skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be hesitant to wonder about the data on Snapchat and what it provides. Think of how the app works: You take a picture, add a caption, and draw on the picture if you please. Then you select friends to send it to and you're done. That can be accomplished in < 30 seconds. Viewing snaps sent from friends is at MAX 10 seconds per snap. Unless a user is sending and receiving a lot of snaps, I would doubt they reach ' used regularly (defined by several hours per week or more, multiple answers OK)' threshold.
I didn't realize there was so much contention over the Svbtle theme. I was using a Tumblr version, but I just changed to something standard as I spend time to work on my own custom theme. As far as the funding, I think it's great that the blog platform will continue. As a relative new comer to the valley, I have gained some pretty insightful information from some of the Svbtle authors.
Yeah, there's a reason the article doesn't present any actual evidence for its claims. I'm sure that the author believes what he is saying, but no, statistics doesn't work that way. The article should be cut out and stuck in an undergrad psychology textbook under 'confirmation bias'.
We already have the legal concept of consent, don't we?

Who's legally culpable? Whoever shares these photos without consent of the person they're of.
"Often I've asked, who is Dustin Curtis? Why is he telling me the important things about building a startup?"

As someone who is neither in the hater not fan category, this is what I've been trying to figure out. I have no clue who he is and it's very difficult to find out much besides he's an opinionated person with a taste for design.
We were only offline for a few hours. Self-imposed (and turned out it wasn't necessary but in the fog of war at that moment, was the decision we made).
I just don't see Google making any actual direct play against Facebook.

P.S., I think you meant the opposite of what you said.
She's got a bit in there about differentiating yourself by making it insanely easy for people to leave your service.

Are there any examples of this leading to success?
It definitely stems from both factors you mentioned. No one really knows who Dustin is and he's established a brand as a person who aspires for the best and is very opinionated. For better or for worse, most commenters only really know that about him. His response to the Svbtle clones on top of the personality he added to the Svbtle announement really acted as a tipping point for most peoples' perceptions about him.

Unfortunately, like you allude to, most people also saw his reaction simply to being a stolen theme, and don't appreciate that it was intended to be much more than that.

The network's introduction introduced Dustin's concept and site. If you ever visited his blog before that, it's clear he was building the site before. Part of the introduction was sharing a novel approach to the blogging workflow and get a glimpse of the CMS. If it's "just a theme," you'd imagine that people would steal some of the more interesting things, like his approach to editing, or build on it. Instead, people insisted on duplicating the theme -- some just to spite Dustin.

Dustin was explicit about his goals in the beginning - to create a great publishing/blogging network. If yoiu look at how it's panned out, people are making Svbtle their personal blogs and the theme is the differentiator. writers were willing to forego a complete branding of their website and demonstrated they were willing to accept this brand. When you're working to build a brand and key piece is plagiarized (and subsequently insulted by people who don't understand the work that goes behind it), the reaction is a bit more understandable.

I'm being polite. I recognize that it interpretations may differ
hire inexperienced people because they will put in overtime and will be more willing to accept your culture -> hire inexperienced people because they are more easily influenced. I don't think I would be a culture fit in the company of someone who thinks like that. A job should be beneficial to both the employee and the employer, and more experienced hires would be able to point out dysfunctions instead of blindly accepting anything (see the monkeys and the ladder experiment - whether it is true or not, it illustrates the point).
I know this makes me sound like yet another asshole, and I guess that's what I am, but it's sad that the stuff on Svbtle is considered by anyone to be good writing. Much less a large group of smart people.
Only to a bank account? haha and the money never comes from any bank account, huh? Again: what fraud prevention is there?
Good recommendation, ordered. Recently this obsession with 'culture' among startups has been sounding more and more cargo-cultish. Grove is the real deal though.
This link has a bit higher quality, but less footage and way more annoying news anchor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KN5N1QDaRQ
A Perplexing Pagination Problem
Zend is kind of bloated and tries giving you the world when you only need a form parser. require_once is also "slow" because it checks the list of required files each time you call require_once to make sure you aren't requiring the same file twice. It makes sense to stay away from that with a framework like Zend where it just wants to include so many files. With your typical app, not using require_once and only using require probably doesn't save much time
There's a great description about the tech stack at http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/

Does anyone know how many servers it runs on? I'd like to see a physical tech stack description (is it already out there somewhere? If so, my Google-fu failed me)

EDIT: discussion -> description
HN users are sophisticated enough not to simply post comments saying "I hate Dustin Curtis." Here they resort to something more akin to concern trolling.

The way you can tell something is amiss is the volume of commenters who seem worried about e.g. how Dustin is going to make money. If most startups issued such a bland funding announcement, it would sink beneath the surface of HN with barely a ripple of comment.
It has an undo, but it could be more discoverable. Click and hold on the Kudos button for a couple of seconds, then release, and the count will go back down. Works on Chrome and iOS Safari for me.
Buying a lottery ticket gives you licence to dream.

Seems like a waste of mental energy. I think people would be better off dreaming about a goal (e.g., having a successful company, earning an MD, and getting tenure) while working towards that goal.

Buying lottery tickets in order to dream about winning seems about as sensible as tossing money into wishing wells or collection plates.
The problem with that approach is that most of us don't have corporate/business problems when we think about solutions. I can't foresee what a lawyer or advertising agency might struggle with.
I know someone in New York City whose parents nearly kicked her out of the house when they discovered she was having sex with her boyfriend. It is not just the south; there are plenty of idiots in the "liberal northeast" also.
Thanks to Leiningen[1], getting started with Clojure is super simple.

It doesn't get much easier than pulling down the master `lein` script (or `lein.bat` for Windows) with wget/curl and setting it up on your PATH as an executable. This is similar to rvm[2], nvm[3], perlbrew[4], et al.

You'll need to have Java installed before proceeding to the next step.

Once you've done that, you can run `lein repl` in your shell -- Leiningen will bootstrap itself when it's run for the first time, and when it's done you'll be presented with a Clojure REPL. Now you're ready to start exploring and learning:

http://clojure.github.com/clojure/

http://clojuredocs.org/

http://clojure-doc.org/

Also, please join the friendly community in #clojure on irc.freenode.net[5]. You'll find folks in there nearly 24/7 who are willing to answer questions you may have as you learn your way around. The discussion group[6] is also a great resource.

[1] http://leiningen.org/#install

[2] https://rvm.io/

[3] https://github.com/creationix/nvm

[4] http://perlbrew.pl/

[5] http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=clojure

[6] http://groups.google.com/group/clojure
$ howdoi turing

$ howdoi solve the halting problem

$ howdoi find the holy grail

I could do this all day.
How accurate are http://w3techs.com stats? They seem to be missing many server side statistics, are they just checking the url for an extension?
Ask HN : Product Development outsourcing 
we are group of seniors(kick ass) developers who in the past have built SAAS, PAAS and Analytics products(can give refernces in private), so was wondering if anybody is interested in getting product development done

what is best place to look @ on the web, we just started dont want to go through FreeLance sites since we want to build long term relation and teams for the company and not look for one off consulting gig.

Any pointers will help
I like how this is filtered through a variety of different sites. Why link to the original Reddit comment when you can link to a Tumblr post of a tweet of a Twitpic of a Alien Blue screenshot of the original Reddit comment?
It is amusing that there's less friction to move to a new network than to clean up the old one. Unfriending (or hiding/muting/whatever while still actively using Facebook) is much more likely to be taken as an affront by your long-time Facebook friends than simply stopping using FB much.

But eventually it seems like the same people will move to the new network of choice, and try to contact you there, and you've got the same problem all over again? Or you drift out of touch with that new network...
Playing for the Royal Flush
Hacker News doesn't have an undo button for upvotes and no one seems to care.
How does Svbtle distinguish itself from any of the other blogging networks that emerged towards the end of the last decade?

Looking at the front page and at Ethan Kaplan's posts in an unscientific way it appears as though everyones posts on Svbtle make the front page (although I could be wrong and if so please say so - I didn't take a particularly large sample). I'm not sure where the curation is.

It seems that anyone can apply to join svbtle, but it's not clear why they'd choose to versus hosting their own blog or writing online for traditional print outlets.

Is there an editorial process for posts on Svbtle?

I ask this because I want to get my head around what makes it special compared to other blog networks. I don't really care who Dustin is (one of the benefits of not being in the valley I guess) or what he's done/not done.
We have actually moved on from our original model because we realized that we did not want to be a business listing site.

The reason we started mybmore.net is because we love Baltimore and we feel that text and pictures dont do Baltimore justice. Videos give people the power to really paint the picture that needs to be painted.

About a month ago we came up with a solution as to how our company is really going to work and how it is going to be profitable.
Currently we are readjusting our site to fit our new model.

I appreciate the support and advice.

I also encourage everyone to check out mybmore.net
by the end of February and then let us know what you think.
I'm not sure why some cultures, or even sub-sub-cultures, feel like they have the right to trample the values of the rest of the world just because "it's the internet". Why should those people adapt, instead of the internet adapting to respect other values?
AFAIK (and it's been a few years since I've looked), most people still block out interiors with the DIF (bsp-style) editor, but do most of the details and decorations with a bunch of static DTS shapes (very similar to your heightfield/rocks example). And there is now a pretty nice native DIF editor and you no longer have to use Hammer and weird converters or something wonky like that. Mostly due to hardware getting faster, the engine handles a lot more DTS's than it used to.

I'd say the content pipeline is pretty good these days. There's exporters for practically every 3d package.

It's certainly still designed like a "last-gen" engine, but that's not a terrible thing since those techniques are well-known and refined by now, and a lot of that makes it a better fit for mobile than a more "modern" engine.
Definitely an advertising play. Don't think I'd worry about that up front tho. I would focus on building a huge audience first. You didn't really say how many monthly visits you have right now, but really if you have the monthly views then selling advertising on the site would be the easy part.
In the way you explain it, PHP isn't that different from C++. In C++ you can ignore all OO concepts and simply write C style procedural programs as well. No one mentions this when they discuss C++. I don't see why this "split personality" should be a problem with PHP. It's simply a language evolving, just like C did when C++ came around by keeping the old stuff around and adding new features.
What is it like to be exposed to new technology after a prison sentence?
quite possibly. I don't actually know the definition of ingenuous, it felt right but a I may be confusing it for a near-homophone.
It only looks like a contradiction because you omitted the part where he resolves it. Here's the whole quote:

For an early stage, raw startup, your hiring focus should be on homogeneity. You should be encouraging a diversity of origins (gender, ethnicity, etc.) while discouraging a diversity in company values.

In other words: diversity of personal origins is good, divergence of company values is bad. I wonder if you misunderstood what he means by "culture". He doesn't mean the cultural background of each individual; he means the shared values of the team they're joining. His argument is that having teammates who share the same values about the work is so important that it should never be compromised, at least in the early stage of an endeavor. I agree with that.

There's an objection to be made that company values can't actually be separated from personal origins, because people with different backgrounds are likely to want to handle the work differently.
I think his point is more that the phenomenon we're seeing here is something that's happened forever, and we've really never "solved". The cause is exactly the same, and the effects are similar in nature. They're just dramatically amplified now by technology.
It looks like they are trying to make the dumps available on S3: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/158050/regular-stack...

They also have odata endpoints so you should be able to get at the data (updated weekly) that way. It looks like there is a problem with it at the moment, though (I get 'server error'):
http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/atom
Australia is so hot, meteorologists had to add new colors to temperature charts
Using d3 and Meteor to Generate Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
I didn't know about clojure-toolbox. That's pretty neat.

One thing though, regarding this page, is that you don't need to install clojure with brew. Leiningen takes care of all that... clojure is just a jar that's included in your project, aka a dependency, and Leiningen manages that. This lets you tie a specific version of clojure to that project, which is handy for some legacy projects that aren't maintained anymore.

Also, if you drop the brew references, then this becomes OS agnostic. Just go to the leiningen page on github[1] and it'll get you started: osx, windows, linux.

I develop with clojure on my mac and I've not brewed anything related to clojure.

[1] https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen
That's the problem with Svbtle. You can't just "be" that. You have to earn it.
"except for political correctness or legal reasons"

But this is why the gender, ethnicity, etc words are in there. Not having them in there causes people to assume that the author is racist or sexist, so they have to be in there to forestall that, whatever the actual beliefs of the author.
NewOS Operating System (Travis Geiselbrecht of BeOS fame)
This makes me think twice about the F-150 I am about to purchase.
NK Students Pretend They’re Allowed to Use Google to Impress Eric Schmidt
So, reader knows about keywords and does this implicit syntactic transformation?

It seems to me that a function must be defined somewhere before one could call it.)
I'm unsure of the value of benchmarks of hash function performance when you aren't defining what you need the hash function for. Python's built-in hash function is not designed to do the same things that the SHA family is.
A better distinction is if the person is a public figure or not. This is also what the current law in most countries cares about in defamation cases
This article sounds distinctly like a list of excuses for why your company isn't equal opportunity. A huge list of rationalizations about why you chose the white, young, middle to upper-middle class, guy over other candidates.
You can take a photo of anyone and distribute it as long as it's not libelous or commercial. Even if it's porn-y, if everyone involved is underage then it's going to be tricky to prosecute.
This is pretty cool, but it doesn't really feel a need for me.

Google for _split string javascript_ or the other queries, and you'll get basically the same results, just not limited to StackOverflow as howdoi does.

Maybe if I were more married to my command line this would be useful, but in general, I'm only there for bash and git. I spend most of my time in an editor, so popping over to the browser is no more work for me than showing the terminal.
"Why aren't these criminal acts being prosecuted?"

1. That would mean throwing a large fraction of teenagers in prison.
2. This is happening among middle and upper class teenagers just as much as it happens among the working class. You are not going to see suburban angels going to prison, at least not if the sheriff wants to keep his job.
3. Prosecuting teenagers for this will solve nothing; they will just get better at hiding their tracks, talking their way out of it, or not getting caught. In the best case, rather than the videos being released you'll just see teenagers threatening to release the videos, and then you'll just have "he said she said situations.

Our heavily armed police force will not solve this problem; as with problems related to drugs, prosecutions will only make things worse.
You would consider Dragon book as intro..?
Lots of truth in this one. My uncle took away my cousin's phone a few months ago, and it didn't even phase her since her iPod had better communications tools than the dumbphone. She was texting via Kik (I thought it had died), Instragramming and FaceTiming. Talk about punishment.
"Disingenuous."

And to your point, Google isn't making a facebook play but that is the only metric lots of people are willing to judge them by. I am just trying to drill home the point that it is the poster's interpretation and not Google's stated goal to have a use pattern like Facebook. Google doesn't need that.

Which, to some extent, is fine. I agree with the thesis fo the article that G+ is doing well. And for now, it's one of the best places for hackers to go and socialize off of news sites. It's slowly becoming more tedious as the hapless and advertisers start to realize how valuable it actually is.
So far it's been World War Z, hands down.

The book lends itself to the audio format extremely well due to the fact that a large part of the book takes place in the form of interviews. The author (Max Brooks) plays the part of the interviewer.

Another reason I love it is the cast. Alan Alda, Rob Reiner, Henry Rollins, Mark Hamill, John Tuturro among others make it a fantastic listen.
I delete people and don't feel bad about it thus I keep my FB(s) to minimum friend levels. I see a difference between people I like and have met vs. people who I share life experience with. I've kept the latter on my principal FB and subsequently created a separate FB for the former. Only those on the personal FB know about the acquaintance FB, but not vice-versa, of course. I don't even switch back and forth much, keeping it at a 80/20 time split. It works really well, actually.
"I would prosecute the people who posses and distribute the child pornography"

In other words, you'll prosecute half the kids at the school. Just who do you think possesses these videos once they are released? Who do you think is distributing them?
patio11's idea is pretty dead-on. I would probably start there.

But for variety, I'll give you an alternative to the advertising route. You could do a procured tour that changes every week. Even long-time residents might find that interesting if you can manage to stay away from monuments and such.

So this week's tour might look like:
1. Start at a hole in the wall food place
2. Go to some art exhibit / outdoor concert
3. End in a less-heard of but fun night club

Charge X per person, make the group sizes small like under 8 people and it could be a way that locals do something social and fun.

Eventually, you would want relationships with the stops on the tour and get kick backs for it.

This doesn't scale in any way that would make a VC like it, but if you're looking for a small business idea I think that would also be fun to run.
Well that makes it harder on the cops and the DA - and in the end your elected officials.

But it's not society's job to make things easy for the Cops/DA/Lawmakers (It's really sorta vice versa.)

When serious crimes are committed they should be prosecuted not swept under the rug.

(In other words: do I think throwing kids in Juvie for publishing child porn on the internet is the right call? Yes. )
And when figuring out "how many users is enough?" I think I would just use common sense and think about it like a business owner. If you had 100,000 monthly views or 16% of the Baltimore population could you charge a local business $30-$50 to advertise for a month? Absolutely and that would be pretty reasonable. You'd probably sell out quickly and be able to raise prices from there :)
also, its not fun to use. i do have one suggestion for the trello team: please make the mobile app faster. the UI, in terms of moving cards to different lists is really hard to use and lags a lot. i suggest finding a better solution for that feature, instead of trying to replicate the desktop experience. i rarely use the mobile app for this reason.
> if I write a check, anyone who sees it can trivially withdraw whatever they want from my account using the above API, no

You always were able to do that - even before this post - using traditional online banking. I won't go into the details here, but trust me, it's frighteningly easy[1].

> What sort of fraud protection is there?

This isn't up to Balanced to solve. It's a banking system problem at its core.

[1] The problem is actually much worse, because it allows anyone to compromise your entire banking account (not just your checking account) trivially, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader!
I have no opinion of Sᴧbtle, but I can't fault Curtis's conduct in this episode. He offered a completely valid critique of the antiquated web presence of a large and poorly-managed company. When he received a response from someone involved in the production process, he republished it w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶r̶e̶s̶p̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶c̶o̶r̶d̶i̶a̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ [edit: OK that was a bit strong] cordially. It is unfortunate that someone lost a job in a knee-jerk corporate response to that candid exchange. Everyone likes to be employed, but I doubt even that UX person will admit to having lost a good job. I hope the next employer snapped up the person promptly, and I hope that the new organization is much less dysfunctional. Whatever the case, Curtis is responsible neither for the poor culture at AA nor for the erstwhile employee's poor anticipation of the probable response of that culture.

In the meantime, I'll be unchecking "AA" on the sidebar of the Kayak site for the foreseeable future.
Fuel leaks from Dreamliner flight to Tokyo