skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good guess. Disney just bought LucasArts, and they pulled a similar stunt for Tron Legacy: they setup a website flynnlives.com and provided hints to a location in San Diego where they had recreated a Flynn's arcade that people had to find.

However, considering the last Indiana Jones film was a miserable flop (spoiler ahead: was it the hiding in the refrigerator or the UFO that nailed that coffin), they would have to fully recreate the old Harrison Ford in CGI PERFECTLY with a great plot to get me interested, and btw Disney I expect the same for the new star wars final trilogy or the remake of the first three after removing all of the Jar Jar sequences and replacing the obi wan with a younger CGI version of Alec Guiness and getting rid of the lame Jabba, etc. bad CGI crap they added to New Hope, etc. People should learn a lesson from LucasArts; when you have customers for life, continue to cater to them as they age. Also what about some Biggs Darklighter in a new series? For the kids, how about an Ewok that learns to kick ass in a tie fighter?
This is awesome. We're very FOSS and I've let our design team know about this. Thanks folks!

Note: I'm the community manager for http://www.2600hz.com
Yeah, Broadstripe and Centurylink are even worse.
I like the popover styling, the notification alerts, toolbar items in programs like safari and Xcode... There seems to be a subtle tweaking throughout the GUI. Maybe slightly tighter bevels / rounded corners, more readable text, subtler shadows/shading, etc.
Escher.py - Key/value db with its data
On your roots/css library page: http://roots.cx/css/

The scrollspy-esque navigation bar on the left never highlights the animation link, whether you click it or scroll all the way down.

I'm using: Chrome 23.0.1271.95 on OSX 10.8.2.
There's quite a few (not saying that any of these are on the same level as Hitler or Stalin) currently around:
http://conservapedia.com/List_of_dictators

See 'yyyy - Present' under Years In Power.

The most prevalent and similar to the above would probably be Robert Mugabe.
You should not ask for a number of stock options - you should ask for a percentage of the company.

In other words the number of stock options you get means nothing unless you put it in the context of total stock options. Its like saying you want 1000 coins and not mentioning the currency.

Without knowing your situation - tell them you want market salary and .1-.5% of the company in options. During negotiations value your options at $0 - if they happen to somehow materialize it will be a nice surprise bonus.
New House Bill on health care innovation
Agreed, but think about what you just said, "record for econ Nobel prizes." So how many 18 yr olds look up which institution has produced the most Nobel winners? I'm not saying that is zero, I'm just saying that its a great follow up fact but not a good discovery fact. I think we've seen about 300 post cards and letters over the last 12 months starting with the PSAT results getting recorded.

I wonder if there isn't a startup idea like developer auction called "Student Auction"[1] where kids can list their qualifications, interests, and grades and have these universities bid on them with scholarships, etc.

Anyway, I don't doubt we'll get down to the bottom of the mystery, I like the idea. But I also liked the first 'hire me <foo>' web site idea too, would hate to see it get over meme'd.

[1] I'd probably call it 'Scholar Discovery' the business model would be that its free for college seeking students to sign up, has a monthly college based fee, privacy between student and university is assured, but current offers (sanitized) could be shared to show the recruiters what they are up against.
I live in SLU! Today is a happy day.
Yep, for me Ghostery blocked Google Analytics, Mixpanel (causing the error), and TypeKit by Adobe. I guess it's fair to only work if your own tracking is enabled when giving away free material...
I don't see the sarcasm. He is the Director of Expert Labs, a public technology incubator.
I've been really liking the foreman approach with Heroku. It's super easy to create a .env file that contains environment variables that can then be git-ignored.
Tech Trends I’ve Noticed As A 16 Year Old
One of the interesting themes in the article is "we can't afford to go to court". Not to detract from the main issue of patent reform but perhaps America should look into making it's legal system a bit more user friendly.

It should be completely viable for a smaller entity to take on one of these "bogus" claims in court and not go bankrupt doing it. Smacking these claims down in court might go a long way towards preventing future shakedowns.
Yes - view.remove() calls "stopListening" - so when you use "listenTo" all listeners should be taken care of.

This doesn't account for any child-views, or views that don't use .remove(), so you'll need to make sure those are taken care of when a view is destroyed. But in most cases, the garbage collection issues that have been seen relating to views & events are taken care of.
Here, alas, is why that probably won't work: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appea...

Previous discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4594122
"In exchange, we just ask that you agree you will only use this account for your OSS project(s) and that all of your test results (videos, screenshots, and the Selenium log) will be publicly accessible"

This sounds great, but I couldn't find a listing of these resources anywhere, which would be great to have. The Open Sauce page [1] has a listing of some of the projects taking advantage of this service but no links to the actual test results etc. Does this exist, and if not can someone put it together?

[1] http://saucelabs.com/opensource
> 5. Some users don't mind ads, some even click on them, which is evident by the revenue ads generate.

Don't underestimate people clicking ads for the wrong reasons (e.g. they don't realize it's an ad, the ad makes misleading or incorrect claims, the user is just using the ad as a convenient shortcut to a website when searching for it on Google, etc.)

I'd guesstimate this to be the majority of ad clicks and revenue.
You and gxs haven't said different things. Being open allows connections to be made. That is what happened here.

After those connections are made, if a large percentage of future communication consisted of these types of messages, it becomes a large burden to the recipient. Obviously Notch's post doesn't come near this.

That isn't to say you can't open up to your friends/family. We need to do that. It is just important that you give as much as you get. My wife is an incredibly open and caring person, and I've seen her get dumped on by people who only give their burdens but are never willing to receive any. That is when sharing becomes selfish.
You mean you could make a statement about my ignorance in isolation, but you obviously can't make a statement that supports that opinion. If you want to make outrageous claims like desktop programming is cross-platform and cross-media then you need evidence, you can't just proclaim things like "desktop programming can be installation-free". You need evidence. Especially since you were responding to my post and going off on a bizarre unrelated tangent.
Let The Crowd Be Your Cofounder
:P

I hate to add emoticons to this quite serious discussion, but I can't help but think that we've lost; over the course of 40 years, a lot more than the cooperation and interoperability described here.

We lost operating systems that expect the user to eventually learn a programming language.

We lost the expectation that a user will ever learn one.

We lost the early expectations of a peer to peer Internet.

We lost the hope of encryption protecting anybody beyond a few stubborn nerds and activists.

We lost the idea of client programs, forcing more and more of our data into computers we don't control.

Were losing the idea that the public can manage their own computers, as we have thus far seen a poor job of it.[0]

Were losing our memory that these things were possible, that they ever could have been or could be.

Were losing the chance to change these things for the future, should we wish to.

[0]: I remember reading over 50% of computers on the Internet are in a botnet, if anyone could indulge my laziness and source this; I would be grateful.
If you start free, stay free. If you start with $$$, then try to go $$. That's just the way it will always work.
None of the videos are playing on Windows 7 Enterprise with Firefox, fresh install.
You make a very good point about the relative volume, you're right that individual actions are going to overwhelm the number of international business disputes (multi-nationals tend to file in the US if they can, even if they are not headquartered here, because it's has the most well-developed legal system).

That said, number of cases still does not mean that people are litigious in the sense of resorting to lawsuits instead of other available means of dispute resolution. E.g., car collisions are a huge source of litigation. The US has 3.4x as many motor vehicle deaths per capita per year as the U.K. (and presumably, many more collisions too) because of our highly suburban structure. So if we have more motor vehicle/insurance lawsuits, it doesn't necessarily mean it's because we're quicker to rely on litigation. Employment litigation is another big one for regular people. Here in the US, if you think you were fired unfairly, there is no administrative agency that'll handle the dispute. If you think you were fired because of race you can complain to the EEOC, but either way the dispute will end up in court.
I remember when Android's market had a similarly terrible search for years, which I thought was funnier considering it was Google and all (although I think their usual algorithms don't work nearly as well for apps that don't really have natural links).
Sorry for being unclear. On the video you recommended using ftp to transfer the pub folder over to the web server for go live. It's best to recommend a tool that operates on an encrypted ssh transport like sftp/scp/etc.

Regards
I'll repeat. "If you start free, stay free. If you start with $$$, then try to go to $$. That's just the way it will always work." Try not to get too philosophical about it. User expectations are set and managed by the service providers. If the user has a certain expectation, it is the provider's fault (in this case Instagram).
> I just don't get it when I read these threads.

That's because a complaint thread about an OS is about the last place to go for an objective look at an OS.

> or just the constant implications that Android is still sub-par to iOS.

It's because a mapping issue and some app store searching problems, (after the entire App Store team rolled over I might add) and a couple of unfavourable design cues don't make an OS.

The implication is still there because many who use iOS do feel they have a superior product. I work at a help desk and there is nothing I love more than setting up an iOS device on our network. Email? No problem? Wi-Fi, it's probably already working! I boast a 100% success rate with iOS devices.

Now I get an Android device. If I'm lucky, it's high end and running ICS so it will be at least as responsive as an iPhone 4 or laggy 4S. Now I get to discover all the fun quirks with this phone.

Oh it doesn't have that field, guess it's called something else here. Yeah I don't know why it's asking you to specify each layer of network security on the WiFi when iOS can do it every time without asking. I'm not sure why they use so much technical language when configuring e-mail. No, I don't know why your brand new Nexus 7 won't connect to WiFi or Email even when utilizing one of the many hacky workarounds.

And then there are the no-name tablets. Honestly, fuck Google and their lack of licensing for AOSP for flooding the market with these pieces of shit. I would rather troubleshoot 20 netbooks from cold boot than wait 10 full seconds for the thing to auto-rotate back to normal, wait another 5 for it to become responsive, oh it crashed! Oh well.

People still say it because it's still true. Not as drastically noticeable as in the 2.x days, but Google isn't going to suddenly eliminate the lag that comes with running what is essentially a Java VM. It's still there, it's pervasive, and it affect everything about the phone, from usability, to touch response, to accuracy and reliability.
Notch, I'm so sorry. I know what it is like to lose a parent. It sucks and it doesn't seem to go away.

What a great post. Thanks for sharing your life with us. Please continue to make your dad proud, and be a path for the rest of us in similar circumstance.
> Why a taser?

Because waiting around for another cop to show up does little to instill fear and promote the cause of the police state.

Thank God for cell phone cameras.
iPhone Infringes Three Patents
Is Apple trying to run interference on Google Maps installations?
When I searched for Google Maps in the App Store on my iPhone and my iPod, instead of the results of the search appearing, a pop-up advertisement entitled "Apple Apps" appeared and asked me if I wanted to install iTunes U, Find My iPhone, and a few other Apple products (some of which I already have installed). I had to close the window to see the results from my search. Anyone else see this? Or is this now standard for all searches in the App Store?
USE method: For every resource check Utilization Saturation and Errors
Well, the Bay Area has pretty abysmal traffic as well.
Thank you for sharing, it helps you and all of us that have lost a loved one. I lost my father to liver cancer this past January. He was my best friend. Almost every day I replay wonderful memories of conversations, funny moments, and life events we experienced together. I now seek for ways to connect to him and keep those memories alive. I am working on writing them down, so that I can somehow show my toddler some day the wonderful father I had. I collect the tools that we shared to work on electronic projects and cars. The thought of holding something that my dad held in his hands makes it easier.

Keep loving your dad, and each time you replay a memory in your mind, write it down... It'll keep you two connected.
I think people are missing the point. Yes, Flickr is still here and you could use it. But Flickr never really got to mobile (a major strategy failure). Do you know since when Flickr has similar functionality to Instagram? Today - they just released a new version with filters.

The point is, you can't build much on top of instagram, twitter, facebook, whatever. APIs are encumbered by pricy licenses, nobody wants to collaborate. Open standards for sharing data are dying. RSS is dead. Mash-ups are dead. Everything is behind private APIs and walled gardens, the web doesn't connect everything anymore.
You have to balance the risk of pain with the possibility of joy. It is certainly possible to live a life cut of from others where you never have to worry about losing anybody, but you lose the joy that comes from those same connections. While it's true that the closer the connection, the greater the chance of pain, it is also true that they are also greater sources of joy.

Having gone through more than one multi-year depression, I can appreciate you wanting to avoid that. Just don't avoid living and loving to do so.
What kind of bloggers? Bloggers in general is a huge category. I am a blogger. My blog is my business. SEO drives a lot of revenue. I sometimes embed videos from 3rd parties in my posts. What questions can I answer for you?
That's kind of interesting. One would think the :null_store would only be useful in some environments, and not as something you may want, for example, in production. In what capacity are you using this?
I am not sure what you are trying to say. Unless one fails to pay property tax, the state doesn't seize all of a business's assets like the DEA can.
Why can't I see distances for walking directions in Google Maps, and instead only times?

Why does it say "preview", when it actually means "start navigating"?
Fully offline? You can't "download maps locally to the phone" without an internet connection, you know.

And yes, I have a Nokia, the maps don't come pre-loaded.
I don't agree that the monetization of the Web has degraded the value (to the user) of links on sites other than links on sites aren't the primary discovery mechanism like they used to be, which is actually a good thing (IMHO).

When hypertext was still conceptual and imagined in microfiche, links were still the primary discovery mechanism of new or related content. I think that idea has stuck around for over 50 years because it is intuitive. It reduces whatever models you might be imagining for discovery into a simpler form.

Google may command the top spot on visited websites, but people use it so often to just open a wikipedia article with the exact query. This suggests Vannevar Bush understood some mechanics of knowledge acquisition better than Larry and Sergei did.

The OP is right. There are fewer links on blogs, and he helped me understand why.
A major new release of the Haskell hashable library
The most common implementation technique that I know of is to include a small constant number (~4) bytes of the actual name next to the hash.
Your list makes me want to add:

We lost "six degrees of separation".

(Though that loss seems to run somewhat more in one direction than the other. Still, ordinary people can rub elbows these days with people they couldn't have so much as gotten an autograph from in the past.)
Just a friendly mention that if your would-be neighborhood is Belltown or SLU, you may want to investigate some other options (unless of course you already have, in which case please ignore me!). Belltown has become worse and worse for crime (unless Phoenix Jones happens by to save you from being mugged). SLU, while nice and pristine and new, is now very overpriced due to Amazon's recent relocation there. Both neighborhoods absolutely have their positives as well, but I wouldn't move to them just for CondoInternet. :)
I have a legacy app that I wrote using Noir. It was awesome at first, but after a while it felt like it was constraining me. Clojure isn't really a language for frameworks. Ring + Compojure (+ perhaps lib-noir, haven't tried it) is all you really need.
I'm a happy user of Meteor. It has few opinions.
That's exactly what a patent is! You don't patent "communicating wirelessly between two devices." That's a result. Instead, you patent something like OFDM, a particular, novel, way of achieving that result. Infringement is only found if someone else not only achieves the same result, but does so in substantially the same way. Even further, the scope of that way is cabined by prior art--you only get to claim protection over the parts of that mechanism that are actually novel.
Noir wasn't really much of a framework either. It was mostly a collection of libraries and a bit of code that added the middleware for them for you. The constraining part was the mutable nature of defpage and how hard it made it to actually get at and do anything interesting with your routes.
Google App Engine 1.7.4 Released
Not to mention the tech industry, super heroes, and nature trails. I am bullish on Seattle.
Actually Weimar Germany is a lot more complex than usually presented. To adress your points:

1.) Germany was not devastated by WWI, in fact the fighting did take place outside of Germany.

2.) The Versailles treaty was large enough to serve as a nazi-propaganda tool, but not large enough to stifle the economy.

3.) The hyperinflation was in 1923, in the other years Germany had generally high, but not that high inflation. ( Something like 5 - 8 % )

In addition the Weimar republic worked culturally quite well, it won about half of the nobel prices in physics and chemistry between 1918 and 1933 [1], had the Bauhaus [2] a very influential school of design and represents with Authors like Thomas Mann and Berthold Brecht an important period of German literature.

On the other hand, the political system was never widely accepted, the judicial system was completely dysfunctional and the entire thing was never far away from a coup or a civil war. ( Not to mention that it ended catastrophically. )

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus
But when did it ever?
Of course banners are better, it's easier to block them by software or by mind.
Need help refreshing and checking out an item online
I really need help purchasing an item for a xmas gift online.

It's going to be released soon and is limited. I would really like to buy it for my family, but last time they did this, it sold out in seconds online, literally in seconds. I am just sick of not being able to get it for someone every time it releases. Is there anyway for me to be prepared to buy it? Like I heard some people use scripts, auto checkout programs, autofill (both for shipping info and credit card info) and all that good stuff to be able to check out as quickly as possible. In addition, I need to keep pressing F5 so that I'll be able to get my hands on it as soon as it drops. I currently have what's called reloadevery, but it seems like when I set it to reload every 5 sec, it literally reloads every page on that website. So I am worried that it will reload while I am filling out my shipping info, and thus I would have to type in my info again.

Btw, I use firefox. What should I have installed to have it reload every particular second only on that page, checkout immediately, autofill shipping and credit info, and finally have it automatically click finish?

I really need you savvy techs to help me out here. I know there is someone who can help me out.

Thanks a lot and have a good day
I think most of the frameworks, libraries, and tools we use to build these new services can do an awful lot more to make this kind of thing easier. I actually suspect we'll enter a new age of programming soon, where a lot of the cruft and boilerplate of managing filesystems and metadata around your data (from databases) will be handled automatically, making this kind of thing much, much easier.

Who knows, though. I'm optimistic.
If you have kids, the commitments you've made are not just to your spouse/SO/whatever, but also to your kids. Those commitments are long-term and failing to keep those commitments is very damaging to kids. I think if more people took those commitments seriously, they would find ways to solve problems. As it is, why bother trying when it's easier to just say "screw it" and separate.

There are some marriages that should end. There are men and women both who have no business being attached to another human being. But I think more marriages end than need to, and it's a net-negative to everybody involved (which means all of society). Learning how to live happily with another person (and it is difficult, no questions; I'm going on 20 years and it stays just as hard every year) is one of the most satisfying things you can do and teaches you many important lessons that positively impact one's life in areas outside of the home.
Fix that whole rain thing and I'll be there tomorrow.
I won't bother to repeat here the entire comment I left on the blog post, but I would be interested to know if others in the HN crowd have been working with the liberator[1] library (i.e. as a way to augment ring/compojure) and to hear about their experiences with it.

I've found liberator quite helpful, and have been hoping to see it get a bit more exposure and wider involvement from the Clojure community.

[1] https://github.com/clojure-liberator/liberator
FullContact API gives marketing superpowers to growth hackers
I think almost every region in the country is overdue for some disaster that is predicted to happen any day now.
Hey @betashop, would love to know some of the numbers on burn when you launched. Eg. how much marketing spend occurred to get that $10m in sales your first year? Also lines like 25% higher gross margins doesn't really indicate if that means it's making you money or not.

I'd be grateful if you could let us know some more info. Thanks!