skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an avid noder - and this is not common knowledge for me - but in fact great news!
I'm not sure what blogging niches of the web this author is referring to, but the economic/political blogs that I frequent share links all the time, and they all have blogrolls, too (Ex. [1][2][3]). I even picked up links from a bunch of them on my amateur econ/pol blog a few months ago when I pointed out a mistake in a graph a bunch of them were sharing. So linking is not completely dead from where I sit. It's not even dying. YMMV.

[1] http://marginalrevolution.com/
[2] http://econlog.econlib.org/
[3] http://www.volokh.com/
It'll come, I wouldn't worry too much about that
Shizuo Fujita (Watson) joins the RubyMotion team
I'm seeing this behavior especially for addons. When customers are paying a recurring fee for the main app and the costs of addons add up, they seem to prefer a fixed one-time fee (not necessarily equal to the CLV).
Show HN: A Really Simple Blog Platform
May I suggest an 'About' section? Trying to understand how ooomf fits/positions itself compared to other App sites.

(So you guys hand pick apps? While the site is visually appealing, it's hard to make me want to download the apps from your site when it offers only 1 line description of the featured apps - unless you guys are trying to show that the hand picked app are so great that a detailed review/description isn't needed?)
http://www.throwww.com/a/1

Here's why I built Throwww.
Ooomf Adds $500K to Showcase Apps Before They Hit the App Store
I remember Silktide from ~2004 when they used to have SiteScore.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041010040340/http://sitescore.s...

Nice to see they're still around.
Sounds like a good idea for an A/B test.
See my reply above to patio11.
Obama and Romney tackle 14 top science questions
By HSM he means, Hardware Security Module.

quote from wikipedia

HSMs can typically be clustered for high availability.
Some HSMs feature dual power supplies to enable business continuity.
Have you tried making the $30 an annual fee?
Can't you guys think of anything better than a sliding banner? For example, the two-click solution developed by Heise: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/german-website-creates-tw...

It lets you have your "social" buttons without the tracking.
How do test drives work in this model?
One of the nicest privacy policies ever
Oh so that's how it loses my messages or doesn't send them to the intended recipient until 4-5 days laster. Sweet.
What's wrong with pennies? Just aesthetics? Some countries don't go below 0.05 which is essentially dividing it into 1/20s.
Thanks for the comments! The goal of our primary tagline is to try and highlight the "Participate & Discovery" aspects of the service. I agree that it needs more work.
Megaupload's servers were in Virginia. If they weren't, it may have played out differently.
Oh, so V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai did not invent email? ;)
Joomla 3: A Major CMS Entirely Built With Twitter Bootstrap
I basically agree with you.

If "the masses" don't like being tracked in indefinite detail on the internet, and want the government to do something about it, then the government should be teaching people how to configure their browser cookie settings... or maybe funding development in open-source browsers (or extensions to same) to make such configuration easier... something like that, anyway. Whatever the specifics, client-side's the place to do it.
What?

We're complaining about the disappearance of blog-rolls? Seriously?

I think this article fundamentally misunderstands what the purpose of blog rolls was, and what has filled those niches since.

Blog rolls used to basically fill two purposes, either 1) an exercise in co-branding (which folks still do: https://svbtle.com/ ), or 2) as a list of things that folks find interesting.

1) is kind of a boring subject, and people have sensibly realized that there's a lot more that goes into consistent branding than just providing some links.

2) Is the space where a lot of special built tools have popped up, whether it's pinboard or delicious, or twitter and tumblrs for link blogging. I would argue that this is a vastly preferable circumstance to having a blog roll.

So, OP writes that "link love" is important. Sure it is. But one of the problems with link love, especially blog roll style, is that maintaining a list of links can be a pain in the ass, especially when blogs start winking out of existence.

The lack of a blog roll doesn't mean that linking has gone the way of the dodo. We've just reorganized the net and the way linking takes place. "Wasteland" is a bit much frankly.

Oh. this is to pimp a product. Nevermind. probably best just to ignore this entire conversation :P
One well-known climate blogger, Prof. Judith Curry of Climate Etc., NEVER allows trackbacks. Reprehensible. This is the worst case of a self-involved academic who thinks nothing of exploiting the time, energy and hard work of others to enhance her reputation. (I refuse to link to her information sink of a site here.)
I remember using designers.mx when their content was focusing on music. It's really nice to see that they scaled. Also, the UI is really nice.
With this sort of tool, I always have to ask myself: is it better than a Makefile?

https://github.com/mathquill/mathquill/blob/dev/Makefile

Yes, Makefiles don't have magic syntax for qunit, but they're incredibly flexible.
Well, now many people think it's immoral to tell vendors about local-root holes in the Linux kernel, because it could keep people from jailbreaking their Android phones. So there's definitely an effect on Linux.
Remember that some people dont want to go to London. They want to live in Scotland. (this same argument applies to many places, some London people would hate to move to Scotland, some people from rural England do not want to move from that part of rural England etc.). So there is a pool (of some size) of labour that really wants to stay in the area and is probably willing to earn less rather than move.

For a business this can be an advantage.
Anecdotally, the release of the Galaxy Note was the first time I witnessed average people anticipating and being excited by an Android phone. I witnessed the same to a much greater extent with the S3.

I do think it's indicative of a trend. I'm very interested in seeing what happens with the momentum I perceive once the next iPhone has been revealed.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. How It Works page is coming up soon and we'll make it clear how ooomf fits into the app landscape.

Yes, I agree. There could be further explanations for each app. We should have mentioned somewhere that we manually test every app that is included on the platform (with the exception of the ones that are "coming soon"). Thanks again for the comments!
Something like this is very difficult to mitigate. You don't want to harass your user endlessly to unlock the keychain to get tokens and keys and passwords while they run their apps and visit websites.

The super user is always going to have access to whatever comes through the memory of the system anyway. Keeping the keychain unlocked just makes the access window larger, but keeping it locked always doesn't solve the problem if someone else has root access to your Mac. With root access they can install kernel extensions and just take anything and everything. (i.e. you're still screwed when a privilege escalation attack is found, even if you keep your keychain locked.)

Takeaway: Don't activate the root user if you don't need it. Don't allow remote access to your Mac for other users. Find other solutions instead.
The money line is the statement where they believe there are no laws preventing them from selling cars in all fifty states.

There are no laws "currently" is a better phrase. Should Tesla become a serious maker of cars; having one model and a goal of only 35k a year keeps them at the size of Porsche; then they are going to attract attention. That they have received Federal money and their cars are subject to incentives by the federal government and states will put pressure on legislatures to extract "something" from them.

To put their sales goals into perspective, a luxury brand like Lexus can sell over 20k a month. The top five sell a hundred thousand plus cars per month. Chart of August sales is at http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/04/august-2012-big-jumps-edi...
Virtual reality’s time to shine: Hands-on with the Oculus Rift
Nokia and Microsoft unveil new Lumias with wireless charging, PureView
It's 2nd hand, but I do know someone that uses vary narrow patents to make a decent secondary income stream. Granted, this probably does not work as well for broad software patents, but make the cost benefit analysis obvious enough and you don't need much in the way of sticks.
Within the group of people using Panopticlick, you're just as trackable without cookies as with cookies -- that doesn't seem very untrackable to me. Note that it's one in 2.4M at the moment, but that's the best it's going to get because the number of people trying Panopticlick is only going to go up.
I'm certain Galaxy S3 has tremendous success.

But I also think iPhone is in a league of its own, yesterday my jaw dropped when I saw this 'news' on TMZ http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/04/iphone-5-release-date/ . I really don't know how to interpret it, but I think it is safe to assume it is not common for a smartphone to have an entry on this kind of site.

(don't ask me how I ended-up there, I don't remember. But I'm sure ashamed of myself.)
Microsoft has said they will allow you to download updates OTA even if your carrier hasn't approved the updates yet. This is similar to how major upgrades to WP7 (NoDo and Mango) worked.
I wanted two XML files defining issues and stances which I could do a diff on or as the basis of some application. This is just glorified HTML.
Highly unlikely. Remember Scotland already has a separate legal system and different bank notes from England & Wales.

The only way things could change massively would be if a newly independent Scotland left the EU, which as far as I know, noone wants. Scotland in the EU would mean Scotland would have access to the EU single market (which includes England etc.). This means there'd be no customs, visas etc with England (etc.)
That's interesting. I've had the fantastic experience of buying directly from an automaker as part of their European Delivery program.

Basically, you fly over there, show up at the factory, you get treated like a dignitary, they show you "baby pictures" of your car being built, and then you drive off with it and get to cruise around Europe for 30 days. When you're done, you drop the car off at one of a half dozen ports and fly home. Your car arrives a few weeks later.

You get about 10-15% discount and it's a very cool experience. A friend did this for Porsche and while the car was great he said the experience was a little lacking. That they do such lower volume they didn't have the program as perfected and it was more about just showing up and taking possession of the car.

Anyway, that's obviously not what Tesla is doing -- but they should. They should definitely have a California Delivery program. They probably already do.
I am the only one that finds Metro to be ugly (hate the color choices and block-y design) and cluttered? This does not strike me as something I want to see on my home screen:

http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/769...

Regardless, I'm wondering if the average consumer feels the same way as well. WP7 is not selling well, and WP8 (and the new Lumias) don't really differentiate themselves that much from the previous iteration in terms of what a consumer will see in the first few minutes of using the phone.

Also, this is DOA in the US if they are AT&T exclusive.
Ah, that's rough. I was pretty upset that Sprint didn't release more WP7 phones but now I see why they held off. Unfortunately, it seems WP7 was a transition/beta device.

But, I think it will be different this time with the huge bet they're making with Windows 8 across lots of different devices now.
Linkrot is a serious issue. Just looking back at the top stories from Hacker News in the past for my http://waybackletter.com project is depressing at times. I need to compute some real stats one of these days, but I would say about 20% of links are dead. That is just the popular articles (by votes), I imagine if you go down the long tail it just gets higher.
holy shit, did not know about this. This was really the one thing from Mathematica that I was still missing in iPython. Thank you!
Book that teaches kids computer science as if it were a story.
Your browser's monospace font isn't monospace. You should choose a different one.
Hard to know what counts as a lot of high end phones. The four weeks around the sale of the new iPhone is like the music singles chart at Christmas, almost nothing happens before Christmas except people taking advantage of the lull, then the biggest sales of the year.
How much would you charge and over what period?
Nokia unveils flagship Windows Phone 8 Lumia 920
This is probably the only way that longer term the company can afford to sell electric cars at a reasonable price. The tech is obviously expensive, but if you layer on the 10% sales commission and dealer fees, etc. it will jack up the price on these already expensive vehicles by 25%.

Imagine how much better the Chevy Volt would sell if it were 25% cheaper...
True, but in my opinion they should install fonts with decent unicode support anyway.
Why we Die
Great outline. I've been learning Python on and off for the past few months. After getting comfortable with easy_install, pip and virtualenv things improved dramatically. However, I found it very difficult to get a dev environment running for MySQL development. It took quite a bit of Googling to figure out which libraries needed to be installed on the Mac. Pip worked very well for everything else.
Is Growth Hacking = Lean Marketing?
... its a stretch (by international standards) to say there are cities in the west of Ireland.
@andrewaylett:

Until I change just one of those identifiable metrics, that is, right? As soon as I change, for instance, my screen resolution I am another unique user and am no longer identified with the previously unique fingerprint.

Surely, if someone installed insidious software on every single page of the internet and tracked me everywhere, there could be a way to use some fuzzy logic to re-identify myself. But we're way into the deep end on hypothetical again, right?

My main point is that, practically speaking, it isn't very.
Nokia Unveils Microsoft-Powered Lumias in Comeback Attempt
This: http://www.cambiaresearch.com/articles/15/javascript-char-co... was sitting in my bookmarks for quite some time now... And will be there, because I use vrome which seems to capture the key presses when there's no input focused :(
Y Combinator's Double Robotics Makes iPad-Driven Robots [video]
Ways to Prove Yourself as a Young Entrepreneur
Nokia's Windows Phone Live Webcast
This one goes out to everyone who thinks "growth hacking" is just a bullshit term.
Windows Phone 8 has a native 3rd party API and DirectX, in addition to the C#/SL/XNA stack on WP7, which will make porting applications from and sharing code with iOS and Android easier.
Are any of these actually making money? Or is just they have pretty names and websites?
These copyright blockage debacles are slowly turning from inconvenient to dangerous.

As a musician, content producer and programmer copyright just makes me sick.
I was surprised to see a view like that being promoted. I love Metro, but I hate app makers that don't keep to the Metro aesthetic. When it's done right:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/nokia-...

I think it looks fantastic, and communicates more than the iPhone home screen without the mess of the Android one.
Remember the Irish property bubble bust around 2007. Prices have come down a bit since then (current stats have houses worth half what they used to be). Rent has decreased a little, but not that much.
Politics with markup is still politics, and is probably best left to other sites.
You seem to know more about this than me, but from the post it appears like their data is just fine but the keys to decrypt it are gone/corrupt.
> Barely anything on reddit is original content

On the contrary, Reddit (and particularly smaller subreddits) contain some of the most active and intelligent conversation available to vast general audiences on the web. AMAs alone spark a lot of interesting dialogue. Nick Eftiamiades' yesterday was really enlightening (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/zchnb/ive_appeared_on_...). The hivemind can be embarrassing, but there's still a lot to glean from such a userbase.
The primary value of high-ticket conferences is the networking which can convert into direct value for your company (sales, investment, etc.)

So whether a particular conference is worth your time is very much dependant on your circumstances, if it's likely to add more than $3000 of value to your company and you've got the cash to spend then it's probably worth it.

Otherwise probably not.
@Swizec, too bad your message was negated by the video pimping Zemanta at the end. Outbound links to cool stuff generated by a machine? That's exactly what you were mourning.

Love cannot be automated. Certain battery-operated appliances have been invented to attempt this (I've heard), but they can't replicate the real thing.

Links to good stuff cannot be automated. Selecting good stuff to link to requires good taste and judgment. Humans exercise good taste and judgment. This is the source of the value you miss from enthusiastically, freely given recommendations: "Hey, look here! This is really cool!"

A human did it.

A recommendation machine like Zemanta's is attempting to do the same thing that link farms, bent SEO, etc. want to do. Zemanta's come-on is a bit more appealing, perhaps. But its goal is the same. Listen to the message in the video.

The fact that love does not scale is liberating. I do not need a million followers. Or 50. All I need is to sit and talk to my friend Roger over a cup of coffee. Or help my 8th grader gently towards understanding the mis-magic of PHP. Or say "I'm sorry" to my wife when I screw up.

Or throw a great link on my website when it makes me happy.

TL;DR

Love doesn't scale. That's why it is so valuable.

Only humans love. Machines cannot.

Be human-sized. And give love.
No, you are not the only one. Their choice of color is abysmal. Have you seen Server Manager in Server 2012? Awful, just awful.

At least the icons fit the home screen properly this time.
who cares about making money these days, just kidding ;-)

Nilesh

BTW, we do http://www.infocaptor.com
One problem with being out west is that it can be hard to find staff. Even in Dublin its hard to find staff. You may need to pay someone lots to get them to move to Ballygobackwards.
But those people aren't the target of Greenlight. This is a marketing tool, not a funding source. It's not Kickstarter.
Define 'contribute back'. I tend to think of Darwin as being a fork of BSD, so in that sense Apple doesn't commit back into BSD source repositories. But Darwin is open source, so the BSD community is free to take any ideas that please them.
Except there are sites which simply don't work with cookies turned off.

My hope would be that this legislation forces programmers to use less cookies in the first place.
Even in those two screens, everything just blends together (especially with the white text on yellow tiles). Just seems like a usability nightmare imo.

Regardless, I don't find Android home screens messy at all (although there are a few widgets that are poorly made), and with the customization ability that's provided with custom ROMs, it can be as beautiful as you want it to be.
Following arrest of Pirate Bay founder, Sweden gives Cambodia $60M in extra aid
Oh, I know. And I really do hope it makes a difference. But given Microsoft's connection to Facebook, and Facebook's ownership of Instagram... I was hoping they twist some arms today and announce Instagram as a WP8 'lens' app. That would be awesome.
I've thought of doing a slight variation on this for SaaS apps that are project based - charge once for each project for something like six months or one year access. I think it would work in situations where the customer only needs use of the product for each project for a defined amount of time.
Where my inailedthat.com startup? A website that allowed people to post pictures of the people they have slept with?
MariaDB gets alpha of Galera clustering
Build Your Own Cities
Nokia’s Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple
I understand why they put the responses on the left and right, but that really made the article hard to read, especially since the candidates often had different text lengths for each of the questions.
At this point, it remains unclear how much of this data will be retrievable.

They may have a lot of encrypted data backed up that they can't decryption because both their primary and backup decryption devices broke. It may seem stupid not to have offsite backups of this, but it may be considered safer than allowing key's to get into the wild.
This is excellent, i helped a friend go shopping for a car 2 weeks ago and it was terrible. All the stereotypes of what car salesmen are like were out on parade.

I also know a guy that sells cars and he managed to get a customer to pay $2.5K over the price for a NEW car for the USED car... Same model and accessories.

I'm glad that theyre pioneering this as I think it's going to be a viable business model
That's a good point. They surely must have something hidden up their sleeves other than a bigger screen though.
you go into one of their showrooms or you drive a friends car.
Wow. That's interesting. I'm sure you probably have data validating this but how does anyone explain it?

Is it because a recurring payment implies they only have to pay as long as they are using the product?
Link to homepage is a nice convenience to people who land on your site somewhere other than the homepage (e.g. via a search result).
Well someone rang the obvious bell on this one

"""
"People don't necessarily enjoy that whole transaction," Blankenship says. "If we can be in front of people on a day-to-day basis when they're not thinking about buying a car…after a while, they'll drop back in again, in an environment where there's no pressure.
"""
Nokia Launches Lumia 920: 8MP PureView, NFC, Wireless Charging, Windows Phone 8
And how would one go about doing that on an iPhone?
There's an illuminating analogy using Being John Malkovich somewhere here...
Got this chrome alert when visiting badgety:

"www.badgety.com contains content from deqbyyq.ru, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site."
Not useful or common knowledge to you doesn't mean it's not useful or new for others. If you knew about it, and dislike it, what are you doing commenting here? If I had the same opinion I would have shrugged and told myself "Oh... grunt... again... Move along", not come in here to make a completely useless remark, which by the way obviously does not align with what the majority here thinks.
Tales from the Ops Side
Exactly, one might think that Google is trying to monopolize links by punishing sites with outgoing links.
the index : http://wi.webfoundation.org/
Yes tumblr does too count, n-levels deep screen spanning reblogs are common in the parts I frequent. Perhaps you need to hang out in the less cat-picture focused parts of tumblr, it's a very "small world" type system.
Good stuff, looks like an actual useful app.
The problem with just turning cookies off (in the UK anyway) is that with the new cookie law every second site now has an annoying message telling you about their cookie policy and you are now going to see it on every page.

Some are even modal which could render the site useless.
If you've got ongoing expenses (e.g., bandwidth) you'll need to make sure to charge enough that income from the one-time fee is enough to cover the monthly bills + profit, in perpetuity.

Annuity tables (or the annuity formula) may be helpful here.
Perl Driver for MongoDB Released