skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find I can handle multiple chats at once easily using programs like TextExpander(Mac) or Breevy(Win).

That way, if someone needs a specific walkthrough, I can type something like oguide and it automatically pastes this link: https://www.olark.com/help/guide

Then if you model your support system around making the walkthroughs and guides for the most common user issues, it makes juggling chats much easier.
This thread?

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/14q6ir/censorship_as_of...

Still up and with about 1500 comments.

Some posters there suggest that more explicit search terms will still bring up explicit material. I'm at work so I'm not going to test that right now. I'll leave the final word to someone smarter than me but it appears this may be more of an attempt to prevent people from stumbling onto porn accidentally than outright censorship.
Schmidt: Google Fiber not just an experiment, plans to expand
There's nothing to stop them setting cookies in the responses down the track though. Wait until you've got enough users, then one day just switch on your 3rd party multi-site user tracking. Or perhaps less publicly dicoverable, use browser fingerprinting and ip address correlation to do the same thing with somewhat less accuracy, but completely invisibly.

And note too, that if you're relying on a 3rd party to serve javascript your users are going to run in their browsers - if that 3rd party isn't trustworthy, you're screwed in much worse ways that cookie tracking privacy violations. Who'd notice if they started occasionally serving a modified version of jQuery which sent all form field keydowns (aka, your usernames and passwords) back to theselves?
Love to, but Tumblr's site is down… so I can't check.
You echoed my thoughts exactly about Noe Valley. We absolutely loved living there, but when it came time to raise a family it wasn't even an option. That's coming from a couple who both worked at Google! Obscene indeed.

I absolutely love SF, but I never felt like home there. I think what we were missing was that sense of permanence, resulting from the high cost of housing (and therefore lack of future options).
I've been playing with it on my own, and I tend to agree. MonoDevelop is still pretty rough--I'm doing game stuff, so I'm kicking any actual OS X development down the road as far as humanly possible--but once you get your code deploying, it's a very nice setup.

I'd really like a way to build in VS (maybe against dummy assemblies or something) and kick it over to my MBP for real compilation and deployment, though. I respect their desire to funnel users through MonoDevelop, but it doesn't step to VS+R#.
Yea, I saw him pre-Kickstarter at the Open Science Summit over a year ago. Saw a pretty cool demo and always wondered what happened to this cool project.

This is a shame. He's not a "scammer" as some here are saying. He's a guy who's in over his head and probably in depressive paralysis. They say entrepreneurs are people who jump off a cliff and build a plane on the way down - this is what can happen when you hit the ground first.

Just remember: bad news is ALWAYS better than no news. This was probably salvageable a few months ago, but now it seems unlikely.

What other suits (other than the 3D Systems v. Kickstarter & FormLabs) is Kickstarter currently involved with?
As a founder and programmer, I found this post really interesting and well written, but rather than lamenting about how it must be impossible to do both roles where eventually you will have to give up programming - why not just accept that it is just much harder? Also, I certainly hope that I will never spend 50% of my time pitching..
Are these the only two possible explanations?
It finally happened - 15 years of receiving various and sundry "unsolicited email advertisements" (aka SPAM) - I finally was intrigued enough to click on a link and actually try something. I figured I would celebrate this event by sharing said app with the broader sysadmin community at HN.

One heads up - it does a skeezy "OnPage Would like to Access your contacts" without asking me in advance. So, possible chance that in addition to being spammers, they going to suck in your address book without permission. Uh, No. (Thanks IOS 6 for stopping that. :-)

[Edit: Cool Feature #1 - Somehow, even with the AudioSwitch changed to "Silent" - my iPhone still comes out screaming with pages. Presumably they are hooking the Alarm System? Interesting that Apple allowed that, though this is a good use for that as long as I can turn it off]
Surely it's illegal to let anyone turn the crank without first obtaining proper proof of employment eligibility (per the I-9 form.) :)
By the way, our MonoTouch app just got approved by Apple an hour ago. Sweet.
Agreed, but I find that clause surprising.

That means that if I'm a recording artist, I would be a fool to make the reward a copy of the finished album because that means that if the album is never completed, the reward cannot be delivered and I would therefore have to refund money I already spent.
Balance is the key to any startup, the opposite side of the coin are founders who have never been in the developer's chair, which is both common and worse.
>You shouldn't have a change in liability after taking out a mortgage

By this I meant the mortgage level should not increase.

>Mortages are from a time long gone, where people lived in houses their whole working lives, from 22-52, with the same job, a wife and kids, etc.

I disagree that the idea of a family residence is from a time long gone. Nearly all my friends fall into this category.

I agree that having to move frequently means you should not purchase. But if you reverse that and decide to not move frequently, it changes the aspect a lot.
Anybody see Drew design and build this thing real-time last night/this morning? I watched some last night and checked back this morning and he was still going. Kind of whistling and humming to himself...he may have been tired.
Knowing a few people that make or have made approximately minimum wage for the time I've known them, and seeing the age of people working at various low-end jobs, I would like to see some statistics to compare to your statement to my anecdotal evidence.
This is a great point. Leaving aside the practical issues of getting money from people who don't have it, this really raises some red flags about the Kickstarter model. Unless it's just a way of raising capital up-front for a fairly ho-hum project that basically just requires time and energy (and, even then, stuff can still happen). But Kickstarting projects of the sort that routinely fail a decent percentage of the time, like video games, looks a lot less attractive if the received funds look something more like a loan than an equity investment.
I worked for the Test & Measurement Organization as a contract webmaster in 1999 and was deeply impressed by the HP Way. Best management I have ever worked for, start-up or Fortune 500. TMO was spun off as Aligent, #21 on this list:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Agilent-Technol...
Don't use regexes to parse HTML, use BeautifulSoup instead. Also, don't use "brogrammer" style comments, they are not funny enough.
Sure! I should note, too, I was already caching each individual item, then pulling in each cache one-by-one. The above improvements were only due to your gem.

Also, I submitted a pull request [1] to add support for cache options, like "expires_in: 3.days".

That's the only thing I could think to add. This is one of those magic libraries that you're just like, man, did that really happen? Everybody should use this.

[1] https://github.com/n8/multi_fetch_fragments/pull/4
I have a hard time believing they're going to find a lawyer willing to take on a class action case over $170k in damages and a defendant that is probably broke.

IANAL but you probably want to incorporate before posting on Kickstarter to protect yourself from backer lawsuits if things go south.
I totally wasn't aware Alex even had a kickstarter. I actually know Alex since I go by Noisebridge and saw him there a few days ago. Does Kickstarter bind you to a date to deliver a product or consider the whole thing as failed?
An hour… well maybe you can fix a quick bug or two. But you won’t get anything hard done.

I work full time at a startup, and I have a 6 week old daughter at home, and I'm working solo on a proof-of-concept on nights and weekends. Since I've got my hands full with the baby at home, I've learned to be very efficient with my time. One decision that made things a lot easier was deciding to go with node.js. Since the entire app is written in JavaScript, I can quickly test out ideas on my phone or tablet browser using JSFiddle, and integrate it later when I have a laptop handy. Sometimes I only have an hour of uninterrupted time, but that's usually enough to write a function or two.
You either love SF or you don't, for me cities are not interchangeable based on factors of convenience.

I live in SF, and love it.
Obama, Big Data, and the Fiscal Cliff
Do they really? It seems more likely that they'd simply use a wildcard.
I agree that $200,000 doesn't sound like a lot for a class action. The lawyer(s) would expect a lot of that.
Something like: https://gist.github.com/3850232
Looks like they have MX and TXT, but missing A.
Weird.
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How on earth does someone quitting their job and moving back home constitute news on hn??? I realize tumblr's down, but this really is a lame story. Good luck to the guy, but seriously, this is not newsworthy.
Hey, fellow Charlottean here! I've found a similar situation here, where my SF network still exists but isn't quite as useful as it was when I was living there.
I cannot say much about how Alex would have used funds, but I can speak to his passion for this project: I have known Alex Peake for many years (not very well, mind you), and even had a meeting with him back while he was still living in Santa Barbara (late 2007, I believe), regarding initial funding for his project.

The main thing I could tell is that this is the thing he seemed most to want to accomplish in the world (even though I wasn't certain it would work, thought he hadn't thought through the complexities, and might not have enough experience to pull it off).

In the intervening years, I have run into him at various conferences, and his interest in Code Hero has never seemed to wane: he even was making credible progress on it, and supposedly the game actually got released (although I am currently unable to find it? I'm on an iPhone, though).

I also recently ran into him at Science Hack Day last year, and I was floored at how well he was interacting with the kids there, teaching them enough JavaScript and Unity3D to make a "game" (actually, just a model and some floating platforms that you could move through; I don't even think you could land on the platforms: no collision detection).

I thereby highly question the validity of a malfeasance claim against him. I can appreciate that "he didn't spend the money well and the stated improvement project failed", but honestly: welcome to KickStarter... it is your responsibility to decide whether your money will be used effectively, as the entire point of the site is speculative funding.
Nope, I waiting to one of the projects to blow up too.

To be sure, this is new territory for all parties.
You're not really talking about improving the status quo. You're talking about a temporal paradox in which you rewrite history.
I read these things and wish so desperately that I was this creative. Mind. Blown.
I think it's a result of how quickly the number of comparisons increase. If I have 3 options, A, B and C I need to make 3 comparisons. A vs B, A vs C, B vs C. If I have 4 options I need to make 6, for 5 options, 10 comparisons and so on.

If we assume that people can hold about 7 +/- 2 items in short term memory, you can see why the decision process becomes mentally tiring after 3 or at most 4 items.
So, when a person's job becomes outdone by technology or automation, we should force companies to pay them more?

?
And yet, that's linked to an article[1] that basically discredits the Jam Study, showing more choices don't really make a difference either way.

1. http://www.freakonomics.com/2009/12/02/is-the-paradox-of-cho...
-As mentioned in the sibling comment, stability is a problem.

-Refactoring support isn't great. It's about on par with stock Visual Studio, but stock Visual Studio isn't good compared to VS+R# or IntelliJ. If you're writing "just" an iOS application, I can see this not being a huge deal, but my own use case is bringing over projects for OS X and iOS where I tend to have a lot of code and I'm very used to being able to do massive, contextual refactorings when needed. Can't do that in MonoDevelop.

-It's GTK#, so you have to accept that some stuff just doesn't feel native on a Mac. My mental map of keyboard behaviors no longer properly applies and it's jarring going between it and XCode or IDEA. It's gotten a lot better since I started using it on a Mac, to be sure, but it's not there yet. I compare it here to IDEA, which is also not Mac-native, but manages to feel a lot closer.

Now, one huge, huge plus, that I have to give them a ton of credit for: unlike Visual Studio, MonoDevelop is non-destructive toward project files. This is a power-user beef but a really important one once you get there; if you've hand-edited a csproj, Visual Studio will happily destroy all of your changes (it loads the csproj into an in-memory object model and writes it back out on save). This is infuriating when you have custom stuff in it - something as simple as a wildcard path in a file reference (which is totally fine as per MSBuild rules) will be mashed into a static list of all files at time of invocation. It is super bad, and if MonoDevelop improves some more I might switch to it, even on Windows, solely because of that lack of misfeature.
Just to avoid complicating things with electricity costs. Maybe if you spliced into a city power line you could also make a statement about reliance on government subsidies.
Having indentation inform syntax is a good thing, as demonstrated by the likes of Python and YAML.

But meaningful trailing white space (see the multiline string example)? I don't think so ...
Ask HN: Mitigating malicious AWS bandwidth usage
I'm using CloudFront to host a number of files for a web application. Some of these files are ~ 20MB. What can I do to mitigate the risk of a massive bandwidth bill if someone set up a script to request these files repetitively?
Previously, The Sprawling Guide to Content Marketing that Made Us $10,000:

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/36065976015/the-sprawling-gui...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805655
This is way too paranoid. CloudFlare are a reputable company; they're not blackhats.

I think my comment above was too paranoid, as well, but it's too late to edit. All I was suspicious of was that there might be analysis going on.
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doesn't this tactic make you even more unique? if a browser behaves differently than the rest of them...

imho the best strategy would be to copy one behaviour everywhere, so that there could be no way to differentiate between users.
Unfortunately, it would be lost on individuals whose labour is worth less than minimum wage.
Someone should give your teacher a medal.
Does the machine withhold and file payroll taxes too?
Ask HN: How important is SEO for a blogger?
For those of you that write blogs, how much do you optimize or care about SEO?
Trust me: I believe that people deserve an honest living. I believe people have the right to housing, warmth, good food, healthcare, and the ability to have plenty of autonomy and free time to do what they love and achieve self-fulfillment. I am not averse to governments passing laws to achieve this.

But all organizations have a choice: I can either pay a worker $X or replace labor with capital for $Y, within the budgetary constraint $Z. If $Y < $X, they'll do that, or be outcompeted by organizations which do choose to do that. (If $Y and $X are both >$Z, well, that's when the organization closes up shop.)

That's a real choice, and it's not easily legislated into oblivion.
That'll teach me to post late at night. I forgot wildcards existed.

I was thinking that (if I built tumblr) they would do subdomain searching at the DNS level to avoid hitting their database.

Makes it even worse if they are using wildcards.
Not only that but it seems like they could fulfill a lot of the tiers of rewards pretty easily. Just release "Code Hero" in whatever its current state is. Is it just 5k of useless spaghetti code? Well, as per the standards set by the rest of the software industry, no claims were made about suitability of purpose! Enjoy your game! And then they could follow through with the minimum possible effort on the rest of the mostly vaguely worded rewards.

The most problematic reward is the $42 one with 1217 backers because it promises a physical box and USB stick, but you could get those pretty cheaply, much cheaper than the $51,114 of the total that represents.
What do you think the meaning of life is? Because that is really the most important thing. If you don't have an answer then by all means seek out the opinions of others, read about the creation of the universe and the theories of what will become of it in 4 or 5 billion years. Life could very well just be order out of chaos. This could be one of infinite universes and it just happens that everything was in perfect alignment for planets to form and life to exist.

The meaning of life is what you choose it to be for yourself. What comes beyond life, space-time and the universe? Now that I'm more interested in.
"We don't have the ability to [...] scale our intelligence horizontally (e.g. by copying it to more hardware), which an entity executing on a computer system could have. That's one of the main points of the argument for singularity."

Count me as skeptical about that. Scaling horizontally means making it a communications problem, which the last 50 years have hinted is a bigger deal than you might think.
-1

These notifications and the technical analysis that only HN provides are valuable for all us devop plebs trying to avoid the same thing.
Most new taps are of the mixer variety in Europe.
And it's open-sourced now... https://github.com/rebol/r3
If you want to help raise public awareness of this issue, sign the petition on the We-The-People website
to preserve U233 used to make LFTR reactors.
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And on a slow news day apply the same formula to a meta-story.

I found it interesting for a different reason. I'm a bit out of date with the self-deluding language used by those "in the content game" to protect themselves from the cognitive dissonance involved in pretending to be pro-internet geeks/hackers/entrepreneurs while spending their time writing spam.
Washington Marijuana Startups present interesting legal issues
Some people are planning to apply the high tech startup business model to marijuana sales. That should present some interesting legal and business issues. What do you think?
Well, that's the grey area, isn't it? It's one thing if I invest in something and it fails. It's another thing if someone pretends to take your money as an investment and instead goes to Vegas and blows it. In other words, the difference between merely a bad investment and fraud.

Kickstarter can't afford to conflate the two, or people will stop investing. So they're in a tricky spot, trying to ensure that users understand that they aren't customers and that the startups can fail, while also ensuring that customers have faith that the vast majority of startups will succeed.
A class action lawsuit is a great idea. It is clear from the comments here and on Kickstarter that this situation has been worsened by conflicting expectations. A lawsuit will help clarify what the public can expect from crowdsourcing, and for project founders it will help clarify their responsibilities.
I believe they use ultradns (a nice, but very expensive, dns service).
I thought Techcrunch used WordPress VIP, not Wordpress.org. Could be wrong
"Or you can develop some 'scanning ray gun' which does the same thing without killing you first, I suppose."

Ok, who made the joke about that, something along the lines of, "Then what? Your uploaded self sends you text messages like, 'Just got out of the hot tub with Carmen Electra; wish you could be here'?"
The number of jobs worked by immigrants paid under the table is not 'very few'.
You could set up Splunk to pull all your logs together, calculate bandwidth, and then make email alerts for when you hit various thresholds.

It might help to firewall out BOGOB IPs and known malicious IPs. These lists have to be actively maintained on the firewall.

mod_qos prevents some abuse:
http://opensource.adnovum.ch/mod_qos/
Of course it's a problem. That's what happens when you create expectations that 100% of fully funded projects are going to go on to completion (leaving along the murky middle ground of completed but sucking terribly.)

VC's, who are professional investors and certainly better versed than the general public on how to triage projects going sideways probably have ~5% of projects totally fail, where the product never reaches production.

Kickstarter needs to manage expectations and have a solid policy on how to deal with situations like this... else, they'll be the next failure.
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That's so wildly untrue.
+1 for your -1, these notifications and the postmortems are always excellent sources of information
The submission was meant to be humorous, sorry to disappoint. No matter how you slice it parsing HTML from a 3rd party site is a major hack, though this does however work nicely (itch scratched). Lastly I have some other ideas for submissions so don't judge this as the worst just yet.
The other obvious advantage to having a light water reactor on a submarine is that water is something you can easily find a lot of out in the ocean.
They're even more interesting... on weed.
Ideally provide them with a better safety net and the means for which to develop skills which would give then a value over the minimum wage.
My girlfriend and I both work at startups and make about 170 combined. No chance we could afford a house though. That realization can make this a pretty depressing place though...
I always wanted to ask these questions to a knowledgeable group of people:

- What if there was a worldwide law about minimum wage at $7/hr?

- How would world economies react?

- Would it end poverty? destroy economies? ignite wars?

- Who is responsible for not existing such a law?

Interesting links?
Looks like UltraDNS disabled their zones. Someone probably forgot to pay invoices or something.

You're pretty much screwed in this case.
Why not contribute this to the rails standard package?
At the very least, I would be wary of any project which offers so many rewards for so little money. It's poor planning and poor allocation of money. And thus it reflects poorly upon the project creators.

For this project you have 1217 backers at the $42 level who get a digital download, a usb drive boxed up and signed by the whole team, and a t shirt. Obviously for such little money and so much in return, this is going to be incredibly popular. So now you have to sit your entire team down to sign their name 1200 times, purchase 1200 USBs and produce 1200 tshirts. That's too much time and money wasted. And yet money is exactly what you're asking for.
Agreed. You need the perspective if you're running a software startup.