skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not that bitter; just using a negative experience to counter the original point. Yeah, you'll probably never hear me say a positive thing about my ex, but at the end of the day people don't stick together for 4 years if its all bad.

Also that last point is largely a myth in my opinion. Finding the (a) right person is hard for everyone. Some of us are significantly more awkward about it than others, but I don't really believe posting in niche tech sites alone is in any way representative of that.
TEXT-ONLY VERSION FOR MOBILE BROWSERS &C;

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From groundbreaking projects to inspiring stories, 2012 was a year of many memorable moments on Kickstarter.

To celebrate the year that was, our team put together this look back at some of our favorite projects and moments. We hope you enjoy!

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Let's begin with some numbers

In 2012 2,241,475 people

pledged a total of $319,786,629

and successfully funded 18,109 projects

Backers pledged $606.76 per minute to projects in 2012

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Of the 2.2 million people who backed a project in 2012

570,672 people backed two or more projects

50,047 people backed ten or more projects

452 people backed 100 or more projects

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People in 177 countries backed a project in 2012

That's 90% of the countries in the world

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Of Kickstarter's 13 creative categories

Music had the most funded projects with 5,067

Games had the most money pledged at $83 million

Art, Film, Music, Publishing, and Theater each had more than 1,000 funded projects

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17 projects raised $1 million+ in 2012
As an average joe web dev I also found the security team very easy to work with when I discovered a vulnerability. In that case I worked directly with them to create the patch that was released as Rails 2.3.5. It was something like 48 hours from the time I discovered it to the release.
2012: The Stats

Total pledged
$319,786,629
+221% from 2011

Total collected
$274,391,721
+238% from 2011

Total backers
2,241,475
+134% from 2011

Pageviews
709 million
+279% from 2011

Unique visitors
86 million
+252% from 2011

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Category Launched Successful Pledged Pledges
Art 3,783 1,837 $10,477,939 155,782
Comics 1,170 542 $9,242,233 177,070
Dance 512 381 $1,773,304 23,807
Design 1,882 759 $50,124,041 536,469
Fashion 1,659 434 $6,317,799 83,067
Film & Video 9,600 3,891 $57,951,876 647,361
Food 1,828 688 $11,117,486 138,204
Games 2,796 911 $83,144,565 1,378,143
Music 9,086 5,067 $34,953,600 522,441
Photography 1,197 427 $3,283,635 46,550
Publishing 5,634 1,666 $15,311,251 262,738
Technology 831 312 $29,003,932 270,912
Theater 1,787 1,194 $7,084,968 95,225

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Thank you!

Thanks to everyone for making 2012 an unforgettable year. Here's to an amazing 2013!

Love,
Team Kickstarter
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P.S.: We're hiring! (http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs?ref=yir2012)
Ask HN: Is using Adblock unethical?
It doesn't seem that using Adblock Plus is in any way illegal, but I can't help but feel guilty that I might be unfairly benefitting at the expense of websites and other users. Is using Adblock unethical?
Of course they'd never open that up, that was just me dreaming.
Warning, it's a long one! Refresh and you'll see it, but I'll try and fix up the formatting too. Seems I mussed my double returns and a few other things.

Whole thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5028958

The list (month-by-month): http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=5028959

Stats overview: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5028961
Yea I couldnt believe that when I read it.

Once you got past all the requirements these 'ads' would have to adhear to, to not be distracting or dangerous, it becomes a pretty limp form of advertising.

The reason people own nice dash-systems, and iPods is so they dont have to listen to ads. There is absolutely no way anyone would buy a car that forces ads on them unless it was HEAVILY subsidized.

This is beyond retarded, and if advertising really is their motivation, this will fail hard.

Why isnt having a cool fancy dashboard without ads enough? Doesn't that do enough to make the car desirable, and competitive?
Shouldn't the title say "Getting Started With Clojure in OSX"?
The nominal cost (cost to the bank) is here:

http://www.frbservices.org/servicefees/fedwire_funds_service...

It costs less than $1 to send a FedWire. The FedWire can be up to $1BN. :)

The FedWire system is actually very similar to transfer systems in other countries. I'm not sure why ACH is still in use apart from as a way to digitize checks.

That said, most banks charge, at minimum, $12 per wire in/out for personal accounts. Most business/corporate accounts get wires free since that's how people pay each other (something like $1TN in wires is processed every day).
How so? dynadot.com - $9.99.

Edit: oh, you were talking about balanced.com. Yeah, I meant balancedpayouts.com. :)
Who is Mike Edwards?
Australian meteorologists forced to add two new colors to temperature scale
> There are plenty of high-visibility websites on the Internet; it would not take long for the students to find one that is equally visible and not policed. Kids manage to smoke pot in school, they manage to cheat on exams, they manage to leave before they are supposed to -- they will find somewhere that is not policed on the Internet, or else they will set up such a thing for themselves. I would not be surprised if some high school students used steganography to share explicit photos without the moderators catching them (consider the way teenagers use proxy servers and Tor to evade school firewalls).

If your rush to reductionism makes you fail to perceive the difference between Tor and Facebook, I'm not sure what I can do to help you. There are lots of ways to share pictures, and lots of high profile websites, but only a tiny handful, and possibly just one, where you can easily reach everyone in town with a single post.

> Slippery slope: ISPs also make money off teenagers, possibly even more than Facebook (cell services certainly make more than Facebook -- teenagers basically demand SMS and 3G/4G from their parents these days, which has turned enormous profits for the telecom industry). Do you think it is acceptable for ISPs to be policing this sort of thing too? Facebook is a communications service; they should not be in the business of filtering the communications of their users, any more than Comcast or T-Mobile.

I strongly disagree. Comcast and T-mobile are dumb pipes. Facebook is a social networking company that takes advantage of teenage social networks to serve advertisements specifically to teenagers. Comcast sells bandwidth to anyone with the money to pay. Facebook profiles and targets and intentionally sells 13-18 year old eyeballs to advertisers.

> Do we really want the next generation of leaders to believe that one of the things people in authority are supposed do is to monitor the communications of those they govern?

Facebook already monitors your communications. What we're debating here is what how they use the information.
I agree completely, it's just that this error seems so obvious and dangerous that it's odd it hasn't been caught for over 7 years.

ps: I love Tekpub! Are there any plans for some new Rails videos? I purchased the Rails 3 series but it's a bit outdated, given how fast Rails moves. Would purchase a series on Rails 4 day-one. :)
No. Advertisers don't have the right to your attention.
And "Valve" is the one letting the steam flow into the piston :)
The commercial breaks on Hulu+ range from 15 seconds to 1 min 45 seconds (I've found they're heavily on the shorter side for me). That's significantly shorter than commercial breaks on broadcast television or cable in my experience .

Was it really that bad for you? (Genuinely curious).
No. I use Adblock Plus for all of my regular browsing (on Chrome) and I also use Ghostery to reduce tracking scripts and other cruft on webpages. If a site won't display for me with my default installation of Chrome extensions, I assume it is a lousy site. If I absolutely must use the site without blocking some scripts, sometimes I hold my nose and use IE 9 for a moment to use the site, but then go back to using Chrome with Adblock and Ghostery.

It's perfectly legitimate to get up and get a drink of water instead of watching commercials on broadcast TV, and it is equally legitimate to not view advertisements on websites that post advertisements.
If you wait a couple of weeks you are much more likely to get an answer. Since all rails apps were vulnerable, most people who know how to execute arbitrary code are keeping silent for now.
Then it sounds like they have data tracking drivers even off the main roads: homes, driveways, small residential streets, parking lots, office buildings. IOW it sounds like they could have done a better job at anonymizing it by truncating driver paths that are off the main roads and highways to only keep data relevant to their study.
Are you thinking of http://www.updateditis.com/ ?
That sounds like a wonderful idea until you take a step back and realize it's not all that profound or even interesting. I get it but at the same time it doesn't make sense. What I see is a guy who is playing kingmaker by "giving people the tools" to blog and all writing under the same banner. There's nothing to this and it basically already exists in every other blog network ever. It seems we're somehow to believe the minimalist theme and the fact that it's SV-in-crowd Dustin Curtis orchestrating this thing with fellow SV-in-crowd pals makes this something other than an ordinary blog network.

On one level I get it. It's not about what it actually is, it's about the feeling, the aura, this attitude about it that makes it feel special. On the other hand, it's just another blog network. To me, I see it as the difference between Newsweek and the New Yorker. It's all about the public sentiment. Or maybe I missed the mark completely but when I hear things along the lines of "well people are haters and it's kinda hard to get but you'll see" they seem kind of like cop-outs to me.

There's nothing wrong with Suvbtle at all though. No one should have a problem with the basic idea. What I, and I think others, have a problem with is the sneaky feeling that this is just another blog network and we're being told it's somehow more and special. Like we're being served hamburger but someone's calling it filet mignon. I've eaten my share of beef and I've read the Svbtle network blogs and I know when I'm being fed ground beef.
Will I fail the post-beer test if I don't care for drinking culture? What if I'm a Muslim, Mormon, or just a teetotaller? Why do these places seem to have the same beer-culture?

I think this is a new thing? I didn't see it so prevalent ten years ago, now it seems like every conference, every workplace enjoys imbibing tons and tons of beer.
Reminds me of an interesting site[1] I came across a while ago, in which the guy argues very convincingly that traffic jams occur as waves, which are started when even a single car does something to cause the car behind them to slow down (avoiding something, stopping to merge, etc). If it's non-trivial, then that will begin a chain reaction - a wave propagating through a medium of cars. The severity of that effect is directly proportional to the density of the medium/traffic.

Given that perspective, metering lights to reduce density seem like exactly the right solution.

[1] http://trafficwaves.org
The 16-year-old thing seems like a really strange provision. My guess would be that nobody in the state legislature wants to be the guy that brought up that bill about 16 year olds having sex.
performance wise the hd4000 is actually nowhere near as fast as what's in the 360 or ps3. the intel chips run a lot of stuff in software very very slowly.

for example tf2 a rather non complex game can barely run 1280720 on minimal settings with a hd4000 (<20fps) yet the ati x1950 that i used to own (1ish gen better than the xbox controller from memory) was able to do it in medium quality and 19201080 and significantly more than 60 fps
Potential business purpose: Teaching the machine to quickly recognize an event-driven pattern of searches and selling (or adjusting CPC) on the search keywords that spike suddenly.
Thanks for this. I'd hate to start down the road of writing a game in clojure....

I may try the blog/webapp idea with Clojure.
Why doesn't Ruby (and Python and all other languages) have Perl's tainting built in and always running?

I'm not advocating it as the only security mechanism, but rather as another barrier to be overcome just like address-space-randomisation, data-exection prevention and all the rest...

(Haven't Google recently shared a valgrind-lite runtime bounds checker which is being incorporated into GCC etc? Might lead the way on how this can be down with the minimum of runtime cost.)
Dynamic pricing might be a good solutions (with reasonable maximal prices). However, it would be hard to introduce them because of public pressure.
That's how this vulnerability came to light. After finding out about the last vulnerability, there was a huge amount of interest in seeing if parameters could be exploited, leading to a number of people simultaneously discovering this flaw.
It's been an hour, but you could also fetch straight from github with this in your Gemfile:

gem "rails", :github => "rails/rails", :tag => 'v3.2.11'
Ah, I'll look into that.
What do your superiors think about implementing new, small projects in Clojure?

When you say "has a huge amount of useful libraries" but then say that Python is "batteries included", which libraries in Clojure are particularly useful? Which ones did you wish it had?
When I bought my 2009 Ford Fusion it was marketed as having "Microsoft Sync", the Sync name has stuck around but I haven't seen any mention of Sync being or derived from Microsoft technology in Ford's marketing in the last couple year (nor in the article). I wonder if that is still the back end of it or if Ford rebuilt Sync from the ground up?
This is amazing.
By the way - it seems they did around $14M in revenues.
From their help page[1] - they state they're charging a 5% of collected money from successfully funded projects.

Knowing that $274,391,721 has been pledged on successful projects.

[1]http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics#Wha...
Not to be pedantic, but the word "hater" typically refers to a person who dislikes someone out of jealousy.

I think a lot of people dislike Dustin Curtis not because they're jealous of his notoriety, but rather because of his attitude -- or at least the personality he projects on the internet.
Need help with Beef installation problem?
I am trying to install the PHP version of BEEF and I've pretty much done everything I was supposed to. So when I go to the beef installation page which is localhost/beef I get this error:
array("min_range"=>0, "max_range"=>65535)); return filter_var($port, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, $int_options); } function valid_url($url) { if( preg_match("/\.\./", $url) ) return FALSE; if( ! preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z0-9\._:\/]*$/", $url) ) return FALSE; return filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL, FILTER_FLAG_SCHEME_REQUIRED); } function valid_url_without_query($url) { if(filter_var($url, FILTER_FLAG_QUERY_REQUIRED)) return FALSE; return valid_url($url); } ?>
Fatal error: Call to undefined function valid_url_without_query() in C:\xampp\htdocs\beef\index.php on line 40

Well line 40 is this:
$url = "http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']. $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if(! valid_url_without_query($url)) $url = "";

I don't know if this is enough info but can someone help me figure out how to fix this error?
Isn't that what stage 2 systems for cars already does? Updates the car's internal computer, as well as changing out physical components?
Programming a game in Clojure might not be such a bad idea - mikera has some really great thoughts at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9755882/are-functional-pr... . Also, you might find this series of blog posts interesting: http://briancarper.net/blog/520/making-an-rpg-in-clojure-par...
“Less expensive” iPhone rumor corroborated on both sides of the Pacific
Node.js Websocket Hosting Roundup
OTOH, maybe it's just a useless meeting about which nobody cares enough to be on time...
My thoughts exactly. But now you're a hater and you just don't get it. It's okay though because I'm there with you. In the end a lot of us will be searching for the answer to the question "why is this so special" and the reason we're so baffled is because we assume that the simplest answer can't be right. But I think it is! THe answer is that this is nothing more than a regular blog network with a minimalist theme and a well known SV insider. It's about the feeling and not what it actually is. Simple as that.

But you know, there's really nothing wrong with that! The problem I have is that so many want to pass this off like it's something new and special when really it's the same old shit with a new name. Maybe if someone would just say "yeah, DCurtis is creating a blog network and it's cool because of who he is, who he knows, and the stylesheet" then I'd be happy and say "cool, I'll read it".
From your statement it doesn't seem as though you understand the law or the original poster's intent. There's nothing about subsidization here, only allowing people to use their own money how they wish.

Currently investment is heavily regulated. If you want to own part of a business then there are a huge list of conditions which must be satisfied by you or by the business or both. Publicly traded companies, for example, are extensively regulated by the securities and exchange commission. Smaller, private companies however cannot seek investment from just anyone. In order to be an "angel investor", for example, you need to prove that you have maintained an annual income of over $200k for at least 2 years. Only within the last year has congress changed these laws, and those changes have yet to go into effect in practice. And even then the new changes limit the percentage of one's annual income anyone can invest in a "crowdfunded" company.
I've debated that sort of thing several times with my dad. He argues that if everyone waited until the last possible point to merge, things would be better, because there'd only be one point of congestion. I.e., nobody could "cut" the line because everyone would be merging at the end, instead of the people in the slow lane being slowed down not just by people merging in ahead of time but also by people merging at the last possible second.

I can sort of see his point, but the downside to me seems to be that if you wait until the very end, and don't get to merge in cleanly, you have to slam on the brakes, and nothing kills traffic like someone having to merge in from a complete stop. So my tentative position is that it would be best if everyone merged exactly as soon as they could do so without significantly slowing down (speeding up to merge seems like it would be a good thing, in comparison?). But good luck with that, heh.
Perhaps the article mentioned advertising as an example of a source of apps; perhaps non-advertiser-funded apps are just what the SDK lets anyone build.
I've looked at Trello several times, and it's always seemed like a great app to work with... but I never got around to actually using it.

So, open question time: How do all you HN'ers use Trello? What kind of things do you manage with it? Bonus for telling us what you used before, and how Trello makes it easier. Super-duper bonus for anything to do with running software projects, and running businesses.

Thanks!
For a less hammered server, can use:

source 'http://bundler-api.herokuapp.com

in your Gemfile
Apples and Oranges. That X1950 card may be 5 years older than Ivy Bridge, but it's sitting on a DRAM bus with almost twice the bandwidth as the CPU. I suspect it actually will have trouble keeping up with the Intel GPU in shader compute power, but for "non complex games" you're probably fill limited anyway.

Basically you're measuring DRAM with your test. DRAM hasn't changed much over the last decade, and that extra circuit board with all those chips is still a big advantage for some tasks.

But consoles don't have external GPU buses either (sort of, the XBox has some kind of specialized framebuffer-only bus I think).
Because tainting is an inherently flawed way to do security. Blacklisting capabilities/methods/data always leaves holes behind, and it's nearly impossible to secure a system using tainting alone. Even the Perl folks say it shouldn't be used as a security mechanism...it should be used to help thin out security issues during development and testing.

If you want to secure a system...whitelist, don't blacklist.
Reddit Co-Founder’s Documentary, “Silicon Prairie” Reviewed
I'm pretty sure a good number would be underwhelmed - after all, most sci-fi in that era had us colonizing the moon and Mars by now.

The lack of the proverbial "year 2000 flying car" aside, most would probably be amazed by the interconnectedness of everything - ability to google common questions and get directions to almost anywhere on the planet would be quite amazing.
I loved everything about this post. Very enlightening
New phone?
Windows 8 passes 60 million licenses sold, 100 million store app downloads
"A few percentage points"? $2 in profit/$18 in cost is over 10%. That's nothing like the ~1-2% grocery store profit margin which I think of when I hear "few."

Quoting one source: "Total pretax profit for the industry in 2009 was about $5.2 billion," and "Convenience stores’ gross revenue for 2009 was more than $505 billion." "While the average gross revenue per store for cigarettes was about $576,354, the gross profit on those sales was closer to $89,923. Cigarettes are the second highest-ranking profit producers for convenience stores, after nonalcoholic beverages, which provide each store with about 18 percent of its profits." "Motor fuel [...] provides a gross profit margin of only about 6.4 percent"

That puts detergent a bit under the 15% margin for cigarettes, but a lot higher than the margin for the store as a whole, and higher also than the margin on motor fuel.
We used to play with Thermite. I think I stole quite a bit of aluminum powder from the lab and my mom was wondering what I was doing baking rust in the oven. ahh the good old days
1) Remains to be seen :)

2) I used those two phrases interchangeably - I consider both Clojure and Python as "batteries-included" languages. Case in point - before I was aware that Clojure Toolbox existed, I was able to google "clojure http request" and find several libraries that let me perform HTTP requests programmatically that I could include in my project.clj and start using right away. My memory's a little fuzzy, so apologies if this is completely wrong, but I don't recall having as easy a time doing that in e.g. Common Lisp or Haskell.

As far as which libraries in Clojure are particularly useful - Ring and Compojure are fantastic, and core.logic[0] is extremely interesting; I'll write a blog post showcasing core.logic (and using it for my first time ever) at some point. Midje is great for writing unit tests. I've only been using Clojure for a few months, so I can't point to too many others that have really been extremely useful for me, but I definitely recommend checking out the Clojure Toolbox[1] for a more thorough list of the main contenders.

[0] https://github.com/clojure/core.logic/wiki/A-Core.logic-Prim...
[1] http://www.clojure-toolbox.com
I'm another who hates people who do this. I make the effort, you're wasting my time.

I do understand sometimes there are circumstances beyond your control - for example at my last dentist visit they were 15 minutes late due to a medical situation, but they told me as I arrived - but people who habitually do this really get on my nerves.