skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the web content I consume goes through my RSS reader (this includes stuff like HN, proggit, xkcd, Delicious subscriptions,...). The only exceptions are Gmail and forums without decent RSS support.
As I pointed out myself (and apparently you never got that far down my post) it is possible to form vibrant communities around BSD-licensed products. I even mentioned Apache as one of them.

My point was that BSD gets less investment because it's so easy to take away what you contribute and to use it to compete against you.

And thanks for the five pointers. Unless you can come up with a list two orders of magnitude larger, I consider my point fairly well demonstrated.
> Where have all the most appealing men gone? Married young, most of them—and sometimes to women whose most salient characteristic was not their beauty, or passion, or intellect, but their decisiveness.

I think this one quote from the article is important.

> What they understood is this: as your priorities change from romance to family, the so-called “deal breakers” change. Some guys aren’t worldly, but they’d make great dads.

2nd quote from linked article in original piece - an interesting Lori Gottlieb article entitled "Marry Him!" which I'm considering forwarding to a few of my 30-ish single and still serial-dating female friends (considering the negative repercussions).

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/single-marry
Microsoft Research does some really exciting stuff. Most of what they do is real hackers' material, the sort of stuff you'd expect from a guy in his mom's basement or Ph.D's theses.

They have some really interesting prototypes and proof-of-concept software out that can be downloaded from http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/

It's a shame that most of their research (stuff like Singularity and this IE-OS project) never see the light of day, but some of the stuff you can DL is really nifty... and rather unheard of.
Dropbox also retains revisions and deleted files, which on free accounts at least does not count against your quota. If this is true for paid accounts, their users can end up using more than what they think they are paying for.
When exactly did I say all BSD-licensed software have small inferior communities? do I write so poorly people have trouble parsing my posts?
I think the scary thing is that in the almost-always-network-on world of the iPhone - per-user app tracking (albeit aggregated anonymously) is so easy to integrate that most users don't know it exists (PinchMedia's SDK).
> rewarding the lazy

Have you ever seen a "lazy" person get a grant to go to college and then graduate, or are you just assuming someone who isn't white is lazy, and is getting a handout?
I wouldn't call the GPL restrictive at all. It's restrictive in the sense that "you are forbidden to be a bad person". I can live with that.
In making such massively outlandish claims, data is required.
You're right, I've never heard of that, and I still think it's bullshit.

If you're allergic to fruit, vegetables, and nuts, you might just consider killing yourself to make the gene pool a little cleaner.
As the article makes clear, these are not buffer overflows in the algorithms themselves, they are just overflows in the reference implementations.
I don't understand why this keeps getting passed around.

Buffer overflows in the hash reference implementations have zero relevance on the algorithm's hashing effectiveness. Fortify posted the results of their static analysis tool to the web as an academic exercise and PR stunt.

That it continues to propagate the web is merely amplifying the FUD.
I met a VC the other day who was bragging about flying first class... When the VC got up to go to the bathroom, I looked at my partner and asked him if he knew who was paying for the upgraded ticket? Exactly.

VC's would blow this $ in a heart beat.
"GPL 3 which now includes hardware restrictions"?!

WTF?! GPL3 _FORBIDS_ hardware restrictions! It protects _YOUR_ right to use _YOUR STUFF_ the way _YOU_ want.

How that could possibly be construed as a restriction?
the actual paper is here: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79655/gazelle.pdf
How a Router's Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet
Ask HN: why doesn't HN use my windows settings for text color like every other website?
the dialogue box I am typing this in takes its color value from windows XP settings on my machine. However, HN is the only website I have encountered where the text color is not also taken from my settings. So instead of a nice green text on black windows like every other website I wind up with black text on a black background.
has anyone else had this problem? Is there a simple fix?

every other website either uses both text and background from my machine or their own. this mix and match causes the problem.
Yeah, that's kind of my point, which is to find a way to do it on your own terms instead of accepting "almost no money" for what is most certainly going to be a significant equity concession in your company.
Obviously. Where's my orange name when I need some automatic authority around here?
Namecheap is now offering free DNS hosting, even if you don't register your domains there: http://www.namecheap.com/freedns/free-manage-dns.aspx
Well I suppose games are simulations after all - wonder if you could put teammate's mishaps down to bugs.
http://www.ailab.si/orange/

This is the most thorough Python machine learning package I know of. Includes SVM.

Lots of tutorials, too, and a visual development environment (if that's your style).
"Brick Oven" Pizza Hacking (wire rack on stovetop)
Pypy- a framework for implementing interpreters
A VC contract does not "bind you into a period of servitude." You can always walk away and start a different company. The fact that Andreessen will support businesses that can't make money in the first 10 years is a good thing, not a bad thing. I'm sure he will also support business that make the founders rich immediately.
Change the "s" to an "n" of the image name in the URL and you can still view full versions of the pictures in question.

Take one of my photos for example:

http://photos-b.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v2339/95/113/...

to:

http://photos-b.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v2339/95/113/...

This would largely be applicable when profiles are deemed private and all you can do is view the small profile picture. In the grand scheme of things, it is minor but it should still be fixed.
After logging in I open up twitter and search.twitter to see if anyone has been talking to/about me. Then Gmail, HN. After that I get to work or open up NewsFire (RSS Reader).
Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President
Actually, (I was looking this up earlier), it applies in the case that a signatory goes to war and the other side either a) is a signatory, or b) follow the Geneva conventions.

Not that this changes the nature of the comment. It is a good point that the Geneva conventions do not protect nearly as much as people seem to think.
Bloggersbase - A Great Site For Marketing Your Information
I just saw a posting about this site on Facebook. It looks like a very interesting site for marketing your information.
As someone said on the blog, the second link is actually pointing to:
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v646/41/83/21013...
and not to:
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/n210132_34947682_4899.jpg
as he says.
> Interesting video. This makes me wonder what the next truly disruptive technology will be.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd law of Prediction

I believe when/if we get to the point that mobile electronics are disposable and/or able to be personally fabricated in a couple minutes that will be a stepping stone (e.g. personal technology no longer a commodity but close to free.). And, add in the matrix (e.g. blending virtual reality with reality [augmented reality] and or redefining reality [the Meta-verse from [Stephenson's Snow Crash"]) and we will be close to living in a world we can only imagine now.

I recommend MIT's Technology Review. I was a long-time subscriber but just let it run out.

http://technologyreview.com/
First thing is Google reader, everything I read on a daily basis I get through rss, then I ssh into my server and open mutt, after that I'll check twitter.
I'm assuming that early bidding isn't what's working for the less desirable women. It's a self evaluation that they can't compete directly, so they don't. Instead, they concentrate their resources on one mostly-desirable man. Bidding early is one part of the equation, but bidding more is another, probably more important part. If the article is supposed to reflect real life, the timing isn't likely to yield a real advantage, since society discourages women from getting married until relatively late anyway.
Heh, nice article, and accurate when it comes to temperatures. However you can obtain great results even without all of this effort :-) ... all you need is an oven that can reach 350C and a few bricks. When they reach that temp you turn the grill on at full power and cook the pizza like that. It takes 3-4 mins instead of the "right" 90 secs, but the result is great
I don't know of anything comparable other than Entrepreneur and Inc/Fast Company.
www.xname.org is good.
Who do you use for your credit card processing?
I'm developing in Rails and it seems that Authorize.net will be the easiest way for me to accept credit card payments. What reseller do you recommend?

I'm definitely open to other suggestions, but I refuse to do business with Paypal as a result of the company having stolen over $300 from me in the past.
http://www.creditcards.com/merchant-accounts.php
I doubt Eliezer missed the point of his own essay.
And you Sir, should consider killing YOURself to make the internet a slightly nicer place.

Unbelievable.
Hooray! Thanks for spotting "denaturation" in the Wikipedia article (an authoritative source, I know). I hadn't bothered to look for anything about allergies there in years.

Yes, my three allergists have all called it "oral allergy syndrome." One of them speculated my problem might have to do with "volatile oils," considering I'm also allergic to the smell of the raw produce. 19th and 20th century chemistry is amazing. Did you know that "flavors" for factory foods are food perfumes, top secret stuff concocted by perfume chemists? I learned that around ten years ago in a book called Mauve, about the history of fabric dying, of all things. (Some years earlier, I concluded the scent that remains long after slapping on some Polo is blueberry from old Betty Crocker blueberry muffin mix.)

So the thought of being allergic to volatile oils made pretty good sense to me. But as soon as I say "volatile oils" to people in combination with "cooking," they get all confused. Maybe they think I want to solve my problems by blowing up my kitchen or setting the building on fire or starting a heated argument. I'm happy to think that "denatured proteins" will sound a lot less volatile.

BTW, I'm a she, not a he. I also happen to be blondish and thin with a weak voice. I find that many people in real life, whom I shall not bother to classify here by occupation or sex, don't take me seriously. If you like, you can picture Julianne Moore in "Safe," a film which I find both uncomfortable and terribly funny.

"On the internet, no one knows you're a dog."
This is pretty retarded. The code in crypto competition submissions is invariably crappy; nobody is expected to use it outside of the contest.

Unfortunately, Fortify's core customers are enterprise IT development teams, who will be impressed by this. That real security professionals will ding them for the misleading post matters not at all.
Look at the success of games like GTA. These games allow people the ability to do things that they otherwise would not be permitted to do in real life, all without consequences.
it could definitely be fun. And shouldn't be that hard to implement, add civilians to a game, allow enemies to surrender etc.
There's a simpler explanation than appealing to math the author admits not understanding: male attractiveness ages better.

A 40 year old man can be attractive to 20 year old women, but a 40 year old woman is rarely attractive to 20 year old men.

In other words, women past their prime who restrict themselves to mates their own age will may be in relatively low demand.
I'm researching this just now -- will write something up soon. So far:

PayPal can be a pain, and I've had issues with the support for PayFlowPro back when it was Verisign.

Authorize.net is the heavy -- they are behind a lot (most?) of the payment processors out there, like Chase/Paymentech. Their API is nasty and their approval process can be cumbersome.

TrustCommerce has a very nice and documented API. For basic subscription charging I think they might be the winner. I am still evaluating their support, sales, fraud protection, etc.

Google checkout is nice but no support for automatic subscriptions.

Amazon FPS is very very nice -- especially if you are accepting payments from overseas and from consumers -- but a lot of people don't like whisking the user off to another site.

If possible I will do an A/B test of TC and Amazon to see if there really is difference in conversion rates, errors, fraud, etc.
I worry about people using the work 'hacker' so broadly that it becomes meaningless. Is a football player a hacker because he's 'hacking' his body to optimize the actions that would lead to a touchdown?

Please let's stick to 'hacker' as a person who creates innovative technology.
Never used it myself
no, google doesn't have to "support everything". Did the author miss the boat on what open source software is?
each vendor can modify android as they see fit if they need it to do something different. It is up to the vendor to support their products, just like now.
Good read.

"What I long for in a marriage is that sense of having a partner in crime."

I smiled as I read this because that's my exact choice of words when describing what I'm interested in.
This afternoon I reached the threshold for downvoting! And I have just--now--executed my very first downvote! O frabjous day! Calloo, callay!
"Web 2.0" never really existed.
Ex.
I go out and change my lifestyle and I coin the term "Life 2.0."
What does it mean? Ultimately, nothing.
It's all hype for better development and design techniques and ideas.

Will "Web 3.0" come? Yes.
I say this because, someone, probably the media, will need to make the web sound "cool" again. As I said before, it's all about hype.
I currently use Authorize.Net and it's not bad.
Another way of looking at this is that you need many more customers. The overhead of doing all this for a handful of customers is significant, it only starts to pay off at certain economies of scale.
I went to the site and saw a lot of "yellow" warning icons.

"Guides marked with this icon are currently being worked on. While they might still be useful to you, they may contain incomplete information and even errors."

I don't mean to jerk them off, I think the guides are much better than they were in the past.
Depends a lot on traffic. With no traffic, it's 5 minutes down 85 to get from Mountain View to Cupertino, maybe 15 or 20 to Saratoga or Los Gatos. With traffic, you're looking at 15ish to Cupertino, maybe half an hour to Saratoga.
"The survey found that 82% of respondents believed the major deal they had been involved in had been a success. However, this was a subjective estimation of their success in achieving the deal objectives (see figure 2, on page 8), and less than half had carried out a formal review process. When we measured each one against our independent benchmark, based on comparative share performance one year after deal completion, the result was almost a mirror opposite. We found that only 17% of deals had added value to the combined company, 30% produced no discernible difference, and as many as 53% actually destroyed value. In other words, 83% of mergers were unsuccessful in producing any business benefit as regards shareholder value."

- http://www.imaa-institute.org/docs/m&a/kpmg_01_Unlocking...
There are two categories: companies that put their own brand on the experience, and companies that don't. There are advantages to each, and PayPal makes it confusing because they have a product in both categories.

Assuming your asking about traditional merchant processing (the latter) I'd recommend CyberSource, combined with your own merchant bank that actually knows you (not one of those "specialized" merchant banks that just handle your credit card processing.
I think the problem there is that this is a very novel definition of grace. You need it to be established firmly in the reader's mind before you can go on about how to achieve it. Focusing the first part of the post on establishing that definition would have worked better.
What’s in the Vault?
Me neither.
I can't see this as a very efficient method.
Isn't this what code reviews are for?

With regards to pair programming, I think it should be two people working closely together (physical distance) on a related code so that they can easily collaborate. I feel that this way you can kill two birds with one stone. You both should fully understand the code while still being able to cover more ground.
Dealing with a post-collapse country
Weka can be used with JRuby, or Jython (I assume).
A better explanation is that older men date younger women more often than older women date younger men. So there are extra old women and young men. No need for combinatorial game theory, just supply and demand.
@nazgulnarsil - I agree.
Totally agreed, that is why *nix and Ubuntu it seems will own in cloud computing. Others that are big are debian, fedora, SUSE, Redhat, Gentoo etc. Cloud computing seems like it will be owned by free os's for the most part on default options, thus they will win. The other surprise is that there is only one free postgres AMI yet 10 or so oracle and 20+ mysql. Granted many people make their own private AMIs but at least public AMIs on Amazon EC2 are slanted that way.
While obviously not a practical agreement (to stop playing if someone else plays the game normally is ridiculous), it is a tactful approach to dealing with concerns about desensitization to actual violence, and an interesting exercise in metagaming.

I would suggest that parents do more to familiarize themselves with the actual nature of the games, though. They only make use of the imagery of reality, and don't support a range of actions remotely approaching reality, so many of the rules that make sense in reality make no sense in the world of the game. Adding arbitrary rules can just as easily strip away the enjoyment of the game as it can add to it--it depends heavily on the game and the other players.

This kind of lesson would work better if tailored more closely to the set of interactions available in the game world, so that the player can continue to play the game effectively, but must be conscious of additional restrictions--which is really what the Geneva Conventions are about. The ideal is for the child to both learn something and enjoy the experience.
I remember finding this about videos too. Was going to try and work out the naming scheme, but never got round to it. Presumably it's a similar system.
As someone who has created code from scratch as well as inherited it from other developers in both PHP and RoR, I can say that this is the most simplistic and accurate portrayal of a major difference between the two languages.
The capitalist way is to reward risk

Almost. A lot of banks took lots of risk - too much risk. Eventually the risk has to be managed, and if it's managed poorly we get what we have today. The capitalist way is to reward the providers, not the risk takers.
I'd be quite interested in studies of public perception related to this. (For instance, what percentage of US congressmen think that China manufactures more than the US? According to the average voter, what percentage of US consumer goods are imported?)
hahaha foot in mouth. but I stand by my interpretation of the essay.
There really are a lot of directions.
Wow, sounds impressive, but that link isn't working for me unfortunately! Do you know of a mirror?
Marc Andreesen said that Facebook doesn't run brand advertising by design. Anyone know why this is the case?

Even though I don't like advertising generally, I'd much rather look at a well-crafted Nike / Apple creative than the weight loss / degree mill tribal fusionish junk they run now.
I like this idea a lot. I really wish I had it back when I was in high school.
California Became France: Verging on Fiscal Insolvency
The Beermat Entrepreneur
According to "The Beermat Entrepreneur" there are several stages an idea must go through:

1. The idea sounds special the first time it is mentioned - in the pub
2. It still sounds great next morning
3. It sounds even better when some initial work has been done on it
4. An experienced business person agrees to champion it
5. Your first customer writes you a cheque
6. A founding team of five able individuals commit themselves to realizing the idea
7. Your first customer is pleased by what the idea has delivered
8. Ten more customers found
9. Ten customers delighted by what the idea has delivered
10. You pass the Five Tests:
market belief, sales, flow, sound organization,
solid finances, people, ready and eager.
11. You achieve, fairly, the domestic market share aimed for in your market conquest plan.
12. World domination

Re-reading number 10, I'm not quite sure where the grouping is to give Five Tests...

The book is (really) focussed on selling to
businesses rather than to consumers. For me this is sane, because B2B is much easier than B2C. (I've realised that I've only ever enjoyed working on B2B systems, because I don't understand consumers; in fact, I think they're
invariably mad)

ISBN:0273659294
My Route To MySpace
I want a refund from Microsoft for lost data every time a blue screen of death has come up in the past.

Microsoft made the error, they pay for it.
Of course worms can enter the net, that's the whole point
yes, if your product will generate revenue for the user. as a web designer if i'll generate revenue by using a free wordpress template i'll donate a percentage for that designer.
Solving problems with messaging: Creating a new user
Yes - in the comments he states the 20-25% includes all employees.
Braintree is awesome with Rails apps (and particularly rock solid if you needed to implement recurring charges). The only issue is you would need to process $1+ mm through your site, otherwise, there'd be an additional monthly charge. Highly recommended however.

Also, I'd assume that you're integrating the APIs through ActiveMerchant? I'd definitely use that regardless of which reseller/merchant provider you choose.
munin, monit are free and easy to setup, low footprint.
god is free but eats memory.
Nick Denton has Huffington / HuffingtonPost Envy (Clearly)
What we need are apps that plug into commonly-used programs. An example of what I'm talking about is Google Talk: it's a chat program, and I use it from time to time, but I never run it. It just happens to be there when I have Gmail open, so if I should need to send an instant message to someone, I can just do it. If I had to remember to fire up a separate app just for that, I probably wouldn't bother.

Or look at Zotero: it's a program for managing bibliographies, for filing away papers and notes when you're doing research online. It also happens to be a Firefox plugin. When I have a research paper open in my browser, I can just click an unobtrusive icon to save the citation for later. The extra burden of opening a separate app just isn't there.

I'm sure there's money to be made from this idea.
Just because I don't use my Wok every day, doesn't mean it's not useful to me.
I'd like to see what it's about, but I am not about to make an account just to find out.
And what if I don't have a dropbox account? I didn't know that was an automatic assumption for HN users.
shared hosts are for personal sites only, for a startup you'll need a VPS which does not oversells its capacity ... the (only) one i've found it's slicehost