skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
U.S. bloggers: Note that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives protection from defamation claims associated with anonymous comments. Quoting from the Electronic Frontier Foundation website (1):

...Your readers' comments, entries written by guest bloggers, tips sent by email, and information provided to you through an RSS feed would all likely be considered information provided by another content provider. This would mean that you would not be held liable for defamatory statements contained in it...

The EFF page adds, "[Section 230] does not apply to federal criminal law, intellectual property law, and electronic communications privacy law."

The Citizen's Media Law project contains additional information about Section 230 and blogging (2):

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act grants interactive online services of all types, including blogs, forums, and listservs, broad immunity from tort liability so long as the information at issue is provided by a third party. Relatively few court decisions, however, have analyzed the scope of this immunity in the context of "mixed content" that is created jointly by the operator of the interactive service and a third party through significant editing of content or the shaping of content by submission forms and drop-downs.

So what are the practical things you can take away from this guide? Here are five:

1) If you passively host third-party content, you will be fully protected under Section 230.

2) If you exercise traditional editorial functions over user submitted content, such as deciding whether to publish, remove, or edit material, you will not lose your immunity unless your edits materially alter the meaning of the content.

3) If you pre-screen objectionable content or correct, edit, or remove content, you will not lose your immunity.

4) If you encourage or pay third-parties to create or submit content, you will not lose your immunity.

5) If you use drop-down forms or multiple-choice questionnaires, you should be cautious of allowing users to submit information through these forms that might be deemed illegal.

Note that there are some exceptions and scenarios where the law is not so clear. In addition, I have heard an expert in this type of law advise either taking down offending comments or starting a dialogue with the person complaining to head off legal disputes. His reasoning: Is it really worth dealing with the hassle and cost of having to hire a lawyer to bring up Section 230 in front of a judge in order to get the case dismissed?

Read the EFF and Citizens' Media Law website for more information about Section 230.

1) https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230

2) http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/immunity-online-publi...
Well, ask if people are satisfied with their own blog CMS, and they'll probably say "no". I had to use something as obscure as Blogofile to satisfy my needs.

## Technically

I think some competition for Jekyll is sorely missed, and no one who isn’t a nerd even knows about static blogging. Granted, it's also been a royal pain for me, when it comes to pushing automated tweets, whenever I update my blog, so there are a lot of problems to be solved. I still haven’t bothered to write something in Python that tweets based on my RSS activity. (ifttt hasn’t worked optimally for me.)

Nevertheless, it’s liberating to be able to simply create a Markdown file and write a post like this:

---
title: Something Something Paul Graham
date: 2012/09/30 23:00:00
---
That Paul Graham might have a point.

Run Blogofile’s Amazon S3 uploader with one command, and boom, uploaded. As a bonus, I can back up my blog really easily using version/change control, since all files are static.

There are a lot of steps here too complicated for the average user, but all it takes is a moderately simple Mac app, and most people are golden - especially now that everyone has Dropbox to store their files.

It seems that there is a tendency for people who want to revolutionize blogging and social media to reinvent RSS. I doubt that’s the way forward.

---

## Socially

If I were to suggest an idea for a Wordpress-like platform, it would be a reinvention of the blogroll. When people don’t have the reach to attract advertizers, they can instead link to other users on the same platform and vice versa for exposure.

I would find a way to gauge the reach of blogs, and allow customers to find bloggers with similar reach to collaborate with for a mutually beneficial exposure that attracts traffic. I imagine a business model could be built on this alone, but it would probably be much easier, if people were on the same platform, say, Tumblr or Wordpress.

Tumblr really revolutionized blogging by adding a community layer onto their platform to make it a social experience that married Wordpress blogging and Twitter.
IE10 using the Windows 8 modern interface is 0 days old. I wonder if they consider IE 10 to be released next month. I've had it installed for weeks.
Edit: fuck it, lets play. Tell me what's wonderful about women.
Heh, I'm on Chrome 23, and it also says 6 days old. Seems not quite accurate, esp since I built it 13 days ago.

Looks like age data for Chrome only goes to version 21:
https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-ch...

Haven't read the source to see why lack of a release date gives me 6 days...
But are you willing to go so far as to suggest there is a correlation between success in a "startup" and the founders age being younger?

Sorry if I am a bit dubious of the claim.
My first question was "what does browser age mean?". I think you should just put the explanation on the page itself.
Let's face it, Firefox has been pretty popular among developers because of Firebug but given the rapid development of the Chrome Developer Tools there should be no wonder that's not the case anymore.
A rather obvious mathematical fact, which I never really noticed before watching this video (perhaps because of notation or the rarity with which it comes up) is that exponentiation and its higher-order forms (arrow notation) is not associative. Is this just a mathematical curiosity or is there any consequence to it? Is there a reason right-associativity was chosen as the default?
Considering women as defenseless brainless little flowers who can only be victims is also a major form of misogyny. Would you call a woman who pursues men for sex a misandrist as well?
Test Driven Development Actually Works
You often hear people advocate that writing tests (unit, functional, etc.) when building software leads to less bugs in production. In this post, I am trying to demonstrate this statement by analyzing real numbers from my current job. No tests were written originally and once tests were included, I became a strong advocate of the TDD methodology.
The Turbo Vision library came with version 6. The language was still well documented in ver. 6.
I aggree that Turbo Vision was not easy to grasp.
You often hear people advocate that writing tests (unit, functional, etc.) when building software leads to less bugs in production. In this post, I am trying to demonstrate this statement by analyzing real numbers from my current job. No tests were written originally and once tests were included, I became a strong advocate of the TDD methodology.
That doesn't really answer my question. Your original comment makes it sound like you don't know if the Kaufmann survey includes fast-growing companies, so you've assumed that it doesn't because then startups are often founded by people who are aged 40 and that contradicts your personal experience.
Right now for me the referrer averages for facebook.com say 43% safari - but only 24% OS X?

Sounds improbable.
I'd also like to note that you can't cancel online; you have to call them. There's a button to press to cancel, but it just takes you to a page asking you to call them.

If you're intimidated by the thought of a CSR who will try to argue you out of cancelling, it gets easier to click "Skip this month" until you forget, and get charged.

It's a very dodgy business model.
Cool, we're currently making Spacedeck (spacedeck.net) available for the first bunch of private beta testers. With it, you can work with Design Thinking and custom iterative processes online. Here's a rough screencap of how that works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w296O5hrzqs Feedback much appreciated.
Hmm, might be tough - I'm not sure quite how Nightly releases work, but I updated an hour ago and the version changed from 18.0a1 (old date, a few days ago I think) to 18.0a1 (2012-09-30). Meanwhile I check my useragent and I'm just seeing Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

Will submit a pull request if I get round to looking further and find a decent answer!

edit: Not sure there's going to be any good solution. 18.0 Nightly was first out on August 28th, which is 33 days ago, so despite the fact that I last updated today, and that the whole concept of "Nightly" is to have an update every day, the release number is technically older than the 25 days since the most recent stable release came out. And when, in 10 days, 18.0 moves to Aurora and Nightly moves to 19.0, the user agent most likely won't be different between Aurora users then and Nightly users now.
FWIW as of June 2012 43M+ Oyster cards have been issued (which now cost £5 each although they previously used to cost £3) with over 80% of all public transport journeys in London (London Underground, Bus etc) being made through the card.

Considering this is a service for London that number is pretty incredible.

Statistics: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/242...
I have serious trouble with any claim crossing (or getting in the general ballpark of) the 'million $currency' line.

So while the hints and lessons might be worth a read, I'd like to finish with my general 'This legal system is insane and I cry every time I see one of these sue-because-it-works-and-grants-you-a-shitload-of-money-for-no-reason articles'.

3 million. Because of a comment. Even the RIAA just blushed.
It's different because it's a powerful approach, I think.

Doing this, I'll make every blog open to a lot of different applications to interact with it's content.

By example, a user will be able to comment on an article published on a blog he "follows" from his own page.
good points raised in there, instead of promoting the use of helmets city officials should establish more lanes for cyclists. and just on a side note, taking the bike to work everyday is arguably the best workout available.
Blog spam? Please link to the YouTube video instead - the article gives no extra information.

Nevertheless - very interesting topic! Also terrifying.
Found this an interesting point on speed from london's underground www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/london-underground-nfcs-just-too-slow/
The difference is of course that in those European cities, cyclists are part of the expected traffic and are catered for with bike lanes etc.

Being originally from The Netherlands, I always used to ride my bike, literally everywhere. I've been living in Sydney/Australia for the past 7 years and the bike riding culture seems very similar to that of the US. Loads of sporty mountain bikes and everyone forced to wear helmets. It's not so much the gear that is the issue of course but the fact that e.g. a city like Sydney (and I guess the same thing counts for many cities in the US) doesn't cater to cyclists at all. No bike lanes (maybe a handful) and in general very dangerous. Not to mention the steep bloody hills in this place!
Regarding your comment: "It says you'll be billed month per month on the right hand side under the VIP membership program, but I think it's pretty clear that the page is engineered to be misleading."

I'm sorry: you're talking about the section that explains "How the JustFab VIP Program Works"? Whose 4 bullet points say:

1. Get a boutique the first of the month
2. Browse and Buy
3. Don't like anything, skip
4. If you don't buy or skip by the 5th you'll be charged anyway?

And a default unchecked box that you read and agree?

I think the concept of "engineered to be misleading" might just put the points in say, a small font, or in the terms and conditions behind a link. If someone describes it clearly in bold font in a section explaining how the site works, well, that's a pretty strange way of misleading people.
If you are omniscient and omnipotent then there is no runtime.
Agree on both points. I never wear a helmet myself.
(If you want to skip all the form-juggling of the editor, just skip to about 1 minute to see how it works in action)
On a mac, I don't use the default terminal. I had to click the button, and then copy the protocol from the dialog box that popped up asking if it was okay to start terminal.app.

Could you please make the button text selectable? It would make the experience easier for people to get into (conversion_rate++)

Other than that, I love this. Thanks for it.
That's not just the flood. Hard disks are basically a Dupoploy now, so with less competition they are raising prices.
That is entirely possible. All I am trying to say is, be it Cook or Jobs, Apple is probably getting to a point where they are actually listening to the customers.
iphone? safari runs on iphone ...
If it's standardized with multiple providers then either a) you can't communicate with people who have switched to a different directory service or b) it's no longer centralized. :)
Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
I know that there is(or was) a place like you described for book authors on Google hangout. They would just meet in a room and not really have a conversation but only be present. The goal was to get a motivational boost by seeing other people working and doing the stuff you should be doing too, which in that case would be writing. I imagine it could work for some people. So I say try to find something on Google hangout. And when you have found something tell me about it :)
22:50 CET, OP restarts the server... now the numbers are all over the place and ycombinator.com averages on 128d? Btw. i got 6 days on chrome 22
>as it's a fairly well known opener to talk about horses

In Victorian England, among the fox-hunting class, maybe...
Just wrote this up after running an AdWords campaign against my Uber referral link earlier this week. I know that this method is well-publicized for maxing out your Dropbox storage - has anyone else tried this for other services?
Claims 25 days, but I'm running Mozilla Nightly and restarted within the last 24 hours.
I keep getting stuck at:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/selfspy", line 19, in <module>
from activity_store import ActivityStore
File "/private/var/lib/selfspy/activity_store.py", line 9, in <module>
import sniff_cocoa
File "/private/var/lib/selfspy/sniff_cocoa.py", line 1, in <module>
from Foundation import NSObject, NSLog
ImportError: No module named Foundation
Oh the false equivalence. I'm afraid society punishes people who are disingenuous on the inside more than on the outside. It also severely punishes women who age.

I'm sure you get enough validation from women which you use to justify your ways. Doesn't make you any less sleazy.
How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system
How is that comparison anything related to hatred of women?

A well dressed man with zero confidence is not an attractive man. A man can learn things, change his behavior, and become more confident. It is changing a pre-state to something more desirable to others. Dressing up increasing desirability as well, but behavior is by far more important than looks for how attractive men are.

Is it fair to say that some women dress up to increase their attractiveness?
A Real Life Story about factoring polynomials
Debit cards (which from the way you're talking about a bank it sounds like this was) are like that. It's why your best practice is to always use a credit card when buying things (it's not like it costs you anything, as long as you have the discipline to not run up a bill you can't pay).

(disclaimer: I'm not from the US)
Scala NLP
The big goal for most guys is to have meaningful relationships. The local goal(steps to get to the big goal) changes week to week or month to month etc.

For example, when I started my local goal was only to be able to not be shy and to be able to hold a conversation with a lady I am interested in. Today, my goal is to be the best boyfriend to my girlfriend. If/when we break up, this goal will likely change.

So even if your goal is to find the SO ultimately, there are steps to getting there. That said, I know it isn't for me but I don't see much wrong if your only intention is to have one night stands. It's not like you are dragging out a girl forcefully to do so; more often you are end up with a girl with also a similar goal to yours(vast majority of girls aren't hanging out in a bar looking for their SO...in fact they will find that idea creepy).
Those are the referrers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
The data doesn't support this. RescueTime did a study on the time that their YCombinator class spent "actually working" (their software tracks which window on your computer screen has focus, and how much time you spend interacting with it):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209195

Barely anybody hit 10 hour days of solid productivity; typically, people can manage about 7ish hours of actual work, only 3-4 of which is coding or other heavily intellectually demanding tasks. This squares with several worker-productivity studies done around WW2 (when major corporations were deciding whether to move to the 8-hour workday; the standard at the turn of the century was 14 hours), which found that productivity decreases after 8 hours, and the time spent dealing with mistakes eats up any marginal increase in output. Having worked in one startup where much of the eng team seemed to work 12-14 hour days, I can anecdotally confirm that.

It's not that they're dicking around, it's more that they are probably staring at their computer screen cursing or berating themselves. Or feeling despondent and miserable about their chance of ever shipping product. Or writing code, but writing the wrong code which will just have to be ripped out once they think about the product again.
Trading can be great because there is no BS of politics and you can measure what you've contributed every single day. You're out playing games for money, sometimes you're grinding, sometimes going on a raid...

To me the best side of finance is when you can go out and see something real and know you made it happen. When I worked for a major energy company as a side of the desk project I designed a very long term refinery margin lockin trade to enable a 100,000 barrel plus expansion of a refinery. It wasn't just going to the markets and doing some buy sell orders, but rather we went to a major Opec member and got them to sell us crude oil via a formula and then went to multiple fuel end users and got the to agree to buy fuel on a formula of crude oil + X. The difference between what we'd buy and sell less operating expenses was far greater than the cost to expand the refinery and we only had to lock up 10 years of the expected min 30 year lifespan of the equipment to do it.

All that being said, WAY too many people are going into whiteshirt wall street finance that should be out in the world making stuff happen. There is another world of steel toed boots on the ground working with engineers to figure out how to build stuff.
Here is an idea.

- Create a blogging API.
- The API should give people al of the basic functionality a blog has (post, comments, social, users, etc.).
- CReate a front end that will allow developers and designers to use the API in the blog template to fill it in with content. Example:

<title>{% site.com/api/get/blog.title %}</title>

<div id="blog-post">
{% site.com/api/get/blog.post/uniqueId %}
</div>

And so on.

What is hard to deal with blogging is not the platforms there are, but a lack of standarization. Providing a simple API that people can use to create blog around it could prove to be beneficial and profitable.
You aren't supposed to take advantage of their damage to have sex with them.
I actually agree with this. The problem with banks isn't the level of compensation, it's the lack of regulation and excessive risk taking. But the compensation model is great. At Goldman, etc, 50% of revenues go to compensation. The people getting paid are the ones who do the labor, not a bunch of passive shareholders.
I had an idea where you could carry a sort of virtual business card around with you. Meet somebody? Tap your phone to theirs and they get a business card. When they get home they tap it to a computer and they get a big resume with links to your github or art repos or online examples of your work. It'd be really cool for networking events or job fairs and the like.
From the references, "NASA Albatross Dynamic Soaring Open Ocean Persistent Platform UAV Concept":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4zEaYl01Uw

"This concept investigate[s] the feasibility of a dynamic soaring (DS) UAV that will have an endurance on the order of months. "
Thanks Josh, we're not designers but we're seeking out help. We've already redesigned the landing page, and we'll be putting lots of careful thought and testing into the rest of the site.
There is also the hybrid approach. Every one of my machines has both a SSD and one or more HDD. Collections of files are separated by random access latency requirements.

Technically even if you only go the SSD route, you are also using an HDD - it is just that the HDD is at Google/Valve/Apple.
Getting the address wrong, not providing the real number, and expecting worldwide email connectivity for support was all poorly thought out. But worst is that AirBnB offered an "instant booking" without having any idea whether or not the host was currently willing and able to honor it. Rule #1: Spammers lie.
Updated IEEE Statement on Security Incident
A lot of you misinterpreted what I said. I'm not necessarily talking about being outdoors.

For example — this summer, I was travelling between Skopje and Belgrade. After hitch hiking the whole day to Skopje, my phone was dead. I only had 30 minutes in the train station to charge my phone, and electricity was not available on the train.

By the time I got to Belgrade in the morning, my phone was dead again, and charging it would have meant hunting down a cafe with outlets and wasting two hours waiting for it to charge.

At that point, it was easier to just ask people where stuff was than screw around with my phone to get maps working.

"Passive location" apps like this just add to that stress, because it's just draining your battery faster for marginal benefit. "Be a painkiller, not a vitamin" and all that.

I think there's a huge opportunity in web-connected paper maps for relieving travel stress. I know that's what I needed this summer.
I made this map of Brooklyn cafes conducive to work 2 years ago, can't attest to them all though: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=214143523254713204966.0...
I got 438 days on my iPad 3 running Safari. Interesting bit is that I've bought this one about six weeks ago.
I don't have firsthand experience with this but it's similar to what you're looking for: http://www.micropreneur.com/
I'm confused about this. I've been running the sept 11 Nightly and it has retina support. Did they take it out, and this is just about re-adding it?

Prior to that I used the "retinizer" app and the about:config hack to disable acceleration, but performance was really bad. Since running nightly, it has been fully retina enabled and smooth.
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C'mon, you really don't think TC is well on its way to being Valleywag II? With articles like the recent, "Color CEO Bill Nguyen Checks Out Of Day-To-Day Operations..."?
What's so wrong with helmets?
Latent Semantic Analysis Tutorial
Sounds interesting, but did not get a clear idea. It would great to have a beta access or any other way to connect. Do let me know