skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

The strategies that are used are unique and sometimes they are made up on the fly depending on hunches that I have. And creativity is a must.

A recent deal I did was a domain where both the buyer (my client) and the seller agreed to a price ($60,000) and both were happy. I perceived to much eagerness on the part of the seller (the tempo of his replies and his voice on the phone) and as a result managed to get him to lower his price by another $4,000 which almost covered my entire fee. All this w/o the buyer even knowing about it. (I did the entire deal from the start and the start price was $200k and it's a pretty good name actually.)

It would be hard to put in words why I decided to take that chance along with the risks etc. (And it didn't put any more money in my pocket I did it just for the fun of following my hunch).

On the sell side I once raised a price by $50,000 merely hearing the buyers voice over the phone. That said almost all deals are done by email not in person and not over the phone. (See if you can guess why I prefer to do it like that.)

This is all psychology and pattern matching and I've been doing it for many years (as well as with things that have nothing to do with domains at all) I've never read a book on it and I wouldn't do that because it would mess up my instincts.

I also do work for VC's and angels acquiring domains and I've helped plenty of people for free (but can't really do that because it's very time consuming). Questions are always invited obviously.
Is the disk in the surface interchangeable (without performing a surgical procedure)? What about the MBA?
Quick, integrate with clef.io instead!
My point is the more we outsource important pieces to the cheaper ends of the globe - the more expensive it becomes for everyone to fix the consequences.
Well i got to 100%, checked out the site and now i don't know if the "Extremely Clever" in the title is ironic or not.

Yes the concept seems nice, but execution is key... therefore i think stating "Extremely Clever" as an ironic remark makes more sense....

/Irony ON

Well done Volkswagen

/Irony OFF
Also, there is choice. There is the Asus Transformer Book coming out, which is perhaps even more powerful (i7) and has a dockable keyboard with extra battery. Or if you want something not as powerful but lighter weight, without a noisy fan, and much better battery life, there is the Asus Vivotab TF810C out now, or the Samsung ATIV Smart PC, although they have the clovertrail atom processor which looks like may not allow installing Linux.
But if the DNS is compromised or if this a MITM attack (in spite of being https) there is no guarantee that the checksum is any more trustworthy.
No one should be influenced by PHP's ad-hoc language design. PHP is an idiosyncratic, programmable API for web apps - it's not really a proper programming language. More pidgin than high elvish.
Yes, that seems to be the case. Also, it has just apparently been fixed.
Wi-Fi “as free as air” – totally false story
Command line video uploader for Vine
I just got bitten by this. I was visiting a news site and opened ~30 tabs to things I wanted to read. And then those tabs just showed me an error message. Frustrating :(

Edit: Might be worth noting that logging out of FB "fixed" this for me. (But I had to go back and re-open all those tabs.)
I believe it detects the action and rats you out although it can't actually stop it. I don't use the app but there was a story recently on some people figuring out a way to evade detection.
Should that be a 256x256 box heatmap?
I don't quite get the analogy. Yes, things have value to people even if it isn't paper money. But saying "t-shirts are currency" carries about the same weight as saying "hugs are currency". Title seems misleading.
Or https://rublon.com :-) contact me for free API access or vBulletin/phpBB/SMF plugins (mw@rublon.com).
3D printing is no doubt awesome, but this video is a scary reminder of how dangerous cool toys could be in the hands of wrong people. If you can print a magazine, I assume eventually you'd be able to print a weapon that can withstand at least one-time use. That means no one needs to buy guns anymore, they just need to print them. Not the most comforting thought.
I think the point he's making is that you don't need to find a jQuery-like library for PHP because you can just use another language.

I personally say nuts to that. With all of the latest projects, PHP development is actually getting to be pretty non-shitty.
I remember throwing together a super basic python script that would query random IP addresses at port 80 and see which ones sent back a response. Basically an attempt to find random web pages by IP address. Seemed like most of my hits were router status pages or Apache server responses.
Entertainingly, that page was among those affected.
That's not how Facebook does things. Actually if you haven't taken down the site, you'll be warned.
You're absolutely right. I have zero tolerance when it comes to cultural acceptance, denial, or apologizing for rape.

We all know what the title is referencing, and it's implying that there are circumstances when "no means no" isn't true. The content of the article may be unrelated, but the title is still problematic.
A perfect case study in why the current practice of "just add a script tag with 'facebook.com/whatever.js' into your page and all your LIKE buttons will work magically!" is an absolutely terrible idea.
This petition was started the day after Swartz's suicide, when almost all public discussion was based on emotional reaction to speculation rather than sound analysis of the facts. This petition reflects that.
Reading all the positive recollections of the 6502 (esp. from people who've programmed other controllers) makes me feel nostalgic. It brings back happy memories of programming (with a paper and pencil -- I had no concept of an editor, or even assembly language) my C=64 -- I had a book of opcodes, and would scan up and down the list to find what I thought I wanted, then write it all out in a notebook. Then I would collect this code, and POKE it into place in the C=64 memory, and voila! Magic! The C=64 was so malleable. I would "hack the kernel"("OS Wedge" is what I knew it as) by resetting an interrupt vector for some function (ie: keyboard interrupt) to the address of my new code, and at the end of my code, call to the ROM for the original code. This way, I could get the screen to change colours every time I pressed a key.

It was one of my first introductions to computing, and probably exactly what I needed.
I did the same thing and no one had yet
"I don't know, sells milk, well I may just have a use for that domain in promoting my product."

So what? I can drive around my neighborhood and somebody might have beat me to the last breakfast sandwich at the Starbucks and they might take one bite and throw it away. The world doesn't work by the fact that you or anyone might have a use for something better than someone else. You pay the money, you buy something, you decide what you want to do with it.

I think what you don't understand is that there is a business model built around buying and selling domains. And there is nothing wrong with doing this even though it upsets many people who just think "it's not fair!".

With your hypothetical company that wants that domain what happens if what you are doing with it (for your "little" store) doesn't match up to some big dairy when they think they should have it. Are you going to just give it to them or would you try to make money? More importantly you seem to assume that "milk.com" would be available right when you want it. The truth is the owner could have sold it years ago to someone for $5,000 that is using it for something and then you wouldn't get it anyway.

I'd like to say that I agree that he, for lack of a better way to put it, is being "a dick". But the truth is that's actually good if you want to buy it because it will scare many people away who could buy the domain in the past who believe his (what I feel is) false bravado.
Or give up closed, centralized systems altogether and take a look at Mozilla's Persona project -- the open web deserves open, federated authentication systems.

(N.B.: I work on Persona, and it does have a centralized fallback for bootstrapping browsers and identities. The difference is that the centralization is temporary, optional, and automatically goes away over time.)
I wish I was blessed with your mental filters for blocking out distractions. Open office plans drive me absolutely bonkers.
There are three ways to interpret it. It is either 11/3, 1/13, or an error. Since 11/3 isn't a valid date, I think it is safe to rule that out as an incorrect interpretation. Either of the other two interpretations seem acceptable to me.
Great addition to a priceless service. Bootstrap definitely really opened up the world of web design and this is a great addition
In One Fell Swoop, Facebook Deep-Sixes The Web
> They are going to be the first company to offer the most
> consistent experience across phone, tablet, and computer.

I'd argue that Apple got there first, with the addition of virtual desktops and Launchpad to OS X.
What has MSR done for me (or hell, even Microsoft) lately? Has any of their research been applied into usable value or changed the scope of human knowledge for the rest of us?

I seriously want to know.
> A couple of weeks later they called him back. "Hey, about that idea..."

That's not what the story seems to say though.

It sounds like Boeing may have reached conclusions through their investigation that resemble what Musk said.

The "Musk fan site" is naturally interpreting this as "Musk's idea," but it's not at all clear Musk had anything to do with it. If there's a reasonable and natural solution to a problem, it's not all surprising when independent teams discover it.
Instead of using lambdas why not name your functions (function expression) and pass those around instead like so:

var someFunc1 = function(){...}

var somFunc2 = function(){...}

someNodeBinder1(someFunc1);

someNodeBinder2(someFunc2);

That being said, this is why it is best to avoid large projects with node.
I enjoyed the humor. Perhaps his responses didn’t entirely serve the How I Work series, but it made Libin seem more approachable.
I'm very interested in those two solutions. Does anyone here have some experience about CouchDB/TouchDB on iOS/Android? Specifically:
Does it replicate reliably to a CouchDB or Couchbase server?
How are conflicts handled?
Are there wrappers already available that map to ObjC/Java native data structures, similar to couchdbkit on python?
Thanks for the feedback cmer! And you're totally right—we want to be very careful about using the word free. We are really a "pay what you want" service.

We initially offered returns for a flat $10, but being new in this space, we found it was difficult to get attention and that many were still doing their taxes on paper because of the perception that they had to pay. We're hoping we can convince many of these paper filers to switch knowing that payment is optional, not mandatory.
That's how Shodan (shodanhq.com) started :)
Why Is There a Skeptical Movement?
The fact that it is effective marketing doesn't nullify the fact that it is misleading. In fact, those two properties go hand-in-hand most of the time (though not always).
Facebook like button Fail
We just had ten minutes or so of very strange behaviour. Rendering the Like button on our home page suddenly redirected the whole page to a Facebook error page. Until we removed the like button, our page was effectively unavailable.

It would be interesting to know how many Like buttons disappear overnight because of this.

Error message:

An error occurred. Please try again later.

API Error Code: 100
API Error Description: Invalid parameter
Error Message: You are using display type "none" on the domain "www.facebook.com", which is invalid. You should access a different domain (m.facebook.com, www.facebook.com), or use one of the following supported display types: page, popup, iframe

UPDATE: Seems to have been fixed. Anyone have a good idea of how long it happened for?
Printing a magazine is entirely different from printing a barrel. Either way you'd be better off with a CNC mill from China and already available plans.

Personally, I would not be willing to fire a gun made of plastic. High pressure + weak material -> fragmentation.
But have you seen nicer without paying money for it? I think the little nags you presented don't outweigh the price you have to pay for MS Office. Not for me anyway.
The site

http://www.economist.com/

works fine for me, perhaps because I have never used Facebook to log into it.

AFTER EDIT: Replying to the kind reply to this comment, I am ALWAYS logged in to Facebook (with AdBlock Plus and Social Fixer and Ghostery activated, using Chrome), and I was surfing all over the Web completely normally while sites were reported to be redirecting. So maybe something different about my set-up protected me from the problems many other users observed today.
Any info for what the payload is and any info on how to tell if you've been infected?

Adobe's security advisory says they're aware of these attacks happening in the wild, so they must presumably know something about it. It would be nice if they shared these details.
Rumblings of a New Mac Pro with Release Date in Spring 2013
To be honest, I don't see how "pay what you want" is any better than free. I'd A/B test this, but my gut feeling is that charging a flat fee will lead to much higher conversion.
The suggestion was that you can retain the recovery partition contents on another drive (eg a USB drive), which is something that supposedly can't be done on the MBA. [e: maybe you can.. although the link does not make it clear that it can be removed from the MBA's disk, and the point was really about the saved space]

I agree few will likely know about it, but that doesn't make it invalid, nor is the space saved irrelevant to those that do.
This reminds me, gently, of two things.

1) The Opte Project (http://www.opte.org/maps/)

2) A hoax torrent download "HACKER TOOL EVERY IP ADDRESS EVER" (http://imgur.com/7CMCceQ)
Isn't anyone just happy to not have a spinning platter of metal in their laptop? There has always been a difference between unformatted and formatted space on disks. Look at an old box of 1.44MB floppy disks and you'll clearly see that formatted space and unformatted space are reported separately. The same thing goes for hard drives. What file system you put on the HD can make a difference too.

There will always be somewhat less space than the full raw capacity. In this case the problem appears to be shipping large pre-installed software and OS on a smallish SSD. Five years from now when higher capacity is cheaper, no one will even care.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5185600. Every page with a FB Like button on it went to that FB error page.
Also, your site TOTALLY needs to be on SSL. With the green bar. Even the marketing site. You need to instill as much trust as you can.

Show me some fancy logos of why I should trust you. At the very top of the page.

Trust is your biggest problem at the moment in my opinion. Identity fraud is so widespread nowadays people are careful.
You are unique in that internal folks are your users. I think most other folks don't have the chance to spend nearly as much time with users.
Good lord, could the title be a little more editorialized?
"Civil Disobedience means accepting that what you are doing is illegal and dealing with the consequences. Period." Excuse me, the dude took his own life. That's a pretty powerful "fuck you" to the government. Another idiotic meme that needs to die: if a prosecution of an individual is unjust, it doesn't matter whether said individual went in expecting to become a martyr.
Ok, please use any decent php web framework and compare the speed to lets say python/ruby - not to mention something like pypy.

"Hello World" is not world-like performance benchmark.
How is it misleading? Saying that someone is in the "Top 5%" most viewed profiles is pretty straightforward. Just because there are a lot of people in the top 5% doesn't make it "misleading".
Yadda yadda yadda, doesn't matter.

When people buy a laptop they expect the OS will take up a good chunk of the storage space. When people buy a tablet they don't have that expectation.

More importantly, when the free space is significantly less than half the advertized storage and there is no warning that's the case people are going to be surprized and upset, and rightfully so.

In a Macbook Air the worst you get is a reduction to about 70-75% of the listed storage capacity (in the 128 or 64 gb models), which is annoying but not crazy. In the Surface Pro 64 model you are reduced to about 1/3 of the initial capacity, which is ridiculous and definitely deserves some sort of warning on the packaging, I would think. Expecting a reduction by 1/4 is reasonable common sense, experiencing a reduction by 2/3 is surprising.
Aside from anything else, the function call and object instantiation overhead of this library is insane.

The string comparison function provided as an example is 4 times slower than the code it's based upon, and 3 times slower than a completely equivalent multibyte-aware version.
It's not whether you've ever used Facebook to log into The Economist's site, but whether you were logged into Facebook at all. If you were, you were redirected.

EDIT: By the timestamp on your comment, the issue appears to have been fixed, anyway.
Reminds me of the old Point "Top 5% of all web sites" award graphic that seemingly every website boasted in 1995. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycos_TOP_5%25
Again, building large things on big proprietary services is a bad idea unless you understand what you're getting into.

I can almost guarantee that the folks that implemented FB connect didn't understand that the failure mode could forward all traffic to FB. I have no idea how that could become a rational design decision.
I've always wondered why it takes forever to load most pages. Im running debian on SSD with 32G ram and a video card that can handle anything yet Iceweasel, reg FF and Chrome all take forever to load pages like I'm using 1990s internets. Blocking all java scripts and tweaking the guts of FF to load faster still results in Netscape navigator 33.6kps speed to render text.
Yep. We prefer the <iframe> solution over their JavaScript-created versions for this reason.
A firearm entirely made of plastic doesn't seem practical, you really need metal and we've had CNC metal-working lathes since the 60s.

Why haven't people started making their own firearms? Probably its much cheaper to just buy a gun. Although people seem to make excellent knockoffs in Afganistan.
A lot of HR has to do with legal compliance, so generally HR systems are country-specific.
The Browser Wars Go Mobile
I posted this exact same link a few hours ago, and it was accepted as a new submission. So what's going on? Can moderators reassign story submissions?
Uh, see this link up yonder: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5185497
It is misleading because it is clearly playing off the fact that most people won't do the math and will think 5% puts them in an elite group.

Misleading doesn't necessarily mean lying.
"By luck and various cabal like connections" - wasn't the Topaz link on hackernews or lobsters like 2 days ago?
> (also note that pygments chokes on my perfectly valid ruby file, at `%r(\\\\)`)

Pygments was actually better at lexing ruby at one point but the regular expressions were too complex and some other bug fixes broke other stuff. I think at the moment it's good enough.

But yeah, I was in the same boat. I learned Ruby for Pygments.

//EDIT: vim does considerably worse on that file btw.
Wercker Continuous Delivery
> all of his bullets apply to GHC Haskell too

No chance. Using the `go` tool to install packages is at least an order of magnitude less annoying than using `cabal`.
They recorded the whole response. "...and the second one simply writes down the response packets received." They also randomized the order in which they scanned so they might have needed to keep track of already scanned addresses. "Although we have sent just a single packet per IP, we messed the scans to prevent a network receiving a high number of consecutive packets."
I think the capitalisation of the words was intended to solicit exactly this response. The point is that that recent things such as Google, Wikipedia and GPS are just as important as those previous innovations.
I am not discounting due to word choice, i am discounting because his points seem to be a rant based on the whim that software never has bugs or problems. For some mongo does exactly as advertised, for some it doesn't. It is the same argument that you can pose between eventual and immediate consistency.

Also i will be the first to agree that Mongo does not hold up well to all points but to say that data gets lost is pretty bold. I have been using it for quite some time now and by following mongo best practices, i have not lost any data. In fact by following mongo best practices i have saved myself from a few data-catastrophes.

The argument that it doesn't come configured correctly out of the box is pretty weak too (at least that is how i am reading his statement of "broken by default"). What is configuration too hard. Sure they put their software out in a way that is more in tune with a lab / development atmosphere... but if your using mongo in production and you do not do the proper configuration steps, then maybe you should hang up your devops hat and hand that job off to someone else. Even mysql sucks for production out of the box, it is a security nightmare. Innodb looses data when shutdown incorrectly especially if the journal is corrupt. Saying that there is only one drive fault tolerance just means that your not striping your data properly. All the arguments are based upon a lazy implementation not actual problems.

And YES you should know something about how your backend software works. You should know it intimately so that you can debug and make it more bullet proof. So ya, i think the arguments are weak and full of hate and not something made off of experience and ability to work with a software vendor. Do i think mongo is perfect for the tinkerer like mysql is, no. Do i think mongo is good enough to hold BI data that is critical, yes.
I don't really see the issue- you can already make weapons relatively easily, look at this guy who made an AK out of an old shovel.

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/build-yourself/17...

Heres a basic concept of a .410 shotgun in a flashlight. (something that could be made at home with drill press and a few other things.)

http://hackedgadgets.com/2007/03/09/shotgun-flashlight/

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Honestly, a hi capacity magazine is the least of your worries...
Like Warren Buffet's house.
Hmmm... Light at 'bicycle' speeds? RadioLab/Physics
What if I want to e-mail them? or do something else with that contact?

I don't have a SIM in my iPhone right now, so maybe that is why I'm not seeing the 'call' option, but I remember at the time trying to figure out how to get the persons contact details and I couldn't find it.
Easy, ban the bullets.
While Tor will send a T-Shirt to anyone who runs a Tor Relay for a couple of months (and meets some basic bandwidth requirements).

https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/tshirt.html
If its all plastic you can walk through metal detectors. As for afghanistan their knockoffs they buy in Pakistan gun markets are pretty good considering they are entirely made from scrap metal. Well, used to be before the gun markets were shut down by the taliban. You'd think they want to keep it open to buy weapons guess they are more worriied with angry villagers getting weapons and runninng them out of town