skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that everyone wants a non-technical co-founder to be more like yourself. But the emails from the "idea" people fail in a more fundamental way -- imagine writing a cover letter to an employer that basically told the employer only what you got out of employment. Suddenly that sounds like begging for charity, not a potential business relationship, and so the email gets ignored. Ignore enough of those emails and you get posts like the OP.
As is true of many laws in England and Wales, having weakly enforced laws on the books can come in handy when there's someone you want to nail but on whom you can't solidly pin anything else.

In a way, this is one of the beauties of our legal system. Something as simple as swearing in public is an arrestable offense but almost no-one casually swearing within earshot of an officer would get hauled in. If that person were antagonising people, acting "suspiciously", etc, then it gives the officer a handy way to haul them in without proving a different offense.

Likewise, the "cookie law" could be a way of reeling a dangerous Web site in when there's no solid proof of anything else they're doing.
The comments on the article make it clear that c!=R using reasoning effectively the same as yours, but yes, nice proof.
Are you saying this works for people who are not in your social network?
It also costs money , which is what people seem to be worried about with fiddler.
Github will be back, be patient.
"This item looks like it turned inside out, here's a screenshot!" (made up issue) -> now the support has all information they actually care about and which user may not even remember anymore - game version, time, servers, character ids, etc.
Hey, nice analysis dude.. GoDaddy is DownDaddy now!!!
I loaded the page, the #1 site in "Most cookies" is ours... uh oh. Actually, the top 3 sites listed are ours. Advertisers love cookies!
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.app...

I'm getting a domain parking page:

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Github is down again today
IPad mini photos leak the day before Apple’s big press conference
> 4. No one loves it.

I think he got that one right: none of my colleagues who write Java are that much into it. They just have to.
(sorry for the offtopic). Any news from the beta version of Stripe in Canada? Has any canadian here used it?
Edit: hadnt seen this https://twitter.com/stripe/status/245159999674933249
If your tagline is "Payments for the Universe", does that mean it'll be available outside of the US?
In modern browsers it's possible for a webpage to change its favicon dynamically. Developers should take the habit of indicating their site is playing sound there.
There is no direct email address for support. You must log in with your Battle.net account and file a support ticket.
It seems the article is predicting riots on global television (which recently happened), not global riots (a scary thought never experienced in history).

The riots we see on television are about camera work and a vocal minority. The news doesn't try to represent reality. They take any anecdote they can find and do everything they can to turn it into riveting television.

On TV San Francisco appeared to be destroyed in the 1989 earthquake. I lived in Cupertino. It didn't seem a big deal till power came on in the morning, and we saw the news. Wow! A major disaster! I drove north to see the devastation. When I arrived in San Francisco, 99.99% of the city was completely normal.

Quick, what percentage of the population of NYC participated in Occupy Wall Street?
There's nothing bad about being wrong sometimes. On the contrary, it's a good thing, it shows that it is very difficult to have a very accurate view of the future, no matter how much of an expert you think you are or other people think you are. That's the same kind of thing as the time capsule of the sci-fi writers that was unveiled recently: most of them had a very false vision of the future, because there are simply too many variables that make it impossible to compute.
Public/private key-pair. It wouldn't stop people from faking values, but at least only Blizzard can read them.
I'm not sure it's so much "circumvent" as "it's not fully hooked up yet".

Ethics are intellectual, but they're grounded in a human moral sense that is rooted in biology. (For a readable start on how, de Waal's Good Natured is a good book.) When I was his age I was much more aware of mechanism than of morality. For me the motivation to hack wasn't power in the social sense; it was tinkering with systems.

It took me years for my moral sense to integrate well with my intellectual side to yield a proper system of ethics. In some ways that's still going on; the older I get, the more I have learned how to be compassionate. For me, the ethical framework is given force by very specific instances of compassion. For example, I was just looking again at Project Unbreakable:

http://projectunbreakable.tumblr.com/

It's not like I ever thought sexual assault was ethically ok. But reading bout each one of those people gives it more emotional power.
I'm guessing something like PhantomJS (other versions of QTWebKit are available) on the server - some of the samples that comes with it shows how to capture all the requests resulting from loading a URL.
Use public key cryptography.

Edit: Jinx
If the laptop gets too hot in a bag, it can cause fire, so it's a potentially life-threatening bug.
GitHub Down For Emergency DB Maintenance
Can I haz engagement on our website?
Helveticards - 100% CSS playing cards
I'm growing increasingly tired of technology being used by the large to monitor the small. I'd like to see an RFS from YC for companies that use data mining, machine learning, etc. to the advantage of the individual.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery!
Thanks, i'll check it out
I've had my Retina MBP for a month an a half. Only issues I had were graphical glitches in Lion which were fixed when I upgraded to Mountain Lion.

Sure, some apps don't scale their resolution for the screen yet. Photoshop is the biggest problem for me but isn't a deal breaker since I don't spend that much time in PS.

As for the OP's problem, I've never experienced it. Keep in mind he didn't say it was a retina model. I ride a motorcycle with my laptop on my back every day. It gets bounced around and jostled a lot. I've been on 4 flights with it. I've never had it turn on when closed.
> Spoken like someone who has never been slut-shamed. Or had his/her leg blown off by a landmine. People don't actually get maimed because they stupidly walked into a minefield. They get maimed because someone put a minefield where they live and grew up, and they can't live life at all without being in constant danger.

If we don't expect people to exercise "common sense" in trying to avoid becoming the victims of circumstance, then why do we install locks on cars and homes? Missing locks on a house doesn't make it acceptable to steal things from inside of it, yet we don't in general rely on that social and legal rule alone.

Lacey doesn't deserve the treatment she's been getting but it's entirely appropriate to point out that the response could have been foreseen by anyone with experience with 4chan's /b/ (which includes Lacey, if she's to be believed). Any other argument is of the same intellectual logic as trying to prevent teen pregnancy by not teaching teens about sex (which is even worse as a method than abstinence education!)

This should be a "teachable moment" for other teenage or young entrepreneurs trying to drum up public interest in their enterprise by poking 4chan. It certainly shouldn't be hidden from public view just to make it look like it was a completely random attack on /b/'s part. People need to be educated about what can happen.
I see what you mean. I just don't think great programming skills are needed to do most of what accounts for programming work these days. Load a couple of objects from the database, change something, put it back and display some HTML, as long as you don't totally mess it up it's OK. The lesser skilled in programming often have some other thing they are great at to validate their place on the team, like understanding what the business side wants, styling, UI or organizing the team.

I think the best solution for working with less skilled programmers is to have a framework in place that lets them be productive without having the chance to mess up too hard, lots of enterprise java frameworks are built on this premise "Write your code >>here<< - and you may only call on >>these<< apis" - enforced in strict rules. Truly skilled programmers are a limited resource, especially when you need a couple of hundred ones for a boring project.

So what if their code is a little bit longer and buggier as long as it works, as a lead developer once told me "if their code breaks, they'll just have to stay a little bit longer that day and fix it".

I'd rather have a medium skilled programmer which is a team player than a really skilled programmer who is a loner. OTOH I have fired bad programmers, like one guy I had to explain what a for loop is to and who delivered something completely unusable.

Off on a tangent:

I'm just generally bored with the Software Craftsmanship pipe dream. It too easily becomes an ivory tower - creating software for it's own sake. Real requirements are messy and real programs run in a messy environment, and I'm not sure that "Doing things properly the first time" is the right approach. I think it's more important to iterate and be prepared to throw stuff away, instead of being more rigorous and shooting up design patterns. I do understand the need for pride especially if there's pointy haired bosses around, but I think that some of the reactions to that kind of environment are too extreme. It's about shipping software that works, and if it does work in 90% of the cases to 30% of the cost of having a 100% solution, then maybe that's a good business decision, especially if it fails gracefully with a good error message "I'm sorry can't do that Dave". It just might be that a couple of months later business has changed so things needs to be scrapped and rewritten anyway. Of course it depends on who is funding the bill, but I rarely see people willing to pay for military-grade software consultancy.
We've been remarking in our office how much karma people get from these kind of posts.
Based in the UK? Tell me about your startup
Thanks for the bug report; looking into it... Hmm; maybe an old DNS update? Seems to be working with everyone I checked with.
Excellent advice about how to scope your hours in terms of your rate. Thanks
I think you're misunderstanding OWS rhetoric; or conflating edge noise with the core philosophy.

Their primary complaint is that the 1% have already used their money to gain political influence to advantage the further consolidation of existing wealth and to disadvantage those who would make new wealth, potentially at the expense of the existing 1%.

It has nothing to do with other consumption, or lack thereof, of the 1%.
This doesn't work anymore under Lion. I now have to use a small magnet to trick the lid-closed sensor.
If only there was a better git hosting provider. Oh wait, I use bitbucket.org!
I would argue that there is no "underlying point" of skeuomorphism except to make shit feel nice by alluding to familiar real-life objects. There's no requirement that the source material be functionally similar.
Hey! Thanks for the interest!

To my mind, we're not underpricing Dev Bootcamp. Our focus in pricing is to change the risk equation for students. We want to lower the barrier to entry for the tech jobs market. We also want students to know that we are really committed/invested in them.

The big difference from student loans: students only pay us if the course actually works :-)

Our first batch students are just beginning their final projects. You can check out what they have to say here: http://appacademy.io/alumni
Awesome updates, thanks guys!
This is all great advice, thanks.

I've watched that video before, and it's a really great talk on a common problem. I'd recommend it to everyone.
They must be a partner with GoDaddy.. :)
>Boo, scary websites want to know where you are.

Nothing wrong with being alarmed by a site that automatically plays music and wants to know where you live.

If the cashier at Subway or any other stranger with whom you had minor contact one day asked where you lived wouldn't you be more than just a little alarmed?
RubyMotion form elements
Look another github is down thread.
And people still argue about the quality of hacker news submissions.
I doubt the teams overlap so priority isn't material to which is released first.
Please report back with your findings.
Ankit Fadia site again Hacked and Suspended by Hosting provider
Viewing photos, or similar graphics-related work.
How have worldwide wages changed during that period?
this is genius, love how stars in the nearfield are moving faster. this is straight dope.
I have a project for DRM for the masses. (will also use watermarking)
I don't want to put my email address into something without first knowing what it is.
There's no great reason for a small shop to use Github rather than hosting the repositories themselves.
Github is down - Emergency DB maintenace
I am with you all the way on this. The great businesses and fortunes of the last 200 years of industry did not come from engineering or technical expertise, but rather from those few, adept individuals who were able to navigate the mysterious world of relationships. If you do not make a dozen friends in every crowded room and instinctively form lucrative relationships on a daily basis, then knowing someone who does is the most valuable asset to your professional goals.
lets take optimizing a facebook ad for increasing paid traffic.

1. take 50 images all else equal, put budget against the 50 ads, find top 5

2.take 50 headlines, rotate against top 5 images all else equal. determine highest performing picture headline combo by CTR.

... rotate in variations of body test, rotate in coloured borders on images...

Now, build an audience of facebook users using demographics, interests, job titles, pages liked.

This is procedural, and a better starting point that will save you thousands of dollars in paid traffic.
Competing with, yes. I'd say they are differently pricing more than underpricing. I've got friends I've been trying to get on the Rails developer career path and something like this is great for them when they don't even have $1000 cash for something that just might not work out for them.
At the other end of spectrum, you have projects like GNU/Hurd, which are extremely idealistic and hence barely ever ship. The accounts department is not going to like it very much when you tell them your new Lisp DSL variant with metaprogramming is delayed for half a year due to technical difficulties in getting it right. The VP/Director/Team Lead(and whoever else okayed Lisp) will get a pink slip and the replacement(s) will build the application in Java.

Even if it works, good luck finding any Lisp hackers to hire in your local area. Who is 'dumb' and 'smart' in this scenario? Is it just IQ levels that matter? What about getting the job done quickly and cheaply which is very important to the business? Do you get a big competitive advantage over your rivals by having your accounting system run on elegant Lisp vs. Java or PHP?

We techies, especially academics tend to carried away easily and want functional or otherwise idealistic languages replace other 'dumb' languages, but the corporate world works in a very different way. Throwing around phrases like dumb, and IQ levels actually degrades the argument to 'we are superior than them' and nothing else. Characterizing people trying to be practical and put food on the table and take care of their families as 'dumb' is just douchebaggery.
Contrary to OWS retoric, my opinion is that the "one percenters" are not the main part of the problem.

Irrespective of whether they are the main part of the problem or not, I think that demonising them is a really stupid idea that just plays towards divide and conquer politics. Ideally they should be co-opted as much as possible, mainly because they currently have most of the money.
Scala and Clojure seem to have gotten a definite traction. Just from reputation alone, I'd choose Clojure for a JVM greenfield project if I was asked to do such a project.
GoDaddy: Our Crash Wasn’t Anonymous, a Hack, a DDoS. It Was Network Issues
Just guessing, but maybe they finished sooner? It's also possible the native maps app is going through significant changes and they plan to launch when iOS 6 launches.
Green Faces (or How to Hack Your Metabolism)
That link is awesome. Thanks for sharing it.
Isn't this just steganography? I'm quite sure organizations of all flavors and kinds are putting it to good use as we speak :)
What if you get a phone call while you're on the computer?
Not bad, you are the 7th repost !
Shouldn't you be working on bringing the site back up instead of reading HN? ;)
Is it necessary to post on HN about every website down?
I am using the Stripe Canada beta. Seems to work well so far.
You find facts inflammatory? Blizzard is indeed secretly watermarking WoW screenshots.
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Apparently the people inhabiting your part of the world don't have any sense of humor.
Oh god it's working.. I want to put my email in, just in case something happens. But er, I'm not going to. I need more info about the service first :-)
Looks cool, but the ultimate tactic for landing page conversion is actually having content.

Why bother with a empty landing page like this? Would it really be so bad to wait a little until this company actually has something to show for itself?
There is little point in concerning oneself with smooth p-1, p+1, Φ_i(p) values. Randomly-chosen primes will have a negligible chance of having such properties.

Additionally, the more powerful ECM algorithm can be parametrized to generate about p different elliptic curves E_{a,b}(p), where p is found whenever E_{a,b}(p) has a smooth order. Once again, the chance of finding a pair (a,b) that results in such a smooth order is negligible. This is, in a nutshell, the result of Rivest and Silverman [1] dispelling the need to jump through many hoops to generate strong primes.

[1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/RivestSilverman-AreStrong...
As far as I understand, it's not the average wage that has stagnated, but the median wage.

That says something about the US, but nothing about the world. In the same time period the median wage across the world has increased dramatically, especially in China, India & Africa.
No, no it can't. The battery will drain, but not much else. The temperatures you'd see wouldn't even be likely to reduce the lifetimes of components.

This is inconvenient and annoying, but not life threatening. Stop being alarmist.
No, Windows Metro just happens to not be skeuomorphic.
Is that a problem, underpricing the competition if the market bears it? Dev Bootcamp's cost has risen meteorically since they first opened their doors in February of this year. It is now roughly the same cost as a year's tuition at a UC. Apples to oranges, sure, but it gives the number some perspective.

The difference in the pricing model here is that you don't have to pay it back should things go pear-shaped after the course. Obviously, it's in their interest to secure 100% placement, but at least it's not a financial burden on a student if it doesn't work out. This is an important consideration for some people: these bootcamps are sometimes a last resort for people jump starting a new career after long bouts of unemployment in the current economy. As good as any of these schools are, the risk of dedicating months to a program and taking on additional debt with no guarantee of a job is a tough thing to swallow.
I think you mean that Valve's current equity per employee is $8.5 million. Equity is neither revenue nor profit.
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> "Valve makes approximately $8,500,000.00 per employee"

Total equity =/= Annual profit

I assume you did:

2.5 billion total equity / 293 employees
=~ 8.5 million / employee

A more appropriate statement would be "Valve is worth approximately $8,500,000.00 per employee"
Reminds me of Fox News's "coverage" of last year's protests in Madison, Wisconsin. They kept showing shots of unruly crowds in which you could alternately see palm trees and Chicago landmarks in the background.
The site doesn't appear to load any sites for me.

I keep getting "Error: Something went wrong. Please try again."
I'm kind of curious what the 'etc' are to which you refer?
The entire post was a satirical response to the GP comment. It was meant to show how, depending on your point of view, the same logic can be applied to either the tech or the business side and maybe even "look good" but seem unreasonable to those on the other side of the table.

Not saying I am in full agreement, but it's pretty clearly the purpose of the parent comment.
To join the current hipsteria about their live deployment system with the one about postgres, I can only guess they migrated live to postgres ;)
GoDaddy outage caused by corrupted router tables
"Enclave" programming pattern
Yes it is, which is why being skilled at what you do, establishing a brand, getting traction are all key ingredients in raising the barrier to entry for investors.
Haha I thought it was a search bar. When you visit the page the text field already has focus so I had no idea I was suppose to type an email.
Well, is Java a clean, beautiful powerful language that people love programming in?
Things to do while GitHub is down
A very nice initial listing for applications, I'd love to see it completed!

One framework I think is missing in the category "server-side" is derby.js ( http://derbyjs.com ), have you thought about adding it to the list?
Completely agree, but what about understanding who that customer is, connecting the right features with the right group of people with the right marketing. That kind of information has a lot of theory but not a step by step guide guaranteeing success. I suppose this is more idea decisions and direction decisions rather than implementation but I think my point still applies.
I think you mean "potable" water, not "portable" water. "Potable" means that you can drink it, "portable" would mean that you can carry it around with you.

All water is portable, but not all water is potable.

This is a really easy mistake to make, especially if English isn't your first language, because the words are very very similarly spelled and pronounced.

(And sorry, I'm not trying to nitpick. I'm sure everybody knows what you mean, just pointing this out in case you want to know)
To launch something on github, doesn't github to be working?
Don't be a dick. Not every person at a company is responsible for or can even help with these kinds of issues. Having more than 2 or 3 people working on it is counter-productive.
Sorry, I pulled the trigger on this too fast and changed the title according (used to say make 8.5mil per employee). I thought they were doing $2.5billion in revenue. It's estimated to be worth 2.5 billion, which is $8.5mil per employee. That's still extremely impressive for a company that effectively sells IP.
This is a neat way of doing this, thanks for sharing! I'm going to try this out if I get the chance, any irc network in particular you found effective?
No mention of Crockford? :(
Awesome! Signed up to be notified, would love more options to open up here in Canada :)
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Tribes 2 might have been a commercial flop, but it was a great game.
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