skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was working on a very similar idea, only got as far as a prototype before getting pulled onto something else...so kudos if you are able to run with it.

In alignment with your benefits, I just feel that in this day and age, as a buyer I shouldn't have to spend countless hours looking for the best deal. Especially if I know exactly what I want, people with it should be able to give it to me and compete for my business.

I envisioned showing only information about the requested item, and then charging sellers for access to contact the person...this helps to weed out people that aren't serious about selling/don't have the item in question.

Obviously you could use this for any tangible item, but I saw a big benefit when buying a car. As the process stands today, you submit via the manufacturer's website that you are interested in model X, then you get hit with a ton of emails from dealers in your area, typically offering you everything but the exact make/model/color you want. Cut through the noise and management of those emails and get what you want.

Feel free to hit me up if I can help in any way: shawn.arnwine at gmail.com

Good luck.
You mean this? http://blog.timodonnell.com/css3-google-buttons/components.h...
Not any more, they've gotten rid of that ( since M23, IIRC)
The second is a valid US ip address, owned by HP 16.55.186.242, the first is in the E-Block.
It's a sad thing - but it seems that you're right :-(

Even a textbook extract from Krugman saying the very same thing (!!) can't help if the leftist had already decided which facts he will deign considering.
This was a mistake on our part. We're reaching out and rectifying things now. Sorry guys.
Of course, though it does mean you should examine it further to check.
Serves them right. SCEA earned their place on my "do not ever buy" list after the Geohot fiasco - everyone knew their system was insecure and it was just a matter of time before someone else picked up where he left off.

You lose. Good day sir.
Yep- I've got a friend who runs a PC repair business and they do a fair number of screen replacements. Lots of shops like that in the US, both Apple certified and not. Another reason why the "pentalobe screws etc. make Apple devices impossible to repair" argument is silly.
The last highway sign indicating distance in both miles + kilometers that I know of was on northbound I-95, just north of the I-26 interchange. It was replaced with a new sign a couple of years ago that only shows distance in miles. The legacy of the 1970's fades...
Pretty good writeup. I've used all of these tools in Django production, and he's right that they're all necessary if you want your development to scale in any way.
Every article is an opinion piece unless it contains authoritative quotes that meet journalistic standards. A reminder of that might be polite, but we shouldn't become so credulous that we need it.

Apple has been building in obstacles to casual hacking for decades (the original Mac case required some weird custom tool and a screwdriver). They've never gone on record as to why, but I don't see much room for doubt.
By that logic huge security vulnerabilities in games, software and operating systems also aren't a big deal as people don't know about them or don't care about them.
There's tons of book-sized systems available, typically with lower-end AMD or Intel chips. Throw in a DDR2/3 SODIMM and a SATA drive and you're good to go. These start around $100.

Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856205...
A realization I had when I first started working was just how cheap video games are compared to virtually any other form of entertainment.

Movie ticket = $10 / 2 hours = $5/hour

Amusement park = $30 / 5 hours = $6/hour

Dining out = $20 / 2 hours = $10/hour

Video game = $50 / 20 hours = $2.5/hour

I don't own any of the latest generation video game consoles, but if I did, I'd certainly be buying a bunch of them via download for their sheer economy in giving me entertainment value.
You're right. I meant to say 'arbitration'
Why isn't Techcrunch or Gizmodo streaming this on their websites like they did for Apple's event?
It is a market (if not technological) failure so far.
Re: Article Title
Suggestion: "Why YC Made Sense for Our Business and How We Got In" or "How I Was Almost Eaten by a Shark (or something equally absurd), but Got into YC Combinator Anyway"

Humor may really help the article to gain acceptance and readership.
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Jeez, what new games do you know that sell for $20?
Safe assets are the most desirable, and in many cases the only permissible, collateral. Given increased collateral demand for financial institutions for reserves, margin, and collateralised borrowing and the potentially shrinking pool of non-Treasury "safe assets" not already on central banks' balance sheets the "price" (yield) of (on) safe assets would be expected to degrade swiftly without regard to concerns about the "safe" asset's quality.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp1295.pdf (Money and Collateral)

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12246.pdf (Dynamics of Global Liquidity)
Enterprise Piet
You say array, I say heterogenous vector, let's call the whole thing off!
..until you have to move internationally.

http://owened.co.nz/how-microsoft-might-sink-its-own-ecosyst...
Let me flip this backwards: Why wouldn't polls get a lot of attention? People want to know who will win the election in advance, just like they like spoilers. Polls are a fact-based way to report on it.

I think other countries don't focus on polls much simply because in a parliamentary system, it's very hard to poll. It would be like trying to poll the US House races, which no one really does.
I find this conversation, and the previous one, instructive.

The discussion illustrates the challenge that Linux has accommodating third parties. Two entire classes of software are categorically unable to embrace the 'rules' of open software, the graphics folks and the wireless folks (and to some extent the Printer folks). This has meant that these areas generally had a much poorer to non-existent user experience for Linux users than users of systems with support for IP protection built into them.

I think the 'shim' model is certainly one way to compromise here. I think the Raspberry Pi folks have done a great service to developers by helping this get done.
APWG Web Vulnerabilities Report (presentation at eCrime 2012)
Baboon Project: detect merge conflicts in realtime
On a horribly tangential side-note, if given the chance, have a stay at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where they actually hammered all this stuff out. It is of another era, and you can feel the weight of that event in the air there still.
I don't think anyone is arguing that they use the screws to make 3rd party repair impossible.

Rather people suggest they use the screws to raise the barrier to entry.

Whether or not it effectively does this is another issue.
The original repository you have to fork (github/game-off-2012) is public.
You can't make forks of public repositories private, so you're right.
Tony Hsieh's Next Big Thing: Bluetooth Enabled Burritos
Never thought about it like that but it's true. At $60 a pop (£40 where I live), it's still a lot of money up front.
First black widow pulsar found from gamma ray observations
That is a good question. The Surface presentation was solid. Except for their pull quotes at the end..."The best screen ever..." ha
done! just need city & country now.
> "On another topic, has anyone else noticed Marissa's hands in that photo?"

WHAT THE. Here is a zoomed in screenshot: http://bluetide.pro/j6ch - What the heck is going on there? Bad Photoshop?
Isaac Schlueter, Maintainer of Node.js, Answering Questions on Crowdhall
The real bug here is to have unilateral action. It assumes you guys are infallible, which no human is.
Saw a great talk at the NYC Python Meetup last night by one of the creators of Numba.

In short-- it looks awesome, and according to the talk, should be faster than NumPy
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Amazon AWS Outage Cheat Sheet [sad + funny]
Well, this is the first I've heard of the meetup and now I'm interested. The cancellation might be a blessing in disguise in that regard...
Different styling, but same overall UI. No modifications I'm aware of for touch use or "Metro" restyling has been done so far (and I doubt they're concerned until x86 tablets ship in significant number or if/when Microsoft gives way on alt browsers for WinRT)
Highly successful Playstation titles tend to roll over into being re-released as "greatest hits" editions for about $20 in a year or so. The list is fairly extensive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_%28budget_range%...
Compared to other drivers, they still are. (Considering "sourcing" other drivers involves walking 10 feet to my kitchen, or pretty much any other toolbox in the world). They are easy to get, but you have to actually get them; it is unlikely anyone already has one lying around.
LPs to the venture community: keep shrinking
I love the idea of starting with the press release, trying it out right now, thanks!
Actually it seems like a very reasonable price. The community (and the name) is a valuable asset. People who join Meetup discover new meetups -- it's a community with network effects. It's not that easy to reach that kind of scale. $12/month is perfectly reasonable, not because of the software, but because of the value baked into it.
Not to mention their own citizens.
Tokyo Jungle is only $15 if you have a US account. I was ready to buy it at BookOff for 4500円 or something until I heard about the US download release...

Edit: also, Jet Set Radio HD! ~$12 IIRC.
I'm replying to a comment about the framework needing more "polish." It isn't like he's releasing a version to the general public that crashes your browser.

If you look at the feedback, it's mostly stuff like fonts, spacing, etc. I think it's quite acceptable for a developer to get user feedback about the interface on v0.5 of free software.
But in countries like this where every Console game needs to be imported, buying one is completly impossible (Even triplicating it's value), so for example if you go to a store, they won't even have original games: but pirate DVDs.
What's up with this infatuation with Marissa Mayer? I don't remember reading about "Mark Zuckerberg acquiring Instagram" or "Steve Ballmer buying Yammer". Sheesh.

EDIT: Wow that was quick, three downvotes in less than five minutes. Must have missed the memo that she's the new Steve Jobs, or something.
While I'm not a great fan of Apple's regard of their users fixing their own devices, I can offer, what I believe to be, a plausible other explanation.

"Why use this design, and why use it only on the outside?"

It is plausible that it reduces the cost of final assembly on the device.

1: By using rounded "lobes", rather than sharp-profiled edges, they can use a driver with a soft plastic lobes that have no sharp surfaces on them. The lobes are large enough that the connecting material to the main shaft of the tool will provide a desired level of strength. In fact, I would bet that the lobe connecting material thickness was specifically designed to exceed the required torque rating of the screw.* A square receptacle would not be sufficient, as the 90' edges of the tool would quickly wear down, the tool has to present all round surfaces for this to work.

2: By using a driver with no sharp surfaces, and made of a material softer than the enclosure of the device, they reduce the number of scratches made in the surface of the enclosure by workers who will, and I promise you this, miss the screw quite regularly if they don't get it properly torqued before removing the tool.

As the device enclosures are often one-piece, milled and surfaced aluminum, the custom tool and screws would likely have less overall cost than a common miss-rate or miss-error level with a metal tool.

I would also posit why so many are having difficulty manufacturing the tool, is because they're trying to make them out of metal.

If the above happens to be true, I would think the choice of screw design is an act of manufacturing efficiency genius.

* - Having had the misfortune of using plastic versions of all of torx, flat, and phillips head screw-drivers, yes, I can say they don't last long.
Torx, however, is a standard head that you can buy anywhere.
My enterprise document approval workflow management software has never looked so beautiful. Thank you Enterprise Piet!
I have advocated in the past for Sony and MS that they are behaving as mostly rational actors defending their business interests. People using cheats and hacks in multi-player games is another strong case for keeping consoles locked down. More and more I'm questioning the methods they use to do so though. The constant firmware/system software updates that they roll out are incredibly obtrusive. Prior to this generation of consoles one of the things that really made console gaming superior to PC gaming was the ease of use. Buy game. Stick game into console. Play game.

Now you buy the game, download it (and wait) or stick it in, install whatever stupid update is required for the game (and wait), restart your stupid console (and wait), install the game (and wait, or don't install it and suffer awful load times), and then after all that maybe you get to play the thing. Meanwhile, PC gaming is way ahead of the curve in this new paradigm in almost every respect. Yes, you often have to download the game, but you can also start installing and playing before it's finished downloading (Diablo 2 let you do this, I'm not sure how common that is), and you don't have to restart your computer due to some stupid firmware update (that is really just there to prevent piracy).
Disclaimer - this is purely built on the top of work of others, just aggregated it in one place (this is my first attempt on a Sublime Text package as well, so be gentle please)
Why does it need to be a disposable missile? Can't they fit a drone with this?

Of course I'm assuming it is disposable.
Navigating the Holey Plane
Practically all the coverage of the Instagram acquisition was centered around Zuckerberg personally. As a new CEO, her first actions bear close scrutiny, the same way Mark's did when his company was about to go public. It's not some special infatuation with Mayer specifically.

The headlines from back then:

* The Instagram Deal: A Mark Zuckerberg Production [NYTimes.com]

* Zuckerberg did $1 billion Instagram deal on his own [CNET]

* With Instagram Buy, Mark Zuckerberg Shifts Facebook Into Acquisition Mode [Forbes]

* Mark Zuckerberg Announces Instagram Acquisition By Facebook [Huffington Post]

* Instagram Was Mark Zuckerberg's Last Hurrah as Facebook's Hacker King [The Atlantic]
Hey, "post-mortem" means "after death" in Latin. Maybe we should start introducing some variety, for example the much more accurate "post-facto"?

It's kinda weird clicking on an article about the "post-mortem" analysis of a startup launch to find out it's doing good after all :)
Wasn't it either the Apple II or early Macintoshes that had proprietary screws as well. I think it was Woz in an interview that said he disliked how they wanted to prevent DIYers from messing with the internals.
Why does the YC app form ask you to not password protect the demo site?
I think it also makes the link that much more attractive to readers:

"How we Did A Very Good Job on the Y Combinator Application Process and Got in"

versus

"How we Hacked the Y Combinator Application Process and Got in"
Indeed. In undergrad I spent a significant chunk of my spare time for about a year working on that problem.
Wristwatch too tight?
Depending on your needs there's GroupSpaces, Eventbrite, Google Groups, etc.
What about Oracle database connectivity? Does this implementation come with drivers?
Load balancer for Galera MySql clusters
Hi, I just released a load balancer for MySql clusters using Galera replication, including percona XtraDB cluster
Did you not read the part about padding his friend list with strangers at the end there?
You're right, I think I chose the wrong words when I used "pitch" and "abstract" when I really wanted to see was how to make a series of ideas more concise.

I hope you don't mind but I'll be stealing your art critic analogy :)
Yeah we are, as it was the least-convoluted method for handling the multiplexing (but wanting to maintain the same handler for all of them). Burned entirely too much time assuming that documented ways to handle things were actually rock solid, not rarely used. The first bug where 3 connections could deadlock everything was unrelated to threading. It was related to how it created identifiers for each connection and would create identical identifiers for two different connections so it would think there was data pending for a socket, but the data had already been read, so it tried to do a blocking read when there wasn't data to read. I never fully tracked down the second bug, but it was more likely related to using threading.

One thing we did have was a large majority of the connections were coming from the same IP (but different source port) and a peak connection rate of ~200 connections per second per server and would last a few seconds (so at any given moment, roughly 1000 connections being established or with data in flight). I'd be really interested in hearing what your traffic patterns are roughly like (and hand-wavy what you have event machine doing, like proxying requests, building/returning its own responses, etc.) if you're willing to share at all.
Acquihiring startups is probably easier than convincing good developers to join Yahoo.
I have been using Pandas and R for sometime now. I found Pandas is a little rough and fragile around the edges (for example, it was really hard to figure out how to get the median of a distribution in a dataframe as compared to R - fairly basic stuff really). Things do not quite work they way you want them. As for R inspite of the arcane syntax, the quality and number of packages, the help and the IDE (rstudio) is really good.
It's not necessarily suspicious that his local media does not care enough to investigate claims of police misconduct and interview the man's family.

http://nothingiseverlost.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/one-less-p...
>nobody so far has been able to imagine.

Perhaps they wanted mechanical benefits similar to, not precisely the same as those of some existing, patented fastener and to have total control of both the screws and bits end to end (no chance of someone causing damage by using a wrong size bit)?

By rolling their own fasteners the knock all of those potential questions at the same time.

I object to the parent use of "likely", but some reasoning beyond simply "keeping owners out" is possible and even logical, in my opinion.
Well, it's certainly very annoying, but think of several circumstances:

* Hacked account. I actually, upon reflection, did not mind that Google shut everything down of mine when they labeled a blog as spam. What if it were spam written by someone who had hacked into my account? The key thing here is to make it very easy to prove you're you and get back in. And apologize profusely, and explain what it happened. I got everything back but the blog as soon as I confirmed an SMS'ed code. They did take more than a week to get the blog back on line, which was annoying, even if it was nothing important.

* Actual spammers would love to be able to test the boundaries and get quick feedback about what's going to work and what's not going to fly. They'll use any feedback you give them to improve their spamming techniques.

So... it's not easy. I think what pisses me off the most is that there's no appeal, no way to say "woah, I didn't do anything!"
Check his profile.
How to stream the World Series live if you're in the US
For #1, I know many YC founders who have gotten in just using half or day or so for the application (usually defying the deadline). We used only one Sunday afternoon for ours on the second run when we got in and I don't see the point of wasting time except getting few rounds of feedback and spellcheck.

Interestingly enough also many alumnus I know thought they failed the interview once walking out of the room. I sure did.

Edit: With the second comment I was referring to section "Once we got the Interview, we knew we were in"
I also like the idea of exploiting the multiple levels of people's tastes as the selling point of this so I will be basing my explanation on it. Thanks for the feedback.
Funnily enough, someone suggested something similar at work a few days ago and I had to shoot him off the air. He wanted to use URLs encoded in a QR to trigger an action (say, "use coupon"). No authentication, nothing. The idea has some merit, as we wanted this feature to work on any kind of phone and we only have Android and iOS clients, but the whole idea of having a GET request trigger a change on the server made my skin crawl.
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Yes, it seems strange that github would be giving away prizes that are so... closed.
I would say without facebook your life becomes much more productive regardless of security issues. I rather prefer to be in touch with certain few people through other media rather than having a bunch of schoolmates which only stalk my profile. There would be no difference in having them because after all I would not have any contact with them even on facebook.
Ask HN: API for RabbitMQ?
It doesn't seem like there's anything out there, it's widely used in a lot of places though.
Eve Online reported $6,000 ship loss was a coding error or incorrect input
It might be a long night, so bring your magic the gathering cards.
The screwed up fingers are probably bad photoshopping/artifacts around the rings she wears on her left hand.
Google Field Trip deconstructed
Label breaks in java. WTF?
Strategies behind raising $29,000 for charity: water in 9 weeks.
Agree with 'hard to get rid off'. But then again - given the vast amount of storage (incl. Apple's Cloud) - is it really a priority to provide app with a shelf-life for auto-deletion? Or a 'nice to have' feature, to keep screens free from clutter?
Saw this yesterday, and was truly moved. There's just so much hope in her voice; in her life. I can only endeavor to experience that kind of unconditional love and support in mine.
Thanks for the feedback. I will be adding a section about two-dimensional query optimization in PL/SQL. I have to finish my work on animation using the Broadway Boogie Woogie framework first.
It's about the people.

1) people have no ambition. If you gave me google today, I'd be pondering how to turn that into a hundred googles, not relaxing on my private island beach. And I would only make those hundred googles in order to afford much more expensive stuff, such as an orbital elevator and much much more.
And I would spend a few billions right ahead on education and fusion, since both of those have major ROI anyway.

2) nobody cares about education. with dumber people it's hard to achieve bigger results.
And yes, since the loss of the soviet moscow university and the decline of european education, there are no more good schools in the world (the US never counted since it merely drained and never trained, Apollo is just one of the examples) and the only bit of hope comes from self-teaching.

But don't worry, I think the chinese have plans for education, and space, and quite soon I expect Athem to buy fusion for themselves since all the other countries don't care.
A lot of people who apply don't understand their domain, but I've never looked at whether this is more or less true for applications that mention a specific RFS.
If you'd like to make it about me [...]

That wasn't my intention, but your post was about you and how you use FB. Just as my response was about me and how I (don't) use FB.

I'm curious to know, though, how anyone can know if they are an average FB user. I know a few people who use FB and they all seem to use it differently. I wonder if each of them think they're an average FB user too.
I sure will email you.