skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked site is absolutely horrible. To be able to read the article, you must manually disable two running videos -- one at the top of the page, one at the bottom.

Whoever designed this page deserves either a medal or banishment. Maybe both.
Facebook Gets a Multibillion-Dollar Tax Break
What do you mean that I designed an iOS app?
I am using that in my second browser, but I am not as confident in it as all that stands between the user and executing a plugin again is a clickjack

I'd rather have complete separation

Doing a proof-of-concept on a 'click to play' to run a plugin is something that I have been meaning to do
Thanks jbail -- I don't want to dig up the past, but the truth of the matter was I didn't agree with my cofounder on the direction of Posterous, but I also wanted to support him in his pursuit of the direction he believed in. It was one of the most painful experiences to have to walk away from my baby.

I think we're put on this earth to create things of great lasting value that are good for others around us. Many things in our lives will change, but I believe this one is a constant guiding light.
So just like India now, got it.
I, or any other hypothetical student, am under absolutely no obligation to explain myself or report my actions to some frat kids who want to skip out on studying.

If I indicated, through an anonymous vote, that I would participate in their boycott but did not, then I would be a jackass. In absence of such an indication, what I choose to do or not do, say or not say, is my business alone.
Minecraft: Epic Jump Map Valentines Part 1
In other words you're a troll or you don't know how web publishing works :p I'm talking about major news and media organisations. Immediacy has always been a key differentiator in news and financial data for example (look at trading co's who pay a fortune for systems that will shave milliseconds off getting figures from exchanges). A publishing system that isn't at least near real-time isn't a fit for very many use cases (most commercial publishing, anything with UGC etc).
Scientific accidents that led to world-changing discoveries
Middle-income claptrap
A Magician's Coin Toss
This kind of feeling is a large reason why I created http://ansible.cc/

The feeling that I want to write something quick or easy shouldn't depend on the size of my infrastructure, it should be easy either way -- 500 servers, 50, 1, doesn't matter.

That being said, our modules do need some patch-love for things like launchd and OS X groups, we've been a lot more Linux/Unix focused to date. (Patches are welcome of course!)
Glitch: An image transformation web service
Those videos look like space junk re entering the atmosphere, unless they are very much slowed down. Meteors tend move much quicker than that.
I, for one, applaud the EFF. If we cannot get rid of software patents, then at least make them easy to improve upon by publishing executable source code. Improvements to patented things are themselves often worthy patents - thus fostering innovation.

Yay for the EFF.
Reconstructing the Chelyabinsk meteor’s path with high-school math
Did the NYT review conclude the car was "shit"?
Why are people so cynical? I know garry, and he is one of the most honest and generous people around. I signed up .. posterous was awesome and should live on.

From personal experience, doing a startup is so hard that judging the co-founders without knowing the full context is just wrong.
I figured I'd share a screenshot of why I find the visual critical and a feature missing from all of the great sounding tools mentioned in this thread. Historious sounds great, but so much of what I remember is what it looked like.

http://imgur.com/S74Ef2u
I find that the social bullies and self appointed dictators in social groups often try bully people into submission by shaming them for not complying with "what is good for the group". Such cowards are often hiding behind the well being of "the people" and try to make non-comformists look bad. Because if you aren't doing what is good for "the people", you somehow must be evil.

Well guess what, you don't owe people shit and they don't owe you shit. You are not responsible for other people unless you are in charge of them, working for the common goal or unless they're your family members. Your classmates are none of these things and you owe them absolutely nothing.

It's funny the way bullies will often be the first to betray the group and how it's suddenly "every man for himself" when shit hits the fan.
Introducing Zaui Mobile for tour operators
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Unless we knew about it literally decades in advance, there is little mankind could do (with today's technology) to stop a miles-wide inbound asteroid from hitting the earth.
What if a company programs directly in assembly? Should that make them ineligible for patents? And if assembly is only allowed when it's the original language, how would you go about proving that?

What about code that's been compiled, then decompiled back to the original language? Or just put through an obfuscator?

Basically, I think the nature of code makes it impossible to set up useful standards.
Pretty cool, but just made me remember the king: http://0to255.com/
World Economic Forum: The top 10 emerging technologies for 2013
Facebook can keep real name policy, German court rules
You're a programmer and apparently know systems, why does your service require babysitting?

Rhetorical, but yes, as you imply, convenience is a luxury and has a price. What other people are doing is either babysitting or paying more for the luxury of not babysitting.
Don't be afraid; it's not drawn to scale.
Whatever you think the future of timepieces, there are few other objects that hold such palpable, visible evidence of both cleverness and craftsmanship. The most exciting bit about it is that though we don't currently have a large-scale watchmaking industry in the United States, there is some entrepreneurial effort to change that:

http://shinola.com/

http://www.hagerwatches.com/page16/index.html
What's interesting is the total revenues. Multiplying price by units sold, Swiss watchmakers sold $20B, and China + HK sold $9B worth of watches [1]. Also, margins are probably higher on the Swiss ones (as Asian watch buyers are typically more price-sensitive, there is more price competition).

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0An1kIBUYv_3ndDN...
Descriptivist. Sorry ;-)
Designing the Packaging-Free Future
This caught my attention ...

"Along with Glass, Google will have an opportunity to demonstrate other upcoming and Google X projects like driverless cars and mini-drone delivery systems at its stores."
You're right... but start-up culture glorifies the long hours and epic all-nighters[1], that to do otherwise would have you tarred a slacker[2].

[1] "One of the most pervasive myths of startup life is that it has to be all consuming. That unless you can give your business all your thoughts and hours, you don’t deserve success. You are unworthy of the startup call. This myth neatly identifies those fit for mission: Young, without obligations, and few if any extra-curricular interests. The perfect cannon fodder for 10:1 VC long shots." http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3106-all-or-something

[2] "Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining" http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/27/startups-are-hard-so-work-m...
Safe Activation Integrates Online Shopping Cart and Payment Services
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IIRC, the meteor can also explode due to the core heating up from the atmospheric friction, though this depends on the make-up (materials, density, configuration) of the meteor.
Please reread my post. There was a joke in there somewhere.
People with magnet implants have had MRIs, though.

http://stevehaworth.com/main/?page_id=871
Interesting. Please post it on HN if you get a proof of concept.
You should look into Squarespace. They built their own platform and do all the maintenance and upgrades. I've never heard of a Squarespace exploit or of a Squarespace site going down because it got too much traffic. They did almost go down in the hurricane, but supposedly they're now working on failover plans to ensure something like that doesn't happen again.
Still use delicious-- 3,600 links. I rarely need to go far back in time (and I'm sure many links are dead), but it's a nice "journal" of what I've thought was noteworthy over the past 7-8+ years. It would be nice to know what my very first bookmark was, but, sadly, due to their infinite scroll interface I'm not sure how.
Ubuntu Phone Downloads To Be Released Next Week along with Source Code
The idea that taking investment automatically means you would actively forgo earning a profit is kinda odd. You take investment to grow, not because you have an allergy to profits.
Thanks for this note. It's very much great advice, and right now we're heads down coding. I've never started a foundation and I have much more reading to do -- but it sounds like the right way to codify our pledge more permanently.
A sustainable replacement already exists: statically generated website on S3. You own the domain, and there is very little chance that S3 is going away anytime soon.

It will also be cheaper than $5/month.
It's safe to say that the vast majority of Posterous users don't care about anything you just mentioned. Static HTML blogs are just fine for them.
I'm sure you're capable of filling in the pattern with <user name='bob' age='23' /> yourself.

I wasn't trying to show XML is as compact as JSON, only that it can be more compact than the claim "it's so verbose" made it look.
Believe me, Brendan Eich has zero doubt about the value of sticking with Gecko. With this blog post he's just pre-emptively answering the zillion people saying "Opera switched to Webkit, why doesn't Mozilla as well?"
Here is a proposal from an EFF site: https://defendinnovation.org/proposal/open-patent-granting-p... and here is an EFF article from Feb 14 called "Talking Software Patents with the Patent Office: A Sign of Reform to Come?"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/talking-software-paten...
This is an interesting idea, but, the design is absolutely horrible. I get the the whole "glitch" thing, but, to be honest, this is unusable the way it is currently.

I did give you an upvote though.
We fixed one setting in our HAProxy that was causing an insane bottleneck.

We'd been working on it for a while, but had no idea it would be launching today and should have been more prepared.

Sorry about that. Please give us another shot.
When the mass you are trying to move is a billion metric tons, you're gonna need a lot of advance warning. We can land on asteroids, changing their trajectory enough to avoid a planet strike is uncharted and entirely unpracticed territory.

Part of me thinks that NASA's recent foray into asteroids is just that, practice.
Compared to system administration,
being cursed forever is a step up.

-- Paul Tomko
The power of USERcycle
* Google launches self-driving cars that disrupt Taxi Services, Delivery Service (think mobile vending machine put cash in vehicle and your dinner pops out - nearly theft proof), Cars become shared assets via time-share and are scheduled very dynamically via mobile apps, less people will own their own cars - especially in big cities.

* Robotics takes over more industries requiring some sort of robotic tax to help keep the economy going for those under-employed.

* The internet of things will explode.

* Google Fiber becomes airborne and nationwide. 1gig access in all major and minor metropolitan areas via wifi-- allowing cars, bikes, law mowers, chainsaws and everything to have some internet connectivity.

* Patent trolling becomes near impossible as patents will require a prototype/MVP be built within 6 months of Patent application or automatic denial of patent.

* SF / Silicon Valley's startup draw comes to an end as developer realize that they can build awesome things in smaller Communities like Dayton Ohio, kinda like the Dayton Ruby School is trying to accomplish.

* Moore's law is shattered by nano-technology, and pc's become crash resistant and resemble bio-engineered organisms. CPU speed goes through the roof.

* USA gets a small amount of MAGlev trains finally (towards end of decade, and only after seeing how much it helps places like China grow and thrive.) -- side note China becomes the major super power in the world.

* Open access to media / news / social sites breeds more democracy throughout the entire world, and also helps bring back honesty and integrity to american capitalism in things like lobbying, and campaign finance.

* Game of Thrones series is finally completed, HBO executives commit suicide out of frustration getting George R R Martin to stop playing World of Warcraft and get back to writing.

* Mind/technology interfaces will become reality. Think downloading memories to flash drives and sharing them with people. Microchips that can improve memory and learning. Gaming/controlling pc's by brain activity. Etc.
Killer asteroids: It's a question of when, not if
Much simpler I got this magnetic wedding ring: http://www.supermagnetman.net/index.php?cPath=48&osCsid=... I wear it on my right hand (I live in NA, not EU so my real wedding rings go on my left hand). With this I can take it off whenever I want. It is fun to wear, but can get annoying at times. The microwave is the craziest day to day object you will encounter. Mostly it was a fun thing to show off and very handy for picking up anything metallic such as small screws. One of the best experiences has to have been walking on a street that has the power underground. The transformers were on the ground and the magnetic field is like a big ball of water you can move your hand through and about. The "deeper" you stick you hand into the ball (the closer to the box) the stronger it was.
It's a very common observation that Chrome can't handle more than a few 10s of tabs.

In comparison, I know several people who regularly have more than 500 tabs open in Firefox -- 1200 is the highest number I've heard, though not all of these were loaded at once thanks to Firefox's "Don't load tabs until selected" option.
"Boxen" is the German word for "Boxing".

I learnt this when I considered starting a linux-optimised PC business back in the early noughties.
According to Garry [1], they had no idea that Twitter would make the announcement today, so the bad timing seems coincidental.

[1] https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/302558780447682560
It will be interesting, should this pass, to see how broadly the phrase “collect information that can identify individuals in a private area” will be interpreted. Wishful thinking to hope for it to be applicable to our activities on social media, etc?
I like the idea of Octopress and Jekyll, but the few times I've tried them, it seems that they don't easily scale. My blog has over 2900 entries. Build from scratch. chug chug chug That I understand. Now add a new entry and try to get an incremental rebuild in less than 30 seconds.

Has anyone tackled this in either project??
Corporate communications bulletin - Harlem Shake Roulette
And garry is actually a partner at YC now anyway.
Ask HN: What framework to use for side project.
Hi guys,
So I'm thinking of starting a web application in my spare time as a side venture. Also using the experience to learn something new. I am a c#/java developer so I have experience with j2ee, mvc 4, and even play framework. But I was looking for something thats new/popular.
I was thinking of using ruby on rails as I have heard some good things. But it seems to be going out of favour/security risks arising. Then I hear all these new things like node.js meteor and the likes. I dont want to use javascript as my server side code. Using it on the client side is enough :D.
Thanks.
In these days of political correctness
I totally would. I just got a MaKay MaKey because it's a cool thing that lets me tinker around a little and do some fun stuff, without the commitment of having to get a ton of soldering stuff etc. But I know that I now have an Arduino which I can reprogram at will.
Unless I'm misunderstanding your calculation, it seems that you are thinking the meteor trail was cloud (water droplets). It was probably smoke (dust and gas) being sheared off the meteor by ultra-high-speeds collisions with atmospheric gas molecules.
In other words, you're talking about something totally different then this entire topic and are in reality, the actual troll.
That is not the case with Vertica. Trickle loading is table stakes functionality IMO.
Sorry let me clarify. I meant they are not going to be following the blog. They will be definitely be following the story :)
Okcupid still is free.
Not to seem callous but does the article really say anything that has not been said before?
Here is the salient point as theverge sees it. I'm not sure how well it would work.

"This would help alleviate the problem known as "functional claiming" — this currently allows patent applicants to submit extremely broad and vague patent applications that lay claim to all possible approaches to solving a particular problem rather than a specific solution proposed by the inventor."
Yeah, you're right. Because it can fail in one type of situation, it must be useless. ;)
> What if a company programs directly in assembly? Should that make them ineligible for patents?

Not at all. If source code is required, they would simply provide it. I think the idea is to be as transparent as possible, so any assemblable or compilable source should qualify.

I should add that I wrote a lot of assembly code years ago -- Apple Writer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer) was entirely assembly code -- so I don't think of it as unreadable or even vague.

But this might not be very important -- the intent of requiring "working code" may only be to prevent software patents that are too broad (and that's discussed in the article). So this talk about source versus executable may miss the point.
But those methods don't go back a full century.
> Honest question; I've never understood why people have such a fixation on puppet-style tools.

There are two things I want:

1. To describe the desired correct configuration as a directed, acyclic graph.

2. To have some automatic compare-and-repair mechanism regularly bring my systems to such a state.

If you don't have a good tool for those two requirements, you wind up reinventing it anyway.

Your small shell scripts start being littered with lots of checks for this and that file, if-thens and cases. Then they break when script 27 silently gets out of sync with script 42.

You realise one day that system configurations can be expressed as DAGs (possibly it's a new insight, perhaps you were reading ITIL documentation). And you begin to dream about a tool that can take a descriptive DAG and generate the correct shell scripts. You have now half reinvented puppet.

But the systems still get out of sync. So you start tinkering with a tool that periodically checks each system and reruns the correct script. Now you have to ensure that your scripts are all idempotent. All those if-thens and checks creep back in.

So now you begin to dream about a system that only generates the steps needed to close the gap between the DAG and the current state of the system.

Congratulations. You just reinvented the other half of puppet.
Personally, I think it's my moral obligation to do for others more than what they're entitled to (even if I don't always do so).

If one were to apply the same standards to others - which I try to avoid - I don't see how that would be a sign of a sense of personal entitlement.
One of them, Garry, is a YC partner [1]

[1] http://ycombinator.posterous.com/welcome-garry-and-aaron

[The irony of linking to a Posterous post is not lost on me - I wonder when that link will be dead]
... broken window fallacy ?
Is Grand St. the distribution engine the hardware movement has been looking for?
Meet the Rules of the Internet
I get the feeling we don't know why yet.
Just as one example, I think you could make a fairly convincing case that the official version of git uses a "filesystem as a database" system with great success.

I doubt it would be improved by using something more "proper".
No, at least they certainly did not use that word however it was a negative review. Let me rephrase: Why is the NY Time review "unreasonable" because it was negative?
A Surface Mini Could Wake Up Windows Phone 8
What if DynamoDB doesn't solve my problem because I need transactions?

Why do I have to write code to perform an extra step and pay the extra cost and latency of pushing data through S3 just to get it into Redshift?

Not supporting trickle loading is a leaky abstraction IMO. It's not a ton of code to log statements until you have enough to justify an import and you shouldn't push that complexity on every database user.

Postgres supports copying from a binary stream, why not support that?
And yet 007 is not the same as 7.

Go figure.
According to the article ...

"Even with a beautiful hardware and wonderful OS, it’s pretty clear that a Windows Phone 8 tablet would struggle to gain traction. Even though WinPhone 8 is growing, the platform’s app ecosystem is pretty weak. Developers are not flooding the Store with apps. The platform is relatively unknown to most consumers. And another Microsoft-made tablet platform could be detrimental to the entire operation."
Unfortunately no business regardless of the desire can guarantee it will run forever. It's not a matter of will alone. Any agreement to never sell your shares would imply that a entity structure without shares would better fit your stated motives.
This may seem like a silly question, but can I cancel at any time? It says $5 a month forever, and I don't see any terms of service.
Thanks for the upvote!

I understand what you say, but this is a beta, and the main web is merelly a playground to test effects, you never use the service via the web UI (see the readme please)

Thanks again!
Why Office 365 and Office 2013 may not be right for you
There are a lot of asteroids in the Solar System. Millions. The solar system is huge. It's not laughable that this one wasn't seen - it was extremely tiny.

Most asteroids that we can detect we do not have the technology to deflect unless we discover them decades before impact. Even then, deflecting them is all theoretical and would be a monumental technological undertaking, as it has never been attempted before.
tower of babbel
What is the practical difference between "person A being obliged to do something for B", and "B being entitled to something from A"?

If you universalize your moral obligation, then we end up with a system that is in practice no different than everyone feeling entitled to things from others. That you choose to handle yourself in that manner is great, but you cannot universalize it without creating a society of entitlement.
Oh maybe on the maintenance landing page you could post up a big bunch of static links to say the top 50 most voted articles ever! (Or such like). Something like that would keep us busy for a while.
You might have gotten some admin or mid-manager. Maybe they wanted to cut off communications (pretend it never happened) before their boss finds out about it. Seen guys do that before..