skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is usually caused by having a lot of devices polling your G-mail account. Go to this link: https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens

and remove any that are old/you aren't using. You'll see a speed up.
I only use Google to find news I've heard about from in-person conversations.

I know quite a few people that visit the Verge and similar sites on a daily basis, and they have no intention of reading all their content.

I think it's better to think of those high volume sites as newspapers rather than blogs. Most people do not have the time to read an entire newspaper, but that doesn't make it any less valuable.
> It doesn't matter that not all the properties fall in line with Fox News' agenda

It matters in the sense that a media conglomerate can't consistently act in concert to effect cultural change, which was the original question. But I think you're being insufficiently cynical if you don't think the news properties are there to put money in the pot, too.

Before Fox News was launched, the overwhelming sentiment among conservative Americans (who, let's not forget, make up about half the country) was that other news sources had a liberal bias. It was an obvious opportunity to exploit.
I don't understand how this is different than the cleaning services that already exist in every major city. I use http://www.accessmaids.com here in Chicago. I can schedule online, pay with a CC, tell my doorman to let them in, and they send 2 people over for 1.5 hours for only $81 + tip.

Please tell me a service like this is novel in SF...
This combined with a static html site, maybe hosted on S3, could make for a very interesting project.
Georgia officials turn table on Russia hacker, photographing him
ILM is still LucasFilm. Disney bought the entire holding. Corrected on THX, thank you. :)
> Because search engines fell asleep at the wheel and now content farms are a sizable chunk of the economy?

Fell asleep at the wheel? The major search engines run their own ad networks. They're content farms' key customers, and content farms are a core element in their business strategy.
Ask HN/PG: What's with the influx of "Here's how I got into YC"?
We use HelloSign at your company for easy contract signing - best of all it's free.

The ONE thing that I feel is missing is letting people use a purchased certificate from a trusted provider. We need that little extra "formality" before we use this for actual legal documents.
Just mounted a TV on the wall at the office for a dashboard yesterday. Perfect timing!
Loved football, can't wait to play basketball!
I went online to escape the mindless reporting and tabloid news that had taken over television. But it looks like they chased me into the internet.
They won't. They can't.

It's important to remember that Apple is a hardware company with a software habit. Google is a software company.

While I understand why Apple hates Google so much, I think breaking with Google is a mistake. Nobody can beat Google at software; Apple hardware + Google software is a wonderful combination, and if the two companies worked together we'd really see the apex of user experience.
If I'm just looking for any news in whatever topic, then I'll use the sources you mentioned. However, if I'm looking for more information on a specific subject (e.g. features of Android 4.2), then I'll absolutely Google it.
CSS3 columns in Internet Explorer and other unsupported browsers
Yes, Developers and Investors Are Really Different
That is so cool. Thank you for sharing.
Ansible is definitely model based (and idempotent, like Puppet or Chef), unlike Fabric.

The resource model was reasonably inspired by Puppets, even if other aspects were not.

I look at Fabric as a deployment tool, fine if you like it, but configuration management requires more things on top.
When were you in the AAA world, Jonathan?
F'ckin love this idea!

So it learns your strengths/weaknesses then when you're playing uses this information to evaluate each possible shot based on the predicted final position of the ball and how useful this would be to the opponent and your chances of success...

One possible difficulty would be the learning phase - it would have to be able to know your intentions when you take a shot, which would be difficult to guess automatically. I believe it might be billiards where players have to say which ball they're going for - you might have to build that in...
I was thinking of replaying Grim Fandango and was sad that I couldn't find it on Steam or GOG.

Does the original version work well with Modern Windows flavors?
Hindsight is 20/20. Motorola invested millions in Iridium, thinking that the new cell phones were just a passing fad, but Nokia managed to flood the mobile market faster than Motorola could put up satellites. It's a case example of project execution failure.

That said, Sex.ly probably won't take off :)
'TextSecure' is an open source app for sending encrypted SMS/MMS
Shouldn't your tab controller have icons? Congrats on the application, I'm really interested in trying out RubyMotion!
Agree. That's why we're calling it a "bubble": the sheer disproportion between revenue, employee number and brand value, and price tag. I'm merely putting things in perspective, not writing a "market analysis". :)
Interesting that Apple - the device company - opted to do the recognition on the server and Google - the cloud company - chose to do it on the device.
Writing startup anecdotes for HN has always been a tiresome form of marketing various startups choose to do, but I believe the increased rate at the moment is because YC applications are closing soon.
You can keep DNSSEC and prevent amplification attacks by either limiting the requests to authorized clients or requiring DNSSEC records use only TCP connections. But you don't accept this solution because you hate DNSSEC and you prefer to kill the feature and save the headache.

I get that. Hell, you're probably right that the cost of supporting DNSSEC isn't worth its benefits in the long run. It's still a crappy argument and a crappy way to deal with a long-standing security problem.

If you want to prevent all future UDP DNS amplification attacks you must require all UDP DNS packets be no more than a specific number of bytes (for example, 512, the pre-EDNS0 size). This would fix the root problem forever. All feature extensions can simply require the use of TCP.

I get that there's a large cost involved with every solution except for forcing everyone to abandon DNSSEC. I don't think forcing everyone to abandon DNSSEC is a realistic goal at this point. Instead, I recommend fixing the root problem for all future cases. Everyone can continue to not use DNSSEC, and DNS will never be able to be used in an amplification attack past what was already possible before DNSSEC.
That which is shallow but useful can have its legitimate place in life, though it lacks character: a daily commute on the freeway might suck, and might not match the joy and invigoration of a brisk walk on a beautiful day, but it has its place if you need to get to work miles away and if your area lacks public transportation to get you there efficiently; living in the suburbs might suck compared to the excitement of an upscale urban environment but millions of people manage just fine with the tradeoffs that suburban living entails and get by just fine without the excitement; so too social networking sucks when compared to any one of countless ways of interacting that are intimate, personal, intellectually stimulating, or whatever, and for which the strictures of the social network have no room, but all sorts of people nonetheless get by very well interacting at the social networking level for the utilitarian goals for which they use such services, not caring one whit about intimacy or other elements that make the experience a fundamentally shallow one.

Social may be shallow but it has its place and, as long as we have freedom, you can use it or not according to taste. One can find fault with it but that does not mean it has a "horrible future." Criticism of this sort is thus misplaced, in my view, in spite of the limitations of the venue.
Writing Solid Code
For everyone quoting super low numbers:

I live in a dorm at Stanford University. I have contacted about a dozen different services looking for someone to clean my 300 square foot studio. The _cheapest_ thing I have found is $65, with the range being about $65 -> 120

Is it because I don't live in a city? I am seriously confused.
I've read your diatribe here and am underwhelmed. However, I was underwhelmed when investigating bootstrap too.

Separation of content and presentation sounds good, but a concrete example would be much more convincing. (I do understand the general idea, so pls don't explain it.) I think what I am hearing is that css styles should be applied to tags rather than classes, but am not sure.

I suppose your time would be better spent building a prototype of what you mean instead of wasting it here. One link is worth a thousand words. Do it right, put it on github, give it five years, and people will be laughing at bootstrap sites, while you are racking up consulting fees.
Regardless of whether we are in a bubble or not, it's embarrassing to see how easily someone can get a blatantly fallacious comparison on the front page of Hacker News just because of its emotional resonance with some users.
I think Intel's major worry with ARM is that simply speaking, ARM don't need their licencees to be particularly profitable at making chips for them to carry on designing chips, they just need them to buy new licences.

For Intel, having a competitor designing CPUs who can't be undercut directly is a real issue - Intel are not going to be letting Samsung produce Xeon chips under licence in the next 5 years, though I do wonder about Atom ones..
* We'd be happy to be proven wrong, but we believe $4.95 converts better than $5.

* We'd be happy to charge more. We have nothing to go on yet but intuition, and we think $5 is the right amount.

* This is intriguing, but I think we need to find the right value to provide in order to offer something like that.

* This is actually what we do.
$1.1 billion in profit. But it was certainly an exception to the average film.
Here's 3 examples in the last 24 hours:

Zappier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4718595
MakeGamesWith.us: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4715627
PayDragon: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714859
The moment Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier
So I mostly agree with this comment (note the thing I said at the top of this thread: not the best argument against DNSSEC). The only thing I disagree with is that "forcing everyone to abandon DNSSEC" is unrealistic. Actually, DNSSEC hasn't been adopted yet. It has seen virtually no uptake in the ~decade since its current incarnation was put forward, and it has not seen a sharp uptake in interest after the "sign the TLDs" hurdle was crossed either. The reality is that lots of security standards put forth by the IETF don't go on to take over the Internet; for instance, your Google Mail connection is protected by SSL/TLS, not IPSEC.
Ask HN: if you advertise on TechCrunch do you get editorial coverage?
Do you need to buy advertising on TechCrunch to get editorial coverage or is it enough just to be an interesting startup?
Well, all the theories of quantum mechanics that rely on waveform collapse all predict that waveform collapse happens, while those that don't don't. Observing that larger and larger objects still have tinier and tinier but still existent quantum effects is evidence against collapse. And if you can demonstrate quantum effects in people, then you've pretty much ruled out the Copenhagen and von Neumann interpretations. Those experiments are inconceivably difficult with our current level of technology, though.
BDD: How to write a great story
What's the benefit for startups to use this versus a $30 off the shelf router? It seems more for enterprises.

Also the title makes it sound like there's a giveaway with 15k worth of routers or something but it's actually 15k per participating startup.
Liveblog Data: Apple vs. Microsoft
Interesting to see number 7 and 9 on the list. Both are reasons why Genghis Khan and his Mongol Warriors were so successful in conquest (and why both reasons are included in the self-hypnosis script): http://summonthewarrior.com/mongol-warrior/
That is very interesting. I didn't know about this sort of law (and yes I'm in another EU member state, so this is relevant to me). Thanks!
Microsoft left it so late for developers to get on the platform. The consumer announcement was yesterday, the developer summit was in June! Yet there's been no SDK until today. Even Apple releases a number of beta's for developers. The first Windows Phone 8 devices will be released in a matter of days.

All of the people that bought Windows Phone 7 devices (even if it was last month) won't be able to run any of the apps complied for Windows Phone 8 because it's core is based on Windows 8.

How do you expect your dedicated user-base that for years has been complaining about slow hardware and a lack of apps while the iPhone, GS3, etc has been blowing up to react? All of the current Windows Phone users are not going to buy a new phone to make their current phone, that they purchased six months ago work. They're going to pickup and iPhone 5 or a Galaxy Note. They have a core base of users that are passionate about Windows Phone, many of those I know are leaving.

Having spoke to startups that have apps on Windows Phone, most of them have been paid by Microsoft to hire a developer to build it and aren't going to be updating it. Unless Windows Phone got a huge lift in traction but the chicken and egg problem is stopping them and all of these old apps have to be rebuilt for Windows Phone 8.
I'm pretty sure the sex-cred and other stuff already exists as well. There are active user-driven communities for swingers and kinky people much as there are for every other specialist hobby/lifestyle.
Second that. This is a horrible comparison. Not only can Facebook turn users into gold, Instagram was the first real threat to build a social network that could turn into a threat for Facebook. Both Facebook and Instagram started off by making photos social, extremely successful.
Wow. I get a feeling that I saw it before, but I'm happy I got to watch this again. Now, doesn't solution seem obvious? Shouldn't there be a cap on how much you can earn from ads on your site? Just enough "to take the issue of money off the table" and not a cent more?

Ok, this really is not my area of expertise. I just feel that what we have now is both unfair to writers and disastrous for society :(
Fair enough, if it's just an analogy I agree it gives the right intuition.

To be clear, what really happened under MWI is that the wavefunction "branched" into two around the time you created the two particles, and the two branches spearated from each other in configuration space just as the two marbles in your analogy separated in physical space. When you did the measurement, you merely realized which branch you are in.

Where the analogy fails is that the probabilities in QM are inconsistent with there actually having been some hidden choice of marbles made beforehand.
Ask HN: How do you approach professional development as a freelancer?
Let me clarify. I'd like to know how to 'level up' my career as a freelance developer. In the corporate world there can be a clear career ladder and pay-scale. Naturally, it doesn't work this way for freelancers.

I was wondering if you had any tips on other ways to advance your career as a freelancer and demonstrate your progress too.

N.B. I mean ways other than just accumulating more projects in your portfolio.
Instagram was a very real competitor to Facebook. They also have practically zero expenses. It took only 1% of Facebook's market cap (at the time) to acquire them.

Lucasfilm is in a very crowded space. They have a ton of expenses which results in loses a good percentage of the time. Their best days were probably behind them (especially since they chose to stop making new Star Wars movies).

Basically, this is comparing two completely different businesses in completely different markets. I think both were good deals for the acquirers.

I'll leave with this: I think selling Band Aids is a better business than Yahoo - but you're crazy if you think Yahoo doesn't have an insane higher multiple of potential.
interesting project - is it yours (judging by your username)? and if so, how's it any different from facebook? do you put more intimate information on it and befriend less people?
They are carrying half-full 50-gallon barrels of diesel (source: http://forums.peer1.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7532&si...).

Still, carrying 200 lb barrels up 17 flights of seawater/diesel-slicked stairs sounds ...unpleasant.
Why We Bookmark
Yeah I was actually comparing IE3 with Netscape 3, which was the point at which Microsoft decided to integrate it with windows explorer and was the point at which Netscape's fate was sealed.
" Debian, for instance, seem to have something of a lowest-common-denominator approach that targets features present everywhere."

Debian actually has three ARM ports in progress.

ArmEabiPort - newer port using the "new" ABI (EABI), supported on ARM v4t and higher. First released with 5.0 (Lenny). GNU Triplet: arm-linux-gnueabi

ArmHardFloatPort - the latest 32-bit port, using the hard-float version of the "new" ABI (EABI), targetting ARM v7 and up. To be released with 7.0 (Wheezy). GNU Triplet: arm-linux-gnueabihf

Arm64Port - the latest port, for the 64-bit ARMv8 architecture. Likely to be released with 8.0 (Jessie). GNU Triplet: aarch64-linux-gnu

http://wiki.debian.org/ArmPorts
Not a big fan for the design here. You might want to spend a few hundred bucks to make the homepage modern. Building collages is an interesting idea, but you need to put in the time, effort and resources to make people want to use it. Try 99designs.com for that

You might also want to change the name. It's not fun to pronounce. Just my two cents!
Read a novelization of the Original Trilogy. It would suck too.

To me, the Thrawn Trilogy is 'our only hope' of lucasarts getting this even close.
But consider the counter-example: Hulu's failed IPO. The idea that these assets are available for sale is an assumption, not a given. The uncertainty of this assumption killed any chance of a Hulu IPO. The TV/film assets are protected by <copyright as monopoly>; and if they can be monetized outside of apple, they will be. That is pretty much in line with the observable data to date.
latimes has 10.146.78.21 GET:ing /server-status?auto... their nagios IP maybe?
1) Isn't this grindr for straight people?

2) Coming from my first point, a much better article about the potential pitfalls of socializing parts of our inner lives (with real live examples) can be seen here:

http://narrative.ly/2012/10/lost-in-space/

It's not as negative, but there still is a hell of a lot to not look forward to.
I get my daily headlines from Google News as a matter of course. I find Reddit unusable for day-to-day news, and only find aggregators such as HN valuable in proportion to their relatively narrow focus. Google News used to be pretty excellent for news dicovery, but it's being SEO'ed into the ground. In recent months I've started seeing letters to the editor presented as news stories.
I think you have made a great choice with Lua! I'd love to see Lua replace PHP at some point in the future as a popular choice for web development.
Are they really going to be making other star wars movies?
What is the name of the 19th century Russian mathematician he mentioned?
You? Me? Yes we could find things. However it would have a massive influence on how the internet works.

It's like Bear Grylls or some other "survivalist" who knows how to pick berries in the woods and make a shelter laughing at the idea that a breakdown in modern argiculture would have an effect on the world.
If you're switching from an iPhone, and can make do with 16GB of space, buy the Nexus 4 once the reviews come in (unless the reviews show something startlingly wrong). The nexus phones are where you get the iPhone equivalent experience of fast, long term updates and no carrier BS. (Except the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, which is why Verizon isn't getting the Nexus 4).

Alternatively, if the 16GB isn't enough, or you must go Verizon your choices are either the HTC One X or Samsung Galaxy S3. Read the reviews see which suits you better.

There are a horde of cheaper phones. And yes its confusing the choice in the mid to low end. But if you're switching from an iPhone, those aren't aimed at the same market. You can get one of them, but unless you're still using a 3GS it will be an inferior experience.
Oh, so I just noticed the "Whitepaper" link, and that has lots more good info in (I wish the blog post was the whitepaper!).

So does Pareon depend on running an instrumented build? If so, wouldn't you need a sample data file (map, demo, whatever) that covers 100% of branches and dependencies in order to know for absolutely sure that there are no dependencies between code.

Could you make a huge SSA of the program and determine dependencies that way (more of a reality now that we have 64bit desktops and GCC has "whopr" and friends)?
Have you tried experimenting with LuaJIT? If yes, what were the results?
Megupload User to Court: Hold Government Accountable
I also struggled at first semester in college (I'm in my 3rd year now) with math (particularly Calculus) and found after my first semester it was due to a gap in my knowledge. I did not have a solid enough understanding of trig or high level algebra to calculate or manipulate equations expected of me so I would bomb all the exams.

If you can't fully understand low level concepts how can you even expect to even grasp the broader view? It's like trying to explain multiplication to someone who has no concept of addition. To understand a topic you must also understand all the sub-topics that make it up, and once you grasp all the moving parts a problem by nature become much more intuitive to you. This also includes math equations, if you are expected to know an equation dont JUST memorize it but instead understand why its necessary, how to derive it, and when you can and can't use it. You'll be able to look at an equation/function/program and pull things out automatically just by looking at it that may have taken some time and work to conclude before. This is very similar to Scott Young's learning ideology that I also recommend reading up on. [1]

Therefore after that semester I took some time and reviewed my algebra and basically re-learned trig from the ground up (it was very weak). Calc and Calc2 came a lot easier to me after this.

In college you must continually fill these gaps in your knowledge as every professor is different and has different expectations in student's knowledge. I've got in the habit of taking topics(whether it be a CS topic, math formula, ect) that I don't fully understand and writing it at the top of a blank sheet of paper. I then just start writing as if I was explaining the topic to my girlfriend. You'll quickly figure out where your gaps are and then know what you need to work on (which may include writing one of those sub-topics on a blank sheet and starting from there).

[1] http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/03/29/studying-and-holi...
> Shouldn't there be a cap on how much you can earn from ads on your site? Just enough "to take the issue of money off the table" and not a cent more?

It could work for bloggers, but they're not the problem. The "news" services / aggregators / whatever are, and it's hard to put a cap on what a company should earn (I'm not even sure if it is a Right Thing to do).

> I just feel that what we have now is both unfair to writers and disastrous for society :(

Couldn't say it better myself.
Isn't that exactly the author's point: acquisition value of trendy tech companies is wildly disparate from societal value, and that disparity is not healthy or sustainable.