skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone care what this must have done to him? He finds out by watching CNN at work, that his mother has been murdered, along with 20 small children & 6 adults, & that HE is being blamed for it. He is receiving hate mail on his FB page, people are threatening to kill him, all while he rides the business home alone. This is how he spends the first hour after finding out that his family is gone & that it was his little brother who killed his mother. And then the "kind" police officers escort him out in handcuffs for all the world to see. been one week since this tragedy & nowhere do I see anyone reaching out with kindness towards this 24 year old. The media could care less. He has the weight of all 28 victims on him. I cannot imagine his pain, fear, & intense sadness. So, when this country is asked to pray for those who lost loved ones, why in the name of God is he not being included? That is my question & I doubt that he would ever consider suing anyone, even though they deserve it. But I'll tell you what he deserves... grace, loving thoughts, & kindness, just as much as every else who lost someone they loved. My heart breaks for him.
Fulfillment by Amazon is a great way to outsource something that ian't your core competency. I'd recommend this for a company that makes a product, not one that sells other companies' products. So if you are starting a company like Nest to make a better thermostat, let someone else handle fulfillment while you focus on making your product better. If you are starting the next Zappos, then handle this in-house.
People use machines for various things, but you could also say that machines use people to reproduce and continue functioning.
aka "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
> I can't help see posts like this and worry about the perpetuation of open source, and wish I had the chops to do more to help.

I wouldn't worry about open source, that is thriving and alive. "Free software" is different, and very specialized. I also deeply disagree with RMS, but further I disagree with "free software" being the one true way (though I happily use it), and think that open source is better all around, for everyone.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...

[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
Yeah, I'm with tzaman on this
"They had been completely priced out!"

This is a fallacy. People use this term "priced out" as if it meant some sort of process, but it means nothing more than that the investor thought the startup's stock was too expensive. And it is very stupid to let valuation decide which startups you invest in, because the variation in outcomes between startups is orders of magnitude greater than the variation in valuations. I.e. there is no value investing in startups.

What we have here is a case of anecdotal evidence. A founder happened to get some investors who hadn't invested in other startups because they felt the valuations were too high, and those investors turned out to be really helpful. But there are other investors who are willing to invest at high valuations who are helpful, and investors who seek out low valuations who aren't.
3 Million Verizon FiOS Customer Records Leaked
Same here, I also check to see whether this was the only book review this person did. Too many 5 star reviews for a new book is always suspicious, btw.

Look at this piece of crap book, for example: http://www.amazon.com/Iterating-Infusion-Clearer-Objects-Cla... It mostly has fake reviews.
I'd consider it a pretty safe bet that most people who frequent HN are at least superficially familiar with the material. This is from the first result for a relevant Google query:

In the book's first section, Kahneman describes the two different ways the brain forms thoughts:

System 1: Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, subconscious

System 2: Slow, effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Two_sys...
>If you relax any of those criteria, you suddenly don't have a programmer shortage anymore.

This is absolutely not true. I am working in SF with a number of electrical engineers working as software developers. I have a degree from a small state college.
I can actually spend a month or two on planning, and I explore some NoSQL options.

In-Memory databases sound nice for speed, but I also have some OLAP functionality I'm going to need as well, and may use a fast in-memory DB then dump the data into another DB nightly, but I'm not sure sure yet.

I think spending a day or more reading and developing on these DBs will be worth my time for sure.
I don't think that is a good excuse for being rude. Sure it's their project they can do what they want. But if they have any desire of attracting users that is not the way to do it.
This only holds true if your idea of a "complete distribution" is the desktop environment. Gnome team doesn't do work on kernel, core tools, package managers, init system, drivers, etc. While gnome contributes important work to the average desktop user, most servers run distros with no gnome packages, and even no desktop. Linux is a lot more than a window manager and associated applications.
I just did try, and got an incredible quote for DTW-IST roundtrip for only $638. Funny thing is that when you go to the web sites it tells at the end gives twice the price. Seems like a joke. It does not really link to an actual sales opportunity.
It's definitely realpolitik. By retaining control the USA can forestall actions which hurt their companies (eg sender pays).

On the other hand, I'd much rather have the USA in control than any number of of Russias, Saudi Arabias, Uzbekistans etc etc etc.
The guide could be great, but the JavaScript based shell takes a life to open up and kills the experience. Why not use Linux on a Linux machine than a VM, JS shell etc? This makes it real hard to learn.
You're a wolf in a Dove's clothing.

Can Obama kill you and then claim you are a militant leader? Your survivors will then have to prove that you are innocent, if they fail to prove your innocence we can all assume you were a terrorist.
I'm more experienced on the Windows Stack, but one problem I have is this is going to be a "for fun" project that's likely not going to turn a profit in any way. I would gladly throw it on an Azure instance, but I'm afraid of paying a few hundred bucks or more a month for something when I could just do it for free. If I could find a way to monetize it without pushing away fans it may be an option.

SignalR is one of the options I forgot to mention, I don't have any experience with that but it may serve my purpose well so I'll be looking into that. Thanks for the suggestion!
Biologist proposes to his girlfriend Using DNA fragments
There's a great resource for testing page load speed for different browsers/locations/connection speeds.

Frankly, I'm stunned that they run this at no cost.

http://www.webpagetest.org
"riding the bus home", not business.
Journalism today is NOT CNN or MSNBC, or FOX. It's the corporate heads who demand results... right now! Everything is faster, more, now. It doesn't matter if it's true, just that it is EXTREME. Even on Dateline, which aired that Friday night, they reported that Mrs. Lanza was the kindergarten teacher & that's why Adam killed all of "her" students. WRONG! Shut off the TV & wait for the early edition of the New York Times. That's about the only way to get "real" journalism anymore. At least they apologize when they're wrong.
I do have an AWS account setup and used up my free year, but that may also be an option. As I mentioned cost is a big factor here because this is not going to be a moneymaker. But if it's under $100 a month or so it might be manageable.
I dont think so... c() would be evaluated first which is inconsistent with the other examples

Edit: I realize vemv's examples are inconsistent as well
Test a website's performance
Thanks! This looks pretty awesome, I requested an invite
...there is no value investing in startups.

At all?
"If true, that's horriffic..."

Would you support drone attacks to kill mass murderers that happen to reside in your neighborhood? It is too hard to oppose murder via drones when some colored people are being killed over there.
I don't think so, because it's GitHub that's down and I think kmfrk would have mentioned it if his other service was coincidentally down at the same time. I think what kmfrk meant is that he can't operate without GitHub's issues. It isn't ideal but it's understandable.
Pg means "value investing" as in "not growth investing"
Robert Grass from Turbobeads gave a fantastic talk at the MRS in Boston about how to bootstrap a company. And his was even a very difficult field that required actual tangible hardware instead of "just" time. The basic point was that they had a technology, and so they didn't bother with patents, patent searching, or anything like that. Instead they just started asking customers what they wanted, worked to make it, and then started selling it everywhere. Five years later, they own their entire company, and sell stuff all over the world using ebay and similar for fulfillment initially, and google ads instead of complicated marketing campaigns.

Unfortunately I can't find an online version of the talk. But if you get the opportunity, consider checking out local trade conferences to see if they have speakers talking about fields outside of CS. If it works outside if CS it will almost definitely work even better inside of CS...
Todo lists are a great utility for people like me who are obsessed with exploring ideas and forget rudimentary tasks like paying bills
> It is silly to take away from a person, and attribute it all to luck.

And where, exactly, did I do that?
I would like to yet see a todo list software that sits on the neck on the user to complete the task he himself has entered.
I need an outliner with following abilities:
Expected result with a deadline
Actions to complete the expected result
Next review date/time

The software should pop up in the middle of anything to shout out the action after the review time has expired.

That completes all the to do list software has to offer.
So you're moving your eggs from someone else's basket to a different someone else's basket.

I don't understand your second paragraph, it just sounds like "I'm entitled" but I don't presume that's what you mean.
Main element - an HTML5 extension specification
Not unreasonable at all. Here you go:

http://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot
I'm not sure if I have a complete understanding of your situation, but you mentioned the other guy isn't local. Perhaps the extra $8 going towards that guy's incremental expenses because he doesn't have a regular place to live, cook etc. like you do? As far as issue related to pay inequity goes, it's a bitter truth that you'll find it almost everywhere (at some level or the other). It's not a big surprise why HR folks ask you to keep your pay confidential. :) I think sometimes it's not a question of what others are getting, but it's more of am I getting what was was mutually agreed upon? If you think you deserve more, better have a strong justification for it rather than just saying my peers are getting more that I am. You always have the option of finding another different job if you don't like it.
Demand = shorthand for the aggregate demand for goods and services across the economy as a whole; this includes everything from massages to nuclear submarines.

costs being reduced = the cost of the production of those goods and services (much of that cost also shows up as demand e.g. the masseuses massage chair, or the nuclear hardened wrenches used to assemble submarines.)

If labor costs are entirely removed from the cost of production ( the cost of production is reduced to the raw materials + power + design of the goods to be produced ), then in conventional economic thinking, the aggregate demand for goods and services will also tend to a minimum.

Since almost no goods will be in demand in this new economy, it's unlikely that there will be any great shift towards employing the labor force that used to do basic assembly in the production of designs for new goods.

So. Quiz time.

What will happen to the millions of human beings who are not employable in this new economy?

Will they:

a. quietly dry up into dust and accept being swept into the dustbin of history?

b. form a chaotic seething, resentful mass of violence and petty crime that will make every effort to continue feeding themselves even if they are no longer economically viable entities?

c. form a peaceful agrarian commune on otherwise useless spare real estate and sell quaint handcrafts to the few lucky humans who happen to be born into the ownership of mines, powerplants and other assets employed by the new economy?

e. all of the above and some other solutions not mentioned as well?

Your answer should be provided by how you live through the next twenty years; this exam is final.
I would like to yet see a todo list software that sits on the neck on the user to complete the task he himself has entered. I need an outliner with following abilities: Expected result with a deadline Actions to complete the expected result Next review date/time
The software should pop up in the middle of anything to shout out the action after the review time has expired.
That completes all the to do list software has to offer.
One more thing - it has to be on Android.
While I actually agree with you, as I look at GitHub as "somewhat reasonable git hosting", that is not how many (if not even most) projects actually use the website, so it is an unfair analysis: people seriously often use (and even encourage others to use) GitHub as the only web presence for their project, using a Readme.md to build a landing page; meanwhile, for many people, GitHub is how they handle incoming bug reports and pull requests (as they believe, for right or for wrong, that it is easier to use GitHub to collaborate on these features than a more traditional mailing list).

You thereby can't just say "oh yeah, git is distributed, so I don't care if GitHub is offline"; it makes about as much sense as saying "I don't care that Gmail is offline, as email is distributed: I have all my messages locally in Outlook and can send mail through my ISP" while ignoring that other people now can't send you mail and you have lost access to your calendar entirely.
Can someone with data give me a comparison of the people with the slowest connections and which browsers they use?
I don't think the end result of those sorts of tools is going to go where you want it to go.

The trouble is that if it's sufficiently easy and painless that the "blue collar programmer" can do it in three hours, the guy who owns the auto shop or the restaurant who wants the website can probably figure out how to do it in twice that long and is liable to choose that over paying someone money.

Or, the smart people who are doing it today will then be able to use the new tools plus a trivial amount of code to do it in fifteen minutes instead of three hours, which won't create any new jobs, it will just make simple websites much cheaper because they can be "mass produced" by a subset of the same people who are making them now.

If you want to attack the problem of unskilled workers without somehow converting them into skilled workers, try going at it from the other end: Find ways to reduce the cost of living for those people (i.e. reduce the cost of food, housing and medical care). That better allows those people to make a living on the low wages incident to their skill level.

People always ignore that aspect of standard of living because the incentives to fix it are counter-intuitive or have strong lobbies against them. The way you make things less expensive is by reducing margins (and thus profits -- and thus tax revenue) or by increasing automation and eliminating even more unskilled jobs. But the net effect is to increase prospects for the average unskilled worker, because those with existing jobs in effect have more money in their pockets, and those with no jobs can now accept a lower paying job while achieving the same standard of living.
Ah, I see. Strange it can only go one way (especially since it can book international round-trip flights).
Wow, just wow. I didn't know that I could apartment shop for this cheap. January just got more exciting.
Just because people have bad net connections doesn't mean they run out-of-date software. Does anyone know how true this is?
That's going to turn away 90% of people. Really?
Adderall and similar when deadlines are looming. I get more work done faster, with fewer distractions. Not much of a "rush", just concentration when I need it.
Keep in mind the request count too - lots of small packets can be considerably slower than their net size would suggest, especially if one gets dropped.
Ah missed that, or an edit, either way.
Yeah there's not the community because it's used for more private projects. GitHub has the community because it's focused towards open source and all the sharing and cooperation that OSS entails.
There's a world of difference between having no sense of humor, and simply not sharing your sense of humor.
I've been trying to figure out why this piece sticks in my craw.

Because it makes the Sales CEO (whatever the fuck that means) sound like a Douche CEO. If he can stereotype people from a conversation, I can surely stereotype him from a blog post. Though that also makes me a Douche CEO...

In all seriousness, stop labeling people. Treat them as human beings. See the person behind the title. Most of the time, you will find someone who is geniunely smart, but absolutely has no fucking idea about what he/she is doing (like the rest of the world). Be it a sales person, a developer, a mechanic, nurse, lawyer, or a janitor. Human beings.
Agreed. I always like to support this business/distribution model (music/movie/comedy) when I can. I'll have to set a reminder to go back and pay.
Actually high valuations tend to be correlated with clean terms. Which is not surprising since both reflect founders having power relative to investors.
Verizon customer database hacked; 300,000 entries leaked online
Just looked at your travel website. Very interesting. I'm also in Australia with an interest in the combo of travel & start-up. What exactly is it that you start up does?
Verizon spokesperson Alberto Canal told ZDNet in an emailed statement: "We have examined the posted data and we have confirmed that it is not Verizon Wireless customer data. Our systems have not been hacked."

Supposedly it belong to FIOS customers and not to Verizon Wireless customers.

http://www.zdnet.com/exclusive-hacker-nabs-3m-verizon-custom...
Verizon spokesperson Alberto Canal told ZDNet in an emailed statement: "We have examined the posted data and we have confirmed that it is not Verizon Wireless customer data. Our systems have not been hacked."

Supposedly it belong to FIOS customers.

http://www.zdnet.com/exclusive-hacker-nabs-3m-verizon-custom...
Mine's called ShitToDo.rtf
Actually it's much better than hipmunk. I used to be a fanatic user of hipmunk. But once I tried google flights i immediately was amazed by its speed, browsing different dates is super fast and easy.
Yes. If something is difficult to install, even to evaluate, then people will not put forth the effort to try it out.

Their market is pretty niche: people who like GitHub, but don't want to pay for private repositories or need to host it themselves without paying for GitHub enterprise (or have some other need to host things themselves). So, they need to target developers who may or may not be familiar with sysadmin work. On top of that, their installation requirements are pretty specific, so if you don't have a system (or VM) with those settings, you're pretty much left to your own devices.

So, yes... I think 90% might be a reasonable number here. It might be a bit high, but it's in the ballpark.
> He was sharp and I assume that, in spite of his age, he still is.

Seriously? He's not 100, you know. Why wouldn't he be as sharp, or sharper, than ever?
Any comparisons to that one YC-funded company (Hipmunk or something)?
The point of it is that it would be best if I only have to pay one provider for cloud storage, not multiple, especially when I have so much storage available for me on Dropbox.

Entitled? No. Annoyed when yet another service wants to provide their own cloud storage for a monthly fee on top of something they could just use Dropbox with? Yes. That problem has been solved.

In addition with Dropbox I control the storage. There's no export needed. That data is mine, not yours and is accessible to me everywhere. So yes I want developers to use Dropbox, and charge for the add on, not the cloud storage.
You may not get the best deal/least troublesome flight from here. Well, at least for international flights.

I was trying to book a flight from Chicago->Seoul, and the options showed at least $2000 for the cheapest flight, which involved a 33hr total journey through China and Japan. I then asked my Korean friends, who recommended a travel agent and they got me a $1700 ticket with only 17hrs direct flight
I think we're in agreement, I think anyone who creates a start-up with the intent to sell it to a larger corporation is making a sucker bet. Worse their company generally suffers as they pivot from fad to fad once they get somewhat long in the tooth and the chance of acquisition becomes more and more remote.

But just because you and I see that, doesn't mean some starry eyed CEO wannabe won't. They use the fact that Apple, Facebook, Google and even Microsoft have billions in their bank accounts and have stated a desire to acquire "key technologies" as validation of their own efforts to be a "key technology."

Most people learn in High School (or at worst College) that trying to be something you aren't in order to win friends is a losing bet.

The only thing I disagree with is characterizing BigCorp as strictly irrational. It makes sense to someone, and generally if you find them they can reason to their choice which is the very definition of rational behavior.
Habille Clever Avec des temps modernes Spencer
WOW I did not know about it, looks awesome! Thanks for sharing.
I like Hipmunk's interface better than Kayak's, but Kayak seems to have better data: there are sometimes good fares that appear in Kayak but not Hipmunk, while I haven't found the reverse to be true yet.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell lay out two different visions of dystopian futures, if you're into that.

Candide by Voltaire is a classic satirical novel that still works fairly well imo, though it can be a bit un-subtle by the standards of modern literary satire.
I doubt it. (Assuming by 2 digits you mean < 99.0%, ie that they don't have "two nines" (though I guess two nines could even be 98.5 with rounding)).

1% downtime is over three days. They've had some big outages, but I think this may be their longest of the year and it was a < 6 hours. They could have one of those every month and still only have 72 hours of downtime, which is 99.18%.
Yes, you are right. As I wrote in my github it's just a personal project of mine to learn some technologies. I thought to share it with HN to get some professional feedbacks about my learnings. I didn't expect this much traffic on my VPS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_scraping
For values of "brilliant" that originate in North America only...
Time to fork github. Bad bad sign that they can't get their operations in order. I guess $100 Million can't buy you uptime...