skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TechCrunch's coverage of Yahoo has noticeably changed in tone since Mayer became CEO.

I wouldn't go so far as to accuse TC of becoming some propaganda arm or mouthpiece of AOL, but I think that there's a clear dislike of seeing Yahoo on the up. The article is pretty lame, it's sad and I was hopeful that TC had turned the corner since being messed around with post-arringtongate.

Disclaimer: I used to work at AOL UK.
I absolutely disagree. Poker is not a game about taking risk, it's a game about managing risk. This is an incredible important distinction that separates winning players from losing players.

Looking at another industry, take the extremely 'risky' business of a VC partner; if you look at one investment of his, you might say the odds dictate that his investment is more luck than anything, because he is investing $10,000 and has done so in a way which gives him a 10% chance to make $1 million. However, if you look at his track record of the 250 investments that he has put $10,000 into, you would see that for the $2.5 million he has invested, it has made him $25 million in return.

Is playing poker and investing in VC risky? Absolutely. Does it involve more luck than skill? In one iteration of the game, yes, but in 150 or 250 iterations? Not likely.
As a "retired" professional poker player, I can say with certainty that this is possible, but the range is more like $20-40/hour. During that first year, the person must commit themselves to rigorous training and get themselves in a mindset of continual learning.

I've taught more than 20 people how to play Poker and you can usually tell within a couple days what their biggest weaknesses are going to be. Within two weeks, you can tell if they have the willpower to correct them. Most people do not; gambling can be pervasive in the mind.
I had been monitoring that my background workers were, indeed, working... But it seems as there's something else going on here. For some reason people aren't getting recommendations. I'll try to see what's going on.

EDIT: looks like the process had actually silently died at some point, but was still reporting as running. I think I've fixed the issue now.
The whole point of a REST API version bump is that it is an artifact of introducing necessary breaking changes (either removing an endpoint at X path, removing Y keys, or even serializing dates in Z format).

Though there have been many detractors, I still think URL based versioning is the best way to go. How do you version a header on a resource that goes away or pops into existence? What if I just ask for "application/json" or the "freshest" due to ignorance and you move the target and get even fresher? There is very little practical benefit to versioning in a HTTP header except some argument about URI purity.
Wire-wrap Days
* "email-advertising" companies in China/Russia/Nigeria.*

FYI, the US is by far the largest producer of spam e-mails: http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries/
This is absolutely not the case with my user base. A large portion of Firefox users (<50% overall) was on 3.x
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_Enfo...

That scared off a lot of the fish, plus, in mid-2007 (I think?) the biggest payment processor, Neteller, got busted by the US Attorney's Office (I hope I'm remembering all this correctly), which made it so that even the fish that were left around couldn't keep re-filling their accounts.

Also, there was a wealth of information about how to play by 2006-2007 and there were a lot more absolute numbers of good players which, with the decreasing supply of fish led to a much higher concentration of good players.

From early 2006 to early 2008, the game had changed so dramatically that it was guys who used to crush NL400 ($2/4 NLHE) couldn't beat NL100 (50c/$1 NLHE)
The other similarity is you are obliged to vote, just like Brazilians. I'm not sure what the fine is there but here it's just R$3 (US$1.50).

More on Brazilian politics here.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/wljya/til_tha...

It's quite convoluted.
I agree, I don't see how implementing the same thing as Twitter but with missing features (like posting via SMS) is supposed to draw away Joe Everyuser.

The reason Twitter is popular is because there's a large active community of users and they do a good job of enabling you to discover and follow people you're likely to be interested in. It doesn't really matter how "open" it is, any more than it matters if Facebook or Tumblr are open.

WordPress works with a distributed "install it yourself" model because people use it to power their websites and they want configurability and extensibility. With social networks like Twitter, they want community and baked in support with devices and other services.
rstat.us does let you cross-post statuses to Twitter. And most of the API restrictions have limited reading, not writing, so this feature may be safe for some time.
Ask HN: Is anyone doing a job board "right"?
From what I can find, everyone has a job board but they are either very expensive to post to or are of a very low quality.

Isn't there anywhere to quickly and simply find/post jobs of any kind on the cheap? What if I just had a simple programming task I was willing to pay for. Where could I post it/find someone?
Ok, therefore:

GET / HTTP/1.0
GET / HTTP/1.1

should be

GET /v1
GET /v2

and YOU'd have to tell the browser which site uses which version.

Wouldn't it be nicer if the browser could tell the server which version of the interface it understands?

It happens that the metadatum follows the URI in HTTP requests. The author can't do that, but he can use a header field to achieve the same.

Hence the idea to use "Accept:" for versioning.
With Amazon in its sights, Barnes & Noble announces new Nook tablets
Hm, I don't quite buy it. Reducing features is still a good idea. Complicated software creates headaches for everyone.

Otherwise by that logic every software should tend towards infinite feature count.
It's really awesome that they thought to include retina versions. I really hope this becomes the norm, esp. with bootstrap etc.
Do you accept that you might be wrong?
I tried to keep the6pct sparse on purpose. I think it's the focus that helps. But you're right, this should come with a pharma-sized disclaimer & I'm afraid I didn't do a great job at that, not even in the accompanying blog post:

http://fr.anc.is/2012/09/26/the-6-pct/

The key is: if you are ready & willing to play the high-growth startup game
I'm not dismissing the idea that resources need to be versioned, certainly a client written against v1 might not be able to handle the v2 representation of the resource. It's just that I think the abstraction the resource is representing generally doesn't change just because the implementation details behind it have.

If you change the way a "customerId" is formatted in V2, the idea of providing a "customer" resource hasn't changed, and as a matter of style I think it's cleaner that the URL for the customer record representing a single person doesn't change or suddenly split into multiple resources which really represent one entity. IMO the header-versioned approach expresses the semantic difference you point out cleanly, and in addition does not come with undesirable side-effect of diluting the URI concept.
Many banks will instantly deposit checks up a certain amount (say $500), and deposit some percentage of large checks immediately, with the rest deposited after the check has cleared the writer's bank.
Giff Gaff prices are going up and they have had some pretty prolonged service outages but it probably is the cheapest option still.

http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Contribute-Innovation-Promo...

Edit

By the way £10 per month for 2 years is £240

Outage information (in addition to the O2 problem): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/16/giffgaff_down_again/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/19/giffgaff_outage/
Playing poker, like Texas Hold-Em is definitely a game of skill and not luck. It is absolutely possible to still make big bucks on it if you are skilled enough.

My brother used to live a fairly decadent life thanks to his poker winnings from a few years ago. However, that was at the peak of the world wide poker craze where everyone thought they could be millionares by playing Paradise Poker a few hours per day. But the times have changed in online poker and there aren't enough whales around that the poker sharks can exploit for profit anymore.

The only way to consistently make money playing poker is if the skill differential between you and your opponents is high enough and in your favor. The lower the difference, the more time it takes to make a profit, the lower your hourly wage gets.

On top of that, you can suffer fluctuations or "bad beats" as they call it. One week you may win 100k only to lose it the next week. It is a very stressful situation if poker is your work and you need to win. There is a definite risk of burning out.

85k isn't a lot when it takes 8-10h per day of really boring online poker playing.
Weird, I don't see one line mentioning "crippling fear of dying in a gutter of an easily curable condition that I can't afford the five figure+ hospital bill for".
If you're talking casual play, off and on for a year, then yes it's highly unlikely. If you're taking about spending a good part of a year, reading some of the best books out there (I recommend Harrington on Cash Games Vol. I and II) and then methodically applying the techniques in those books to your play, it's doable. Or at least, when I took some time off between startups, I was able to average being a reasonably profitable poker player at cash games in casinos.

However, I came to the conclusion that it was a good learning experience and that $80k a year was not worth having to sit in a room with a bunch of guys, hunched over a table, breathing in their germs, and listening to their half drunk rants. Great lessons to be learned from poker though, but you must be dedicated to average being profitable. If I go back and try now, I'm probably going to lose more often than not.
The problem though, is that owning the consumer market gives iOS and Android a tremendous advantage in terms of revenue, app selection and mindshare. That robust enterprise software is, in many cases, already there for iOS with apps such as iWork.

There will always be a market for keyboard devices or other niches, but I don't think that market is anywhere big enough to sustain RIM at its present size. I think sales of Android devices with keyboards show that.
Ask PG: Hardware-Software Hybrid Stratup
Internet of Things is changing the way we categorize startups. Its bridging the gap between Hardware and Software and more and more new companies are trying to work on the eco-system, then focusing only on the Hardware or software. What has been YC's experience and willingness to incubate startups working in that space.

Also does YC give more cash and time to startups building hardware.
The crystal ball illusion
Other discussion: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19347120
Disrupt Tech Recruiting II - So You Want Ari Gold?
But how is this better in practice? Why is it important that the URI stay the same? I don't see why coding the version information in the header is better than coding it in the URI. The latter seems much easier to manage in practice.
A follow-up, let's keep the dialogue going
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4575909
It seems the B9 is a tad more expensive and also requires self assembly. I'm not sure why but their site is also incredibly slow and a pain to use in some cases. With that said it does appear to have a higher resolution in the Z plane than the Form 1.
How To Erase and Reload Software In Blackberry.
Datomic satisfies these three points.
See this commit https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Cont...

it was an issue in any Android variant that featured autodial, I saw someone reporting it worked on CyanogenMod 7 for example and it also worked on some HTC devices
ShowHN: Passwordless login plugin for WordPress
Outsource It (PragProg book)
Pretty interesting post. A lot of this was covered in a book I read a few months ago, one of the best 'motivational' books that I ever came across (because it's scientific)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/59-Seconds-Think-little-change/dp/02...
Internet freedom is on the decline, but we’re fighting back
Frankly, I find your comment insulting. Why would a civil servant be expected to perform any less than a consultant or a banker? After all, many civil servants do the job a consultant could also do, albeit at a lower cost. I'm not talking about the people picking up the trash, I'm talking about the people designing city expansion policy, the people writing requirements for government IT systems and the people drafting laws.

Admittedly civil servants in many countries have the image of doing these jobs less passionately than someone working in business would, but this does not change what is expected of them.

Cutting on the productivity on an expensive workforce very seldomly leads to actual cost reduction.
Yes, it is, but only if that snack doesn't include chocolate or peppermint or one of the other foods that enables reflux. Ibuprofen (as well as all the NSAIDs) do, too. If you are on any medication, check the info on it to see if it promotes reflux.
Many iPhone 5 components change but most suppliers remain the same
To me it looks like the "others" have far lower bitrate than the Nokia. It'd be interesting to see the originals.
Can you guess the name of this supplier?

On the 9/13 newsletter John Mauldin wrote: "... consider this technology kingpin that is positioned to make a mountain of money as one of the key suppliers for the new Apple iPad. It is currently a cheap $8 stock with a 4% dividend and a 24-month price target of $25 that could triple your investment."

If it helps this is the result of filtering (via Google Stock Screener) companies whose stock prices are in the $ 7 - $ 9:

Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund, Inc. FAX

Air T, Inc. AIRT

AllianceBernstein Income Fund Inc. ACG

American Income Fund, Inc. MRF

American Software, Inc. AMSWA

Arkansas Best Corporation ABFS

ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. ARR

Astro-Med, Inc. ALOT

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (ADR) BBVA

Banco Santander, S.A. (ADR) SAN

Belo Corp. BLC

BlackRock Income Trust BKT

BNC Bancorp BNCN

Brookline Bancorp, Inc. BRKL

Brooks Automation, Inc.(USA) BRKS

Capital Product Partners L.P. CPLP

CapitalSource, Inc. CSE

Cellcom Israel Ltd. CEL

Centerstate Banks of Florida, Inc. CSFL

ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. CKSW

Coffee Holding Co., Inc. JVA

Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. CWCO

Cresud S.A.C.I.F. y A. (ADR) CRESY

EarthLink, Inc. ELNK

First Commonwealth Financial FCF

First Community Corporation FCCO

First M & F Corporation FMFC

First Niagara Financial Group Inc. FNFG

Franklin Universal Trust FT

Full Circle Capital Corp FULL

Gladstone Investment Corporation GAIN

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation GLDD

Grupo Casa Saba, S.A. (ADR) SAB

Grupo Radio Centro SAB de CV (ADR) RC

Hawthorn Bancshares, Inc. HWBK

Heska Corporation HSKA

HopFed Bancorp, Inc HFBC

Hot Topic, Inc. HOTT

Inland Real Estate Corporation IRC

Investors Real Estate Trust IRET

Kentucky First Federal Bancorp KFFB

KeyCorp KEY

Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. MIG

Mechel OAO (ADR) MTL

Met-Pro Corporation MPR

MFA Financial, Inc. MFA

MFC Industrial Ltd MIL

MicroFinancial Incorporated MFI

New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. NYMT

Newcastle Investment Corp. NCT

NGP Capital Resources Company NGPC

Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation NOR

OfficeMax Incorporated OMX

Pacific Continental Corporation PCBK

PDL BioPharma Inc. PDLI

Pengrowth Energy Corp (USA) PGH

PMC Commercial Trust PCC

Power REIT PW

Pulaski Financial Corp PULB

Regions Financial Corporation RF

Servotronics, Inc. SVT

Somerset Hills Bancorp SOMH

Southern National Banc. of Virginia, Inc SONA

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV

Southwest Georgia Financial Corp. SGB

Sterlite Industries India Limited (ADR) SLT

Stewart Enterprises, Inc. STEI

Sypris Solutions, Inc. SYPR

United Bancorp, Inc. UBCP

United Community Bancorp. UCBA

Value Line, Inc. VALU

Wayne Savings Bancshares, Inc WAYN

Westfield Financial, Inc. WFD

Whiting USA Trust I WHX

Wipro Limited (ADR) WIT

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. WWE

WVS Financial Corp. WVFC

Xerox Corporation XRX
LOOM is a great example of low-budget movie-making. Partway thru this sci-fi futuristic dystopia I realized that everything was current mundane stuff, just brilliantly arranged to give the impression of future tech. No computer-generated imagery (enhanced, perhaps, but not photo-realistic animation), no model shop, just off-the-shelf, what's-laying-around commonplace stuff.

Could very well amount to a Blade Runner prequel.
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I guess that is my opinion, as I personally see this as the most attractive option to solve the deficit. You can of course raise taxes, but that decreases fluidity. Decreased fluidity dampens growth, etc..
maybe DDD will just buy them out.
You're kidding right? Nothing stops you from writing any of these languages in a style like Go that doesn't use multiple inheritance and uses error codes. I suspect what's going unspoken is that you prefer others to code like you think instead of how they think. And Go gives you that because, at times above all arguments to the contrary, it strives to have only one way to do something at the language level.
sigh So the OIS actually does work as well as claimed, which boggles the mind why they felt they had to fake it in the ad.
Can You Overheat A Macbook Pro Retina?
Wouldn't that be the niche of Elance, Guru, Odesk and other freelancing sites?
A user once told me my product had no geek cred because it was too easy to use.
According to the site, it was directed by Luke Scott, not Ridley Scott. Which is good because I didn't think Ridley Scott capable of something so terrible.
Was going to ask the same thing... saving up?
Well, true. Cell tower coverage is actually very good in the kalahari desert. They build huge towers that cover cells way bigger than anything you'll find in any city. But those patch-cables they need from the tower to the backbone :). I think the OP meant something along the line "it's easier to supply a sufficiently dense network" since you probably need more antennas but in the end, it's easier to put up those antennas since you have a reliable cable connection close by.
Untold Atrocities - Story of Syria's Children
This PDF contains stories from children who have been direct victims of the conflict in Syria that has started in March 2011.

I don't even find words to comment that story, how people can do that to children.
But they have to be written using WinRT.

Microsoft muddied the waters a bit with this word that they aren't even allowed to use anymore. It's variously been used to describe a set of design principles, a UI development toolkit, and a particular subset of Windows software that is designed to run well on tablets and is put together using the aforementioned design principles and framework.

Windows App store apps are Metro-only under one of those three definitions: The framework that we're now supposed to call WinRT.

Which is, of course, not at all the same thing as Windows RT.
Why not start a project part-time at night while you still have a job? With out a few months savings you could find yourself without a viable product and with zero money pretty shortly.

Best of luck to you either way!
It probably wasn't ready to run on an actual phone at the time.
I don't get this diluting the URI concept. Different versions are often going to have more differences than simply representation. They may provide additional features and have slightly different semantics. It's not the same resource.

And even if it were, do you guys propose that if I were to request the same data represented in slightly different ways (say order data grouped by customers or grouped by date) within the same version, I should use headers to distinguish between the two, instead of a query string?
Thanks, I forgot about this during my playtest. They couldn't have put an icon there or something?

Frankly the easiest way to get around is Win+R if you know the right shortcuts.
Normally a subsidized plan won't cost more than $10-$20 extra.
Actually, it is for my 14-year old who really, really, really pays attention to how Jobs and Cook speak when asked questions. They way they carefully choose their words, but to us it seems really natural.
"MS doesn't give developers an option better than Apple's. Their platform (win RT) is as close as iOS."

Sorry for disagree but between the other two (Android and WinRT) WinRT is fairly far away from iOS. Not mentioning that is way more comfortable to work on VS rather than Xcode.
If you're writing a client which is sensitive to the resource representation changing over time and you're using something that calls itself an API, hopefully one would skim the provided docs enough to see that you might want to explicitly state the version you want. Or notice that the Content-Type returned for the generic application/json query is a versioned type.

I acknowledge that it's a little more work than just banging out a versioned URI, but it's not that much work and I like the URI/conceptual purity.
It makes sense 920 has 26mm focal length, S3 16mm, iPhone 5 33mm (equivalents). Smaller focal length - wider field of view so it makes sense that iPhone feels zoomed in. I can't see the difference for S3, though. Magic?
It's literally a tech demo for a projector technology. If you don't have a 4k 3D laser projector, it's going to be pretty pointless.
Seriously: 25 Billion Cloud Connected Devices by 2020
Good question - It probably comes down to the limitation of the parts - that said, no current FFF 3-D printer could match the detail of the Neptune figuring. That trident would basically be impossible. At some point the models do a better job explaining than the stats.
About what I paid for my first inkjet printer (because I couldn't afford a LaserWriter). Or another way of thinking about it -- rather than upgrading to an FX digital camera this generation, I can skip a generation, live with my insanely-good-but-not-that-insanely-good DX camera and get one of these.

Obviously, the whole "giving $3000 to someone and trusting them to deliver" thing is a bit of an issue, but presumably this means something like this is viable at something like the price of a good printer in 1992.

Hmmm.
DDD is in a great position in a exploding market. They spend a lot of money on R&D...they could acquire this company in a heartbeat as they did Z-Corp and Huntsman in the past. Innovative companies like this help the overall Rapid Prototyping market move forward....DDD and SSYS are the big fish with distribution, service, infrastructure and the the capital ready to make sensible acquisitions. It would be a different story if this was a mature market with slowing growth and new uses were not being found for the technology everyday. It is conceivable that the way this technology is moving forward, we will be printing Clothing, Houses, Body Parts, etc. So there is a lot of room in this market....this is just the very beginning (OR I should say, the "end of the beginning" as the tech has been around for 20 years and now finally hitting the mainstream).
ya for a lot of things but they cost $$ too. i'm talking like any kind of job board. full time, temp, one off tasks. is there anyone doing a good job at aggregating all this?
What if you could one-click deploy to Heroku, OpenShift or AppFog? OpenShift can even have multiple competing hosting providers or you can use the free hosting from Redhat (which includes a LOT more resources than Heroku's free plan). And of course you could still do the traditional dedicated/VPS type installation.