skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding what any of this means for other content paywalls, note this section from Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present (http://towcenter.org/research/post-industrial-journalism/):

"Finally, a note about why we will not be concentrating very much on the fate of the New York Times. A remarkable amount of what has been written about the fortunes of American journalism over the past decade has centered on the question of what will happen to the Times. We believe this focus has been distracting.

"In the last generation, the Times has gone from being a great daily paper, in competition with several other such papers, to being a cultural institution of unique and global importance, even as those papers—the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, among others—have shrunk their coverage and their ambitions. This puts the Times in a category of one. Any sentence that begins “Let’s take the New York Times as an example ...” is thus liable to explain or describe little about the rest of the landscape.

"The Times newsroom is a source of much interesting experimentation—data visualizations, novel partnerships, integration of blogs—and we have talked to many of our friends and colleagues there in an effort to learn from their experiences and make recommendations for other news organizations. However, because the Times is in a category of one, the choices its management can make, and the outcomes of those choices, are not illustrative or predictive for most other news organizations, large or small, old or new. We will therefore spend comparatively little time discussing its fate. While the Times serves as an inspiration for news organizations everywhere, it is less useful as a model or bellwether for other institutions."
A super lightweight yet complete open-source JavaScript framework
Every year the average Westerner citizen is less free than a year ago, and the median citizen is also poorer than the year before.

Is this just my impression? Is the pendulum ever going to swing back?
Semiaccurate.com currently blacklisted by Google
A short lesson in Perspective
So congress can fuck around for free?
Going to give this a try... however it appears you do not have native exchange support?

I'm a bit skeptical of the UI though, so will need to give it a try. What looks good to a UI designer may not necessarily be a boon to my productivity. I.E. There is a lot of wasted screen real estate in the example image I see on the Home page, thus the info density of that email list is low.

Anyway - Ill give it a go and see what its like.

Will there be a mobile app to compliment? If I like the UX of this, maybe I'd want the same UX on my phone...
And likewise if you a website dealing with one person, you only stand to lose that customer, as opposed to a hotel, or even a chain of hotels.
>> "The work ethos is different as well, europeans tend to regard extreme outliers in wealth as extreme outliers, less as role models.

> What does that have to do with work ethos? Do you think there is a strong correlation between working hard and the dream of becoming extremely wealthy? Of the four options, (born poor/rich, working hard/slacking) I agree that (born poor & slacking) is highly unlikely to make you wealthy, but that is about it.

I'm sorry I was unclear. I meant that as a list of items that tend to be different not that the work ethos is different in the issue of rich people as role models.

Two minor nitpick: Studies show that of the 4 options (born poor/rich, working hard/slacking) two are bad: Born poor is highly unlikely to make you wealthy. Slacking will make things worse, but in general the equation "born (modestly) rich -> die rich" and "born poor -> die poor" holds true. [1]

Calling in sick in Germany is a bit more difficult: By default you only need a doctors approval after the third day. The employer can demand a medical certificate on day one if they choose to. Small businesses get most of the wage paid by the health insurance for the period that they have the doctors certificate, so they tend to be stricter about it.

[1] see for example http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2006/04/... for the american case, sadly social mobility is not on an acceptable level in germany either. Nordic countries tend to be better in that respect.
Features are great, but looks a bit blurry in retina display.
Also did the military. And yes, not all republicans are crazy, but most crazies are republicans.
Google Voice stopped delivering push notifications to my phone about a month ago. I have to open the voice app, or website occasionally to check if I have SMS or voicemail. I don't mind using Gmail for free because the service is generally top notch. For Google Voice, I'd rather be paying some money so I would have someone to complain to when it's not working. Since that's not an option, I've stopped giving out my Google Voice number to anyone.
Only the obvious ones: reddit, maybe Digg. Yahoo/Google News.

A weekly news magazine fits the bill, their web sites are updated daily of course. Personally, I use The Economist web site for that.
Have you even checked them out? I find Fusionchart and interviewstreet really good at what they do!
it was originally published in the thirties.
If someone were going to be in SFO anyway, then this is an advantage for him.

On the other hand, for a person with significant ties to London (or other city or region in Europe) - family, career, lifestyle, whatever - it seems a bit much to move to the US because you get cheaper phone calls.

Other things being equal, I can't imagine that anyone would move from London to San Francisco because of free Gmail phone calls. (It reads like your comment is precisely about other things not being equal.)
The fun part is that the paywall is extremely porous. There has never been a case that I could not access a nytimes content because of the paywall. Sadly their pricing is above what I would consider good value for money so I am not a converted subscriber yet.

I am glad that this is working model/experiment. To not alienate much of the eyeballs while putting effort to make the paying subscribers experience better.
I wonder why they destroyed the remaining games after the war. What was there to hide?
A valuable lesson from Callie Schweitzer: Do whatever you want with whatever you find.
If by "bottom of the stack" you mean "the code that the top of the stack depends on in order to run at all," then I would say that he is correct in what "important" means.
Those are good points. I thought there's something different about the article, but was not sure how to state it, but you did it perfectly. Thank you for that.
Yes, I heard that. The tricky part is that the debts that a failing startup is most likely to rack up are the ones that later translate into criminal charges and the manager is personally liable for that.
Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)
Yet we still learn that you like Star Wars a lot.
The failures of teacher evaluations
It's much different; we criticize Obama but don't consider him a DINO and want to kick him out of the party. Republicans tend to eat their own, they want ideological purity in a way Democrats never have. Democrats tolerate ideological differences within the party and within congressional votes vastly more than republicans do.
Actually you are right it is a bit lazy. Ok so the first question is, are they multi-homed (as in multiple datacenters)? If not, why not? Because that should be the first step to take. We could talk about all the ways in which you can build redundancy and automated recovery into a cluster of machines in a single datacenter but let me tell you the obvious point that the datacenter is a single point of failure. Rackspace are an extremely solid hosting provider, we used them in my old company for 5 years but even they can suffer fiber cuts, power cuts, UPS's dying, generators not working, someone performing network maintenance and crapping out the routing for the entire dc.

My first recommendation would be setting up a warm-standby or even a hot-standby if possible in another datacenter. It all comes down to state, meaning the data/repos. They are currently using drbd for block level replication of disks in their file servers, this can be done over wan using something like drbd proxy. Another option is to write something in house which replicates write requests to git repos hosted elsewhere. They wrote a collection of services to access git repos on the file servers via rpc, its entirely plausible to extend this. If they are using mysql anywhere thats a pretty simple task for master-slave replication or semi-sync replication in mysql 5.5. Redis also supports replication.

I'm sort of hinting at high availability with read/write but starting out with a read-only solution hosted in another datacenter on the order of 60-120 secs out of sync is not impossible. I think we would all benefit from that kind of continuity right?

Replicate your data to a secondary site, keep it in read-only mode, set low ttl's in dns. Take it a step further and start looking at globally distributed file systems if you are feeling adventurous.
Why don't more people keep configuration / api keys / etc in the database?

1. Your configuration is backed up along with your data.

2. You can share configuration with multiple applications easily.

3. Use postgresql's LISTEN/NOTIFY to tell your applications about new configuration changes in real-time.

4. Your configuration is as secret as your data.
They don't let me use my iPhone on the airplanes.
I'm not with GitHub.

Please don't take this the wrong way – can you explain some of your experiences with Cisco?

I sense you're pretty loyal to Cisco. I've had the exact opposite experience, getting rock solid uptime and no-compromises performance from commodity hardware. My experience with Cisco is typified by the IOS command line: hard to use, even harder to hire someone who makes it easy, and every minute you feel the pull on your wallet. The one place Cisco seems to shine is at the boardroom table when negotiating contract renewals. :)

Again, I don't mean to offend.
It could also be a business model that is unwieldy to implement.
I have something related:
- I read an article on hacker news
- I realize that the article is useless and/or completely undocumented
- I decide not to go to hacker news
- I read another article on hacker news
It's because they're not infected since childhood with the particular American psychosis we call individuality and damn anyone else cause I got mine. That's very American.
Would be even better if secret_token.rb's data was kept in the database.
This came out of nowhere and looks cool. What happened to http://dotmailapp.com by the way?

EDIT: WTF this is not Retina and when I hit Create Account, it freezes at "Inky is starting up" screen. I think app is not native, seems like it has a webview inside the application. I get Back&Forward options when I right click. LOL.
This is a controversial action. It's still in use. Osama Bin. Laden was partially tracked down by a charity giving free vaccinations.
Remember that individuals and organisations pay for private repo hosting. Aren't they entitled to an adequate SLA of say 4 9s a year?
Would love to hear more about what it's really going to cost me. Ever since Sparrow stopped working as well as I wanted it to, and didn't seem to have any hope of improving, I've been back to gmail's web interface. How are they going to make money?

Totally stoked to have something new to check out in this space though. :)
"Citation needed" is absolutely snarky, in the sense that it is highly critical. And it should be used consistently and unapologetically. Would you be snarky in your response to someone accusing you of being a witch? I hope so, and I hope you would point out that some evidence would be nice.

Snarkily requesting evidence is not a bad quality in an online community—it's a vital one. Stating things as facts and refusing to even attempt to provide evidence is a bad quality.

If you claim that flat interfaces are more difficult to use, and someone else claims the opposite, how do you each attempt to justify your positions? Do you compete to see who can more quickly compare their opponents to YouTube commenters, or do you simply cite some evidence to corroborate your position?
“You can continue to go on about the march of time, but Daala appears to be getting much inspiration from current gen codecs via the x264 project and WebM.”

It distracts from your point that you're comparing a codec to an encoder and a bundle of codecs and container. But either way, why shouldn't a next-gen whatever, learn from the previous gen? Isn't that part of the point?
Well he did say "prod changes", which I would take to include all changes to the production environment, code and otherwise.
Which means it will be acquired and shot in the head by Google soon to avoid losing Gmail eyeballs.
Hmm, I have IMAP enabled and this isn't connecting to my Gmail. Any possible fixes?
There was a recent NY Times story I took a look at. I didn't read it, only scrolled through it, but I was impressed at how immersive the experience was. It had full screen animated backgrounds that scrolled in, with beautiful white titles overlaying. It reminded me vaguely of a graphic novel, I wish I could find it again. It was something about mountains and snow, possibly some kind of rescue story.
The problem is that GNOME 2 on Ubuntu 11.04 is really polished. I still run it today and I have no intention of upgrading or switching.

I've looked at other DE's such as Mint, XFCE, etc. but nothing comes close to the desktop I had with GNOME 2 on Ubuntu 11.04.
If you liked this article you should read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence people as it is very much along these lines. It's a famous book for a reason: the advice is tried and true.
better than vaporware
LayerVault
I believe they call that 'research' :) It's the right way to do it usually.
This is the one you want:
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...
Check out Kevin Kelly's great book, “What Technology Wants”.

He really got to know some Amish communities and has some fascinating thoughts on how their approach to technology is a good role model. He adds the twist that many of us should be early adopters to try every new technology, but put it through the same, “How does this benefit us?” questioning that the Amish do.

My book notes are at http://sivers.org/book/WhatTechnologyWants
Ask HN: What are pros of Haskell
What are the pros of Haskell and say, Yesod, vs python and django or flask?

Is it worth trying to learn Haskell Yesod vs. say, becoming advanced with python & django?
As with any purchasing decision you can read the T&Cs when making up your mind and are free to vote with your wallet if you disagree.

Another factoid is that Amazon Web Services (AWS) only offers a 99.95% SLA so where did the 99.99% for GitHub come from?
The photo wouldn't have been posted to Facebook then..
Jury Finds Marvell Must Pay $1.17 Billion in Patent Case
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/
VERY detailed and well-written article about the Stevens Pass avalanche last February.

Agreed 100% though - amazing presentation. Just the right amount (and format) of multimedia in a way that added to the story without being overly flashy/showy.
Which is great. I'd prefer http://ajf./ over http://ajf.me./, and it looks like soon enough I might be able to get it, considering how this is destroying the market for 2nd-level domains, hence making it likely we might do away with them altogether.
High Availability strikes again. No surprise there.

But I am mildly flabbergasted by the fact that GitHub uses STONITH. The technology is as safe as open-core nuclear reactor, and it works reliably only in very simple conditions.
More and more, I think patent trolling is a great business for startups. No need for expensive sales, marketing teams at all. You only need devs and patent attorney.
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Or a business model that is fundamentally based on exploiting your personal information.
Ironically similar stuff has been said about George W. Bush:

http://www.quora.com/George-W-Bush/What-is-George-W-Bush-rea...

But I guess in today's world it is unlikely to take a high office that is based on popularity by not having a winning personality - even so the facets might become distorted through media.
You can port the number to your DID provider. Most people use bandwidth.com but flowroute and voip.ms are also ones that are thrown around a lot. Most of them charge <$5 for porting.

OS Integration is possible only through 3rd applications (unless you have android which has a native SIP stack on the device) like Groundwire or Bria. It uses megabytes and I believe, if you're using G.711 (the normal cell codec) you'll consume data at 64kbps (peak). I've never gone over on using it but YMMV.

iOS integration is tricky because of the "keep-alive" strategies designers have to use. The VoIP app has to be able to notify on inbound calls, but that is usually only possible when the app is in the foreground. There are some cool hacks to get around this (I like the groundwire message personall).

Text messaging is dirt cheap; many providers will give you unlimited usage for very cheap (I've seen it as low as $.40 per DID per month). You could use twilio, but you'd be better off with tropo since it's more open (sort of, not really the time or place for that sort of debate).

Edit 2: Yes you can.

I think I answered everything :). You can do all of this for free (except for usage) if you install the 2600hz kazoo stack (here's the Chef-Solo install instruction set: https://2600hz.atlassian.net/wiki/display/docs/Deploying+Kaz...). You can also do a hell of a lot more than just call forwarding :).

We're fully open-source, it's free, and it has all of the APIs you're looking for when building kickass mashups.

A hosted version should be more widely available in Q1 next year.
Is Python emerging technology?
Is Python lately becoming mainstream in everyday development in startups vs. say ruby and RoR?

What are the FOSS libraries & recent developments saying so?
I wonder if it would be quicker for getHash() to check for object (including functions) first, then for string, then let the rest come as they are, more or less:

var objectId = 1000000;

function getHash2(value) {
if (typeof value === 'object' || typeof value === 'function') {
if (value === null)
return 'null';
value._hash = value._hash || ('[object ' + (objectId++) + ']');
return value._hash;
}
return typeof value === 'string' ? "'" + value : value
}
Gerry's work filled my imagination as a young child. He was a genius!

Thunderbirds are GO!
From the FAQ: "How much does Inky cost? It's free!"

How are you planning to make money? Coz if you don't make money, then either you are going to sell my data (not acceptable), or you are going to shut down future development.

So again, how are you planning to make money?
They should add more info on email protocol support. It only says "Add Any Account", and mentions IMAP and POP. But it has a picture of an MSN Butterfly, is there deltasync or Exchange?
I wonder how often even the NYT can produce stories like that. They have to be pretty expensive to put together.
Forgot to mention, we wholesale minutes at $.0099/minute, and you can find lower rates from less trustworthy providers with a little googling. 99 hundredths of a penny per minute is cheap, but it's not call center cheap, if you dig my drift.
Internet arrived, and broke stuff. (Post HN/Reddit Traffic)
Agreed with this - all it checks is whether you've redirected from a NYTimes page to get to the article you're trying to get to, so it's very easy to spoof...

But I believe that NYT reporters are providing a pretty important public service, especially in this day and age of many "journalists" not taking the time to do more than parrot official talking points. Not saying the Times never does this, but they do have some of the better reporting in the industry in my experience.
They are pretty much killing the idea of using regexes to linkify URLs without the scheme in plain text. Given that Chrome has moved to dropping the `http://` from its address bar, and many people already skip it, they are probably going to break a lot of linkification code in comment forms and the like. Sure, people "should" know to type the `http://`, but many people just don't know about that or don't remember, and there's a lot of encouragement not to.
You should look at Kazoo. We do all of the Google voice stuff (and a lot more) in a fully open-source package :).

Disclaimer: I'm the community manager for http://www.2600hz.com the makers of Kazoo.
Thanks BobbyDavid, the icons are an experiment. I've been using DiggDigg (now owned by the team at Buffer) for social sharing but I needed somewhere to put the links to my profiles (not the links to tweet about the content). "Flare" (by the guys who did Tim Ferris's landing pages) is good, but not quite perfect. I'll keep iterating. Thanks!
This looks neat. I've always wished I had a way to sign into all my email accounts without having to set them up individually one at a time. This app definitely needs some work though. It is crazy slow and appears to be a web-app-pretending-to-be-native. Not that that is necessarily bad, but this one seems slow. Also, I can't get it to work at all. I've got my email account set up and it knows how many unread messages I have, but it never loads them. It has been sitting like this for about 30 minutes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23745600/Screenshots/oxNi.png and restarting doesn't help.

I also can't for the life of me figure out how to add a second email address.
Why does it matter that AWS is 99.95%? "Cloud" based services like AWS and AppEngine have more relaxed SLAs. GitHub is not a cloud service, its a centralized version control repository. And the 4 9s, well that's just something I've always strived for when providing a service but I do believe we should all hold ourselves to it.
> To be fair to Facebook, figuring these kinds of nuances out isn’t easy

God damn it, it is called ACLs. Not exactly a rocket, or even computer science.
We have significantly more than 33 servers.
Eric has some great stuff. He and I disagree on getting expert advice, but we agree about being as practical and pragmatic as possible when creating marketing for a new product: http://www.ericschulz.com/1/post/2012/05/make-your-package-s... I love his stuff.
Did you read the article??

Directly from Zuckerberg's tweet:

""@cschweitz not sure where you got this photo. I posted it on FB. You reposting it to Twitter is way uncool," Randi said in her tweet."

It was reposted to twitter. Randi shared a photo on Facebook. This person was able to see it because she was friends with Randi's sister (friend of friend). The user then took the photo from a semi-private space and shared it publicly on Twitter.
Doc Searls' book, The Intention Economy spends a great deal of time covering all 5 shifts that Shapiro mentions. If you were interested in this article, you should definitely check out The Intention Economy.
If you're vulnerable to a sql injection or something similar, though, then you've potentially made all of that data web accessible.
Really? You've never had anyone send a picture or video to your phone?

Maybe it's that I live in southern Georgia (though in a city of 77k) but I tried explaining to people a few times that "if you're going to send a picture or video, send it to my email." The reply was usually the same, and hostile.

"I don't know how to send things to email on my phone!"

"You just type in my email. Or choose it from the contact list you chose my number from."

"Nevermind. I don't know why you have to make it complicated." And this is from 26 year olds who grew up with computers and use them daily.
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I don't recall posting anything Star Wars related on HN pretty much ever...

Are you sure you're not confusing me with someone else? Or are you recalling a post I can't right now?