skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried to use it so many times, but I just can't work it into my own productivity cycle consistently. I end up using it for a few days, and then slowly forget about it. I know a few people with a similar story, but nobody who has actually settled on it successfully.

That said, I did pay for it for the year hoping that it would encourage me to use it (better organizing my work-life seems like a problem worth solving) - it just didn't...
Very cool styling - there are some messaging concerns as karolisd mentioned.

For instance, I was a bit confused as to why I was reading about other services / how you don't change my inbox labels and configuration instead of reading about what you provide. (The "Manage your inbox, don't change it" messaging)

Are you A/B testing your goals and content? Your email signup goals are fantastically straightforward which a ton of sites are lacking.

Full disclaimer: I am helping with a framework called Xander (http://www.xander.io) that does multivariate testing - let us know if we can help. There's also optimizely which is a YC startup and pretty cool for straight A/B tests.
Who is liable for the security of the package at these stations? In a normal exchange, it is the merchant up until delivery to a residence/office (or signature). In this case, is the station operator liable for stolen/lost goods? For the German one it looks like it's operated by the delivery company (DHL), but in the case of third party operators, e.g. Buffer Box, I'm assuming Buffer Box is liable?
UChicago has a well-known reputation for being academic and focused on cultivating a "life of the mind," which is probably why jfarmer neglected specify an answer.

And your criticism of his expression of a personal anecdote is unwarranted. Virtually all of the opinions in this thread are going to be based on personal experience. As far as I'm aware, there are no statistics elucidating "the purpose of college." Your last paragraph, for example, is entirely a personal opinion/observation.
Nah, True Blood is fairly mainstream. It's a paranormal romance populated entirely by good-looking people with copious sex and violence and reasonably simple plots. These are all things that mainstream viewers love, and True Blood's numbers reflect that.

Game of Thrones is a gritty medieval fantasy political drama whose viewers actually requested less sex after the first season. Game of Thrones commonly features scenes of (for example) haggard old people sitting at a table talking about whether they'll go over a bridge or whether they should walk through a forest. It is probably the geekiest show I've seen on TV in my lifetime. Maybe ST:TNG beats it, but I'm not sure.
Five figure fines are completely unreasonable, the fault lies with NYC and the hotels who lobbied for these laws. Short-term housing is really bad for a city whose economy benefits so much from tourism; tiny hotel rooms start at 250/night. Airbnb is a really optimal solution.

My neighbor is an airbnb apartment. At first it bothered me that new people were staying there every week, but I realized the benefits. The people who stay there are always quiet and respectful, and I know the place is cleaned regularly (no rats/cockroaches coming from there). I think it works out well for my landlord too.
Or you can just check a box. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/178401/Screenshots/-qre.png
Some features in the OS require the app to be distributed via the App Store.
Hey all, slava @ rethink here. As the post mentions, the new protobuf spec is here: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/wiki/protobuf_rfc_raw...

Would really appreciate anyone's questions or comments!
It's not difficult to understand what Tor is.

Given the job description and circumstances, what is a judge supposed to do in this situation? There are deeper issues here.

For the record, I've considered running an exit node in the past when I had the bandwidth available.
The World of Private APIs
What the heck? The point of Tor is nobody but the exit node can be easily identified. Are you demanding the authorities have the resources to completely crack Tor before they can arrest anyone? That is probably not the best way to protest this action.
Technical Cofounder: Can we release it as a simple REST API that lets you calculate fizz buzz in the cloud?
gitweb seems good, I'm gonna try it.
If you're a corporate who've invested significantly in training, business specific software, support infrastructure and so on for a particular platform to be told you've got to start over is a massive deal and you care a whole load that your massive investment is largely for nothing.

Backward compatibility would have allowed many corporates (a significant market for RIM) to maintain that investment and if they could do that that would be a major reason to stick with RIM. The fact that RIM have cut them loose effectively means they have to start over and makes RIMs incumbency effectively worthless when it comes to business retention.
That's the worst you can do, because you are still breaking the law, while at the same time voting with your wallet for something that hurts you.

Either pay for it and use it as is, or don't.

If you don't like DRM than you must realize that the only way they'll backtrack on it is if their bottom line is seriously injured. If you have no problem with DRM and the status quo, than the pirating you mention doesn't make sense.

Also, if you want to reward content authors, reward them in cases where the distribution suits your needs. E.g. I never buy movies in digital format, but I go to the movie theaters like once every 2 weeks (I'm the opposite of you, going out for movies is something I like, but my local movie theaters are making an effort in pleasing their customers). I don't buy music, but I go to concerts. I only buy ebooks without DRM, etc...
So AirBnB is supposed to know the laws of every single city/town/village/condo or home owner's association, or does this guy think New York is "special"?
This is really awesome! I've always wondered why is this not the default behaviour on a text area?
I once had an issue with a ticket purchasing website which accepted my "name+SERVICE" email address when I signed up, but it refused it when I tried to sign in later, or possibly just when I was trying to use the "forgot password" functionality - it's been a while. Either way, I was effectively locked out of a website that was storing my credit card information.

Since I was in a hurry to buy the tickets (a last minute gift), I signed up for a second account without the "+SERVICE" section, bought the tickets, and sent them an email asking them to either merge the accounts, delete the old one, or otherwise allow me access the other account so I could purge my credit card data.

What happened next was a bit shocking. They sent me an email back a few days later saying that they had fixed the issue with my account by removing the '+' symbol.

The risk of exploit was relatively low due to the extreme obscurity, but it was technically possible for a short while for a person to go to my email provider and register the username "nameSERVICE" and access my account on the ticketing website, including my credit card information.
The website look great, after sign up I got email update almost immediately, but I don't seems to find a way to login directly from the website, the login button ask for password, which I never prompt to create, and if I choose forgot password and enter the email address, which is to receive a reset password I presume, it complain that it is a wrong email address.
I tried delay once. I think it renders your comments to you alone until $delay minutes elapse. Probably helps avoid flamewars and other procrastination because you won't be getting quick replies.

Edit: Notifo is a push notifications service from a YC company. I'm guessing you paste in an API key and then get pings when your comments receive replies.
Here's a fun tip: If you want to have an awesome lightening bolt (⚡) instead of a boring $ in your prompt, put this in your PS1 environment variable:

`echo -e "\xE2\x9A\xA1\x03"`
> You're also forgetting the university as a rubber-stamp credential, an exclusive mark of membership into a particular subgroup of people we like to allow into our other particular subgroups, which from my anecdotal experience is the #1 reason parents want their kids to go to college.

It's true. Watching the difference in recruiters' reactions at a graduate career fair depending upon a candidate's undergraduate institution was sobering. For two equal graduate students, the student with an Ivy alma mater got all the attention. College is partially a filter. If you can get in and subsequently graduate, it guarantees a lower bound on competence.
Shouldn't this be targeting repo owners to accept and merge a pull a day in December?

I kid, I kid.
Lodging laws aren't there just to protect hotels. They exist to protect consumers and residents as well by setting standards for safety, etc. and helping pay for the services provided to guests by the municipality.

If you take AirBNB to its logical conclusion, you end up with landlords renting apartments on AirBNB instead of to actual residents, because they can make more that way -- because they're ducking the rules on offering commercial lodging, not paying for proper insurance, not paying taxes, etc.

I'm sure if someone ran a hotel but didn't bother with commercial fire codes and local taxes, they could charge less too.
couldn't it simply be a genuine customer review. I honestly think there's no PR from hotel lobby here.
Oh man, Kansas City doesn't know what they are getting into!

More seriously though, the price of bandwidth is dropping. I see these kinds of actions really as a way to prep the record with "stories" which link TOR and "Child Pornography" so that at some future proposal to outlaw such things a legislator will Google it and see a bunch of hits and go "wow this really is a problem, we should do something" having never read a single story.

If you're aware of this technique you can see examples of it all over the place. Another (perhaps local) version of this is MDMA which isn't technically illegal (its just a chemical that oh by the way if you ingest it affects you kind of like meth) and so first they label it "bath salts" then there are a lot of stories with "bath salts" + "bad outcome" (regardless if there is a proven or even plausible connection) which I expect to be followed by some sort of legislative action where all of a sudden I need to ask the pharmacist to buy Tums or something which can be used as a precursor to making it [1] from behind the counter and only in small amounts.

[1] The exemplar being sudafed which is controlled like crack cocaine in some jurisdictions.
Why bother trying to encode the query syntax into the wire protocol? Why not just accept queries as a string, then have some simple way to pass parameters? It seems like encoding the whole query language syntax makes the clients far more complex.
Building a successful business-any successful business, bootstrapped or VC, is really, really hard.
Do you really want to be working 12 hour days and losing sleep about deals falling apart or how you'll make payroll, and blowing off every social event for work, for the rest of your life?
Really? Do you think it's even possible for a human being to survive 40 years of that kind of stress?

You're optimizing for the wrong things.
This assumes uniform consumption. I suspect (based on watching people's viewing habits) that most people watch a lot more channels than I do, but I have to buy the same package as they do just to get the particular set of channels I want, so I'm not sure this is true. This is what people are getting at: I only watch three channels, but I have to pay for about 400 to get them. Meanwhile, my friends also pay for 400 channels and watch 40 of them. If everyone could order exactly the channels they wanted, it seems unlikely that I would be paying the same price they are.
When I was working in SF, people take off half a day to receive a package. Let's say an engineer's hourly value is $100, even a $10 fee is nothing.
Oops, almost immediately after I posted the comment, I saw the set your password option staring at me in the middle of the screen...ha
According to crunchbase they have raised $251m. What have they spent that on? Evernote is a note taking application. If you developed 25 different native apps (this is an overestimate), and spent $1M on each of them (to hire 4 developers full time per app for one year) it would cost $25m. Add another 3m for infrastructure, and you have $28m and nothing left to spend money on other than advertising and marketing.

Why isn't this considered absurd? What a joke!
It's not about people who don't know what computers are. It's about creating simple solutions to common problems. Most people do not want to fiddle with their computers regardless of how well they understand them, they want to accomplish a task and move on. Even as a developer this is why I choose OS X over Linux.

The question is how far can they push it without totally frustrating the power users. I think it may be inevitable that Apple eventually stops making machines that the majority of non-Apple developers can tolerate.
Ummm....what?
Answer from the article: "Perhaps it isn’t reasonable to expect the company, which believes it’s worth at least $2 billion according to a TechCrunch report on its latest fund-raising efforts, to track down every zoning law in tiny vacation hamlets. But it can certainly make the rules clear in urban areas where it knows that people like Mr. Warren could easily end up in hot water."
Branded as BufferBox, or from a different company?
We use git because I am part of a distributed and often disconnected work force.
G@#$D!T I wished I had known about this last week. I already implemented my own file browser! Thanks for the tip though.
Latest Draft Of White House Cybersecurity 'Executive Order' Is Leaked
I can understand your sentiment, and you might be entirely correct to presume there's an agenda being pushed.

That said, it's a legitimate story. People are breaking the law and not even aware of it. Even if it is a "hit" piece, the concern is real.
The Stocktwits ‘Sentiment’ Machine
It's starting to get to the point where every time I see or hear the word "patent" I want to scream.
They should know which cities they've had issues with and let their user know so they can stay informed. Having their users post warnings about particular cities would benefit everybody.

Nothing is going to change unless a large class action suit is brought against Airbnb. I can tell you right now their site disclaimer won't help them in a court of law.
Another enthusiastic "Oh wow, Google bought us! We're going to be doing so many new things now!" followed by "Sorry we're shutting down" in a few weeks. Happens every time. Isn't that what Google does? They buy a company. Half of the team leaves because they can't go through Google interview and the other half is disbanded to work on other Google projects.
I wonder if "making the rules clear" in some areas but not others opens them up to liability.
>> It's not possible to create a system which protects the and privacy of users with integrity, but not of criminals.

Do you have more information or references on this? It seems very intuitively correct to me, but I was hoping someone much more intelligent than me has actually formalized somehow.
> Once a popular piece of information—say, a movie, a song, or a software title—"leaks" into the darknet, stopping its spread becomes practically impossible. This, the engineers realized, had an important implication: to prevent piracy, digital rights management had to work not just against average users, but against the most tech-savvy users on the planet. It only takes a single user to find a vulnerability in a DRM scheme, strip the protection from the content, and release the unencrypted version to the darknet. Then millions of other users merely need to know how to use ordinary tools such as BitTorrent to get their own copies.

There are quite a few people out there who still don't understand this, who believe that a "speedbump" will work. They see things like SatTV protection schemes that are intact because people want content and they're not going to take the hard way out until they have to. Like how the PS3 got hacked once there was an incentive to.

I even remember one specific conversation with a security expert here on HN telling me about how good the PS3's security was DRM working. I predicted it would get hacked when necessary. This was not long before the hack. But it's a fundamentally biased prediction: I only needed on lucky break in the security to be right while they had to be perfect for me to be wrong.

That fundamental asymmetry, however, is exactly what makes the part I quoted work.
I use evernote everyday. I put everything in there -- status reports I update every week, my own git cheatsheet, business ideas, documents I use repeatedly (e.g. instructions to ramp up new developers on my project), etc..

But what really got me using evernote is the combination of Fuji Scansnap + Evernote. Now any important mail or receipts I need archived I just scan them and they're in evernote forever.

And their iPhone app is a life saver, anything I need on the go, I retrieve from evernote. Forgot my health card? No worries it's scanned and available on my phone via evernote.

I love the product, but yeah it still boggles me why they need so much money and how you can build a big company from such an inexpensive product.
My take is that iTunes 11 pivots away from making playlists and focuses on the 99% of users that simply buy and listen to albums.

I'm a heavy playlist user and the changes are shockingly bad. For "normal" users there's a dozen different ways to navigate and sort by album. But for playlist users there's now only one view - a text list - and a demoted tool menu on the bottom. Even command keys (i.e. Cmd-N) have been changed. Instead of just making a new playlist it changes the entire app view and the only available action is adding full albums to a playlist.

The only part worse is that I can't restore iTunes 10 via Time Machine without restoring my entire system.
> The longer [people] use, the most likely they are to convert

That is why Evernote is worth so much. Few, if any, other products can make that claim.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020475540457810...
Well, the alternative is... legal child porn?

Not saying I like the laws. But i don't know of an alternative to holding people accountable for data.
Welcome to the new world of development - BYODev
No, he is saying that the exit node's role is little different from that of any other node that the traffic is routed through (including) after the request hits the exit node-- eg the exit node operator's ISP.
That is indeed the most direct analogy from a logistical perspective, but I suspect the actual media analogy in terms of effect is just to put out "safer" content (e.g. Yet Another Blockbuster 3: Bust Blocks Harder), which also offers pirates less incentive to go through the trouble to copy it since it isn't very interesting — except when you're walking by a Redbox thinking "What should I do tonight?"
I'm wondering if anyone can illuminate us on the ostensible purpose of these types of regulations. I'm assuming it's to maintain some sort of control and regulation over those who would establish unlicensed hotels on a commercial scale? For the welfare of the guests I suppose?

I imagine in a world before the internet, this kind of thing was actually quite necessary. It would have been much harder to know any sort of details before booking a room in the night in a particular city (I don't know, I was born in 86). I'm guessing hotel regulations were written to maintain a baseline of quality, and regulations like the one this guy was fined under were written to keep people from getting around them.

Similar to the regulations on driving people around for money that Getaround and others are being fined for, to keep you from hailing a cab driven by a drunken, unlicensed cabbie.

At this point, though, it mainly seems that entrenched players like hotels and taxi companies are seeking rent.

I love the quote from the SF landlord at the end, celebrating the fact that infractions like these can be used to evict tenants and raise rents. We love you too, Ms. New.
Today, I crossed the street in the middle of the block because it was more convenient than walking to a corner, waiting for the light, and then backtracking along the other side of the street. This is illegal, but I did it anyway because the reward was higher than the near-zero risk that I would get in trouble for doing it.

People that run illegal hotels are doing the same thing: for every million guests, one guy gets a $45,000 fine. That works out to 4 cents per guest, which is a risk most people will take without thinking.
The Rise and Fall of My Empire - How I would rebuild my Chinese imports business
Re: Bitbucket. I have repos at both. And have a script that runs hourly to create local mirrors of my git repos. I see connection failures often to github (perhaps very intermittent), but I never do for BitBucket.

It was my cron script erroring on a github backup today that made me notice the outage.
High Availability Best Practices
I agree completely. I've had to deal with scaling challenges before, most memorably at Urbanspoon. I'm not judging anyone. This stuff is just hard.

As an entrepreneur/engineer my day is already jam packed. We have a tiny, full-stack engineering team here. I really just don't have time to babysit services that suffer from significant downtime. Certainly I could mitigate the issue by distributing our repos to multiple places, self-hosting, etc. but I'd prefer to just use something reliable.
In the article it mentions neighbors not having to deal with ever changing tenants.
"...If you take AirBNB to its logical conclusion, you end up with landlords renting apartments on AirBNB instead of to actual residents, because they can make more that way..."

This is exactly what happens in Paris. Housing market there is skewed due to exactly this behavior. People buy apartments and sit on them to rent them out short term. Over time it created a situation where people who I would classify as "working poor", were without housing. It struck me as strange when I was in college to see SDF who have to go to work.
Agreed. I don't see the value if it's clunky. If it gets any clunkier, I'll just switch back to jotting stuff in Notepad.
This is actually a very common stumbling block. See the Ira Glass video.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbC4gqZGPSY

You learn how to differentiate between good and bad much faster than you learn how to create good. Which can be super discouraging because it means that at first all it feels like is that you just keep realizing how bad you are and how much further you have to go.

Just keep practicing.
If you have a block of code/text selected, Cmd+[ and Cmd+] shift the entire textblock one tabindent to the left or right, maintaining the relative indent level of each individual line.
We have been really happy with stripe as well. Past year or so we have built several projects using stripe. The only time we had a scare was due to a rogue administrator. Stripe helped us investigate the problem.
or more simply, google for [mr git] and go directly to http://joeyh.name/code/mr/
Anonymous downvoters: how am I wrong? I've been exclusively Mac for almost 20 years so I know the difference.
Programs are more than just algorithms, they are also documentation of that algorithm. Sometimes they also describe checked invariants of the execution of that algorithm (types).

There's probably a lot more to say about programs that doesn't fit within the "just algorithm" view.
The guy likely signed a lease forbidding what he did. Every New York lease I've ever signed always clearly laid out that prohibition. The liability ends there.
They could buy and destroy a lot of products with that money.
You forgot Evernote purchasing Skitch and integrating that. (Which by your numbers, I think would double the 28M).
Via email. Not very hard to hack.
I would so watch that