skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patio11, Tptacek, Danso, and SatvikBeri

I don't read pg, because a lot of his comments come across as babysitting HN, which is necessary for him to do, but not something I want to spend my time on.

I believe that what you put before your eyes, becomes what is in your brain, and you can only think about what you've seen before. What you think about is what gets written on your heart, and our actions are based on our heart. So, I value what I put before my eyes pretty heavily and that's why patio11, tptacek, and SatvikBeri are good reads. Danso is really interesting.

patio11 -- Important because he reminds us (me!) about what we're really worth as programmers and beyond that if we want to increase our worth moving bits better isn't the most efficient way to do that.

tptacek -- I don't always agree with him, but I think his world view is probably the most accurate of anyone on HN. The reason why this matters to me, is If I'm being honest with my self, hugely reliant on mental models. I use tptacek as a source of mental models about the world.

danso -- He has some pretty interesting comments, and I find when he does weigh in, it's usually from personal experience. Photography, Journalism, and data are his big topics of interest.

SatvikBeri -- I've never met the guy, but if you can get past his telling of how he saved his employer $2MM in a single year (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419277) over and over again, which I find very easy, he's worth reading. He doesn't post as much as the others, so I usually check in once a week or so. In a lot ways though, I think the $2MM story, is worth reading over and over again. It holds a lot of wisdom in how to approach business for the nerd-sphere.

I read HN on cell phone about 95% of the time, and have 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com in my host file, so I just have these guys bookmarked on my cell phone and check in with the top two daily, danso every couple days, and SatvikBeri about once a week.

I also read yummyfajitas and mechanical_fish as well, but far less regularly. Usually, when I see a comment they make, I'll click on their username and read through their comments if I have time.
Programmers to develop an eye for design
I think it's interesting to look at the limit case: a Star Trek-like future in which everything is automated and individual labor is mostly unnecessary.

What happens in such a world? Under a pure free-market system, there is a real possibility that such a future would end up quite horrific. A few people would own the capital that implemented the automation, while the majority of the population would have nothing. It would be, in a way, very similar to feudal times, when a few owned the important capital of the time (land).
Thats exactly what I do with sublime as well, except i do it for log files. similar exceptions/errors in log files tends to have similar shapes thoughout, and you can scan a log file to find probable problems due to the patterns of errors without having to read each individually
Mobile Phone Of the Future
I think you're missing the point. The point is to spend just a few years building passive income through investments such that the dividends/distributions it throws off are enough to cover your living expenses. At that point you're free to do whatever you want and you can work on your startup or ideas without having to worry about running out of money or fragmenting your time with consulting.
'Scuse my tangent from your tangent, but this whole subtle [sic] thing seems like the clubhouse for the cool kids. I don't like the cool kids. That's why I'm here amongst my uncool peers reading and discussing pointedly uncool topics.
I like your assessment of LabVIEW. I find that if your code is turning to spaghetti, you're not using enough sub-VIs. Try to find blocks of code that accomplish one thing and put that code in its own VI. As a bonus you get to design a little icon for your new sub-VI. :)

Your "rabbit hole" analogy is spot-on and I'm not sure how NI can address some of those problems. Some things like Ctags that are so valuable in text-based languages just seem to have no obvious analogy in a graphical programming language... it's fun to imagine though.

(Caveat, chemist talking about programming)
What I learned from Stripe CTF 2.0
I think you may be missing the point. I already have all of the 1,000,001 original UDIDs posted by AntiSec. I don't need to go through all that hassle you describe. I wrote the script that generated the hashes from the original UDIDs.

The point is that in order to stop people from passing their UDIDs around the net they way some other checking services have made them do, this service does not have any of the original UDID's on local storage. Even if my site is compromised, it will not further the spread of UDID information.

Of course, you do have to trust that what I am saying is the truth. Anyone can choose NOT to submit their (hashed) UDID to my site.
What about the other end of the spectrum, by which I mean mean low profile breaches affecting one person, caused by -for example- a jealous ex. Are the compounded losses due to these considered too minor in comparison to high profile breaches?
Do subsequent applications overwrite the old one? I want to apply now so I don't forget but I feel I could write a better application given more time.
one described "Atlas Shrugged" as a great book recently. I don't know whch one but I just realized he basically kinda decreased the credibility for ALL Svbtle bloggers in my eyes.

*awaits downvotes from Objectivists
Correct. a search might show an ad which is highly relevant, but in most cases, the same link also appears in the search result, and I always click the one in the search result. Sometimes I am wondering if I should click the ad instead to let Google earn some money, but I am afraid the link contains strange parameters that would send information which I'm not willing to share.
An Adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s ridiculous Ebersman article
You also get 10x$100 back in the form of revenue, so the profit would be closer to $9000.
Well the last time (June 2010) #AntiSec released UUIDs of Apple devices - Weev went to jail. [1,2]

The '#FuckFBIFriday' releases have shown the incompetence of the FBI in this realm. So I wouldn't be so quick to side with the FBI...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev

[2] http://freeweev.info/
driverbug.com
Using an address alias with your Gmail
I believe Atlas Shrugged is generally considered to be a good/interesting book, even by people who disagree with it's conclusions.
Percentage aside, I think it is perfectly reasonable that Google reserves a lot of space for ads. What pays for the search results after all? I am surprised that people expect to get great service for free. It's just not sustainable.

What is not reasonable is how deceptively similar the ad looks to an actual search result. If Google is confident about an Ad being information then why not let people click it for its relevance? Why make the background just barely different from the search result so that its almost impossible to visually separate ads from results? Let people clearly know that its an ad and let them decide whether they want to click on it or not.

Bing is as deceptive as Google here so not singling you guys out but please don't portray a reasonable effort to make money as a something larger than that.
Bitcoin provides plausible deniability, which makes lawsuits difficult. In contrast to centralized banking systems which leave a paper trail.

And insuring bitcoins has its own logistical challenges that will probably scare an actuary.

Trust is a hard one as I'm sure the people who used bitfloor had trusted it until today.
Shareholders are still owners and can sue if management breaks promises made in the prospectus.
Manna [1] is a short story which deals with this exact scenario.

[1]: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Remember when you used to ask people for directions and comedians told jokes about how as soon as they heard the directions, they forgot them?

In a few years we'll think about hailing cabs by whistling or flagging them down in the same way. Plus, the taxi drivers won't be able to bypass particular minorities with quite as much immunity from being caught anymore. "You accepted the hail, we have the record for that, but then decided not to pick the passenger up. Why?"
The idea itself is right. Kudos for that. I could see it in combination with something like redraftable as a powerful mechanism for expression and collaboration.
If you are forced to implement your own implementation I would rather switch to it completely. IMO it's better to be bold and get problems detected by having a wide adoption of a function rather than hide it in an edge case where problems might hide.
Holy cow, I'm flattered! And, uh, I'll try to diversify my comments a bit.
If I had my launch planned better I would have had book reviews go live today. But unfortunately I got overwhelmed and didn't get that done. Maybe next time!
Albeit in a very tendentious way.
Closest svbtle post I've seen that comes close to that is http://francispedraza.com/silicon-valley-is-gotham-are-users... , which refers to Atlas Shrugged as a 'great story'.
Employees would have negotiated for more shares at the $10 price.
The term "patentability" also applies to inventions, and the questioner did not specify "subject matter patentability", which is only one of several factors that must be considered in deciding if a particular innovation is patentable. In fact, I would say that the question's phrasing makes it pretty clear that the intended meaning was patentability of the invention, not subject matter. To quote page 46 of the final jury instructions:

>Not all innovations are patentable. A utility patent claim is invalid if the claimed invention would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the field at the time of invention.

So again, it is reasonable to say that Hogan may have simply misinterpreted the question he was being asked, and that whether he understood the jury instructions cannot be gleaned from this exchange. It is not reasonable to say that Hogan's interpretation of the question was correct and that Groklaw's interpretation was wrong.
That's not my impression, I think it's generally considered terrible writing with one dimentional shallow characters. It's popular for its philosophy, not its quality as a book. I immediately lose a bit of respect for anyone who claims to like that book.
Dynamo cites BigTable as solving similar problems but it's not inspired by BigTable at all, architecturally.
I really wanted to like this, but I think that colors preferences are both subjective and born of habit/experience which leads to wiring our brains to expect certain colors for certain things, because I don't like pastels, and I don't like red as a non-alert color.

It's a good idea, with a lot of thought put into it. The author should keep trying. Maybe there is more than one right option.

Personally, I think the best way to do this is by a "hot or not" site for fonts and colors. Have a page for each language with "hot or not" of random fonts and color combinations until the stats show which combinations certain groups like. Tie in other surveys as well and give away gift certificates to Amazon each month as a prize for over 100 votes that aren't outliers.
Sunnyvale, CA. ☀ INTERN ok. Automatiks, Inc.

Electricity industry is ripe for a disruption.

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You are a CS or EE senior or recent graduate

* You have a project coded by you from start to finish and it was not your school assignment.

* You programmed for at least one of: RS-232, SPI, MODBUS or CAN

* You can probe a device using undocumented protocol in a matter of hours, not days

* You feel comfortable with electrical hardware, both analog and digital

✰ You are familiar with feedback control, Matlab. Not required, but a huge advantage.

What is your favorite programming language? Why? ASCII text, please.

We offer a fast-paced startup environment, a company of fun, passionate and sharp pros, and, initially, a place to stay in the SF Bay Area. We will compensate you competitively.

http://www.automatiks.net/jobs/
I actually agree with you about the boy scout echo chamber, and I shouldn't have taken the conversation in that direction in the first place, because it's irrelevant.

What is relevant is that you say that we need to teach lists of virtues like this to future generations, and there are plenty of examples of that very thing. I'm not sure how you think "societal norms" work besides groups of like-minded individuals (a.k.a. "organisations") getting together and propagating their belief systems. Are you suggesting there is some sort of over-arching group representing our society that should be defining these sorts of norms?
This is what I'm currently aiming for. I have about $100/month coming in from dividends and distributions and am looking to seriously ramp this up. I haven't really been paying that much attention until now. I figure if I take on side work, I could have my basic expenses covered within 5 years and within 10 years I would have enough to cover expenses for any children that might come along in the future and provide some cushion.
Mistakes managing software development
Read the thread referenced in the article:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=105818.0e

Bitfloor admits to earning about $2100 a month. So it's a totally unregulated market, and it'd be easy to increase your earnings by 100x this month. During the time the wallet was left in an unencrypted location, just happened to get hacked.

I can't call the Bitfloor owner a thief, but reading his posts about looking to the future, and not to the past, no claim of a police report being filed, and the generic term "We got hacked!" make for some obvious conclusions.
Andrew Mason BSed his way to a multimillion dollar payday, FU money for life. Why should he care about next time? Because his goal in life feel is to be Elon Musk?
I may be missing the point. I am not trying to be difficult, I promise. What is the difference between me sending you my UDID and me sending you my hashed UDID?
This is the point where it's worth pointing out that the portion of the population involved in food production has collapsed massively over the last couple of centuries. People generally seem to find new things to value when their time frees up.
During the gold rush the people who made money were the ones who sold the tools. Same logic applies here. (nothing against that btw it is just how it works)
Why Use Rails instead of Sinatra or Node.js?
However, just as the importance of owning huge tracts of land for the sake of social status and financial security has diminished over the last few hundred years, so may the importance of owning anything. Don't assume that the axioms of our current scarcity-based economy will survive a change as revolutionary as what's being discussed.
Long term investors who bought at at the IPO don't even know what FB's price is now, because they aren't looking at short term returns.
Sorry that the process didn't go well. Could you send me a screenshot? nathan@thinklegend.com

As for the pricing I thought that $59 was the obvious choice, though I see what you mean about wanting everything.
Bulk Email Marketing-Not A Conventional Business
I emailed you this morning, read your blog entries and bought the book about 20 minutes later.... very good stuff.
I've made money on both sides. $40k on selling apps, now $7k selling the book (the tool in your analogy). I think it is good to do both.
Could this be the result of leaving everything in the inbox versus archiving it?
Juries just wanting to get out as quickly as possible is probably the norm. At least with a criminal case there is some tangible moral incentive to do a good job. A bunch of large companies quibbling over basic shapes probably seems like a rather ridiculous waste of time even if billions of dollars hang in the balance.

My opinion is the jury did a poor job. Even ignoring what the foreman has been saying the media; they had hundreds of questions to decide and took mere minutes on each of them. But the system is really the problem. How much unpaid time out of these people's lives are we willing to expect on such trivial and seemingly illogical crap?
I've since updated that number in Betabeat with the figure from tonight's NYT article, which says Uber planned to launch with 105 pre-registered cabs and plans to add 100 a week. (The initial, incorrect number was what I had when I broke the story this afternoon, and tried to confirm with Uber. Apologies for that.) Agreed though--it's going to be really interesting to watch, with each player having a corner of the market. There's also Taxi Magic.
If you decide to go back to your old email account, you'll end up having whole bunch of emails marked as unread. I don't know if there is a setting to forward an email and mark it read.
Since bitcoin is defined to deflate over time as use grows but eventually no more bitcoins are circulated, banks should be expected to charge for storage. You're paying for the privilege to hold onto the money, since the optimal strategy in a permanently deflating economy is to hold on to your money as long as possible.
Screwclothing.com
I was being entirely sarcastic. Where I live, people have been getting stung by honeypots for at least the last five years. I figured everyone (here on HN) either used private trackers or a VPN.
Me too. They are fantastic! I plan to post a detailed review later on.
The difference is that if my site is compromised or if someone is listening in on the network traffic, no one will be able to take the database of hashed UDIDs and get the original UDIDs.
>Right now it seems like the appeals process is going to be like shooting fish in a barrel for Samsung, thanks in part to Hogan and his traveling Dunning-Kruger show.

This is something I've been wondering about. Is any of this going to be admissible in the appeal?
Have you not been keeping up?

When other members of the jury had doubts that the prior art invalidated patents, the foreman said he used his own patent(a patent on a TIVO like DVR) experience and then let out this gem about why the jury discounted the prior art.

"The software on the Apple side could not be placed into the processor on the prior art and vice versa. That means they are not interchangeable. That changed everything right there."

How many really technical people(lets say the devs on HN) would agree with the statement that prior art has be run on the same processor to count? And to further corroborate that he did not just misspeak that, he says the following in a Gizmodo interview:

"I is not ignore prior art yes it was legitimate, however it was not interchangeable therefore it did not invalidate Apples patents....Under the current law the prior art must be among other things interchangeable. the prior art sighted even Samsung does not currently use. Read the law and the statues covering Prior art."

And he used his tech credentials and patent experience to convince the other jurors. Don't you see a problem with that?
There is huge demand for special clothing and believe it or not Suit today is a special clothing. The point is really people's idea of dressing has changed. There were times when costly clothing automatically meant something. Those days are gone. I find it difficult to imagine, people wearing suits to work these days. Most of them look like 'Odd ones out'.

I don't like to wear a suit, nor does anybody around me unless they are getting married or they are about to meet somebody powerful and rich. There fore clothing industry is 'optimized for the common case'. The only clothing I find worth buying these days is rugged jeans and polo T-shirts. Anything else and I find that to be focusing on ornament more than the substance. Therefore the demand and supply moves in that direction.

The place for bespoke suits today is the distinction that tailored clothing carries. So they continue to remain clothing for 'special occasions'. Needless to say if you want to maintain that sort of distinction, you can't use machines to scale. Because that would mean you that sort of clothing no longer carries that distinction.

Its not that these artists/tailors can't make money other way. They can probably get a job else where and live in better conditions- if they want to. But sometimes people stick to what they do and how they do for unexplainable reasons.
Definitely nice if all you want is the flexible grid system from something like Bootstrap. Sometimes it can be a pain attempting to only use a certain component, and for something as core as a grid system, this is most certainly the lightest method.
I honestly couldn't tell if this was a joke or not. Tab is usually spot on and I like reading his blog.

What difference does it make if someone uses the term "CSS4 Selectors" instead of "CSS Selectors Level 4"???
Facebook's ad-targeting isn't that smart? What?!
I think the time spent on writing a summary for each paragraph could be better spent editing the paragraph to its essence, such that a summary isn't necessary.
I don't think so. I happen to archive EVERYTHING as I use the inbox TODO pattern. However, my temporary solution is to empty the trash email. I've also noticed that problems start to appear on the ~11 Gb range. As others have mentioned, I also pay for extra storage and it is painful to see my sparrow client timeout every 10 min.
This is a good attempt, however way, way too glossed-over.

First problem is that nothing is said about Node or Sinatra in comparison.

Second problem is that no mention is made of the significant portion of all gems in rubygems (43,762 at last count) that are Rails-specific. Node is not there yet, and Sinatra can't use a good percentage of those.

Node is about JS. Sinatra is about lightweight/speed. Rails is about features.
I think this is the URL you intended to submit:

http://cvburgess.aws.af.cm/introducing-the-in-house-appstore...
I've been following Inkling pretty closely for the last year or so, and have been incredibly impressed with the work they are doing. I'm excited to see O'Reilly on the Inkling platform, and can't wait to see what they do next!
Increased safety, increased privacy[1], and more efficiency.

[1] My school uses RFID-equipped ID badges, unfortunately they don't use them for attendance. (They should--right now people just sign an attendance sheet.) But one of their nicest uses is restrictive access based on degree program. Only computer engineers can get in the computer engineering lab, only masters' students can get in labs dedicated for masters' students, and so on.
Ask PG: Is There A Startup You Regret Not Funding? (Like Fred and AirBnB)
As I've said before, economic value is derived from two things- natural resources and human labor.

Even if we completely abolish the need for human labor, we are still constrained in terms of resources, so it's still a scarcity-based economy.
I don't know about you, but "try this software you don't need so that if you like it you can pay me $200 you don't have" isn't a compelling pitch. NetBeans works fine. Blacklisting HN would do twenty times more for my productivity than a better IDE.