skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved everything off Dotster to Gandi this summer. While good business practices were a major factor in my vendor selection process, I also had important technical reasons for choosing Gandi - namely, they supported IPv6 and DNSSEC as well as complete XML-RPC API. Gandi also has done an excellent job translating their user interfaces and documentation into the languages I and my clients use. Other vendors (NameCheap and EasyDNS included, to pick the top two vendors mentioned on Hacker News during the SOPA/PIPA debates) are English-only and only offer modern DNS features in beta (or charge more for the same).
Patrick Collison answers "Does Stripe have product managers?"
99.9999% of scientific discovery is incremental progress. Even general relativity didn't throw out Newton's work - it just added an entire new dimension to it (so to speak).
Props and this is a great thing. But it shouldn't erase all the morally bad things Google is actively doing. It's like a Dictator giving candy to the kids for the cameras while still actively oppressing people behind the scenes. There does happen to be a huge FTC case (that will be probably dropped) and a possible DOJ case against Google right now.
been thinking about the exact same thing. i actually ran a private wiki that worked this way with great success on the content side --- less people had the ability to hack on the code of how the site functioned, but it was available and open to this group.

i'm now looking to do this on a larger and more public scale --- i'd love to chat with you more about what you are trying to do and we could talk about possible best practices - perhaps this is the next evolution of the internet?
What do you propose as a superior alternative?
The realization that many people are not actually smart enough to figure their own interests [...]

People do what is in their own interest by definition. That's the only way you can be sure what their interest is. I think what you're complaining about is people not doing what you believe you would do in their position.
Better Algorithms Beat More Data
I hate how companies wants to decide how one can use their freedom of speech. If I wanted to post nude photos of myself on facebook, well, why shouldn't I be allowed it? Maybe they could force them not to be public, but friends only. Then people could unfriend people, if they were offensive.

Same with Apple not allowing nude pictures on their iBook store.
It's pretty crazy. This is a mildly interesting story about an act of charity by a person who got wealthy in tech, that's it.
Unfortunately, the reality is that any code base that is maintained and developed over an extended period will "decay", even if you don't do anything wrong.

This is a simple consequence of the fact that you usually don't know everything and can't create an idealised long-term plan up-front. Instead, you start with certain goals and try to implement a sensible system that meets those goals. As time goes by, your goals change or you add new ones, and you have to adapt that existing system to match.

Often, during the time since the initial development was planned out, you may have developed newer techniques for solving your problems, or you may have new tools available that weren't before, or you may have worked with some new people who have better ideas about something. In short, you may have a better way to do things than before. Now you have exactly three choices:

1. Stick to your existing design/ideas and don't use the better ways. (Pros: Maintains consistency and doesn't incur (re)training overheads. Cons: May cost more and/or get worse results for the new work, or may simply not be possible if you need a new approach to satisfy your new goals.)

2. Use the better ways, but only for new/future work. (Pro: Best cost and results for that new work taken in isolation. Cons: Might mean an entire new design co-existing with your previous one(s), with potential compatibility problems, integration costs, future maintenance overheads, etc, and might cost more to implement separately than it would have done if you'd known ahead of time and created a more general design to support both the old and new parts earlier.)

3. Switch everything to the better ways, a.k.a. The Big Rewrite. (Pros: Keeps your entire system using the best possible tools/ideas, and keeps the whole code base consistent and systematically designed across the board. Cons: Can be extremely expensive relative to incremental changes, you can easily lose little fixes/improvements that had been carefully worked into the original code base over time, and you may have to retrain some of your team before they can work with the new version.)

This is an exhaustive set of your options if you're going to do that new development but your team and the world have moved on since the original work. Every one of them has at least one serious downside, and unless you do a full rewrite across your entire code base every time you develop any improvement, those downsides always include some degree of inconsistency or stagnation.
You are right, I misread the pricing the first time. The prices are basically the same now
Given the suggestive text, "cat" was clearly a polite euphemism.
It's not that hard, Geocities was doing it back in the 90's!
Ladies and gentlemen, start your conspiracy engines.
if you type something in to the search box, and get search results from the internet it is pretty immediately clear that your search string is being sent to the internet. If you can't make that connection, you also likely don't understand the potential privacy risk in having your search strings sent to the internet.

I've yet to hear any valid argument as to why the amazon search is bad that doesn't revolve around some mythical user who is clueless about how computers work, unable to make logical assumptions, and also incredibly privacy conscious.
Stuff like this should be opt-in. And, if you want it to succeed, it should be good enough that people want to opt-in.

People search on Google -- they opt-in to Google Search -- because the results satisfy them (more than the competition).

If Canonical's partners want people to opt-in to their collaborative offerings, they should make them offer significant value. And Canonical, for its part, if they want to successfully build out this revenue stream, should ensure that they partner with partners who demonstrably do so.

I already use affiliate links when I think that the affiliate has given me something of value [1], in discovery or qualified opinion or some other combination of factors.

I think Canonical provides me and the broader community things of significant value. Offer a monetization scheme that is 1) opt in, and 2) Respects my concerns, e.g. privacy, and I would be consciously, favorably inclined to use it.

--

[1] One example, although Amazon may not particularly like this one:

http://us.camelcamelcamel.com/
Australia Prime Minister Confirms End of The World Prediction
I wonder if this kind of thing would stand up in court? Is it even legal to expulse people with no refund when the guidelines are vague?

Personally I don't go to conferences for the same reasons I don't go to concerts -- too expensive when video is much better -- but I would be pissed if they threw me out for not measuring up to the arbitrary standards of some random enforcer of political correctness or for (horror) talking to girls in an elevator.
It's pointless to talk about the median outcome, because it will almost certainly be zero. It would be very surprising if we had a success rate over 50%. In fact it would probably be bad; it would probably be a sign we were too conservative.

Your estimate of the total value of YC companies is currently off by about 10x.

Your belief that startups are a mediocre way to make money reflects a misunderstanding of probability. In fact they are a very good way to make money for some people, and a terrible way to make money for most people.
Are the kids required to present proof of Google+ activity first?
Well... my point wasn't that you can't use your phone, just that it's silly to be a slave to it. I don't care if people want to use Instagram and I didn't see the Chiefs video.

I guess I don't really see it as "hipster technologist" because it seems rather obvious to me. I think it does to a lot of people whose phones are primarily a utility and only a toy when they want a distraction (waiting at the DMV).

I guess it's good that people are waking up to the fact that they need not let technology be more in charge of ones life than themselves.
Sure. But whether or not the average user cares isn't relevant to the question if a vocal minority does. I think the amount of resistance the Ubuntu change gets is broadly comparable to the changes I mention. It's probably roughly the same people complaining.
This conveniently ignores the fact that we're essentially creating a vaccine resistant flu virus by natural selection.
I started off my CS education after high school, dropped out because I failed an end of year exam.

Opened a PC repair shop with my co-founder best buddy. Shut up shop after a year due to friction between us and also with the bank.

Went back and forth between property rentals then customer services for a few years.

Went to University to get a Motorsport Design Engineering degree. While doing that I took up an interest in app development.

Now I can graduate in June 2013 or 2014 (haven't decided yet) and I'm running a start-up which is bootstrapped with freelancing income. Enjoying it immensely. I'm doing an enterprise staff timekeeping app with my start-up firstly and I'm hopefully going to involve my engineering education at some point.

That's my story!
Codes of Conduct, I think, are good for some things, like actual conduct, and bad for other things, like assuaging people's irrational fears of possible violence. Which is what school policies are, basically.
Well, actually in G Communities, if you make them public, also anybody can spam you. :(
You use:

* Integrated GPS
* Maps
* An RSS reader
* Twitter
* Messaging apps
* SMS
* Phone calls
* Music player
* Other apps that got slow on the older iOS (?)

And yet you think your smart phone was "an expensive, over-rated, hyped piece of technology and machinery".

You ARE a smart phone makers target audience. Just because you're not running a moon mission on thing doesn't mean it's not performing its intended function. Show me a device that does all that for $10.
Not a big fan of Java applets, but besides that, good job!
Google+ Community for all things Go.
Building Analytical Applications on Hadoop (video)
A false positive on a facebook algorithm warrants an entire "my liberties are being trampled" article? All follow-up notifications are obviously automated dominoes falling from the initial warning; why the feigned surprise?
Erase Easily Your Call And SMS History With Android History Eraser App
Car Salesmen = Technical Recruiters?
I'm a technical recruiter here in Austin, Texas and wanted to post this specifically to the software engineering community.
I suspect you're being sarcastic or flippant there, but yes that is precisely what you should do if you've got a new Willow bark extract. Some forum with the sort of medical expertise to compare your extract to current treatments.
Blame the Republicans who created the conditions for class warfare in the first place.
3) Less sick children means less employees spending time with their sick kids

4) Everyone wins!

Everyone except those kids who care less about having a flu sometimes than having a chance of their working parents spending time with them. =/
No, I've been compiling a list. It's a big list, so it's taking me a while.
Just call customer serv... oh, nevermind. You pay Facebook by surrendering privacy and personal information, but that's not enough for them to consider you a customer or offer support. The same server that automatically flagged your harmless photo will gladly issue you an equally automatic and thoughtless rejection when you appeal.

The faceless Facebook machine will march on, paying no regard to the innocent consumers it accidentally crushes in pursuit of more ad views.
I kept a mostly "if it works don't break it" approach, but about once a year there'd be some alert about security issues with some specific software and I'd run a "aptitude update". Invariably it'd update the packages out of order, libc would get screwed up, and I'd have to reinstall the whole server.

What distribution are you using? I've never had this happen, though for important servers I tend to use Debian stable. I would be shocked if it happened on stable.
Why not just peer-review the Tedx proposals?
Do people using Ubuntu not also use web browsers?

Not always. I have some Ubuntu VMs in which the web browsers are prevented from talking to the internet. I use these for secure development and testing of projects that really need to be secret.

I do, however, have to allow the system to talk to Canonical servers if I want to have security patches and other software updates.

This puts me in the position of having to choose between privacy on my desktop and an OS that doesn't conspire with its vendor and 3rd parties to undermine it.

I will not be installing another Canonical OS as far as is practical. Unity sucked anyway.
"First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3."
I think the danger is when it comes to automation/rigid rules. People want to feel like their problems are unique and being considered in all their unique complexity. That makes achieving transparency or automation hard, because a system of hard and fast rules is more amenable to transparency than a system of fuzzy fact-specific inquiries.
Glad to see him following the Gates' lead.
> I would be pissed if they threw me out ...<snip>... for (horror) talking to girls in an elevator.

I would be pissed if that happened to me too. Good thing that's not even remotely close to what any of this is even about.
Life: coming back to india to start a company

> Any particular reasons?
I solve that problem with 3 AM, coffee, and bad TV. Stay up late, get wired, and have background noise such that you get into a flow and stay there. Somehow, the Boomerang network (full of amazingly bad Hanna-Barbera cartoons in with some fairly good stuff) helps it along.
newer generations keep voting against their own interests.

Yes, this is normal. People do not vote for their own interests. As a rule, they vote unselfishly, in a way that they believe reflects the community or national interests. [1]

If you want people to vote for your idea, you need to convince them that your idea is good policy for everyone, not that it benefits them personally.

[1] http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/ssq.pdf
So basically the same as the old bone phone, yes?
>> Do we dismiss Bill Gates as being too dumb to care for his own interests when he says his tax rate should go up?

> No, he is caring for his OWN interests in saying that. As does Warren Buffett. Sure, his narrow next year interests are to pay less taxes. But his long term interest is that he will not have to hire a private army to protect his every move because of social unrest. Nor that he will have to finance his own private hospital for his kids, because disease control in communal (non-profit and for-profit) hospitals is breaking down. Nor that he will have to fly in everyone he wants to meet because the road infrastructure is breaking down.

> What Bill Gates and Warren Buffett understand is that the US is falling behind, and they don't want that to happen. That IS in their interest.

Why do these discussions always reduce to "X's own interest" = maximising their bank account?

Gates might (and most likely does) care about generally making the world a better place, and so it is in his interest to suggest measures that ease the burden on low-income people.

(Note that this explanation avoids proposing that he is explicitly staving off worldwide societal collapse so that he and his family can live in peace without paying for private this and private that. It might have this as a side effect, but I find it extremely unlikely that this monetary calculation is what he is thinking.)
Now you're being intentionally obtuse.
Fine, but I think it's obvious that we're talking about the ignorant subset that have no idea of the disparity between themselves and the top people that they delude themselves into thinking they're just an inch away from... meanwhile voting against the policies that would give them a fighting chance of ACTUAL social mobility.
Fireworks is a good option, with pages and hotspots with browser export. Easy to create mid-high fi mockups, much faster than in photoshop for prototyping and user testing.
Faster to learn also.

Here's a start to your cookbook: http://fireworks.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/03/interactive...
hi - i've got the 12 ultimate edition idea and am trying to work out what plugin would contain the appcode functionality (my impression is that other intellij products are basically intellij idea plus a hard-wired plugin - pycharm is like the intellij idea python plugin, for example). but i'm having a hard time finding an objective c plugin. do you have any idea what it might be called? thanks.
Disclaimer: English is not my primary language.

I completely disagree, Github.com should NOT be localized.

I agree that making sure your language doesn't disappear is important, but it has nothing to do with Github. It is your job on a day to day basis.

Having localized versions might lead to messy projects having multiple languages in issues and everywhere. It will not help the open source community as a whole but dilute it. It may be sad, but English is the language of IT and I think it will just lead to a wider and better community to all talk a single language, whatever it is.

Plus, managing multiple locales in an app just sucks, it will lead to problems, they would have less time to work on feature which is the point.

Maybe a localized version of Github Enterprise would make sense, but certainly not Github.com.
It's quite possible that the photo was marked as inappropriate by someone else - or their filter picked on the description. I can see how an algorithm could easily find that dirty. Should be interesting to see how this turns out
"any" applied to a generator expression with side-effects is smelly because of the generator expression with side-effects, not because of the short-circuit. "any" applied to a pure generator expression expresses the algorithmic optimization known as short circuiting.

Once you are at the point of considering execution time to be a side effect, the purity of any non-trivial expression vanishes.
" It's functional at speeds between 20 and 124 mph, but don't plan on double-fisting your iPhone and venti latte on the way to work — the system detects when the driver's hands have been removed from the wheel and automatically shuts down. Lame"

Isn't this kind of the opposite approach VW/Audi is taking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwY8BnnIh6s
> people-spending-lots-of-money

Who cares what Larry does with his money.

>how-should-we-make-people-less-sick front

Uh, by giving them access to healthcare, like vaccines?

> are-corporations-taking-over-our-lives

what the hell does Larry's employer have to do with his personal donation of money for vaccines.

I'm sorry, I don't buy this attempt to legitimize the miserable attitudes of some in this thread.
Yes, it is legal. It's a private event, with written guidelines. Also, what would you prefer; no written guidelines with me as chair able to do whatever I wanted to whoever I wanted to with no oversight. With no written rules, staff would be largely free to kick you out of a private event for say, wearing creepy vibram five finger shoes.

(which I do wear)
I saw three people on my own facebook feed complaining of their photos being flagged as inappropriate. My take is that this is a new feature or a regression.
True, Zuckerberg thinks we should all share everything. Apparently everything doesn't include things that might scare off advertisers.
We used the same CSS themed button technique recently on our Bootstrap based site, we got the idea from @inserthtml

http://www.inserthtml.com/2012/06/custom-form-radio-checkbox...
> The "Start me up" campaign from Microsoft with the launch of Windows 95 was both really good and hip for the time.

I agree.

"You make a grown man cry... "
A round peg in a square hole, or a square peg in a round hole?
Whatever next, burglars using social media to work out who can attend based upon reviews and profiles and posts so they can target houses of people who wont be in at a certain time. Worrying thought and not totaly impossible sadly at this time of year.

From Googles perspective this is perhaps logical in that it generates revenue potentual from those that do reviews and yet this has nothing to do with wanting to attend a Bike theft workshop.

If anything it is comparable to collect 5 can ring pulls for free ticket to an event, which is what happens marketing wise for many events/products out there all the time and nobody complains. So I can understand googles approach and how it does not fall into the evil pile. But it does seem a little bit lacking in synergy for that warm comfort feeling.

Sad part is there will be many people do half-haearted reviews at the detrement of buisness's in the area and from that worrying factor alone I would have to say that Google have perhaps not thought this thru on many levels.

Maybe it is some new marketing guru with a background in soft drinks that has yet to adapt to the digital World in there marketing approach on promotional synergy. That is what I'm wondering given this approach.
I don't think it's the geeks who drove this. Godaddy's big ad purchases make it as synonymous with name-registration as Microsoft Word is to word-processing -- among those who don't deal with web setup on a regular basis.

My roommate, who after 10 years of using a Mac still doesn't know what a right-click is, has registered all of her domains through Godaddy (and guess who has to help maintain them...)
http://web.archive.org/web/20110710003815/http://37signals.c...

I was in the program, but wasn't active. Does anyone know what 37signals did for affiliates that were still generating significant revenue? Just offered a credit buyout?
Agreed. I have a gmail account and I use them for search -- that's ENOUGH of my data for any one company to have (and it's probably too much, at that).

Everytime I visit another Google property I'm presented with yet-another "turn your account into a G+ account" popup.

It's very annoying, to say the least. I wish they'd just let me pay for the damn service, I'm getting very tired of being the product they sell (and not behaving exactly as they think a good little product should).
"Blame the people who bring it up in irrelevant contexts" sounds like something people would actually do.
Buy a kid a $10 flu shot, vaccinate him for a year. Teach a kid to buy his own $10 flu shot, vaccinate him for a lifetime.
Research into Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism in C#
As another Brazilian, I agree 100% with you, I never, ever install anything in portuguese, or read any blog post in portuguese. I always go for english, the ones who do try to avoid it are usually mediocre developers.
> A similar principle in poker (which has many lessons for life in general) is that as long as you keep making the correct decisions, in the long run you will win. If you invest emotionally in the prize you will likely make the wrong decision.

Excellent point. A bad outcome realized through a correct decision making process is painful, but is still a "better" result than a good outcome realized through a flawed decision making process. When poker players go "on tilt" they start breaking their process and it shows in their long run results.

There are few places where this is more on display than in high stakes poker tournaments.