skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did click on his name and check his profile but, alas, I didn't copy-and-paste to retrieve the URLs in his profile (which were not links) to see if any of them revealed his "real" name.
The road ahead for ShowSpace
It's Here - First Round Capital 2012 Holiday Video - Call Me First Round Style
For those looking:

1. Of the 3 mountains, look at the peak of the center one (Lhotse).

2. Below that, the right half is big chunky snow, and the left half is smooth, icey looking snow.

3. Look at the line where the smooth left half meets the chunky right half. - Halfway up that you can find CAMP 3. [You'll see little ant people marching up that centerline - follow them to their tents.]

Also once you see CAMP 3, you actually see tracks in the snow. There's a manmade line going diagonally up/left across the center mountain, up the rock face, and then continues up/left to the little snow valley where Everest hits Lhotse along the horizon line. I suppose somewhere around there is CAMP 4.
First Round Capital 2012 Holiday Video
at times I wonder if this is not the unwritten goal of many agencies. We have an incredible duplication of effort on the part of many aid agencies and no progress is usually attempted to weed that out, how would we even begin with this one?
Interesting how he starts from the components and then rolls up to the main logic, whereas I would start at the main logic then drill down into the routines it uses.
$ git diff --stat

1 file changed, 1 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Maybe 5% of users need to get their shit together and upgrade. :|
That's bold but the right decision IMO.
When to build a native mobile app
With Instagram, Facebook Spars With Twitter
Aren't we all one low point away from writing something like this?

Thanks for your openness!
The idea of cannibalizing your existing business is always one that seems to drive business leaders crazy. But I've always looked at it this way, if you aren't going to cannibalize your own business, a competitor will. Only when it happens, you'll be out of business instead of still up and running.

In the startup world I think we'd say that Kodak failed to pivot. I've seen a great many mature company lose their way when it comes to pivoting into a new and obvious line of business that will probably one day kill off their old business. But some manage to do it pretty well. I'd probably give the obvious example of Apple effectively killing a lot of their iPod business with the iPhone, but they weren't scared and proceeded to grow their business into entire new territories that way (while also getting their old customers to give them more money to upgrade to an iPhone).

But another example might be IBM. IBM sold typewriters and other mechanical office machines, and even though the advent of computers would eventually kill off that entire industry, they managed to turn into a computer company and then into a services company and are doing quite well.

There's others, but I think the main lesson to be learned from this is that you shouldn't be afraid to cannibalize yourself if you do it right. Kodak should own the digital imaging business by now. Everything from their own consumer cameras to the optics and sensors used in every mobile phone sold should have been theres. But they proceeded out of fear and this is where they've ended up.
Sending servers a "Do-Not-Track" header is like putting a "please don't look at my house!" sign on your porch. It's a request to forbid a fairly harmless behavior (cross-site cookies) which is potentially a prelude to malicious behavior (robbing your house / mapping a visitor's browser to a person).

There's also the problem of how vague the spec is. For example, it states "A first party is a functional entity with which the user reasonably expects to exchange data", and then says that DNT should block non-first-parties from storing data about the user. So should YouTube be forbidden from logging in the user based on their Google cookie? After all, most users don't know that they're the same company, and wouldn't expect visiting YouTube to use information from Google. Same applies to any other "big company / acquisition" pair, such as Facebook/Instagram.

It would be much better to forbid the malicious behavior itself, such as by writing privacy laws that require companies to obtain explicit consent before distributing data collected from or about users. That would have stopped events like "I visited some random website and they knew my address!"
If everyone is doing it then we should all be safe, right? I would be really sad if twenty years from now a congressman has to step down for tweeting a photo of himself in his undies. Anthony Weiner was not even naked in the photo!

Why do people think it is OK to pry into other people's personal lives? Why do you care if a candidate is having affairs (unless he is a hypocrite and talks about the sanctity of marriage while having affairs)
In case anyone`s wondering, this is where the riders are: http://i.imgur.com/dTUJA.jpg
Why I am still excited about PaaS
It's also where traditional print media is failing. Rather than embrace the digital age of publishing, they've used digital as a crutch to prop up print.

Love or hate Apple, they aren't afraid to cannibalize themselves in order to progress. The iPod-killer everyone was waiting for came in the form of the iPhone, and iPads have overtaken Mac sales.

Not sure who said it exactly, maybe Marco, Gruber, John Siracusa or someone else, but one of them made a comment that disruption rarely comes from big players (entrenched players), but from the small-time players/ newcomers. Even though Apple was a big company, they were new to the cell phone market. Like it or not, the iPhone disrupted the entire smartphone/ cellphone industry. We're all better off because of it.
Jesus, it's imposing. How small the tents are in comparison to even the ripples of snow at the base of the mountain!
Drag to pan has been around for decades now. The inverted acceleration-style interface was designed to accomodate a joystick.
Totally agree. The tone of this question and its answers really bothered me.
A movie about villagers rising up to overthrow a ruthless capitalist and his running dog governor? Yeah that'll never fly in communist china.
Many people are asking "why?" Too often we take for granted why we should give to charity, so it's a valid question.

Some quotes below on why.

"The world is complex, and it can't be entirely fair from a what you contribute to what you get - it's very very uneven."
- Ben Horowitz (source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqI7fa04atc&t=106m0s see 1:46:00)

"I've worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate's distribution of long straws is wildly capricious."
- Warren Buffet (source: http://givingpledge.org/#warren_buffett)
Unlock the full potential of F2P games
Awesome, thanks! I typically just drop in Bootstrap with a Rails gem but this is good to know.
I'am actually interested in deploying on Azure. If you don't mind me asking, what uncomfortable questions were you asking?

The only serious problem I have with Microsoft, and it is really quite a serious problem, is that you have no idea how committed they are to any of their technologies and once you've been bitten the n'th time, for n >> 0, you just desperately want to be in control of you own stack, and so you own destiny.

Technology wise Azure is quite MS-agnostic, and that's the smartest thing they could have ever done with it. That said, their documentation has move from being developer-friendly to being a collection of marketing-friendly bullet points intended for pointy-haired bosses to inflict on their dev teams.

Still, xradionut, would love to hear the uncomfortable questions you posed. They'd help me decide if there's more than the devil in the lack of architectural details.
Cosmic alcohol, vintage seven billion years, measures physical constant
Formally, it could be suspended for violation of any of these rules:

http://support.twitter.com/articles/18311-the-twitter-rules

Though, the TOS has a leeway:

We reserve the right at all times (but will not have an obligation) to remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, to suspend or terminate users, and to reclaim usernames without liability to you.

Which, if I read this correctly, allows Twitter to suspend an account for whatever reason.
Those are tents, not a line of garbage.
Hi bcambel, big congrats to your courage and honesty - one of the biggest learning for me of being an entrepreneur is the humility.

Just a thought, you might want to think of yourself as "an entrepreneur that failed once" rather than "a failed entrepreneur". In psychology that makes a big difference in how we label ourselves. Relate the failure to an incident in our lives, rather than an attribute that we belong to.

Also, just curious, what made you decide to give up? What are your plans now? All the best.
This isn't really relevant to Facebook. Facebook ads are pay-per-click. If you don't click FB ads, they don't make any money anyway. Also FB serves their own ads from their own servers, so you can't just block the ad servers.
I don't think it's unreasonable to include, base on the assumption that they exercise it infrequently and with discretion. For instance, they probably wouldn't go after a blind user that uses some sort of auditory interface. Instead, they probably included it for situations like this, as a means to justify their actions.
Isn't Twitter supposed to support free speech?
Free Class on "Playing with Ruby" - Jan 5th - Boulder, CO
For anyone in the Denver-Boulder, Colorado area wanting to dip their toes into the water of learning Ruby, here's your chance.

Ask any software developer how they first learned to program. Maybe at some point they read books or attended classes, but ultimately they had to learn by trial and error: by typing in some code and seeing what happened. You learn your first programming language by playing with code, just like you learned your first spoken language by playing with sounds.

In this workshop you'll work with some Ruby code that draws an image on the screen. Your job is to change the image by changing the code. The goal is to give everyone first-hand experience with variables, loops, branches, and the command line. You'll figure it out faster than we can explain it, so let's get started.

Light food, snacks, and refreshments will be provided.

NOTE: Please bring a computer or be ready to share. If it has Windows, please download and install Ruby from rubyinstaller.org before the workshop.

DAVINCI CODERS: For anyone wanting to know more about DaVinci Coders (www.davincicoders.com), this is a great way to get started. Please plan to join us for this remarkable event... and the best part, it's FREE.

EVENT: Playing with Ruby
DATE: January 5, 2013 - Saturday
TIME: 09:00am-12:30pm
COST: FREE
LOCATION: DaVinci Institute, 511 E. South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO 80027
3D Facial Scanning and Historical Morphing on the iPad
First, you can't just ignore the fact that the quick sale of the patents helps Kodak's pay off its creditors, etc. Facilitating that transaction has a certain value. Second, you can't just look at the situation post-facto. Kodak spent billions on research over the years, partly in reliance on the fact that it would book the resulting patents as assets. Simply assigning them to the public domain upon Kodak's dissolution doesn't protect that reliance.

We can have an argument about whether treating ideas as property creates value, but that's a separate argument. Once you decide to treat ideas as property, then as with any other kind of property there is a value created by entities that facilitate transactions of that property.
Feds reportedly plan to prosecute hackers sponsored by other nations
Fulfilment is hard
I'm always conflicted on reducing contrast by making the text very slightly grey instead of black (or the background very slightly grey instead of white).

The problem with this is, as so many times, that on the web you have no control over what people use to display your content. On an awesome display with tons of contrast I would very much agree: straight black on straight white can be unnecessarily harsh and toning it down a bit (a bit being important here) makes everything look more pleasant.

However, on a bad display with low contrast further reducing contrast can be a bad idea.

On balance I would argue that screen technology is by now good enough to allow for slight reductions in contrast that at least have no ill effects in the vast majority of cases and have a positive effect on above average displays.

Oh, and another advantage of not using straight white or straight black is that you can add color (a slight tint, don't touch color if you are inexperienced) to it.

(Also, I would recommend searching out the worst display you can find to test your designs. That helps with more than just whether you picked the right contrast.)
If it is such a big problem then I would imagine they could always implement in house training programs. Pay workers who have a relevant background to pick up the work quickly lower pay until they complete training. This is how it used to be done by companies.
Building Amazon cloud apps that span the world is now much easier
Or the telnet "Don't Randomly Lose"[1] option.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc748
Yes, but in assigning the patents to public domain, Kodak would have received on the order of $0.

(What rayiner said).
They've been playing censor for a while now. You can't post links to the pirate bay, for example. Not even in direct measages!
Bcrypt is published. That's its strength, not its weakness. That's how cryptography is. The more people try to break it the better it gets.

Dave's primary problem is that his scheme is based on MD5 which is still well known, but can be brute forced quickly. His additional lightweight obfuscation will provide nearly zero extra protection.

Use Bcrypt with salt. End of story.
Hybrid team hiring model for offshore web development
Any Westboro baptists in the Government?
Here's an interesting paper where they compare their language (Quorum), Perl, and a language with random ASCII tokens: http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/twiki/pub/Events/PLATEAU/Program/p...

(Spoiler alert: Perl doesn't fair much better than the random language!)
See Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bur...

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
Fragmentation has killed android for developers In china. Instead of one platform to target there are grater than 30 each with their own Apis, quirks, bugs and markets.

Instead of spending time making apps you spend time porting.

Each modified version also has its own proprietary market.

My question is, how will Firefox OS prevent this same problem with a 100% open system
I agree there is a lack of qualified candidates for software development positions, but I think the biggest problem is the outdated methods used to search for candidates. So many of these companies funnel recruits into a system that filters on keywords and even then they often don't treat qualified recruits like a person. If you are a qualified candidate you are more likely to head somewhere who cares about you and treats you accordingly.

Sending automated emails is the first turn-off. Take the time to send a personal email. You might be surprised how much difference that simple act makes.
What I Would Change About the MIT Challenge
If there are pictures of you online with red Solo cups about your ears, and empty beer bottles in the foreground, this will likely cost you plenty in the future.

I have been on hiring committees that rejected candidates simply because one of the committee members mentioned seeing something like this about a candidate.

Simply put: that shows clear lack of judgment. Especially if you're under age. Don't be in pictures with too much alcohol in the frame.
Can any Windows Phone 8 phone beat these three?
"Anonymous" + Twitter = Irony
Wow! Roughly 50 odd people like ants visible up to halfway there and many below near the foot of the central peak.
I'm not sure why you don't get this, but there's a huge gap between not having money be the primary intended result of your actions and having money not at all be a result of your actions.
It might help if you think of it as directing the camera instead of moving the image. When you click and drag left, you're telling the camera to look to the left.
>2, the idea is that your incentives are the same: you'll be upholding bourgeoisie society. The whole point of the 'petite bourgeois' designation refers to the awkwardness of a group of people who _should_ be proletariat, but have juuuust enough incentive to act against that interest, because they're almost bourgeoise

It's more complex than that. And the explanation I always got was that the petit bourgeois acted against their own interest because they aspired to be and thought of themselves as likely to become part of the capitalist class, not that they shared real interest with the capitalist class.

Management actively steals from the capitalist class. The last thing that management wants, for instance, is shareholder rights. In fact, they side with labour more often than they side with capital, as far as I can see. Look at Yahoo in 2008. Any fool could have seen that the Microsoft buyout offer was the best yahoo could do. And Yahoo shareholders clamoured to make the deal. But management killed the deal, siding with the employees, and destroying a great deal of value for the capitalists.

One can argue, in fact, that labour rights (which is to say, making it more complex and legally dangerous to hire or fire someone) is in the best interest of management, as it means that a Capitalist would have to learn significantly more before they could take an active role in managing what they own.

Owner-operators... culturally, you see that same aspiring up against our own interest. Our interests are aligned with the capitalists on labour issues, certainly; Much like the capitalists and unlike management, we want to be able to hire and fire without complexity, and as a class, we generally don't value job security, or really even comprehend why job security is such a huge deal to the workers. But otherwise? We have radically different interests. Owner operators are just as likely, if not more likely to need 'safety net' type social services than similarly skilled workers. One can make a good argument that owner-operators benefited more than any other class from the affordable care act.

In fact, on one of the biggest issues of the day, owner-operators have interests aligned with the workers against the capitalists: Capital gains taxes. Nearly all owner operators, outside of real-estate, pay full income taxes on most of their income; We'd be better off if the government taxed all income as income and just lowered the income tax rate to make up for it. And the difference in what you pay is huge. Like more than 50%. This is the primary reason why everyone thinks that an exit strategy is so important; building up a company that can be sold to a capitalist is the most realistic way for an owner operator to pay that lower capital gains rate. It's hugely damaging, too; it makes us act like management; like our customers are the capitalists rather than the people who buy our products or services.

Capitalists and management (through stock grants/options) get to pay the (much lower) capital gains rate on most of their income.
Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978295
For a short password, does it help to first calculate a hash using MD5 or SHA1 and then run it through Bcrypt? As far as I have understood it's better that the password to encrypt is long enough which the first simple hashing takes care of, or am I wrong?
Liquidity in the patent market isn't the issue. Building tangible things and pushing forward the pace of innovation is. Kodak would still innovate without the ability to liquidate their patent library during bankruptcy. Is the reduced risk to investors really worth having technology hoarded by non-practicing entities?
Cloudability Now Monitors $250M In Customer Cloud Spending
"The news shines a light on a market that is going to get much tighter in 2013."
While the TSA is messed up and all that, Americans shouldn't be too quick to turn to private companies. Private companies would be profit focused, this means that any way to minimise costs will be taken which may compromise security. I give you Blackwater in Iraq as a good example
The point of my post was the censors allowing a movie that challenges the government.

Regarding your comment, you could read more about the Wukan protests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukan_protests
Stupid JS Style Guide
Can you, please, explain why passwords will be cheap to brute force? He is bcrypting them and the attacker will have to bcrypt them as well, or not? How should it be done (in the context of your example) done properly?
Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Discovered
I don't get it, why is it that the pages are ugly a reason to consider it "the bad guy"?

I installed this extension before, I didn't keep it because it didn't had an option to silence events notification, what I was looking for, but it didn't seem bad
Four ways to boost your app’s rating
I started out thinking that Kickstarter was a publishing platform for VC-by-association 'groups', where one enters a temporary group by pledge. And that it wasn't really even that far, the least developed of the ones I looked at were fully fleshed out designs that had never been held by anyone.

I still don't know how to give others this skeptical judgement, publishing that one or two pages is a skill almost entirely unrelated to producing a decent product, especially as Kickstarter's few successes get well covered and don't do much more marketing.
The Innovators Dileamma.

As far as I am concerned, required reading for every entrepreneur, manager and executive today.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-B...
Can we talk about the half-life of social media artifacts?

So you went to a wild party, and photos are posted. Why are these photos still visible weeks / months / years afterwards?

Face it: everyone who matters will see the party photos within a couple of days.

Kids need to learn to take that shit down promptly, within days, because there are no upsides after a short period of time.
This is true of every institution.
I had no trouble, just a vague recollection that I might need Facebook. Wonder if others have trouble.
Options:

1. Offer a buyout (perhaps a buyout of your stake).

2. Resign and start your own company.

3. Document failure to perform. Consult an attorney.

4. Grin and bear it.

5. (not listed here)
It can't be that weird, as I too call it this. I had assumed that I was the only one!