skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it doesn't mean that. And I wasn't arguing that. I wasn't arguing anything, just laying things out a bit more clearly since you didn't seem to have a solid grasp on reality.
Linked from their Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/291229144065388544
Is there an equivalent to

http://www.debian-administration.org/

for MVS, z/OS, pretty much any mainframe system (other than S390 linux, which is kinda cheating)
Upgrades in Arch often require manual editing of files and an understanding what is done. Sadly that is not suitable for "friends and family".
But there's several ways to dissect this data. For example, the number of unsolicited messages that a man gets and the number of followups (and perhaps, how fast those followup messages occur) is probably a good insight to how "attractive" he is.

Now if you think its harder to determine this for females because the amount of noise that they get...then the computer can factor in the number of "attractive" men (as judged above) who fawn over you, either by messaging or stalky profile views.

And of course, number of profile views (over time) and by repeat viewers (indicating the number of obsessed secret fans you have) is probably a good baseline to start from.
I agree.

I expect that at some point Abelson will get to the bottom of that one and name names. I don't expect a pretty response.
It was a problem with the iSocket ad network. Fixed now.
"The twelve steps are only suggestions in AA"

As far as my experience goes in going to meetings with friends and watching their progress (or not), they are made to know that completing the steps is essential to their recovery/stability, even if "suggestions". It is a cultural process. Perhaps ones that can be completed at their leisure and ability, but it's still a ritual considered more require d than suggested.
There’s Gold in Them Hills: Gold Panning for Attention Hackers
I'm surprised no one mentioned coffeemeetsbagel.com yet.
Yes, a way for startups to learn from each other using peer groups. We're looking into also adding expert advice-givers for those who need it as a revenue model.
Series A Crunch: Tyranny of the TAM
I'm not convinced the conclusion is incorrect. The crapware situation on Windows IS horrible, whether you download any of it or not. Even if you manage to reliably avoid it, that still takes a non-zero amount of effort.
So the technology platform is Simple's main product (after all, they're not a bank, that part is left up to their bank partner), right?

In light of that, it seems odd that they'd farm out the development of one of the biggest customer-facing parts of that platform to a third party.
Yes, I see. In a way I do understand the point. Though, a good copywriter will want to take control of all things related to the copy, as in the text font, images related. etc. In my experience, it creates a lot of friction between front-end people. At the end of the day, it is the copywriter the one who usually wins due to my inherent obsession of testing everything. I've made companies get rid of so much web 2.0 fluff (and in the process convert more people into customers) that I always wonder if designers ever test anything.
A psychiatric evaluation of whether the defendant is able to stand trial would seem to be warranted.

Also a rethink of how much punishment is warranted.
'Insulting words' crime ditched
I think a lot of the apparent neurotic preferences of online daters stems from our usual goal of using the internet for instant gratification. Linkbait headlines, meme images, "mind-blowing" photos, and of course, porn. With online dating, the closest thing providing a similar rush is finding a person who's really hot in their photos. Writing off people for any foible or plain appearance is just a habit from ignoring anything remotely unstimulating on the internet.
MonkeyOrm: a small SQL-based ORM for .NET
They see to have made a really nice custom styled app while still remaining true to modern Android conventions. Well done.

It would be cool if banks could license their code (for a hefty fee) because the apps by banks here in thee Netherlands aren’t very good at all.
I apologize for being patronizing, then.
They're in the commodity e-mail delivery service too -- Mandrill -- in addition to MailChimp. Pretty smart to reuse the hardware, staff and ISP/RBL relationships they established with MailChimp to also serve the SMTP-as-a-service market.

I use both. I have sendmail on my servers set to route everything through Mandrill, so my apps don't need to be aware of what software/service I choose for e-mail delivery. I send newsletters/product announcement type mails with MailChimp for the design templates and subscription management.
As I understand it, Fedora's packaging policy is more or less the same as Debian's. Free software only (stricter than Ubuntu), though there are some practical differences. They don't like packaging emulators that are primarily useful for non-Free ROMs. It is also my understanding, different than Debian, they don't like packaging software that no longer has a maintaining developer. Also no external kernel modules, no prebuilt libraries, etc.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Legal
As someone who works for a small business in New York... hahahahaha. Ha. Haha.
SevOne raises $150M to monitor your network P2P-style
I take issue with that last point. While it's true that good developers aren't currently unemployed--especially these days--that doesn't mean they're not looking for something new, especially if what you have to offer (better fit and something awesome to work on) is available to them.

I for one would be interested in reading your proposed next blog post. ;)
This is exactly what happened when Prop 30 passed last year:

http://allthingsd.com/20121204/what-proposition-30-means-for...
On Suicide and Morals
So your response to someone who is presumed innocent and afraid of prison is to put them in jail? Perhaps we understand "presumed innocent" differently, because that does not seem very fair to me.
For any non-flat configuration file XML is far from a bad choice. It obviously has its issues, often YAML or something less syntactically burdensome might be better, but I'd need to hear a convincing argument before I would say that it's always the "wrong" choice for configuration files.
This is a very complicated situation.

Let's suppose that last Thursday the prosecutor (or whoever had the power) decided that there was a big suicide chance and Aaron Swartz were locked in a psychiatric hospital under suicide watch for his own safety.

I'm sure that it would have been a very big outrage, and most of the people would have say that it was an exaggeration and just an excuse to punish him, and claimed for his immediate liberation.
The site goes down because of a distributed "attack" in the wake of Aaron's death. Coordinating a distributed denial of service attack (as characterized in the worst possible light) is not a legal activity. Less crazy charges have been brought for other "hacking" activities.

Accessing "hidden" URLs has been called unauthorized access; deep linking or just linking to something like deCSS has been likened to a crime; port scanning has been legally attacked a few times.

If these same type of people think URLs are a crime, I don't think the scenario I described is that bizarre. Look up that news story about the guy in a glider near a nuclear plant (he was catching a thermal from the lake) -- there was never a no fly zone, but officials actually considered shooting him down! Instead they held him for 24 hours while his loved ones started a search for his glider. They dropped the charges only after he agreed not to sue them!
Important for those who haven't heard yet: jQuery 2.0 will not support IE 6, 7 or 8.
Porn is a symptom of their neuroses, not the cause.
Lots of truth here, but I'd point out that the one thing you don't want is someone who only knows one language well. They haven't had practice thinking in different headspaces and they see things interacting from only one perspective.

Unless you have someone managing them who can see from all the perspectives you need and ensure that the developer doesn't break compatibility, you're better off finding someone who isn't a one-trick pony.
This is very well done. Usually I'm skeptical when a startup elects not to do the Android app themselves; it's often a sign that they don't really care about the platform. But in this case it's obvious that Two Toasters cares deeply, and I'm sure they weren't the cheapest option, so that shows that Simple cares as well.

In the future it might be smart for startups whose care value isn't in the UI, to only do their web apps themselves and outsource the native apps to experts in the platforms, with guidance of course.
>Despite her tremendous insights, Noether suffered constant discrimination from the male-dominated academic society of her time

My understanding is that many of her peers recognized her -- it was the universities themselves that refused to properly hire her, etc.
But thats the job of the copywriter. Making sure everything reads and displays. I think there is a bigger issue at hand and that is the fragmentation of skills going on. People are hiring more specialists when there is no need for one. A (good and experienced) copywriter with real world knowledge can actually do all those things you mention. Maybe its another buzzword like growth hacking, which I use to like and use, but now loathe.

Any list of good UX people I could research?
I used to work for Twilio. Their Twilio Client JavaScript SDK has supported WebRTC for two months now. You can use it to connect to the PSTN or SIP addresses. http://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/11/webrtc-for-twilio-client-...

As I said in another comment, I should know better than to expect simple fact-checking from a TC author. But somehow I'm still disappointed.
Congratulations for an excellently written article. I found myself engrossed by the descriptions, and it has the appropiate amount of humor too.

Sadly I don't think I can find most of the items in my home country (maybe there's an opportunity there :) ).
"Porn is an instant pleasure. Enjoying sex in eight years (earlier if you're lucky but don't cross your fingers just yet) does not compare very well to that"

I'm glad you've discovered masturbation, but what does this have to do with the topic at hand?
Even better, come to Vancouver. You get SRED and no snow. Just rain.
I doubt that lawyers are falsely in the habit of claiming that their clients are suicide risks. But even if so, if it comes up very often then a reasonable procedure to handle it can still be worked out. Jail time for a person who is not a flight risk and is still presumed innocent does not, in my books, qualify as a reasonable procedure.
As someone who wrote an XML config file for a project way back when, I can provide a few answers.

For me, it was either use an off the shelf parser or write my own. The config files at the time were all like apache's config - various combinations of weird syntax.

XML came with parsers off the shelf and gave you some validation up front. If there were other tools at the time available, I probably hadn't found them, and XML had a lot of buzz so it was easy to find.

These days all the libraries have parsers for a variety of easy to use data formats, from JSON and YAML to Protobufs and ini files.
Pleading guilty doesn't signify anything other than admitting that you are guilty of breaking the law. It doesn't signify that you agree that the law itself is just. Thoreau said, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
Remember all the XML programming languages? I recall Water http://waterlanguage.org/, for example, getting some buzz in the Boston area during the buzzy time Daniel Lemire refers to...
I'd be curious to know how many California taxpayers this decision affects.
The Nature of Code: free creative coding book w/ examples that run in browser
I can understand dropping 6 and 7, but 8? That browser's not going away anytime soon.
As a physicist, I can't speak to her contributions to pure math -- but Noether's Theorem really is a vitally important part of modern physics. Bread and cheese territory there, too.
"I don't think, however, that our society denigrates sex"

You seem to not pay attention to our lawmakers, our newsmedia, and have many conversations with the persons around you.
We had an entire system based on SQL Server's "FOR XML" output clause and XML data islands in IE. It was an unmitigated fucking disaster zone that took 5 years to get rid of.

That put us off the above pretty sharpish.
Government Criminalizes Aaron Schwarz While Descriminalizing Polluters
Css framework based on widget-modifier coding style
The credentials can be generated dynamically from any server side language like php, python or ruby and sent to the js. Once the call is done or after a certain time these credential can be deleted using server side APIs too.

Edit:

Creating an Endpoint - http://plivo.com/docs/api/endpoint/#create

Deleting an Endpoint - http://plivo.com/docs/api/endpoint/#delete
"you could teach "Porn isn't good for you, if you want to enjoy sex.""

I try not to lie to children, if at all possible.
But therein lies the problem: a tool that you don't use often (hence a low number of ad impressions), and an unobtrusive ad that you might not even see, let alone click. That's unlikely to earn enough money to be worth it. The developer either has to drop the advertising revenue model and try another, or crank the ad model to questionable ethics. Sadly, some developers opt to do the latter.
> "MIT rejected offer for no jail time for Swartz."

It would be interesting to know who made that call. And why.

- from an alum with multiple degrees. I find it particularly bizarre knowing some history of disciplinary measures there.
I am going to be in quite the conundrum when I get a Simple invite. On the one hand, I think what they're doing is awesome — for me, namely, the Safe-to-spend feature. I currently keep track of this in a not-so-accurate Excel spreadsheet and in my head.

On the other hand, I currently use Perkstreet's debit card for everything and the 1% cash back adds up in a noticeably short period of time.

I wonder if the 1% cash back is worth the grunt work that Simple would make quite, well, simple.
Do you know if six months was the only condition of the plea?
My point: They have to charge what they do to continue doing what they do.
Your state's gun laws prevent me from ever living there.
> Use the best tool for the job and all that.

I don't know of anyone advocating that they something other than the best tools for the job should ever be used. The question is whether a particular tool is good for a particular job or not.
When you swipe your credit card it tends to end up batch processed not in real time but yeah that does eventually go through a mainframe. Other than that I agree gooby. :)
"It seems that the majority of the media consumed by young people carries the message that sex is extremely important and if you are not doing it with everyone in every way, you are brainwashed by religious or moral beliefs."

Sex as necessary for social station is not being sex-positive.
I always liked Jay McInerney's opening sentence from Bright Lights, Big City: "You’re not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning."
Given Aaron's history of depression, past blog posts about suicide, the stress of the trial, etc, I am sure that most people would not have been outraged. As long as the psychiatric hospital is believed to be impartial, their judgement would have seemed reasonable.

However the call to actually lock him up in the hospital CANNOT come from someone involved in the legal process against him. Allowing THAT would just lead to further abuses of power.
Seems clear to me. Fast fixes ftw!
People do this all the time!

If someone says "A would be good with B" and the other person doesn't think B is attractive, they say "No, I don't think A would like B".
Come to New Mexico. Cost of living is cheap and we have great weather.
It's going to have support for al IEs but as an official plugin and not in the main distribution (which is a good thing IMHO)
Why is this thread not showing among first results? It is heavily up-voted.
That rings kind of hollow after Blecharczyk ("among the nicest of all the people we've funded") was outed as an unrepentant habitual spammer. YC is demonstrably not immune to scumbags, which is not to say that other angels and VCs do better.
"it feels more like ... than datasets in the billions/trillions of rows"

LOL that's a pretty good description of what the financial services company I was working at 20 years ago. Right next to my WAN cabinets was a fully automated tape robot holding something like 4 exabytes possible. 60 gigs on each new 3590 tape cartridge times 100 on a shelf times 10 shelves per "bookcase" times 2 cases per track segment times 30 or so segments long (oh yes I'm well aware that's like 100 yards long and that was a huge PITA WRT my WAN cabinets) that's 3.6 exabytes if stuffed full. Thats alot today. But this story is from 20 years ago.

I was not involved in the DB side but supposedly they had a continuous stream of IRS/SEC related inquiries about individual stock transactions from 7 years ago or whatever.

Supposedly the recent tapes store 4 TB per cartridge, so run the math again and ...
Big Data and Government Transparency
This article either misses the point or just got the wrong headline. The article is about the mechanics of how Apple maintains price discipline in the channel. Apple sets its prices, and is able to maintain that channel discipline, because they understand that price is determined by perceived differential value.

They try to make things that people will find valuable. Since they have done a great job in a number of categories, they can set the price, and effectively dictate the terms to retailers. Other manufacturers use similar channel pricing mechanisms, but lack the clout to make them stick as well as Apple.
I don't. In fact, the fact that Swartz committed suicide indicates either that the deal on the table wasn't just a six month deal, or that Swartz was, psychologically, in an extraordinarily bad place. It's hard to fathom the idea someone would commit suicide over federal charges when they had the option of taking six months at Club Fed.
This page crashed my PC. Fedora Core 17 64 Bit, Firefox 17
A note - this is not by me. I did not write this. I just found it by accident, and it looks really interesting.
Netflix wants open-source developers, cloud alternatives
There's also the added complication that a lot of people actually use online dating more for ego re-enforcement than actually looking for a date.

Someone who is single and struggling in RL dating might like getting 100 "dam ur hot xx" messages but they probably don't want to date the sort of people who send them.
Install Rails on Linux Mint in 5 Steps
I personally think that Microsoft is far too willing to roll over and play dead when it comes to anti-trust issues.

They should simply ban any adware on Windows that is opt-out rather than opt-in. If anyone breaks that rule, they should put it in the anti-virus signature database for Microsoft Security Essentials, so it cannot be installed without the user going through hoops.

They should then go to the DOJ or the EU, say, "We want to clean up the user experience," back it up with articles from Mac-lovers like Walt Mossberg talking about how bad the crapware experience is on Windows, printouts of forums like this one showing nearly-universal hatred of these practices, etc.

And if the DOJ or EU say "No, we'll slap antitrust fines on you if you do that," then they should publish all of the correspondence publicly, and harness the waves of Internet fury to compel the regulators to back down. Even if the regulators don't back down, they'll get good publicity from actually taking responsibility for their platform and trying to clean it up.

P.S. The Bing toolbar doesn't help Microsoft's case. They should "take one for the user" and voluntarily eliminate the Bing toolbar. If they succeed in getting rid of all toolbars, then maybe they'll actually get more traffic to Bing, because users won't have their search engines hijacked.
First Look at the New Myspace
Best of Quora 2010–2012 [pdf]
Sitting is the smoking of our generation
Reminds me of the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" trope.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
"Even 20 years ago porn was too expensive for the average person to afford very much of it."

They could afford it, they could not afford to hoard and stream it at will. The mechanics have not changed significantly, even as we spend more time searching for "novel" mp3s and video.

Do we have a "problem" with Netflix? Pandora? I spend constant (wasted) hours cataloging and retagging my music collection.
This is true, but it depends how much more (or less) attractive one is made to look by their photos than how they actually look IRL.
These are running kvm so presumably you should be able to.

https://www.digitalocean.com/faq
We use KVM and ECC RAM. And yes, you can install and run your own kernel. =]
Women on OKCupid tend to rate men disproportionately low. There is an OKCupid blog post showing the distribution of the ratings they give men, and they are strongly skewed towards the lower end of the scale. This is one of the many reasons I don't use online dating sites.
Khan Academy is down
I'm in IT Audit for a Big 4 doing SOX 404 testing daily, it might as well be pizza slices, the current regulations completely miss the point that bog down productivity much more than pizza slices do!
Don't come to New York, then. If your access to rifles is more important than the tax codes your startup may or may not face, stay where you are.
XML is still a good solution for human-readable data. JSON, for instance, doesn't allow comments because of some dogmatic idea of the author. The author of JSON even goes as far as suggesting that you use a non-JSON parser to strip out comments before parsing. In other words, not using JSON for configuration files that need comments.[1]

XML is also very ubiquitous in library support, having been around for over 15 years.

I think the most negative reaction to XML is the extreme overuse for things like component configuration, where there's no defaults, and every property and class name must be specified. Also, the misguided tag closing (<tag>content</> would have sufficed) adds to the verbosity.

1: https://plus.google.com/118095276221607585885/posts/RK8qyGVa...
> They could have made a real Windows Store instead of a WinRT-only store.

And they didn't have to wait for Windows 8 to do it, either. Roll it out with Windows 7 SP2.

Microsoft is way too wedded to their multi-year release cycles.
Thanks for that. God I hope firewalld has more intuitive config than iptables.
It's not always wrong, but you have to weigh the advantages against the disadvantages. If you want mechanical editing or syntactic validation it's an advantage. I don't like hand-editing launchd configuration files, but it's helpful that software can ship with launchd configuration files to be installed and it all just works. On the other side of the coin, if there's a lot of scripting going on in the configuration file, the XML will either become burdensome to write or it will wind up carrying around big strings with their own syntax buried within the elements, circumventing the whole point of using XML.
I have big hopes for large-scale data analysis to lend more transparency to government and sniff out corruption.
Hack For The Greater Good
Glad you brought this out. Plivo not only allows calling out to SIP addresses, but also allows any SIP Device (hardphone, softphone) to call to a WebRTC endpoint.

I am not sure, how the SDK you mentioned here would allow you to do that as Twilio does not support inbound SIP. And thats why the TC article says its a first!
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