coming together very nicely, and I've got some great case studies that I'm still working on adding.
Yes. But google.us acts the same as google.com when it comes to location redirects though (e.g., I have a Canadian IP and en-us;0.9 Accept-Language, it redirects me to google.ca).
Hacking on Google Drive/DropBox
Looking for ideas or suggestions for a day worth of task to implement (and open source) on top of a file sharing service's SDK such as DropBox or Google Drive. Not looking for a business opportunity, just a learning exercise and maybe make someone, somewhere, happier.
Any ideas?
I'd love to see this either substantiated or debunked - I've seen this claim made and refuted many times, but have never found a truly reliable source.
then you need to confront your situation and resolve it satisfactorily, because staying in late to get your "real" work done is means to an end, remember you have a "life"!
I'm over 40, and I certainly have! Downs can be detected in time for an abortion, but it means that you have to get pregnant all over again, and risk Downs and the various other bad mutations again, and risk miscarriage for whatever reasons all over again, etc.

So for non-fundamentalist women, there is fear of having a Downs child, but it gets rolled into the package of "worried about getting to have a successful pregnancy at all".
Just bought! I was looking for a book EXACTLY like this yesterday. I got lucky that HN pushed one into my lap.
If it is, then it will be her first big mistake.
Though if you are writing a book about design you often want the level of formatting and design ability that a PDF gives you. It's hard to give that up with an ePub.
Random thought: it might be helpful to give Tent-the-protocol a different name than Tent-the-server-implementation. In other words, "Tent" means either the protocol you're specifying, or the server software you're planning on releasing, but not both.

An analogue would be the naming distinction between HTTP, the protocol, and httpd, the first Web server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN_httpd). That naming split made it easier for people to understand what part of the system others were talking about, and helped make it clear that the two pieces were not tightly coupled to each other.

Maybe you're already planning on doing this when you release the server, it's not clear from the web site. If that's the case, feel free to ignore...
"I saved my employer $2MM/year with 3 months of work."
vs.
"I wrote Excel Macros and Shell Scripts to automate a bunch of reports."

I guarantee you the first sentence will get a lot more interest. It's also much more relevant-the specific technologies you used aren't really that important. Your ability to identify business problems and come up with solutions is.
I see what you did here. The Little Book FTW!
Definitely wish time wasn't a factor - on Level 3, but just don't have the time to commit to it :/ Maybe later tonight
Although they don't have many comments, you may be interested in the other submissions of this story from many, many sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396351

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4411929

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4414683

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416072

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416668

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4417151

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4418917

One of the HN comments asserts that it's a fake.
Thanks for including some personal info. It's always nice to know who is behind a project. Congrats on the launch!
> Gestures are a powerful form of communication - consider deaf signers, scuba divers, even in time sensitive operations like military and sports.

In all of these examples, gestures are being used to interact with another sentient being. We use gestures to talk to people, not to tools.

I think gestures are great, but I don't want to have a conversation with my computer, I want to use it. I want to feel like I'm a craftsman, and not a manager of the work I create on it. (For that same reason, I'm not enthusiastic about voice recognition either.)

That being said, I probably would be excited to use gestures (and voice) for social software that was intrinsically about interacting with other people. Think multiplayer games or video chat.
Please this! There are so many [dropbox/facebook/twitter]-clones that claim to be different that reinvent things and use poorly designed in-house protocols and I eventually got so tired of them that I mostly ignore them now.
I wonder if this is a cultural issue. People have become used to the idea that taking one (usually small) action will have an outsized impact.

Don't like the political environment? Voting for the right presidential candidate will fix it.

Overweight and out of shape? This pill will do the trick.

Don't want to do the years of hard work to achieve excellence in your field? Just be at the right place at the right time and get "discovered" (or "funded").
So can anything, but it's awesome that they are promoting this. Speaking of which, does anyone know if there's a hidden service Twitter clone? This would be fun.
You could speak both and prefer to use the Japanese version when in Japan (to get better local results, for instance). The site has no way of knowing your particular situation, so they ask rather than defaulting to one or the other.
Fliqq - view videos on your own or with others in real time
We just relaunched! Search and view videos from reddit, facebook, and youtube with your friends. Save your favorites, add to a playlist and view group history.
Hunt down bad error messages
Why is it the worst way to handle language preference?

If you are a local you are probably very used to your country domain, it is probably on par with .com.

Now the Accept-Language is quite subtle and guess how that is set up in an internet café? Can you even change it? Will the next customer be happy about that? I'd be mighty impressed if more than 1% of the people that surfs the web has a clue about Accept-Language.

Also, if one asks for a local country domain that really should be the localized version, sometimes I actually want to use google for a language different other than my own.

If I for instance wanted to search in English on something that has a similar wording as Swedish I'd like to go to google.com in order to quickly get rid of the Swedish-bias (since that doesn't work I sometimes use google.co.uk instead).
What scares me about this is they want you to authenticate via github with an app that's going to be hacked at.

Is this not dangerous?
Also, if you keep the current format, you should consider dropping the default selection. It would be good to pre-select if you were actually in a signup process, but biasing your data in a survey like this is bad: you could end up with data saying that people are willing to pay more than they actually are.
Good, I was going to say, after evaluating PuSH I would have assumed that some things can be heavy pushes and other things can be light pushes.
PragProg watermark their e-books too. I see nothing wrong with it.
nothing i've seen or heard leads me to believe that nuclear waste management is a sustainable thing

Keep reading.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf04.html

Disclosure: Former US Navy radiological controls MOS.
How Big Is Facebook’s Data?2.5B Pieces Of Content & 500+ TB Ingested Every Day
Kind of a usability-meets-marketing problem. The good thing is that the word "tent" is a versatile one – maybe the server could become "Tentpole" or something along those lines.
We just ask for your publicly readable profile information. For exactly that reason :).
U.S. looks into claims of security flaw in Siemens gear
If you need something to be pixel-precise, you'd probably just include a .png file.

eBooks aren't perfect for everything, though. I think a design book, for instance, is something I'd rather read as a paper book.
That only moves the load problem, doesn't solve it - given a decentralised system you're likely to be responsible for load on the aggregator server as well.
Just had yet another try at switching to DDG. The results are so extremely inferior to Google that I switched back after I had to use !g for 5 of 5 searches to find what I want.
WPA-Enterprise networks that use MS-CHAPv2 are generally tunneling it inside of another secure channel (such as TLS with PEAP). In those cases you are not at risk to over the air snooping.
Definitely-- The first "Tent server implementation" will have it's own name, TBD. We spent a lot of time on nomenclature and still aren't 100% with any of the terms, they're effectively all in flux until v1.0. The wackier issue is whether users call their "Tent-servers" "Tents". If you have any suggestions on names for this or any other terms, we'd love to hear them!

edit: when the hosted version launches it will be on a different domain, to make clear tent.io is the protocol alone and we aren't monopolizing the hosting space (we're doing it more as a community service than as a business).
Argghhh. Ruby.