skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't get to the site so I'm not sure what the details are but if the following aren't in place then those are empty promises.

- Open source the code

- Allow users to supply their own domain

- An API (not "coming soon...")

If all those are in place then great :)

[edit] Looks like the site doesn't support any of the 3 - facepalm
You think? It's OSX's job to give me a way to say "Don't let the combination of Mysql, Apache and nginx use more than 1 GB ram" ?

I disagree. That doesn't belong in a consumer OS.
What about general utility apps, other than RSS readers?
"The attack was injected into the site's HTML, so any engineer who visited the site and had Java enabled in their browser would have been affected," Sullivan told Ars, "regardless of how patched their machine was."

How can one find out if one has been infected?
As with many (but not all) things Microsoft do, when the thick layers of gelatinous hivemind diatribe are pealed away what's left are sound, conscientious engineering decisions made by an organization with a near pristine history of supporting end users and going to extraordinary lengths to preserve backwards compatibility.

As for instances where they have not preserved support and compatibility, Silverlight comes to mind, and they dumped that largely in favour of frameworks targeting HTML+JS.

(I'm not a Microsoft employee, just a user who appreciates the APIs I cut my teeth on 20 years ago remain applicable today)
Google, Tumblr, etc. all have investors and shareholders which are trying to turn a profit. I think the idea here (and Garry can correct me if I'm wrong) is that they'll never take on outside funding or entertain selling the company, the sole purpose of the site will be to build something that is sustainable and lasting as opposed focusing on profit.
Can somebody please help me out? I'm confused here. I thought Posterous (before being acquired by Twitter) was doing quite well and was seen as the biggest competitor to Tumbler. It would seem that Posterous had a ton of users (would love to know details) and that they could monetize those users fairly simply through display ads. So, with a ton of users creating content and even more viewing that content, I would imagine it to be a pretty good business model.

What confuses me is that rumor has it that Posterous was sold for $10m. I really don't understand that. That basically is treating all of posterous.com users/content as worthless, and just buying the team. And it appears that Twitter did think like that (considering that posterous.com is shutting down).

But my question is how many users did posterous have? What was their traffic like? Were they doing well, or were they a sinking ship and thus they sold? Or did Twitter offer much more than $10m (maybe stock options worth 30-40m more?)?

I'd like to know because I think it would be helpful for startups to understand this space (blogging, content creation) and what kind of business models work and what kind of traffic is needed to make a successful business.

So, if there is anybody with inside knowledge on this stuff, please speak up. I'd also love to hear directly from the Posterous co-founders. Please share your experiences.
Are you saying that people who do not know that rule of thumb are not reasonable people?
looks nice, but why doesn't it just extend the core array type? (I mean with a "class", not by adding things to Array.prototype). That way things like Array.isArray() still work. Am I missing something?
Swiss watchmakers – An industry ripe for a shake-up
I use zootool, pretty easy and simple.

I'm going to have to try kippt that @eduadordm recommended, it looks sweet.
Let me restate my thesis because I sense I wasn't clear given your response.

I believe that programmers rejection of visual programming tools has lead to a situation where programmers haven't been able to easily integrate Excel into programmer's workflow in a meaningful way or evolve tools as easy to use as Excel that translate directly to code.
The more I read about this kid, I'm baffled that a16z would invest such a large amount in the company. The product can be duplicated and currently only has a stranglehold on the rap-lyrics market - i.e. annotation for any other segment is still up for grabs and can be done by a duplicate product.

Having said that, the stability and reliability of the founder must have been taken into account in determining the value of the venture. $15/16 million or whatever the amount was seems crazy high considering how much of a loose cannon he appears to be. Wouldn't surprise me to see them slowly diminish his role.
http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/02/14/whats-nosql/
Cool. Can't wait to see the winning design. Maybe we should add "must be able to successfully destroy a meteor" to the list of requirements!
SEC freezes Swiss account over Heinz trades
Fair enough, but why doesn't he just cut it out?

At the first hint of pain that thing would be outta there for me.
WordPress.com was down
Whoever made this should submit an application to be in the next YC batch. I have a strong feeling they would get in. :)
Yes, and that very moment all such pledge go down the gutter.

Just look at the examples.

WebFaction works just fine for me and so does Jekyll.
You can be both! But I am usually more annoyed by rich content than the lack thereof. It grabs your CPU and memory and screams out to anyone in your vicinity, "Look what x is browsing!"
It's overpriced by the definition of MLM. Normal retail: the store buys from a wholesaler and sells to you. MLM: Some guy buys from the wholesaler, and sells it to his downstreams, who sell it to their downstreams, through however many levels of the pyramid it takes to reach you, the sucker^Wcustomer. Of course, they don't really want to sell items to customers, the point of MLM is to get new vendors who will buy their stocks from you.

As for crap, well, most of them sell "health products". So sometimes you're getting homeopathic "cures" (read: water), sometimes it's just $30/bottle fruit juice (Monavie).

MLM is a scourge on people with low incomes who just want to get ahead. They use cult-like techniques to make victims believe they'll get rich if they can just recruit enough people, and make sure the victims ignore any advice or warnings from outside. The only people making money here are the ones who created the thing.
Having a second browser brings also the advantage of not being signed in to Gmail constantly while googling things etc.
I think github.com is the best example of #2.
HBO Go AirPlay and Apple TV Tips
I pretty much put everything I want to keep for future reference or reading in Pinboard.in.
I use Chrome for all bookmarks I want to share publicly at work, home and etc. For private bookmarks, I use my desktop. (And this is the main reason I moved away from Ubuntu + Unity. Someone had the bright idea of disallowing URL dragging to the desktop.)
Technology companies have their eye on Africa. IBM is leading the way
> I think #4 (no liability for independent invention) would effectively eliminate software patents by itself.

As long as it starts with a presumption of independent invention until proven otherwise by the patent holder, yes.
This is for our PyCon booth so if you're coming to PyCon2013, stop by and take a look at the finished product.
I'm moving here, looks awesome and love what Garry's doing with it :-)
Nice rebuttal: "Oh, it'll say it in this physical resource that you won't have access to".

Looking through google for 'the United States Government', most of the results refer to the three branches, but describe other powers as falling to the states as a different entity, if they're described at all. Certainly if you look at news sources for terms like "called on the United States government", they're all federal-style issues, not state - state issues tend to be specified as such.

You may also want to change the leading paragraph of the Wikipedia article, since it's peddling the "I don't really know anything" viewpoint, given how powerful WP is as a source.

So, as I asked, do you have any reliable, definitive resources I can actually access, or are you content to just call me uneducated with a lazy, hand-wavy dismissal? I'm happy to be proven wrong, but not in the lazy way you're going about it.
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That rule of thumb only works in a very small number of countries ;)
It's also likely to be inherently hard to optimize; aka slow and will stay slow. I thinks it's a generally bad idea. It also undermines what limited tooling there is for JS; and it exposes Yet Another set of semantics - what exactly does that query do, how is it translated, what are the corner cases etc.

Very Bad idea. (And for what - avoiding a few characters that are so common as to be trivially skimmable and very gzippable?)
If the failure can be attributed to the credit card, the Xeround account, and the authors email client, then it isn't really a single point of failure. If one (or even two) of those failed, the others should have been able to identify the problem and address it before the sites were taken offline. It was the combination of the three failing at the same time that led to the ultimate failure.
Creating a code_swarm for your git repository
While I don't have the reference, I'm fairly certain NemID has announced that they're looking towards a non-java interface.
It's mostly for insurance fraud and accident culpability. Intentionally backing into someone's car to try to make it look like they ran into you and other hijinx aren't that uncommon in Russia. Also, accidents are more common, and the justice system isn't exactly the best, so it helps to have a record of what actually happened.
Collective-action Prisoner's Dilemma. And everyone cooperated! You might have acted rationally had you decided to take the exam, but you'll find that social pressure will occasionally make everyone (a) much nicer than you, and (b) in blatant disregard of game-theoretic rationality.

Actually, to make it a real case of Prisoner's Dilemma, he could have given the students who took the test a 100 and everyone else a 0, but given everyone an 80 if no one took the test. Which I would have found much more interesting.
Is this what you want to talk about today? You must not be very busy :)
> You think? It's OSX's job to give me a way

Bzzzt! Jumped to conclusions & placed words in my mouth! Thanks for playing. BTW, I'm an iOS developer and I've been using OS X as almost my exclusive dev environment since 2003.

Sorry, forgot that I have to keep quiet about shortcomings of OS X, or else.

> I disagree. That doesn't belong in a consumer OS.

I applaud your brave stance against the straw man you just conjured. [slow clap]
This is yet another reminder of how important it is to own your content, and why a blog is best hosted at a domain you control.
Services that don't get traction shutdown. Services that get traction and become successful eventually shutdown anyway. I wonder whats the point of investing my time in a free service.
*quickly looks up the definition of 'isomorphism'*

Definitions of isomorphism:

Find isomorphisms at great prices!

Wait, that's not one... strangely makes me want to click through though.

1. Biology: Similarity in form, as in organisms of different ancestry.
2. Mathematics: A one-to-one correspondence between the elements of two sets such that the result of an operation on elements of one set corresponds to the result of the analogous operation on their images in the other set.
3. Chemistry: A close similarity in the crystalline structure of two or more substances of similar chemical composition.

Yep, definitely some questionable usage there.
That might take a lot of Nerf darts.
People do tend to imitate what they see. Certainly it's not set in stone and there are always counterexamples, but overall, the trend is to mimic observed behaviour - hence the idea of things like 'leading by example'.

That being said, there's a lot of different types of porn. Saying "I watch porn" is like saying "I read fiction". It certainly tells us a bit about you, but isn't particularly definitive - do you read lightweight trash like Dan Brown, do you prefer mysteries, bodice-rippers, fantasies, war novels, or the complexities of writers like Eco? Perhaps a little bit of everything depending on the mood?
Is this a joke? Who would ever trust these clowns again?
Yes, but GitHub makes a lot of money by hosting something that is open-source: git.
yeah. i totally get several uses for the cameras. but the opening argument on the article made it hard to keep reading... if someone can drag you out of the car to "smash your face" i hardly doubt the camera will help you there.

If anything, will leave you with a broken face and a $600 camera missing.
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There's a lot of individual variability on this point. Many people might have a higher susceptibility to similar substances (like heroin and oxycodone), then to a slightly lesser degree broader groups like "uppers" or "downers," and then finally some people will take anything they can get their hands on.

There are wrinkles to that general formula. Some people only want cocaine and have no affinity for amphetamines, but will take opiates or benzodiazepines without discrimination.

It's pretty messy, sorry I don't have a better answer but's that's how it is.
The professor should/could have simply told them to get in and do the exam or face zero marks. No doubt there would have been howls of protest from the students, however this would have resulted in a test of their character and subsequent life lessons in unity, division, authority and fairness.
I agree. The focus on NPE's is misguided. A secondary market in patents is a good thing. E.g. Northwestern invented the drug that became Lyrica. As a university, they have no business being in the medical products business. So they sold it to Pfizer. What if, instead, they had sold it to a holding company that licensed out the technology to drug companies? That holding company would be an NPE, but it's a perfectly valid one and serves an important market purpose.

It's clear that the patent office can't tell an obvious invention apart from a non-obvious one, so I'm not sure if there is much to be gained in that direction either. I think there are a lot of collateral ways to attack the problem, though:

1) Reforms on how damages are calculated. If you neither sell a product nor license IP to third parties, there is no way you're losing any revenue from an infringement. You should not be awarded even "reasonable royalty" damages if you wouldn't have received any royalties in any case.

2) Reforms involving intent and copying. The economic heart of the patent system is unfair competition: I invent something and you copy it and undercut me in the market because you have no R&D costs. As you get further from this core justification, the less justifiable the regime becomes. A lot of troll litigation could be shut down quickly if patent infringement functioned similarly to copyright infringement in requiring direct copying. This, unlike the above reform, would be a fundamental change in the system, from "monopoly" to a more "unfair competition" grounds, but the fact of the matter is that independent invention is strongly probative of something that probably doesn't deserve patent protection, either for being obvious generally or for being obvious in the context of other advancements in technology.
I think we mean the same thing, but are describing it differently. Certainly what you're mentioning is information in itself, not 'no information'.

Of course, this doesn't mean it shouldn't be a pet peeve, just that being a peeve doesn't mean it's actually wrong or misleading, just that it's annoying to the... erm... 'peevee'?
My russian friend made me believe the only reason for those cameras was that some random guy would jump in front of your car on the express lane and then sue you for running over them.
Design one.
But, defining the different between trivial and nontrivial inventions is something that is incredibly difficult, if not impossible.

In fact, I would argue that trying to set in place a system to decide between trivial and nontrivial inventions is more or less a waste of time because there will always be inventions that sit on the fence.
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That's exactly why $5 doesn't seem like a transparent deal right now. It is also not clear who is the target audience here. The average person who would sign-up for a blog, wouldn't shell out $5 so easily, and a professional blogger would look at it suspiciously to begin with (given the extremely early stage). It would be better if that reference to $5 is clarified in-depth, or taken out altogether with a different kind of explanation.
Evernote. Although a lot more than a bookmarking tool, once you fit it into your workflow, it is a pretty amazing tool for curating all kinds of things, and you can easily share it across all your devices. I couldn't live without it now.
You can't compare Posterous to Tumblr in terms of user base. Tumblr is in top 50 websites in the world. I doubt that Posterous even cracked top 500.
Just upvote, then:

http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=largesse
Studios do need their services. FX uses to be a huge margin industry, until it became marginalized.

However, there are now so many competitors in the market, domestic and foreign that margins are thin or non-existent.

In a nutshell, it's what is going to happen to the tech world when programming skills become marginalized.
What about bob?
"A couple of Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) brothers guarded the doors."

What would have happened if you had tried to go past these guards? Would they have said, "Oh damn, well, he really wanted to go in, guess we'll all have to take the test"? Or would they have restrained you? (which may be considered battery or possibly false imprisonment)

This could have very easily turned into a lawsuit or a criminal case if any student had decided to take the test.
The world has an option to sign-up for a free blog through Google, Tumblr and even wordpress.com (though Wordpress.com's free is not free like Google/Tumblr). So what makes you think the world will sign up for $5 service?
Who'd a thought?!
To summarize: Having a sense for something that is invisible to everyone else can mean that many well-designed things are very poorly designed for you.

Which actually sounds like your basic early adopter problem. Hypothetically, as more and more people gain this sense, there will be market pressure to make the world more interesting and usable for them, and the growing competitive advantage for those who have it will accelerate the process. This won't be the last novel sense humanity sees... It will be interesting to see this play out, if not with magnetism than with UV or radar or whatever it is.
I always save my bookmarks in Firefox.
To make sure I don't lose them next time I reinstall Windows I use an add-on called FEBE that backs-up all my bookmarks(among other things) into a directory.
Next time I have a vanilla Firefox I reinstall FEBE and import all my bookmarks.
I really don't need to spend the extra time to go see another website.
Another trick I use is to delete the bookmark name and only leave the favicon to showup. It saves space and I'm only one click away from my favorite website.

If you tried other services and returned to Chrome then it seems you're looking for a specific feature and you're not finding it, but you also didn't tell us what it is.

Just use Chrome and try to categorize your bookmarks as best you can.

Here is a simple(and a bit ugly) website that lets you bookmark sites. I don't use it but I recommended it before and some people seemed to like it: http://fav20.ro/
> you'd have to be a huge jerk to want to screw over everyone else in the class just to check your knowledge.

How much time and money is he spending on this education again?
It seems it is the only point in many cases. As an example, consider the vast amount of superfluous twitter-helper apps that were endlessly sprouting up a couple of years ago. I don't think many of them were seriously intending on starting a legitimate business out of a web application that helps twitter users keep track of the followers that didn't follow them back.
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Excellent username/post combo. What if some students believed that the professor would change his mind and change the rules when he realized what was going on?
My son had a required CS course at UC Berkeley taught by a professor who didnt want to deal with undergraduates. To discourage them he graded his exams more or less as follows: 5 points for getting an answer completely correct, no errors at all; -5 points for any error in the answer, no matter how trivial; 0 points for not answering. Not answering any question was probably a B, but there was such an uproar from the students that the class was turned into pass/fail. My son opted to take it the following semester from a different prof.
http://hackdesign.org/ is what I am using
> As someone who has been bullied in school for actually, you know, trying to learn and take the tests I find his approach perfectly ok. You don't know what intimidation is like until you've been on the receiving end of it and a whole class of people your own age telling you you can't do what you came to school for can be pretty intimidating.

"Wanting to learn and take the test" (let's call it the education principle) is every bit a principle worth standing for. But so is honesty. There is far more education going on here than what is on that test. I'd argue if you are actually willing to surreptitiously screw your fellow classmates, bullies and bullied alike, for the sake of both "taking the test" and avoiding intimidation, I'd hope you are self-reflective enough to realize what this teaches you about yourself.

The way I see it: "the education principle", honesty, and easy. You get to pick two. And I'm going to criticize any (ostensible -- in the case of the students themselves) adult who advocates picking the dishonest path. At some point we put away our childish things and we solve our problems like adults.
It would be cool to see some performance "brag numbers" posted after the cutover!
That's really ridiculous of Xeround. 5 business days is simply not enough time to expect most people to update credit card details.

I've had similar situations with Amazon, Rackspace, etc. when my card expired, and they all gave several weeks of leeway in updating to new details, as well they should.
Can you please post a picture of the server so we can see all the sweet LEDs on network cards?
http://historio.us -- indexes the contents of pages allowing for search based on page contents, not just domain or title. I have a small selection of bookmarks I use repeatedly in the chrome bar thingy and then use historious (with the chrome extension) for everything else. Saved me a lot of trouble many times when I could only remember a fragment of the page contents I was looking for.
Hijacking: I'm looking exclusively for a service that allows for images to be applied to the link the way Snip.it was. I've found [related] visuals (even if it's just a cropped screengrab of the site/blog post) are much quicker to remember/navigate through later than text. Been trying to use Kippt, but it just doesn't do it for me.
Send me an email. If I do this again I'll let you know.
Is this a clickjacking trap?
Exactly. I knew several people in my introductory CS courses who couldn't, say, describe a linked list. There is room for testing basic concepts at courses of this level.
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Tumblr is not profitable, has a very high burn rate, and has been losing employees. Speaking as a Tumblr user, I really wouldn't move to Tumblr.
That's true of everything in law (and life, in general). That's not an insurmountable problem--just move the fence until things are mostly on the side you want them.